Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, December five,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's Word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
study series themes in the Gospel of John, and our
caption for today is the Scriptures and the Truth, The
Scriptures and the True. I'll get into that in just
a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you
for giving us this new Thursday. Thank you for the
opportunity for us to build and grow and to live
according to your principles. Help us to espouse, hold on,
to embrace the truth. Let the truth live in our lives. Lord,
help us to revere you through your word. In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. The scriptures and the truth,
Oh my, oh my, yes. So we're going to the
Bible Book of John, the Bible Book of John, chapter five,
and I will read verses thirty eight through forty. We
have read this before, but let's now focus especially here,
and the Bible reads and ye have not His word
abiding in you. So God is not talking to you
at least I hope he's not. I hope he's not.
So Jesus was having an encounter with his detractors. There
were people who were constantly questioning his origins. Well, just
like the devil did when Jesus was in the wilderness
being tempted of Satan. The Bible says that the devil
would say, you know, if thou'll be the son of God,
then fill in the blank. I need you to behave
and do this thing. If you're the son of God,
then do what I say. And so this is what
is happening here. So his detractors, these are supposedly the
leaders of God's people. Can you imagine the leaders of
God's people or the supposed leaders of God's people are
really detractors and not followers of Christ? How can that be?
And so, really, if I am a leader among God's people,
I need to be asking myself and answering. Am I
a person who really embraces Christ as who he said
he is? Am I embracing a relationship with him? Does
my lifestyle is that a manifestation of that relationship with him?
Or am I just giving lip service? So the Bible.
The Bible continues, Jesus is having this discussion, and ye
have not his word abiding in you for whom he
has sent him. Ye believe not so Jesus is saying, like,
the way that we know that the word the scriptures
are not abiding in your life is because you're rejecting me.
So there are people who claim to be Christians. I said, Christians.
I'm going to be very specific Christians who minimize and
diminish who Jesus is. Some of you, I hope nobody
who's listening or watching. But if that is the case,
then today is the day that you learn how to
worship Jesus.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Some people do not worship Christ, even though they name
themselves after Christ by saying they're Christians. They don't believe
that Jesus actually existed through eternity past. They don't believe
that he is actually one with the Father. They don't
believe that his power is unborrowed underived. They don't believe
that Jesus Christ has all authority in his hands and
it wasn't because it was given to him that given
to him. Concept is based on the plan of salvation.
The context is Jesus taking on human flesh. But apart
from that, Jesus is life, unborrowed underrived, equal to our father, God,
our Father, equal to God, our Father. I need you
to hear this and so when he gave his life
for us so that we could be saved, he allowed
his humanity that adopted humanity, He allowed that to rest
in the tomb. Because God can't die. Like his godness,
his divinity cannot go to sleep. He never slumbers, He
never sleeps. He that keepeth Israel does not slumber, nor
can he sleep. And so Jesus is wow. He did
a lot by giving himself to this plan of salvation,
being obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
These men did not believe any of what I just
said to you. They didn't believe any of it. Verse
thirty nine. Search the scriptures, for in them, ye think
ye have eternal life. So if I were to read
it more directly, it would say something like, you search
the scriptures. This is what you do. I know that
that's what you do. So you search the scriptures, because
you think by searching the scriptures, by knowing intellectually the scriptures,
by being able to quote them, by wearing them on
your body, you feel like that is eternal life. But
let me just tell you, this is Jesus still speaking.
But there are they that testify of me. So all
of that activity of searching scripture, all of that putting
scriptures on your body, all of that being able to
expound scriptures, all of that being on your daily portion,
every single day for thousands of consecutive days. Dave, if
you are not embracing and living according to the principles
of Jesus Christ, actually leaving what he said about himself,
what the prophets spoke about him, then well, let me
see what it says here in verse forty, and ye
will not come to me that ye may have life.
Oh so I don't have life if I don't believe
the scriptures about the truth, which is Christ. I don't
have life if I minimize Jesus. M hmm. That's right.
And so today is a day of reckoning for some people,
because the Bible teaches us very clearly who Jesus is.
He created you, brothers and sisters. He is light, he
is life. He has come so that we may have
life and have it more abundantly, to transform our lives
from hopeless sinners to hopeful saints. Transform our lives so
that I don't have to be unkind or live according
to road rage, or to steal from God's treasury. I
don't have to betray Christ for a couple of pennies.
When I do business, I don't have to worry about
abusing our espouses. Ladies, you don't have to abuse your husbands. Husbands,
you don't have to abuse your wife. Why because you
embrace the scriptures, and the scriptures testify of Jesus, and
you therefore are embracing Jesus as the one he said
he is, so he can save you from your sins,
and he can make you one with him. He can
give you the mindset of Christ. Paul said, let this
mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
And then he gave some aspects of the character of
Jesus that we could have in our lifestyles. Beginning at
this moment, I'm walking slowly because I need somebody to
get this this morning. Hmm. Okay, and so now I
am moving to a few clear benefits. A few benefits.
Number one, having Jesus being the truth in our lifestyles.
It strengthens our decision making process.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: It helps me to make the right decisions in life.
I wish I had the time, but let me keep going.
It enhances, it enhances my life's purpose, like it helps
me to know why I am here. When Jesus creates me,
he puts in my bosom a desire for him. And
if I entertain that by the Holy Ghost, and I
am transformed by him, and then I begin to understand
my purpose. I am transformed by the renewing of my mind.
Now I know what my place is on planet Earth
and how to glorify Him. Make it a great day.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,