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 Tuesday, December two,
twenty twenty five. 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
for today is Joshua the type. I know it doesn't
sound exciting, but that's okay. We'll get into the word
in a second. Joshua the type somebody type in the chat.
What the word means? What does type mean? We've been
talking about it for the last couple of days. Before
we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome
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continue to build faith in fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you,
Thank you for loving us the way you do. Thank
you for giving us symbols of people who symbols in
people who were just like us that are symbols of
you in all of your great work. Help us to
attain to the standard of righteousness that they did in
Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Joshua the
type Okay, So I'm going to answer my own question
when I asked you type it in the chat. I'm
going to answer my own question by going right into
our lesson number one. Lesson number one is Joshua pointed
to Christ. So we know the type now in this
case points forward. In this case to Christ. Joshua pointed
to Christ as what in this case as the great Deliverer.
Joshua pointed to Christ as the great Deliverer. Now we
go into the Bible book of Deuteronomy, chapter eighteen, Deuteronomy
chapter eighteen, and I will read verse fifteen, and the
Bible reads, the Lord thy God will raise up unto
thee a prophet from the midst of thee of thy brethren,
like unto me. Unto him, ye shall hearken or listen?
You must listen to him. And so the Hebrew word
for prophet in this case nav it means one who
speaks under divine inspiration for God. And so Moses foretold
that a prophet like unto himself, who would reveal God's truth.
Joshua partially fulfilled this type by leading God's people into Canaan.
But we know, we know the one who is God
with us, the one who is what God is, Jesus Christ,
the anointed One, fulfilled it completely by leading all of
humanity into salvation. Remember, there were disciples who were like, Ah,
show us the Father, and it sufficeth Us, and He's like,
but how long have I been with you? And you
still say show me the Father, like I'm the revelation
of the Father, and so Joshua was a manifestation of this,
and the ministry of Jesus delivering people from sin is
seen very clearly in Joshua's life, as he delivered the
people into the Promise, which was the same symbol leaving
Egypt bondage to sin going in to Canaan. He was
the one who fulfilled that, and so our action step
in this regard is to listen, intentionally, intentionally for Christ's
voice through the scripture. Obedience begins by giving keen attention
to what God is already saying to your heart. One
thing Eric Thomas often says is like when people say,
well where do I begin? Where do I begin with
a new paradigm, a new standard, or a new standard
of growth? He says, go with what God said to
you most recently. What did He just tell you to
do that you have not done? Start there. Let's go
to lesson number two. Jesus is the final prophet. Jesus
is the final prophet, and Moses illustrated this. The Bible
reads here in Acts chapter three and verse twenty two.
Acts chapter three and verse twenty two. For Moses truly
said to the fathers, a prophet shall the Lord your
God raise up unto you for your broth of your brethren,
like unto me. Him shall ye hear in all things
whatsoever he shall say to you. Okay, and so again
we have the same illustration. I'll read it from the
New English translation. Moses said, the Lord your God will
raise up for you a prophet like me from among
your brothers. You must obey him and everything he tells you.
Doesn't that sound exactly like what the text said in Deuteronomy.
Of course, because the two testaments agree. The New Testament
is the manifestation of what God taught in the Old Testament.
Jesus is the fulfillment in the New Testament of what
the Old had pointed forward to. And so our action
step is to center our worship and faith on Jesus alone.
So we don't look at the symbols, we don't look
at the types so closely like the people did in
the past. We do for our learning, But our real focus,
since Jesus has already come, is Jesus. Let every teaching
I'm talking about in twenty twenty five, every teaching, every promise,
every hope flow from your personal relationship with Him. Remember,
the people were always looking forward to Christ, and since
Christ we looking forward to a closer relationship with him.
What else are we looking forward to the day that
that relationship culminates in our face to face communion with God.
Like one thing that I do like about prayer or
love about prayer is that it's us. God doesn't come
down to us where prayer is concerned, but we are
elevated up to Him like we are now in his presence,
seated with Christ Jesus in heavenly places, as we speak
to God as to a friend. But one of the
things that I don't want to say, don't like, but
it really just I wish we could get beyond this
and we will one day, is like I don't want
to imagine. I don't want to experience God in this
way forever, like I want to see him one day.
I want to be able to shake his hand. I
want to be able to give God a fist bump,
like I want to be able to hug Jesus and
say thank you. You know what I mean. I want
to greet them like how we greet people we love
one another. I don't know how you greet people in
your culture, but whatever way that we greet people in
our real lives. I want to be able to do that.
I want to have a talk like Jesus. Can I
talk to you for a second. I was just thinking,
you understand where I'm going, Like, so I want to
transcend one day and we know that that is when
Jesus returns. Transcend the prayer concept and get to the
genuine article. So every teaching, every promise, every hope needs
to flow from our through our relationship with God. Okay,
And so we see that both Joshua and Moses foreshadowed
or were a type of Jesus's mission. The Bible reads
and Deuteronomy chapter thirty four, verses ten and eleven. And
there arose not a prophet since in Israel, like unto Moses,
whom the Lord knew face to face. Did I not
just say that is our goal to get to God
in our experience, face to face, in all the signs
and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in
the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his
servants and to all his land. And so this presence
that's coming in from the text pronounced panim presence that
word for face to face, meaning presence. Moses and Joshua
both knew God's presence. His presence in ways that anticipated Christ,
the one who revealed God the Father perfectly. Through his presence,
Jesus became the complete expression of divine power and redemption.
We're going to see him face to face one day.
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,