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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, May sixteenth,
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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption
for today is Redeemed and Restored. Redeemed and Restored. Yes,
Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father, We thank you for this preparation day,
the opportunity for us to get closer to you and
prepare for the time that you have given us in
the week called the Sabbath. Thank you for the rest
that we have in you. Please let us be mindful
always of your presence. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen,
and a man again redeemed and restored. There are so
many things that I'd like to say, but I need
to be disciplined today. The Bible says, let the redeemed
of the Lord say so, Sister Patrice, you're probably watching, listen.
The Bible says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
Are you one of God's children? It's a simple question,
but sometimes people get hung up on it when we
get real complicated as Christianese speaking people or believers. Right, yes,
if you were one of God's children and you are
choosing to surrender your will to Him, and you understand
like and have the goal of helping others do the same.
Then you're redeemed. Jesus gave everything so that we could
be restored. And so I'm going to begin by reading
a little bit from the Great Controversy, page six hundred
and seventy one, and it reads, Christ looks upon the
redeemed we're talking about when we are in his presence.
He looks upon the redeemed in his own image, every
heart bearing the perfect impress of the Divine, every face
reflecting the likeness of their king. He beholds in them
the result of the travail of his soul and is satisfied.
This is when we are in his presence in heaven. Finally,
when all that we have experienced on planet Earth as
it is, has been taken care of, we are now
in heaven for that thousand years period. And of course
this extends throughout eternity. Okay. And the Bible does teach
us in the Book of Isaiah, chapter fifty three, that
Jesus one day, the Messiah, one day will see the
travail of his soul and be satisfied. That means he
will see all that he went through. And he lived
on planet Earth for thirty three and one half years.
He will see all that he felt when he was
on the cross and he sensed that God, his father,
had forsaken him. I'm not saying that he had been
forsaken in the way that we see it, but he
felt forsaken. Why have you forsaken me? This is what
Jesus cried out while he was on the cross. The
Bible says that he will see all of that. When
they were ripping his beard out of his face, as
the Old Testament Bible writers said, as they were not
just piercing his side. That sounds really kind of like
popping a balloon. When they stabbed him in the side
with a with a javelin or a sword, and his
body poured forth water and blood. He will see that
time when they mocked him and spat on him and
put a crown of thorns on his head, and then
hit him in the head with the staff and then
started to mock and deride him. He will see all
of that that he went through when he was hungry,
and he was thirsty and he needed rest, the many
times that he had to go into the presence of
God our father and beg for strength, and when he
was in the garden of gethsemine. And he had gotten
to the point that the stress level of carrying our
burden of sin was so heavy that he started to
sweat as it were great drops of blood. He will
see those moments and say it was worth it all.
He'll look into your faces. He'll look into my face
and say it was worth it all to redeem and
to restore these people. Having them right here with me now,
like I prayed when I prayed to my father, and
we see it in John chapter seventeen. Please please let
them be where I am. Let them be where I am.
He will see all of that, and he will be satisfied.
Let me see here, it says. It continues, he declares,
behold the purchase of my blood for these. I suffered
for these. I died that they might dwell in my
presence throughout eternal ages. Can you see yourself there, brothers
and sisters, Can you see yourself there? I have been
preparing for a trip, and then I get on an airplane.
I had to pack my luggage, I had to do
all sorts of things in order to get there, and
need passports and all kinds of things in order to
go where I'm going. I'm preparing to go somewhere. Are
you preparing to go into the presence of Jesus Christ
in heaven? Are you preparing to live and the earth
made new as a fulfillment of his promise that the
meek will inherit the earth. Well, he has prepared a
place for you so that when he does come again,
he will receive you unto himself, that where he is,
you can be also. And guess what. It continues, and
the song of praise ascends from the white robed ones
about the throne. Worthy is the lamb that was slain
to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and
honor and glory and blessing. If you're looking at me,
those are things seven things that happen when we are
in his presence talking about the worthiness of Jesus Christ,
the lamb that was slain. That's the perfect praise. That
is the perfect praise. If you want to know what
the perfect praise is, then examine these things again. In
Revelation chapter five and verse twelve. I'm so glad that
Jesus gave me the privilege of becoming one of his children.
Now I'm going to give you a few takeaways. A
few takeaways. A few takeaways. One is from Romans, Part
of Me, chapter nine and verse twenty two. But what
if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make
known his power, has endured with much patience the objects
of wrath prepared for destruction. Here is the lesson. The
lesson is God allows rebellion because really the devil seemed
to have been able to run rough shot the entire
time from the point that Eve fell into sin and
Adam jumped into sin, and I wish I had the time. Ah,
But God is showing us that he allowed the rebellion
to continue so that the universe could fully see how
destructive evil is. Yeah, so ask God to help you
to recognize the evil effects of sin. Help God. Ask
God to help you to see all that Jesus went
through in order to save us, and then learn to
appreciate God for this. For God so loved the world.
The Bible says that He gave us his only begotten son,
that whosoever believeth on him, do you believe in him?
Truly truly believe in him? Ah? We well don't have
to perish, We don't have to have eternal death like
we can have eternal life. He's not looking for someone
to condemn. This is what Jesus did. So he allows
rebellion to go, but so far so that people can
see how evil evil is and say, you know what
I prefer to be in the presence of God. I
prefer to live with the one who loves me, rather
than to be a servant a slave to the one
who hates me. Let's go with one more before we close.
In Colossians, chapter two and verse fifteen, disarming the rulers
and authorities, he has made a public disgrace of them,
triumphing over them by the cross, the lesson at the cross,
Jesus fully defeated Satan and secured a place for us,
for you, brothers and sisters to live with him forever.
And the empty tomb just solidified it. I'm so grateful
that he has redeemed. I'm so grateful that He will
even more than restore us at the appropriate time. Peace.
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,