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 Friday, October eighteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 Gospels and themes in the Gospel of John,
and of course this preparation day. Our caption is the
Everlasting Crist, the Everlasting Christ. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day,
and for protecting us all throughout the week and bringing
us to the point of preparation so that tomorrow, if
you spare our lives, we will experience you in a
new way in corporate worship. For whatever the experience we
will have on your holy Sabbath day, I pray that today,
though we will respect you, we will look forward to
seeing you in our connection with Christ and Jesus name.
I pray Amen and Amen again the Everlasting Christ. I
want to continue to drill the point that Jesus was
no ordinary man, because sometimes we take the humanity part
of Christ so far that we forget about the divinity
of Christ. Jesus was not created. And what makes this
so important is that sometimes when people are diminishing who
Christ is they also diminish the gift, the gift of salvation.
You see, if it were not God in the flesh
who died on the cross, meaning the humanity of Jesus
Christ dies on the cross because the divinity of Christ
allows that humanity to die. I need you to get this,
then we couldn't be saved, we couldn't be safe. See
the Bible says that he was obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross. I don't need to be
obedient to death. If God forbid, I have a terminal
disease and I'm about to die like it's only the
grace of God if I don't. If God forbid, I
step out into the street at just the wrong time
and I see a vehicle is coming too quickly, and
I get run over. It is only the grace of
God that keeps me. You see where I'm saying. If
there are assailants, armed, assailants who come in and do
the unspeakable, I don't have the right, I don't have
the power. I don't have the ability to be obedient
to death. It's either God is gonna protect me or
I'm going to die. But Jesus in his divinity could
have withstood the death to his humanity, you see. So
this is so sweet because that means that Jesus yielded
fully to the process. When he said that he came
to save his people from our sins, he came to
seek and to save the lost. Now we know that
there is a lot of power, a lot of power
under control. When Jesus gave his life, he told the
men as they were carting him from mock trial to
mock trial, you would have no power at all over me,
if except that the Father hath given it to you,
you see. And so I want to read here before
I go off into preaching, from the book of Micah
Micah chapter five and verse two, where it reads, but
thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands
of Judah, Yet out of these shall come forth unto me,
that is, to be a ruler in Israel, whose goings
forth been of old from everlasting. This is obviously nobody
really argues about this. This is obviously about Messiah, Jesus Christ,
who came out of Bethlehem Ephratha. And so when Jesus
was born into the human family, it was from this
vantage point. This perspective. But the Bible says that his
goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting, the
same Messiah, this same Jesus, who gave his life for us,
also was here from before there was a beginning throughout
eternity past Jesus was with the Father. And I'm thankful.
And so now we read from the Seventh day Adventists
Bible Commentary, Volume five, page eleven twenty six. The Lord
Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, existed from eternity.
See we saw it in the scriptures. We saw it
in the scriptures from eternity, a distinct person, yet to
one with the Father. He was the surpassing glory of heaven.
He was the commander of the heavenly intelligences, and the
adoring homage of angels was received by him as his right.
There was no robbery of God. See it was his
right when the angels worship and adore him, as seen
in the Bible Book of Revelation, chapter five. After the
angels and other beings other creative created beings worship God
our Father, and Jesus comes. The mighty lion of the
tribe of Judah comes from the midst of the throne
and the angels and other heavenly intelligences begin to worship Jesus.
It wasn't that they were removing some worship from God,
our Father, because Jesus is worthy, worthy is the lamb
that was slain. And I'm grateful. We're going to continue
to drill the point because so many believers, even people
who say we believe in God, believe in his word,
have minimized Jesus, have minimized him. Let me continue the quote.
There are light and glory in the truth that Christ
was one with the Father before the foundation of the
world was laid. This is the light shining in a
dark place, making it resplendent with divine original glory. This
truth indefinite, infinitely excuse me. Mysterious in itself explains other
mysterious and otherwise unexplainable truths, while it is enshrined in light,
unapproachable and incomprehensible. May I just say at the last
part of that that there are certain things that we humans,
especially the ones who have studied scripture and theology, sometimes
we try to explain what God has not revealed in detail.
I don't know how he could be one hundred percent
divine and one hundred percent human simultaneously. I have no idea,
but I know that the Bible writer says, this is
the mystery of godliness. God became a man, and of
course he talked about The Bible writer talked about what,
in fact was the mission of Christ. And so I'm
thankful about what God has revealed that is for us
and our children. We are to study this that is
for us in our children. But the rest, the rest
remains as a mystery. Continuing, continuing. Jesus has said, I,
if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw
all men unto me. Christ must be revealed to the
sinner as the Savior dying for the sins of the world.
And as we behold the lamb of God upon the
cross of Calvary, the mystery of redemption begins to unfold
to our minds, and the goodness of God leads to repentance.
Aren't you glad that God did not leave us down
here to die, to flail about into flounder until we
just die crazy death in the end. Aren't you glad
that He decided, in league with Jesus Christ, that he
would give his only begotten Son, so that whosoever believeth
in him, that's all we need to do. We believe
in Him, and that kind of belief transforms us and
makes us doers of His law and not just hearers,
people who reflect the character of God. Those who believe
in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. I'm thankful,
and today I'm thankful because the everlasting Christ decided to
yield his life so that I could live forever. Make
it a wonderful day, Peast.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,