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, November thirteen,
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 longing for His Presence? Longing for His presence?
Do you desire to be in the presence of God?
Right now? I wish I had the time. Let me
just go ahead and say welcome to everyone joining us,
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank
you for this day, and please, will you just bring
us into your presence, usher us into your presence today
in Jesus name. I pray Amen and amen again, longing
for the presence of God. So we're going to begin.
We're going to begin by simply reading from Joshua chapter eighteen,
and I will read verse one to get us kickstarted
before we get into our three less sins for today.
And it reads, and the whole congregation of the children
of God assembled together at Shiloh and set up the
tabernacle of the congregation there, and the land was subdued
before them. Listen, when we have God with us, the
presence of God with us, then everything, every trial, every tribulation,
every difficulty, every enemy has to get out of the way.
Can I just say that again? When God is with
his people, we are in the presence of God, then
we become the tabernacle of God. He said, what know
ye not that you are the Temple of the Holy Ghost,
who is with you. You were bought with a price.
It was in you. You were bought with a price. Therefore,
glorify God with your bodies and of course everything that
you are, because they are gods. He has purchased us
through the blood of Jesus Christ. And so when we
long for the presence of God and have the presence
of God, there is nothing that can stand in our way,
even though we will have trials and tribulations while we
are on planet Earth. Jesus had those, the apostles had those,
the patriarchs and prophets of old had those. But ultimately
Jesus wins. And so our first lesson comes in from
Exodus chapter twenty five to bolster the point that we
just made from verse eight. This is what happened even
before this incident with Joshua in Shiloh. It says, and
let them, God, speaking to Moses, let them make me
a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Everything God's
people's victories, their prosperity, their peace flowed from the reality
that God was dwelling among them. Aren't you glad that
worship comes before we work? Worship comes before we work.
There is no pressure. We're not under pressure trying to
perform for God, trying to show God that we are
worthy of anything. We worship God because He's worthy, and
then in the power of His might, the strength that
He has given us, then we work. And so before
the remaining tribes received their land, the Bible teaches us
that Joshua paused the conquest to do something sacred. He
set up the Tabernacle of the Lord at Shiloh. It
was a deliberate reminder of God's presence. We can always
see that God is among us, just like Jesus's name
being interpreted Emmanuel being interpreted. God with us. It was
a constant visual reminder, like the Ark of the Covenant
as they traversed through through the wilderness. It was a
constant reminder of God's presence. God's people receive their inheritance
because of the presence of God, the power of God,
not because of their own anything fill in the blank.
I don't care what you put after their own. It
was all about the fact that God was with them,
and he kept his promise that he made to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob Lessen number two. Lessen number two, of course,
the tabernacle pointed forward to Christ. At every point in
the Old Testament, we see that this tabernacle is really
a reflection of what Christ was trying to teach us
about himself. Ultimately. Even the Old Testament Bible writers said
that the Lord is the Lord is our sanctuary. The
Lord is our sanctuary. And so I'm grateful. I'm grateful.
The Bible reads in Hebrews Chapter nine, verses eleven and twelve.
But Christ, being come and high priest of good things
to come, by his own blood, he entered in once
into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
Let me read it again in the New English translation.
But now Christ has come, as the high priest of
the good things to come. He entered once for all
into the most holy Place, not by the blood of
goats and calves, but by his own blood. See, this
is the durable sacrifice. Those things pointed forward to Christ.
They taught us some of what Jesus would represent for us.
That without the shedding of blood there can be no
remission of sins. And so we see that in the
earthly sanctuary. But Jesus is the one ultimately that it represented.
And so oh he himself, the Bible says, secured eternal redemption.
You see, there is no amount of humans, There is
no amount of sacrificing animals on human behalf. Like I
almost said it wrong, almost really made a booble there
that can secure our salvation. It's always been about Christ.
In the Old Testament, we looked forward to Christ. In
this time we are experiencing Christ and looking back at
the Cross and knowing that in the most holy placed
ministry that Jesus is now involved, that he is taking
care of the cleansing of the people who are placing
ourselves into his care. And so through Christ we have
a continual access to the presence of God, not through
a tent, not through a temple, not through an arc,
but through his atoning work. We thank God. The earthly
tabernacle at Shiloh pointed to the heavenly reality that was
yet to come. Jesus now ministers on our behalf. Our
third and final lesson is that hope is anchored in
His presence. In Hebrews, in Hebrews Chapter six, verses nineteen
and twenty, we read which hope we have as an
anchor of the soul, both both sure and steadfast, and
which entereth into that within the veil, whither the forerunner
is for us entered. Even Christ, Jesus has entered in
to the place that we want to be. He is
ministering before the Father, so that since he died the
death that we deserve now through his ministry in the Sanctuary,
both Holy and Most Holy Placed ministries. Now in twenty
twenty five, we have the full experience. Jesus did what
he needed to do on planet Earth. He is already
finished with what he was doing. In the Holy Place
ministry about forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness, and in the Most Placed ministry,
it's all about cleansing those individuals and sealing the individuals
who are submitting our will to God. So we can
be seen as if we have never sinned, and we
thank God. He is there, and he is there listen,
representing us. He took on human flesh that has not
gone away. Yes, now it's glorified, but Jesus is in
there as a representative of those who have faith in him.
The presence of the Sanctuary in god People's midst reminded
them of God's faithfulness. Are you longing for the presence
of God. Well, in this moment you can praise him,
he said. He inhabits the praises of his people. 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,