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, February nineteen,
twenty twenty six. 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 uniting Heaven and Earth, and our caption for
today is to reconcile all things. To reconcile all things.
Before we get into that, i'd like to say welcome
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faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for giving
us a pathway to peace. Thank you for the reconciliation
that comes through Christ. Please help us to be reconciled.
In Jesus's name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. I
just want to say a great big shout out to
people who remember the gospel group. I don't know if
that's the way you would say it, if it's the genre,
but it's a Christian woman's singing group from back in
the day reconciled a couple of whom I actually grew
up with in New York City, And that brings to
my mind how reconciliation. Reconciliation is music to God's ears.
Reconciliation is music to God's ears. Why because the way
we were born the first go around. I know what
I'm saying the first go around, that which is born
of flesh is flesh birth. That one, yeah, that one
is dissonant, That one is disharmonious, that one is hostile
toward God. Because we are not able in our flesh
based on our first birth to have harmony with God.
We just literally cannot do it. It's not possible. And
so because God loved the world so much and he
sent his son to save us from our sins, the
purpose was reconciliation, to make us one with God. Atone
meant at one ment with God where we were fragmented
and we were not unified with God. Now through Christ,
we are reconciled or made to be at one with God.
Aren't you glad that God made the plan for us,
because if he had left it up to our diplomatic
process between humans and God, we would have been lost.
And so let me just say from the Reviewing Herald
article eighteen eighty four in the Cross of Christ, justice
and mercy of God meet together. Justice requires let me
pause right here, that's not the quote. Now, justice requires
that the soul that sins has to die the second death,
eternal death. The soul that sineth it shall die. That's
the requirement of the law. There's no compromising with the law.
There's no provision in the law. Now, if you look
at the mercy of God, it's like, okay, well, whoever
sins has to die. So what if now we have
the perfect sacrifice standing in for and as the one
who actually sinned, and then the justice of the law
is met by executing the punishment on the victim, the
innocent victim who's standing in for the one who actually
committed the sin crime. Do you see where we're going
with this? And since God did that through Christ and Jesus,
Christ now has raised and he took up his life again,
and now ever lives to make intercession for us. Now
he can have mercy on us because the requirements of
the law are satisfied in Jesus having given his life
for us. So that means it's unnecessary. That's a word
that you seldom here in gospel teaching. It is unnecessary
for any human being to die the second death. Why
because if we choose to die the second death, it's
meaning that we reject the sacrifice of Jesus. We say
we'll take it from here. Don't worry about it, I'll
pay for my own sin. Well, you can't pay for
your own sin, because if you do, that's the end
of the story. But in the person and work of
Jesus Christ and ministry of Jesus Christ, we can be
reconciled to God and live eternally. Let me read the
quote without stopping. Now, in the Cross of Christ, the
justice and mercy of God meet together. And the universe
sees that love not force and secures loyalty. Oh my,
and the universe that sees that love not force secures loyalty. Now,
let me just say it like this. The universe is
not some like sort of I don't know, mystical entity
like some people say. It's like some people are using
the term the universe as a replacement for God. But
it's but even the characteristics of quote the universe are
not exactly what God is. I'm not talking about none
of that that's confusing. We're talking about heavenly agencies. There
are beings that live in heavenly places. If you look
in Revelation chapters four and five, you see some of
those heavenly agencies that are not people who live on
planet Earth. I'll just lead that right there and so
well those beings, at minimum, the angels of God and
et cetera. Those beings become more and more loyal because
they see the character of God as consistent. And I'm
grateful and we got to see that in the Ministry
of Christ. And so from the book The Desire of Ages,
page six hundred and fifty one, we read the Cross
of Christ will be the science, holy ghost and song.
I added holy ghost. My bad, this was really good
for me. Let me start again, the Cross of Christ
with the will be the science and song of the
redeemed through all eternity. Do you know why? First of all,
just like while I'm reading the quote, I was immediately
inspired to worship. That is what's going to happen all
throughout eternity when people see what to what lengths God
went in order to save sinners. Aren't you glad that
he went to the to that length and not only
the song but the science. Like wait a minute, this
is how if you look at it forensically, wait a minute,
if you look at it scientifically, wait, it required all
of this in excruciating detail for each one of the
people who are now redeemed to be redeemed and all
you can do in that reality is worship God. And
so our first lesson, our first lesson is reconciliation flows
from the fullness of God dwelling in Christ. The Bible
reads in Colossians chapter one and verse nineteen, for it
pleased the Father that in him should all the fullness dwell.
That means the totality and completeness of who God is.
And so Paul is affirming that everything that makes God
who he is resides fully in the person of Jesus Christ.
Nothing of God is absent from Christ. The Father's eternal nature,
his creative authority, his moral perfection, and redemptive wisdom are
all present in Jesus Christ. This fullness is not symbolic,
It is not a type. It is not partial. It
is the complete. It is complete in Jesus the person.
The action step is to trust Jesus fully rather than selectively.
Jesus is not the vice God. And then, finally, our
lesson the cross is the means by which reconciliation is accomplished.
And I thank God, do you make it a great day? 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,