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 Sunday, December eight,
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 themes in the Gospel of John, and our
caption for today is the Heavenly Father. The Heavenly Father
I typed in my notes our Heavenly Father. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
to say welcome to you, and welcome to a whole
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank
you for giving us this day and for this new
work week. Father, I pray that you will teach us
to to revere you as our father, to embrace you
as the one who has only our best interest at heart.
Help us to love you in Jesus name. I pray, Amen,
and a man again in my mind immediately, the transformative
word for today is our Father, which art in heaven.
Because remember when Jesus was praying, he was praying talking
to God the Father, and his disciples said, Jesus, will
you teach us, Master, will you teach us how to
pray like John taught his disciples, and he said, Okay,
come here, I'm gonna teach you. He wasn't teaching him
the specific words, he wasn't teaching them to recite what
he prayed, but he was teaching the principles that come
through what he was saying. And the first thing that
he said was our Father, our father, not just my father,
not just your father. In unity, we can come together
knowing that God, who is the universe's creator, God our Father,
is not just for one or ten. It's not just
for one so called race of people, not just one
for a particular tribe, nation, kingdom, or people, but God
our Father, for every human being that chooses to have
God as our father and not to reject him. He
is for us. But he is in heaven. And when
I say that, that is his vantage point. It is
his throne, and earth is his footstool. He is, he
is the sovereign over the universe, and yet he is
our father. I won't get too far into that because
because we have some more, some more to say, so
much to say there. But according to the lesson right,
God's purpose, God's purpose for creating us, creating humanity, was
that we should live in loving harmony with him and
with one another. Is that not what the Ten Commandments
are all about? Love for God, miraculous love for God.
We didn't have the ability to love God. We were
hostile naturally toward God innately. And God gave us the
privilege of being reborn through the power of the Holy
Ghost and being accepted in a relationship with God through Christ.
And so that is what It's God's love for God
and love for humanity. That's what the Ten Commandments are
all about. Okay, And so this is what he wants.
But unfortunately, and that's really an understatement. The lesson writer said, Lucifer.
But I just want to give you a moment here
to think this through no disrespect, but Lucifer was the
name that he had before he fell, or I should say,
jumped into sin. You see, Lucifer was the son of
the Morning Jesus is the ultimate morning star, the sun
Sun of righteousness. According to Malachi, now Satan not Lucifer.
He does not have the name Lucifer anymore because his
character is not luminescent. His character is not after the
brightness of God our Father. So his name is now Lucifer.
Are not Lucifer anymore. But now Satan, Unfortunately, Satan brought
sin into this world. See, he spread, He spread the
pandemic here. He brought every single strain of sin to
planet Earth. And now every human has been infected. Can
you imagine when we were going through the COVID nineteen crisis,
not everybody was infected. I've never had COVID, my wife,
my son, never had COVID. We prayed a specific prayer
throughout the crisis, and God chose to say yes to us.
But listen, every human being who has ever been born
or ever will be born, will have the deadly disease
of sin. And it is highly contagious. It is airborne.
Sin is airborne. It is contagious, and every human will
have gotten it. But the antidote now is that we
would yield our will to God through Christ and the
power of the Holy Ghost. But sin, among other things,
a disruption of our relationship with God. It misrepresents who
God is. Thus Jesus took upon himself. I need you
to say, Jesus volunteered. Type it in the chad. If
you can spell volunteered, go ahead and type it in
the chad. Jesus volunteered to take on human nature just put.
Jesus volunteered. Nobody forced him, nobody made him. Because he's eternal.
Just like God our Father, he is all powerful. Jesus
Christ blessed be his name, so he did not have
to do this. But the Bible says that he became
obedient unto death. He said, I lay down my life
that I may take it again. So in his own life,
unborrowed and underrived, he decided that he would take on
the limitation of humanity. For thirty three and one half years.
Jesus had to eat, he had to sleep, he had
to drink, He had to call on God our Father
for assistance. He needed to rely on the power of
the Holy Spirit to overcome temptation in his own life
when the devil came to tempt him. Thank God, we
already know that the Holy Spirit had already filled Jesus.
You understand, and even today in twenty twenty four and
throughout eternity, Jesus will have a body. He has limited
him himself to one space in the universe at one time,
except through the agency of the Holy Ghost. But Jesus
Christ took on a human body now glorified. Thank God,
but he took on a human body, and he still
has this body in the heavenly sanctuary as he ministers
on your behalf. I wish I had the time, but
the Bible, I mean, but the lesson still says, thus
Jesus took upon himself our human nature in order to
restore the knowledge of God and to bring salvation to
all of us. I thank God for this. There's so
much that I don't have the time to say. So please,
as usual, go into the community once we're done here,
and ask me to give you some notes, some notes
about the rest of the study. But in John three
point sixteen we see the role the role because there
is this question about the roles of the fi as
described in these passages. So I'll run through them, but
I won't read the passages. The Father as the source
of salvation through his love in John chapter three and
verse sixteen. The Father as teacher who draws people to
Jesus in John chapter six and verse forty five. The
role the Father as judge who has entrusted all judgment
to the Sun John chapter five, verses twenty two and thirty.
The role of the Father as giver of the true
Bread from heaven, who is Jesus Christ and John six
and verse thirty two. And as I said, go into
the community and say hey, remember to share your notes
with us today. 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.