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 Sabbath, February fourteen,
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 Christ in Philippians and coloss Christ and Philippians
and Colossians, And our caption for today is the pre
Eminence of Christ, one of my favorite subjects in the Bible,
the pre eminence of Christ. Before we get into that,
I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
especially those joining us for the very first time, I'm
asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways
that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
we thank you for this Sabbath morning, and I'm praying
that you will become number one in our lives, and
please make Jesus pre eminent in our lives and help
us to serve you with all we have and all
that we do. Under the Holy Ghost. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again, the pre Eminent of Christ. Well,
what does that mean? That means that he That means
that he is the one that matters. May I say that? Yeah,
there are people that will come and knock on your door,
knock on your gate, or call out to you, coming
to you by twos, they will come to quote witness
to you. Or if they don't come on your property,
you'll see them on the road with their stand and
their magazines and they're just waiting for you to give
them a little attention. And then they will begin to
talk to you. And many times they will talk to
you about whatever's in their magazine or whatever they think
that God wants for them to share. But there is
just one problem with this certain set of people who
will come to quote witness to you. I think you
know what I'm saying. Those individuals do not believe in
the pre eminence of Christ. And they're not the only ones.
There are plenty of people out here who are in
various faith communities that diminish who Christ is, who tried
to make him a mere prophet, maybe even the best
prophet that the earth has ever seen, to diminish him
to a small god, someone that came out of the
bosom of God our Father and has been set as
the lead of some spiritual being in heaven, but that
he was created. And it's like, no, that doesn't cut
it either. When we're talking about the pre eminence of Christ,
we're talking about the fact that every knee shall bow
and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father. I'm saying that Jesus,
based on the Bible, is worthy of worship. If you
want to read from Revelation chapters four and five in
your spare time, I would challenge you to see where
in chapter four the beings are worshiping God our Father,
who was seated upon the throne, and by the time
we get to Revelation chapter five, they are worshiping Jesus Christ,
the lamb that was slain, who came from the midst
of the throne. And of course in the book of
Hebrews we see that he is worthy of worship in
so many other places. Okay, And so when we're talking
about the pre eminence of Christ, we're not saying that
he is simply superior to humans or simply superior to
all of the heavenly angels, but then inferior somehow to
God our Father. When we see Jesus subjecting himself to
the Father, it is in the context that's a big word,
look up the word context. It is in context of
the plan of salvation, when he is saving his people
from their sins, from our sins. Jesus volunteered to take
on human form. But let me just say he existed
from before there was a beginning. He existed in eternity past.
Micah chapter five and verse two says that Jesus is
or the Messiah, was everlasting, even from everlasting. Jesus was
always he. He's the one that created us. In John
chapter one, Hebrews chapter one, and in other places in
the Book of Colossians, we see that Jesus is indeed
and in fact equal with God our Father. But again
in the Plan of Salvation we see that he he
humbled himself in order to save us. So I needed
to give that as the backdrop as we now jump
into the Bible Book of Colossians, chapter one, verses fifteen
through seventeen. And let me tell you why I am
so passionate, Because if anybody is able to convince you
that Jesus is a lesser form of God and not
equal with God our Father, than they have flushed your
salvation right down the toilet. You know why, because the
one who gave his life for you must be equal
to or greater than the law that was offended. And
so Jesus allowed himself, as he took on humanity to die,
so his divinity allowed his humanity to die. He laid
down his life, and after the time was finished, on
the first day of the week, Jesus, with his own
power unborrowed underived, raised himself. He took up his life again,
just like he promised. And so if he was not
one hundred percent divine and one hundred percent human when
he was up on that cross, then our salvation is
null and void. That's why I'm so passionate about that.
And so the Bible reads here beginning at verse fifteen,
he Christ is the image of the invisible God. Remember
God with us. His name will be called Emmanuel, God
with us, the first born overall creation. That means the
pre eminent one, for by him all things were created. Oh.
Even in the Book of Colossians, it shows that he
is the creator. Yes, that are in heaven, oh my,
and that are on the earth, visible and invisible, whether
they be thrones, whether they be dominions or principalities or powers.
This is why when we studied on our prayer school
call our Prayer School, which happens at on Wednesdays at
seven pm. This is why when we were talking about
about the whole armor of God. This is why it
was important because those principalities that are our actual enemy.
Maybe it was our Sunday morning call. Yeah, those enemies,
those principalities and powers and rulers of the darkness of
this world world in spiritual wickedness and high places. They
were created perfect by Jesus Christ, and they chose to
side with the fallen Lucifer who became the devil. Jesus
created all of those powers. This is why they must
bow when he comes through.
Speaker 3: This is why they believe and tremble when he comes through,
so visible or invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions,
or principalities or powers, all things, how many things, all
things were created through Him and for him, and He
is before all things, and in him all things consist.
Speaker 2: Everything that has life is borrowed from Jesus. Everyone who
has life borrowed from Jesus. Every animal or creature who
has life borrowed from Jesus. Every plant borrowed from Jesus.
Everything where life exists, except for God himself, our father,
borrowed from Jesus. So if Jesus pulls the plug, then
everything down here dies, because in him is life, and
the life is the light of men. So I invested,
really all of the time to say just that. Let
me just read one quote, one quote, and let you
go from reviewing Herald eighteen sixty nine. Christ is the
creator of all the world and by his power they
are repelled. This is the highest evidence of His divinity
and the sure foundation of our redemption. I could have
just read that, couldn't I. Yeah, if the Lord's bears
life will see you in the morning. 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.
Speaker 3: Yeah.