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, November ten,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion.
We give you God's Word every single day and today
is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study
series Themes and the Gospel of John, and our caption
for today is HARKing back to Abraham, HARKing back to Abraham,
making a look back at Father Abraham, as the songwriter
would have said, had many sons. Yeah, we'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
and for this new work week, and for the privilege
we have to look at the life of Abraham. And
there's so many things that you want us to understand
and to do and to live and experience from you. Please, Father,
open up our mind today, make us receptive to your will,
bear bear our burdens under test and trials in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. HARKing back to Abraham. Okay,
so we're going to the Bible Book of Romans, Romans
chapter four, pardon me, Romans, chapter four, and we will
read beginning verse one the Book of Romans chapter four,
and we will read beginning at verse one, and the
Bible reads, what shall we say then that Abraham, our father,
as pertaining to the flesh, had found. Let me say
it again, what then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor,
according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter Verse two.
For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of
the law, he has something to boast about, but not
before God. For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed
God and it was credit to him as righteousness. So
what did the scriptures say that Abraham believed? We talked
about believing yesterday, the kind of belief that is transformative
in nature. Abraham believed, and it was accounted to him
or credited to him as righteousness. Now to the one
who works, his pay is not credited due to grace,
but due to obligation. So when you go to work,
brothers and sisters, you work your forty hours or however
many hours you work. Or if you're on a contract
or you're a consultant or a coach or whatever, people
pay you based on your delivery of products and or services.
That's why they pay you, not because they like you,
not because they feel like, you know what, I don't
have anything better to do with this money. So let
me just pour it into their coffers. No, so when
you get paid at work or in exchange for goods
or services, it is because of your work that you
get paid. But what the Bible is telling us right
now is is no. The reason why Abraham was paid,
or it was credited to his spiritual bank account that
he was righteous, was because he believed God. God did
know him anything. It was the grace of God, unmerited favor.
So nothing he earned, nothing in his own strength that
he did notice the qualifier here in his own strength,
Nothing that in his own strength he did. God said,
because you believed with the power that I have invested
in you, the power that I have put into your bosom,
to believe me that measure of faith that I have
given you that Jesus is the author and finisher of.
Because you now act with the saying strength that I
give you to act upon that faith, I'm gonna I'm
going to flood your spiritual bank account with righteousness. I'm
gonna see you as if you have never sinned. Okay,
But verse five, to the one who does not work
but believes, and the one who declares the ungodly righteous,
his faith is credited as righteousness I love it. Peter
said that Paul when he's preaching and teaching like sometimes
we don't know what he's talking about. It's so heavy
sometimes that we need to really just pause and pray
and think and say, Okay, God, what is it that
you want me to get from what brother Paul was teaching?
And I'm thankful that in this case we could walk
slowly and say, Okay, I get it God. Whenever we
have righteousness in the banks of heaven, it is because
Jesus deserves it. Can I say it one more time?
Whenever we have righteousness accounted in our bank accounts, in
spiritual bank accounts in heaven, it's because Jesus is worthy.
I'm thankful. I'm thankful because that takes the stress load
off of me. I can actually take Jesus's yoke upon
me and learn of him because his yoke is easy,
his burdens are light, and I can find rest unto
my soul. That doesn't mean I take him for granted,
because that's not belief. We said yesterday that true belief
when we love him we actually keep his commandments. True
belief is about holiness and righteousness, living in the way
that pleases God. But if we choose to take up
our own burdens, if we choose to try our best
to be holy, rather than submitting our will to God
and Him making us holy, that's where we fall off.
So Abraham gave us the good and great example. In
the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page one hundred and fifty four,
we read through type and promise God preached before before
the Gospel unto Abraham, and the patriarch's faith was fixed
upon the Redeemer to come, said Christ to the people
of God. Your father Abraham rejoiced that he should see
my day, and he saw it and was glad. So
Jesus was saying, I was there when Abraham was there.
In Abraham, Father, Abraham, your spiritual father is actually my son.
Your spiritual father is my son. And if you believe
in me, then I will give you the I will
give you the airship. I will give you the inheritance
that I promised to your father Abraham. Now let me
continue reading the ram offered in the place of Isaac
resented the Son of God who was to be sacrificed
in our stead when man was doomed to death by
transgression of the love of God. The Father, looking upon
his son, said to the sinner, live or I have
found a ransom? Can I say it just a little
bit simpler? Thank God for the scriptures. Abraham's story was incredible.
Abraham didn't do everything the way God wanted him to
do it. This is, in fact, why this whole story
of Abraham being called to sacrifice his son, why that
happened because he and Sarah tried to manufacture and answer
to prayer by going into Hagar and having a child
with you with another woman when he's married to Sarah.
First do you understand? And so now the test, go
and sacrifice your son, Isaac, go in sacrifice your son
to me. And the Bible says that right before, even
though Isaac he he bears his cross, he has the wood,
even though Isaac he sees the fire, and he says,
this is for the sacrifice, even though he now is asking,
but Father, we see the wood, we have the fire,
the altar is prepared, but we don't have a sacrifice.
As Abraham says, God will provide himself a ram. God
will provide himself a sacrifice. God will provide himself as
a sacrifice through Christ hallelujah. When this happens and he's
about to do the deed, the Bible says that Jesus
and symbol replaces him as the sacrifice and shows us
what salvation really is about.
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,