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, February fifteen,
twoenty 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, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today in the Image of the
Invisible God. Image of the Invisible God. Before we get
into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank
you for this new day and the opportunity we have
to open up your word and I'm asking you to
please please give us the fullness of your Holy spirit
so we can see that your image is clearly manifest
in the life and mind ministry of Jesus Christ, so
we can be saved in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Let me just say to those of
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experience with you on yesterday. I think you know what
I'm saying. So we have a program dedicated just for them,
and hopefully you'll come through and support as well. Eight
o'clock every single Sunday morning, okay, and so the image
of the invisible God. Let me begin by reading a
quote from Reviewing Harold way back when eighteen seventy six.
As you can see, I am enamored by and am
encouraged by these pioneers quotes, and it reads, in Christ,
the divine glory is revealed. See back then, they did
not play around with this thing, man, They were direct
the glory. The divine glory is revealed because in him
dwells the fullness of the Godhead. I think I went
on a rant yesterday. I don't know if rant is
a good word, but I was passionate yesterday, so I
won't do it again today. To see Christ is to
behold the Father's own character shining through my my mind.
Let me read one more from eighteen ninety nine December
twenty except the signs of the Times. In Christ, we
behold the image of the Invisible God. That's what the
text says. He is the embodiment of the law of God. Oh.
I think I said something about that yesterday, which is
a transcript of his character. Jesus is the embodiment of
the law of God. Huh. And also he is the
fullness of what God our Father represents. You understand, so
he must not be diminished. If you see Jesus, you
see God our Father. You see the character of Christ,
you see the power of Christ, you see the dedication
of Christ to our salvation. Then you see the Father,
you see the love of Christ, you see the Father.
So let's go ahead and begin. In Genesis chapter one,
verses twenty six and twenty seven, the Bible says, let
us make man in our image. So that is God,
the Father, God the Son. And we see the Holy
Spirit hovering over the waters. So let us make man
in our image. So God created man in his own image.
Of course I left some of the things out in
the scripture. Humanity reflects God partially because humanity was created
in the image of God. Do you see where we're
going with this? So we represent God his attributes, the
more nurturing attributes of his character seen in woman, the
more stern attributes of his character in man. But that
is still down the wrung. Even though Adam and Eve
were created in the image of God, but Christ reveals
God perfectly. Do you see those two humans even before
they sinned? Do you needed two of them to even
represent at all the attributes of the character of God.
And even then it wasn't enough. Jesus Christ reveals God
perfectly and so and so and so humanity bears God's
likeness in terms of capacity and relationship, moral nature when
we are surrendered to God and authority. And yet the
image is a derivative and it's damaged by sin. I mean,
do we need a whole Bible study about that? Like?
What Christ, however, is not a shadow of God our Father.
I need you to get this, brothers and sisters. Christ
is not a shadow. Please never use that language where
Christ is concerned. He is not a shadow of God
our Father. He is the full, undiminished revelation of the
unseen Father. And so what I want you to do
and listen. I've had this discussion even within my faith fellowship.
There were a few people, even prominent people within my
faith fellowship. I can think of one in particular who
does not accept this. The Bible teaches us very clearly.
So in this action step, I want you to thank
God specifically for today for one way his image still
shines through your life. But remember, Jesus is the undiminished
revelation of the unseen Father. You know why this is
so important. I said a bunch of things yesterday, but
I left out something critical. See, when Lucifer was becoming Satan,
that mysterious fall of Satan, How art thou fallen? O Lucifer,
Son of the Morning? How art thou you see? Like
even the prophet is mystified? Like what in the world
is going on here? One of the things that he
was trying to do was usurp the authority of God.
He has extreme disdain for Jesus Christ himself. We can
see all of that as Jesus was living on planet Earth,
especially as people worshiped him. The devil does not like
people to worship Jesus. The devil does not like that
Jesus is not a created being. The devil does not
like the fact that Jesus is not simply an a angel.
He does not like the fact that, Oh now I
understand that he created me. He tried to beat He
tried to replace God. He tried to replace Jesus Christ,
God the Son. And therefore it makes sense that Jesus,
Jesus is the one with his holy angels as they
fought and the dragon and his evil angels it makes
sense that Jesus single handedly, well I shouldn't say single handedly,
but you get what I'm saying, kick the devil out
of heaven, you see. And so the devil was defeated
when Jesus laid down his life for us and then
took it again on that first day. Colossian Chapter one,
in verse fifteen, Who is the image of the invisible God?
We said that Christ is the perfect and complete image,
the visible manifestation of the invisible God. Unlike human reflections
that are partial and marred, Jesus perfectly unveils the Father's character, will,
and identity. He that hath seen me, Jesus said in
John fourteen and verse nine, has seen the Father. And
so I want you to read read one gospel verse
one of those first four books of the Bible in
the New Testament, Yes, a gospel verse today, and answer
what does this reveal about the Father's heart. I'm so
glad that God so loved the world that he gave
us the best possible manifestation of his character in the person, work,
and ministry of Jesus Christ. Make it a great day, peace.
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 1: Yeah,