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 Tuesday, November nineteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name Iselle 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 Old Testament Prophecies about Jesus Part one.
Old Testament Prophecies about Jesus Part one. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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Thank God. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
us this new day this morning that you have entrusted
to our care. Great is thy faithfulness. I pray now
that you will help us to not only see Jesus
in these Old Testament prophecies, but see ourselves with you,
with Jesus, with the Holy Ghost and Holy angels, and
with each other. In eternity in Jesus name, I pray
Amen and a men again the Old Testament prophecies about
Jesus Part one. Now, I want you to type in
the chat like an Old Testament prophecy, your favorite one.
You could put like what the text is. You could
say Isaiah fifty three if he wanted to, or something
else Micah chapter five, or something else, like what was
your favorite Old Testament prophecy that gives you hope in
thee these last days as we prepare for the coming
of the Lord. Type it in the chat. Type it
in the chat. Let's see. Let's see what you got there. Okay.
And so the question really is what major takeaway can
we get from today's lesson? Hopefully you would have already studied.
If not, this will get you started. But let me
just go to Jeremiah chapter twenty nine and verse eleven.
This is the takeaway that I have gleaned from this
lesson for today, and it reads, for I know what
I have planned for you. I'm reading from the New
English translation of the Bible. For I know this is
God speaking. What I have planned for you, says the Lord.
I have plans to prosper you not to harm you
can I just say that and sometimes sometimes And I
was in church a couple of months ago in August
when somebody raised their hand. We were having Bible class,
and you know, he started to sort of thunder about
how we're not prepared, you know, the collective, we are
not prepared for the coming, and went to a Bible
passage in the Book of Amos about about preparing for
the coming in so many words, right, not so many words.
But then he started to talk about behaviors, behaviors of
people who are believers, and he started to like really
focus on behaviors, not relationship behaviors, not connection with God,
behaviors outward symptoms of reality that is in our hearts,
and not even start, not even touching how we can
get connected with God. And I'm like, oh, wait a minute.
Now God is here because he has he has, He
has plans for us, plans to prosper us in every way, spiritual,
in other ways, right, not to harm us. I have
plans to give you a future filled with hope, brothers
and sisters. When we are preparing for the coming of
the Lord, when we are looking back at the prophecies
that pointed forward to Messiah. We should think of the
mind set of God, which is I'm not here to
harm you. Think of the mindset of God that stops
at nothing to save us from our sins. Think of
the mindset of God that, even when he is chiding
us and correcting us, the purpose is to connect us
with him, connect us with his love, help us to
be in right relationship with Him, not just to tick
a box that says, Okay, you've accomplished this. Finally you
are holy enough to get into the kingdom. It's like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We miss something really really key here. If we miss
God's intention for us. He intends that we are prospered.
He intends that we are not harmed by him. He
intends to give us an expected and a future filled
with hope. This reassures us that if we remain connected
with God, then he will take care of all of
our character flaws, teach us how to live holy in
Christ Jesus, and then one day we will see him
face to face. I wish I had the time, but
let's read from the Book of Isaiah, chapter fourty and
verse three, and the Bible reads the voice of Him
that crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of
the Lord, make straight in the desert, a highway for God.
And so we see that the Old Testament Bible writers showed,
I want to say, he foreshadowed when John would would
actually fulfill this where he is preparing the way for
Jesus Christ, so that when people saw Jesus coming, and
our brother John the Baptist pointed into right directly at
Jesus and said, behold the Lamb of God which taketh
away the sins of the world. He was saying, when
you behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us that we should be called as children. He's
pointing at Jesus and saying, this is the antidote. You
have a sin problem, So do I. He is the
antidote you've been wondering how we're going to be saved.
He is the Savior. Behold the Lamb of God which
taketh away the sins of the world. The Savior became
our substitute so that we could be saved. And we
saw that in the Old Testament passage, and then fulfillment,
of course in Jesus's day and in Psalm chapter sixty
nine and verse nine, The Bible reads, for the zeal
of mine house thine house, excuse me, hath eaten me up?
And the reproaches of them that reproacheth thee are fallen
upon me. And so Jesus in the temple, as he
is cleansing the temple, while he was living on planet Earth,
he was showing that human beings sometimes get ahead of
our skis. Sometimes we start to focus on ourselves when
we are in God's presence. Sometimes we use holy things
in order to execute our own ends. And these people,
these wicked leaders, those individuals who were unrepentant, turned God's
house into a house of merchandise. And Jesus was filled
with the zeal of his father. He was filled with
zeal for holiness. And of course he went and had
to go deal with that, and of course get those
those guys up out of there, okay. And so Jeremiah
chapter two and verse three reads, for my people have
committed two evils. What are they? They have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters, hewn them out cisterns, broken,
cisterns that hold no water. If we are God's children
and we are, are you like maybe maybe I should
ask the question. But if we are God's children, then
that means when if we are our cisterns that are
like God holding water, holding water of life. Having Jesus
abide in us, who is the water of life. And
as he said in John chapter seven and verse thirty eight,
if we believe in Him, out of our belly shall
flow rivers of living waters, rather than like hewing for
ourselves cisterns and trying to do things our own way
and having holes in ourselves so when the water comes in,
it just leaks out. We need to be receptive to
God and then let these waters flow out to other
people so they too can be seen.
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,