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 thirty,
twenty twenty five. 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
for today is it's a terminology that is theological in nature,
like that people may not be familiar with, but it's
biblical typology. Biblical typology. We'll come into that in just
a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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this day, thank you for not leaving us in the shadows.
In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a men again.
So typology you've already read, likely the lesson application, not
the application guide, the adult study guide. I won't use
the same definition that's right there in clear and clear language.
Let me say it another way. When you're looking at
types or typology in the Bible, you're looking for what
is in front of me, and what does it mean?
What is in front of me, and what does it
ultimately mean. One of the best types or examples of
typology in the Scriptures is when John the Baptist saw
Jesus Christ. As John was baptizing in the Jordan River.
He sees Jesus afar off and he guides everybody's mind
and eyes and attention and says, behold the lamb of God.
He's the one that takes away the sins of the world,
the lamb. In that economy, that what they call sacerdotal
system or the system of ceremonies and sacrifices. Those people
knew what the lamb was ford had to do with.
You know, without shedding of blood, there can be no
remission of sins. And so a symbol of what you know,
the transfer of the guilt of sin from the human
who committed the sin, to the actual sacrifice, to the priest,
to the anyway straight through until the end of the process.
That was a symbol of something, a shadow that represented
something in this case someone. The lamb of God, which
takes away the sins of the world, is the fulfillment.
He is the anti type. He is the genuine article.
And this is why when Jesus finally actually gave his
life for us, then we needed we did not need
the lambs and other sacrifices anymore. They were nullified or
full filled in Christ. Okay. So that's the normal English
speaking version, okay. And so what we're gonna do now
is go into the Book of Romans, chapter five and
verse fourteen and be a little bit less cerebral the
Bible reads, nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even
over them that had not sinned. After the similitude of
Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him who was
to come, the one who was to come? Okay? And
so that word two posts in Hebrew the word two posts,
or pattern or model or example is a Biblical real person, event,
or object divinely designed to foreshadow a future fulfillment in Christ,
known as the end type. In this case, repeating Adam,
for example, prefigured Jesus, the first atom, bringing sin and death.
So the first atom, that's the one who was created
by God, the one who was in eden Eve's husband,
He's the first atom. He brought sin and death. The
second atom now is bringing the opposite, righteousness and life.
Now the action step really is, now that we've gotten
all of these things in our minds, ask God to
show you how these Old Testament truths reveal Christ's character today.
What I want you to do is read one Old
Testament story this week, at least outside of maybe this
lesson study, and identify what it foreshadows about Jesus. And
I don't want you to just get stuck in the
what because that's the easy part. Well, how does that
transform my life? How is it that the second atom principle,
like Jesus Christ coming to become the fulfillment of what
Adam messed up?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: How is that useful in your life? How will that
help you react to the world around you? How will
that help you as you raise your children or your grandchildren?
How will it help you in your workplace? How will
that reality help you when you God, for if you
God forbid, stumble into sin again and you're like, God,
I need you to please, please forgive me, forgive me
for my sins. How does that all come together so
that you can be transformed? So that's what I am
asking you to do. And let me read a quote
really quickly. I don't know that we'll get to all
of our lessons for this morning, but I'm reading from
James White review and Harold April three, eighteen fifty five,
and it reads the types and shadows of the law,
where like the dawn before the day. Have you ever
heard that perspective? Were like the dawn before the day?
So that means you know something wonderful is about to happen,
You know something is just over the horizon. You know
that as you can see the light from the in
the sky starting to intensify, that the sun will be
fully revealed. Right, continuing the quote, when the sun of
righteousness arose, the shadows fled away. I remember writing a
devotional entry in I think it was. Yeah, it was
my first book in two thousand and four. I said
four two thousand and four, and it was titled Bye
by Shadows, Bye by shadows. Because of this, So, the
shadows are cool if they guide us to the genuine article,
the reality. But you don't if a child sees his
daddy in a sh shadow and feels comforted by knowing
daddy is watching over him in the bed at night,
because the hallway light is is casting on the daddy,
and then the daddy's shadow is there and you hear
the daddy's voice. The child is not going to jump
out of bed and go hug the shadow. No, the
child is going to jump out of bed and run
to his or her actual daddy because the shadow just
let the child know that daddy is here and Daddy's
about to do something special. I feel comforted, I feel protected,
I feel nurtured, I feel covered. I know that Daddy
is here, okay, and then let me just read one
more quote here from the Desire of Ages, page seventy seven.
All the ceremonies of the old economy in the Law
were prophetic, typical of the mysteries of redemption. Every type
met its anti type in Christ. That means that everything
that had to do with the sacrificial system that mattered
for our actual atonement. I needed to say that I
wish I had the time to go into Leviticus chapter sixteen,
but I don't. But all of those things pointed forward
to Jesus. So why would I go back and hold
on to the Old Testament way of doing things when
I have Jesus Christ, the righteous one who's ever living,
to make intercession for me. Well, I'm grateful that God
has given us biblical symbols, but I'm more grateful for
what they represent Jesus Christ himself. No more shadows. Y'all,
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,