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 Monday, October fourteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 the Word made flesh, the word
mayd flesh. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
in Heaven, thank you for giving us this day our
daily bread. I pray God now that you will transform
our lives. Help us to be transformative agents in this world,
looking for people to help and to connect with you
so they can be saved. In Jesus' name. I pray
Amen and Amen again. The word became flesh. And I
do admit, I admit that I preempted a lot of
this discussion because it's so broad and wide and holy.
But we're going to, you know, look at some things
over and over again until we move on to the
next spiritual subject. Here. One quote that I did not
read yesterday because we really just ran out of time
comes from the book The Desire of Ages, page nineteen,
and it reads from the Days of Eternity, the word, oh,
excuse me, from the days of Eternity, the Lord Jesus
Christ was one with the Father. And I need you
to get that I said it multiple times, multiple different ways.
But we need to understand that Jesus pre existed the incarnation,
or he pre existed the time that he came into
humanity and lived on planet Earth for planet Earth for
thirty three and a half years. Jesus came from eternity
past Micah chapter five speaking of Messiah says as much
I wish I had the time, but continuing the quote
from the days of Eternity, the Lord Jesus Christ was
one with the Father. He was the image of God,
the image of his greatness and majesty, the outshining of
his glory. So if you want and that's, by the way,
the end of the quote. So if you want to
know what God is like, then look to Jesus. When
I say God, I'm talking about God the Father. If
you want to know what God the Father is like,
you look to Jesus. You want to know his character,
look to Jesus. If you want to know his mindset,
look to Jesus. If you want to understand anything about
his compassion, look no further than to Jesus. His willingness
to save and empower people, look to Jesus. I think
we're starting to get the picture. The author and finisher
of our faith. He is the fullness of the God
had bodily. This is Jesus Christ, the one who created you,
the one who also has made provisions so you can
be saved, the one who gave his life as he
lived on planet Earth, so you and I can both
be saved. Okay, And so we read again from the
Book of John. We're reading again the first three verses
and then verse fourteen. In the beginning was the word
Who was the word? Again? Go ahead and type it
in the chat, because I want to make sure you're
getting this. And the word was with God, God the Father,
and the word was God. So Jesus is the word
in the beginning, or from before there was a beginning,
Jesus was there, and Jesus was with God the Father.
And Jesus is equal to God the Father. The same
was in the beginning with God. All things were made
by him. See these things that you can see and
not see, the planets, the elements. Jesus created that, all
of the creatures that you've ever heard of or never
heard of. Jesus created that the universe as we know it.
Jesus created that all things were made by him, and
without him was not anything made that was made Verse fourteen.
And the Word was made flesh. Now this is some
special miraculous stuff here. The same one who created everything,
the same one that created you, he also now in
a miraculous feat a movement of God, he took on
human flesh for thirty three and one half years, and
he dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the
glory as of the only begotten of the Father. Don't
be confused about that terminology begotten. That means one of
a kind. That's simply what it means in this context. Jesus,
this is one of a kind, as of the only
begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. What
a mighty God we serve. Why am I so excited
about this? Because God could have stayed in heaven and
just watched us live according to the way that we
chose to live, and then whatever the outcome of the
result was, well, that's what we paid. That's what we
paid for. So we're going to get the wages of
that which is eternal death. But God said Paul actually
said that Jesus did not consider it robbery to be
equal with God and then like, for instance, he didn't
look at the fact that he's equal to God our
Father and say, well, these humans did what we told
him not to do. We empowered them to do the
right thing, but they chose not to, so we're just
going to leave them there to, you know, suffer their consequences.
Is cause and effect. He didn't think the fact that
he is equal to God our Father as something he
should hold on to and just let us die. No,
he took on the form of a servant. He took
on human flesh for thirty three and a half years,
glorified that flesh. After he overcame temptation and sin as
he lived in the flesh, he glorified that and took
that into heaven. So now he's our great high priest
who was well acquainted with the feelings of all of
our infirmities. Isn't it good that the same one who
created us now has come down into our situation so
he could save or recreate us. There is so much
we need to say, but we just literally don't have
the time. We will study this throughout the ceaseless ages
of eternity, I promise you. And so one thing we're
going to look at a few lessons in the Let's
see a few minutes that we have left here, just
about two or three minutes we have left here. Us
created all things. That's less than number one. What a
mighty God we serve. I have to say it over
and over again, because somebody's gonna knock on your door
one of these days and tell you that Jesus is
less than equal to God, our father, and that would
nullify the plan of salvation. Okay. And so God he
made through Christ, he made himself accessible to us. He
made himself accessible to us. He tabernacled with us. He
dwelt among us so that we one day can dwell
with him. He dwelt among us in our sin predigament,
so that one day we can live eternally with Him,
where there will be no more sin, sickness, death, disease, pain,
or devil So one day we will experience the full
manifestation of that. And why did he do that? Number
three is because he loves us. Because he loved us.
In First John, chapter four and verse nine, the Bible
reads in this was manifested the love of God toward us,
because that God sent his only begotten son into the
world that we might live through him. This is why
he did it, because he loves us. Because he loves us,
The truth is personal number four, not abstract. All that
I said about lugos and Hebrew terms and Greek terms
and all of these words that can become confusing at times,
really it's not in the abstract. It's not philosophical. This
reality is because God loves us and wants to save us,
and we can be saved beginning now. Make it a
great day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,