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 Sabbath, November sixteen,
twenty twenty four. 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 themes in the Gospel of John and our
caption for today is fulfilling Old Testament prophecies. Fulfilling Old
Testament Prophecies. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father, we thank you
for this new Sabbath morning and for the privilege you've
entrusted to us to be together in this manner so
early in the morning, at least where I am. Thank
you for giving us your word. And I pray now
that we will receive your Holy Spirit too, and then
see what you would have us to do in Jesus name.
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, and so fulfilling
Old Testament prophecies. Let me read beginning at John chapter
five and verse thirty six. John chapter five and verse
thirty six reads, But I have a greater witness than
John's for the works which the Father has given me
to finish. The very works that I do bear witness
of me that the Father hath sent me. The Father
hath sent me. Jesus is on planet Earth, the Bible
teaches us, for God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. So Jesus was
given to us all of heaven in one gift by
God the Father. And it was it was Paul who
said in Galatians chapter four and verse four, when the
fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son,
made of a woman, made under the law, to fulfill
the things that are under the law, that we shall
be called the We shall be called the through the
option of sons, you see. So through Christ, through Christ,
we are now adopted into the family of God. We
are now adopted into the family of God. And this
was prophesied by so many in the Old Testament we
now call the Old Testament, you see. And so it's
no surprise that we can be saved through the Messiah's work.
It is no surprise that there is forgiveness for those
who keep covenant with him. It is no surprise that
we are now the sons and daughters of God. But
we're looking forward to a day that we will receive
a name that is greater and better than of sons
and the daughters. It is a name that will remain forever.
Why because the prophets of the Old Testament they shared
this before time, you see. And I'm thankful, I'm thankful,
and so what we're going to do is look at
some of these throughout the week. But let me just
begin by giving a few tips, okay, a few guide
lines for us. Number One, study the scriptures deeply. Study
the scriptures deeply, because in the scriptures we find the
testimony of Jesus Christ. Can I say it this way?
From John chapter five and verse thirty nine, Jesus speaking
to the so called people of God who chose to
be his enemy. Search the scriptures. You do that, that's
what you do. You search the scriptures because in them
ye think, ye have eternal life. You think, but by
your studying, you think, by what you can see in
the scriptures. You think, by being able to master the
words and memorize them, put them on your heads, around
your wrists, wear them on your bodies. You feel like
this is the way to have eternal life. But let
me just give you a little tip here, a secret.
They testify of me. So the scriptures, the prophecies. The
scriptures and the prophecies all point to Jesus, and so
we should study. And it is our privilege to study
the scriptures deeply. But when we're studying the scriptures, we're
looking for a connection with God through Christ. When we
study the scriptures, we're looking for a connection with God
through Christ. Thank God. Now we move to verse thirty
six of the same chapter John chapter five, and the
Bible reads, but I have greater witness than that of
John for the works which the Father hath given me
to finish. Finish. That means that the work started already. Okay,
the same works that I do bear witness of me
that the Father hath sent me. So Jesus pre existed
the time that he lived on planet Earth. The prophecies
foretold that Messiah, who is equal to God, our Father,
who is eternal, that same one will take on human
flesh in order to save us from our sins. This
is a fulfillment of so many prophecies, but one would
be in Micah chapter five and verse two, and in
Daniel chapter nine. During the seventy weeks of years prophecy.
So the one who was equal to the Father, he
volunteered to come on planet Earth in human form, the
theanthropic one, one hundred percent God, one hundred percent human,
so that we can be saved. Great, the Bible says,
is the mystery of godliness that God took on human
form in the person of Jesus Christ, so that we
could be saved. And I'm thankful. So we recognize and
revere the actual works of Jesus Christ. We recognize and
revere what God did in order to save us. And
of course, of course, in John chapter one and verse ten,
the Bible says he Jesus was in the world and
the world was made by him. Did you get that
Jesus actually created the world made by him and the
world knew him not? Can you imagine the one who
created them, the one who created us, the one who
created all things animate and inanimate, visible and invisible. Jesus Christ,
the Son of God and God the Son. He comes
down to planet Earth and those he created him whom
he created, many of them did not believe, did not believe.
So we need the Holy Ghost to open to our
hearts understanding. Spiritually speaking, we need spiritual understanding that only
God can give, so that when we are seeing the
prophecies all fulfilling, that we get what God intended for
us to get and not make up creepy, scary stuff
in order to try to frighten people into the kingdom,
but to embrace and say, like some of the disciples
like this is the Christ, this is the Messiah, of
whom the prophets spoke. We found him, aren't you glad
we found him in these last days of whom the
prophets spoke. And of course one writer and inspiration, Missus White,
she said, she said that we have no fear of
the future, for the future, except that we forget how
God has led us in the past. And so in
that vein we read verse forty of John chapter five,
and ye will not come to me that ye may
have life. See, there was reluctance from some of the
people so called people of God prior to this moment
in time recorded in John chapter five, and based on
those errors and huge spiritual mistakes, people are still making decisions.
When when Saul was holding the garments when they were
stoning Stephen, he believed based on based on what the
people before him had said, that Jesus was not who
he said he was. What the Bible is teaching us
is that we need to learn from our past mistakes.
You won't come to me because somebody before you didn't
come to me. You won't come to me because you're
choosing to doubt rather than to believe what the scriptures
said about me. You will not come to me because
you are repeating the errors of the past. And of
course we have the privilege of embracing humility. And John
chapter seven and verse seventeen. The Bible says, if anybody
is willing to do God's will, then he will know
of the doctrine the Bible teachings, whether they be of
God or whether I speak Jesus speaking of myself. So
I'm thankful that the prophecies of the Old Testament pointed
to the ultimate Son of God.
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,