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
twenty three, 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. This
is Lesson number nine and our caption for today is
the Source of Life. The Source of Life. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but first I like
to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
giving us this new opportunity to connect with you. Thank
you for the Sabbath hours and for being our life Father.
Please help us to always remain connected to you. In
Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Okay, So,
really and truly, what do you believe is the source
of your life? And I know that that should be
an easy answer because many of you say that you
know and love God, so you would say, well, God
is the source of my life. And if that's the case,
even for the people who are not yet connected to God.
And I'm hoping that today is your day, I'm hoping
that this program will be an impetus for you to
begin walking with God like become his friend. Right. But
if that's the case, how do we live? If we
know intellectually that Jesus is our life, If we know
intellectually that He is our source, how do we live?
How do we interact with those around us? How do
we interact in our business dealings, in our personal relationships?
How do we interact with the way that we see ourselves?
You see, if the source of our life is God
through Christ, how do we live now? The Bible reads
here in John chapter fourteen and verse six. I am
the Way. This is Jesus speaking the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me. You see,
when I was a young new believer, I was about
twenty three years of age and I had just gotten baptized.
Pastor Henry Wright baptized me in Alexandria, Virginia. It was
an incredible experience. I also had the privilege of learning
under John Nixon, Pastor John Nixon and we're talking about
senior at the Capitol Hill Church in Washington, d C.
So I had these two men of God teaching, teaching
me among other people, teaching me the way, the truth,
and the life. I remember one time Pastor Nixon was
teaching and he said, there are so many of you
who say I have the truth. I have the truth.
And of course he's speaking to people twenty two million
people around the world who say that we have present truth.
Give or take a few people, right, And he said, well,
what is the truth? What is the truth? And of
course we start sometimes thinking of the truth in terms
of true words. And he showed us in the Scriptures
where Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth, and
the life. No one comes to the Father but by me,
pastor will Smith, he taught us the same thing in Alexandria.
And the truth is that Jesus Christ is the Truth.
God's word is truth, and his commandments are truth. These
are what the Bible teaches us as truth. Jesus is
the truth, his word is truth, and the Holy ten
commandments are truth. Okay. So if that is the case,
and Jesus himself being the truth, told us the truth
that He's the source of our life, then how must
we live? What is it our privilege to do as
people who believe the truth that God is the source
of our life? Okay? And so I'm going to give
a few concepts here. The first is in Acts chapter
four and verse twelve, and the Bible reads, neither is
their salvation in any other for there is none other
name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
And so we understand from John chapter one and Hebrews
chapter one in other places that Jesus Christ created us right,
He created us. He is our creator. That means he's
the source of our lives. That is, when Adam and
Eve were created, the one who breathed into their nostrils
the breath of life is Jesus Christ himself. So we
got that. But in twenty twenty four, how do we
see that? We also see the fact that the reason
why we can still breathe, the reason why our heart
is still beating, the reason why our brains are still functional,
is because we take our lives from Jesus. He is
giving us our life. He said, I am the resurrection
and the life. That is clear. But then comes this
matter of salvation. You see, there are people who are
breathing right now, people you know, and God forbid it
may be you. But if it is you, you're in the
right place. For these few moments. There are people who
are breathing and borrowing breath from God, not understanding or
not yet accepting that salvation comes from Christ. That is,
we have all sinned and comes short of the glory
of God. And God has given us the antidote. The
antidote is to submit ourselves to Him through Christ. And
to receive Christ into our lives is to be quote saved.
There is no salvation except through Christ. There is no
name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be
save except through Jesus Christ. I'm a Christian. That's why
I'm called a Christian, because I believe that salvation comes
from the same source that my breath comes from salvation,
and my breath comes from Jesus Christ. Do you see
where we're going with this? And then if that's the case,
that means that we embrace Jesus as the only way
to God, our Father. He is the pathway. He is
the pathway. Not all roads lead to God. We may
learn some things about God through all kinds of different means,
but the pathway, Jesus is the way, and he's telling
the truth. Now we tie this together now from John
chapter one and verse seventeen, where the Bible says, for
the law was given by Moses. But grace and truth
there's that word again, came by Jesus Christ. So that
means we live by it truth, power of God to
do his will, unmerited favor. That's grace, unmerited favor, power
to do God's will. The truth about this is that
it came through Jesus Christ. In John chapter ten and
verse ten. The Bible reads, I am come that they
may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
So we have the breath that we breed. We are
able to hear, see, speak, and other things. We have
our five senses. And I understand that there are anomalies,
and people are missing some of those. But the fact is,
if we were alive, we are only alive because of
God through Christ. And he is saying that I can
give you more than that. I can give you more
than that, more than just the ability to breathe, more
than just the ability to think, more than just the
ability to get wealth, more than just the ability to
have relationships with people we love and who love us.
More than just the ability to eat and to drink
and to be merry in a good way. I'm saying,
we have the privilege of having life more abundantly, the
kind of life that knows that we are connected to God.
And one day we will begin to live in eternity
with God, where there will be no more sickness, no
more death, no more crying, pain or any such thing.
And we're looking forward to the day. So the fact
is we seek God through Christ and everything that he offers,
and of course we reflect on our love relationships. We
rely on him in prayer, and we share about him.
We witness to others about him. The source of our
life is Jesus, and so is our salvation.
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,