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 Friday, February
twenty twenty twenty six. 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 uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is the Sun of God.
The Sun of God. I love it, I love it,
I love it. I'd like to just say welcome to
everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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have you're not privy to this on podcast land, you're
not privy to this. This evening on the YouTube channel
for your Daily Portion, we have our musical Bible class
where we teach the lesson, except we use music the
whole week we teach the lesson. We have eight songs
that are created only and exclusively for you for this purpose.
And that happens tonight if the Lord Spear's life at
seven pm Eastern time. Let's pray, Father, thank you for
this day of preparation. Thank you for your dear son.
Help us to trust him and live like him. In
Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. So I'm
going to break from the norm. I want you to
just continue with the Life Application Guide on your own,
where we have those four key ways of applying this
lesson and we're going to go with direct teaching today. Okay,
We're going to go with direct teaching today and begin
with a quote. Begin with a quote from eighteen sixty
nine eighteen sixty nine Review and Herald from John Nevins Andrews,
and it reads, Christ stands at the head of creation.
He stands at the head of creation, not as a
created being, but as the divine agent through whom all
things were made and are sustained. Do you realize that
even the food that you eat on a daily basis
comes because Jesus, the god Man, the one who created you,
also took on human form to save us from our sins.
Can I say that the one who existed from eternity
past knew that on the twentieth day of February in
twenty twenty six, that you would be here and that
you would need food to eat. And it's because of him,
because of his not just his creatorship, which is enough,
but also because of the fact that he redeemed you.
Because we deserve eternal death. Are you hearing where I'm
going with this? We deserve eternal death. And that means
that in the moment that we sinned the very first time,
it disqualified us for anything besides eternal death. And so
Jesus the Creator, Jesus the Redeemer. He stands at the
head of creation. And everything that you need, everything you have,
everything you are, it only comes because of him. It
only comes because of him. In the book Evangelism, page
six hundred and fifteen, we read Jesus is the pre existent.
I love that word. Look it up if you don't know.
That means he existed from eternity past. He is the preexistent.
Now comes a bigger word, self existent. My God, Christ
is the preexistent, self existent of God. That means that
there was never a time that Jesus didn't exist. I
don't understand it. When I was young, I tried to
fathom eternity past. I tried to fathom it. I tried
to understand what it meant for God, the Father, God,
the Son, God, the Holy Ghoes. I tried to figure
out how did they always exist? How is it that
there was never a time that they didn't exist? And
I got anxiety. I will promise you so, I'm now
even in the moment I went back there, when I
closed my eyes, I went back to the moment that
that anxiety cropped up because I could not understand it,
and so now I believe it by faith. I don't
try to understand it. Why would I worship a god
that I can master? Why would I worship a god
where there's not an infinity beyond whatever my understanding is currently?
Why would I create a god and then bow down
and worship it? You see? And so Jesus is also
self existent. That means that there was no power that
came outside of Jesus Christ that makes him to exist.
It is not the power of the Father that makes
Jesus exist. It is not the power of the Holy
Ghost that makes Jesus exist. It is not some kind
of mystical astronomic power that causes Jesus to exist he
self existent. Anyway, let me keep reading. There never was
a time when he was not in close fellowship with
the eternal God. And I will say, our Father, Now,
why is this important to me? Why do I always
sit on this fact so long? Well? Listen, hmm. Jesus
is described as the one who was the one who
is the one who is to come. That means that
at any time in the past in your bloodline, any
great great grand all the way back to Adam. Yeah,
whatever was in your bloodline, Jesus was there and he
saw that that was the reality, and he knew that
you would suffer. He knew that you would have to
struggle through. He knew exactly what your situation would be.
And because he's the one who was an eternity past,
he understands what it takes to save you. Right now,
you understand where I'm going with this. He's the one
who is that means whatever you need in this moment
of your life. And if God extended your moment and
it's now again but later, did you hear what I
just said. I'm not talking about the candy. I'm talking about,
not the sweetie. I'm talking about if now is seven
minutes into our broadcast, and God delivers us and protects
us until the end, which will be ten minutes in
some seconds at the from the beginning of the broadcast,
if at that time it's now again, He's here with
you now again, like now now now. Shout to the
Jamaicans who know what I mean when I say no, no, no,
no no no no no no no no y'all come
no yes now, He's present, a very present help in
the time of trouble, and also the one who is
to come. So he sees your life afar off. He
knows exactly what you will encounter, and he's able to
protect you. He is able to keep you, he is
able to deliver you, he is able to keep you
from falling. You understand where I'm going with this, And
so God has been so good to allow me to
allow you to be in His presence, so that the
preexistent and eternal One can save us from our sins.
And so our lesson number one. Our lesson number one
is Jesus does not leave room for partial belief, for
partial belief, and Jesus didn't present himself as merely an
insightful or inspirational person. His words, his claims, and his
actions demand a decision. He claimed divine identity. I know
that there are some people of different faith community, some
even who go to church with us on a regular basis,
who say that Jesus never claimed. That is not true.
His words, claims, and actions demand a decision. He claimed
divine identity, He eternal existence and absolute authority. The Gospel
does not invite admiration. It calls for allegiance and so
we worship the Son of God because he's worthy. Make
it a great day, Peace. 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.
Speaker 1: Yeah,