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 Thursday, November
twenty one, 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 from the Gospel of John or
in the Gospel of John. Our caption for today is
from Beneath, and I would like to put a question
mark right there. It's not a question, but I'm gonna
ask you a question in a second. From beneath Hmmm.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
then we will get underway. Bother and Heaven. Thank you
for giving us this new day and for loving us
so much that you have given us your son so
we can be saved. Please help us to live like
people who appreciate you. For this. In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. I'm going to ask you a
question that maybe preachers don't ask. Teachers don't ask, but
I'm going to ask you a question that I need
to be asking and answering for myself. Are you from
above or from beneath? Are you from above or from beneath?
And what I mean is who is your father? Is
your father Jesus Christ or God our Father? I wish
I had the time to really deal with that one.
Don't be afraid of answering that question, are you from God,
our father? Or are you from beneath the enemy of God?
And I think if we read the story today, and
we will from John chapter eight, beginning at verse twelve,
we all need to come face to face with the
reality of that answer for ourselves. Am I from above?
Or am I from beneath? Okay? And so beginning at
verse twelve, the Bible reads, then Jesus spoke out again.
I am the light of the world. This is what
he says. The one who follows me will never be
in darkness, but will have the light of life. And
if we follow him and have the light of life,
then it is an inkling like we can understand now
that we are from above. I wish I had the time.
Let's keep going. Let's keep going verse thirteen. So the
Pharisees objected, Wait a minute, they're from beneath, these particular pharisees,
not all Pharisees, but these objected. You testify about yourself,
your testifymony is not true. Jesus answered, Even if I
testify about myself, my testimony is true because I know
where I am from, where I am going my where
did I where I lost it. But you people do
not know where I came from or where I am going. Remember,
the Bible says he came to his own, and his
own him not his own received him, not but to
as many as received him. To them gave he power
to be from above or to become his children. That's
what it says verse fifteen. You people judge by outward appearances.
I do not judge anyone. But if I do judge,
my evaluation is accurate because I am not alone when
I judge. But I and the father who sent me
do so together. It is written in your law that
the testimony of two men is true. I testify about myself,
and the father who sent me he testifies about me.
Then they began asking him, where's your father. See, they're
trying to be funny in a in a devious and
evil way, because they're like, okay, so you say, they
say that your mother, your mother Mary was a virgin. Yeah,
or Joseph is really not the father and it's you know,
And so they are trying to scandalize the birth of
Jesus by simply asking him. But it's not so simple,
who or where is your father? Jesus answered, you don't
know either me or my father. If you knew me,
you would know my father. Also, Jesus spoke these words
near the offering box while he was teaching in the
temple courts. No one seized him because his time was
not yet come. Then Jesus said, unto them again, I
am going away, and you will look for me, but
will die in your sin. Where I am going, you
cannot come. So some of the so called leaders of
God's people began to say, perhaps he's going to kill himself,
because he says, where I am going, you cannot come.
He said to them, you people are from beneath. I
am from above. You people are from this world. I
am not from this world. Thus I told you that
you will die in your sins, for unless you believe
that I am He. That is the fulfillment of all
the prophecies we were talking about for the last two days. Jesus,
the Savior of the world, the anointed one that Daniel
saw in that seventy Weeks prophecy in Daniel chapter nine,
he says, unless you believe that I am He, then
you're going to die in your sins verse twenty five.
So they said, unto him, who are you, Jesus replied,
what I have told you from the beginning. I have
many things to speak and to judge about you. But
the one who sent me is truthful, and what I
have heard from him I tell the world. They did
not understand that he was telling them about his father.
So Jesus said, when you lift up the son of Man,
then you will know that I am he talking about
crucifying him. And I do nothing of my own initiative.
But I speak just what the Father taught me. And
the one who sent me is with me. He has
not left me alone because I always do the things
that please him Verse thirty and final. While he was
saying these things, many people believed in him. You see,
Jesus did not waste any time. He cut straight through
to the reality that these people that were supposedly the
leaders of God's people. I'm talking about the ones that
were right in front of him, they were from beneath
They did not believe in God. They said they did.
They said that Abraham was their father. They said that
they believed in them in what Moses taught. But they
were rejecting what the prophets, whom the prophets had prophesied
had come from God to save us from our sins.
But thankfully, after all of this exchange, there were some
people who believed in him. And so we want to
learn a few lessons from this exchange. Number one, seek
divine wisdom. Seek divine wisdom. See wisdom is from above
and it's first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to
be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality
and without hypocrisy. That is from James chapter three and
verse seventeen. When you're having difficulties either understanding or accepting
something that God has revealed in his word, ah, well,
we need to ask for wisdom, don't reject it. This
is what the soul called leaders of God's People did.
They chose to reject Jesus because they didn't agree with
what they were seeing, They didn't understand fully what they
were experiencing, and they had their own prejudices. Seek divine wisdom. Also,
we need to live, and we have the privilege of
living by God's Holy Spirit. When the Holy Spirit is
in our lives and he begins to teach us all
truth about God, teach us all truth about ourselves. The
Holy oulme when we accept This is for us to
humble ourselves before God. And when we humble ourselves before God,
he transforms our lives lives and gives us the fruit
of the Holy Spirit, which is love, and then all
of the tentacles or the outgrowth of that same love.
And then finally we have the privilege to set our
minds on the things from above. Set your affection. The
Bible says on things above, not on the things of
this earth, and that is from Colossians chapter three and
verse two. The more we set our minds toward God
and godly things, the more receptive we are to His will,
and we will be transformed. We can be the children
of God from above. 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,