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, October seventeen,
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 Reappearing Themes Glory. Reappearing Themes Memes Glory.
We'll get into that in just a moment. Pre First,
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank
you for this day. Thank you for loving us so
much that you gave us all of heaven through Christ.
I'm asking you now to help us to live according
to your principles and be victorious in all of the
ways that you want us to be victorious. Please, in
Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again reappearing themes glory. Okay,
And so if my friend Norman I talk to you
about him, I call him my baby brother. Really, since
my name is David, I call him Jonathan because we
have a special bond. Right. So if Jonathan we're here
right now with me, I wouldn't be able to get
a word in edgewise because he is enamored by the glory.
Jonathan loves the glory of God, and so do I.
But he has a unique and special love. So big
shout out to you, Jonathan, and I know you're jumping
all over the place if you're hearing this at this moment.
And so we begin now from the Bible Book of John,
chapter seventeen, and I will read beginning at verse one,
and the Bible reads these words spake Jesus and lifted
up his eyes to heaven, and he said, Father, the
hour has come. Glorify thy son, that thy son also
may glorify thee. And so what God, God the Son
is saying to God the Father is, we have done
good work down here, Father, and now I need you
to manifest yourself through this experience in a way that
will transform as many people as possible. You know what's
interesting about it. Jesus was preparing to give his life
on the cross, to lay down his life for the
sins of every human being who has lived or ever
will live. You see. And this is a manifestation of
the glory because because God loved us so much that
he gave us Jesus Christ. And so the fullness or
the fullest demonstration of that love is in Christ giving
his life for us. This is not something that human
beings can do. This is not something that ordinary human
beings can do. It took God in the flesh to do.
And that would be the fullest manifestation of the love
and power of God, the brightness of his love to
shine into the earth, so that hopefully more and more
brothers and sisters will be saved, when men, women, boys
and girls to be saved by God. And so the
hour is now come. Father, glorify your son, so that
that glory can also show honor to you, to show that,
to show that you could not just stand and watch
us die down here verse two. And thou hast given
him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal
life to as many as thou hast given him. Can
I just say this plenty good room in the kingdom
of a relationship with God, Like there's plenty good room
for people to be saved and transformed by the renewing
of our mind, to be saved by God. There is
plenty good room in the kingdom. And he said it's
unlimited verse three. And this is life eternal. They might
know thee You see, sometimes people try to intellectualize this thing.
Sometimes people try to make it more complicated than it
really is. If you want to know what eternal life is,
it's knowing God. It's a relationship, an intimate relationship with God.
How does God think and feel about us? What is
it that he would have us to do? How would
he have us to relate to the person who needs food?
How would he have us to relate to the person
who just needs a listening ear? How does God want
his love to be manifest through our lives so that
others can be saved? This is eternal life, that they
may know THEE, the only True God, and Jesus Christ,
whom Thou has sent. I have glorified THEE on the earth.
That is, when people saw Jesus living on planet Earth,
they saw what he did and did not do. They
saw how his compassion looked. How they saw the transformative
power the sick, raise the dead, delivered people from the
enemy's hands his grip. When people saw that, they were like, Oh,
that's what God is like. When they saw the love
in his eyes, they said, oh, that's what God is like.
And so what God really wants for us is to
be a manifestation of the same I wish I had
the time. I have glorified THEE on the Earth. I
have finished the work which thou hast given me to do.
And now, O God, O Father, glorify thou me with
thine in thine own self, with the glory which I
had with THEE before the world was. Jesus is saying,
the mission on planet Earth is nearly done. We are here.
I manifested your power, I manifested your character. I am
powered people so that they can be saved. And I'm
about to give my life. Finally, I'm going to die
on the cross and save people from their sins. And
you just let me come back up there. I want
to come back up to heaven and live in the
way that I lived before I took on human flesh,
the fullness like the Manifestation, not limited by humanity anymore,
not needing to be hungry, not needing to get tired,
not needing to suffer through physical pain anymore, the fullness
of who I was from before there was a beginning?
Can we get back to that? Because I finished my
work on planet Earth, and I love it because it
shows that God accomplishes his goals. He accomplishes his goals,
so you can accomplish your goals. You don't have to
just sit there and say, why I keep I keep failing?
Why do I keep doing the negative or wrong thing?
Why am I still bound?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no. Jesus manifested the truth. He showed
us that we can actually accomplish the goals that he blesses.
Wish I had the time. Let's go ahead here and
talk about seven lessons that we can draw from this
truth that we just read in John chapter seventeen. The
first one comes from the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter three
and verse one. To every thing, there is a season,
a time to every purpose under the sun. And so
we see the time that Jesus needed to invest on
planet Earth so that we could be saved, and he
went back to Heaven ultimately so that during that time
until now that he can minister, he can minister in
a way that can transform us and cleanse us from
all of our unrighteousness. So there is a time for
everything and a season for everything under the sun, including
God's mercy. His mercy will continue until it's not continuing.
His mercy will continue until we have made our final
decision for or against God, and then mercy will stop
her call and that time will have ended. What is
your decision today? Really, we don't have tomorrow. And then
there is a paradox of glory through suffering. There's glory
through suffering in Jesus's reality, and so in Romans chapter five,
verses three through five, it says, and not only so,
but we glory and tribulations also, knowing that tribulation work
of patience, and patience, experience and experience hope, and hope
maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is
given unto us. I'm grateful. I'm grateful that God shows
us his glory in the suffering that Jesus went through.
It wasn't too much for him, and he wanted to
save us, and so we did.
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,