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, February
twenty one, 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 Reconcilly
and Hope. Reconciliation and Hope. Before we get into that,
I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank you
for this Sabbath morning and the opportunity to be reconciled
to you. Help us to cooperate, Please, help us to
serve you. Help us to do your will and then
become ministers of reconciliation God, and never give up until
Jesus comes. Help us, never to give up. In Jesus' name,
I pray Amen and a men again reconciliation. And and
so the memory text for this Sabbath morning is coming
in from Tewo Corinthians, chapter five and verse twenty one,
and the Bible reads, for he Hath made him to
be sin for us. I remember being a new believer
and being blown away by this part of a passage,
and I'll come back to it, For he Hath made
him to be sin for us, who knew no sin,
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Do you realize that Jesus put everything on the line
in order to save us. It really bothers me, And
that's understating it. I just I'm saying bother so I
don't get on my soapbox, but it really bothers me.
When people who say that we are connected to God
minimize what Jesus went through when he lived on planet Earth.
They think it was a foregone conclusion, because God knows everything.
They think it was a foregone conclusion that Jesus would succeed.
And then you know, it's just sort of a I
don't know, a judicial, sort of a stroke of a
pen kind of situation, like a rubber stamp to say, Okay,
Jesus is gonna do this. He's going to do thirty
three and a half years on planet Earth like a sentence,
and as soon as that's done, he's going to tick
the box and go back to Heaven and save everybody. Yeah, well,
may I just say inspiration has told us that Jesus
could not see through the tomb. Think about it. The
one who created all things without him was not anything
made that was made in him was light and the
life was the light of men. Do you understand, like
we're talking about him, and when he became Jesus in
the fullness of time took on human flesh. After four
thousand years of human degradation and sin, he came into
human form, and he had to maintain his connection with
his father like a human would. Now he has to pray.
Now he has to rely on God, our Father's guidance
and leading through the Holy Ghost. Now when he is tired,
he has to take a rest. What rest tired? What
now he gets hungry? Now, whatever temptation you have to
do evil, magnify that by a million or more fold, right,
because you have no power in yourself to do anything.
But Jesus could have just said, you know what, forget this,
I'm letting everybody down there die. In fact, I'll do
it myself. These people don't even appreciate me. Can you
imagine what it's like, No, you can't, that's rhetorical. Can
you imagine what it's like to have the kind of power,
the infinite, infinite power of God in your bosom that
at any time you could decimate this world because of
the wickedness of the people. And yet you are accepting
for the moment that they are reviling you, accepting in
the moment that they're wagging their heads and smacking and
beating you and pulling out your beard, accepting in the
moment that the people who are supposed to be representing you,
the ones who are supposed to be the teachers of
the law, are your arch enemies. Can you imagine what
it must have been like for Jesus in the moments
that he felt alone and separated from his father, to
cry out, my God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
How can Jesus be minimized?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: The Bible says he became sin for us. Hmm. Now,
I want you to do this exercise with me, but
only do it for a short time, because it'll depress
you irreparably if you do it too long. I want
you to remember the most recent sin that you committed,
even if you have repented of it. I want you
to think about that one you drank rum when you
promised not to. Was it that you smoked some more
we that you determined that you shouldn't. Was it that
you had secret pride while everybody thought that you were
so holy, and yet you were hiding pride. You were
hiding that you're beating up your spouse. I'm saying, don't
type it in the chat. That's not our business. I'm saying.
I want you to fix that in your mind. I
want you to think of the times that you have
yelled at your children instead of showing them the way
of righteousness. I want you to think of the times
that you have murdered, where you have done all kinds
of things that are unmentionable. God forbid. You've done some
things sexually to people that you should not have even
been with, much less commit that heinous act with them.
You understand, like, we're not playing around here. Can you
imagine that. Now, Multiply it by the tenth time that
you did it. Multiply it by the hundredth time that
you did it and you didn't you didn't confess or repent.
Multiply that by one hundred more, and then multiply that
by every single human being who has ever sinned, who've
ever lived, ever been born of a woman born on
planet Earth, every single sin that every single human who
has ever lived or ever will live until the coming
of Jesus Christ. Now placed that on the back of
one person, all of the guilt, all of the shame.
Put that on the back of one person, and make
that person innocent, Make that person be aware that he
has never done anything wrong, and now he is paying
for every single sin that has ever been committed and
ever will be committed, and the people don't even appreciate it.
Do you get a picture now of the pressure that
must have been, No wonder he's sweat as it were
great drops of blood. Now Jesus has become sin for us,
who was innocent, completely innocent, who never needed to repent,
never needed to confess or forsake a sin, because he
was one hundred percent holy, one hundred percent of the time,
even as he lived on planet Earth. And then some
people misrepresent and disrespect him. Why did he do it?
Because he loves us that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him. Now we can walk around
as if we had never sinned. We can be seen
just as if we had never sinned. I don't even
know what else to say. I know under inspiration, we
are told that if we can read the story of redemption,
if we can look into the Bible Book of Isaiah,
chapter fifty three and not be moved by God to
see all that Jesus went a story about what Jesus
went through, not all and not be moved, then we
are sinning. We are we are in a sinful mindset
to where we are not moved by all that Jesus
did in order to save us. And listen. I don't
have a lot of time left, but listen. All our
want to say here is that is that the process
of individual reconciliation is unpacked and the lesson. Yes, but listen,
think about what God went through in order to reconcile us,
and then think about humans who refuse to reconcile with
God and reconcile with humans. God has given us the
ministry of reconciliation, brothers and sisters. So if God can
love us so much that he would bridge the divide
between us, then we should be able to bridge the
divide between us and other humans and help them also
get saved. Make it a great Sabbath, 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,