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, and happy Sabbath. It
is Sabbath, December twenty one, 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 today is knowing Jesus and his Word.
Knowing Jesus and his Word. It's an epilogue epilogue. Before
we get into that, i'd like to say welcome to
you and ask you to go over to your Daily
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
then get under his underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
for this Sabbath morning and for giving us the opportunity
to be under your wings, under your wings of protection.
I pray Father that we will we will embrace your word,
that we will live your word and be full of
your Holy spirit, beginning at this moment in Jesus' name,
I pray a man and a man again knowing Jesus
and his word. This is critical because we're going back
to a passage I have read over and over in
this study to you, and we're going to focus here
for just a moment again and get the context. And
so he said, Jesus said to his detractors, So now
we know he's speaking to people who claim to be
his peak, be God's people. God's children, but and in
fact even leaders of God's people, but they don't know
or love Jesus. It's weird. And so the Bible says,
you search the scriptures. Okay, that's a good start, brothers
and sisters, Searching the scriptures is a good start. For
in them, ye think you have eternal life. Here is
the problem. I don't know if you heard that. He said.
In them you think you have eternal life. You think
that you can study your way into each life, that
you can remember and proof text your way into eternal life.
If you don't know what proof texting is, and this
doesn't apply to you, don't even worry about it. You
think that you can be on your daily portion every
day and speak about God's word every single day, and
then that's where eternal life comes from. Dave, You think
that knowing what the twenty three hundred days and prophecy
means intellectually, you think if you have mastered the seventy
weeks of years prophecy. Hey, Dave, you think that if
you can know the details of the coming of the
Lord from Genesis in Eden all the way to Revelation,
where Jesus is seen coming in the clouds that if
you can master those details, the dates, the charts, what
the different beasts mean, the horns, the kings, the powers,
the colors. If you know all of that, you think
that that is eternal life. But here's the problem, Dave.
They are they that testify of me. And then Jesus
turns the corner in verse forty, some people are just
getting it. You're just getting it, and he says, basically, listen,
I've come here. I've come to you so that you
can have life, but you rejected me. Let me read
that one straight out of the Bible, John chapter five
and verse forty, and the Bible reads, and ye will
not come to me that you might have life. You
will not come to me that you will have life. See,
you're looking for life by searching the scriptures so that
you can feel like if you master the search, then
somehow that will be the eternal life that you need.
When the Bible is teaching us, Jesus is saying directly
to them, but I'm right here. The scriptures that you seek,
the scriptures that you're searching, all point to me, and
I'm right here, and you're rejecting me that I'm giving
you an invitation. Right now, I'm giving you an invitation
so that you can have a relationship with Me and
not turn away from me. So that when you study
the scriptures that they will direct your mind to a
relationship with me. I hope that you can receive this
relationship so you can live. Don't just have the knowledge,
don't have the ability to debate spiritual things. To get
terminal degrees in theology, and that be it. In religion,
that's it a PhD, a Doctor of Ministry degree THHD. Well,
you have to know seven languages and know things about
God that the average human doesn't know, and still miss me. Lord,
help us to be able to see in simplicity that
the scriptures really are bringing us, guiding us into the
past of righteousness to have a relationship, a winning and
a salvific relationship with God himself. I needed to slow
that pace down so that you and I could hear
God speaking to us. And so unfortunately, the lesson writer
says they didn't take him at his word. Some of
the people didn't take him at his word. We today
can be in danger of doing the same things, hearing
or even reading the word of God but not listening
to it. Not abiding in it, not obeying it. You
know what people tell us sometimes in coaching, they tell
us they know what we're saying already, and I'm like, oh,
that's so nice that you that you know it. That's
so that's quaint, Like that's cute, that's cute that you
know it. But if you know it and then don't
do it, that's why we're coming back to you with it.
Knowing it is not enough, like that is half the battle.
Even the gij O commercials when I was a little boy,
they used to say, and knowing is half the battle.
Knowing is half the battle. And so what God wants
us to do is to apply what we intellectually say
we know, live it. And it says here that they
they were not abiding it it and not obeying it,
that is not accepting it as the light that should
guide our thoughts and actions. Thus, unfortunately, is this is where, unfortunately,
perhaps unwittingly, too many believers are, too many Christians are
in the same place, not able to apply what we
have learned to the point that we are living God's word.
And so I'm going to go into our Life Application
Companion book so that you and I can look at
it from let's go from a personal perspective a personal application,
and so the W for in the win acronym the
W what is important now? The chapter of John, as
we see it in the closing chapter, not in chapter five,
presents a powerful example of reconciliation and renewed purpose through
Peter's restoration by Jesus. This story highlights the importance of
understanding that failure does not qualify disqualify us from being
used by God. Instead, it calls us to a deeper
knowledge of Him. I, in the whyn acronym, internalize the insight.
Reflect on moments in your life, Brothers and sisters, where
you where you may have misunderstood or ignored part of
me God's word. My allergies are up. How have these
moments impacted your spiritual journey? Understand that Jesus desires to
restore and guide you, just as he did with Peter.
You see, sometimes, brothers and sisters, we a false view
of God because of our broken relationships with humans. Sometimes
some broken humans teach us all kinds of abusive thoughts,
and so Jesus is accepting him, He's restoring him. Finally,
allow his words to transform your heart. And mind, Well,
what now? What is the action step, the next best
move n W. What is important now? Internalize the insight
eye and n next best move. Set aside time for
self reflection and prayer, and ask God to reveal any
areas where you need restoration or deeper understanding of His word.
Commit to being led and guided by Him and to
do what He has said. Make it a great day. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,