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 Wednesday, October sixteen,
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 Belief Unbelief, Hearing themes
belief Unbelief. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
thank you for those who are connecting with that number
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of Jesus Christ and be transformed in the process. So
we invest a good number of minutes every single day
here and then if you get into that program, then
there is another way that we can be transformed by
the renewing of our mind. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank
you for this new day and for the privilege you
have entrusted to us every day. I thank you for
this how to open up your word, and I'm asking
you now to put us in the category, help us
to join that category of people who believe. And that's it.
In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I
remember reading in the Book of John chapter six, where
there were some people who said, teach us how to
teach us how to work the works of God? How
do we work the works of God? And he said, believe, believe.
This is how you work the works of God believe
and so what has happened throughout the scriptures, especially here
we're reading in the Book of John, is that there
are people who believe in people who don't, people who
believe in people who don't. And we're going to talk
about today how to be certain or what can be
an indicator of whether we actually believe in God through
Christ or not. Okay, And so we begin by reading
in John chapter three. We won't be able to read
through all of the passages prescribed here, or maybe we will.
We'll see what the time shows. John chapter three, beginning
at verse sixteen, very familiar. For God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son. For what
purpose did God the Father give us? God the Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
everlasting life. So God's goal is to give us everlasting life.
For God did not send his son into the world
to condemn the world. That was not why Jesus came.
He didn't can't come to say, ah, I caught you,
and then find some charge against us and then charge
us until we die. No, he did not send his
son into the world to condemn the world, but that
the world through Him might be saved. And so that
is God's goal, that is his heart toward us. He
wants us to be saved, and so he gave us
all of heaven in one gift so we can be saved.
That gift is the Word, the Light, the Life, Jesus
Christ himself. Okay, he that believeth on him is not condemned.
So now we have to make a decision. There are
those who believe in him, those individuals are not condemned,
but but those who don't believe on Him are condemned already.
There's hope we can be we can move from death
to life. We can be transformed, we can have our
minds renewed and our outlook finally changed. But in the meantime,
those who don't believe on him, they're already condemned because
he hath not believed. Those individuals have not believed on
the name of the only begotten Son of God. And
this is the condemnation. That light is come into the
world and love darkness rather than light because their deeds
are evil. People won't come to God through Christ because
they don't want to give up those evil lifestyle tendencies.
People won't come to God sometimes because they allow their
guilt feelings to defeat them. People won't go to God
because sometimes people embrace their lifestyles that contradict the word
of God. Can we just say it straight like that
contradict the word of God? And so they just rather
stay away and hope that if they cover their eyes
and say peekaboo like that, they really can't be seen
by the law of God that judges us. And I
know that sounds heavy, Well, it is heavy because we're
making decisions all day, every day for or against eternity
with God. God is the decision that we're making every day.
And the Bible continues verse twenty. For everyone that doeth
evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, because
its deeds should be reproved. But he that do with
the will or do with the truth cometh to the
light that his deeds may be made manifest, that they
are wrought in God. And that simply means that when
we accept God into our lives, then we want to
be around the light because we love being in His presence.
And by the way, the manifestation of this will be
how we live, how we treat others, huh, whether we
embrace the word of God. And I'll get into some
more details there before I start getting into the preaching mode. Right, So,
the fact is that God has positioned us, through the
power of the Holy Ghost, to live holy lives. Now
we have to decide we're gonna do it or not.
There are more passages we can read, but we'll go
through now this transformative process of our actions, our thoughts,
and the entirety of our lives. Here are seven indicators
that we do actually believe in Jesus. Number one in
the Book of John, chapter fourteen, the Bible reads, if
ye love me, keep my commandments. If you love me,
you will obey my commandments. And so people who are
commandment breakers, I'm talking about habitual I'm not saying the
occasional misdeed. I'm not talking about that. And then we
go to God and confess our sins. I'm saying that
people who live in opposition to God's ten commandments and
pick and choose which ones are binding and which ones
are not, which ones are holy, which onlens are not,
those individuals are manifesting the fact that they don't actually
believe what God says. They don't believe in Christ because
they reject the commandments. I didn't write it, I just
read it. Number two, the fruit of the Spirit. I
love this because it shows us the reality. And Galatians
chapter five, beginning at verse twenty two, the Bible reads,
but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there
is no law. So not just that we can speak well,
not just that we do certain actions and it looks godly.
But God is saying that if we are his children,
if we actually love Him, then the spirit of God
is in our lives, and love is the fruit of
that relationship. And then the rest of the principles that
I shared are in outgrowth from that love. If we
love God, we love God, we will have peace and
we will be patient. If we love God, we will
be good, we will have faith, we will be meek
and temperant. If we love God, then these will be
the manifestation our gentleness. Are you harsh? Do people want
to get away from you because you're hard? You're harsh?
We submit to God's will and receive the fruit of
the spirit, and you will learn to be gentle. We're
drawing a line in the sand based on the Bible.
And then love for others in First John, chapter four
and verse seven, which is really the truth about the
law of God. Love for God and love for our
fellow human beings. Beloved this, let us love one another,
for love is of God. And everyone that loveth is
born of God and knoweth God. And so yeah. There
are these recurring themes in the scriptures, especially in the
Book of John, where people believe or don't believe. Well,
now we know what is a manifestation of our belief
in God. Make it a great day.
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,