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02 24 2024 Blessed Is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
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  all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
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  to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Sabbath, February twenty four, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
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  of Psalms, and our caption for today is Blessed is he who comes in
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  the name of the Lord. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first like to say happy Sabbath to you, especially to people who've not
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  celebrated a Sabbath before. Yes, I know that there are some of you
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  who have been baptized recently, and the Sabbath principle and blessing is new to
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  you. So I just want to say, welcome to the family of Sabbath
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  keepers. Thank God for your presence, and more than that, thank God
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  for your energy. We all need to win spiritually together and to win souls
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  to the Kingdom. Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Father in Heaven, thank you for this new day and for the privilege
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  that we have to open your word together. And I pray God that you
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  will give us understanding, and not just understanding, but give us the will
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  to do of your good pleasure today in Jesus name, I pray Amen and
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  Amen again. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord?
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  Go ahead and type it in the chat if you're on social media or YouTube.
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  Where does this come from? That blessed? Say? Is he that
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  comes in the name of the Lord? Go ahead and type it in the
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  chat. We're not going to discuss it today, but I want to get
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  you warmed up and ready to discuss it when we get to it. Okay,
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  where does that come from? Is it a passage of scripture? If
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  so, what was happening in that passage. I don't want to get you
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  too complicated and confused, but please, yeah, share that in the chat
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  and let's see what we come up with together. All right, all right,
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  all right, all right, Let's begin now with the Book of Psalms,
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and eighteen and read verses twenty
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  two and twenty three the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred eighteen, beginning
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  at verse twenty two, and the Bible reads the stone which the builders rejected.
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  In this text, the stone is Jesus. The Builders are supposedly God's
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  people leaders rejected. Has become the chief corner stone. This was the Lord's
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  doing. It was marvelous in our eyes. We're going to drill that if
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  the Lord Spaar's life in the future. But I want you to get that
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  Jesus when he came to planet Earth, he came to save his people from
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  our sins, and then unfortunately his own his own people didn't receive him.
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  That's what the Bible says. And so these same people rejected him. And
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  yeah, he's become the cornerstone, the chief cornerstone. He is the reason
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  why we exist. He is the author and finisher of our faith, like
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  he is the principle one upon whom all of our understanding of scripture, all
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  of our religion, and don't be afraid of that word true religion and pure
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  religion and undefiled has to do with taking care of people. That second and
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  great commandment is true and pure religion. I wish I had the time,
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  but he has become all of according to this scripture, all of who we
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  need in all situations in our relationship with God. He is foundational to everything
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  that matters in our lives. But again we'll come back to that. And
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  so the lesson writer points out appropriately so that the Psalms actually runs the full
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  gamut of Jesus' ministry. And I counted thirteen things that the lesson writer pointed
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  out his deity. That is that he is eternal. He is eternal God,
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  the Son, He is equal with the Father. Can I just say
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  that, okay, his sonship. Yes. In the context of our salvation,
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  Jesus Christ is the son of God. That's how he saved us from
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  our sin. Someone who was equal to or greater than the Law had to
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  be in human flesh in order to satisfy the penalty of sin that came when
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  we chose to do God, to go against God's will. So Jesus Christ
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  became a human being in order to save us. But he couldn't cease being
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  the son of He could not cease being God the Son. So he's the
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  son of God came in human form, and God the Son, Deity all
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  mixed up into one. And maybe that's not the best way to say it.
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  The Bible writer said, great is the mystery of godliness. God became
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  a man, Okay, his obedience. The Bible says that he became obedient
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  unto death, even the death of the cross. And then his zeal for
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  the temple, his identity as the good Shepherd, his betrayal, his suffering,
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  he suffered for our sakes, brothers and sisters, his bones not being
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  broken, his death that is a miraculous death. His resurrection that is a
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  miraculous resurrection. He laid down his life because no one can take his life.
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  Ah, and then his miraculous resurrection. He took it up again.
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  He picked it back up that Sunday morning. His ascension, his priesthood,
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  and his kingship. All of this is in the Psalms. Now what do
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  we do with all of these? Like practically so much to say in so
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  little time. It's all there, it's predicted in many centuries before they took
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  place. And so let me just focus on a couple of them. Because
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  I said a lot, I said a lot. He realized that when Jesus
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  gave his life for us, it was for us. It wasn't because he
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  wanted to demonstrate something and then that's it, like sort of like going to
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  class and learning one plus one is two and then not learning how to apply
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  it. No, when Jesus came and he gave his life for us,
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  it was because we were going down the pathway to eternal destruction. Humanity inherently
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  became disobedient. Humanity inherently became enemies of God. And because God loves us,
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  God sent his son into the world not to condemn us, but to
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  deliver us. And so those times that you have betrayed friends, or said
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  bad words, or had ill intent toward somebody on the road, like Jesus
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  came to die to save us from that. Ah. Those times that you
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  have stolen God forbid, or I have stolen or told a lie or committed
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  adultery, God came in the person of Jesus Christ to deliver us from those
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  things. Ah, the times that I have promised over and over and over
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  again that I would do God's will and kept falling woefully short, Jesus Christ
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  came so that we can have the power to do just that, to serve
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  God. God loves us so much that he did not leave us in sin
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  to wallow in it then to be destroyed. No, he wanted us to
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  live with him eternally. From before there was a beginning. God intended for
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  us to live with him eternally and eternally, and we messed it up.
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  And so what does he do in the case that we messed it up?
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  I think in the story of Adam and Eve we can see clearly what he
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  does. Yes, Adam and Eve sinned, and according to the scriptures,
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  it was Adam's fault, as by one man, sin entered into the world
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  and death by sin. That's Adam that the Bible is talking about. Jesus
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  came to deliver us from sin, being what the scriptures call in the New
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  Testament the second Adam. So what does that actually look like? After Adam
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  sinned, Jesus came to the garden of Eden, and he called out to
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  Adam, and he said, Adam, where are you? And I want
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  you to put your own name in that situation, sister, brother, Brother,
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  sister, I want you to put your name in that same situation,
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  sister brother, what is your name? God is calling out to you and
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  saying where are you? Where are you? Why? Because he doesn't know
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  where you are? No, that's not why, because he knows that you
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  don't. He knows that I don't know where I am. When I am
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  hiding in the bushes of sin, I am naked and ashamed because I am
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  not living according to God's principles. God comes and search in search for us,
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  just like a good shepherd does. And so when Jesus came to Earth,
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  it was God's search and rescue mission to rescue the perishing. Yes,
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  and I am thankful that we are blessed enough to know that Jesus did not
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  just stay in heaven, but he came to save this Thanks for joining us
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  listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,