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04 04 2024 Our High Priest · 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
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  morning. It is Thursday, April 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 principle
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  of the Great Controversy. Our caption for today is our High Priest, Our
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  High Priest. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com, join
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  our online community, pick up for your Daily Portion book, and let us
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  know where you are in the world at your daily portion dot com. This
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  is the way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  and pray and then get underwaigh Father, thank you for this new day and
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  for getting us closer to the coming of Christ and closer to the Sabbath.
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  I pray that we will have our hearts prepared, prepared to meet you in
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  this moment of time so that we can worship you and then leave from this
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  space and go out and serve in the way that You've called us to serve
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  in Jesus name. I pray amen and aamen again. Okay, our High
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  Priest. Now let me ask you a question. So much to cover,
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  so much to cover today? How do you want understand this concept or principle
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  today in twenty twenty four h on April four, Like, how do you
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  how do you see this high priestly concept where Jesus is concerned. Have you
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  ever needed someone to speak up for you, to come into an intermediate,
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  become an intermediary, huh, someone to be an advocate, someone to stand
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  up. Have you ever been in that position? Now? I feel like
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  I'm in that position. Yeah, some years ago. I feel like a
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  certain big bank in Jamaica. It's not only in Jamaica, but a certain
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  big bank in Jamaica. I think they only one point seven million Jamaican dollars.
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  That's how I see it. I need somebody to speak up for me,
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  Like, yeah, I've been abused over the years when I was a
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  young person. Not now, but when I was young, I was abused
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  in some unmentionable ways by different people. And I am not overstating this,
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  by the way, I need somebody to stand up for me. Yeah,
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  I needed that when I was a young boy. I needed somebody to stand
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  up for me. But guess what, Yeah, more critically, more critically,
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  the devil has abused every human being, like every human being has been
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  abused by the enemy. Every human being has been taken advantage of by the
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  devil. Right, every human being has experienced the wrath of the enemy,
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  that roaring that one that's like a roaring lion seeking whom he made devour because
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  his time is short. So we need a human and I need to be
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  very careful and prayerful about how I try to communicate this. We need a
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  human being who was equal to God to stand up for us. Did you
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  get that we need God, the Son, who is also mysteriously the Son
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  of God, to stand up for us. Okay, let me just go
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  ahead. Let me just go ahead and read. Read a couple of things
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  here, and then we're going to jump into the scriptures. First, I'm
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  going to read from the book The Great Controversy, page five hundred one,
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  beginning at five hundred one, when the Great Sacrifice had been consummated, So
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  Jesus gave his life for us already in this discussion. Here Christ ascended on
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  high. So he went back to heaven. Remember why stand ye gazing here
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  up into the sky. The angel acts the people who were seeing Jesus going
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  back to heaven. Or maybe that was a different timing. There were two
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  times that he went up in that short span of time. I realized what
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  I just said. But anyway, he's in heaven right, So he's ascending
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  on high, refusing the adoration of angels until he had presented the request,
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  I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I
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  am in John chapter seventeen, verse twenty four. Then with inexpressible love and
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  power came forth the answer from the Father's throne let all the angels of God
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  worship him. So let me just say this. Jesus said, I don't
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  want any worship from angels right now. I need to know if these people
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  are going to be saved as a result of what I just did. And
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  God the Father's response was, go ahead and worship Jesus' angels, go ahead
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  and worship him. And so that means that God the Father gave his stamp
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  and seal of approval in that moment that Jesus's sacrifice and his continuing work is
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  enough and more than enough. Saying yesterday we said love finds a way.
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  This is another discussion. I wish I had the time to really extend this
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  one, but alas we don't. We have just a few minutes left,
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  and so I just want to say, thank God, thank God that Jesus,
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  what he did was enough, as high priest and more than enough.
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  Where sin abounds, grace doth much more abound. And so in the Book
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  of Hebrews, chapter four, we read, beginning at verse twelve, for
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  the Word of God is living. I want you to hear and understand why
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  I'm going that far back in the text. For the Word of God is
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  living and active and sharper than any two edged sword or double edged sword,
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  piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit and joints from marrow.
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  It means that God can see everything that we are, everything that we think,
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  and this is why we see what's coming next. It is able to
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  judge the desires and thoughts of the heart verse thirteen. So God knows everything
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  about us. He sees and knows everything about us, all of our sins,
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  all of our desires, all of our intents. Yes, and everything
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  we're hiding or trying to hide. And no creature is hidden from God,
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  but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of Him, to whom we
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  must render an account. Adam, where are you Remember we said something about
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  that yesterday verse fourteen. Therefore, see, God doesn't leave us alone,
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  knowing everything about us, knowing that we are miserable, poor, blind,
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  naked and don't even know it. God is coming in search of you.
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  Fill in your name here. God is calling your name even now now that
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  we understand that. Therefore, since why is this thing doing this to me?
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  Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the
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  heavens, Jesus, the Son of God. So Jesus lived on planet Earth.
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  He was tempted in every way like we are. I think I'm getting
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  ahead of myself. Let me just read it. Let me just read it.
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  I'm getting excited. It says here, for he's passing to the heavens,
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  Jesus the Son of God. Let us hold fast to our confession,
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  for we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses,
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  but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are. Yet
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  he did never sin verse sixteen. Therefore, let us come boldly, confidently
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  and approach the throne of Grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need
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  help. Whatever you're going through, brothers and sisters, Jesus went before you.
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  Jesus was tempted in all points, like as we are. If we
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  read in first John chapter two. We don't have the time today. Beginning
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  I think around verse sixteen, the Bible says that the deeds of the flesh
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  are these lust of the flesh, Lust or the world, are these lust
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  of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life. Whoever embraces
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  that is not embracing God. And so if you look into the Book of
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  Luke, chapter two and look at the temptation order, the order of temptations
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  that Jesus experienced, it was in that same order of the flesh, lust
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  of the eyes, pride of life. The devil tried to get Jesus to
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  jump into sin in the same way he caused that Adam jumped into sin.
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  But Jesus, thank God, refused, which is why now by the power
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  of the Holy goes, why he can stand strong and tall as the great
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  high priest that he is, that when we have challenges with sin, he
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  can help us overcome them and then present us faultless before the presence of God.
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  Wonderful day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we
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  cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth
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  of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  it a great day. Yeah,