Latest / Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris / 10 03 2024 Jesus' Claims

Transcript

10 03 2024 Jesus' Claims · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Thursday, October three,
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: study series themes in the Gospel of John and our
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: caption for today is Jesus's Claims. Jesus's Claims. We'll get
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you and ask you to please
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: our online community. Also, please look for that number seven
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: something very special for you for your growth and development.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: Spiritually your connection with God. It's unusual and I'm looking
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: forward to more of view joining that community. And yeah,
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: let us know where you are in the world at
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
• 1:32
  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this day.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you for Jesus being more than someone who claimed claimed.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: Jesus always came through. Jesus comes through You, always come through, Father,
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: and we're thankful for the power of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: Please help us to live for you in Jesus name.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and a men again. You know I
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: am troubled by the idea that Jesus could claim anything.
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: Jesus doesn't have to claim anything. He is the King
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: of kings and Lord of lords. Can we just hurry
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: up and get right there now? Like Jesus is everything
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: that the prophets said that he is, and more like,
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: Jesus created the heavens and the earth according to John
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: chapter one and Hebrews chapter one and other places. But
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: Jesus is eternal, just like God, our father could. Chapter
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: five talks about the Messiah who was to come, who's
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: also everlasting. You see, so Jesus didn't need to claim anything.
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: I take issue with the idea that Jesus needed to
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: claim anything, and I understand why we use that language
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: considering the context of the story. But I'm just saying
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: I want to say that right here and right now,
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: Jesus doesn't need to claim anything. One day we will
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: see him as king of kings and Lord of lords,
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: on the throne of the universe, just like he promised.
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: He said to the people who were his detractors that
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: you will not see me again until you say, blessed
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: is he that cometh in the name of the Lord,
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: like you will see me on the throne when I
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: come in the clouds of glory. I'm going to wake
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: you up just so you can see that, Okay. And
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: so we're going to continue the story now that I
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: got that out, Like, let's get that out of the way.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: From the Book of John, chapter five, beginning at verse sixteen,
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads and therefore did the people of
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: God persecute Jesus and sought to slay him because he
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: had done these things on the sabbath. Of course, we're
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: talking about healing on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them,
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: my father worketh hitherto and I work. So Jesus is
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: now attaching himself, associating himself with the royalty of the universe.
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: He is saying that he and his father will see
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: in about five chapters in the future in chapter ten
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: of John, that he and his father are one, they
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: are equal. Right. Therefore the people of God sought the
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: more to kill him. Does it bother you that I
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: keep saying the people of God? It bothers me. These
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: people were supposed to be the people who taught the truth,
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: the ones who guided people into all truth, like with
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: the power of the Holy Ghost.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Like.
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: These people were supposed to be the greatest testimony to
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: demonstrate that Jesus is exactly who he said that he is,
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: and so and so, the Bible continues. Then, therefore the
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: people of God sought the more to kill him because
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: not only had he according to them, let me just
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: say that here, let's get that language cleared up. Not
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: only according to them, had he broken the Sabbath, but
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: seth also that God was his father, making himself what
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: equal with God. So they were very clear that Jesus
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: was saying that God our father, is his father, but
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: that meant equality with the Father, not like how God
• 5:15
  Speaker 2: is my father, not like God is your father. But
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: Jesus in John chapter seventeen, and I know I'm running,
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: I'm fast forwarding. But in John chapter seventeen, Jesus said, please,
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: I can't wait until you restore me like we get
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: back to the way things were when we were, when
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: we were completely. I don't want to say the wrong language,
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: but one like I want to be like it was
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: before I came down here and had to go through
• 5:42
  Speaker 2: the human predicament in order to save these people, your people,
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: my people, from their sins. Put me back like that.
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: He was looking forward to that time. And then the
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: Bible continues in verse nineteen. Then answered Jesus and said,
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: unto them, verily, very I say unto you. The son
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: Father do. For what things soever he doeth, these also
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: doe with the son. Likewise, for the Father loveth the
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: son and showeth him all things that himself doeth. And
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: he will show him greater works than these, that ye
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: may marvel for and listen. One of the greater works
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: is when Jesus laid down his life and he took
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: it up again. He promised that I nobody can take
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: my life. I lay it down. I volunteered for this thing.
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: I'm becoming obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: Like nobody can take my life. I am giving my
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: life willingly. And so this is a greater work. This
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: is a greater work that ye may marvel for. As
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them, even
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: so the son quickeneth whom he will see. Jesus raised
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: people from the dead because he had that power in him.
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: He has that power in him when he raised Lazarus
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: from the dead. He didn't need permission. I just need
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: to say that right here. Don't be confused by the
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: fact that Jesus, while he was living on planet Earth,
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: was bound to some earthly things, like he was hungry.
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: At times, he was thirsty, he needed to rest, He
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: needed to rely on his father to overcome temptations to sin.
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: You see, definitely, Jesus was bound to a body, a
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: physical body like you have a body. You understand, when
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: he was fasting. When he was fasting, there came a
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: point where he the Bible says, was hungry, and so
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: the angels ministered unto him at the end of that
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: battery of temptations. But there were times that Jesus did
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: some things that you and I cannot do. But it
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: wasn't flesh that was doing that. It was in his
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: authority as the one who created us. And so when
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: he forgave sins, he forgave sins in his godness. Who
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: can forgive sins but God alone. Jesus was able to
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: raise the dead, not because he was given power, but
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: because he is the resurrection and the life. You understand.
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: And so the Bible continues here and verse twenty two.
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: For the Father judgeth no man, but he committeth judgment
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: unto the son. He and then all all that all
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: men should honor the son, even as they honor the Father.
• 8:34
  Speaker 2: He that honoreth, not the son, honoreth not the Father
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: which hath sent him. Verily, verily, I say unto you
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: sent me hath everlasting life. You see the connection. If
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: you believe in Jesus, you believe in his word, you
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: also are believing in God, our Father. If you believe
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: truly in God, our Father, and believe in his word.
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: You believe truly in Jesus Christ. And everything that Jesus
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: has testified of himself. He didn't claim, he testified. He
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: told us, he demonstrated, He manifested the reality of who
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: he is. Yes, verily I say unto you, the hour
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: is coming, and now is when the dead shall hear
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: the voice of the Son of God, and they that
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: here shall live. And there's so much more. And these
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: men that were supposedly God's people continue to accuse Jesus
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: of being less than who he is. Who is Jesus
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: to you? Who is Jesus to you? Make it a
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: great day peace.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,