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05 18 2024 Light From the Sanctuary · 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, and happy Sabbath. It is Sabbath, May eighteen, twenty twenty
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  four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host,
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  and this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
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  day, and today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study
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  the Great Controversy. Our caption for today is Light from the Sanctuary. Light
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  from the Sanctuary. Let me just say that this is one of my favorite
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  favorite favorite subjects in the scripture, and so we're gonna get into that.
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  We're at lesson number eight of thirteen in this series, and before we do,
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  I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us. Especially those joining
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  for the very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book at the
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  appropriate time. Also, let us know where you are in the world at
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  your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father
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  and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day, this brand new
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  Sabbath morning, and for the privilege that we have to come together and to
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  experience you in your word. Father, Please let us see and experience the
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  light from the sanctuary and be transformed and welcome other people to the same light.
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  In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a men again for this coming
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  week. Of course, we're in Sabbath, but beginning tomorrow, I decided
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  that I would put a key point at the beginning of each of our discussions,
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  a key point, something that we must not miss. And so for
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  me for today's study, Jesus welcomes us into the purity, No, into
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  the light of purity and wholeness. Let me say it again, Jesus welcomes
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  us into the light of purity and wholeness. Let's go ahead and begin by
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  reading from the Book of Hebrews. That's the Book of Hebrews, chapter eight,
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  and we'll read verses one and two. This is what the Bible says.
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  Now, this is the main point of the things we are saying.
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  And let me just say in the Book of Hebrews, there are some beautiful,
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  full, and yet complex things being taught there. Many of us believe
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  that Paul is the writer. And even Peter said, there are some things
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  that Paul writes, man that are hard to be understood. Right, So
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  even the inspired writers themselves can recognize when some people are a little more complex
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  than others. And so it makes sense as a good teacher. Now Paul
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  is slowing down. He's saying, I've set a lot up until now.
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  But here is the main point about what we're saying. We have such a
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  high priest. Who is the high priest that's referencing. We're referencing here.
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  We have such a high priest. This is Jesus Christ, okay, who
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  is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.
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  And I wrote in my lesson in big red bold letters with this here
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  pen right, what a blessing. Exclamation point what a blessed saying, why
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  is this a blessing? Because our High Priest is empathetic. Jesus Christ,
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  having lived as a human for thirty three and one half years, is empathetic.
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  He knows what we go through. He knows when we're tired, what
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  it feels like to be tired. He knows what it's like to be hungry.
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  He knows what it's like to be thirsty. He knows what it's like
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  to have so many things to do in the day that he has to go
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  into a solitary place and pray, talk to God, his father, so
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  that he could have the energy that he needed to go in to feed the
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  millions of people by extension, of course, not in reality, but by
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  extension through the individuals that he would minister to all of the hosts of people
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  that would be edified. Like he understood fully what it was like to need
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  compassion when his friends wouldn't pray for him in the garden of Getsemine, when
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  he was kneeling and speaking, I'm imagining that's what it was, and speak
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  to God and his Father and was sweating as it were great drops of blood,
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  like while he was on the cross, and he said, my God,
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  my God, why have you forsaken me? Like he knows what it's
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  like to be human. In fact, the Bible says in another place,
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  in the chapter prior in Hebrews, that Jesus was in all points tempted like
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  as we are. And yet and yet he never sinned, not even in
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  the least particular. And so the lust of the flesh that Paul talks,
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  that John talks about, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the
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  eyes, the pride of life, Jesus experienced temptation in those key areas.
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  If we look at the sequence of those temptations in the wilderness as recorded in
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  the Book of Luke, we'll see it's in that same order, lust of
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  the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life. He experienced temptation,
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  and yet he did not sin. This is the kind of high priest
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  that we have, who is well acquainted with the feeling of our infirmities.
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  Okay, and so we have such a high priest. I think I've painted
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  at least a little bit of a good picture, an empathetic a high priest
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  who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty of the
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  heavens. He's seated firmly at the right hand of power. If you study
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  Revelation chapters four and five, you will see that in chapter four, Jesus
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  is there the Father, the Father. The Father is the one being outwardly
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  worshiped by all of the different categories of creatures that are there. Yes,
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  and then at just the right time, we get our worship to a pitch
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  where Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, the lion of the Mighty,
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  lion of the tribe of Judah, who's coming from the midst of the three.
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  In chapter five, we see him now as being worshiped. Why because
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  he was slain, because he gave his life for you, because he gave
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  his life for me, having been equal with God, his father, right
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  before he took on human form, equal with God as father. In Michael
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  chapter five, the Bible says that Messiah, basically Messiah, is from eternity
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  past. So Jesus, being equal to God our Father, took on human
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  form for thirty three and one half years. He lived a life down here
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  in the kind of power, being fully surrendered to his Father, so that
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  now with his empathetic self, with all of the power that he received at
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  his resurrection hah, all of the keys of hell, grave and death in
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  his hands. Now he is seated, and he is worthy of worship,
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  as you see in Revelation chapter five ave and Hebrews chapter one, worthy of
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  worship in the Majesty in the heavens. Someone worthy of worship who is empathetic
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  toward us is advocating for us. I'm going to talk about that in detail
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  in the next couple of days. If the Lord spaars life a minister,
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  this is Jesus of the sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle. We're going to
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  drill the true Tabernacle in a way. I'm not saying that you've never heard,
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  but I think some of your minds are already going a certain track.
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  But there's more than what we say customarily, but a minister of the sanctuary
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  and of the true Tabernacle, which the Lord erected and not man. This
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  is in contrast to where God came to Moses and said, have them make
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  me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Right in addition to that,
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  now he's talking about the true Tabernacle. Nah, that place we call
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  the Heavenly Sanctuary to include the Holy of Holies. I wish I had the
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  time, but I don't today. But we're going to talk about how much
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  of a blessing it is that Jesus Christ, being that empathetic and powerful Savior,
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  is now representing us. Oh my, he's representing us in heavenly places
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  to the degree that we will no longer need to fall down and keep tripping
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  and falling over ourselves in sin. We can be victorious like we can live
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  godly in Christ Jesus in this present world. And Jesus is well able to
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  keep us from falling and to present us faultless before the Power with exceeding joy,
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  before the Presence, with exceeding joy. And so we're going to talk
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  about that light, that light that is coming from the sanctuary. Peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,