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02 29 2024 Eternal Priest in the Order of Melchizedek · 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 food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It
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  is Thursday, February twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is El David Harris. I am your host. This is your Daily Portion
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  where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is Eternal Priest in the Order of Melchizedec. Before
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  we get into that, I'd like to just say a great, big,
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  happy birthday to anyone whose birthday is the twenty ninth day of February. I
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  know it's weird, like you don't have a birthday in their quotes every year
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  it's weird, like why do we why is the calendar that way? But
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  I just want to say again, like, happy birthday to whoever is born,
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  whoever was born on the twenty ninth day of February. Lord, bless
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  you and keep you. Yeah, very interesting situation there. Yeah, let's
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  go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven.
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  Thank you for giving us this day and for the privilege that we have to
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  open your word. And thank you for the people who were born on February
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  twenty nine and the birthday thing is just weird for them because it doesn't come
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  around this way every year. Thank you, Father for giving us your word.
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  And I pray that we will worship you as a result. In Jesus'
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  name, I pray Amen and Amen again. The ideal and the result and
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  the outcome from reading and studying God's words should be transformed lives like we live
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  according to God's principles and are transformed so that we can help other people in
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  the same way. There are people who are bound to all kinds of sin,
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  challenges, all kinds of addictions, and God is saying, if you
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  will align yourself with me, then I will transform your life, and I
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  will give you holiness and eternity with God like it's such a privilege. And
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  so let us continue in our discussion through the Book of Psalms, thinking about
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  the order of Melchizedek, the eternal priesthood of Jesus. And let me just
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  say, very quickly, let's go ahead and pull the veil back about Melchizedek.
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  Melchizedek was a real human being. He was not a supernatural being.
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  He was a type or a force or a shadow if you want to say,
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  representation of Jesus Christ. Yes, but he is or was a regular
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  human being. Now, the priesthood we're talking about, the ironic priesthood,
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  there were records of every priest that would come from that line, and there
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  was a succession. Well, melchiz a Deck was not a part of that
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  priesthood. He was from the tribe of Judah. That the priests never came
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  from the tribe of Judah. Jesus comes from the tribe of Judah, the
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  same line of David. Okay, And so when the Bible is saying like
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  he had no beginning of days, really what the Bible is saying is that
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  there's no record of his priesthood. Why not, because it was an anomaly.
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  It was different than the way that the priesthood was normally set up.
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  Now, why God did that, I don't know. Why Abraham returned ties
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  and gave it to Melchizedec, I do not know. But we do know
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  that now that God has used that symbol intentionally as a type or a symbol
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  of Jesus Christ, some of those dots start to line up, and it's
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  like, okay, so we're seeing the uniqueness of the priesthood of Jesus Christ,
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  the high priestly ministry of Jesus Christ, who also did not come through
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  the tribe of Levi, you see. And so that's basically it. I
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  am super simplifying. I don't want you to get caught up in the language
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  concerning Melkezedek and think that he was other than human being. He was fully
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  human, not supernatural. He did not pre exist his birth, nothing like
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  that. But he was unique in the respect of his priesthood. Okay,
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  And so we go now, and now that we've gotten that out of the
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  way, we go now to the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
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  ten, and I will read verses four through seven and so the Bible reads,
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  the Lord makes this promise on oath and will not revoke it. You
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  are an eternal priest. This is speaking of Jesus. You are an eternal
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  priest. After the pattern of Melchizedec. I explained to you what the pattern
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  was. He did not come from the priestly tribe. He came from Judah.
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  Okay, oh Lord, that's your right hand. He strikes down kings
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  in the day that he unleashes his anger. He executes judgment against the nations.
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  He fills the valleys with corpses, he shatters their heads over the vast
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  battlefield. From the stream along the road he drinks. Then he lifts up
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  his head. Let me just say very simply here that this eternal priest,
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  who's also the eternal king of kings, Jesus Christ, that the angels worshiped
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  when they said, lift up your heads, oh ye gates and be ye
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  lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in.
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  And then the question who is this King of glory? And then another angel
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  says, the Lord strong and mighty, who is this King of glory?
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  The Lord Mighty in battle? Lift up your heads, oh ye gates,
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  and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall
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  come in. And they are in full worship in heaven regarding Jesus Christ.
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  And so this same high priest, eternal high priest, this same Jesus,
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  this same person is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the
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  full manifestation of God's promise that the that the throne of David would be ascended
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  by an eternal king. Well, Jesus is the only one that could have
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  qualified for that one, you see. And so I'm thanking that God is
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  giving us this picture, because that means that if Jesus could humble himself,
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  humble himself to death, even death upon the cross, that he could humble
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  himself for thirty three and one half years, then how is it? How
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  would I be proud? How would I be proud when I get a promotion?
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  If you have a job, you get a promotion at work, How
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  could you be proud if you are a minister of the gospel and you get
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  another a church, a bigger church somewhere, or you have another responsibility,
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  maybe in administration, How could you be proud when Jesus Christ, When Jesus
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  Christ, the one who created all that we can see and we cannot see
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  when he created all of these things, and he humbled himself in order to
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  save us. And though he's King of kings and Lord of lords, he's
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  the eternal priest who has mediated for the people, who has interceded for the
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  people of God. Yes, and so we thank God that we can see
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  the humility of Jesus, even though he is so unique to the extreme,
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  and of course fully holy. And so we jump into the Book of Hebrews,
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  chapter seven. And of course I super understated that, and we will
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  read beginning at verse twenty the Bible reads. And since this is not done
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  without a sworn affirmation or an oath, For the others have become priests without
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  a sworn affirmation, but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one
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  who said to him, the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind.
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  You will be a priest forever. Accordingly, Jesus has become the guarantee
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  of a better covenant. Let me just stop there. There was so much
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  more all the way to verse twenty eight, but let me super simplify it.
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  And so Jesus sworn by an oath that cannot be annulled, that is
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  the honor of God by his own name. Like by his own honor,
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  he becomes the pert representative of this covenant, and he keeps the promise fully
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  rite this covenant that God would have with his people, that he would write
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  his laws on our hearts and on our minds, so that we can be
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  as people. We can overcome any sin, any temptation, any trial because
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  of this covenant. Because why Jesus is eternal. The earthly priest they died
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  one after the other. They died, they even had to minister to be
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  forgiven of their own sins. But Jesus Christ, the perfect, sinless high
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  Priest, stands so that we can live eternally. And I'm thankful because earthly
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  priests were faulty. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always
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  remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.
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  Make it a great day. Yeah,