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10 18 2024 The Everlasting Christ · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, October eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series Gospels and themes in the Gospel of John,
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  Speaker 2: and of course this preparation day. Our caption is the
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  Speaker 2: Everlasting Crist, the Everlasting Christ. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day,
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  Speaker 2: and for protecting us all throughout the week and bringing
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  Speaker 2: us to the point of preparation so that tomorrow, if
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  Speaker 2: you spare our lives, we will experience you in a
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  Speaker 2: new way in corporate worship. For whatever the experience we
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  Speaker 2: will have on your holy Sabbath day, I pray that today,
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  Speaker 2: though we will respect you, we will look forward to
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  Speaker 2: seeing you in our connection with Christ and Jesus name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again the Everlasting Christ. I
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  Speaker 2: want to continue to drill the point that Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: no ordinary man, because sometimes we take the humanity part
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  Speaker 2: of Christ so far that we forget about the divinity
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. Jesus was not created. And what makes this
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  Speaker 2: so important is that sometimes when people are diminishing who
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  Speaker 2: Christ is they also diminish the gift, the gift of salvation.
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  Speaker 2: You see, if it were not God in the flesh
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  Speaker 2: who died on the cross, meaning the humanity of Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ dies on the cross because the divinity of Christ
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  Speaker 2: allows that humanity to die. I need you to get this,
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  Speaker 2: then we couldn't be saved, we couldn't be safe. See
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that he was obedient unto death, even
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  Speaker 2: the death of the cross. I don't need to be
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  Speaker 2: obedient to death. If God forbid, I have a terminal
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  Speaker 2: disease and I'm about to die like it's only the
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  Speaker 2: grace of God if I don't. If God forbid, I
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  Speaker 2: step out into the street at just the wrong time
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  Speaker 2: and I see a vehicle is coming too quickly, and
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  Speaker 2: I get run over. It is only the grace of
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  Speaker 2: God that keeps me. You see where I'm saying. If
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  Speaker 2: there are assailants, armed, assailants who come in and do
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  Speaker 2: the unspeakable, I don't have the right, I don't have
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  Speaker 2: the power. I don't have the ability to be obedient
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  Speaker 2: to death. It's either God is gonna protect me or
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to die. But Jesus in his divinity could
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  Speaker 2: have withstood the death to his humanity, you see. So
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  Speaker 2: this is so sweet because that means that Jesus yielded
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  Speaker 2: fully to the process. When he said that he came
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  Speaker 2: to save his people from our sins, he came to
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  Speaker 2: seek and to save the lost. Now we know that
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  Speaker 2: there is a lot of power, a lot of power
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  Speaker 2: under control. When Jesus gave his life, he told the
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  Speaker 2: men as they were carting him from mock trial to
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  Speaker 2: mock trial, you would have no power at all over me,
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  Speaker 2: if except that the Father hath given it to you,
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  Speaker 2: you see. And so I want to read here before
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  Speaker 2: I go off into preaching, from the book of Micah
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  Speaker 2: Micah chapter five and verse two, where it reads, but
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  Speaker 2: thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands
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  Speaker 2: of Judah, Yet out of these shall come forth unto me,
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  Speaker 2: that is, to be a ruler in Israel, whose goings
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  Speaker 2: forth been of old from everlasting. This is obviously nobody
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  Speaker 2: really argues about this. This is obviously about Messiah, Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: who came out of Bethlehem Ephratha. And so when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was born into the human family, it was from this
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  Speaker 2: vantage point. This perspective. But the Bible says that his
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  Speaker 2: goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting, the
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  Speaker 2: same Messiah, this same Jesus, who gave his life for us,
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  Speaker 2: also was here from before there was a beginning throughout
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  Speaker 2: eternity past Jesus was with the Father. And I'm thankful.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we read from the Seventh day Adventists
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  Speaker 2: Bible Commentary, Volume five, page eleven twenty six. The Lord
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, existed from eternity.
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  Speaker 2: See we saw it in the scriptures. We saw it
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures from eternity, a distinct person, yet to
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  Speaker 2: one with the Father. He was the surpassing glory of heaven.
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  Speaker 2: He was the commander of the heavenly intelligences, and the
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  Speaker 2: adoring homage of angels was received by him as his right.
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  Speaker 2: There was no robbery of God. See it was his
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  Speaker 2: right when the angels worship and adore him, as seen
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible Book of Revelation, chapter five. After the
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  Speaker 2: angels and other beings other creative created beings worship God
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  Speaker 2: our Father, and Jesus comes. The mighty lion of the
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  Speaker 2: tribe of Judah comes from the midst of the throne
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  Speaker 2: and the angels and other heavenly intelligences begin to worship Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't that they were removing some worship from God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father, because Jesus is worthy, worthy is the lamb
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  Speaker 2: that was slain. And I'm grateful. We're going to continue
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  Speaker 2: to drill the point because so many believers, even people
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  Speaker 2: who say we believe in God, believe in his word,
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  Speaker 2: have minimized Jesus, have minimized him. Let me continue the quote.
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  Speaker 2: There are light and glory in the truth that Christ
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  Speaker 2: was one with the Father before the foundation of the
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  Speaker 2: world was laid. This is the light shining in a
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  Speaker 2: dark place, making it resplendent with divine original glory. This
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  Speaker 2: truth indefinite, infinitely excuse me. Mysterious in itself explains other
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  Speaker 2: mysterious and otherwise unexplainable truths, while it is enshrined in light,
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  Speaker 2: unapproachable and incomprehensible. May I just say at the last
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  Speaker 2: part of that that there are certain things that we humans,
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  Speaker 2: especially the ones who have studied scripture and theology, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we try to explain what God has not revealed in detail.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how he could be one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: divine and one hundred percent human simultaneously. I have no idea,
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  Speaker 2: but I know that the Bible writer says, this is
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  Speaker 2: the mystery of godliness. God became a man, and of
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  Speaker 2: course he talked about The Bible writer talked about what,
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  Speaker 2: in fact was the mission of Christ. And so I'm
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  Speaker 2: thankful about what God has revealed that is for us
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  Speaker 2: and our children. We are to study this that is
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  Speaker 2: for us in our children. But the rest, the rest
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  Speaker 2: remains as a mystery. Continuing, continuing. Jesus has said, I,
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  Speaker 2: if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw
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  Speaker 2: all men unto me. Christ must be revealed to the
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  Speaker 2: sinner as the Savior dying for the sins of the world.
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  Speaker 2: And as we behold the lamb of God upon the
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  Speaker 2: cross of Calvary, the mystery of redemption begins to unfold
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  Speaker 2: to our minds, and the goodness of God leads to repentance.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you glad that God did not leave us down
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  Speaker 2: here to die, to flail about into flounder until we
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  Speaker 2: just die crazy death in the end. Aren't you glad
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  Speaker 2: that He decided, in league with Jesus Christ, that he
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  Speaker 2: would give his only begotten Son, so that whosoever believeth
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  Speaker 2: in him, that's all we need to do. We believe
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  Speaker 2: in Him, and that kind of belief transforms us and
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  Speaker 2: makes us doers of His law and not just hearers,
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  Speaker 2: people who reflect the character of God. Those who believe
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  Speaker 2: in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. I'm thankful,
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  Speaker 2: and today I'm thankful because the everlasting Christ decided to
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  Speaker 2: yield his life so that I could live forever. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a wonderful day, Peast.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,