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02 28 2024 Eternal King of Unrivaled Power · 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 keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  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 morning.
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  It is Wednesday, February twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of
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  Psalms, and our caption for today is Eternal King of Unrivaled Power. Eternal
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  King of unrivaled Power. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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  before we do, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  those joining us for the very first time. Please go over to your Daily
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  Portion dot com pick up the Your Daily Portion book join the community, and
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  also let us know where you are in the world at your daily portion dot
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  com. This is the way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  thank you for this day and for the privilege you have entrusted to us to
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  open your word again. Please help us to see you as the king of
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  the universe, to see Jesus firmly enthroned. Please teach us to serve you
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  with everything we have in our In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Amen again. I think that what happens sometimes or oftentimes when we are studying
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  the Bible is sometimes we study for facts. Oftentimes we study for facts and
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  figures what is true about a thing. And then we sometimes feel satisfied and
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  say, Okay, I have identified whatever it is the subject matter in our
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  study. Wonderful, I've done that. Tick, got the box ticked,
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  and I'm good to go move on to the next subject. But what God
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  wants us to do is to study and worship both and at the same time.
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  I said study and worship both and at the same time. And so
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  we ask God for wisdom to give us understanding and application of the things that
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  we read, and to engender worship, like to put us in a position
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  where we appreciate God so much that we worship him and we live holy lives
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  that that leak out into other people's experiences, so that we can be of
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  service to them, you see, and of course lead them closer to our
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  relationship with God. All right, And so today, since we're talking about
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  Jesus as the king, eternal, king of unrivaled power, this is particularly
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  important. Why because it's easy for us to just see Jesus as a figure
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  like a spiritual figure in the scriptures or some kind of avatar, right in
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  line with other prophets from all over to who knows where. But God is
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  saying that he is King of kings and Lord of lords, and we have
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  the privilege of serving him until Jesus comes. Okay, And so we're going
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  to begin with just a few of the teachings from these Psalms, and then
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  we'll open it up just a little bit more. And so in the Book
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  of Psalms, chapter two, I read in verse eight, ask me,
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  and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the
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  earth as your personal property. See, it doesn't even make sense for anyone
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  to set up themselves as king over Jesus. You're like Dave, who does
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  that? Come on? Well, there are plenty of narcissistic leaders that have
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  lived on planet Earth since time immemorial. Yeah, let's see. Nebukud Nezar
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  was one of them. Even though God gave him a vision of how things
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  would happen in successive kingdoms of rises and falls of regimes, this man decided
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  that he didn't believe the prophecy and he was gonna thumb his nose at God
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  and he was going to be the eternal king. Well God, God humbled
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  him through a number of means, but through seven years of humility until nebukud
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  Nezer understood because he asked early on in the experience, like who is this
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  God that I should worship him? Or who is this God that will deliver
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  you? Right? And God said, Okay, what I'm going to do
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  is I'm going to invite myself into your situation and I'm going to introduce myself,
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  and I'm telling you the most positive possible outcome was the reality he became
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  a worshiper. But not everybody does so so in this case we see Christ
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  portrayed as the anointed king, destined to rule over all nations, even though
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  in some cases it looks like he's the humble, the humble son of God
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  as he lived and walked on planet Earth. But that is really the beauty
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  of it. He humbled himself so that he could save us from our sins,
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  and as a result, or I should say part of the result,
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  is he's king of kings and lord of lords. He is established as the
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  prophecies would have predicted, as the one who ascends the throne of David.
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  The question really is is he on the throne of my life? When I'm
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  making decisions every day about my money, my relationships, huh, about all
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  of the other things that I have to experience, when I'm exercising, eating,
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  when I'm interacting with people, and sometimes people are disrespectful to me?
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  Is he the king on the throne of my life? That's the question,
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  because we easily can identify in these passages all over, really that Jesus is
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  exactly who we said that he is. But is he the king of my
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  life? I crown thee Now thine shall the glory be? Can you hear
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  that that him in your mind too. Yeah, let's die forget thy thorn,
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  crowned brow, lead me to Calvary. That is the goal to be
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  connected to God in that regard. Okay, And so we go now to
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  the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and ten and verse one. Here
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  is the Lord's proclamation to my lord, sit down at my right hand until
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  I make your enemies your footstool. And so we see Jesus. We see
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  Jesus sitting depicted at God's right hand, signifying supreme honor and authority. You
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  see, sometimes people will come and knock on your door and say that they
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  want to talk to you about a number of really complicated things. And then
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  they will come and then begin to share with you about God, our Father,
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  and then minimize Jesus Christ as some kind of second class spiritual citizen.
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  But the Bible is teaching us that Jesus is equal with the Father. He
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  has always been equal with the Father. But he humbled himself in the context
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  of this plan of salvation when he lived on planet Earth for thirty three and
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  a half years so he could save us from our sins. But as Micah
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  chapter five says, like he's eternal. He's always been here. He created
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  the worlds according to Hebrews one and John chapter one and other places. And
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  so now, in the context of the whole story, including him humbling himself
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  on planet Earth for those years, we see that Jesus is firmly established as
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  at the right pace hand of power and honor and authority, as we can
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  see also in the Book of Revelation chapters four and five. Maybe we'll drill
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  those in a day or two, okay, And so now we go down
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  to Psalm chapter eighty nine and verse four. I will give him an eternal
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  dynasty and make his throne as enduring as the sky above. And so we
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  see the supremacy of Christ again. We can go down one more to the
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  Book of Psalms chapter one hundred and ten and verse five. Oh, Sovereign
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  Lord, at your right hand, he strikes down kings in the day he
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  unleashes his anger. So we see Christ as the mighty warrior king who executes
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  judgment Daniel chapter eleven. We see all kinds of powers and alliances standing up
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  and sitting down. And you've heard me say this before, standing up and
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  sitting down. All of these king, kings and kingdoms from Daniel chapter two
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  and other places, up and down, up and down. They're here today,
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  gone tomorrow. Stand up, sit down. And then we see in
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  the Book of Daniel chapter twelve, where Jesus Christ he stands up, he
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  stands for his people, He does what he has promised to do. He
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  delivers us, he goes through judgment with us. He definitely begins to exalt
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  us in the next time that we see Jesus sit down, it's not to
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  pass off the scene, but to sit down firmly upon the throne as king
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  of kings and lord of lords. Again, the question is, does this
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  eternal king of unrivaled power have the throne of your life? For my thanks
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  for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  been your daily portion with el David Harris, Make it a great day. Yeah,