1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:05,559 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's 2 00:00:05,599 --> 00:00:10,400 food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:15,359 some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,079 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all 5 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:25,120 of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:30,800 live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,679 author speaker L. David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. 8 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:39,479 It is Thursday, August seventeen, twenty twenty three. Hello, my 9 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:42,119 name is L. David Harris. I am your host, and this is 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,359 your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today 11 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,719 is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book 12 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:59,799 of Ephesians, and our caption for today is kindness not bitterness. Kindness not 13 00:01:00,439 --> 00:01:03,799 bitterness. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like 14 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,200 to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very 15 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,159 first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com, join our 16 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:15,640 online community, and there we can build faith and fellowship. I want you 17 00:01:15,719 --> 00:01:19,640 also to pick up the Your Daily Portion book and let me know where you 18 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,760 are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go ahead and 19 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,599 pray and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for 20 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:34,959 this opportunity to come together and to pray and to seek your face and to 21 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,480 learn how to be kind, how to be kind. Father, Please draw 22 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:45,120 us into your presence today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen 23 00:01:45,159 --> 00:01:51,079 again. Yes, so kindness is a rare commodity these days. Yes, 24 00:01:51,159 --> 00:01:56,400 we understand that there are social graces. Yes, there are opportunities for us 25 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:01,359 to say yes, please and thank you. But genuine kindness is a rare 26 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:07,359 commodity these days. And generally it's because of sin. We know that, 27 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:12,520 right, but because of isms. There are isms. There's racism, there 28 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:19,479 is classism, and so many sexisms, so many isms that cause us to 29 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:24,479 forget the second and great commandment. Right. The first and great commandment is, 30 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:30,319 and you know what it is right to love God with everything that we 31 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:35,199 have and everything that we are right, and that is a miracle. We 32 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:39,120 don't have the capacity innately. I know that there are a lot of coaches 33 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:45,599 and other people like I'm a coach. I invest most of my time in 34 00:02:45,719 --> 00:02:51,080 developing people right people development. But there are a lot of people like me 35 00:02:51,319 --> 00:02:57,960 who come and try to tell you that everything is within you already, and 36 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,000 it's like, well, pause, it's I get what some people are saying. 37 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:06,639 But really and truly, we were born in sin, shaping in iniquity. 38 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:12,560 So whatever it is that God would have put in us has been defective, 39 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:17,840 right and deformed based on sin. And so in order to activate, 40 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:24,400 just like with Paul activating laying hands on Timothy and activating, or the gift, 41 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,960 the gift that God would have would have would have put in him, 42 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:34,080 right, we need the Holy Spirit. So we cannot just say it's in 43 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:40,080 you. Like God through the Holy Spirit, activates those things in our lives 44 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:46,719 that please Him. I wish I had the time. So kindness to this 45 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:52,599 degree is one of those things. Okay. I want to read from the 46 00:03:52,639 --> 00:03:57,919 Book of Ephesians, chapter four. Ephesians Chapter four, beginning at verse thirty. 47 00:03:58,039 --> 00:04:01,680 Right, we already spoke about verse thirty itself. Now let's add more, 48 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,800 okay, and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Now we're talking 49 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:13,639 about God the Holy Spirit, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. 50 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:18,279 And so in order for us to be holy, in order for us 51 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:24,560 to be like Christ, when Jesus comes, he's looking to see if there's 52 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:28,319 any faith in the earth. Right. He's coming for a bride who is 53 00:04:28,399 --> 00:04:32,160 without spot and without wrinkle, right, And in order for that to be 54 00:04:32,519 --> 00:04:41,399 possible, the Holy Spirit has to seal us in his love. Seal us 55 00:04:41,439 --> 00:04:46,000 in whatsoever Jesus Christ would have commanded us. Seal us into the truth. 56 00:04:46,399 --> 00:04:50,519 The Word is truth. Jesus is truth, and his ten commandments are truth 57 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,920 right until the day of Redemption Verse thirty one. Let all bitterness, oh 58 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,800 my, all of it. All wrath, that's all of it. And 59 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:05,000 anger, all of it. That's what the Bible says, and clamor all 60 00:05:05,079 --> 00:05:10,439 of it, and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice. 61 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,439 So we read a couple of days ago that we are to be angry and 62 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:19,519 sin not. And people give ourselves permission to say it's no problem being angry, 63 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:24,120 and they put a wholesale stamp on that, right, And it's like, 64 00:05:24,199 --> 00:05:27,399 well, pause, there are two things. Let me say it in 65 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:31,439 a way that makes sense. Right, If there are some things to do, 66 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:39,680 anger and sin are the ones not to do. Be angry, that's 67 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,839 one thing. Sinning the other thing. That's why God says, to what 68 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:48,560 put away? Put away? Do not allow the sun to go down on 69 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,720 your wrath? Why? Because you have to put it away. It says 70 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:58,920 very clearly in the same chapter to put away wrath, put away anger. 71 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,120 And you're like, okay, Dave, but why does it say be angry 72 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:05,279 and sin night I just explained it. God is saying, here is what 73 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:11,000 I want you not to do. I don't want you to be angry in 74 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,439 an ungodly way. I'll come back to godly anger or what you want to 75 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,560 call holy indignation, and I want you not to sin. Here are some 76 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,439 things I don't want you to do. I don't want you to be ungodly 77 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:26,959 angry, and I don't want you to sin. That means put it away. 78 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,399 Can you see it in verse thirty one. Can you see it in 79 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:32,240 verse thirty one. I'm coming back to thirty two in a moment now, 80 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:36,759 you would say, but David, the Bible says that that Jesus looked round 81 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:44,439 about upon them with anger. Okay, you can see where Jesus was angry. 82 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,639 It always had to do with the honor of God. It was never 83 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:54,240 because somebody did something personally to him, because somebody gossip, because somebody called 84 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,040 him a name, right, because somebody said that he was a fatherless child 85 00:06:58,079 --> 00:07:01,759 like. He did not entertain those kinds of anger. In fact, in 86 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,240 Matthew chapter five, the Bible says, you read, you have heard it 87 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:10,240 said of them of old time, thou shalt not commit adultery. But I 88 00:07:10,279 --> 00:07:14,680 say unto you. If a man has lust for a woman, or looks 89 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:19,000 upon a woman to lust after her, he has committed adultery with her already. 90 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,879 And it's like, what what are you talking about? That has nothing 91 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,800 to do with anger. Oh, But then the Bible teaches us some more 92 00:07:24,959 --> 00:07:28,519 spirituality, and he said, you have heard it said of them of old 93 00:07:28,519 --> 00:07:33,360 time, thou shalt not murder. Hmm, thou shalt not murder. That's 94 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,399 what the tech says in Matthew chapter five. But if you have anger with 95 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:44,360 your brother without a cause, you shall be in danger of the judgment. 96 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:54,360 So God is making a correlation to unholy anger and murder. And those individuals 97 00:07:54,399 --> 00:08:00,439 who don't put away wrath do not put away unholy anger. Those individuals jewels 98 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,879 are guilty of murder. I wish I had the time. So in Matthew 99 00:08:05,879 --> 00:08:11,959 five we see the spirituality of the law, not the letter. Okay, 100 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:16,839 verse thirty two, and be ye kind one to another. He wants us 101 00:08:16,879 --> 00:08:18,600 to be kind, he said, put away those other things? Now what 102 00:08:18,639 --> 00:08:24,279 does he want you to do? See? Christianity or living a believer's lifestyle 103 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:30,759 is not about simply abstaining. It's not an abstemious lifestyle. It is not 104 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:35,480 a diet right. It is what do we do as God gives us strength? 105 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:39,919 What do we do? Be kind one to another, be tenderhearted? 106 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,320 And what else? How does that? How is the what is the manifestation 107 00:08:43,519 --> 00:08:50,679 of this kind of tenderhearted love and kindness? Forgiving one another? How? 108 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,279 In what way do we forgive? What is the manner of our forgiveness? 109 00:08:56,279 --> 00:09:03,679 Oh, even as God for christ sake hath forgiven you put away anger, 110 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:09,639 become tender hearted and kind? Yes, in what way? How does it 111 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:18,039 manifest itself? Also? It manifests itself majorly in forgiveness? Yes? And 112 00:09:18,279 --> 00:09:20,679 how is that also manifest like? What is it connected to? Oh, 113 00:09:20,759 --> 00:09:26,919 God forgave you, God forgave me so if and since God forgave you for 114 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,919 Christ's sake. Then, by all means, be forgiving and tender hearted, 115 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:39,759 and put away wrath and bitterness, and embrace kindness because God did that for 116 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:45,919 Christ's sake. In you a wonderful day, Peace, Thanks for joining us 117 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:50,440 listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by 118 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:54,679 every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily 119 00:09:54,720 --> 00:10:00,320 portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day.