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 manner the word of God to keep 4 00:00:15,439 --> 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 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,640 author speaker l David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning. 8 00:00:34,799 --> 00:00:39,119 It is Monday, August seven, two twenty three. Hello, my name 9 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,159 is Lle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,039 Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:51,719 exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of Ephesians. 12 00:00:51,719 --> 00:00:57,799 Our caption for today as is together as one in the One, Together 13 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:02,159 as one in the One. We're talking about unity. But this is a 14 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,519 special special focus. Okay, we'll get into that in just a moment, 15 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,280 But first I'd like to say welcome one, Welcome all, and ask you 16 00:01:08,359 --> 00:01:12,560 to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online 17 00:01:12,599 --> 00:01:17,959 community. Please pick up the Your Daily Portion book and one more, Please 18 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:22,879 please share where you are in the world. That way I can see an 19 00:01:22,879 --> 00:01:27,799 experience in my little mind here right on a map where you are, and 20 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,840 I know from that vantage point the Gospel of the Kingdom is being preached into 21 00:01:32,879 --> 00:01:37,560 all the world for a witness, so that then and only then we know 22 00:01:37,719 --> 00:01:42,480 the end will come. Please go again to your Daily Portion dot com. 23 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,879 Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father in 24 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,760 Heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege to come together again this morning 25 00:01:49,799 --> 00:01:53,959 and for the opportunity to move into our work week. Father, I pray 26 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,680 that you will teach us the kind of unity that pleases you. In Jesus 27 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:06,480 name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. So the Bible has an 28 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:12,560 interesting way of describing unity. So many ways I could go right now, 29 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:15,400 but I just want to begin with the Book of Deuteronomy. The Book of 30 00:02:15,439 --> 00:02:23,080 Deuteronomy houses what is called the Sama, the Sama, and it's in Deuteronomy 31 00:02:23,159 --> 00:02:28,639 six in verse four, and the Bible teaches us there that the Lord here 32 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,520 o Israel, the Lord our God, is one Lord, and we are 33 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,599 to worship him with everything that we are and everything that we have right. 34 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:40,879 And so when the term one shows up in that passage, it is it 35 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,680 is a word in Hebrew that basically is a compound unity. It is the 36 00:02:46,759 --> 00:02:52,719 kind of unity that God is like God, the Father, God, the 37 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,400 Son God, the Holy Spirit. Right, the kind of unity that God 38 00:02:55,439 --> 00:03:01,039 intends for his people inside the church or the fellowship of believers in the last 39 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,520 days. The kind of unity that God intended when he put Adam and Eve 40 00:03:06,599 --> 00:03:10,919 together as a married couple. The twain shall be one flesh. And of 41 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:17,439 course that's the unity that our modern couples in two thousand and twenty three are 42 00:03:17,479 --> 00:03:22,319 to exhibit. Yes, and Paul said, behold, I show you a 43 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:25,800 mystery. And by the way, I'm talking about like Christ and how he 44 00:03:25,879 --> 00:03:30,400 relates to the Church. When he talks about marriage, he's thinking also about 45 00:03:30,439 --> 00:03:37,039 how Christ and the Church are to relate. So that is the oneness that 46 00:03:37,199 --> 00:03:42,560 is a big deal to me, because I see it so prevalent in the 47 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:45,759 scriptures. And so by the time we get to the Book of Ephesians, 48 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:47,639 chapter four, and by the way, what I just said about Christ and 49 00:03:47,639 --> 00:03:52,199 the Church comes in, I think it's the next chapter, chapter five. 50 00:03:52,759 --> 00:03:58,039 But by the time we get to Ephesians chapter four. We see there is 51 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:04,960 a number of one. The term one appears multiple times, and the Bible 52 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:12,080 reads beginning in verse four of Ephesians chapter four, there is one body. 53 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:17,519 I'll come back to that one spirit, even as ye are called in one 54 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:27,120 hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one 55 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:31,319 God and Father of all, who is above all and through all, and 56 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,040 in you all. Let me count the ones I didn't do it. One 57 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:41,600 two, three, four, five six, one two, three, four, 58 00:04:41,879 --> 00:04:47,759 five, six seven. If you're on the radio, the broadcast has 59 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:57,199 not stopped. Listen. There are gods. Has amazed me so many times 60 00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:03,439 with the way that he key his principles of perfection. Seven times the term 61 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:11,040 one is used here. So this is a perfect principle that we must get 62 00:05:11,079 --> 00:05:15,319 into our minds. There is one body. What is the body? Well, 63 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,720 think about it. The body is the collection or the congregation of the 64 00:05:20,759 --> 00:05:27,439 saints of God, the congregation or the fellowship of believers who are through the 65 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:33,839 Holy Spirit following Jesus Christ, who is our head. So Jesus is the 66 00:05:33,879 --> 00:05:40,000 head who does what controls the body. And don't be afraid of the term 67 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:45,439 controls. If you have the kind of brain that is sanctified and filled with 68 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,680 the Holy Ghost. Then you can, oh be careful, little hands what 69 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,240 you do right. You can be, oh careful, little eyes what you 70 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:56,439 see. You can, oh careful little feet where you go right, because 71 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,279 there's a father up above who is looking down own in tender love. Oh 72 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:04,560 be careful little everything that you have and everything you are, what you do. 73 00:06:04,639 --> 00:06:10,920 Because the Head, who is Christ, is leading us into the paths 74 00:06:10,959 --> 00:06:16,959 of righteousness. Our bodies are in motion and alignment with God's will. So 75 00:06:17,079 --> 00:06:23,759 the body is the fellowship of believers who are unified under the head which is 76 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,519 Christ, and one spirit, the Holy Spirit. Right. The Bible teaches 77 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:31,800 us that the Holy Spirit of God guides us into all truth. That is 78 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:34,920 the truth about us and the truth about God. The truth about us is 79 00:06:34,959 --> 00:06:42,120 that we are born in sins, shaping an iniquity, like we are needing 80 00:06:42,519 --> 00:06:46,560 a savior. And the truth about God is that He is that savior, 81 00:06:46,879 --> 00:06:49,839 the one Jesus Christ, who came to save us from our sins, and 82 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:55,040 our Father who loved us so much that he gave us Jesus Christ, not 83 00:06:55,079 --> 00:06:58,279 to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. 84 00:06:58,639 --> 00:07:03,480 Not by might, though not by power, but through God's Holy Spirit. 85 00:07:03,519 --> 00:07:08,480 So we're talking about the Holy Spirit. And then one hope of our calling. 86 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:15,160 Our hope is in Christ. Right, it ceases being useful if our 87 00:07:15,279 --> 00:07:18,519 hope is in things on the earth. My hope is built on nothing less 88 00:07:18,759 --> 00:07:23,680 than Jesus blood and righteousness. I think in songs I did tell you that, 89 00:07:23,759 --> 00:07:27,399 didn't I. And so the hope is, of course the hope of 90 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:32,480 our calling. Not everyone who was called is chosen. According to Matthew chapter 91 00:07:32,519 --> 00:07:39,199 twenty two, those who are called and chosen are the ones who hear the 92 00:07:39,319 --> 00:07:45,800 voice and message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and then indeed move in lockstep 93 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:50,319 with him through God's Spirit, and are indeed saved. One Lord, that's 94 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:55,079 Jesus Christ, one faith. We know that that faith is in Christ. 95 00:07:55,160 --> 00:08:00,439 The power of God unto salvation, only comes into our lives if we have 96 00:08:00,639 --> 00:08:05,319 that vehicle, that conduit through which the power will come, and that conduit 97 00:08:05,759 --> 00:08:09,839 is called faith. God is the author and finisher, like Jesus is the 98 00:08:09,839 --> 00:08:15,160 author and finisher of our faith. He gives every person a measure of faith. 99 00:08:15,399 --> 00:08:22,480 And if that little measure, that tiny mustard mustard seed sized faith is 100 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:28,319 activated by touching and laying hold of the power of God, so that virtue 101 00:08:28,399 --> 00:08:31,159 leaves God and comes to us, if you want to say, leaves God, 102 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:37,639 but that virtue passes from God to us. And then we can say 103 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,720 to the mountain, be thou removed and moved to yonder place. We can 104 00:08:41,759 --> 00:08:45,360 say to the mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea, and 105 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:48,519 it will be done unto us. That kind of faith lays hold on the 106 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:54,120 power of God so that we can be saved those who are hopeless sinners bound 107 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:58,759 by all sorts of sin, habits and thoughts. Those individuals can be trans 108 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:07,200 lated from what the kingdom of darkness into this kingdom of marvelous light. That's 109 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:11,399 the kind of faith we're talking about. One baptism, and we know that 110 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:16,120 this baptism is not just to get wet. It is not just to get 111 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,840 sprinkled as not just to get dunked and come up a wet sinner. Now, 112 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:24,200 this baptism is through the Holy Spirit and symbolize by going below the surface 113 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:31,320 of the water and to be submerged into a relationship with God and living in 114 00:09:31,399 --> 00:09:33,759 that way. And then one God and Father of us all, and we 115 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:39,000 understand that He is supreme above all. Blessed be his name, God, 116 00:09:39,159 --> 00:09:43,360 our Father, Oh my goodness, together as one in the one of a 117 00:09:43,399 --> 00:09:48,519 wonderful day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot 118 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,320 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of 119 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:56,200 God. This has been your daily portion with L. David Harris. Make 120 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,799 it a great day.