1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:05,519 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 --> 00:00:34,600 author speaker L. David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning. 8 00:00:34,759 --> 00:00:39,280 It is Tuesday, July eleven, two twenty three. Hello, my 9 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,840 name is L. David Harris. I am your host, and this is 10 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:46,560 your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today 11 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:51,200 is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study through the Book of 12 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:59,840 Ephesians, and our caption for today is participating in Resurrection power. Participating in 13 00:01:00,159 --> 00:01:03,400 resurrection Power. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I 14 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,680 like to say welcome one, Welcome all, and ask you to go over 15 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:12,439 to your Daily Portion dot com join our online community where we build faith and 16 00:01:12,519 --> 00:01:18,719 fellowship. And also also please pick up the Your Daily Portion book and share 17 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:23,040 it with as many people as possible as well, because it is this gospel 18 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:26,760 of the Kingdom that will be preached into all the world for a witness, 19 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:30,840 and then and only then shall the income. I have said it to you 20 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:36,079 many times over the years that I love being on the team with you, 21 00:01:36,719 --> 00:01:42,159 because while you're sharing and I'm sharing together, that means that we are participating 22 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:49,040 in fulfilling that promise, that prophecy that Jesus gave when he was sharing with 23 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,400 his disciples. We are looking forward to the day when Jesus comes. But 24 00:01:53,439 --> 00:01:57,959 we cannot lay down and sit and expect that status quo is going to get 25 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:04,040 us. There. Must push and press and pray and continue to lead people 26 00:02:04,319 --> 00:02:07,359 to the cross. And let's continue to do it together. Let's go ahead 27 00:02:07,359 --> 00:02:10,199 and pray and then get underway. Father, thank you for your word, 28 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:16,039 Please help us to live it in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and 29 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:25,879 Amen again. We have the privilege of participating in resurrection power. Yes, 30 00:02:27,039 --> 00:02:34,680 we have the privilege of participating in revelation, resurrection power. I'm going to 31 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,000 read from the Book of Ephesians, chapter one, and we will begin at 32 00:02:38,039 --> 00:02:40,080 verse twenty. Of course, we've read the passages up until this point, 33 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:46,759 so we're just jumping into an ongoing conversation. And if you don't remember what 34 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:51,599 we talked about, just scroll back to previous days and the Bible reads which 35 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:57,280 he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at 36 00:02:57,319 --> 00:03:01,840 his own right hand in the heavenly places. We have seen uh so much 37 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:07,120 power from God. Uh so much, so much power that correlates to the 38 00:03:07,199 --> 00:03:14,520 resurrection. Let me just give you one example. Stephen who was living at 39 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,840 about thirty four a d. At thirty four a d. Right, he 40 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:27,120 was one of seven deacons that lived during the first or the early Church, 41 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,120 right, the first century Church, and he was giving a message that was 42 00:03:31,199 --> 00:03:36,520 not being well received by some wayward people of God. And to make a 43 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,840 long story short, those individuals, with Paul even there as a witness, 44 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,080 right and even a even even an instigator. Uh, they were killing like 45 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:53,680 they were stoning Stephen. And as he was being stoned, the power of 46 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:59,560 God was upon him. He was sharing God's word and warning, and he 47 00:03:59,639 --> 00:04:02,599 was erecting the people of God. Right. And while he was being stoned, 48 00:04:02,599 --> 00:04:11,000 the Bible says that he looked up steadfastly toward heaven and he saw Jesus 49 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,039 standing at the right hand of power, and then he prayed, Father, 50 00:04:15,759 --> 00:04:20,720 Father, please do not lay the guilt, Do not put at their charge 51 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:25,600 this sin that they are committing. He prayed the same kind of prayer that 52 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:30,439 Jesus prayed while he was giving his life on the cross. So how can 53 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:39,319 a man who's being stoned to death look up and see Jesus in power and 54 00:04:39,519 --> 00:04:44,519 pray that the people who are killing him would not be judged to guilty. 55 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:48,360 That's a resurrection power. That is the power of the resurrection. Is that 56 00:04:48,519 --> 00:04:57,319 is the gospel power in Steven's life that he was impervious to what was happening. 57 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:00,560 He was so cued in on God, odd because of that power that 58 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:06,279 raises us from doubt, that power that raises us from from having our minds 59 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:12,279 bound by the challenges that we experience. Right, he was experienced the kind 60 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:17,120 of resurrection that frees us from abuse, and frees us from putting ourselves before 61 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:23,560 God, that frees us from being selfish and prideful like he was experiencing the 62 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:28,120 kind of resurrection that says, nevertheless, not as I will, but as 63 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,959 thou wilt. Yeah, let that settle in the radio. Did not go 64 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,399 off, and this broadcast is not interrupted. Let that settle in. He 65 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:43,399 participated in that resurrection power. But let me continue before I go to far 66 00:05:43,439 --> 00:05:47,839 afield verse twenty one. Far above all principality, this is Jesus now above 67 00:05:47,959 --> 00:05:54,439 all power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only 68 00:05:54,519 --> 00:05:58,639 in this world, but also in that which is to come. So Jesus 69 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:02,959 is the name that is above every name. That every niche shall bow, 70 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:08,279 every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the 71 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,839 Father Verse twenty two. And hath put all things under his feet and gave 72 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,399 him to be the head over all things, to the Church, which is 73 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:24,120 his body, the fullness of him all in all right, that filleth all 74 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,439 in all. So Jesus, being all of what we said and more, 75 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,920 is now the head of his body, which is the Church. He is 76 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,879 the head of your life if you will surrender your will to him. He's 77 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,519 the head of my life. If I will surrender my will to him. 78 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:44,240 That means that when he is living in my life, I'm abiding in him, 79 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:47,160 and his word is abiding in me. That means that I can ask 80 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,600 anything I will and he will say that it is done. And it is 81 00:06:51,639 --> 00:06:57,079 not that I'm looking for selfish things to ask for. No, it means 82 00:06:57,079 --> 00:07:00,800 that the Holy Spirit, knowing that I don't know what to pray for as 83 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:05,680 I ought, will be moaning and groaning and groanings that cannot be uttered in 84 00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:11,079 heavenly places. Who knows the mind of the Spirit knows the mind of God. 85 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,680 And when we are asking, we begin to ask in the same spirit 86 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,519 of God things that Jesus would have asked if he lived on planet Earth right 87 00:07:19,720 --> 00:07:24,839 right now, And we're asking in our behalf right. So we are thankful 88 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:30,000 that when we begin to speak into people's lives we begin to do things for 89 00:07:30,399 --> 00:07:33,800 people, we are doing it on behalf of God. When we are showing 90 00:07:33,839 --> 00:07:40,600 that people can be victorious over all addictions, when we see and demonstrate that 91 00:07:40,639 --> 00:07:46,399 people can live holy lives in this wicked and perverse generation in twenty twenty three 92 00:07:46,439 --> 00:07:49,920 and not be fearful of anything, because there is no fear in love. 93 00:07:50,279 --> 00:07:57,560 Perfect love casts out fear. We are agents of change. We are agents 94 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:05,000 who are participating in resurrection power. Now. Of course, pointing to some 95 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:09,319 events in Salvation history, Paul is still making a point here are two of 96 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:16,120 them. Resurrection of Jesus from the dead is all the power that we need 97 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,279 when we yield our will to him. And the exaltation of Jesus to the 98 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:24,639 throne of the Cosmos, not of just heaven, not of just earth, 99 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:31,120 but of Heaven and earth and the universe itself. And so we see that 100 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:37,080 God showed more more illustrations through brother Paul and other places in particular. But 101 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:43,480 I'm going to read from Philippians chapter three as we come to a swift close, 102 00:08:43,519 --> 00:08:46,000 and I'll read beginning at verse eight, and the Bible reads, yea 103 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:52,799 doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge 104 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:56,879 of Christ, Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of 105 00:08:56,919 --> 00:09:01,759 all things, and do count them done, that I may win Christ and 106 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,960 be found in Him. Not having mine own righteousness, you want to talk 107 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,159 about power. We throw away our righteousness. We throw away all of our 108 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,600 good deeds, so called we throw away all of our wicked deeds. And 109 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,519 we say, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, 110 00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:22,879 but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of 111 00:09:22,919 --> 00:09:28,039 God by faith, that I may know Him and the power of his resurrection 112 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:33,799 and the fellowship of his sufferings being made conformable unto his death, if by 113 00:09:33,799 --> 00:09:39,279 any means I might attained unto the resurrection from the dead. So he experienced. 114 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,120 Paul experienced God's power and resurrection, and you can too, a wonderful 115 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:48,519 day Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot 116 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,320 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of 117 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:56,200 God. This has been your daily portion with l. David Harris. Make 118 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:58,799 it a great day.