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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 manner 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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that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live

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healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to
your Daily Portion with your host, author

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speaker L. David Harris. Good
morning, good morning, good morning.

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It is Friday, September one,
two twenty three. Hello, my name

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is L. 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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Ephesians. We are still in Lesson
number ten. We're making the transition soon

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soon, soon to a new study, but I don't want to rush it.

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Oh my goodness, so much more
to say here. Our caption for

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today is one Flesh Revisited. So
we talked about one flesh as a model

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for marriage yesterday, and I talk
to you fast, almost like an auctioneer,

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but there's some stuff that we really
need to cover again, and also

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to cover that we didn't even touch
yesterday. Okay, before we get into

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that, let me just say welcome
to everyone joining us, especially those joining

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for the very first time. Please
go over to your Daily Portion dot com

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join our online community there. Also, please pick up the Your Daily Portion

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book and type into the little box
there that says where are you in the

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world? Let me know where you
are in the world, and that helps

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to encourage me to continue. I
promise. I've been on this thing for

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thousands of consecutive days. You know. We've been together since like really since

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twenty fourteen, but in this way
since twenty eighteen. Yeah, So it's

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encouraging for us to be together in
this way, especially when I can know

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where you are in the world.
Pardon me. Let's go ahead and pray

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and then get underway. Father in
Heaven, thank you for giving us the

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privilege to come together in this manner, For the blessing that you have been

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to us, and the privilege we
have to examine the ideal for marriage as

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sort of a microcosm, a representation
of marriage of relationship with you. I

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pray that we will get it and
live it in Jesus name, I pray

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Amen and Amen again. You know, part of the reason some people hate

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marriage is because they have not seen
the right model. Yeah, or they

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feel like the right model is far
beyond their grasp. Yeah, it's not

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always roses and sunshine. It's not
always that music that sounds romantic, the

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instrumental and the gentle breeze blowing through
your home with the valences or valences and

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things just you know, breezing through
and perfect everything. And you see people

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waking up in those bright white sheets
and the perfectly fluffed comforters and the pillows

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or whatever else. Right, it
is not that, like, it is

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not necessarily that God has given us
the privilege to come together so we can

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see what the ideal from God's perspective
is. But it's work for humans.

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It's good work. It's good work, but it is work nonetheless, like

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unity is no light matter. Thank
God for the privilege. And so yesterday

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I said so much about how Adam
was created, what he was given as

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a vocation, and all of that
I won't rehash that. I want you

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to go back to yesterday's broadcast so
that you can hear it for yourselves.

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Ah, but I did not talk
about just a couple of other things right

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in that unity, That one concept
there was sexual unity. Can we just

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say that right here and right now
that if you are married brothers and sisters,

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then unity where sexuality is concerned is
key. That means that it's one

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flesh, not multiple fleshes. And
you're like, Dave, that doesn't even

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make sense multiple fleshes, ball,
But you understand what I'm saying. I

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am saying that if you have husband
and you have wife, that means husband

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plural singular. Look at that,
messing with my brain. Husband singular,

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wife singular, not multiple partners,
not multiple spouses. And you're like,

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that's ridiculous, Dave, we don't
even do that. Yeah, well,

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some places in the world people do
that, and they do it legally in

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air quotes. Oh and by the
way, we don't do that. We're

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believers. Yeah. Really was Abraham
a believer. Abraham was the father of

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the faithful. And guess what Abraham
had more than one wife, my namesake,

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right, King David, more than
one wife. God is saying,

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no, you have one spouse,
full stop, and that is one flesh

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sexual unity, emotional unity. You're
like, but that doesn't make sense,

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Dave. What does that even mean? Have you ever heard of an emotional

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affair some of us, because of
whatever we say, is not going perfectly

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in our marriages. Some of you
may say that your husband is not holy

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and he has left you in a
position of uncovered ness. Or you may

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say, if you are a husband, that she has withheld her body from

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you. I'm saying what you say. I don't say that. But if

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you say that she's withheld her body
from you for some period of time,

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and then you say, Okay,
well, I'm not going to go out

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and have some intercourse with somebody,
but I'm just going to have conversations about

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it. I'm just gonna have intimate
moments by telephone or by some one of

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those fancy new social media platforms or
some other app that's on the telephone.

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Right, I'm just gonna make eyes
at this person in church and let them

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know that they matter to me.
No, no, no, no,

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no no no. God is saying
that it is our privilege. In fact,

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it is a command that we remain
emotionally unified with the one spouse that

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we have. You'd be better not
to get married than to choose on purpose

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to become emotionally or sexually detached.
Can we talk just a moment about spiritual

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unity. God wants us to be
spiritually unified. It is our privilege.

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It's not just an ideal. It
is also a command. Do not be

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bound or unequally yoked with unbelievers.
And this is not an excuse for anybody

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to get a divorce at this moment. I'm talking about people who are planning

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to be married. Don't go looking
for someone and then when you find the

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person that you think you love or
like, go to them realizing, oh

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wait a minute, we're not on
the same page spiritually, but they're so

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wonderful in other ways. Oh well, and then go ahead and get married.

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No sexual unity, emotional unity,
spiritual unity, and these are just

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some of the ways that we can
become one with our spouses. Now,

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I talk to you yesterday very quickly. I was talking so fast, maybe

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you missed it. The Bible says
that for this reason they leave father and

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mother, meaning those who are getting
married. Right we're getting married, We

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leave father and mother and then cleave
to the one spouse that we're getting married

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to. You understand, and so
there are sometimes disunity in marriage because somebody

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neglected to leave. Somebody is bringing
mommy and daddy into the relationship. Somebody

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is going to daddy, someone is
going to mommy or both and complaining about

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the spouse. Someone is listening to
mommy, someone is listening to Daddy about

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how the marriage should go. They're
already married. Like, you missed your

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opportunity, Mommy and Daddy. If
you did not give the guidance to the

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child before he or she got married, leave it out now. The only

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guidance that you can give is toward
God and toward counseling, toward God and

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toward coaching. But your mouth should
not be in the marriage of people who

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are now one. I wish I
had the time. You're like, Dave,

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that sounds extreme. What if daddy's
a counselor what if mommy's a counselor

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come on, now, you really
want to go there? Yeah, let's

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not do that. Let's just say
when the Bible says leave and cleave,

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it means that we show honor and
love to our parents forever until God forbid

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they either pass away or until Jesus
comes. Right. Yeah, but we

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do not bring them into the marriage, because that is no longer one flesh,

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that is multiple fleshes, and that
is not biblical. Can I just

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say that, yep, well I
did already. Let me go here and

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say that no one should compel the
other one to yield to each other's wishes.

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We need to be patient and kind
and forbearing and considerate and courteous according

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to the book ad Ventist home page
one hundred eighteen. And of course I

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agree. Have a wonderful day,
beasts. Thanks for joining us listening.

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Friends. Always remember we cannot live
by bread alone, but by every word

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that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with

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L. David Harris. Make it
a great day.