1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:05,879 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,679 is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some 3 00:00:10,759 --> 00:00:15,599 of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manner the word of God to keep us 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:20,280 through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all that. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,839 Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live healthy, 6 00:00:26,199 --> 00:00:31,800 vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker 7 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,159 L. David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It 8 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:40,200 is Sunday, July sixteen, twenty twenty three. Hello, my name is 9 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:43,159 L. David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily 10 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,000 Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no 11 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:52,119 exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of Ephesians, 12 00:00:52,399 --> 00:00:59,119 and our caption for today is once dead and deceived by Satan. Once 13 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:03,560 Dead. We're going to talk about that in the past tense I hope and 14 00:01:03,759 --> 00:01:07,640 deceived by Satan. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first 15 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,920 I'd like to say welcome one, Welcome all, and ask you to please 16 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:14,159 go over to your Daily Portion dot com. If you have not done so 17 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,879 already, join our online community. Also, you can click into that little 18 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,840 form and tell us where you are in the world. That's a blessing, 19 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,719 so we can see where you are. And also pick up pick up the 20 00:01:25,799 --> 00:01:30,280 Your Daily Portion Christian Living book. It's a book that will help all of 21 00:01:30,359 --> 00:01:33,680 us, that helps all of us get closer to God as we await the 22 00:01:33,719 --> 00:01:38,040 coming of Jesus Christ. Go to your Daily Portion dot com. Let's go 23 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,760 ahead and pray and then get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for 24 00:01:42,879 --> 00:01:47,400 giving us the privilege of awakening today beginning our new work week. And I 25 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,519 pray God that you will give us your Holy Spirit, teach us how to 26 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:53,920 love and to serve You, and let the deception of the enemy be in 27 00:01:53,959 --> 00:01:59,680 the past tense in our rear view mirror. In Jesus name, I pray 28 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:07,599 Amen and Amen again once dead and deceived by Satan. We're going to begin 29 00:02:07,919 --> 00:02:12,919 reading in the Book of Ephesians, chapter two. Ephesians chapter two, and 30 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,280 you'll note that as we go through this book, we'll be reading things over 31 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,800 and over again, turning it around, turning it around, asking God, 32 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:25,000 what is it that you would have me to know and learn? Daily new 33 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:30,120 things, even from the same passages. So we begin in chapter two today, 34 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:34,560 and the Bible reads, and you hath he quickened that means to be 35 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:42,680 made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins. I think everybody here can 36 00:02:42,719 --> 00:02:47,599 identify with the reality that we have been dead in trespasses and sins. God 37 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:53,159 forbid. Somebody listening, somebody watching may still be. But if it's your 38 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:57,439 case, today is the day that you can be transformed by the renewing of 39 00:02:57,439 --> 00:03:01,199 your mind. Keep listening and praying right here verse two, wherein in time 40 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:07,439 past ye walked according to the course of this world. So you did that 41 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,960 in time past. He's speaking to the people at Ephesus right according to the 42 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,439 Prince of the power of the air and spirit. Now that now walketh in 43 00:03:16,479 --> 00:03:23,039 the children of disobedience. So you know what it's like to live in contrary, 44 00:03:23,199 --> 00:03:27,360 live contrary to God's will, to be hostile toward God. You know 45 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,800 what it's like. Let me just give you a cheat code right here. 46 00:03:30,879 --> 00:03:35,960 Let me give you a quick secret. If you want to build rapport with 47 00:03:36,199 --> 00:03:43,680 youth, be honest and genuine, live according to principle consistently, but don't 48 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,039 hide like don't act like you don't know what it's like to be tempted and 49 00:03:47,199 --> 00:03:53,000 to also fall and jump into sin. Youth are into genuineness, regardless of 50 00:03:53,039 --> 00:03:58,319 anything else you perceive in their way of moving in social media and peer pressure 51 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,439 and all of that. Listen, if you're genuine and you're loving and consistent, 52 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:06,120 but show the reality that you know what it's like to live a disobedient 53 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:13,199 lifestyle, and you're there with them. They will ride with you until the 54 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:17,040 wheels fall off, because they will sense your genuine love for them. But 55 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:23,879 that I will move from like I digress. Okay, verse three, among 56 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:30,279 whom also we all had our conversation that is conduct in times pasts past, 57 00:04:30,519 --> 00:04:35,199 in lusts of our flesh. Yes, m fulfilling the desires of the flesh 58 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:40,839 and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even 59 00:04:40,879 --> 00:04:43,680 as others. So you know what it's like. Yeah, but God, 60 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:46,079 I said it yesterday. I won't go into it again today. But just 61 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,800 this is a moment to praise God. But God right, who is rich 62 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:56,800 in mercy for his great love, wherewith he loved us even when we were 63 00:04:56,920 --> 00:05:01,959 dead and sins, he did what he quickened us together with Christ by grace 64 00:05:02,079 --> 00:05:06,680 are you saved. Oh, we'll come back to that. And hath raised 65 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:13,160 us up together and made us to sit together in heavenly places. In Christ 66 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,800 Jesus. There are places that you have sat in time past. You have 67 00:05:16,879 --> 00:05:23,519 sat in the seat of the scornful. You have sat in on meetings where 68 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:28,839 people were castigating and disrespecting people and you said nothing. You did nothing. 69 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:34,720 You have sat in discussions with people who were gossiping and did nothing. You 70 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:42,639 have sat in uh in in places where exotic dancers were showing things that we 71 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:47,360 should never see. Unmentionable sins we have committed. God is saying that you 72 00:05:47,439 --> 00:05:53,160 have you have done that. But now because of God's great love toward us, 73 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:58,079 now, because of his grace, his power to make us holy and 74 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,959 to live according to His principle. But now we can be seated together in 75 00:06:03,079 --> 00:06:09,360 heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in times or in the ages to come, 76 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,759 he might show us the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward 77 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,319 us. In Christ Jesus, I hath not seen. Pause right here and 78 00:06:18,399 --> 00:06:24,279 give God a praise like I have not seen nor ear heard. Neither hath 79 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:29,160 it enter into the heart of human beings, the things that God has prepared 80 00:06:29,199 --> 00:06:33,120 for us. So He is transforming your characters, my character, so that 81 00:06:33,199 --> 00:06:39,639 one day we will be able to see that we will finally experience the exceeding 82 00:06:39,759 --> 00:06:44,600 riches of His grace verse eight four. By grace are ye saved through faith? 83 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:47,439 And that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not 84 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:53,519 of works, lest any man should boast. I hope you are experiencing the 85 00:06:53,600 --> 00:07:00,439 joy of the Lord by just listening to and contemplating and meditating upon these words 86 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:08,759 in Holy Scripture verse ten. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ 87 00:07:08,959 --> 00:07:14,240 Jesus, unto good works. That is why you're here. That is why 88 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,360 I'm here. He created us unto good works. We're gonna go into Isaiah 89 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:23,480 in just a moment which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 90 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,839 God never intended for you to go down that slippery slope of sin. 91 00:07:27,959 --> 00:07:32,480 He never intended to you that you should ever be bound to anything except bound 92 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:38,759 by the golden chord of love in a relationship with Him. But God is 93 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,879 so kind, How kind is he that he would take us back to basics. 94 00:07:42,879 --> 00:07:46,720 He would just like his children who were in Babylonian captivity, just like 95 00:07:46,959 --> 00:07:53,399 believers who are now in spiritual Babylon. And in the Spirit of John chapter 96 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:57,519 ten. His sheep here his voice. He is making the call, just 97 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,480 like he does in the Book of Revelation, to come out out of her, 98 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,639 my people, Come out of Babylon, spiritual Babylon. Come out of 99 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:09,480 confusion, Come out of those false pathways toward a false God. Come out 100 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:15,040 of her, and come in to basics. Like back to basics, and 101 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:18,360 the Bible reads. But now Isaiah forty three in verse one. But now 102 00:08:18,759 --> 00:08:22,959 thus set the Lord that created THEE O Jacob, and he that formed THEE. 103 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:26,839 I'm running, oh Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed THEE. 104 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:31,639 I have called THEE by name. Thou art mine. When thou passest 105 00:08:31,639 --> 00:08:33,679 through the waters, I will be with THEE, and through the rivers, 106 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:39,919 they shall not overflow THEE. When thou walkest through the fire, it shall 107 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:45,039 not be kindled upon THEE. I need to fast forward and get to at 108 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,919 the end of it. It says that he is with us verse five. 109 00:08:48,039 --> 00:08:52,720 I will bring the seed from the east and gather them from everywhere around the 110 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:56,840 world. Verse seven, Even everyone that is called by my name. For 111 00:08:58,039 --> 00:09:03,120 I have created him. I have created her for my glory. I have 112 00:09:03,399 --> 00:09:07,639 formed him. I have formed her. Yea, I have made him. 113 00:09:09,279 --> 00:09:13,600 God is so good? How good is he? He's so good that you 114 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:20,000 were once bound in sin. Yes, you were once deceived by Satan. 115 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:24,279 But God, in his great mercy towards you, is calling all of us, 116 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:31,399 calling me, calling you out of darkness into this marvelous light. Yes 117 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,600 there is a great controversy between good and evil, but listen, when you 118 00:09:35,639 --> 00:09:41,879 worship God and he's the captain of your soul, you cannot lose. Have 119 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:46,360 a wonderful day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always 120 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,759 remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from 121 00:09:50,759 --> 00:09:56,320 the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with l David Harris. 122 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,799 Make it a great day.