Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, March seven,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are rounding off Lesson number
ten in our Lesson study series, God's Love and Justice,
and our caption for today is Christ within. I love
it qwicst Christ, not Christ. That's not a word christ within.
Of course, if you remember the scripture, he's the hope
of glory. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first i'd like to say welcome to you and
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for giving
us this new day and for the opportunity to open
up your word, and I'm asking you to please fill
us with your holy spirit. Please give us the hope
of glory Christ within. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Okay. So I'm going to read right
from the Lesson Study because there's so much to say
from that, and then I'm going to give you some tips. Okay.
This is coming from the book Testimonies for the Church,
Volume one, page three hundred and forty one, and I
want you to listen carefully, and it reads fallen man
is Satan's lawful captive. You see, the Bible teaches us
in Romans chapter seven, that there is this guy, and
people are confused about whether it's somebody who is is
already a believer or not. I will tell you straight
away that the person in Romans seven most of the
chapter is not yet a believer, someone who may want
to be one, but is not one because that person
is bound by the law of sin and death. Okay,
cannot please God, the Bible says, okay, And so fallen
man is Satan's lawful captive. This is why at the
end of Romans chapter seven, the Bible writer is crying out,
like on behalf of that mindset? Who shall rescue me
from this body of death? And then Romans eight opens
up with the antidote, which we may get into a
little later. The mission of Christ was to rescue him
from the power of his great adversary. Man is naturally
inclined to follow Satan's suggestions, and he cannot sect successfully
resist so terrible a foe unless Christ, the mighty conqueror,
dwells in him. Remember I said, Christ in you, Christ
within Christ in you, Christ in me, the hope of glory.
Here we go, Here we go, dwells in him, guiding
his desires and giving him strength. God alone can and
limit the power of Satan. He is going to and
fro in the earth. We read about that in Job,
or talked about it when we were talking about Job
and walking up and down in it. He is not
off his watch for a single moment through fear of
losing an opportunity to destroy souls. It is important that
God's people understand this, that they may escape his snares.
Satan is preparing his deceptions that in his last campaign
against the people of God, they may not understand that
it is he and the Bible reads and no marvel,
no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel
of light. And while some deceived souls are advocating that
he does not exist, he is taking them captive in
his working through them. To a great extent, Satan knows
better than God God's people the power that they can
have to overcome him when their strength is in Christ.
Did you get that the enemy knows better than even
God's people that he can be overcome in the strength
of Christ. Now I find it tragic that the Angel
of light, this Angel of light concept that Satan is
transforming himself into the Angel of light you know, he
used to actually be the Angel of light. That's why
his name was Lucifer, Son of the Morning. And so
now he has replaced being the angel of light or
an angel of light, with counterfeiting being an angel of
light because he wanted to be God. He wasn't satisfied
with being an angel of light. And now all he
can do is masquerade as one. All he can do
is masquerade as a false God. He can only masquerade
when before God had already esteemed him him and given
him the blessing of being the Sun of the morning,
the cherub that covered. He was as close to God
as any being could be who was not equal with God.
But he was not satisfied. So now all he can
do is play dress up. He can only play dress up.
Now let me continue. When they humbly meaning God's people
and treat the mighty conqueror for help the weakest believer,
the what kind of believer? The weakest believer, okay, can do?
What the weakest believer in the truth, relying firmly upon
Christ can successfully repulse Satan and all his host Did
you get that? When they humbly entreat So what are
we going to do? We're gonna ask God humbly, Please God, Please, God,
you're the mighty conqueror, Please help me, the weakest believer,
so you don't have to go to that prayer warrior,
as you say, right, and those people that you feel
have stronger faith. The Bible is the inspiration. Part of
me is teaching us here that even the weakest believer
in the truth, if we rely firmly upon Christ, can
successfully repulse Satan in all of his hosts. Let me continue,
He is too cunning to come openly and boldly with
his temptations, where then the drowsy energies of the Christian
would arouse and he would rely on the strong and
mighty deliverer. This is why the devil comes by sleight
of hand. This is why he really isn't that one
in those creepy scary costumes. He's not the one in
those creepy sounding movies. He's there, he's active, but he's
there trying to get you to believe that that's how
he comes, when in fact he comes as an angel
of light. When in fact he comes as a dazzling,
beautiful serpent in a tree where God said, don't eat
of the fruit of that tree in the garden of
Eden like he comes in beautiful Garb, because he knows
that humans naturally do not expect to see him there.
He is the ultimate trojan horse. So as long as humankind,
especially God's people, do not see him for what he
really is, that he is already halfway there. So what
God wants us to do, and he's welcomed us to do,
is to rely on him fully and don't trust anything
that the devil does. So let me give you a
few steps. I want it to be seven, but maybe
you'll have to go into the community at your Daily
Portion dot com and ask me to put it in
there if I forget to put it in there. Okay,
seven steps from Romans seven and eight that will help
us to have Christ within. Number one, Acknowledge the sin struggle.
Acknowledge the sin struggle from verse fifteen and nineteen of
of Romans chapter seven, So don't close your eyes to
it and say it's not a big deal. Number two,
recognize your need for deliverance. Even in the twelve steps program,
we have to realize, like we have to be in
a position that we need a power greater than ourselves.
So we need deliverance number three. Accept Christ as the
one who is the deliverer, like he is the answer,
Verse twenty five. Live by the spirit, Romans Chapter eight
and verse one. Set your mind on spiritual things Verses
five and six of Romans Chapter eight. Trust in the
adoption that you have in Christ, and then rest in
God's love. Please please ask in the community for this
with the scriptures.
Speaker 1: Pease, thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,