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 Sabbath, January
thirty one, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle
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 continuing in our
lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians
and Colossians. We are coming in at lesson number six
under the caption confidence only in Christ. I was passionate yesterday.
I hit that point over and over again. But yeah,
I digress. Before we get into this, I'd like to
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
pray and get underway. Father, we thank you, Thank you
for this Sabbath day. Thank you for the privilege of
being called by your name. God. I know you don't
call everybody by your name. It's those who submit to you.
So teach us submission and help us to be self distrustful,
like we said yesterday. Please, in Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Confidence only in Christ. Now, some
of you have no problem with self confidence. And when
I say no problem, I mean you don't sit around
and think how you are incapable of this or unqualified
for that, Like you don't have imposter syndrome. You don't.
You know, you're not wondering if you can or cannot
do a thing. You just run forward. You're driven. You're
powerful people who are driven. And then there are other
people who flip it way on the other side, and
you're always talking about how you can't do something. You
can't do nothing, like because fill in the blank. I'm
not as qualified as this person. I'm not as capable
as that person. I don't have as many talents or
gifts as that other person. I wish I could do
what that one over there is doing. So we have
people on both sides of this continuum. But God is saying,
you know what, right now, I need you to focus
on me. Focus on me, and your confidence must come
from Christ or through Christ. So your confidence in Christ
will be manifesting your lifestyle and your life will be
a testament to that. And so let's read first the
Memory text for today Philippians Chapter three Versus ten and eleven,
and the Bible reads that I may know him and
the power of his resurrection, the fellowship of his sufferings,
being conformed to his death, if by any means I
may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Let me
just say this very simply. Paul was the super He
was the super believer in his own mind. He had
qualifications that were on the extreme end of his particular quote, faith, fellowship,
all of the qualifications if you looked at his resume.
Oh my, Like this dude was super qualified in his
spiritual community, except he wasn't actually connected to God. And
he said, like when he had his first real encounter
with God to where he was being transformed, he realized,
wait a minute, I am done being qualified by what
I'm able to do. I'm done being qualified by my
past experiences, which are enormous in a good way. I
am done being qualified by my skill set. The only
way I can now be of value and of use
in the world is that I am no longer confident
in myself. I couldn't care less about my resume or
my curriculum vita. If you're in education, I understand, Ah,
but what he is saying, is I'm more focused now
on the resurrection of God's the power of God's resurrection,
because in the power of the resurrection, I can overcome pride.
In the power of resurrection, I can overcome the addictions
to illicit drugs and alcohol. In the power of the resurrection,
I can overcome watching stuff on the Internet that I
should never have ever seen, much less continue to watch.
Because of the power of the resurrection, I can remove
myself from relationships that I should never have had. Oh,
I wish I had the time. In this power of
the resurrection, I can actually represent Christ. And yeah, there's
a cost, though it comes with a cost, and it's
okay because Jesus paid it all all to him. I owe,
Sin has left a crimson stain, but he has washed
it white as snow. There comes a cost. What is
the cost suffering? We will suffer. Jesus suffered, and so
we have fellowship with Christ and other believers when we
suffer for Christ's sake. That's the caveat though, that's the
qualifier for Christ's sakes, for Christ's sake, being conformed to
his death, so that means Jesus he died. Actually, it
was an act of humility and love, where he, in
his divinity, allowed his humanity to die. Because he could
have resisted. He is life unborrowed, underrived. He could have said,
I'm not about to die on that cross, his humanity
not going to die on that cross. He could have said, no,
that's not gonna happen. We're gonna keep him, We're gonna
we're gonna stay alive over here. He could have said that,
but for you, he humbled himself and was obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross. We need to die
to self, We need to yield ourselves to God and
die to sin. And in that, the Bible continues, if
by any means I may attain to the resurrection from
the dead, that means that when I die with Christ,
I die in Christ to self. I die. Then that
means I can I can also receive the power of
His resurrection. I can be victorious over any besetting sin.
I'm grateful. And so that is the short version. I
got a bit carried away, but that's good today. So
let's go ahead and read a quote. Now that we
have a baseline from first the General Conference bullet from
eighteen ninety three at Jones. That was a pivotal time
in the church's history, by the way, eighteen eighties, eighteen nineties,
unbelievable time. Righteousness by faith, Oh, that's what the church
argued about. The church even split about like, I can't
believe they were arguing about what is righteousness by faith? Huh?
Righteousness by faith is the life of God in the
soul of humans, he said, Man, in the soul of humans.
It is not what we do, but what God works
in us when self is surrendered. Righteousness by faith is
the life of God in the soul of man. It
is not what we do. It's not Let me put
the emphasis on it. Let me get that statement again.
But I'm going to put the emphasis on the word correctly.
It is not what we do. You get it. It
is not what we do, but what God works in
us when self is surrendered. My God, I'm grateful. I'm grateful.
Let me just give you one quick lesson. Righteousness comes
only through Christ, never through our human effort alone. Philippians,
chapter three and verse three. The Bible reads, for we
are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit and
rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence hah in
the flesh, and so I want you to identify one
place where you subconsciously trust your own works and surrender
it intentionally to Christ. Peace.
Speaker 1: 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,