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 Tuesday, March tenth,
twenty twenty six. 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 continuing in our Lesson
study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption is Renewed in Knowledge, Renewed in Knowledge.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and we will
get underway. Father, We thank you for this day and
for the renewal that comes through Christ. Help us to
cooperate with you. Please, in Jesus name, I pray Amen
and a man again renewed in knowledge. And so I
just need to really start off with the fact that
we are not interested and simply enriching our intellect, which
is good, but it's not great. It's good, it's good
for information, and maybe on a great day it's good
for inspiration. But if we want transformation, the knowledge is
of Christ. It's the intimate kind of knowledge, like when
Adam and Eve came together. The Bible says that Adam
he knew his wife Eve, and they bear a son.
And so when we talk about it, that is what
we're talking about. This is holy knowledge that is fruitful.
It bears fruit unto salvation. And so in the Bible
Book of Colossians, chapter three, verses six through eleven, we
read for which things sake the wrath of God cometh
on the children of disobedience, So of course we're not
interested in being children of disobedience. All we're interested in
is accepting the the blessing of relationship with God. And
then this doesn't apply. Can I could? Can I continue
verse seven in the Witch, ye also walked sometime. That's
past tense. Uh huh type of one in the chat.
If you used to walk in disobedience past tense, I
would be typing one one one one one one one
one like I used to be. Unfortunately unsaved. Even though
I grew up in a pastor's home, well that was
a weird situation because it wasn't the kind of home
you would expect. Of course I may have shared with
you before that. My grandfather on my mother's side was
also a pastor. One of my uncles was a pastor
who taught a colleague and friend of mine who could
be my mother, Like I come from this, except it
wasn't unto transformation. I'm not trying to be disrespectful. I'm
just saying the titles did not mean transformation in the
case of my family. And so, uh yeah, I once
in the past was one who walked away from God.
I walked on the opposite side of the street as
God when ye lived in them Verse eight. But now
I thank God for the now. But now ye also
put off these things like what anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy,
filthy communication out your mouth. Okay, I didn't say like that,
but out of your mouth lie not to one another,
seeing that ye have put off the old man with
his deeds. So I want you to get alone with
God and be honest with Him and honest with yourself.
Are you really putting off the old person and the
old person's deeds or do you just kind of bathe
it off a little bit once in a while, and
that's between you and God? Like, be honest. Is it
that you really are taking off the old man? Are
you really truly covered in the righteousness of Christ? Have
you disavowed that time of your life when you were
on the other side of the road away from Christ
Verse ten, and have put on the new Man, which
is renewed in knowledge. Thank God, after the image of
Him that created him. One of the things I love
about Jesus is that he created us, but he also
seeing what went wrong when Adam chose to sin, it
was Adam's fault that we are in this mess. He
also recreated us. He took responsibility. That's one of the
things I teach Josiah about our son. I teach him
to take responsibility, not just to find a way to
wiggle out of like what went wrong, or say just
the right thing to make Daddy stop talking to him
when God forbid something goes wrong, but to take responsibility,
to take ownership, to say, yes, this is the way
that I should have gone, but I didn't, And this
is the way we're going to make the adjustment. You see,
and so and so put on the new Man, which
is renewed to knowledge after the image of Him that
created him. Where there is neither Jew nor Greek circumcision,
nor uncircumcision, Barbarian or Scythian bond or free but Christ
is all and in all. Okay. So what God is
saying is that this is a level playing field. Every
single person can make a decision, beginning right now, if
you've not already done so, make a decision almost seven
minutes into our broadcast, to say yes to God. Say
yes to God and live not according to the way
you live on the opposite side of the street from God.
But in a right relationship with God, whatever God says
that we will do by his grace, and so lesson
number one is new life requires a clear break with
the old life. That's very clear. A clear break, not
a weaning off of right, not a permissive sort of well,
let me just okay, so once in a while we
can do this sin, and God's working with me. So
he knows that, you know, in you know, six weeks time,
or in a year's time, or you know, well, he
knows I don't always do no, no, no clean break, brothers
and sisters. Bible says to put ye on the Lord
Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to
fulfill the lusts thereof. So if it happens to be
that you're you're going to turn away from smoking cigarettes
with the right help, you throw away all of your cigarettes,
you don't. You don't keep the pack around and say, well,
instead of smoking six cigarettes today, I'm gonna smoke. That's
not how this thing works Paul's words. But now I
told you I like the contrast signal. A decisive break.
Life in Christ is not a revised version of the
old life. So if I was religiously proud, thinking that
I am doing something because maybe I perform certain practices,
and then God owes me something. Well, it's a clean
break from that. Life in Christ is not a revised
version of the old life. It is a different life altogether.
The quote old man refers to the former identity shaped
by sin and self rule. Renewal begins when the identity
is consciously laid aside. I don't want it no more.
I don't want to be about that life anymore. And
so the action step is to identify one habit or
an attitude or a speech pattern that belongs to your
our former life, and intentionally put it away today through
prayer and accountability. Lesson number two is Renewal happens through truth.
Through truth, not just what we feel about the truth,
what we hope about the truth, but truth in reality.
The new life is renewed through knowledge. Growth is not
driven by emotional highs, but by the Holy Ghost giving
us understanding of his truth. Renewal is ongoing, It is deliberate.
The mind is reshaped as truth replaces deception. I am
so glad that God renews people in the knowledge.
Speaker 1: They are 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,