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 Wednesday, January
twenty one, 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 Unity Uniting, excuse me, Heaven and Earth
Christ in Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today
is the Mind of Christ. The Mind of Christ. Now,
we studied some of that yesterday. In fact, we studied
the main passage for today yesterday. But now we're going
to undergird it some more and let you go. Okay,
before we get into that, i'd like to say welcome
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we thank you
for this day and the opportunity that we have to
serve you and to do your will. I'm asking you now, Father,
to please open up our understanding. Give us understanding that
is beyond our our natural abilities. Give us supernatural abilities.
Now give us the mind of Christ. Please, in Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and amen again the mind of Christ.
Now let me just say, let me just say, yesterday
we explored the mind of Christ from from Philippians chapter
two Versus five through until I just got tired of reading, right, Yeah,
And so the principle that we underscored was his humility
and the fact that Jesus gave all in order to
save us. And quite frankly, we don't just need a
transplant like we need. We don't just need a renovation,
like we need a do over, like we need to
be reborn. So we underscored that. But today I want
you to focus your mind on the humanity of Christ
a little bit, okay, And so the fact that Jesus
is one hundred percent divine, just like the Father is,
just like the Holy Ghost is. And yet he took
on human flesh. That's the great mystery. That's the great mystery, greatest,
the mystery of God, that God became man. So wow,
that's amazing. But while he lived on planet Earth, Jesus Christ,
his humanity was tempted in all points like as we are,
and yet without sin. Well, what does that mean? I'll
say it very simply. If you read in the Bible
books of Matthew and Luke what we call temptations of Christ.
When Jesus was in the wilderness, he was filled with
the Holy Ghost, led into the wilderness of the Holy Spirit.
He is fasting for forty complete days, right, and then
the Bible says that the devil comes to tempt him.
In the book of Luke, we see the temptations in
a certain sequence, in a certain sequence I'm thinking that
the one in Matthew is the natural sequence, like what happened,
And then in Luke, for some reason, it is reorganized
in a different sequence. Well, in that reorganization it agrees
though with or telling of the story right, it agrees
with what John says that we need to walk away,
like run away and abandon, run away from and abandon
the deeds of the flesh, the deeds of the flesh.
So he talks about the lust of the flesh, the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, and
those things are contrary to being in the family of God,
you see. And so the devil tempted Jesus. And in
just that one instance, I'm saying, I'm not even talking
about the thirty three and one half years that Jesus
lived on planet Earth. But even in the one instance
in the wilderness being tempted of the devil. In the
Luke account, we see it in that very order, lust
of the flesh turn these stones into bread, lust of
the eyes right, and pride of life. We see all
of these kingdoms. I will give unto you if you
will just do this. He's lying, he has no capacity
to do that. And then pride of life job, throw
yourself down from here, and it's like whoa wait a minute. So,
in all points, in all ways, in all categories of temptation,
Jesus experienced that all at the same time, especially especially
throughout his life, in a way that no human has
ever been tempted, because no human has the capacity to
destroy the planet. No human could have destroyed the devil.
And Jesus held the level of submission to God our Father,
and he resisted speeding up the process. He resisted making
himself comfortable while he's on planet Earth. He resisted doing
things in all to keep himself from committing sin that
you can't do. Okay, So we see Jesus doing all
kinds of things while on planet Earth that you don't
have the capacity to do, nor do I. However, nothing
that has to do with overcoming sin, nothing that has
to do with making himself comfortable, was done in his
own strength. He relied on the Father's and the holy
ghosts through the entire process. Even angels had to minister
to Jesus at certain points in his earthly life, okay.
And so the mindset of Christ is complete submission to
God our Father's will and allowing him through our submission,
through our humility, not talking about where the greatest of
all time? Like the lesson writer illustrated one of the
athletes in boxing used to talk about that. We don't
talk about it that way in our lives, right, but
to say, we are submitting ourselves to God and then
we have the capacity to resist the devil and he
will flee from us. That is the mindset of Christ,
humility and submission. So let's see if we can get
some lessons out of this. I said a lot already.
The lesson number one is Christ's humility is the model
for all Christian unity and self denial. So what I
want you to do, because we've already read the passages
I would have read right here, what I want you
to do is just choose one privilege or preference today
and willingly lay it down, lay it aside for someone
else's good. Maybe I shouldn't say privilege. Maybe I should
say right right, choose one right today and then willingly
lay it aside so it can benefit someone else. Maybe
you have the right to comfort because you worked really hard.
You worked really hard, and today was the day that
you were going to rest your weary bones. Well, maybe
today is the day that you reconfigure and you invest
some more time with someone that needs you. Maybe you
have the right to spend or invest the money that
you have earned through your hard work and dedication. But
there's someone who needs you. They need food, they need clothing,
they need shelter, They need a visit from you because
they're incarcerated. They need a kind word from you because
they feel like their month and money don't align and
they just can't take it anymore. So choose one right
or preference today and willingly lay it aside for someone
else's benefit. Let's go to lessen number two. Christ obeyed
fully even through suffering, revealing a path for true discipleship.
And Hebrews chapter five and verse eight, the Bible reads,
though he were a son, yet learned he obedient by
the things he suffered. Let me read it another way,
although he was a son, he learned obedience through the
things he suffered. And so today respond to one difficult situation,
just one today, with obedience to God's word rather than
emotion or pride. Lesson number three. Christ's voluntary death as
our substitute, calls us to humility, gratitude, and worship, not
self reliance. Today I want you to invest a moment
thanking God for Jesus's sacrifice, acknowledging that nothing you do
can add to his complete work of salvation. Make it
a great day, Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: 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.