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 Sunday, February
twenty two, 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 for today is Reconciled from
Wicked Works. Reconciled from Wicked Works. Before we get into that,
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and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day.
Thank you for giving us the privilege of coming together
in this manner so early in the morning every single day. Father,
Please make us holy today in Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. By the way, I forgot to
ask you to be like keenly aware of our our
program at eight am on Sundays. This is for evangelistic purposes.
Please share this with as many people as possible. It
is called the New Sunday School of Thought. There was
good reason based on the book Evangelism, page two hundred
and forty four, So please share that with as many
people as possible. Now, yesterday I was extremely passionate because
I remembered the thought that I had after I got baptized, like,
how could Jesus have been so good to us? Like
to become sin? What does that mean? Become sin? So
we can become holy like Jesus took on everything. And
I'm not going to go into it like I did yesterday,
I promise, but listen for Him to do all of
that for you and for me. Now, let's talk about
it tactically. Siled from wicked works, reconciled from wicked works.
Our lesson number one comes in from the Bible Book
of Colossians, chapter one and verse twenty one Colossians one
and verse twenty one, and the Bible reads and you
that were sometime alienated. So this is our how we
were born, by the way, alienated and enemies in your mind,
by wicked works. I know we didn't have wicked thoughts
as babies, but I'm saying we were born as as
shapen in sin and iniquity, right, and so when we
got old enough to start making our own decisions, then
our decisions often went awry, like we went away from God.
We lived according to our human dna, and they were
wicked works. And the Bible continues yet now and so
there's a transition point like the moment that you become
one of God's children. Yet now hath he reconciled. Let
me read it again, and you were at one time
strangers and enemies in your minds, as expressed through your
evil deeds. And so alienation isn't just a mindset or
a behavioral thing where you do something wrong and then
God goes on his list and says, Okay, well, here
are the one hundred and thirty two thousand, six hundred
and ninety four wrong deeds possible. So I'm going to
put that under this wrong deed, and that is what
determines alienation. No, the alienation is based on our nature.
But we're also talking about our relationship. So the separation
between us and God, based on the decisions that we
have made based on our broken and sinful mindsets, is
a relational thing. So sin distorts how humanity either thinks
about God or how we relate to God or both.
That's a distortion like that is part of the cause
of our separation, and so the initiative to restore the
relationship does not come from us. Jesus went into the
garden of Eden, and he called out to Adam, saying, Adam,
where are you? Not because he didn't know where Adam was.
He went looking for Adam because Adam was lost, not
because God was lost. But because Adam was lost, and
Adam didn't even know he was lost, the dude was
perfect before he jumped into sin. Eve fell into sin.
She was deceived. Adam jumped into sin. He did it
bulface like it was some iniquity stuff. He knew exactly
what was going on, was not deceived, and he jumped
into sin for his reasons. And now God making the
first step, because if God left it up to us,
if he left it up to Adam, we would all
be lost. He goes and he calls out to Adam
and says, where are you? So Adam could see what
the world is going on? And he says, I'm I'm
I'm as naked and ashamed and afraid, so I hid myself.
I'm in the bushes. God who told thee that thou
wast naked? Adam, did you eat from the tree that
I commanded that thou shouldest not eat? And then of
course Adam goes down this goofy trail of blaming it
on Eve. And then Eve does something goofy and blames
it on the devil. Nobody's taking responsibility except God, and
God is taking on the responsibility of finding human beings
who are relationally alienated from Him, and so and so
it comes from God. From Eden forward, God has always
been the one who seeks the loss. Jesus came to
seek and to save that which was lost. And so
the action step is to stop framing salvation as your
pursuit of God. I know, like there's a book I
like titled I think it's a oh Man Pursuing God.
But listen, that's not it. Like, stop framing salvation as
your pursuit of God, except that reconciliation became with God
pursuing you less the number two. That's a good one, y'all.
I'm telling you Colossians, Chapter one and verse twenty two.
It's right out of the Bible. The Bible reads, in
the body of his flesh through death to present you holy.
So Jesus did something as a human to make us holy.
First he became as a human, and also he did
everything he needed while he lived on planet Earth in
order to save us from our sins. So to present
you what holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight.
May I say it just a little bit more simply
than this passage, Because even Peter was like lo this dude.
Paul taught stuff that was hard to understand. Just look
at the time of Jesus in the Garden of the
in the part of me in the wilderness being tempted
of the devil. So hint, Jesus being buffeted by the
devil there and from the point of his birth straight through,
and the devil's trying to kill him through the king,
and the devil's trying to kill him through people who
said that they were God's people before Jesus could die
on the cross to save us from our sins, while
the devil's trying to get him to sell out in
the in the wilderness, and some more stuff like, yeah,
all that Jesus went through while these people were beating
him and ripping his beard out and stabbing him in
the side and calling out to him in a disrespectful way.
I don't even like repeating what they said. Yeah, He's
going through all of that so you can be holy,
so that you can be unblameable, you can be unreprovable
in God's sight. And so the word the word I
mean to present means like so he could present you
means to place before God in this case as acceptable,
so that the one who was born in sin and
shape and iniquity, that's you, that's me, can be presented
or placed before God, our Father as acceptable. We are
accepted in the Beloved. The Bible says that he is
able to keep us from falling and to present us
faultless before the Presence with exceeding joy. And so I'm
grateful that the cross changes our standing with God and
of course our eternal outcome. We are now children of
the most High God. If we submit our will peace.
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.
Speaker 1: Yeah,