1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:03,839 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too 2 00:00:03,919 --> 00:00:07,759 much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy 3 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:11,560 for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,080 yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to 5 00:00:15,199 --> 00:00:19,000 keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,879 going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,920 today and receive the power we need to live healthy, 8 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,839 vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,079 author speaker, Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, March thirteen, 11 00:00:36,399 --> 00:00:40,600 twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris. 12 00:00:40,799 --> 00:00:43,399 I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion 13 00:00:43,719 --> 00:00:46,520 where we give you God's Word every single day and 14 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,439 today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson 15 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:55,359 study series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians and Colossians, 16 00:00:55,479 --> 00:00:59,679 and our caption for today is the Mind of Christ. 17 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:04,319 The Mind of Christ. I can't believe it, like I can't. 18 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:10,400 I can't believe what I discovered that today's lesson is 19 00:01:10,599 --> 00:01:14,040 not in the Life Application Guide. I'm like, how did 20 00:01:14,079 --> 00:01:18,079 that happen? And so please somebody type in the community. 21 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,480 In the community for me to post what today's Life 22 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:26,120 Application notes would have been if it got into the book. 23 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,359 I apologize for that. Somehow it didn't get in there. 24 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,239 But anyway, I'd like to welcome everyone joining us, especially 25 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,879 those joining us for the very first time. Please go 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,920 over to your Daily Portion dot com please pick up 27 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,560 the Life Application Guide that's missing just today's post. I 28 00:01:42,599 --> 00:01:46,239 apologize again. Also, please let us know where you are 29 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:50,560 in the world and click the contribute button because we 30 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,719 are listener and viewer supported. This is one of the 31 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,159 ways we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let me 32 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:01,439 welcome everybody out to our music Bible class that happens 33 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:06,280 exclusively on the YouTube channel this evening at seven pm. 34 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,319 We try to get started just a couple of minutes early, 35 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:14,680 so seven pm and yeah, please please share, share, share, share, 36 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,360 and we will have an experience tonight like none other. 37 00:02:18,719 --> 00:02:21,879 Let's pray, Father, we thank you for this day of preparation. 38 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,919 Will you give us the mind of Christ. Thank you 39 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:30,400 in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Well, 40 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:34,479 the lesson writer gave us an incredible quote coming in 41 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:36,919 from the book The Acts of the Apostles, page four 42 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,280 hundred and seventy six. I'll read just a little bit 43 00:02:40,319 --> 00:02:43,319 of it and we'll get started here. When the spirit 44 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:48,599 of God controls the mind and heart, the converted soul 45 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:56,280 breaks forth into a new song, for he realizes that 46 00:02:56,479 --> 00:03:01,360 in his experience, the promise of God has been fulfilled, 47 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:09,280 that his transgression has been forgiven, his sin has been covered. Now, listen, 48 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:14,439 I don't know if you have ever sensed the freedom 49 00:03:15,159 --> 00:03:19,479 of being forgiven before. I hope you have, Like I'm 50 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,759 hoping that. I'm hoping that everybody has had that experience 51 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:25,719 who's on this program. But let's just say you're a seeker. 52 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,319 You are a newcomer. You're someone who hasn't really had 53 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,960 a full experience or relationship with God as yet, and 54 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 you don't know what this feels like. Listen, I don't 55 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,120 even know how to describe it. People, I want you 56 00:03:39,199 --> 00:03:41,719 to type in the chat, what does it feel like 57 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,360 when God has kept his promise and that He has 58 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,759 forgiven all of the kind of stuff that you do 59 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,400 that you have done, I mean all of the sins 60 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,800 that you have committed. There are some stuff that I've 61 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,759 done in the past, Brothers and sisters, I promise you, 62 00:03:57,039 --> 00:03:59,800 when I first got saved, it was tough. It was 63 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,680 a burden. I had to go to confess stuff to 64 00:04:02,759 --> 00:04:05,960 humans that could really hurt me. I'm talking. I'm not joking, like, 65 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,400 I'm not saying this. Theoretically, I had to confess to 66 00:04:09,479 --> 00:04:12,560 some folks that could have done me bodily harm. I 67 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:14,840 don't fear death and all that kind of stuff, but 68 00:04:14,879 --> 00:04:17,399 I'm just letting you know what the reality is. I 69 00:04:17,439 --> 00:04:20,040 was just like, man, if I tell this dude this, 70 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:23,680 then that outcome could be the outcome. But I'm a 71 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:26,279 new creature, so there's some stuff that he needs to 72 00:04:26,319 --> 00:04:29,160 know about how I was doing him when I was 73 00:04:29,319 --> 00:04:32,560 not a believer. I need to confess this stuff and 74 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,040 make amends if possible. And well, as you can see 75 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,600 all these years later, I'm still alive, right but regardless 76 00:04:39,639 --> 00:04:45,480 like the freedom that that brought, that God eliminated the transgression, 77 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,360 the iniquity, the sin and the guilt that's attached to it, 78 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,040 and I'm a new creature. Listen, talk about a new song. 79 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,600 I'm grateful and this does not happen by happenstance. When 80 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,480 we say yes to God and we accept the mind 81 00:05:04,639 --> 00:05:07,759 of Christ, the covering of Christ, that says, you know what, 82 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,399 the way that I have been living. That's not godly. 83 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,480 I don't want to live that way anymore. I need 84 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,079 to do only what God wants me to do. I 85 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,360 need a new mindset. I need to shift from the 86 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,800 dark mindset that I inherited and then cultivated as a 87 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,000 person disconnected from God. And I need the mind of Christ, 88 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,240 which is to be humble, which is to think of 89 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,839 others before I think of myself, which is to rather 90 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:45,360 die than to sin in the least particular. That brings 91 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,240 a new song out of us like none other, because 92 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:54,439 we are so free. We're so free, and so the 93 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,240 mind of Christ. Let's look at a few lessons from 94 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:02,639 the Bible. The first one is Justifyation brings peace, not 95 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:08,240 passivity or passiveness. Justification, that's a great, big theological word 96 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:13,199 that means to be seen by God, just as if 97 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:16,560 we had not sinned. That happens when we yield our 98 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,519 will to God. We surrender. And so the Bible reads 99 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:23,439 here in Romans chapter five, verse one. Therefore, since we 100 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:30,879 have been declared righteous by faith, not by we doing 101 00:06:30,959 --> 00:06:34,959 the right things perfectly, and then God says, so he 102 00:06:35,079 --> 00:06:38,000 gives us the into our account like he writes a 103 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:42,399 spiritual check and puts all of those millions of dollars 104 00:06:42,399 --> 00:06:46,399 of spiritual capital into our bank account. That is the 105 00:06:46,519 --> 00:06:50,240 covering and righteousness of Christ. He's putting that into our 106 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,319 bank account and saying, this is how I see you 107 00:06:54,079 --> 00:06:58,879 as fully funded. I see you as fully righteous immediately, 108 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:03,199 because Jesus gave you that gift. He gave you his character, 109 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,800 and put that into your bank account spiritually speaking. And 110 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:08,839 then I'm going to teach you how to actually live 111 00:07:08,959 --> 00:07:12,360 up to that. But immediately I see you, I declare 112 00:07:12,399 --> 00:07:15,680 you as righteous by faith. The Bible continues, we have 113 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:20,480 peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, and so 114 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:25,600 justification by faith brings real peace with God. But it 115 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:31,959 does not end spiritual engagement with God. It doesn't give 116 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:34,399 us license to sin. I've said this so many times 117 00:07:34,399 --> 00:07:36,879 in the last few days. I'm tired of saying it. 118 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:41,839 But listen, listen. Becoming a believer does not give us 119 00:07:41,959 --> 00:07:45,759 license to sin. It doesn't open up the floodgates and say, well, 120 00:07:45,759 --> 00:07:48,680 since I'm a believer, I can now have other gods 121 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:53,680 before God's. Because I'm a believer, I can now be 122 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,839 an adulteress or an adulterer. Because you know it frees 123 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,480 me from sin, I mean frees me from from the law. 124 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,920 It's like, no, that doesn't even make sense. No. Justification 125 00:08:05,079 --> 00:08:09,240 by faith brings peace with God, but does not clear 126 00:08:09,279 --> 00:08:13,879 the guilty, like it doesn't absolve us our responsibility. Peace 127 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:16,879 with God is the foundation for our growth. It's not 128 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:21,800 an excuse for spiritual inactivity. It's not an excuse to 129 00:08:21,959 --> 00:08:29,519 just disregard God's holy tank commandments law. Conversion begins the 130 00:08:29,639 --> 00:08:35,879 Christian life. It does not complete it. Oh, it's just 131 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:40,840 the beginning of our experience. And so we want to 132 00:08:40,879 --> 00:08:47,320 thank God today for justification by faith, then intentionally step 133 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,440 into obedience. God gives us the power to be obedient 134 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,879 when we submit to Him, and to grow rather than 135 00:08:55,480 --> 00:09:01,720 become spiritually complacent. Our second lesson is daily consecration is 136 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:07,200 the Christian's battle plan. So I die daily consecration is 137 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,559 consecration is to be set aside for a holy use, 138 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:15,440 to die to sin and self and become alive unto holiness. 139 00:09:15,879 --> 00:09:21,000 And so Paul's counsel aligns with the other teachings of 140 00:09:21,039 --> 00:09:26,360 the scriptures, where conversion does not erase inherited tendencies or 141 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:32,200 learned habits toward evil, but it does require daily surrender 142 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:36,240 to God, and thereby we have the mind of Christ, 143 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,559 which is not my will, but thine be done, Father, 144 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,000 and that way we are holy. Make it a great day. 145 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:45,120 See you tonight, peace. 146 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,519 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot 147 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,600 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes 148 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:54,720 from the mouth of God. This has been your daily 149 00:09:54,759 --> 00:10:00,279 portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.