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 Friday, March thirteen,
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,
and our caption for today is the Mind of Christ.
The Mind of Christ. I can't believe it, like I can't.
I can't believe what I discovered that today's lesson is
not in the Life Application Guide. I'm like, how did
that happen? And so please somebody type in the community.
In the community for me to post what today's Life
Application notes would have been if it got into the book.
I apologize for that. Somehow it didn't get in there.
But anyway, I'd like to welcome everyone joining us, especially
those joining us for the very first time. Please go
over to your Daily Portion dot com please pick up
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apologize again. Also, please let us know where you are
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ways we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let me
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and we will have an experience tonight like none other.
Let's pray, Father, we thank you for this day of preparation.
Will you give us the mind of Christ. Thank you
in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Well,
the lesson writer gave us an incredible quote coming in
from the book The Acts of the Apostles, page four
hundred and seventy six. I'll read just a little bit
of it and we'll get started here. When the spirit
of God controls the mind and heart, the converted soul
breaks forth into a new song, for he realizes that
in his experience, the promise of God has been fulfilled,
that his transgression has been forgiven, his sin has been covered. Now, listen,
I don't know if you have ever sensed the freedom
of being forgiven before. I hope you have, Like I'm
hoping that. I'm hoping that everybody has had that experience
who's on this program. But let's just say you're a seeker.
You are a newcomer. You're someone who hasn't really had
a full experience or relationship with God as yet, and
you don't know what this feels like. Listen, I don't
even know how to describe it. People, I want you
to type in the chat, what does it feel like
when God has kept his promise and that He has
forgiven all of the kind of stuff that you do
that you have done, I mean all of the sins
that you have committed. There are some stuff that I've
done in the past, Brothers and sisters, I promise you,
when I first got saved, it was tough. It was
a burden. I had to go to confess stuff to
humans that could really hurt me. I'm talking. I'm not joking, like,
I'm not saying this. Theoretically, I had to confess to
some folks that could have done me bodily harm. I
don't fear death and all that kind of stuff, but
I'm just letting you know what the reality is. I
was just like, man, if I tell this dude this,
then that outcome could be the outcome. But I'm a
new creature, so there's some stuff that he needs to
know about how I was doing him when I was
not a believer. I need to confess this stuff and
make amends if possible. And well, as you can see
all these years later, I'm still alive, right but regardless
like the freedom that that brought, that God eliminated the transgression,
the iniquity, the sin and the guilt that's attached to it,
and I'm a new creature. Listen, talk about a new song.
I'm grateful and this does not happen by happenstance. When
we say yes to God and we accept the mind
of Christ, the covering of Christ, that says, you know what,
the way that I have been living. That's not godly.
I don't want to live that way anymore. I need
to do only what God wants me to do. I
need a new mindset. I need to shift from the
dark mindset that I inherited and then cultivated as a
person disconnected from God. And I need the mind of Christ,
which is to be humble, which is to think of
others before I think of myself, which is to rather
die than to sin in the least particular. That brings
a new song out of us like none other, because
we are so free. We're so free, and so the
mind of Christ. Let's look at a few lessons from
the Bible. The first one is Justifyation brings peace, not
passivity or passiveness. Justification, that's a great, big theological word
that means to be seen by God, just as if
we had not sinned. That happens when we yield our
will to God. We surrender. And so the Bible reads
here in Romans chapter five, verse one. Therefore, since we
have been declared righteous by faith, not by we doing
the right things perfectly, and then God says, so he
gives us the into our account like he writes a
spiritual check and puts all of those millions of dollars
of spiritual capital into our bank account. That is the
covering and righteousness of Christ. He's putting that into our
bank account and saying, this is how I see you
as fully funded. I see you as fully righteous immediately,
because Jesus gave you that gift. He gave you his character,
and put that into your bank account spiritually speaking. And
then I'm going to teach you how to actually live
up to that. But immediately I see you, I declare
you as righteous by faith. The Bible continues, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, and so
justification by faith brings real peace with God. But it
does not end spiritual engagement with God. It doesn't give
us license to sin. I've said this so many times
in the last few days. I'm tired of saying it.
But listen, listen. Becoming a believer does not give us
license to sin. It doesn't open up the floodgates and say, well,
since I'm a believer, I can now have other gods
before God's. Because I'm a believer, I can now be
an adulteress or an adulterer. Because you know it frees
me from sin, I mean frees me from from the law.
It's like, no, that doesn't even make sense. No. Justification
by faith brings peace with God, but does not clear
the guilty, like it doesn't absolve us our responsibility. Peace
with God is the foundation for our growth. It's not
an excuse for spiritual inactivity. It's not an excuse to
just disregard God's holy tank commandments law. Conversion begins the
Christian life. It does not complete it. Oh, it's just
the beginning of our experience. And so we want to
thank God today for justification by faith, then intentionally step
into obedience. God gives us the power to be obedient
when we submit to Him, and to grow rather than
become spiritually complacent. Our second lesson is daily consecration is
the Christian's battle plan. So I die daily consecration is
consecration is to be set aside for a holy use,
to die to sin and self and become alive unto holiness.
And so Paul's counsel aligns with the other teachings of
the scriptures, where conversion does not erase inherited tendencies or
learned habits toward evil, but it does require daily surrender
to God, and thereby we have the mind of Christ,
which is not my will, but thine be done, Father,
and that way we are holy. Make it a great day.
See you tonight, 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.