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 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:33,079 author speaker Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,759 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, March twelve, 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,719 twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris. 12 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,479 I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion 13 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,399 where we give you God's word every single day and 14 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,439 today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson 15 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:56,119 study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians, 16 00:00:56,439 --> 00:01:00,280 and our caption for today is Living the New Life, 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,120 Living the New Life. Before we get into that, I'd 18 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,560 like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially 19 00:01:07,599 --> 00:01:10,439 those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking 20 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,719 you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. 21 00:01:13,799 --> 00:01:16,879 Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily 22 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,000 Portion Life application guide, and will you please please click 23 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,879 the contribute button. There are so many things that we 24 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:29,159 are seeking to accomplish for others and within the ministry, 25 00:01:29,519 --> 00:01:31,719 so please, without you, we're not able to do that. 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,319 Please please, We are listener and viewer supported. And also 27 00:01:35,519 --> 00:01:38,239 please let us know where you are in the world 28 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:41,840 at your daily portion dot com. This is one of 29 00:01:41,879 --> 00:01:45,599 the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. 30 00:01:46,159 --> 00:01:48,480 Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get 31 00:01:48,519 --> 00:01:51,920 under way. Father, we thank you for this day. Help 32 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,719 us to live like Jesus lived. Please thank you in 33 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:01,000 Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again living the 34 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:04,840 New life. So it's it's a lot. Listen. We can 35 00:02:04,959 --> 00:02:08,000 talk about this thing or we can live it. I 36 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:11,560 know yesterday I gave you two examples in real living color, 37 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:15,319 Like you know, would I divorce or not divorce my 38 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,360 wife if she did the thing that usually just sends 39 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:24,240 marriages in like to a tizzy. And listen, I'm not 40 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,039 projecting that on her. I'm just telling you what happened 41 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,680 in social media. Go back to yesterday for the discussion. 42 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,159 So this is not a real discussion. It's just something 43 00:02:33,199 --> 00:02:36,639 that somebody was talking about theoretically about whether you would 44 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,400 you would divorce your wife if she fill in the 45 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,439 blank this negative thing, And I'm like, absolutely not. You 46 00:02:42,479 --> 00:02:47,000 know why, because for Christ's sake, God has chosen that 47 00:02:47,159 --> 00:02:49,879 he would not put me away. I would have to 48 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,719 take myself away. I wish I had the time, but 49 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,479 I would have to take myself. Everybody who's lost takes 50 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:01,759 themselves away from God. God does not divards us. We 51 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,360 get rid of God. We are the unbelieving spouse that 52 00:03:05,439 --> 00:03:10,280 Paul describes. And then those individuals who choose not to 53 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,319 be with God. Because God is a god of peace, 54 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,159 that's all throughout the scriptures. He's not going to handcuff 55 00:03:16,199 --> 00:03:18,240 you and put you in the basement and put you 56 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,599 and set you up and say, well, you can't leave me. 57 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:27,199 But but God is not putting anybody away. I wish 58 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,680 I had the time. So living the New life is 59 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:34,879 that like a relationship that is unbroken with God that 60 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:39,240 we work through whatever the trial is, whatever the tribulation is, 61 00:03:39,479 --> 00:03:43,360 whatever the skirmish might be, whatever the hostility might be. 62 00:03:43,759 --> 00:03:47,439 God is willing to work it through so that we 63 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:52,879 can have communion with Him, fellowship with God and with people. 64 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:58,039 So and so we are going to begin with our 65 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:04,120 first lesson, which is Christ rules from within through his word. 66 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,520 What does that mean? In the Bible Book of Colossians, 67 00:04:07,599 --> 00:04:11,319 chapter three and verse sixteen, we read, let the Word 68 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:17,399 of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching 69 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:24,800 and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, 70 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,519 singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord. And 71 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,360 so I like this passage because it actually illuminates, it 72 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:35,279 shines a light on what we do on Friday evenings. 73 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,120 On Friday evenings, we have what I call a musical 74 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,240 Bible class, and that is only on YouTube, not on 75 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:44,160 any of the other platforms for your daily portion. And 76 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,240 what we're doing is exactly this. We're teaching and admonishing 77 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,199 one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with 78 00:04:52,319 --> 00:04:55,040 grace in your hearts to the Lord. This is where 79 00:04:55,079 --> 00:04:58,600 we marry the word of God under the Holy Ghost 80 00:04:58,959 --> 00:05:03,560 and the kinds of music that pleases him, like King 81 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:08,199 David played, King David played when King Saul was having 82 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:13,000 all kinds of devilish challenges. And so we do that, 83 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,879 letting the Word of Christ become a part of us, 84 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,920 become a part of us, and so Christ does not 85 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:26,600 govern his people through external force. Yes, there is a 86 00:05:26,639 --> 00:05:31,759 ten Commandments of laws. Yes, God has some requirements. Yes 87 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,920 there is a standard of righteousness. Yes God has expectations 88 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,560 of us. But he doesn't force us to do any 89 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,680 of that. But He has offered us though, that if 90 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,720 we love him, which is a miracle, like if we 91 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:50,279 receive his love, then we can love him. We love 92 00:05:50,439 --> 00:05:53,839 God be cause he first loved us. That means he's 93 00:05:53,879 --> 00:05:57,560 the cause of our ability to love him. And when 94 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,800 we love him, he keeps his that we will now 95 00:06:01,879 --> 00:06:06,920 keep his commandments. He is now positioning our minds and 96 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,600 giving us the power to have no other gods before him. 97 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,519 He now becomes the impetus for us to honor our parents. 98 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,120 Now he becomes the impetus for us to be faithful 99 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,120 to our spouses and not commit adultery. You understand. And 100 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:26,800 so God is doing this. He's doing this internally through 101 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:32,439 his word, dwelling richly in our hearts. So when the Bible, 102 00:06:33,079 --> 00:06:38,079 those sixty six blessed books, huh yeah, when the scripture 103 00:06:38,199 --> 00:06:45,120 is internalized, Christ's peace governs our decisions. I'm gonna slow 104 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:50,839 down now our relationships and our responses. I think this 105 00:06:50,879 --> 00:06:54,759 is a good plug for you actually picking up the 106 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,040 Life Application Guide, because this is our focus with the 107 00:06:58,079 --> 00:07:00,720 Life Application Guide to say, well, how do we make 108 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,360 decisions and how do we have the kinds of relationships 109 00:07:04,399 --> 00:07:06,519 that we need based on the lesson study and with 110 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,839 the Bible's teaching us. And our response is like, what's 111 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:12,959 the next best move? What should we be doing based 112 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,480 on what we are learning? Without the Word of God, 113 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:22,160 dwelling within Christ cannot truly rule in our lives. And 114 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:26,199 so to dwell, to dwell means to settle down, to 115 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:32,720 make a permanent home. Is God settled down in your life? 116 00:07:32,959 --> 00:07:35,439 Has He made a permanent home in your life? You 117 00:07:35,519 --> 00:07:37,240 realize the only way he can do that is if 118 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,959 you welcome him. If I welcome him? Is his word 119 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,079 settled down in your life? Does it have a permanent 120 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,360 space in your life? And so the action step in 121 00:07:49,399 --> 00:07:54,759 this case then is create intentional daily space for the scriptures. 122 00:07:55,279 --> 00:07:59,040 So Christ's word is not a visitor who just wipes 123 00:07:59,079 --> 00:08:02,360 his feet on the welcome matt And then when you're 124 00:08:02,399 --> 00:08:05,759 tired of him, you can say okay, oh, start stretching, 125 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,720 and then say Okay, well, yeah, what you're about to 126 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,079 do now because we're about to go and fill in 127 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:14,279 the blank, meaning we're ushering him out of the door 128 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,360 until the next time. No, we want him not to 129 00:08:17,439 --> 00:08:22,759 be a visitor, but a resident in our lives. Now, 130 00:08:22,839 --> 00:08:25,839 let's use music as a teaching tool. Lesson number two. 131 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,560 Music is a teaching tool and not just something we 132 00:08:29,759 --> 00:08:34,519 use to get ourselves pumped up emotionally. Again in Kalassians three, 133 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,159 verse sixteen, we'll just pick up on a part of 134 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:42,240 it teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns 135 00:08:42,639 --> 00:08:46,039 and spiritual songs. So these songs need to be guiding 136 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:50,200 us to a right connection with God. Not every hymn 137 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,559 is holy? Can I just say that again? Part of 138 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,879 me I should have mute at myself. I apologize. Not 139 00:08:57,159 --> 00:09:04,559 every hymn is holy. Presents music as instruction, not just entertainment. 140 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:10,799 Biblical music teaches truth, reinforces what God has taught us, 141 00:09:11,519 --> 00:09:16,320 and shapes Christian character. Songs or music is not neutral. 142 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:22,039 They either align the heart with Christ or subtly reshape 143 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:25,480 values away from Him. So this is what I need 144 00:09:25,519 --> 00:09:29,120 you to do. Evaluate the music you listen to regularly 145 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,440 ask whether it teaches the truth and strengthens your walk 146 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,919 with Christ, or it leads you away from Christ. If 147 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,679 it's the latter, leave it alone, y'all. You want Christ 148 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,120 to live within you, not the enemy. Make it a 149 00:09:43,159 --> 00:09:46,360 great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. 150 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but 151 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:52,720 by every word that comes from the mouth of God. 152 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,399 This has been your daily portion with el David Harris. 153 00:09:57,039 --> 00:10:00,279 Make it a great day. Yeah.