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 Thursday, March twelve,
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 Living the New Life,
Living the New Life. Before we get into that, I'd
like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get
under way. Father, we thank you for this day. Help
us to live like Jesus lived. Please thank you in
Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again living the
New life. So it's it's a lot. Listen. We can
talk about this thing or we can live it. I
know yesterday I gave you two examples in real living color,
Like you know, would I divorce or not divorce my
wife if she did the thing that usually just sends
marriages in like to a tizzy. And listen, I'm not
projecting that on her. I'm just telling you what happened
in social media. Go back to yesterday for the discussion.
So this is not a real discussion. It's just something
that somebody was talking about theoretically about whether you would
you would divorce your wife if she fill in the
blank this negative thing, And I'm like, absolutely not. You
know why, because for Christ's sake, God has chosen that
he would not put me away. I would have to
take myself away. I wish I had the time, but
I would have to take myself. Everybody who's lost takes
themselves away from God. God does not divards us. We
get rid of God. We are the unbelieving spouse that
Paul describes. And then those individuals who choose not to
be with God. Because God is a god of peace,
that's all throughout the scriptures. He's not going to handcuff
you and put you in the basement and put you
and set you up and say, well, you can't leave me.
But but God is not putting anybody away. I wish
I had the time. So living the New life is
that like a relationship that is unbroken with God that
we work through whatever the trial is, whatever the tribulation is,
whatever the skirmish might be, whatever the hostility might be.
God is willing to work it through so that we
can have communion with Him, fellowship with God and with people.
So and so we are going to begin with our
first lesson, which is Christ rules from within through his word.
What does that mean? In the Bible Book of Colossians,
chapter three and verse sixteen, we read, let the Word
of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching
and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord. And
so I like this passage because it actually illuminates, it
shines a light on what we do on Friday evenings.
On Friday evenings, we have what I call a musical
Bible class, and that is only on YouTube, not on
any of the other platforms for your daily portion. And
what we're doing is exactly this. We're teaching and admonishing
one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with
grace in your hearts to the Lord. This is where
we marry the word of God under the Holy Ghost
and the kinds of music that pleases him, like King
David played, King David played when King Saul was having
all kinds of devilish challenges. And so we do that,
letting the Word of Christ become a part of us,
become a part of us, and so Christ does not
govern his people through external force. Yes, there is a
ten Commandments of laws. Yes, God has some requirements. Yes
there is a standard of righteousness. Yes God has expectations
of us. But he doesn't force us to do any
of that. But He has offered us though, that if
we love him, which is a miracle, like if we
receive his love, then we can love him. We love
God be cause he first loved us. That means he's
the cause of our ability to love him. And when
we love him, he keeps his that we will now
keep his commandments. He is now positioning our minds and
giving us the power to have no other gods before him.
He now becomes the impetus for us to honor our parents.
Now he becomes the impetus for us to be faithful
to our spouses and not commit adultery. You understand. And
so God is doing this. He's doing this internally through
his word, dwelling richly in our hearts. So when the Bible,
those sixty six blessed books, huh yeah, when the scripture
is internalized, Christ's peace governs our decisions. I'm gonna slow
down now our relationships and our responses. I think this
is a good plug for you actually picking up the
Life Application Guide, because this is our focus with the
Life Application Guide to say, well, how do we make
decisions and how do we have the kinds of relationships
that we need based on the lesson study and with
the Bible's teaching us. And our response is like, what's
the next best move? What should we be doing based
on what we are learning? Without the Word of God,
dwelling within Christ cannot truly rule in our lives. And
so to dwell, to dwell means to settle down, to
make a permanent home. Is God settled down in your life?
Has He made a permanent home in your life? You
realize the only way he can do that is if
you welcome him. If I welcome him? Is his word
settled down in your life? Does it have a permanent
space in your life? And so the action step in
this case then is create intentional daily space for the scriptures.
So Christ's word is not a visitor who just wipes
his feet on the welcome matt And then when you're
tired of him, you can say okay, oh, start stretching,
and then say Okay, well, yeah, what you're about to
do now because we're about to go and fill in
the blank, meaning we're ushering him out of the door
until the next time. No, we want him not to
be a visitor, but a resident in our lives. Now,
let's use music as a teaching tool. Lesson number two.
Music is a teaching tool and not just something we
use to get ourselves pumped up emotionally. Again in Kalassians three,
verse sixteen, we'll just pick up on a part of
it teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs. So these songs need to be guiding
us to a right connection with God. Not every hymn
is holy? Can I just say that again? Part of
me I should have mute at myself. I apologize. Not
every hymn is holy. Presents music as instruction, not just entertainment.
Biblical music teaches truth, reinforces what God has taught us,
and shapes Christian character. Songs or music is not neutral.
They either align the heart with Christ or subtly reshape
values away from Him. So this is what I need
you to do. Evaluate the music you listen to regularly
ask whether it teaches the truth and strengthens your walk
with Christ, or it leads you away from Christ. If
it's the latter, leave it alone, y'all. You want Christ
to live within you, not the enemy. Make it a
great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 1: 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.