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 Monday, February nine,
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 is stand Fast in the Lord, Stand
Fast in the Lord. Before we get into that, I'd
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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
we thank you for this day. Teach us to stand
fast in You, not waiver, not shake, not backslide, but
stand fast in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen
again we're standing fast in the Lord. Now let's go
into the Bible Book of Philippians Philippians chapter three, and
I will read Versus twenty and twenty one. Philippians, Chapter three,
Versus twenty and twenty one. And I think I said
to you the other day when we talk about citizenship
in heaven, what it is is that we are contrasting.
We're contrasting the current earth that is full of sin
and heavenly places, meaning wherever the presence of God is,
wherever God is. It doesn't mean a geographical location where
we are in heaven, where the throne of God is
currently because again, let me just say for a refresher
that when Jesus does come, he's coming soon. We don't
know when he's coming. But when Jesus does come soon,
he's going to take all of his people to stay
in heaven for one thousand years. And according to Revelation
chapter twenty and twenty one and Matthew chapter five, after
the thousand years are finished and then God cleanses the earth, yes,
we will receive as a gift, like Jesus said, a
fulfillment of the promise. The meek will inherit the new earth. Okay.
And so we're talking about heavenly places in the sense
of being in the presence of God. And so we're
citizens of the presence of God, and so the Bible
reads in verse twenty of Philippians chapter three. But our
citizenship is in heaven, and we also eagerly await a
savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. Are you looking
forward to the day? Are you eagerly? What did he say?
Eagerly awaiting him? He said in another place that to
those who look for him, he will appear a second
time without sin unto salvation. We're going to the place
wherein dwelleth righteousness. I'm looking forward to that day Verse
twenty one. Who will transform these humble bodies. In the
King James version, it says vile bodies. What does vile mean?
Vile means humiliation, made of a low estate, spiritually abased.
So these bodies that degrade and break down, these bodies
like me, even though I am strong, I'm in my fifties,
and when I get up, I have to determine if
I really meet it, because sometimes little aches and pains
from my exercise regimen do tell me. Like brother, you
are not in your twenties anymore. These vile bodies, these
humble bodies of ours, into the likeness of His glorious
body by means of that power which He is able
to subject all things to himself. And so we are
looking forward to the day when we will be transformed fully,
not just by the renewing of our minds. This is
to be happening right now, brothers and sisters, while we
are on this broadcast. God is renewing your mind if
you are submitting to him mind too, right. But what
we're talking about is one day being able to see
him face to face. And the only way that will
happen is if, as we are being renewed by God,
that when Jesus comes back in a moment, in a
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump of God,
he will give us new bodies. This mortal will put
on immortality, not before this broken down body will put
on the glorious body that Jesus now possesses. Okay, and
so I'm looking forward to that day. In the meantime,
stand fast lesson Number one is Heaven is the believer's
true homeland. And of course I'm still speaking of heavenly places.
The presence of God and our identity is anchored in
Christ and not in earthly systems or desires. Those things
that people are fighting for on social media, the attention
that people want to garner in order to get their
come up in air quotes. Look that up. It's a colloquialism.
Look it up in an urban dictionary to try to
get their come up. Yeah, all of that stuff is
going to burn up. I'm just saying everything that we
aspire to on planet Earth is going to be destroyed.
It is going to stop, it will end, it will
burn up. But we're looking forward to the day that
we are in God's presence, and therefore therefore we need
to list three areas of our lives where earthly priorities compete.
Talking about teach art style, earthly heavenly right, these three
areas where potentially earthly priorities compete with heavenly identity, and
then intentionally realign one of them today. If you can
get to all three, do it today, yep. Is that
there is time. Your time. You're not if you have
a family, you're not having worship with your family morning
and evening, you're not going to God in prayer and
whatever else you would do in a worshipful experience. Well
align that. Now make it today, like today is the
day that you go with your family to God in prayer,
et cetera. And then move into the things that the
world would say, like you got to work, you have
to go to school, you have to do whatever it
is that you do in order to make it a
decent life on planet Earth. Lesson number two, the glorified
state is literal. It's it is not symbolic. God will
transform our decaying bodies to match Christ's glorious resurrected body.
In the Bible Book of Job, chapter nineteen, verses twenty
five through twenty seven, the Bible reads, for I know
that my Redeemer liveth This is Job speaking. And though
after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my
flesh I shall see God. I shall see God. So
much to say, no time I wanted to go down
through one, two, three, four, five, these passages, these passages
that the lesson writer identified. Uh, and let me see
what I can do with those in the middle of
the lesson where it says, how do the following passages
describe the glorified state? Let me just be very quick.
The one in Job that we just read, we see
that that resurrection is bodily identity is preserved because in
my flesh and with my eyes I'll experience God, of course, glorified.
The believer will see God physically, per personally and consciously. Yes.
And the one in Luke we experience God. We see
that Jesus's glorified body was real, physical, touchable, recognizable, and
yet transformed. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll have to come
back to this, but I'm looking forward to the day
that we see him. And until then we need to
stand fast in the Lord Gays 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,