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 Tuesday, February three,
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 the Things that Matter,
The Things that Matter. Before we get into that, I'd
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go ahead and pray and get under way. Father, We
thank you for this day. Thank you for loving us
beyond our capacity to listen and understand that you love us. Father,
Please help us to love you in return, and to
make the right thing the right thing, Make the most
important thing, the most important thing in Jesus' name. I pray,
amen and amen again, the things that matter. I want
you to just do an exercise with me very quickly
and type in the chat. You're on YouTube, you're on Facebook,
Type in the chat what matters most to you? What
matters most to you? Is it your family? Is it
somebody in particular? Is it something and no shade like?
Is it peace of mind? Is it faith in God?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: What matters most to you? The lesson writer says, as
yesterday's study pointed out, the things that previously made Paul
proud are actually hinderances to faith because they blinded him
as to his need for Christ. Paul uses the language
of commerce, gain and loss to describe his spiritual ledger
prior to faith. I see what they did there. Although
we don't like to think about it much, every human
being has a spiritual ledger in air quotes for those
who can't see me. Previously, Paul's ledger was measured by
the values that he learned in his faith community of
the time, rather than by biblical values as taught by Jesus.
So again, I'm not asking you to type in the
chat again, but I'm just saying, like, how are you
even measuring? How are you measuring the value? Is it
core values? Is it something that God gave you in
a vision or a dream. Is it something that God
just brought to your mind as you were interacting with someone,
or you were in a worship experience, and then God
just started to shine the light of understanding into your consciousness.
I don't know what it is. Were you studying the
Bible and then it seemed that WHOA, I'm experiencing this
passage in a way that I had never done before,
and now I have clarity. Whatever your experience are. Prayer
is that God will help us make the most important
thing the most important thing, And so we begin our
study with lesson number one. Spiritual sight begins when we
see our past quote gains and losses compared to knowing Christ.
Let me say another way I need to say. I
to just it, I have to adjust it. Spiritual sight
begins when we see our past gains as loss. That's
it compared to knowing Christ. And so in Philippians chapter three,
verses seven and eight, the Bible reads, but what things
were past tense gained to me? Those I counted loss
for Christ? Yay, doubtless, I count all things but loss
for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, Jesus, my Lord.
Let me just say right here, excellency of the knowledge.
It's not an intellectual thing to know, in Biblical speak,
is to have an intimate experience, a fruitful and intimate
Adam knew his wife Eve, and they and she bear
a son, and so this kind of knowing, this kind
of intimacy brings forth fruit. It's not just an intellectual situation.
Let me read it from the New English translation. These
assets you see that, But these assets, though the lesson
writer was telling the truth, these assets I have come
to regard now as liabilities because of Christ. More than
that I now regard all things as liabilities compared to
the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,
and so loss in that text actually means disadvantage or detriment.
So all of the good things about his past, his
perfect resume, all that in his faith community gave him accolades,
he said that it's a disadvantage. So it had been
better if he hadn't had all of those accolades. It
would have been better if he didn't have the plaques.
I have plaques under my desk. No disrespect to those
who gave them to me. I'm just saying I have
plaques and awards and all kinds of things. And what
he's saying is that those things were a detriment to him.
What once seemed profitable is revealed as spiritual debt. I'm
talking about the Greek word. I'm talking about the actual
word he used for lost. Huh zamia. That's what it means,
a detriment. All the good stuff they say about you,
all of the awards ceremonies that they have even inside church.
What Paul is saying is, oh wait a minute, that
became spiritual debt. I think I'll stop before I get
on a soapbox. So the action step is to identify
just one gain you've mistake we can ly valued, and
surrender it, asking Christ to reshape your ledger with Heaven's values.
Shout to the accountants in the room. Shout to the
bookkeepers in the room. Okay, Lessen number two, Lessen number two.
True spiritual sight comes only when Christ removes blindness, when
Christ removes blindness and reveals our real condition. Here is
an example here in John chapter nine and verse thirty nine.
The Bible reads, for judgment, I have come into this
world so that those who do not see may gain
their sight. So if in your own mind you are
not able to see, you recognize that you are not
able to see, you'll gain your sight, and those who
see might become blind. So the proud people, the people
who have all of the accolades, the people who think
that they got it all figured out, the ones who
have studied and know in air quotes, and they are
resting on their laurels of knowledge and understanding and wisdom
and thought and persuasion and philosophical prowess. Yeah, those people,
it says, well, those will become blind. And so to
be blind in this text is tough loss. Tough loss.
Oh well, it's actually too floss. It's hard to pronounce.
In English. Two floss, it means literal or spiritual inability
to perceive divine truth. Oh wait, literal or spiritual inability
to perceive divine truth. So God is saying, I want
to remedy this too, floss. I don't want you to
have an inability to see or perceive divine truth. I'm
going to give you the principle of spiritual things are
spiritually discerned. I'm going to ignite your mind with my
vision so you can see as I see, as I
reveal it to you through the Holy Ghost. And so
the action step is to pray, Lord, reveal where I
think I see, but I'm actually blind. And then what
I want you to do is actually write it down.
Write down one area where pride or habit may be
blocking your site. It's not for somebody else to read,
it's for you. And then finally, lessen number three, as
we come to a swift close, earthly values and heavenly
values cannot coexist. One will always choke out the other one.
Ah choose wisely, Brothers and sisters choose the things that
actually matter to God. 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,