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 Sabbath, March
twenty one, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
David Harris. I am your host den 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. We are opening up our final lesson number
thirteen under the caption standing in all the Will of God,
Standing in all the Will of God. All right, So
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viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
we will get underway. Father, thank you for this Sabbath
morning and the privilege that you have given us to
stand on your words, standing on the promises of Christ,
my King. Ah. Yes, God, please help us to do
so until Jesus comes in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and a man again. We are grateful. We are grateful
brothers and sisters, because God has revealed his will. He
has revealed his will. He has not put us in
a position where we need to guess. We have to
figure it out on our own. We have to be
on just the right pathway in order to know. He
has opened up his word to us sixty six blessed books.
He has given us the Holy Spirit to teach us
whatsoever Jesus commanded when Jesus lived on planet Earth. We
have the experience and example of Jesus Christ. And so
all we need to do is now, having on the
entire armor of God. Stand stand therefore in the entire
armor of God, God's will, okay, And so we begin
with a quote a quote from the book The Acts
of the Apostles, The Acts of the Apostles, page four
hundred eighty two, where it reads those who stand under
the blood stained band of Prince Emanuel, that means you're
on the Lord side, yes, and you accept the salvation
that comes through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. So those
who are standing in that way should be faithful soldiers,
true to their leader. And so God forbid if I
am not a faithful soldier, If God forbid i am
not true to my leader, that means I'm not standing
under the blood stained banner of Prince Emmanuel. That means
if you look at the lesson we did two quarters ago,
looking at the Exodus, from the exit from Egypt to
the Promised Land, we see that the people of God
under the plague, the plague where now we have what
is called the Passover, where the death Angel was going
to run through Egypt and destroy the first born of
anything not covered by the blood. We see that the
people of God followed the godidance where they were to
apply the blood to their doorposts, to the lintel. And
you know in the way that God prescribed as an
act of faith. And God promised that anybody who does
that will be protected, and so and so if somebody
said that they had done it and they didn't do it,
then they would show up not as faithful soldiers. They
would show up as not being true to their leader.
And let me say this, this is not something that
preaches well, but it's the truth. And then they would
have been destroyed. I think you're hearing where I'm going
with this. And so it's our privilege to stand on
the promises of Christ. Are our king. It is our
privilege to be up under the bloodstained banner of princey Manuel.
But there is no way that we can fake that,
because it will be manifest in our lack of faithfulness will.
It will be manifest in us not being true to
our o It'll be manifest when we are exposed God
forbid as impostors and ultimately remain disconnected from God. And
so now we need some lessons. This is a good
place for our lessons. Number One, God's will is lived
through faithful relationships. The Bible teaches us in Colossian chapter
four and verse seven. All my state shall taikikus declare
unto you who is a beloved brother and a faithful
minister and fellow servant in the Lord. What is he saying?
Very simply, this particular brother is somebody that Paul loved.
According to what Jesus said, they will know that you
are my disciples if you have loved one toward another.
And the second and great commandment is like unto the first,
that you will love your neighbor as yourself. And so
this is a loving experience, a loving relationship in what's
called fellowship. And now we know that Paul is closing
the Colossians by naming co workers, real life people who
are living according to God's word. God's will is not
set in a vacuum or in an abstract setting or
in some way that we have to figure it out
or guess what is God getting at. It's carried through
faithful people working together. Do you remember that was a prerequisite,
the prerequisite really in the first century Church where Jesus
said that I need you to go into this upper room.
I need you to tarry there until the Holy Ghost comes,
as I am promising you, and then ye shall be
my witnesses into all of the world.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 2: This is something that's illustrating that we are bound together
to the same master, meaning Jesus. God will advance through
God's will, advances through shared submission to Christ. And so
Paul didn't stand alone in God's will. I want to
speak to the people who either outrun others because you're
so driven, you are so focused, you are competitive. Well,
you bring that into the faith and that means you
stand alone. Or speak to the people who are introverted
in nature, who would prefer to do things on their
own because fill in the blank here, Well, in that case,
then we will not keep the faith. We will not
be true soldiers for the Cross. Because God never intended
for us to be alone. It is not good that
we should be alone, that we should in fact unify,
that we should not forsake the assembling of ourselves together
as the manner of some is, especially in the last days.
And so God is giving us a way to move
forward through cooperation, trust and shared responsibility. And so I
need you to please identify at least one person God
has placed alongside you. Pray for them today this Sabbath morning.
I want you to pray for them because likely it's
popping up in your mind right now who it could be,
and intentionally support their calling This week lesson number two.
God's will requires perseverance through imperfect people. I wish I
had time to tell you a long story about one
of the times I was an elder in West Kingston.
But I've seen God basically work through the elders, imperfect people.
We all were to do some incredible things many years ago,
maybe ten years ago or so. And I'm like, God,
we're up against some super spiritual dark stuff, and you
come through for us every single time. Why are you
so good to us? And so in Acts chapter fifteen
and verse thirty nine we read and the contention was
so sharp between them, So between the two men of God,
the contention was so ridiculous between them that they departed
asunder one from another. And so Paul's ministry network included
restored failures and strained relationships. God's will was not halted
by human weaknesses. He even said that one of the
brothers that he separated from later on, he said, he
is all together fruitful. His ministry is all together fruitful.
So God's will is to pre persevere even through relationships
with imperfect people. Make it a great Sabbath 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,