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 Sunday, March one,
twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 and Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is the Wisdom and Knowledge
of God, the wisdom and Knowledge of God. Before we
get into that, I'd like to just say welcome to
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about what God is teaching us in his words. So
please do that. Let's pray. Let's pray. Father, we do.
Thank you for the privilege to open your word again.
Please help us to accept your wisdom and your knowledge
in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. I
don't know if I've ever shared it with you, but
I am obsessed by wisdom. God's wisdom. I'm saying not
because I want to feel intelligent, but there is just
something about it, because God sends people to me with
various and sundry challenges, all kinds of challenges that are
not even related. And I'm like, well, since God has
seen fit to continue to send people to me like this,
then it mean that he wants to speak, and so
I can't do it on my own. God, show me
your wisdom. I need double. That's what I pray to
God for. Maybe that's not your testimony, but I pray
to God for double the wisdom that he gave to Solomon.
That's what I pray for. And so for me, this
is very very key. And so let me just read
now very quickly from reviewing Herald eighteen seventy four. Order
is Heaven's first law, and where God's truth is truly received,
it will always lead to harmony, stability, and strength. My God,
My God. From the book Testimonies for the Church, Volume five,
page five hundred and seventy four, we read the truths
of God's word are not independent atoms, but they are united,
forming one grand whole or entire picture. I'm grateful because
we use the scriptures. We see in the scriptures a
golden thread, and we use scripture to interpret scripture. We
don't need somebody to write us a book about how
to interpret scriptures. We don't need somebody to give us
the code to a secret that's in the scriptures that
they can only you're there the only ones qualified to
give us. No. We use scripture to interpret the scriptures.
And so our first lesson for today is coming in
from Colossians chapter two and verse three. Colossians chapter two
and verse three, in whom speaking of God are hid
all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. You see what
the devil did to Eve at the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. He insinuated doubt, and then
he just into believing that there was a tree desire
to be to make one wise when God said, don't
eat from this tree. But she saw that it was
good for food, and it was a tree to be
desired to make one wise. And it's like, why would
you see something that God forbade as a way to
receive wisdom. There are people right now who were going
to some dark arts in order to get wisdom, that
going into some secret places with secret handshakes and all
kinds of weird stuff that you're like, what, why do
I need that in order to learn wisdom like people
who were going to people who look or were having
cards and crystal balls and all kinds of other stuff,
looking in your hands and looking into the sky for stuff,
rather than simply trusting what God said in him are
hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge? And so
Paul answers Job's ancient question directly. Wisdom is not discovered
through philosophy, speculation, religious systems, or even going to wizards
that peep and mutter ought. Not a people seek unto
their God from the dead, unto the living. This is
what the Bible writer Isaiah said. And so wisdom is
a person. A wisdom is a person. Did you know that?
In One Corinthians chapter one, verses thirty and thirty one,
we see Jesus is our wisdom. If you study closely
the Book of Proverbs chapter eight, there comes a point
when wisdom is described in a way that you're like, oh,
my goodness, there is no other being that this could
apply to. When Christ is present, nothing essential is missing.
Every attempt to locate wisdom outside of Him results in
the opposite results in babylon or confusion results in deception
and so ask yourself today. This is the action step.
Ask yourself today, where you instinctively go for clarity, where
you're not even thinking about it. Where do you find
yourself going? Is it chat gpt uh? Oh? Is it Gemini?
Is it Claude? Is it some other ai app Are
you going there for wisdom? Those are supposed to help us.
We're not supposed to just take what they do their
assistance to help us ID eight and do some other stuff.
I'm not trying to put rules on it. I'm just
saying sometimes we take what the machine gives us and
spit it right back out, and it's like, but God
gave us dominion, We're not supposed to have that as
if it's more intelligent than us. We have actual intelligence.
That thing can slow can help us with our speed
because we're slower, but it can't be more intelligent than
the human beings God created? And so where do you
instinctively go for clarity? Now? I want you to deliberately
bring that question to Christ in scripture and prayer before
seeking any other source. You are befuddled, you're confused, you
need extra understanding. Don't go to your pastor first. No
disrespect like don't go to Bible teachers like me. First,
don't go to the your trusted whomever. First. I want
you to bow your head and in humility say God,
I do not know how to deal with this. I
do not know what to do. Will you please please
deliver me? Will you please please give me wisdom that
can only come from you. Number two comes in from
Collossians chapter two and verse two. That their hearts may
be encouraged having been knit together in love and attaining
to all riches of the fullness of assurance and understanding.
So God's truth produces unity and strength in his church.
Mm hmm. Paul's goal is not merely to correct Bible
teaching our doctrine, but strengthen the hearts and to unite believers.
Truth does not divide faithful people. Truth anchors them together.
When Christ's centered teaching is received by all, then love
deepens and confidence grows. Yeah. So are you looking for
wisdom to separate yourself as some kind of icon or
sage or do you want the wisdom of God so
that you can contribute to the entirety of His people?
Make it a great day.
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,