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 eight,
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 Heavenly minded net. Let's
say that three times, heavenly mindedness. Before we get into that,
I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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This is one of the ways we continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
giving us the privilege of coming together one more time. Father,
I'm asking you now to please make us heavenly minded
and earthly good. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
Amen again. So yeah, I just kind of gave you
a sneak peek into my mind when I was praying,
because we used to say, way back in the day,
I was a little boy, and I used to hear
my mom say it really that some people are so
heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. That is
not what we're talking about today. Not having our head
up in the clouds, not making it seem as if
nothing on planet Earth matters because we're going to heaven.
That's not it. But when we are heavenly minded, When
we are heavenly minded, that means that we are connecting
so much with God that whatever his will is, whatever
is going on in heaven, we need it. In earth. Remember,
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Okay,
and so that is the goal. That is the goal.
Let's go into the Bible book of Colossians, chapter three.
That's Colossians chapter three, and I will read verses one
through four three, verses one through four, and the Bible
reads Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep
seeking the things above where Christ is seated at the
right hand of God. So now we have our positional perspective, Like,
if you want to know what's important, I want you
to look into the heavenly Throne room and see what's
happening there with God seated with Christ at the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not
on things on the earth, for ye are dead and
your life is hid with Christ in God. So if
your primary focus is what's right in front of you,
like your bills, what car you have or don't have,
the home that you have, these are all benign things.
Like these are things that you know. We need somewhere
to live. We need a way to move around, whether
it's by foot, by animal, by bicycle, by motorbike, by scooter,
by car, by suv, something else, boat, plane, or combination
of all of what I just said, But that is
not our focus. That may be a part of our reality,
but it must not be our focus. Don't set your
affection on the things beneath. Keep thinking about the things above,
not the things on earth. For you have died and
your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ,
who is your life, appears, then you too will be
revealed in glory with him. So where your treasure is,
that's not in this text. So your heart will be
also wherever your mind set is, that's where your body
will be. You understand where we're going with this. This
is what the Bible teaches us. And so our first
lesson then is that heavenly mindedness requires being raised with Christ.
That is a miracle. We were born in sin, shaping,
in iniquity. You understand that, of course you do, because
you were born like I was born. You were born
from a woman's womb of some sort, like some kind
of way. We were born of a woman, and so
as a result of that we have the woman and
the man's DNA. We have our parents' DNA, and with
our parents' DNA comes these foibles, these predispositions towards sinning.
The proclivity towards sinning were bent that way naturally, but
supernaturally when we are reborn, when we take on the
mindset of Christ, because we're submitting to God's will. Now
we are dying to the mindset that tends to the
earth and being raised to the mindset that Jesus had.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ.
Jesus others focused. God's will be done focused, you understand.
And so heavenly mindedness requires the miracle of resurrection. We submit,
we die to self, and we need the miracle of resurrection.
So Paul makes heavenly mindedness conditional. Uh oh, it doesn't
begin with discipline, effort or spiritual elevation. It begins with resurrection.
You see, God is making the first move. Only those
who have died with Christ and have been raised with
Him can seek heavenly things. Without resurrection, life heavenly focused
becomes a religious aspiration rather than a spiritual reality. I
just say it another way, like, if we don't have
resurrection power in our lives, meaning if we're not raised
to be holy with Christ, then what we're talking about
is a possible. We can't even we can't even begin
to do what God has called us to do if
we don't receive the resurrection of life unto life. Okay,
And so our action step is to ask yourself daily.
I want you to fill in your name here, like,
ask yourself honestly whether your pursuit of God flows from
resurrection life or from personal effort? You know, all that
praying that you're doing. Is it that you are trying
to be like something, trying to be holy? You know how,
I'm on here every day, sometimes twice a day, well
really sometimes even three times a day. I would say
on Sundays it's three times a day. Does that mean
that I'm trying to do something? I'm trying to get
brownie points somehow, earn some extra credit in heaven, like
get an A on my report card? So God pats
me on the back to say well done? Or is
it because God's life is already resident in me and
this is an out growth of that life? Okay? And
so flows from resurrection life or from personal effort? And
recommit daily to living from Christ's life within you. This
is good. We're going to need the Holy Ghost to
make that one make sense. Let's go with our second lesson,
a hidden life produces a visible witness. I'll read the
passage again in Colossians three and verse three. For ye,
for you have died, and your life is hidden with
Christ in God, a hidden life produces a visible witness. Okay,
let me slow it down. Let me slow it down.
So if I am covered in the righteousness of Christ,
that that means that whatever I do, however I come
into the world, however I share, then that is an
outgrowth of God's character. And people are no longer really
seeing me. They're seeing Christ within the hope of glory.
Whatever they're seeing they can easily attribute to God, because
human beings can do that, you understand. So the Christian
life is hidden at its source, but visible in its expression.
Our security is not found in our performance or consistency,
but in union with Christ. Because our life is hidden
with Him, we are safe even while we struggle. I
just say that, Praise God. 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,