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 fourteen,
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 living with each other,
Living with each other. Before we begin with lesson number twelve,
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ways we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray
and get underway. Father, We thank you for this day
and for the privilege of having fellowship with other believers.
Help us to become so much like you that we
want to live around one another. In Jesus' name, I
pray Amen and day man again. So my mother, my
late mother h said something many years ago to me,
you know, in a moment of candor when she was
a young woman, I think she was newly married. She said,
if these people are going to be in heaven, I
don't want to be there now. She admitted that that
was a fit of passion, and obviously that was an
emotion based response instead of a principle based response. But
this is really some of your reality. Like some of
you believe somehow that people will be in the Kingdom
with the same broken character traits that we experience on
planet Earth, and that has nothing could be further from
the truth, okay, and so and so, Like if you
think that gossip is going to gossiping is going to
be allowed in heaven, something's wrong. Like if you think
that we can be upset when people are experiencing a
level of success or they have some triumphs, like they
have a testimony, and then we get upset like the
brother prodigal Son's brother did that wouldn't even go into
the house and celebrate. He wouldn't even accept the dude
as his brother. He was just like, your son went
out and wasted all of your stuff, and you are
throwing him a party. Like if that's you, if you're
Jonah when he was upset with God because God made
his evangelistic campaign successful and didn't destroy the Ninovites immediately,
then there's something wrong. Don't worry about heaven, Like, don't
worry about the earth made new because you're not going there.
And I hope nobody thinks I'm being a judgmental I'm
just saying, Lord, without the character of Christ superimposed upon
our lives, we not about to be in heaven if
we can't live with one another down here. The Bible
says that they will know that you are mind de
disciples if you have love one toward another. So if
we don't have love for humanity, then that means we
have broken. We have trampled the second and great commandment,
which is like unto the first, namely, to love the
Lord our God with everything we have and everything we are. Okay,
And so the Bible gives us some guidance here in
Colossians chapter four and verse six. Let your speech always
be with grace, Oh my, seasoned with salt. That means
you it needs to preserve something, It needs to preserve somebody.
Preserve people's dignity when you speak to them. Ah, season
that with salt. That's what salt does. It preserves among
other things, it preserves Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So let
what you say be preserving in nature, not breaking. Okay,
that you may know how how you ought to answer
each other. You know, the power of life and death
is in the tongue, and so many of humans wield
that tongue like a like an unsheathed, super sharpened sword
and shop people's heads right off because of the way
that we speak to people. I hope that algorithm doesn't
mess with my video because I said what I just
said but that's the reality. You say that you want
to be holy, you say that these are supposed to
be your brothers and sisters in Christ, but somehow your
mouth is showing something different. And so Christ in our
lesson number one, Christ governs relationships, not power or preference.
Not power or preference, and so Paul, as we talk
about living in family relationships, does not ground family relationships
and cultural dominance or personal authority. I remember a young
dude when we were both young, really in university. This
dude said he's the boss of his wife. Trigger alert.
I was like, you the what the boss of your what?
Where did you get that from? And somehow he believed
the Bible was teaching authoritarianism where he was the dude
that could lord over his spouse, his wife. And I'm
like filling the blank name here, brother, you are not
even close to what God is teaching here. Paul does
not ground the family relationships in that kind of a
dominant mindset. By the way, the brother's divorced. Now, I'll
just figured i'd put that in there. He roots them
in Christ's lordship. Every instruction in the Christian home flows
from being in the lord. Authority is expressed through love,
submission is practiced through trust. Both are governed by Christ
and not ego HM. So examine whether your closest relationships
actually reflect Christ's character more than the cultural habits or
personal preferences. So let me just say. The Bible says
wives submit to your husbands as fitting in the Lord. Husbands,
love your wives, and do not be embittered against them.
That's what we're getting our lesson from. So I am
to love my Simone that we've been married almost twenty
five years, in the same way that Jesus loves us.
He gave himself. You know, Jesus got up on a
cross to save his bride from her sins. Do you
realize that he gave up everything so that she could
have everything? You see what I mean? So I am
to love Simone in that way. I am to put
her before mid Sell. That's what Jesus did. That's what
Jesus did. And when and when it says wives are
to submit to your husbands, did not Jesus submit to
God our father. He wasn't subjugated by the father. He
wasn't pressed under the thumb of the father. He wasn't
disrespected by the father. He was not commanded to do
all kind of crazy stuff like some husbands think that
they have the power to do with their wives. God,
our Father was not an authoritarian. It was not beneath
Jesus to be submissive to the Father, and so it
must not be beneath our sisters to be submissive to
their own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. I
wish I had the time to really drill this, but
it is not dishonorable. It's not dishonorable in the same
way it wasn't dishonorable for Jesus to submit to the Father.
It's not dishonorable for our wives to submit their own
husbands and the Lord. That's not subservience. It's not demeaning
or degrading. I wish I had the time, and so
and so again. Examine now we have some contexts your
closest relationships and see if they reflect the character of Christ.
Number two. Number two, children and parents grow best under
loving discipline. And finally, finally, our third lesson is Christian
witness is shown in speech and conduct. Walk in wisdom
toward them that are without redeeming the time. Let your
speech always be with grace, that you may know that
you ought to answer every day.
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,