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 Wednesday, January seven,
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 new
lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth christ in Philippians
and Colossians, and our caption for today is Gospel Fruit,
Gospel Fruit. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, We thank you,
thank you for giving us the privilege of prayer, the
privilege of the gospel message. Father, I'm asking you now
to please fill us with your spirit and help us
to live the power of God unto salvation. In Jesus' name.
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so let me
just begin the lesson. Writer points out that Paul's relationship
with the Colossians was different from those in Philippi. But
that's something that we really should have already anticipated. He
included them among those who have not seen my face
in the flesh. I said that to you last week,
that he never even visited. As far as we can tell,
he never even visited Colossie. So this is seen in
Colossians chapter two and verse one. Nevertheless, Paul assures them,
as he did the Philippians, that he thanks God for
them always and he is praying for them. Now. This
is very interesting. I remember talking about thousands of years ago,
and somehow God led brother Paul to be able to
lead a people that he didn't even see. I wish
I had the time to talk about how the church
has changed in the last since about twenty nineteen. Think
you know where I'm going with this. And God has
given us more creative and necessary ways of ministering that
don't require our physical presence. Even though most of us
look look look at my mic sock or the covering
for my mic, look at my beard. This means that
I have seasoning in my life. Like I'm over fifty
years of age, and so in my generation everything was
hands on. This is how we were cultured. But the
way that things are now, and the way that God
even showed in the case of Paul way back then,
which is ironic to me, is that ministry can be
done in so many ways as long as Jesus Christ
is central, and that his message is the key in
the situation. Let me just go ahead into our lesson
for today. Before I go too far Afield, let me
read a quote from the Reviewer in Herald in eighteen
sixty one. Hope in Christ lifts the believer above the
trials of earth and fixes the mind on the inheritance
reserved in heaven, and so our retention is focused heavenward.
While we live on planet Earth. Our goal is to
do is to invest as much as we can down here,
create prosperity in Babylon. I know what I just said.
It's biblical. Jesus God told his people that as long
as you are in Babylon, I need you to make
sure that everything around you prospers. Now, don't get too
settled in like do not make it a place where
you will build up idols, like, don't do that. But
while you're there, make sure everything around you is successful
as much as it lies unto you. And then, of
course I will deliver you. And so we look forward
to the Kingdom of heaven. But while we are living
on planet Earth, we're occupying or investing until Jesus comes,
ever turning away from the principles that God has given
us while living here. Now from the Signs of the
Times April eleventh, eighteen ninety two, it reads, the gospel
is the power of God to transform the life. Well,
where does this life happen? Down here? Where does the
life happen? And through its power the believer becomes a
new creature in Christ? Where does that transformation happen? Again?
It happens down here on planet Earth. And what are
we supposed to do? Brighten the corner where we are.
What are we supposed to do? We are to occupy
until he comes? Oh, do we lose focus on the
until he comes part? Absolutely not. The Gospel now gives
us the ability to transcend through Christ this earthly dwelling.
One day, when Jesus returns, we will go to heaven
and live there for a thousand years. After the thousand
years have finished, we will occupy the new Earth. After
there is no more sin, no more sickness, sadness, death,
or pain. The former things will have been passed away.
But in the meantime, God is transforming his people to
transform our surroundings for him, and then one day we
will see him face to face. Lesson number one today
is Paul thanked God for their faith in Christ. And
of course we see that in Collassians one and verse four,
since we heard of your faith in Christ, he was
thinking right thanking God. And so the kind of faith
that he is talking about is trust, obedience, confidence in God.
If Paul were living today and he did not have
the privilege of coming to wherever you are congregating in
air quotes, if he were an online minister, if he
were someone who would send messengers to where you are,
and then the messenger would send back to him him,
and then you would build strategy for reaching the world
from your vantage point. Would he be thanking God for
your confidence in him in God? Would he be thinking
God for your trust in God? Or would he have
to pray another prayer as Moses and and and and
Caleb dealt with murmuring people back in ancient days of
God's people and had to really just settle them down
because they were losing focus of what God had for
them and their mission because they were murmuring. They were
faith less many times. Or would Paul have this this
prayer of thanks for you and so the action step
really for you and for me is to thank God
today for one area where your faith has grown. Is
it that you have more confidence in God? Is it
that you're not worried about the month being longer than
the money because of furloughs and other things that you're
that are not within your control, or something else? Okay,
lesson number two before I go too far. Paul thanked
God for their love toward all believers. What did Jesus say,
they will know that you are my disciples if you
have what love one for another one toward another Colossian
Chapter one and verse four again, and of the love
which ye have to all saints. So he's thanking God
for the confidence in God, the trust in God that
you're demonstrating, that faith that you're demonstrating. But he also
thanked God for their love self giving love agape, I
love you in spite of what you do, the kind
of godly love that made God say for God's soul
love the world, that he gave all of heaven in
one gift, that he gave his only begotten son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
God didn't send his son into the world to condemn
the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
And so people are still condemning one another. Even within
the faith fellowship. Sometimes people are condemning themselves. I am
a coach of multiple let's call it platforms, but one
of the paradigms that I learned talks about how in
our in our mindset, like we have a judge, and
that judge is always trying to separate us from the
reality of God, and God is saying no. I want
you to love despite what you do, what people do,
and I want you to love yourself as God would
love you. 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,