1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:07,879 because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,400 portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,199 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,280 to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today 7 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:27,440 and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,879 Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker, 9 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:33,079 Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,000 Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, March sixth, 11 00:00:37,119 --> 00:00:40,920 twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris. 12 00:00:41,119 --> 00:00:43,719 I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion 13 00:00:44,119 --> 00:00:46,799 where we give you God's word every single day, and 14 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:49,960 today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson 15 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,399 Steady series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ and Philippians and Colossians, 16 00:00:55,679 --> 00:01:01,719 and our caption for today is Guarding Divine rev Guarding 17 00:01:02,359 --> 00:01:06,319 Divine Revelation. Before we get into that, i'd like to 18 00:01:06,359 --> 00:01:09,640 say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us 19 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,159 for the very first time. I'm asking you to please 20 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,400 go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join 21 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:19,400 our online community, pick up the your Daily Portion Life 22 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:23,359 application guide, and please will you click the contribute button 23 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:28,079 consider us because we are listener and viewer supported, and 24 00:01:28,359 --> 00:01:31,000 let us know where you are in the world at 25 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:33,840 your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the 26 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,439 ways that we continue to build faith in fellowship. Let's pray, 27 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,519 Father in Heaven, thank you for this time of preparation. 28 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:46,040 Please help us to be protective, protective of the revelation 29 00:01:46,159 --> 00:01:48,959 that you have given to us. In Jesus' name, I 30 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:55,400 pray a men and a men again. Yes, yes, yes. 31 00:01:55,519 --> 00:02:04,519 Our first lesson is human philosophy erodes biblical authority. Okay, yeah, 32 00:02:04,519 --> 00:02:08,280 there are times that people just feel like they can 33 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:11,759 add stuff, like do not add anything to what God 34 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:15,479 is teaching us? He didn't need help. He knows what 35 00:02:15,599 --> 00:02:18,240 we need, So why are we adding? Like why do 36 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:22,479 human beings have a habit, especially Christiani speaking people, like 37 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,680 why do we have a habit of adding stuff to 38 00:02:24,719 --> 00:02:26,879 what God is saying? And so we read now in 39 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:32,000 Colossians chapter two and verse eight, be careful not to 40 00:02:32,159 --> 00:02:38,240 allow anyone to spoil you or captivate you through an empty, 41 00:02:38,319 --> 00:02:44,719 deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the 42 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:51,080 elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ. 43 00:02:51,759 --> 00:02:54,639 Stop making up stuff like I need. If I needed to, 44 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,280 if I needed to, like truncate this, I would just say, 45 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:03,080 stop making up stuff. Stop holding people accountable to stuff 46 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,759 that we humans made up. You understand what I'm saying here. 47 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,479 So Paul's warning is not against thinking, but against thinking 48 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:16,479 disconnected from Christ. When philosophy or speculation or modern reinterpretation 49 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:22,800 replaces scripture as final authority, then our faith weakens. Stop 50 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:29,319 making up stuff. Divine revelation does not need improvement. We 51 00:03:29,479 --> 00:03:34,360 just need to submit. The moment the Bible is treated 52 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:40,000 as adjustable, yeah, we're I think I'm driving down somebody street. Now, 53 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,599 there are times that people feel like, oh, well, let's 54 00:03:42,599 --> 00:03:45,439 make it practical, and then they rip what God is 55 00:03:45,479 --> 00:03:48,759 saying right out of the scriptures, remix it, and then 56 00:03:48,919 --> 00:03:53,000 put it back in as if that is then the 57 00:03:53,039 --> 00:03:57,159 actual scripture, and then try to hold people accountable to that. 58 00:03:57,719 --> 00:04:00,319 I gave you an example the other day, like you know, 59 00:04:00,479 --> 00:04:03,520 some people say that there it's a Sabbath day's journey. 60 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:08,319 Like in twenty twenty six, somebody is saying in Rockland County, 61 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,360 New York, right now that I can only walk a 62 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,800 certain number of paces in a certain part of Rockville, Maryland, 63 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,399 and Montgomery County in Maryland are saying the same thing, 64 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:23,319 a certain number of paces on Saturday from sunset Friday 65 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,959 to sunset Saturday. Then there are only a certain number 66 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,600 of paces that I can walk. There are some people 67 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:33,839 who are saying, let the elevators go up and down 68 00:04:33,959 --> 00:04:38,639 in the building on Sabbath, the seventh day Sabbath by themselves, 69 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,240 who open the door, close the door by themselves, go 70 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,560 up to the floors by themselves, because pushing the button 71 00:04:45,079 --> 00:04:47,480 is work, and we're not to work or do servile 72 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,199 labor on the Sabbath. That's something that somebody made up. 73 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,879 Do you understand what I'm saying. There are so many 74 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:56,639 things that people have made up and decided that we 75 00:04:56,759 --> 00:04:59,360 must do them and be governed by them. So the 76 00:04:59,439 --> 00:05:05,600 actions here is to evaluate what voices shape your beliefs 77 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,879 and ensure that Scripture remains as your authority. Can I 78 00:05:11,959 --> 00:05:15,360 just go to lesson number two? Somebody's catching up with me. 79 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:23,759 Somebody's catching up. Scripture without Christ loses its power. Okay, 80 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,959 So yeah, we are to share the truth in love. 81 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,680 We are to share the truth in the spirit of Christ, 82 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,639 who gave us this truth. And so when we separate 83 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,360 the two, then the scriptures are nullified in the minds 84 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,240 of the people. The Bible reads in Psalm chapter one 85 00:05:41,319 --> 00:05:44,439 hundred and nineteen and verse one oh five, thy word 86 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,199 is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto 87 00:05:48,319 --> 00:05:52,279 my path. And so we are warned that scripture is 88 00:05:52,439 --> 00:05:58,399 filtered through speculative belief systems. When that happens, it becomes 89 00:05:58,439 --> 00:06:04,959 a lamp, oh, without oil. When I add my spin 90 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,720 on it that God never intended. When I add rules 91 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:12,519 and regulations to it, that God never intended. When I 92 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:17,120 add anything or subtract what God did intend, then the 93 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:23,720 lamp becomes without oil. Oh. The Bible is not merely 94 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,759 for our informational purposes, just to learn stuff and to 95 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,519 be more intelligent. At the end of the day, it's 96 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,319 transformational when approached as God's living voice. God, what are 97 00:06:36,399 --> 00:06:39,399 you actually saying here? This is why I advocate when 98 00:06:39,439 --> 00:06:42,160 we read the scriptures, that we pray through the scriptures 99 00:06:42,199 --> 00:06:44,920 and say, God, what did you mean the look thy 100 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:47,519 word is a lamp unto my feet? Well, God, I 101 00:06:47,519 --> 00:06:50,839 grew up in New York City in the seventies and eighties, 102 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,480 we didn't have like oil lamps. So I don't really 103 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,879 understand what did you mean when you said, how do 104 00:06:55,959 --> 00:06:59,680 I apply this? Like I don't understand an oil kerosene 105 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,759 oil in my day, Like how I live in Jamaica. Now, 106 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,040 Like what does that mean? God? Like what does that mean? 107 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:09,680 And now we have this conversation with God concerning what 108 00:07:09,839 --> 00:07:14,279 he has said. When other voices come in, they're intrued. 109 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,279 They are intruders to us, and we say, no, that's 110 00:07:17,279 --> 00:07:19,720 not what the scriptures say. This is not what God 111 00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:23,279 is saying actively as he teaches us his word, not 112 00:07:23,399 --> 00:07:27,439 as an object of human dissection. We don't get to dissect. 113 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,720 This is not Bible biology class. You don't go into 114 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:35,120 the lab with the scriptures and dissect it and cause 115 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:37,879 it to mean whatever in the world you want it 116 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,920 to mean. And of course that applies to me. And 117 00:07:40,959 --> 00:07:46,600 so the action step is to read scripture devotionally before 118 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:52,439 reading it analytically. Lord, help me to communicate this. Read 119 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,959 the scriptures devotionally before you read it analytically. I'm an 120 00:07:56,959 --> 00:08:00,439 analytical person. Some of you are as well, and we 121 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,439 would want to Like I used a big word the 122 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,879 other day maybe two days ago. About exegesis Isojesus, And 123 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:09,439 sometimes we get stuck in that. Jesus actually said it 124 00:08:09,439 --> 00:08:12,680 to some of his people. He said, listen, you search 125 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:17,000 the scriptures for in them ye think you have eternal life. 126 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,279 They are they that testify of me. I have been 127 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,360 bringing you into my presence, drawing you to me, but 128 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,560 you've been rejecting me. And so we don't want to 129 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,680 do it cerebrally. We want to say, God, how how 130 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,720 do you transform me? Would you transform me by the 131 00:08:32,759 --> 00:08:35,320 renewing of my mind? Well, you show me how this 132 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:41,519 scripture relates to my salvation and how I can glorify 133 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,440 and honor you. Would you do that? And then as 134 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,639 you learn the details of the scriptures, and we should, 135 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,639 and we study point by point, we've already been established 136 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:56,600 in a relationship with God so that the points actually 137 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:04,480 are transformational. Now, let God's speak before you analyze. Yes, 138 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,039 let God speak before you analyze. Let me go to 139 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,559 a quote. Let me go to I haven't read a 140 00:09:11,799 --> 00:09:17,000 pioneer quote lately. When the Bible is taken as it reads, 141 00:09:17,519 --> 00:09:22,879 the reason is made the servant of revelation part of me. 142 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,360 Let me say I mixed it up. When the Bible 143 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,240 is taken as it reads, and reason is made the 144 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:36,039 servant of revelation, faith is strengthened, and truth stands secure. 145 00:09:36,879 --> 00:09:39,240 Listen if the Lord Spear's life will see you this 146 00:09:39,399 --> 00:09:42,720 evening at seven pm for our musical Bible class on 147 00:09:42,759 --> 00:09:44,080 the YouTube channel Peace. 148 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:48,519 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot 149 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,639 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes 150 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:54,720 from the mouth of God. This has been your daily 151 00:09:54,759 --> 00:09:55,559 portion with L. 152 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:56,399 Speaker 2: David Harris. 153 00:09:57,039 --> 00:10:00,279 Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah.