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 Friday, March sixth,
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
Steady series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ and Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is Guarding Divine rev Guarding
Divine Revelation. Before we get into that, i'd like to
say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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ways that we continue to build faith in fellowship. Let's pray,
Father in Heaven, thank you for this time of preparation.
Please help us to be protective, protective of the revelation
that you have given to us. In Jesus' name, I
pray a men and a men again. Yes, yes, yes.
Our first lesson is human philosophy erodes biblical authority. Okay, yeah,
there are times that people just feel like they can
add stuff, like do not add anything to what God
is teaching us? He didn't need help. He knows what
we need, So why are we adding? Like why do
human beings have a habit, especially Christiani speaking people, like
why do we have a habit of adding stuff to
what God is saying? And so we read now in
Colossians chapter two and verse eight, be careful not to
allow anyone to spoil you or captivate you through an empty,
deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the
elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ.
Stop making up stuff like I need. If I needed to,
if I needed to, like truncate this, I would just say,
stop making up stuff. Stop holding people accountable to stuff
that we humans made up. You understand what I'm saying here.
So Paul's warning is not against thinking, but against thinking
disconnected from Christ. When philosophy or speculation or modern reinterpretation
replaces scripture as final authority, then our faith weakens. Stop
making up stuff. Divine revelation does not need improvement. We
just need to submit. The moment the Bible is treated
as adjustable, yeah, we're I think I'm driving down somebody street. Now,
there are times that people feel like, oh, well, let's
make it practical, and then they rip what God is
saying right out of the scriptures, remix it, and then
put it back in as if that is then the
actual scripture, and then try to hold people accountable to that.
I gave you an example the other day, like you know,
some people say that there it's a Sabbath day's journey.
Like in twenty twenty six, somebody is saying in Rockland County,
New York, right now that I can only walk a
certain number of paces in a certain part of Rockville, Maryland,
and Montgomery County in Maryland are saying the same thing,
a certain number of paces on Saturday from sunset Friday
to sunset Saturday. Then there are only a certain number
of paces that I can walk. There are some people
who are saying, let the elevators go up and down
in the building on Sabbath, the seventh day Sabbath by themselves,
who open the door, close the door by themselves, go
up to the floors by themselves, because pushing the button
is work, and we're not to work or do servile
labor on the Sabbath. That's something that somebody made up.
Do you understand what I'm saying. There are so many
things that people have made up and decided that we
must do them and be governed by them. So the
actions here is to evaluate what voices shape your beliefs
and ensure that Scripture remains as your authority. Can I
just go to lesson number two? Somebody's catching up with me.
Somebody's catching up. Scripture without Christ loses its power. Okay,
So yeah, we are to share the truth in love.
We are to share the truth in the spirit of Christ,
who gave us this truth. And so when we separate
the two, then the scriptures are nullified in the minds
of the people. The Bible reads in Psalm chapter one
hundred and nineteen and verse one oh five, thy word
is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto
my path. And so we are warned that scripture is
filtered through speculative belief systems. When that happens, it becomes
a lamp, oh, without oil. When I add my spin
on it that God never intended. When I add rules
and regulations to it, that God never intended. When I
add anything or subtract what God did intend, then the
lamp becomes without oil. Oh. The Bible is not merely
for our informational purposes, just to learn stuff and to
be more intelligent. At the end of the day, it's
transformational when approached as God's living voice. God, what are
you actually saying here? This is why I advocate when
we read the scriptures, that we pray through the scriptures
and say, God, what did you mean the look thy
word is a lamp unto my feet? Well, God, I
grew up in New York City in the seventies and eighties,
we didn't have like oil lamps. So I don't really
understand what did you mean when you said, how do
I apply this? Like I don't understand an oil kerosene
oil in my day, Like how I live in Jamaica. Now,
Like what does that mean? God? Like what does that mean?
And now we have this conversation with God concerning what
he has said. When other voices come in, they're intrued.
They are intruders to us, and we say, no, that's
not what the scriptures say. This is not what God
is saying actively as he teaches us his word, not
as an object of human dissection. We don't get to dissect.
This is not Bible biology class. You don't go into
the lab with the scriptures and dissect it and cause
it to mean whatever in the world you want it
to mean. And of course that applies to me. And
so the action step is to read scripture devotionally before
reading it analytically. Lord, help me to communicate this. Read
the scriptures devotionally before you read it analytically. I'm an
analytical person. Some of you are as well, and we
would want to Like I used a big word the
other day maybe two days ago. About exegesis Isojesus, And
sometimes we get stuck in that. Jesus actually said it
to some of his people. He said, listen, you search
the scriptures for in them ye think you have eternal life.
They are they that testify of me. I have been
bringing you into my presence, drawing you to me, but
you've been rejecting me. And so we don't want to
do it cerebrally. We want to say, God, how how
do you transform me? Would you transform me by the
renewing of my mind? Well, you show me how this
scripture relates to my salvation and how I can glorify
and honor you. Would you do that? And then as
you learn the details of the scriptures, and we should,
and we study point by point, we've already been established
in a relationship with God so that the points actually
are transformational. Now, let God's speak before you analyze. Yes,
let God speak before you analyze. Let me go to
a quote. Let me go to I haven't read a
pioneer quote lately. When the Bible is taken as it reads,
the reason is made the servant of revelation part of me.
Let me say I mixed it up. When the Bible
is taken as it reads, and reason is made the
servant of revelation, faith is strengthened, and truth stands secure.
Listen if the Lord Spear's life will see you this
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the YouTube channel Peace.
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 L.
Speaker 2: David Harris.
Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah.