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 Thursday, February
twenty six, 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 Power
of the Gospel, The Power of the Gospel. Before we
get into that, i'd like to say welcome to everyone
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Daily Portion YouTube channel. All right, let's go ahead and pray, Father,
thank you for this day. Thank you for the privilege
that you have entrusted to us today to open up
your word. Now, please give us the power of God
unto salvation. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a
man again, Yes, the power of the gospel. The power
of the gospel, Jesus said, they will know that you
are my disciples. The whole world. They'll know that you
are my disciples. If you have love one for another.
That's the power of the gospel. Now, there is so
much more to it, but I wanted to shift it
to brass tax before we begin to drill it more deeply. Okay,
And so first, first we go to reviewing Herald in
the year eighteen sixty eight, where we read from John
Nevin's Andrews the Gospel demands growth. I love that the
Gospel demands growth. That means that if we stagnate, then
that means that we are not vivified or enlivened by
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We cannot say we are
saved by grace through faith and stagnate at the same time.
Status quo cannot be something we embrace when we accept
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because we should grow in
grace just like Jesus did, and in the knowledge of
the Lord, and of course respect among our fellow human beings. Okay,
So the Gospel, continuing the quote, demands growth. To stand still, Oh,
plot twist is to fall backward. The Gospel demands growth.
To stand still is to fall backward. Now there's one
from the book Christ's object Lessons, page three hundred and
thirty one. And I will say, just in the odds
at the outset, that spiritual things are spiritually deserned. So
take your time with this one and be prayerful. Okay,
Perfection of character m M is attainable to every soul
who strives for it. We're not talking about anybody earning
or attempting to earn anything from God. We're talking about
striving unto blood, resisting sin. Now, the Bible tells us
very clearly how we can do this. It teaches us
in James chapter four and verse seven, that we are
to submit ourselves therefore unto God, and then we will
be able to do what resist the devil? And what
will the devil have to do? Then the devil will
have to flee? You understand. And so yeah, let's let
that settle in as we go into our lesson number
one for today from the Bible Book of Colossians, chapter
one and verse twenty eight. Colossians one and verse twenty eight,
and the Bible reads whom we preach, we proclaim him
by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom. The
Bible teaches us that Jesus Christ is our wisdom in
one Corinthians chapter one, Versus thirty and thirty one, and
Proverbs chapter eight and other places. So we proclaim Him
by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom, so
that we may present every person much sure in Christ.
Now you know what the word perfection actually means. When
we're talking about Christ and his people Covered in the
righteousness of Christ, then we become complete and mature. Okay.
And so the lesson is the Gospel's aim is Christ
like much surety in every believer. So Paul repeats every
person or every man three times to remove all exceptions.
That means you, anybody listening in one of the any
one of the two hundred radio stations, any one of
those devices. I don't know what you're on. Are you
on an Amazon device or some other device. You're on
satellite radio, you are on YouTube, Facebook, and all of
those podcasts aggregators. This means you, brothers and sisters in
that one television station. This means you. This means you,
every person three times to remove all exceptions. The Gospel
is not selective. It is not for elites. It is
not just for leaders, nor is it for the spiritually
gifted so called only. God's redemptive goal includes every believer
bar none, and so and so the word for perfect
means complete mature, fully developed. Biblical maturity does not mean
sinless performance. This is where everybody who has a problem,
like the people who used to argue about this in
the eighteen eighties within my faith community, that's where they
started to itch it developed in them an allergic response
because they couldn't figure out, well, how in the world
are we gonna become perfect? Well, Jesus said it, like
be he perfect, for I the Lord thy God, am
perfect like you understand. So that's God's business, not yours.
Biblical maturity does not mean sinless performance. It means completeness
in Christ. A believer grounded in the Gospel, a life
shaped by the truth, a character growing. Now we get it.
That's what sanctification is about. Being set aside for a
holy use and set upon a growth trajectory, a growth
path in the paths of righteousness, a character growing into
Christ's likeness. And so the action step is to measure
spiritual growth by faithfulness and transformation and not comparison. We
don't have a checklist to say, okay, well, okay, so
Simona and I are married. So if I do this
and then she does that, let me carry the one.
What's the weighted score. What's the score for this one?
All right? So that means that she's holier than me,
be holier than I am, because that one has a
heavier No, no, that's not how it works. Surrender your
will to Christ. If you surrender your will to Christ
and you are covered in Christ's righteousness, then you are
in the growth path, in the paths of righteousness. Lesson
number two coming in from Hebrews chapter four and verse twelve,
where we read the Word of God is quick and powerful,
meaning living and active, and is the discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart. It judges the desires
and thoughts of the heart. And so maturity comes when
the scriptures shape our beliefs and exposes the error in
our lives, our mindset, the way we live, the way
we interact with humans, other humans, and God, and it
corrects our direction. Growth without discernment leads to deception. So
can we just submit that? That's kind of the action
step submit to God every time he reveals something to you. 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 El David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,