Latest / Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris / 03 07 2026 Living With Christ

Transcript

03 07 2026 Living With Christ · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good Marning, Good morning. It is Sabbath. It's
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: March seven, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth Christ in
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: Philippians and Colossians. We're jumping in at Lesson number eleven
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: of thirteen under the caption living with Christ, Living with Christ.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to go over to your
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: let us know where you are in the world, and
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: by all means, share, share, share, keep sharing, keep sharing
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: the program with as many people as possible. Because we
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: are looking to change the world. The Gospel of the
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: Kingdom must be preached into all the world for a witness,
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: and then and only then shall the income. Just a
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: quick question, were you on with me last night during
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: our musical Bible class. If you're on the radio, a podcast,
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: or on Facebook, you're like, what the what? Yes, we
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: have that only on the YouTube channel for your daily
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: portion every single Friday evening at seven pm Jamaica time.
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: So please, if you were there, go ahead and type
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: in the chat I was there and what did God
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: do for you? Share a little bit about what God
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: did for you through experience as we studied the lesson
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: using music as are means. Just go ahead and type,
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: But let me pray first and we'll get underway. Father,
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: We thank you for this Sabbath, teach us to live
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: with Christ in our hearts. In Jesus's name, I pray,
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. So for those of you who
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: can do two things at once, go for it. Go
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: ahead and type the blessing that you experienced last evening
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: while we jump in with two feet to our lesson study. Okay,
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: and so the lesson writer gave us as a memory
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: text Colossians chapter three and verse fourteen. Colossians chapter three
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: and verse fourteen, where the Bible reads, but above all
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: Put on love. Are you wearing love? Are you wearing
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: love as you're covering Jesus? You know the Bible actually
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: says John speaking that God is love. Yes, those who
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: have not got the okay, you know what. The text says.
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: God is love. So have love on, have Christ on
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: as you are covering, and you cannot lose. No, let
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: me just go ahead and begin. Let me go ahead
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: and begin with verse fourteen. Actually, yeah, that's it. That's it.
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: Verse fourteen. Put on love. My notes went funny. Love
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: is the evidence of Christ living within. Love is the
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: evidence of Christ living within. Remember Jesus said, how will
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: they know? Like people know that you are my disciples?
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: I know? If you have love one toward another. And
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: so Paul presents love as the final evidence of resurrection life.
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: M h, that's the evidence. Love is not optional. Like
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: some people are just too angry and annoying at all times,
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: Like some people are miserable, and it's like, well, how
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: can a person who was complaining, always annoyed, miserable and
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: just ah hard to be around. How can that person
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: be called a child of the king. How can that
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: person say they're representing Christ? God forbid, It's one of us.
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: And so love is not optional. It is the binding
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: force that holds Christian character together. Heavenly minded people love
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: differently because Christ is living within us. This love enables
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: obedience that human strength cannot sustain. Listen, when you read
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: the book The Great Controversy right through to the end,
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: we see that ultimately, after we've read all of the
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: things that went on way back in the past, all
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: of the persecution that happened, what happened in heaven where
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: the Great Controversy began, and all of these other things
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: in the last days that are going to be very difficult,
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: I must add, But we see that the culmination of
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: what God is doing as he is leading as people
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: through those different times and experiences throughout history, is that
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: one pulse of love will be going right through the universe.
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: Because God so loved the world that he gave his
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: only begotten son, that whoever believes in him would not
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: perish but have everlasting life. So God's love in the
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: person and work of Jesus Christ in the Plan of Salvation,
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: should so impress and transform our lives that we love
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: in the way that Jesus loved. Yep, we love despite
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: what people do, because now we have the mindset of Christ.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: Let this mind be in you, which was also in
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. Okay, and so the action step in this
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: case is to practice intentional christ Like love towards someone
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: difficult today. Some of you are on your way to church,
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: You're going to encounter You're going to encounter some difficult people,
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: some people that are so in your mind annawing. But really,
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: that's not the stance we're taking anymore. We're saying, God,
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: this is a child of yours. They are not my children,
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: they are not my servants. Teach me to love like
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: you love. So practice intentional christ Like love toward someone
• 6:23
  Speaker 2: difficult today without expecting anything in return. What that's right,
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: that's right, that's right. Let me read J. H. Wagner.
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: True Christianity begins when self ends and Christ reigns within. Ah.
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: This is so good, this is so good. Let me
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: continue because I'm feeling it just like you are. In
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: Romans chapter six and verse six, we read, knowing this
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: that our old man, or the way that we are
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: without Christ, that person before we got sick, right, knowing this,
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: that our old man is crucified with him, that the
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: body of sin might be destroyed. That henceforth we should
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: not serve sin. Remember sin is the transgression of the law.
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: Remember the Ten Commandments law are summed up in two principles,
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: love for God and love for humanity. And so Paul
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: makes clear that living with Christ requires dying before living,
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: dying to self. The Christian life is not behavior modification.
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: Let me say that's hard for me. Not in the
• 7:38
  Speaker 2: realist sense. I mean philosophically, because behavior modification is my
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: training and what my practice used to be behavior modification
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: and management. So I know how to modify behavior. And
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: it's like, oh wait a minute. So when I don't
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: say a bad word to somebody who is exhibiting road rage,
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: when I don't become violent toward them, that's only part
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: of the story. You mean, I don't get brownie points
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: for not knocking somebody out that I felt angry toward. No, Well,
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: that's not transformational. That's just a behavioral reality. Maybe you
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: were protecting your maybe you were protecting your reputation, or
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: maybe you were thinking, oh, I don't want Josiah to
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: be without a daddy, because if I do that in
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: the wrong setting, then I might die or get locked up.
• 8:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe you're doing it as a legalist and not because
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: you are in love with God. And maybe it's not
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: because you don't want to misrepresent him to the people
• 8:35
  Speaker 2: who may be watching. Maybe it's not for the right reasons.
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe you're just doing it because you've learned how to
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: modify your behavior. You're not saying bad words, but you're
• 8:46
  Speaker 2: thinking them. You're not what is it in Matthew five?
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: You're not touching that person that you're not supposed to touch,
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: but in your mind you're lusting after them. Right, you
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: see what I'm saying. So God is giving us. God
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: is giving us not a behavioral change or shift, its
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: participation in Christ's death and resurrection. We literally die to
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: sin and we're raised into a victorious lifestyle. Self rule
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: must end before Christ's rule can begin. I have to
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: stop trying to run things myself, stop trying to drive
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: my spiritual vehicle, and yield the steering wheel to God.
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: Without this death, heavenly minded living remains just theoretical. My God,
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: would you please help us to identify a habit or
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: mindset where we're still dominating the conversation with ourselves. Help
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: us to submit peace.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,