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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning is Thursday, February five,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, My name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's Word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson

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study number six, actually Lesson number six. The theme is

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uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ and Philippians and Colossians, and

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our caption for today is just one thing Know in Christ.

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I like it, just one thing know in Christ. We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but before I do,

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I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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those joining for the very first time. I know that

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there are so many of you. There are hundreds of

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thousands of you in a day listening and or watching

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also people on podcasts, on YouTube, on various Facebook apps.

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And I'm grateful. I'm grateful. So I'm asking you to

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please just continue to pray for the ministry, continue to

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pray that the gospel will be preached into all the

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world for a witness, because it won't be long now.

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Brothers and sisters. Also, please pick up your Daily Portion

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Life Application Guide and let us know where you are

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in the world. And please click that red button. I

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told you before. I've done a poor job of letting

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you know that this used to be it still kind

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of is, but it's now balancing out like personally supported,

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personally funded. Now it is listener and viewer supported. So please,

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with your kind and generosity, kindness and generosity, please go

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ahead and click that butchet if the Lord inclines and

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we will continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray Father,

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thank you, thank you for this day You've entrusted to us.

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Help us to be enamored by obsessed by. I don't

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know if that's a good word, but be drawn to

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the one thing, knowing Christ, knowing you Father, in Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Just one thing, y'all,

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Just one thing, and business and every other thing that

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I do where coaching is concerned. Listen, one of the

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things I say to the people, and many of them

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are so successful and still scattered and all over the place.

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And I'm like, well, if you can attain to that

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level of success being scattered, can you imagine if you

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were focused? Can you imagine if you would, you would

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have a single eye toward that one powerful goal. And

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until you achieve that, don't move on to something else,

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don't spread yourself very thin and so spiritually even more

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interesting because humans are trying to do that spiritually, like

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trying to serve self and God both and at the

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same time. And so let me just say, let me

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just see say I'm going to dial it back. We're

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going to go back to the eighteen eighties again. Eighteen

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eighty four a Review and Herald article and it's by

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jenn En Loughborough, and it reads, every advanced step in

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the Christian race demands an eye fixed upon the goal.

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Do we use that word again, transfixed or fixed? Do

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we use that anymore? Fixed upon the goal and a

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heart willing to lay aside? Here is the big word.

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Every weight that hinders progress toward Christ? Is it a human?

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Lay aside the weight? Is it a thought? Lay aside

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that weight? Is it a mindset? Lay aside that weight?

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Is it a philosophy? Is there a conflict of what

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you do with whom you do and your core values?

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Lay aside that weight, anything that hinders progress toward Christ?

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And in that vein we go with our lesson Number one.

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Knowing Christ requires experiencing both the power of his resurrection

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and the fellowship of his sufferings. In Philippians, chapter three

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and verse ten, the Bible reads my aim right, single eyed,

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fixed goal, laying aside everything else. He's following the guidance.

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Here Paul is under the Holy Ghost. My aim is

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to know him. And I explained to you yesterday. I

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think it was what to no means. It's an intimacy

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that has fruit, It bears fruit. Okay, to know him,

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to experience the power of his resurrection. That is, I

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die to sin, and I'm alive to holiness. I'm alive

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to righteousness. I'm alive to the ability to submit myself

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to God and resist the devil, and he will flee.

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I'm alive to the ability that when trials and tribulations

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come Paul in the Philippians rejoices even though he's in prison.

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That comes only from God. Okay. So that's his aim,

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know him experience the power of his resurrection and to

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also share in his sufferings. And we see that there

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is an outcome. There's an outcome that he can also

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attain to the resurrection. So he wrote it almost like

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a sandwich. So, yes, power of his resurrection. Oh, by

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the way, you will suffer along the journey. But when

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your suffering has done its work and God perfects you,

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then you will receive the ultimate resurrection, and that will

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be eternally okay. And so this word fellowship, this word fellowship,

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it really was in the King James. I didn't read it.

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It said fellowship. In his sufferings, Paul used that word.

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The word is cornanea is interesting, a deep participation, a

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deep participation or shared experience. The church into which I

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was baptized back in nineteen ninety six in Alexandria, Virginia,

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had we had an actual ministry, a fellowship for new

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believers called Kynanea. I don't think we were thinking about

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we were thinking about fellowship or Conanea in suffering. But

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that's what That's what Paul was saying. He shared experience

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a deep participation. When Christ died, we died in him.

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It reminds me of the song were you there when

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they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified

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my Lord? Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

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Were you there and they crucified my Lord? But if

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we participate in this not to crucify him, but to

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be crucified alongside him spiritually speaking, dying to sin as

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in Romans chapter six, and then being raised in Romans

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chapter three, and being raised now spiritually incorruptible. I wish

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I had the time, And so the action step is

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to thank Jesus for just one hardship. I know, I know,

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I know, I know. For me, it's in retrospect. I've

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thanked him in the past for hardships that have passed already.

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Whatever way you need to do it, thank Jesus for

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one hardship that you faced recently, and ask him to

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use it to draw your heart closer to him. There

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is a place of quiet rest near to the heart

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of God. That's what we want. That is the goal.

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Lesson number two. Knowing Christ requires forgetting what is behind

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and pressing forward with undivided focus toward the goal God

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has set. Who said it? God set it? Philippians, Chapter three,

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Verses thirteen and fourteen. I will truncate just a little bit,

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abbreviate it. This one thing I do, I'm forgetting those

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things which are behind, and I am pressing toward the

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mark for the prize of the high calling of God

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in Christ Jesus. Let me read it in another version.

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But one thing I do, I'm forgetting the things that

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are behind. I strive toward the goal for the prize.

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What is the prize. It's the upward call of God

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in Christ Jesus. Some of us have been downward. Some

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of us have been downward, some of us have been earthward,

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some people have been hell bound. But what God is

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saying to us is that when we surrender our will

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and we are singly focused toward that relationship with God

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and doing whatever he says as an outgrowth of this relationship,

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then the prize is upward. It's the upward look. It's

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the upward lay away. You understand. Yeah, new heights I'm

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gaining every day. Huh. That's a good song, but it's

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a better principle. And then finally, lessen number number three.

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I didn't give you an action step, but let's get

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to the final lesson. Knowing Christ means daily maturity, thinking

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as Christ's minded believers, and walking in the light. We

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have already attained the stuff God has revealed. Live according

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to that principle, beginning at this moment. Make it a

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great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 1: Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with l David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,