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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. It is Sabbath, January

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thirty one, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians

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and Colossians. We are coming in at lesson number six

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under the caption confidence only in Christ. I was passionate yesterday.

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I hit that point over and over again. But yeah,

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I digress. Before we get into this, I'd like to

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us

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but since just last month. So I'm grateful. So go

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and

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pray and get underway. Father, we thank you, Thank you

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for this Sabbath day. Thank you for the privilege of

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being called by your name. God. I know you don't

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call everybody by your name. It's those who submit to you.

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So teach us submission and help us to be self distrustful,

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like we said yesterday. Please, in Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Confidence only in Christ. Now, some

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of you have no problem with self confidence. And when

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I say no problem, I mean you don't sit around

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and think how you are incapable of this or unqualified

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for that, Like you don't have imposter syndrome. You don't.

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You know, you're not wondering if you can or cannot

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do a thing. You just run forward. You're driven. You're

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powerful people who are driven. And then there are other

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people who flip it way on the other side, and

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you're always talking about how you can't do something. You

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can't do nothing, like because fill in the blank. I'm

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not as qualified as this person. I'm not as capable

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as that person. I don't have as many talents or

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gifts as that other person. I wish I could do

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what that one over there is doing. So we have

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people on both sides of this continuum. But God is saying,

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you know what, right now, I need you to focus

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on me. Focus on me, and your confidence must come

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from Christ or through Christ. So your confidence in Christ

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will be manifesting your lifestyle and your life will be

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a testament to that. And so let's read first the

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Memory text for today Philippians Chapter three Versus ten and eleven,

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and the Bible reads that I may know him and

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the power of his resurrection, the fellowship of his sufferings,

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being conformed to his death, if by any means I

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may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Let me

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just say this very simply. Paul was the super He

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was the super believer in his own mind. He had

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qualifications that were on the extreme end of his particular quote, faith, fellowship,

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all of the qualifications if you looked at his resume.

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Oh my, Like this dude was super qualified in his

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spiritual community, except he wasn't actually connected to God. And

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he said, like when he had his first real encounter

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with God to where he was being transformed, he realized,

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wait a minute, I am done being qualified by what

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I'm able to do. I'm done being qualified by my

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past experiences, which are enormous in a good way. I

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am done being qualified by my skill set. The only

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way I can now be of value and of use

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in the world is that I am no longer confident

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in myself. I couldn't care less about my resume or

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my curriculum vita. If you're in education, I understand, Ah,

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but what he is saying, is I'm more focused now

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on the resurrection of God's the power of God's resurrection,

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because in the power of the resurrection, I can overcome pride.

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In the power of resurrection, I can overcome the addictions

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to illicit drugs and alcohol. In the power of the resurrection,

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I can overcome watching stuff on the Internet that I

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should never have ever seen, much less continue to watch.

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Because of the power of the resurrection, I can remove

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myself from relationships that I should never have had. Oh,

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I wish I had the time. In this power of

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the resurrection, I can actually represent Christ. And yeah, there's

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a cost, though it comes with a cost, and it's

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okay because Jesus paid it all all to him. I owe,

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Sin has left a crimson stain, but he has washed

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it white as snow. There comes a cost. What is

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the cost suffering? We will suffer. Jesus suffered, and so

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we have fellowship with Christ and other believers when we

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suffer for Christ's sake. That's the caveat though, that's the

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qualifier for Christ's sakes, for Christ's sake, being conformed to

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his death, so that means Jesus he died. Actually, it

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was an act of humility and love, where he, in

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his divinity, allowed his humanity to die. Because he could

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have resisted. He is life unborrowed, underrived. He could have said,

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I'm not about to die on that cross, his humanity

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not going to die on that cross. He could have said, no,

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that's not gonna happen. We're gonna keep him, We're gonna

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we're gonna stay alive over here. He could have said that,

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but for you, he humbled himself and was obedient unto death,

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even the death of the cross. We need to die

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to self, We need to yield ourselves to God and

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die to sin. And in that, the Bible continues, if

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by any means I may attain to the resurrection from

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the dead, that means that when I die with Christ,

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I die in Christ to self. I die. Then that

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means I can I can also receive the power of

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His resurrection. I can be victorious over any besetting sin.

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I'm grateful. And so that is the short version. I

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got a bit carried away, but that's good today. So

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let's go ahead and read a quote. Now that we

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have a baseline from first the General Conference bullet from

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eighteen ninety three at Jones. That was a pivotal time

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in the church's history, by the way, eighteen eighties, eighteen nineties,

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unbelievable time. Righteousness by faith, Oh, that's what the church

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argued about. The church even split about like, I can't

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believe they were arguing about what is righteousness by faith? Huh?

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Righteousness by faith is the life of God in the

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soul of humans, he said, Man, in the soul of humans.

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It is not what we do, but what God works

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in us when self is surrendered. Righteousness by faith is

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the life of God in the soul of man. It

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is not what we do. It's not Let me put

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the emphasis on it. Let me get that statement again.

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But I'm going to put the emphasis on the word correctly.

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It is not what we do. You get it. It

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is not what we do, but what God works in

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us when self is surrendered. My God, I'm grateful. I'm grateful.

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Let me just give you one quick lesson. Righteousness comes

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only through Christ, never through our human effort alone. Philippians,

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chapter three and verse three. The Bible reads, for we

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are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit and

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rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence hah in

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the flesh, and so I want you to identify one

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place where you subconsciously trust your own works and surrender

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it intentionally to Christ. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,