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

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

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

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to

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

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

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, December eleven,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption

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for today is Conflict Resolution, Conflict Resolute. Before we get

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into that, i'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. Please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please click

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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

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thank you for this day that you have entrusted to

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our care. Please, God, you said that we should, as

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much as it lieth unto us, live peaceably among all people,

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So help us to do that. Please, please, please, in

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Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again. Conflict resolution.

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I need to be honest with you. If you go

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into the actual lesson the adult study guide for today,

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you will see some really interesting communication principles, and I

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want you to go through those. I'm not going to

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do that here because you already have that in front

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of you, so I want you to drill that on

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your own time. It is six really good principles and

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so just again I wanted to highlight that so that

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you can go back and revisit. Now, let me share

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what's not in the actual study guide because I'm preparing

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for you. Right, We're going to go ahead and begin.

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We're going to begin with an old article again, let's

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call it a classic or a pioneer's article from Jan

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Andrews Reviewing Harold August fourteenth, eighteen sixty six and it reads.

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Unity must not be preserved at the expense of truth.

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Yet truth loses none of its strength when spoken in love.

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Reproof mingled with tenderness wins the heart. We're talking about

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conflict resolution, So there is a balance here about how

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we share what we share when there is a conflict.

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Is truth at stake?

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Speaker 1: Huh?

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Speaker 2: Is it a relationship that is at stake? Is it

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love that can be challenged here because of the way

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that we respond to people. Yeah, so reproof mingled with

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tenderness wins the heart. Now, coming in from the book

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Gospel Workers, page one hundred and nineteen, let us remember

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that in seeking to correct others, we must be tender, patient,

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and kind. Harsh words stir up strife, but a gentle

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answer will subdue anger and inspire confidence. So people really

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just need to know that you have their best interest

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at heart, even when they have to be reproved. So

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relationship matters. Relationship matters. It's all about relationship. And of

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course we are remaining true to God, his word and

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his guidance. Okay, So our first lesson is unity thrives

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when we seek understanding first. That's a basic Honestly, that's

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a basic communication principle seek to be seek to hear

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before seeking to be heard. That's a common principle. Let's

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read it from the Book of Psalm chapter one hundred

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and thirty three and verse one, and it reads, Behold,

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how good and how pleasant is it for brethren to

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dwell together in unity? How good and how pleasant it

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is for brethren to dwell together in unity? And so

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the Hebrew word for unity in this case means togetherness

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and one. So, of course, there was this big crisis

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in the Book of Joshua, chapter twenty two that almost

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tore the nation apart, and yet unity was preserved. Why

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how did they preserve unity? Let's see, did they apply

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the principles that we shared just a second ago. Because

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the leaders chose conversation over confrontation, conversation over confrontation. They

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asked questions before passing judgment, and I will say even

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instead of passing judgment, they listened before acting. You should

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be thinking like, is this the way that I deal

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with conflict? Is this the way I deal with fact finding?

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Or am I coming across as judgmental or as someone

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who was cross examining a witness on the witness stand.

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Listen before acting unity is not automatic or passive. God

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is giving us the privilege to choose unity, to protect unity,

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and strengthen unity through intentional communication. You already know that's

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my thing, and so our action step is before reacting

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to conflict. It's almost like what we talked about yesterday.

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Take time or invest time in understanding the other person's perspective,

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ask clarifying questions with a calm spirit under God. Lesson

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number two, Christ praise for unity based on love and truth.

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Now you know we're going into the Bible Book of John,

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chapter seventeen and verse twenty one. That is the what

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is called the high priestly Prayer of Christ and it

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reads He's asking his father that they may be one,

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as Thou Father art in me. So God has given

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us the standard of unity. Sometimes people are trying to unify,

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and I'm talking about people who say we're doing it

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under God, or trying to unify by throwing away truths,

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trying to subjugate people's mindsets so that they can become

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what they call unified. But really it's uniform. Uniformity and

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unity are two different things, but Jesus is giving us

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the standard first. The standard is the Father and Jesus's relationship. Well,

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what does it look like the Father, it says art

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he said, art in me and I in thee. So

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they are so closely aligned and allied it's difficult to

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tell who is at work here. At times. It's people

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are always trying to splice God and say, well, Jesus

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was at work here, God the Father was at work here,

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the Holy Ghost was at work here. Well, really, they

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are so allied and aligned that we sometimes can't even

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tell who's at work. Because God, the family of God, Father, Son,

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holy ghosts are at work so unified thou art in

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me and I in thee, that they also may be

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one in us. So if God's people are unified, they

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are unified in the same way and by the same

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standard that the Father and the Son are unified. So

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God has set the standard of unity, and when we

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are attaining to that same standard, then we also are

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one with God. And so the Greek word here in

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this case for unity means of purpose and of spirit.

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Jesus's prayer reveals that unity is not sameness, like I said,

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not uniformity, but shared allegiance to him. The Western and

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Eastern tribes had different territories, different geographies, different concerns, but

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one God, one faith, one covenant. Christ Like unity places

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mission above misunderstanding and truth above tradition. Our action step

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is to pray each day for the unity of your

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local fellowship, your church fellowship. Ask God to make you

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an instrument of peace and truth in your relationships. And

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let me just say the final lesson simply is conflict

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resolution requires humility, kindness, and restraint. We've already talked about that,

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So please, please please continue to trust God, continue to

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allow peace to live in your heart, and let God

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fight your battles 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,