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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 Wednesday, January

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twenty one, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El

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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 Unity Uniting, excuse me, Heaven and Earth

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Christ in Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today

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is the Mind of Christ. The Mind of Christ. Now,

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we studied some of that yesterday. In fact, we studied

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the main passage for today yesterday. But now we're going

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to undergird it some more and let you go. Okay,

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before we get into that, i'd like to say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we thank you

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for this day and the opportunity that we have to

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serve you and to do your will. I'm asking you now, Father,

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to please open up our understanding. Give us understanding that

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is beyond our our natural abilities. Give us supernatural abilities.

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Now give us the mind of Christ. Please, in Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and amen again the mind of Christ.

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Now let me just say, let me just say, yesterday

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we explored the mind of Christ from from Philippians chapter

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two Versus five through until I just got tired of reading, right, Yeah,

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And so the principle that we underscored was his humility

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and the fact that Jesus gave all in order to

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save us. And quite frankly, we don't just need a

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transplant like we need. We don't just need a renovation,

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like we need a do over, like we need to

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be reborn. So we underscored that. But today I want

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you to focus your mind on the humanity of Christ

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a little bit, okay, And so the fact that Jesus

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is one hundred percent divine, just like the Father is,

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just like the Holy Ghost is. And yet he took

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on human flesh. That's the great mystery. That's the great mystery, greatest,

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the mystery of God, that God became man. So wow,

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that's amazing. But while he lived on planet Earth, Jesus Christ,

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his humanity was tempted in all points like as we are,

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and yet without sin. Well, what does that mean? I'll

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say it very simply. If you read in the Bible

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books of Matthew and Luke what we call temptations of Christ.

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When Jesus was in the wilderness, he was filled with

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the Holy Ghost, led into the wilderness of the Holy Spirit.

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He is fasting for forty complete days, right, and then

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the Bible says that the devil comes to tempt him.

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In the book of Luke, we see the temptations in

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a certain sequence, in a certain sequence I'm thinking that

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the one in Matthew is the natural sequence, like what happened,

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And then in Luke, for some reason, it is reorganized

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in a different sequence. Well, in that reorganization it agrees

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though with or telling of the story right, it agrees

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with what John says that we need to walk away,

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like run away and abandon, run away from and abandon

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the deeds of the flesh, the deeds of the flesh.

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So he talks about the lust of the flesh, the

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lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, and

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those things are contrary to being in the family of God,

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you see. And so the devil tempted Jesus. And in

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just that one instance, I'm saying, I'm not even talking

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about the thirty three and one half years that Jesus

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lived on planet Earth. But even in the one instance

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in the wilderness being tempted of the devil. In the

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Luke account, we see it in that very order, lust

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of the flesh turn these stones into bread, lust of

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the eyes right, and pride of life. We see all

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of these kingdoms. I will give unto you if you

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will just do this. He's lying, he has no capacity

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to do that. And then pride of life job, throw

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yourself down from here, and it's like whoa wait a minute. So,

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in all points, in all ways, in all categories of temptation,

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Jesus experienced that all at the same time, especially especially

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throughout his life, in a way that no human has

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ever been tempted, because no human has the capacity to

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destroy the planet. No human could have destroyed the devil.

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And Jesus held the level of submission to God our Father,

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and he resisted speeding up the process. He resisted making

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himself comfortable while he's on planet Earth. He resisted doing

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things in all to keep himself from committing sin that

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you can't do. Okay, So we see Jesus doing all

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kinds of things while on planet Earth that you don't

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have the capacity to do, nor do I. However, nothing

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that has to do with overcoming sin, nothing that has

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to do with making himself comfortable, was done in his

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own strength. He relied on the Father's and the holy

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ghosts through the entire process. Even angels had to minister

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to Jesus at certain points in his earthly life, okay.

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And so the mindset of Christ is complete submission to

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God our Father's will and allowing him through our submission,

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through our humility, not talking about where the greatest of

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all time? Like the lesson writer illustrated one of the

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athletes in boxing used to talk about that. We don't

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talk about it that way in our lives, right, but

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to say, we are submitting ourselves to God and then

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we have the capacity to resist the devil and he

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will flee from us. That is the mindset of Christ,

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humility and submission. So let's see if we can get

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some lessons out of this. I said a lot already.

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The lesson number one is Christ's humility is the model

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for all Christian unity and self denial. So what I

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want you to do, because we've already read the passages

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I would have read right here, what I want you

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to do is just choose one privilege or preference today

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and willingly lay it down, lay it aside for someone

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else's good. Maybe I shouldn't say privilege. Maybe I should

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say right right, choose one right today and then willingly

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lay it aside so it can benefit someone else. Maybe

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you have the right to comfort because you worked really hard.

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You worked really hard, and today was the day that

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you were going to rest your weary bones. Well, maybe

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today is the day that you reconfigure and you invest

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some more time with someone that needs you. Maybe you

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have the right to spend or invest the money that

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you have earned through your hard work and dedication. But

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there's someone who needs you. They need food, they need clothing,

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they need shelter, They need a visit from you because

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they're incarcerated. They need a kind word from you because

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they feel like their month and money don't align and

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they just can't take it anymore. So choose one right

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or preference today and willingly lay it aside for someone

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else's benefit. Let's go to lessen number two. Christ obeyed

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fully even through suffering, revealing a path for true discipleship.

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And Hebrews chapter five and verse eight, the Bible reads,

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though he were a son, yet learned he obedient by

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the things he suffered. Let me read it another way,

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although he was a son, he learned obedience through the

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things he suffered. And so today respond to one difficult situation,

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just one today, with obedience to God's word rather than

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emotion or pride. Lesson number three. Christ's voluntary death as

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our substitute, calls us to humility, gratitude, and worship, not

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self reliance. Today I want you to invest a moment

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thanking God for Jesus's sacrifice, acknowledging that nothing you do

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can add to his complete work of salvation. Make it

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a great day, Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah.