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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 Sabbath, January seventeen,

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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 series. This is lesson number four in the series

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Uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians, and

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our caption for today is Unity through Humility, Unity through Humility.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father,

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We thank you for this Sabbath morning, and I pray

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that you will give us a unified mind, help us

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to be unified with you and then have fellowship with

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your people. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen

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again unity through humility. Well, I want you to type

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in the chat what does humility mean to you? What

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does humility mean to you? Is it something positive? I'm

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talking about how you feel about it, how you see it?

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Are something other than positive? Is it negative? Is it

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something like when I was growing up in New York City,

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humility and being passive or whatever word you would use,

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were seen as weakness. What is humility to you? Now?

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For God's people, humility is a pathway of success because

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when we are proud, when we are in a position

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where we quote know everything, or we're trying to manage

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and do everything in our own strength or own mindset,

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then God is not in position to help us. He's

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not in position to give us the things that we

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need because we think we have it all covered already, okay,

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and so unity in or through humility. Let's go ahead

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and begin with a quote from Jan Laffenborough Loftborough Part

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of Me from eighteen seventy five, a Reviewing Herald article.

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Where humility is cherished, unity thrives, for no one seeks

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a higher place, but each seeks a deeper likeness to Christ.

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You see the crabs in a barrel. Mentality is antithetical

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to the connection with God that He wants for us.

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You see, when you have people that are all on

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the same team, God has given us all the same

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great commission to go ye into all the world, teach, preach, baptized,

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to represent Christ, so that others can be like him too,

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can be transformed and be and be in eternity with God.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: But when pride gets in, then the power of the

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Holy Ghost is not available to us. And without the

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Holy ghosts, we can't accomplish the goals the will that

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God has positioned for us in these last days. You

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see where I'm going with this. Let me read, Let

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me read from a quote in the Patriarchs and Prophets. Well,

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it's not a quote, but it's a thought based on

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the quote in chapter one. This is what I'm getting

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from it. The origin of disunity is found in pride

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and self exaltation of one who once stood in the

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presence of God. So where did pride come from? Where

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did the where did humility go down the tubes? Yeah?

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With Lucifer in his heart, Christ's humility alone can restore

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unity in his people. Okay, And so our lesson number

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one comes in from Jeremiah chapter seventeen and verse nine.

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And really, God wants us to tell the truth about ourselves.

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Tell the truth about ourselves. The heart is deceitful above

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all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? So

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we are naturally on our own. If left to our

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own devices, we are deceitful and crooked and unreliable. That is,

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that is the natural reality. But true unit requires us

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not to simply identify that reality. I think Christian he

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speaking people are very good at identifying problems. But what

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we need now is for God to transform us. So

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if our problem is that we are desperately wicked, our

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minds are deceitful above all things, then we surrender our

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mind and will to God so he can transform us

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so we're not in that same regard anymore. So true

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unity requires humility, because pride is the root of all disunity.

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So ask the Holy Ghost this Sabbath morning, God, reveal

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one area where pride is hindering my unity in the

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kinds of relationships that you want me to have. God,

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if I'm supposed to be unified in that faith fellowship

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that I am to attend in a couple of hours

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from now, then please show me where my pride is

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hindering the process. If we are to reach people outside

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of the wall that facility we call church, I said facility.

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I wish I had the time that we call the

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church so that people can be the church. Like, if

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I'm in the way, show me in what way I

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am in the way, Show me in what way I'm

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not yielding my will to you. Show me in what

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way I need to be marching in lockstep with other

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people who are serving you so that your name can

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be glorified. So ask God to reveal one area where

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pride is hindering unity in your relationships, especially inside the

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faith fellowship. Our second lesson is unity grows when believers

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think like Christ through his spirit guided thoughts. Remember, let

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this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

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Remember in Philippians chapter four and verse eight that God

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gives us lift of a list of things. Whatsoever things

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are just and honest and kind, and of good report,

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if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,

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think on these things. So our minds need to be

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yielded to God. We need to yield ourselves to God

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so that his mindset will being superimposed upon our mindset,

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and then we'll walk away from the sinful mindset. You see,

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in the Old Testament, God promised that he would he

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would do a surgery of sorts, a spiritual surgery, a

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transformative procedure, where he said he would take out from

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us the heart of stone and put in us a

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heart of flesh. That heart of flesh is the one

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that is more pliable, the one that is receptive to

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the will of God. And so we want to meditate

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intentionally on only things that are up in line with

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the mindset of God. And so choose one christ like

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thought one of the ones in the list in Philippians

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chapter four and verse eight, is it of good report?

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You want to do that when people are gossiping, is

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the good report one the one you want to focus on,

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whatever one it is, choose one and then meditate on

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it all throughout the day. Sounds simple, doesn't it. It's

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because it is, but it's not easy. Human beings are

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bent toward destruction, and so what we're doing is saying, God,

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I'm yielding my thought process to you, because without you,

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I will only go down the path toward destruction. Our

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third and final lesson is humility. The humility of Christ

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is the anchor and model for all Christian unity. And

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I said it already to you, but let me repeat

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it now. It's from Philippians, chapter two and verse five,

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Let this mind be in you, which was also in

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Christ Jesus. And then the Bible writer identifies how Jesus,

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in his humility, literally gave up his life. Can we

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just start with the fact that Jesus, because he is divine,

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had to agree to take on a human form in

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order to give up his life. Before he could even

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give up his life, he had to take on the

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life that would feel physical pain, that would experience hunger,

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that would need to rest at night, that would need

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to rely on God, our Father, through the Holy Ghost,

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like he is the one who created us, and yet

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he assumed human flesh so he could humble himself further

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and die the death, even the death of the cross.

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And so we want the same attitude of Jesus Christ,

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the same mindset practical moral wisdom of Jesus Christ. And

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so our action as we close is to emulate Christ

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today by choosing one of those humble actions, like I

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said a little earlier, in a situation where you could

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insist on doing things your own way.

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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,