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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 Sunday, February one,

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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 uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians and Colossians,

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and our caption for today is Rejoice in the Lord.

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Rejoicing in the Lord. Before we get into that, i'd

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like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this new day,

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this day that you have entrusted to us to do

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your work. Please help us to serve you today. We

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need you in Jesus name, I pray a man and

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a man again rejoicing in the Lord. We're going to

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begin by reading from the Bible Book of Philippians Philippians,

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chapter three, and I will read beginning at verse one. Finally,

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my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. It's amazing. I've said

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this to you before that our brother Paul was talking

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about rejoicing in the Lord while he was locked up,

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and unjustly so. But he said, you, brethren, you brothers

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and sisters, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same

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things to you to me, indeed is not grievous, but

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for you it is safe. Let me read it. Let

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me read it in another translation. Finally, my brothers and

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sisters rejoice in the Lord. To write this again is

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no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.

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Beware of dogs verse two, beware of evil workers, beware

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of those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision.

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That just basically means we are God's people. I'll keep

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that very simply. The ones who worship by the spirit

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of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely

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on human credentials. I think yesterday I talked to you

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about having no confidence in the flesh, and talk to

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you about how he just really turned his back on

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his own resume his own skill set, and said, I

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think I'm just gonna submit my will here and accept

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God's righteousness through Christ. Okay, so we don't rely on

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human credentials verse four, though mine too are significant. See

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what that word for significant means. Though I have reason

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for confidence in the flesh. Is what that means. In

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the footnote, if someone thinks he has good reasons to

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put confidence in human credentials, I have more. And then

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he goes on, he goes on, and so what we

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want to do. I got ahead of my skis, but

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I just couldn't stop at verse three. We want to

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get back to rejoicing in the Lord our lesson. Number

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one in that regard is that joy protects believers from deception.

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Remember he said, beware of dogs, beware of all of

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these people, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision,

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which means mutilation, people who mutilate themselves, and people who

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really wouldn't have a problem eating you up and mutilating

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you spiritually in the church. Oh my, I digress. So

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joy protects the believer from deception because it is rooted

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in confidence in Christ and not flesh. And so the

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joy that he was talking about is korra. Korra in

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Greek used that word specifically. It means not based on circumstances.

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Karra means that it's not based on circumscs dances, but

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on Christ rather, but on Christ. And so what I

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want you to do today in that in that vein

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is begin with about sixty seconds of intentional rejoicing. Now

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some of you are like, come on, bro, I rejoice

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for hours. Well you do that. But for those of

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you who are struggling, I want you to begin with

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just sixty seconds of intentional rejoicing because maybe you have

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a habit of complaining. I don't know. Maybe you see

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the glass half empty most of the time. Maybe you

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see the dark side of things. It's natural for you

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because maybe it's in your DNA, maybe it's something that

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you were socialized with or in. And so I want

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you to do that naming three things? How many did

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I say? Type it in the chat? I need you

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to name three things Christ has already done for you.

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He's already done three things, more than three, but just

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he coord three things. Write it down. What are the

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three things God has already done for you? Lessen number two?

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Lessen number two. False confidence produces spiritual danger. False confidence

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reproduces excuse me, spiritual danger. True believers trust Christ alone

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and reject all flesh based righteousness. Ah, yes, yes, yes,

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see already we read the passage in Philippians, chapter three

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and verse three, and so let's go to this confidence concept.

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So the word that he used for confidence, it means

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trust based in something or someone. Paul rejects all self

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confidence as spiritual foundation. So the action step is identify

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one area where you rely on personal performance. Oh wait

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a minute, for spiritual assurance. Oh wait a minute. You

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have a habit of praying and then God says yes

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and he answers your prayers in the way that you

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anticipate many times. Yeah, don't don't listen, don't trust in

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your ability to pray, trust in the God to whom

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you pray, Okay, and consciously shift that trust to God.

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So let me say to you, like this, we are

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to have faith. The Bible says that we are to

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have faith God. Jesus said when he saw the one dude,

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he was like, Yo, I've never seen this kind of

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faith nowhere, even among God's people. This is some special faith.

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Oh my, Even Jesus said that about about that one brother, right, okay, right,

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And so sometimes we get that twisted and we say,

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I have so much faith, y'all want to you need

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a prayer? Answer like come to me, Like, come to

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me and I'll pray for you. And as a result,

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you're gonna get because I know God listens to me. Well, listen,

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maybe it's true that God listens to you, right, but

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you're not the only one, Like, you're not special that

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it's not that somehow God has endowed you with something

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that is not accessible to every single human being that

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Jesus died for. That would be everybody you see, and

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so the focus needs to be switched from I have

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so much faith and God answers my prayers to I

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thank God because He's powerful, and when it is according

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to His glory and to my benefit. This is what

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God does like it's for your glory, for your name's sake. God,

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So focus your attention there less than number three and final,

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spiritual vigilance includes rejoicing in the Lord while guarding against

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teachings that distort the Gospel. There are so many teachers

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and false teachers, false christs, false prophets in twenty twenty six,

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my goodness, and many of them are among the faith fellows.

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Many of them are sprinkled in among their growing like

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tears in the field of God's people. And so what

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Paul is saying is to beware of those, beware of

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those people, guard against teachings that distort the Gospel. Beware

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means to pay attention, to stay alert, a conscious call

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for spiritual discernment. Ask God for spiritual discernment. God help

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me to see what I naturally cannot see. And so

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the action step is to evaluate one teaching, habit or

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influence in your life through the scripture alone to confirm

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whether it aligns with the gospel. Make it a great day.

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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 El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,