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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, December

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thirty one, twenty twenty five. 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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new Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in

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Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today is Paul

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and Colossie. Very interesting, Very interesting. We're gonna have a

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fun fact in just a moment, but before we do,

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I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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those joining us for the very first time. Please go

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over to your Daily Portion dot com. Join our online community.

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Pick up the Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide for

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those of you who have picked it up this quarter,

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you'll notice that even though we keep the same structure,

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my tone is more pastoral in nature, and the part

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where we are are really focusing on like how to

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apply before we get to the next best move that

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insight part like you'll notice that it's a little longer,

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but it's because I want you to give more keen

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thought to it. So please please pick up your Daily

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Portion Life Application Guide and also let us know where

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you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com.

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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, thank you for

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this day, for giving us the privilege of spreading the

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Gospel in whatever way you've called us to, if it's

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at the gym, You've shown us how to be kind

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to people or helpful in some way. Father, there are

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just so many ways that you have manifest your power

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in our lives so that we can we can be

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the word of God to the people or representation, if

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that's better way of saying it. God in Jesus' name,

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I pray Amen Amen again. Okay, So fun fact, right,

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out of the lesson. The beginning of the lesson, we

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have no record of Paul ever visiting Colossie. Now this

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tells us something about the effectiveness of his evangelistic strategy.

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I don't know if he called it an evangelistic strategy,

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or if he called it a strategy at all, or

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whether he was simply listening to what God would say.

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Go here, do this, brother, Paul, do this. First, it

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was Epaphras, a resident of Colossie, who brought the gospel

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to that city. But now, how was he converted? Most

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likely it was in the mid fifties when Paul, or

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let's just see how most likely it was in the

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mid fifties when Paul was in nearby Ephesus, and all

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they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the

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Lord Jesus. And I could go on. I don't want

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it to become too academic. I just need you to

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focus on the fact that God has a way of

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impacting places, impacting societies and communities people around the world

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because of your faithfulness, the faithfulness that He has placed

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in your life, and you going out and doing what

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God has called you to do has now impacted places

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all around the world, people you may never meet. Your

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daily portion is an example. I may never meet. No,

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I'm never going to meet most of you. Really, I

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mean it's hundreds of thousands of you watching every day.

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I hope to meet many of you, and I have

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met some of you. But the Word of God goes

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forward from this vantage point and from your vantage point

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where you are sharing the Word, you are sharing this program,

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you are sharing other things that you enjoy from the

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Word of God with people, and they are being transformed.

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And so this is the case with brother Paul. I'm

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going in for a quote now, a quote now from

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the book The Acts of the Apostles, page sixty nine.

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When the laws of men conflict with the Word and

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law of God, we are not to oh, we are

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to obey God, whatever the consequences. Paul was told many

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times stop the preaching, stop preaching in that name, and

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the Bible teaches us that rather than to listen to

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that and to separate himself from God, he did exactly

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what God said instead. And so Lesson Number one is

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that the Gospel spreads most effectively when converted believers are

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those are people who are really transformed by God, not

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just talking about it, Uh take it home. We take

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it home. And I already mentioned something about epaphras, but

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let's read it from Collassians, chapter one and verse seven.

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As ye also learned of Epaphras, our fellow servant, who

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is for you a faithful minister of Christ. He was

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a servant. He was a minister for Christ based on

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what he was learning from the mission of Brother Paul.

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Share one truth. That's the action for you right now,

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for me to share one truth from scripture today with

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someone in your natural circle. And why do I say

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natural circle? See, Jesus said that when he was here

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he was going to go back to Heaven, and he

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was telling the people how to be a witness. He said,

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you're going to be witnesses in Jerusalem, then in all Judea.

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And then you see what I mean like if you

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look at the progression of what Jesus was teaching them,

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it was going out from the nearest part where we

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had the they had the most influence in concentric circles,

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ever widening out into where he finally says, into the

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utterermost parts of the world. So we start right here

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and then move out from right here? Is it in

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your home? Is it at the gym where you are

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now exercising. Is it in the taxi that you take

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often and you experience that same driver often. Is it

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on the bus where you travel, or train or tram

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or some other mode of transportation. Some of you live

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in Asia where you may be taking different modes of transportation,

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And so God wants you to share the truth, whatever

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that means in your experience in your natural circle. Starting

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with the nearest point. Our second lesson is that the

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Gospel transforms relationships and elevates believers to a shared spiritual family.

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So we find fellowship with one another. I am a

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part of a community that doctor Eric Thomas is the

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leader of. Yes, I'm a coach. Yes, I'm a a

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a consultant of sorts and some other things. And we're

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a part of a squad or a pack of individuals

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who are living in covenant relationship. And that is the

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kind of thing like once our relationships are elevated under God,

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then our effectiveness is elevated under God. What we could

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do as one loan individual is maximized by a thousandfold,

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by a millionfold when we have the kind of unity

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that is necessary to go forward in the Gospel. We

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see that in the first century church, Jesus told them

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to tarry in place and then wait for the fullness

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of the Holy Ghost so they could go out and

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do what God said on a new level. And so

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the Gospel transforms relationships and elevates believers to a shared

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spiritual family. In the book Philemann, verses fifteen and sixteen,

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we read, for perhaps he therefore departed former season, that

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thou shouldest received him forever, not now as a servant,

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but above as a servant, a brother and beloved. So

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this is showing us that kind of covenant family, that

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kind of relationship transition that goes much farther and beyond

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the simplistic of Okay, I know you, I'm an associate

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of yours and that's it. And so what I want

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you to do is to treat one person today with

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the dignity you would give a spiritual sibling in Christ. See,

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we're trying to elevate people in the way that we

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relate to them that hopefully they will see the blessing

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and then become actual spiritual siblings. I was in the

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store the other day buying whatever. After I went to

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the gym and the security officer, a woman. She said, hello,

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church brother, you see what I'm saying because we are

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indeed and in fact brothers and sisters in Christ. And

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our final lesson for this morning is Paul appealed to

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conscience when he was witnessing. He wasn't trying to force

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anybody into anything. He was showing the true that true

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Christian change grows from the heart, from the heart, not compulsion.

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Make it a great day, well, heyse 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,