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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, January one,

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twoenty 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 new

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lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians

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and Colossians. Wow, that's a lot, but we will continue

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to go through these lessons and get closer to Christ

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because again he is the focal point. Before we get

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into that, I'd like to just say welcome to everyone

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joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.

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Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community. Pick up the Your Daily Portion

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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, we thank you

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for this day and for the blessing you have been

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through the week so far. Father, Please help us to

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trust you and to put our minds in the position

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of surrender today. Please in Jesus name I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Our caption for today is the churches

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of Philippi and coloss Okay. And so I did say

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to you yesterday. I think it was yesterday that Paul

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didn't necessarily visit, or at least there's no record of

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him physically visiting Colossie. Now that's very interesting. That's very interesting.

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Even in this ministry that I do, I've been doing

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it way before. There was a Your Daily Portion back

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in twenty fourteen. Way before then. Before then, I remember

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a woman I can't say her name here, but in

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Hokkaido in Supporto in Japan, who used to say that

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I was her pastor. I have never been to Japan.

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I've definitely not been to where she was in Japan.

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But because of the way media went way back in

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the early two thousands and a program Wonderful Words of Life,

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I had an hour every single time we came together

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once per week that spread into all the world. And

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my sister, who is also a translator now for a

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Christian organization worldwide, said that I was her pastor, and

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I'm like, okay, Well, if we can do that in

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our day, then under the Holy ghost, of course, the

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people of God could have done it back then. And

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so the impact reverberates throughout the world still of the

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Word of God, no matter where we are in the world.

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Speaker 1: And so.

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Speaker 2: The lesson writer wanted us to consider Philippians chapter one

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and Colossians chapter one to talk about how Philippi, the

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churches at Philippi and Colossie were described. And listen, Paul

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has a habit, had a habit. His typical greeting in

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his letters calls Christians in those places saints. One of

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Simone's uncles would say, fellow saints, I love it. Yes,

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that is through baptism, they have been set aside or

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set apart, as God's holy people. I'll just leave right

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there and we'll jump in with our first lesson. Lesson

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number one. Believers in both places were described as saints,

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as God's people. Let's just read one verse Philippians, chapter

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one and verse one, where the Bible reads Paul and

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Timothy Timothy the servants of Christ. So he's identifying the

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two of them as servants of Christ to all the

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saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi. And that

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word actually means holy and set apart. Literally, the term

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that he used means holy and set apart. It does

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not mean that somehow the people, through some kind of

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mechanism after a person has passed away, have elevated them

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to what is called sainthood. No, it does not mean

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that somehow people were spying on them and looking through

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all of their records and everything that they said and did,

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and said, well, these people are elevated above the kind

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of people that just normally come in to the faith fellowship. No,

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the saints are those who are set apart holy because

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God said so. They surrender their will to God under

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the holy ghost. And because of that now they are

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called or should I say we are called, we are

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called saints. If Paul were living today, he would call

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us the same thing because we have the power of

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God in our lives and the covering of Jesus Christ. Okay,

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And so the action step is to remember your identity.

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I remember years ago we used to say, remember who

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you are and whose you are as one set apart

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for God and live one action today that reflects it?

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Is it how you pray this morning before you do

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anything in the morning, you say, God, now you have

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set me aside. You have set me apart for a

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holy youth. Can you teach me to live this way?

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You called me holy, You called me saying, now, please

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help me to live in that way? And it not

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just be words that I inside this faith fellowship, except

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let's move forward. Lessen Number two, Paul addressed both the

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members and the recognized leaders, showing early church organization. I

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know I had to slow myself down because sometimes people

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they start to itch. You get a little bit, you

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know what I mean, Like people start to get an

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allergic reaction because some people don't like organization. Just because

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some humans do organization poorly, that does not mean that

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it is a poor perspective. Like God gave his people

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organization before we were even called the church, before we

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were called Christians. Before there was a New Testament, God

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organized his people. I wish I had the time, but

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we just went through two solid quarters from Egypt all

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the way through to the Promised Land, and we see

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the organizational structure that God's set there, and no different

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in the New Testament era. And so in Colossians chapter

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one and verse two, the Bible reads to the saints

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and the faithful brethren in Christ, which are at Colossie.

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I'll say it in the New English translation, to the Saints,

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the faithful brothers and sisters in Christ at Colossie. And

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so this means this faithfulness means trustworthy and loyal, trustworthy

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and loyal. Are the people that are set as our

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leadership servant leaders, servant leaders. That's a different kind of leadership.

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It is not a hierarchical leadership. It is not a

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top down, authoritated, authoritarian leadership. It's a it's a servitude

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that Jesus demonstrated, and of course the apostles did too.

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But are those individuals faithful, trustworthy, loyal, faithful, trustworthy and loyal.

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That's what the word pistos pissed toss means. Faithful, faithful

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brothers and sisters faithful, trustworthy, loyal. What I want you

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to do, rather than to criticize, is to identify just

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one church leader, someone who has been set to guide

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the people of God and to assist the people of

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God in these last days. Pray for just one today,

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and then send them one word of encouragement. I do

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not mean send them a whole Bible text or Bible study.

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I don't mean to send them an Auntie Ellen quote,

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which fine, go for it, but I'm talking about the

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kind that really speaks to the person. I picked up

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the phone and called one leader, one pastor, and I

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just checked on him after Melissa the hurricane Melissa. I

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called him and said, how are you doing? Because I

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know his church district has a whole lot of people

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in it, and he as the shepherd of that flock,

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or under shepherd, as the case may be. He has

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to carry a heavy load, and he's a family man,

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and he is a filling the blank, filling the blank,

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filling the blank. I wanted to know how he was

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doing as a human. Our leaders are humans too. I've

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been a leader for many, many years, and I know

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what it's like not to be treated as a human.

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Let me just continue before I go too far Afield.

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The early church grew because trained co workers and organized

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leadership supported evangelism. They reached out from their collective and said,

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there are people out here that need to be saved

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by Jesus, and we're going to do our part to assist.

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Make it a great day. 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,