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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 Monday, March two,

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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 Rooted and Growing in Christ.

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Rooted and Growing in Christ. Before we get into this,

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

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us for the very first time. I want you to

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go over to your Daily Portion. Please your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community. Pick up the

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your Daily Portion Life application Guide. Please contribute. We are

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a listener and viewer supported ministry. So much going on here,

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and also please let us know where you are in

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the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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

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Teach us that growth is non negotiable, that you created

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us for growth, and help us, Father to yield to

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the process and grow and grace. And in the knowledge

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of our our savior, Father, we thank you in Jesus' name.

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I pray, Amen and day men again rooted and growing

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in Christ. And so it is not lost on me

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that we are living in the last days. Do you

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believe that we are near to the coming of Jesus Christ?

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Please type in the chat do you believe that we

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are living in the time like where Jesus will soon come.

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I'm not talking about the way that my parents' parents

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talked about it in the forties and thirties. I'm not

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talking about that in the nineteen thirties or forties. I'm

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not talking about that. I'm talking about do you believe

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that Jesus is right upon us? Like soon we will

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look into the eastern sky and see Jesus coming. Well,

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I do, I do. And one of the things, one

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of the blessings, is that the Church, the Church of God,

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God's people, are in the shaking time, the shaking time.

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And I know that people have interesting perspectives on that,

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but let me just say that the shaking time is

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for us to settle into the truth. Some of you

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work in construction, and so you know what it's like

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to not just tamp down earth, but to cause it

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to vibrate and settle it down so that whatever you're

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building has a firm footing. And so I'm grateful that

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we are in the time to settle into the truth

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and to remember, as the lesson writer pointed us to Colossians,

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chapter two and verse six, as you therefore have received Christ,

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Jesus the Lord. So walk in him like don't forget

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about it. Don't go away from the basis of your

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faith that you started with. Like he who began a

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good work in you is able to keep you, and

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so we or to complete it. We don't want to

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start with Jesus and then end up in the flesh.

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Start with Jesus, end up with our own human ingenuity.

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We start with Jesus and then continue to walk in Jesus,

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rooted and growing in Christ. Let's go ahead and begin

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with our lesson number one. Then from the same passage

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I just read, salvation begins and continues. Get this with

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a person. Yes, I don't know that believers have done

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a good job at communicating this with people. Sometimes we

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say that our journey or our salvation begins with a

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Bible class. Sometimes we say and inadvertently misguide people to

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say that it begins with a process, which is baptism

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by immersion immersion. And I agree that baptism by immersion

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is essential to be baptized by the water and by

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the Holy Ghost. But we need to understand that salvation

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doesn't begin with the Ten Commandments law which I fully

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embrace and espouse even in twenty twenty six. Salvation begins

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with a person. It's Jesus Christ. We receive Jesus Christ,

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and then we receive his power to walk like him.

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And so Paul makes salvation relational and ongoing. So the

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longer we are connected with Jesus, then the more secure

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we are in terms of salvation. If we are disconnected

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from Jesus the person that relational experience, then we are

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at risk of being lost. We remain connected to the

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person Jesus Christ. We receive Christ himself, not boy, not

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ideas about him. I need to just pause right here.

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We're so good Christian Heese speaking people, but I'm saying

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and for those of you who are just getting acquainted

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with God, please just can you hold on for a second,

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give me a second to speak to the people who've

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been around a long time, like I've been in the

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way a long time, Like we used to hear the

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church people say right yeah, to get out of the way.

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Get out of the way, Get out of the way.

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Because sometimes our focus is communicating ideas about Him. Our

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prayer meetings have become preach meetings, preach and intelligence meetings

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when God wants us to connect with him, Like, how

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did our prayer meetings turn into preach meetings? How is

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it that we pray for five to ten minutes and

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preach for thirty minutes. That's not prayer meeting, that's preach

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meeting with a prayer bonus, you understand, Because our connection

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with Him seems to be waning in a way to

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where we are comfortable ideating about him, conceptualizing about him,

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referencing him as if he's not in the room with us.

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You ever talk about somebody behind their backs in front

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of their face, as if they're not even there, and

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you're like, yeah, so and so feeling the neck blank

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blank name that's right there, and just talking about the

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person that's like hello, hello, like I'm right here, I'm

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listening to you, and so Paul is taking a shot

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at that. The same way we begin our Christian journey

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is the way we continue daily dependence replaces self direction.

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Christianity that shifts from trust to Christ trust, excuse me,

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Christianity that shifts from trust in Christ to confidence in

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methods and systems or traditions or churches quietly loses its power.

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We talk a lot about creeping compromise, what people need

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to not have on their faces, what people need to

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not wear, what things we don't need dangling on our

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bodies or poked into holes that we created on our bodies.

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And listen, I understand, like no disrespect, Like I get it,

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I get it. But how come we don't? We don't.

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It's a blind spot that we put our confidence in

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methods and systems and traditions and organizations instead of Christ,

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who is the head of all of these things if

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they if those things are godly. If your methods are godly,

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then God is the head of that. Your systems, if

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they're godly, then He is the head of that. Like

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if your traditions are godly, then He's the head of that.

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If your church organization and its structure are godly, then

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Christ is the head of that. And so we thank

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God for that, but don't replace Christ with the things.

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And so the action step is to begin today by

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consciously placing one decision under Christ's lordship through prayer and

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studying the scriptures before you act. Our second lesson is

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from Colossians chapter two and verse seven. As we come

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to a swift close root to and built up in Him,

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and established in the faith as ye have been taught,

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abounding therein with thanksgiving. So we are rooted in faith,

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and that produces stability and growth. So Paul uses a

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plant metaphor to describe spiritual life. Roots develop below the

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surface before they grow visibly, and so a believer grounded

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in Christ draws nourishment from Him, nourishment from the scriptures,

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so that he or she will have the resilience to

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grow no matter what pressure comes. Stability doesn't come from appearance,

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but from depth of our connection with God. 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,