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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, February eighteen,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 the Beginning and Initiator,

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The Beginning and Initiator. We'll get into that in just

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a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to

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Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,

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thank you for this day. Thank you for not leaving

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us after you created us. In Jesus' name, I pray

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Amen and Amen again. You know, boy, I don't want

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to be controversial. However, the reality is there are times

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that parents will start something and not finish. Let me

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just say it could be almost like our son Josiah.

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Let's just say that Simona and I got together. I'm

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making this up right because this is not my reality.

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But Simona and I got together, and then we have

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a liaison, and then Josiah is the fruit of that,

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he's born to us. And then I leave Simone and Josiah. Okay,

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I'm done thinking about that because that's crazy, Like I

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couldn't even imagine doing something like that. But this is

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what happens in real life, and it happens in reverse. Two.

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Sometimes mommies, for whatever reasons, abandon their children. This is

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not what God did. This is not what God did.

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God didn't start the process and then abandon us. He is. Okay,

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so back in the day, and I think it was

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in the eighteen hundreds, I know that the people were

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struggling over pantheism and deism, etc. Creeping into the church mindset.

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But deism basically means and part of me I'll oversimplify that. Basically,

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God started us. He started, he created, He created all things,

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and then he was just like, all right, so y'all,

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y'all work it out from here. You got it from here,

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I'm gonna go do something else, right, wind up and

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go all right, so you know, and then have no

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personal influence, have no personal interaction over his creation. And

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then then some other people got extremely creative and said,

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you know what, that Big Bang theory doesn't work for me,

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Like the traditional sort of evolutionary thought doesn't work for me.

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So what we're gonna do is say, maybe this is

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not how they devised this. But what we're gonna do

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is say that God is the God is the initiator

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of the bang. This is what they would say, Like, God,

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what did the Big Bang? It wasn't that, It just happened.

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But God is the one who initiated, like he's the

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big bang initiator. That's called theistic evolution. Of course I'm

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oversimplifying again. That ain't true. Now let's talk about what

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is true. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith.

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Let me start right there. But even before faith needed

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to exist, we can understand that Christ is the source

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and origin of all true life. Coming in from the Bible,

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Book of Colossians, chapter one and verse eighteen. This is

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where I get excited. I love learning about Jesus being

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the preeminent one, the author of our lives, the one

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who is still keeping us and the Bible reads. And

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he is the head of the body, the Church, who

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is the beginning, the first born from the dead man.

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Just say this real quick, that no one has ever

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come back from or ever can or will come back

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from the second death. Accept Jesus. May I just say

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that if God forbid. Like my mother who passed in

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twenty twenty, she passed away because at tractor trailer won

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in the fight between her and attractor trailer, She in

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her vehicle unfortunately and tragically lost that battle. That is

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not what we're talking about. We're not talking about the

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first death, because she will be resurrected when Jesus comes.

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This is what our hope is. You understand what I'm saying.

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But Jesus Christ, when he died, he died the second death.

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He died what we consider as eternal separation from God.

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He died the punishment for sin. The punishment for sin

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is not a car accident. The punishment for sin is

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not the untimely demise at the hands of a gunman

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like that is not the punishment for sin. The punishment

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for sin is eternal death, eternal separation from God, and

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that is executed after one thousand years following the coming

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of Jesus Christ, you understand. And that is when hell

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fire will rain down from heaven and destroy all sin

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and unrepented sinners. Of course, the devil is the chief

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one who's gonna be destroyed. So Jesus died that death,

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the second death. And guess what, He's the only one

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who came back from that. He's the only one who

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can or ever will come back from that.

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Speaker 1: Ah.

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Speaker 2: So this is amazing to see that Jesus Christ is

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the first born from the dead, that in all things

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he might have pre eminence. Let me read it in

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another version. He is the head of the body of

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the church as well as the beginning, the first born

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from among the dead, so that he himself may become

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a first in all things. He's first and being able

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to deliver you from your addictions to drugs or alcohol abuse.

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He's first and being able to deliver you and break

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the back of pride if you have spiritual pride. He

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is first in the ability, first and only and pre

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eminent and as the only one that can deliver you

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from every single besetting sin, whether it is an inherited

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tendency toward evil or it is a cultivated tendency toward evil.

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Jesus Christ is the only one whoever lives and makes

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intercession for you, who was acquainted with all of your infirmities,

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because he was tempted like as you are, and yet

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without sin. So Jesus being the pre eminent one that

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is critical in the place of salvation. So yes, he's

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the beginning. Yes he's the origin. Yes he's the source.

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Yes he is the initiating cause. Paul teaches that that

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word that I just described a moment ago beginning, origin, source,

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initiating cause, is to describe Jesus as the originating source,

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not merely the first in sequence. Christ does not begin

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things and then step aside. He remains the sustaining origin

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of creation, redemption and the church. So the ability to

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breathe here, how many times I have to inhale in

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order to get all these words out? Yep, He's the

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one that is responsible for that. For you to be

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able to listen and then go apply and share the

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gospel with people. You were leading people to Christ. Why

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because he is the preeminent one with all of the power,

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who is sustaining you and redeeming you so you can

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help someone else get saved. Do you understand every spiritual

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beginning flows from him? So here is the action step.

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Examine where you seek momentum. Recommit to letting Christ be

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the starting point of decisions, plans, and authorities, and not

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only that, not only that, to continue His good work

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in you. Second lesson, Christ initiates the new creation through resurrection.

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I said that already in another way. And then finally,

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Christ's pre eminence is earned through victory and not positioned alone.

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He was victorious over the grave and he can be

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victorious in your life. 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,