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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 Monday, February 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 Paul's Past Life, Paul's

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Past Life. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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just say welcome to everyone joining us as usual, especially

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

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Portion dot com and do whatever it is that God

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is calling you to do there. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day. Thank you

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for loving us the way you do. Please help us

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to not live in our past lives, but live in

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the present with You in Jesus name, I pray Amen

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and Amen again. Okay, So the lesson writer says it

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is a common experience for Christian converts to think of

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their lives in terms of before they accepted Christ and after,

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just as Paul does in Philippians chapter three. Nevertheless, rightly

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or wrongly, I want you to get that point. We

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sometimes speak of those who are not Christians as being

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quote good people, at least according to the world standards.

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Many indeed are in contrast compared to God's standard. No

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one is oh oh wait, a minute plot twist, and

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that means including us. I'm talking about believers, including us.

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And so yesterday I meandered into part of what we

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would teach today in Philippians chapter three. Now we're going

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to jump in with two feet unapologetically. Philippians chapter three,

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beginning at verse four. Philippians chapter three, beginning at verse four,

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where the Bible reads. So we already have the backdrop

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from yesterday where Paul is saying, you know what, my

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confidence is not in God, I mean a part of me,

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not in my self. I'm yielding myself to the degree

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that I am dying to self, dying to sin, so

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that God can work through me and raise me up

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to be victorious. And now he's going to give his resume,

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and why he thinks this way? Now? Right, though I

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might have confidence in the flesh. In fact, let me

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go to the new English translation, though mine too are significant,

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I would have confidence in the flesh. Okay, credentials. Maybe

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I should go back to verse three, the last part,

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don't rely on your human credentials, though mine too are significant.

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If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence

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in human credentials, I'm more I was circumcised on the

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eighth day from the people of Israel and the tribe

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of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to

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the law as a pharisee. Can you imagine, like he

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was top top shelf. Like he's a top shelf guy

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right in my zeal for God, I persecuted the church.

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Wait a minute, what, Yeah, I guess that was on

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his resume before he got converted. H according to righteousness,

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according to the righteousness stipulated by the law, I was blameless.

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Oh so he has this resume, but now we are

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seeing that he's like, I don't want no part of that.

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No more. I'm not going to tick all the boxes anymore.

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I'm not going to say that I am plant based

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as a way of righteousness. I'm plant based. I'm a

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plant based person. So don't text me or email me. Listen,

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I'm a plant based person. If it doesn't grow from

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the ground, I'm not messing with it. Okay, So fine,

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Because you know that the seventh day is the Sabbath

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of the Lord your God, and in it you should

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do no work. Yes, you know it's a sign between

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Christ and between Christ and us that he's the one

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that sanctifies us. You're intellectually right, you're astute, Okay, fine, right, fine,

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because you know the great commission that we're to teach, preach, baptize,

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and bring people into the faith of Christ. You know

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that intellectually. You know what the eighteen forty four means.

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You know what the twenty three hundred days prophecy means.

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You've understood the seventy weeks prophecy to extreme detail. You

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know what that. You know the thirteen thirty five. Oh

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wait a minute, that's a whole different prophecy. You know

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how to argue the point about the one hundred and

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forty four thousand congratulations. You are a sinner and that's it,

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just like me, saved by grace. I'm just saying. And

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there's so many other things that we stack on to

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our spiritual resumes, and Paul is teaching us that we

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should surrender all our will to God and forget about

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all that stuff. Forget about it. And for those who

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are on the radio, you're not able to visually see

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my passion. The program is not suspended. Nothing happened to

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the signal. I just need this to settle in. I

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need to slow down the pace here. Think of all

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that you have. All of your righteousness says, oh, yes,

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we are going back to the book of Isaiah. All

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of your righteousness, says, All of my righteousness says, are

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as what filthy rags menstrual cloths. That's what That's what

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the text actually meant when Isaiah said it, all of

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my righteousness is are as clean as menstrual cloths. I

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think we can continue now, are we clear here? And

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so our lesson number one regarding all of the good

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stuff that we can say about ourselves is human credentials

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cannot make us righteous, even when they appear impressive by

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religious or quote moral standards or moral standards. Okay. And

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so when he talks about the flesh in this text

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in Philippians chapter three, verses four through six, it means

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human effort or status or merit as a basis for righteousness.

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So if we think that because we've done X and

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it's a spiritual thing, or we've done why because it's

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a spiritual thing, and that God owes us something as

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a result, that we will be more holy in the

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sight of God because we're or obedient, that's not true.

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Not only is it true, it's flesh. It's it's unholy.

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That concept is unholy and it works against us. And

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so the action step here is to name one flesh

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based credential you've trusted in. I'm talking about the good

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stuff you've trusted in, religious or moral, or cultural, it

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could even be professional right and surrender it in prayer,

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acknowledging Christ as your only righteousness. Lesson number two, The

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Law reveals sin, talking about the Ten Commandments law in

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particular at the heart level, exposing our need for Christ's

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righteousness rather than our own performance.

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Speaker 1: Ooh.

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Speaker 2: In Romans chapter seven, Paul speaking, I had not known sin,

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but by the law thou shalt not covet right then

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and then, of course, the spirituality of the law is

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revealed in Matthew chapter five, verses twenty seven and twenty eight.

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And so the heart it means the inner person where

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the motives, desires, and thoughts reside. The action step is

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that we invite the holy ghosts to expose the hidden

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heart level sin and ask for cleansing. There are ways

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that we behave. If I say the name of Jesus,

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blessed be his name, over and over again, don't be

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convinced that I'm a follower. Don't be convinced by that.

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Know based on the fruit of righteousness from every person,

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but ask God to expose every heart level sin and

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ask for cleansing, not behavior modification. 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,