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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 Friday, January two,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host and that this is your Daily

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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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Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ and Philippians

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and Colossians, and our caption for today is standing Firm

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in Faith, Standing Firm in Faith. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please

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join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion Life

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Application Guide. Let me ask you did you pick that

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Life Application Guide up. I'm not talking about the quarterly

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we know we have those, but I'm asking if you

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have the Life Application Guide. If you do, go ahead

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and type of one in the chat. Let me see

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how many people have the Life Application Guide. If not,

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please go ahead and pick that one up before the Sabbath.

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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, thank you for this day.

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Thank you for the preparation time that you give us

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right before the Sabbath every single week. And I pray

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that our minds will be preparing, that we will be

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preparing to see you face to face one day soon. Father,

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please give us faithfulness in Jesus name. I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. So the lesson writers has given us

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a quote from the Youth's instructor November ninth, eighteen ninety nine.

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I'll read just a little bit of it and then

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jump into our lesson number one for today, and it reads,

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God has chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the

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spirit and belief of the truth. God has chosen you,

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not just the youth, but He's chosen you too. I

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know most of the people who are listening and watching

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me this morning are elders. Even to me. I'm in

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my fifties and you could be my parents. Many of you,

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about seventy four percent of you are elders to me.

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But God has chosen you to salvation through sanctification, to

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be set apart for a holy use by the Holy

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Ghost and belief of the truth. Therefore, this is going

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to be very encouraging for people who are becoming weary

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in well doing. Some of you are tired of seeing

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what's happening in our world through the news cycle. You're like,

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how many times do we need to go through this

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or the other thing? Well, the inspired writings say, therefore

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stand fast. If you serve God faithfully, you will meet

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with prejudice and opposition. This is going to happen. Brothers

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and sisters. No need to get tired now, this is

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what's going to happen. But do not become provoked when

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you suffer wrongfully. Oh what so, some of y'all need

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to turn your social media pages right off. Turn them off.

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It was one thing back in the eighteen nineties when

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this was written. You know, it took some time for

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the message to get out when people would yield to

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provocation and then write it down, and she Auntie Ellen,

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would say, listen, don't give voice to the wickedness by

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putting it into our papers, meaning our publications like don't

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do that. So we should really follow that guidance today

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where it's so much faster and you can't take it

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back and the internet never forgets. Do not use the

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internet or social media in particular as a spiritual therapist.

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Stop putting every thought and feeling out there, especially when

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you're being provoked. When you suffer wrongfully, she said, do

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not retaliate. Hold fast your integrity in Christ. Set your

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face as flint heaven word that means, don't lose focus.

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Don't lose focus. Let others speak their own words and

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pursue their own course of action. It is for you

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to press on in meekness and lowliness of heart. You're

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not going to be able to control what people say

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and do. Run forward with Christ. She's saying, do your

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work with steadfast purpose, huh, with purity of heart, with

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all your might and strength, leaning on the arm of God.

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The true and exalted nature of your work you may

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never know the value of your being. You can measure

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only by the life given to save you. That means

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that the measure of your soul is not the way

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people see you, not the way people either applaud for

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you or disrespect you. The measure is that Jesus Christ

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gave his infinite of infinite value life for you. I

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don't know how to say it because I didn't write

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it down first. Yeah, of an inestimable value is the

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life of Christ, and this is what he gave so

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that you can be saved. Brothers and sisters, So switch

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the social media thing right off, especially when you are

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feeling emotional. Let me just pause right there, Pause right there,

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and let's jump in with our lesson Number one. God

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calls believers to stand firm through sanctification and of course truth,

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as we already read. Let's read again from Second Bessalonians,

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chapter two and verse thirteen, and we find the principle again.

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God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through

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sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth. That's

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where it came from, Okay, And that sanctification means the

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same as consecration. It means to be set aside because

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God has something he wants you to do that requires holiness.

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It does not only read a quoier skill. It does

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not only require the way He wired you behaviorally like

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behavior style wise. It doesn't only mean through your experiences

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as you've lived on planet Earth for fifteen twenty thirty

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seventy ninety years on planet Earth, it is that the

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Holy Ghost has set you aside as a child of

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God and a follower and an ambassador for him. You

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represent the King of kings and Lord of lords. Blessed

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be his name. And so that's what God wants for you.

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He's chosen you from before there was a beginning. Less

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of number two. Faithfulness invites opposition. That's what happens, like

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we become magnets of opposition. Yet integrity must remain unshaken.

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In First Peter, Chapter two, verses nineteen and twenty, it reads,

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for this is thankworthy if a man of conscience toward

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God endure Oh, no grief m hm, suffering wrongfully my God? Yeah.

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If when ye do well and suffer for it, ye

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take it patiently. This is acceptable to God. So suffering

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because of our own evil not acceptable huh, being punished

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because we have turned our backs on the law of

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God and it leaked into our practical lives, and the

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law of the land comes to deal with that. I'm

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talking about justly. I don't mean injustly justly well, that's

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not acceptable. God doesn't That is not God's intention for

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our lives. But if in this life we have to

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suffer for the time being, for the time being, not forever,

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but for the time being because of doing what God

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says that the Bible says is acceptable. I know it

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runs counter to our thought process. It seems unjust, and

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in fact it is. But the fact is that God

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is going to repay. He will bring retribution to the

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wickedness on planet Earth in one day. He will set

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justice as the standard. Our action for today is to

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respond to one unfair oh God, or irritating situation today

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with patience instead of retaliation. God wants to transform our

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minds and transform our lives. Brothers and sisters, we give

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God thanks. We give God thanks. He wants us to

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stand firm in the faith, but Jesus did it before

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we did, and now we can too. Make it a

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great day. Peace see you today. Thanks 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,