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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 Sabbath, January ten,

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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 with Lesson number three Uniting Heaven and Earth,

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christ in Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today

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is Life and Death. Life and Death. Before we get

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into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,

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

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asking you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community, and please let us know

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where you are in the world at your Daily Portion

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dot com. This is one of the ways that we

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

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you for this Sabbath morning and for giving us the

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ability to see that life is what You've always wanted

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for us, and that more abundantly help us to live

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knowing that one day you will destroy death. In Jesus' name,

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I pray Amen and a man again. So let me

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read from Philippians, chapter one and verse twenty one, the

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Book of Philippians, chapter one and verse twenty one. The

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Bible reads, for me to live is Christ, and to

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die is gain. One more time, for me to live

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is Christ and to die is Gain. And so Paul

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was struggling with something very interesting at that time of

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his life to just basically say, listen, whatever it is

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that God wants me to do. Maybe struggle is not

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the right word, but it was a philosophical struggle, like,

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whatever God wants me to do while living on planet Earth,

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that's what I want to do. I want to be

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here as long as possible to make an impact on

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the people around me. And yet sometimes to the concept

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of laying down in rest is something that I consider,

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But then I think about the fact that people still

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need me for the glory of God. And then comes

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the idea that when I laid down my life. Now

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we're speaking spiritually and philosophically, I laid down my life,

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I gain eternal life. I laid down my way of thinking.

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I laid down my mistakes. I laid down even quote

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my righteousness. He was a Bible student and a Bible teacher.

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In fact, yes, scriptures, and he knew what Isaiah taught about.

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Even our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. So when we

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lay all of that down, we receive in exchange for

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this the life of Christ, the merits of Christ, all

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that Jesus did right will be placed into our spiritual

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bank accounts, if that's a good way of describing it.

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So for me to live is Christ and to die

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is Gain. Now let me just go ahead into our

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life application guide. Hopefully you will have gotten it or

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you can get it after the Sabbath, and we're gonna

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go with the spiritual app implication spiritual application of UH.

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And we'll begin with the letter W in when what

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is important? Now? Recognizing as the lesson writer identified early

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in the lesson that death is not a part of life.

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We've been telling ourselves that because I think we've accepted

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the status quo. We have somehow comforted ourselves in Babylon.

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I'm calling the whole earth Babylon. Don't quote me, don't

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say that I'm creating a new Bible standard. I'm not

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saying that. I'm just saying, like when God's people were

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in Babylon, some of them got comfortable with what was

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going on around them, and so I'm using I'm using Egypt,

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I'm using Babylon. I'm using all of the places where

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God exiled his people as a as a teaching point

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for planet Earth. Like some of us have gotten so

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comfortable down here that we just accept the negative things

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as a way a part of life, like just a

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side go in Jamaican parlance, Like that's not real. Death

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is not a part of life, but it is the

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enemy of life, defeated by Christ. He did that on

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planet Earth. And finally we will see the full fruit

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of that very soon. Now Jesus will be coming, and

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he's coming quickly, and his reward will be with him.

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Let's go to eye internalize the insight. Death was never

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built into life. Anymore than wreckage was built into a car.

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Can I say that one more time? Death was not

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built into life anymore than wreckage was built into a car.

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Christ died to destroy the devil who had the power

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of death and to deliver those who lived in bondage

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to the fear of death. Think about Paul's writings about

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that you do not have to accept death as a

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natural or inevitable reality in the ultimate sense, I said

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ultimate sense. Christ has already won the victory and your

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hope is in his power to give eternal life. So

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what do we do with this? So we've thought about it,

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We've considered what we need to think about it. Now

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what do we do? Well? Thank God today this Sabbath morning.

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I want you to thank God today for Christ's victory

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over death and ask him to free you from any

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fear or bondage related to death that may be limiting

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your faith or joy. Let me say it to you

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this way. There are times that people are just bracing,

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especially when we reach into our elder years. Many of you,

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seventy four percent of you are in your elder years.

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The people who are listening to and watching me write,

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and what happens when we reach a certain age, is

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that our siblings, our aunties and uncles, and our closest

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friends start to pass away because of the age. And

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that's what happens sometimes on planet Earth. And we've accepted

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that as the status quo, and at the same time

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we have such fear and foreboding like what now, who next? Well,

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I'm challenging you today to thank God for Christ's victory

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over death and ask him to free you from any

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fear or bondage related to death that may be limiting

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your faith or your joy. What next? Jesus is gonna

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come soon, and He's going to put a complete and

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ultimate end to it, and we will finally live in

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his presence eternally. Now, let's go back into the lesson

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and see what else we can glean with the time

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that we still have left. Let's go ahead with lesson

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number one. Christ destroyed the power of death and freed

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believers from its feet. We're going into the Bible Book

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of Hebrews chapter two, and I'll read parts of verses

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fourteen and fifteen Hebrews chapter two and parts of verses

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fourteen and fifteen, and the Bible reads that through death,

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Jesus he might destroy him that had the power of death,

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that is the devil, and to deliver them who, through

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fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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So God through Christ is rendering death and the devil powerless, powerless,

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and he's abolishing death for the final time. Now, the

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action step is to speak a prayer of gratitude that

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Christ has broken the power of death and the fear

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of death. Some of you are just entirely to fearful

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of death when Jesus has given us the victory. I

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just wish I had the time. I don't. Let's move

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to lesson number two. Lesson number two, and it's based

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on our memory text we've already read in Philippians, chapter

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one and verse twenty one. Paul lived with a singular

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focus to magnify Christ in life or in death. That

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was the I called it a conflict. I called it

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a thing, a challenge, But whatever it was, he was

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just saying, you know what, whatever God says, that's the

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right place, that's the right place. And so to live,

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to live, to live, to be alive with purpose, and

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to focus. That is what Paul taught us. Choose one

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action today that reflects a life centered in Christ.

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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,