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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 Sunday, February fifteen,

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twoenty 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 in the Image of the

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Invisible God. Image of the Invisible God. 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 please go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community. Please please pick

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up your Daily Portion Life application guide and remember when

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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 new day and the opportunity we have

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to open up your word and I'm asking you to

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please please give us the fullness of your Holy spirit

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so we can see that your image is clearly manifest

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in the life and mind ministry of Jesus Christ, so

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we can be saved in Jesus name. I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. Let me just say to those of

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you who are not on YouTube with me, you're on Facebook,

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you're on the radio and podcasts, et cetera. Yes, there

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is a program that I do every Sunday morning at

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eight am. This is for you to share with your friends,

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especially your friends who may not have experienced the worship

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experience with you on yesterday. I think you know what

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I'm saying. So we have a program dedicated just for them,

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and hopefully you'll come through and support as well. Eight

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o'clock every single Sunday morning, okay, and so the image

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of the invisible God. Let me begin by reading a

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quote from Reviewing Harold way back when eighteen seventy six.

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As you can see, I am enamored by and am

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encouraged by these pioneers quotes, and it reads, in Christ,

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the divine glory is revealed. See back then, they did

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not play around with this thing, man, They were direct

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the glory. The divine glory is revealed because in him

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dwells the fullness of the Godhead. I think I went

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on a rant yesterday. I don't know if rant is

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a good word, but I was passionate yesterday, so I

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won't do it again today. To see Christ is to

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behold the Father's own character shining through my my mind.

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Let me read one more from eighteen ninety nine December

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twenty except the signs of the Times. In Christ, we

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behold the image of the Invisible God. That's what the

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text says. He is the embodiment of the law of God. Oh.

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I think I said something about that yesterday, which is

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a transcript of his character. Jesus is the embodiment of

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the law of God. Huh. And also he is the

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fullness of what God our Father represents. You understand, so

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he must not be diminished. If you see Jesus, you

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see God our Father. You see the character of Christ,

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you see the power of Christ, you see the dedication

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of Christ to our salvation. Then you see the Father,

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you see the love of Christ, you see the Father.

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So let's go ahead and begin. In Genesis chapter one,

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verses twenty six and twenty seven, the Bible says, let

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us make man in our image. So that is God,

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the Father, God the Son. And we see the Holy

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Spirit hovering over the waters. So let us make man

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in our image. So God created man in his own image.

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Of course I left some of the things out in

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the scripture. Humanity reflects God partially because humanity was created

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in the image of God. Do you see where we're

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going with this? So we represent God his attributes, the

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more nurturing attributes of his character seen in woman, the

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more stern attributes of his character in man. But that

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is still down the wrung. Even though Adam and Eve

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were created in the image of God, but Christ reveals

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God perfectly. Do you see those two humans even before

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they sinned? Do you needed two of them to even

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represent at all the attributes of the character of God.

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And even then it wasn't enough. Jesus Christ reveals God

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perfectly and so and so and so humanity bears God's

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likeness in terms of capacity and relationship, moral nature when

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we are surrendered to God and authority. And yet the

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image is a derivative and it's damaged by sin. I mean,

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do we need a whole Bible study about that? Like?

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What Christ, however, is not a shadow of God our Father.

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I need you to get this, brothers and sisters. Christ

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is not a shadow. Please never use that language where

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Christ is concerned. He is not a shadow of God

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our Father. He is the full, undiminished revelation of the

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unseen Father. And so what I want you to do

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and listen. I've had this discussion even within my faith fellowship.

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There were a few people, even prominent people within my

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faith fellowship. I can think of one in particular who

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does not accept this. The Bible teaches us very clearly.

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So in this action step, I want you to thank

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God specifically for today for one way his image still

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shines through your life. But remember, Jesus is the undiminished

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revelation of the unseen Father. You know why this is

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so important. I said a bunch of things yesterday, but

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I left out something critical. See, when Lucifer was becoming Satan,

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that mysterious fall of Satan, How art thou fallen? O Lucifer,

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Son of the Morning? How art thou you see? Like

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even the prophet is mystified? Like what in the world

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is going on here? One of the things that he

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was trying to do was usurp the authority of God.

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He has extreme disdain for Jesus Christ himself. We can

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see all of that as Jesus was living on planet Earth,

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especially as people worshiped him. The devil does not like

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people to worship Jesus. The devil does not like that

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Jesus is not a created being. The devil does not

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like the fact that Jesus is not simply an a angel.

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He does not like the fact that, Oh now I

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understand that he created me. He tried to beat He

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tried to replace God. He tried to replace Jesus Christ,

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God the Son. And therefore it makes sense that Jesus,

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Jesus is the one with his holy angels as they

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fought and the dragon and his evil angels it makes

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sense that Jesus single handedly, well I shouldn't say single handedly,

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but you get what I'm saying, kick the devil out

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of heaven, you see. And so the devil was defeated

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when Jesus laid down his life for us and then

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took it again on that first day. Colossian Chapter one,

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in verse fifteen, Who is the image of the invisible God?

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We said that Christ is the perfect and complete image,

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the visible manifestation of the invisible God. Unlike human reflections

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that are partial and marred, Jesus perfectly unveils the Father's character, will,

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and identity. He that hath seen me, Jesus said in

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John fourteen and verse nine, has seen the Father. And

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so I want you to read read one gospel verse

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one of those first four books of the Bible in

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the New Testament, Yes, a gospel verse today, and answer

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what does this reveal about the Father's heart. I'm so

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glad that God so loved the world that he gave

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us the best possible manifestation of his character in the person, work,

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and ministry of Jesus Christ. Make it a great day, peace.

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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.

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Speaker 1: Yeah,