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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 Tuesday, February three,

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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 the Things that Matter,

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The Things that Matter. Before we get into that, I'd

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like to say welcome to you and ask you to

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and get under way. Father, We

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thank you for this day. Thank you for loving us

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beyond our capacity to listen and understand that you love us. Father,

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Please help us to love you in return, and to

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make the right thing the right thing, Make the most

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important thing, the most important thing in Jesus' name. I pray,

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amen and amen again, the things that matter. I want

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you to just do an exercise with me very quickly

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and type in the chat. You're on YouTube, you're on Facebook,

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Type in the chat what matters most to you? What

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matters most to you? Is it your family? Is it

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somebody in particular? Is it something and no shade like?

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Is it peace of mind? Is it faith in God?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: What matters most to you? The lesson writer says, as

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yesterday's study pointed out, the things that previously made Paul

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proud are actually hinderances to faith because they blinded him

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as to his need for Christ. Paul uses the language

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of commerce, gain and loss to describe his spiritual ledger

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prior to faith. I see what they did there. Although

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we don't like to think about it much, every human

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being has a spiritual ledger in air quotes for those

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who can't see me. Previously, Paul's ledger was measured by

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the values that he learned in his faith community of

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the time, rather than by biblical values as taught by Jesus.

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So again, I'm not asking you to type in the

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chat again, but I'm just saying, like, how are you

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even measuring? How are you measuring the value? Is it

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core values? Is it something that God gave you in

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a vision or a dream. Is it something that God

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just brought to your mind as you were interacting with someone,

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or you were in a worship experience, and then God

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just started to shine the light of understanding into your consciousness.

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I don't know what it is. Were you studying the

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Bible and then it seemed that WHOA, I'm experiencing this

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passage in a way that I had never done before,

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and now I have clarity. Whatever your experience are. Prayer

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is that God will help us make the most important

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thing the most important thing, And so we begin our

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study with lesson number one. Spiritual sight begins when we

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see our past quote gains and losses compared to knowing Christ.

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Let me say another way I need to say. I

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to just it, I have to adjust it. Spiritual sight

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begins when we see our past gains as loss. That's

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it compared to knowing Christ. And so in Philippians chapter three,

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verses seven and eight, the Bible reads, but what things

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were past tense gained to me? Those I counted loss

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for Christ? Yay, doubtless, I count all things but loss

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for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, Jesus, my Lord.

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Let me just say right here, excellency of the knowledge.

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It's not an intellectual thing to know, in Biblical speak,

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is to have an intimate experience, a fruitful and intimate

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Adam knew his wife Eve, and they and she bear

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a son, and so this kind of knowing, this kind

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of intimacy brings forth fruit. It's not just an intellectual situation.

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Let me read it from the New English translation. These

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assets you see that, But these assets, though the lesson

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writer was telling the truth, these assets I have come

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to regard now as liabilities because of Christ. More than

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that I now regard all things as liabilities compared to

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the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,

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and so loss in that text actually means disadvantage or detriment.

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So all of the good things about his past, his

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perfect resume, all that in his faith community gave him accolades,

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he said that it's a disadvantage. So it had been

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better if he hadn't had all of those accolades. It

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would have been better if he didn't have the plaques.

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I have plaques under my desk. No disrespect to those

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who gave them to me. I'm just saying I have

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plaques and awards and all kinds of things. And what

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he's saying is that those things were a detriment to him.

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What once seemed profitable is revealed as spiritual debt. I'm

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talking about the Greek word. I'm talking about the actual

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word he used for lost. Huh zamia. That's what it means,

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a detriment. All the good stuff they say about you,

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all of the awards ceremonies that they have even inside church.

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What Paul is saying is, oh wait a minute, that

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became spiritual debt. I think I'll stop before I get

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on a soapbox. So the action step is to identify

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just one gain you've mistake we can ly valued, and

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surrender it, asking Christ to reshape your ledger with Heaven's values.

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Shout to the accountants in the room. Shout to the

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bookkeepers in the room. Okay, Lessen number two, Lessen number two.

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True spiritual sight comes only when Christ removes blindness, when

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Christ removes blindness and reveals our real condition. Here is

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an example here in John chapter nine and verse thirty nine.

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The Bible reads, for judgment, I have come into this

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world so that those who do not see may gain

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their sight. So if in your own mind you are

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not able to see, you recognize that you are not

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able to see, you'll gain your sight, and those who

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see might become blind. So the proud people, the people

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who have all of the accolades, the people who think

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that they got it all figured out, the ones who

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have studied and know in air quotes, and they are

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resting on their laurels of knowledge and understanding and wisdom

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and thought and persuasion and philosophical prowess. Yeah, those people,

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it says, well, those will become blind. And so to

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be blind in this text is tough loss. Tough loss.

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Oh well, it's actually too floss. It's hard to pronounce.

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In English. Two floss, it means literal or spiritual inability

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to perceive divine truth. Oh wait, literal or spiritual inability

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to perceive divine truth. So God is saying, I want

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to remedy this too, floss. I don't want you to

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have an inability to see or perceive divine truth. I'm

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going to give you the principle of spiritual things are

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spiritually discerned. I'm going to ignite your mind with my

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vision so you can see as I see, as I

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reveal it to you through the Holy Ghost. And so

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the action step is to pray, Lord, reveal where I

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think I see, but I'm actually blind. And then what

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I want you to do is actually write it down.

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Write down one area where pride or habit may be

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blocking your site. It's not for somebody else to read,

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it's for you. And then finally, lessen number three, as

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we come to a swift close, earthly values and heavenly

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values cannot coexist. One will always choke out the other one.

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Ah choose wisely, Brothers and sisters choose the things that

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actually matter to God. 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,