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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, March

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twenty one, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host den This is your

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Daily 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 in Philippians

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and Colossians. We are opening up our final lesson number

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thirteen under the caption standing in all the Will of God,

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Standing in all the Will of God. All right, So

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let's go ahead and ask everybody who has not already

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And if God is inspiring you, please go ahead and

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click the contribute button. Because this is a listener and

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viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father, thank you for this Sabbath

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morning and the privilege that you have given us to

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stand on your words, standing on the promises of Christ,

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my King. Ah. Yes, God, please help us to do

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so until Jesus comes in Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and a man again. We are grateful. We are grateful

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brothers and sisters, because God has revealed his will. He

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has revealed his will. He has not put us in

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a position where we need to guess. We have to

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figure it out on our own. We have to be

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on just the right pathway in order to know. He

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has opened up his word to us sixty six blessed books.

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He has given us the Holy Spirit to teach us

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whatsoever Jesus commanded when Jesus lived on planet Earth. We

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have the experience and example of Jesus Christ. And so

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all we need to do is now, having on the

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entire armor of God. Stand stand therefore in the entire

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armor of God, God's will, okay, And so we begin

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with a quote a quote from the book The Acts

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of the Apostles, The Acts of the Apostles, page four

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hundred eighty two, where it reads those who stand under

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the blood stained band of Prince Emanuel, that means you're

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on the Lord side, yes, and you accept the salvation

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that comes through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. So those

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who are standing in that way should be faithful soldiers,

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true to their leader. And so God forbid if I

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am not a faithful soldier, If God forbid i am

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not true to my leader, that means I'm not standing

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under the blood stained banner of Prince Emmanuel. That means

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if you look at the lesson we did two quarters ago,

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looking at the Exodus, from the exit from Egypt to

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the Promised Land, we see that the people of God

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under the plague, the plague where now we have what

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is called the Passover, where the death Angel was going

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to run through Egypt and destroy the first born of

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anything not covered by the blood. We see that the

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people of God followed the godidance where they were to

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apply the blood to their doorposts, to the lintel. And

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you know in the way that God prescribed as an

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act of faith. And God promised that anybody who does

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that will be protected, and so and so if somebody

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said that they had done it and they didn't do it,

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then they would show up not as faithful soldiers. They

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would show up as not being true to their leader.

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And let me say this, this is not something that

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preaches well, but it's the truth. And then they would

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have been destroyed. I think you're hearing where I'm going

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with this. And so it's our privilege to stand on

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the promises of Christ. Are our king. It is our

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privilege to be up under the bloodstained banner of princey Manuel.

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But there is no way that we can fake that,

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because it will be manifest in our lack of faithfulness will.

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It will be manifest in us not being true to

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our o It'll be manifest when we are exposed God

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forbid as impostors and ultimately remain disconnected from God. And

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so now we need some lessons. This is a good

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place for our lessons. Number One, God's will is lived

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through faithful relationships. The Bible teaches us in Colossian chapter

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four and verse seven. All my state shall taikikus declare

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unto you who is a beloved brother and a faithful

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minister and fellow servant in the Lord. What is he saying?

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Very simply, this particular brother is somebody that Paul loved.

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According to what Jesus said, they will know that you

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are my disciples if you have loved one toward another.

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And the second and great commandment is like unto the first,

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that you will love your neighbor as yourself. And so

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this is a loving experience, a loving relationship in what's

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called fellowship. And now we know that Paul is closing

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the Colossians by naming co workers, real life people who

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are living according to God's word. God's will is not

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set in a vacuum or in an abstract setting or

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in some way that we have to figure it out

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or guess what is God getting at. It's carried through

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faithful people working together. Do you remember that was a prerequisite,

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the prerequisite really in the first century Church where Jesus

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said that I need you to go into this upper room.

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I need you to tarry there until the Holy Ghost comes,

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as I am promising you, and then ye shall be

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my witnesses into all of the world.

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Speaker 1: And so.

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Speaker 2: This is something that's illustrating that we are bound together

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to the same master, meaning Jesus. God will advance through

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God's will, advances through shared submission to Christ. And so

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Paul didn't stand alone in God's will. I want to

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speak to the people who either outrun others because you're

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so driven, you are so focused, you are competitive. Well,

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you bring that into the faith and that means you

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stand alone. Or speak to the people who are introverted

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in nature, who would prefer to do things on their

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own because fill in the blank here, Well, in that case,

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then we will not keep the faith. We will not

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be true soldiers for the Cross. Because God never intended

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for us to be alone. It is not good that

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we should be alone, that we should in fact unify,

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that we should not forsake the assembling of ourselves together

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as the manner of some is, especially in the last days.

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And so God is giving us a way to move

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forward through cooperation, trust and shared responsibility. And so I

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need you to please identify at least one person God

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has placed alongside you. Pray for them today this Sabbath morning.

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I want you to pray for them because likely it's

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popping up in your mind right now who it could be,

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and intentionally support their calling This week lesson number two.

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God's will requires perseverance through imperfect people. I wish I

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had time to tell you a long story about one

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of the times I was an elder in West Kingston.

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But I've seen God basically work through the elders, imperfect people.

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We all were to do some incredible things many years ago,

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maybe ten years ago or so. And I'm like, God,

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we're up against some super spiritual dark stuff, and you

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come through for us every single time. Why are you

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so good to us? And so in Acts chapter fifteen

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and verse thirty nine we read and the contention was

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so sharp between them, So between the two men of God,

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the contention was so ridiculous between them that they departed

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asunder one from another. And so Paul's ministry network included

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restored failures and strained relationships. God's will was not halted

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by human weaknesses. He even said that one of the

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brothers that he separated from later on, he said, he

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is all together fruitful. His ministry is all together fruitful.

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So God's will is to pre persevere even through relationships

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with imperfect people. Make it a great Sabbath peace. Thanks

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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,