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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, December

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twenty twenty twenty four. 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 themes in the Gospel of John, and our

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caption for today is be responsible with your influence, responsible

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for your influence. We'll get into that in just a moment,

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but first I'd like to say welcome to you and

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

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I need you to pick up this companion guide, the

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Life Application Companion for this lesson study because again there

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are so many ways that we need to apply these

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things to our lives. We pick four ways, four ways spiritually, personally, relationally,

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and professionally. So please please get that into your library.

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We'll read from it today and also 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 go ahead and

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pray and then we will get underway. Father, we do

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thank you for this day of preparation. Thank you for

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giving us the opportunity to worship you, and I'm asking

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you now to give us the fullness of your holy spirit.

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Please teach us how to love and to serve you,

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and teach us, please, God, to be responsible with what

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you give us in terms of influence. In Jesus' name,

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I pray a man and a man again. I hope

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you realize that you are very influential. I know the

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way that we live in twenty twenty four, there are

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people out there that are called influencers, and it's just like, okay,

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I don't know. I mean, I'm trying not to be disrespectful.

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I have a following, I'm on so many different platforms

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on the radio, on the television. Influential people are not

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people necessarily who just have a microphone. When you go

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into work, you're an influencer. Ah, when you are in

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the gym, working out, or on the road walking on

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the trail and there are people there, you are an influencer.

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Do you understand in your family unit, you are an influencer.

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Do not succumb to the mindset that people on the internet,

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and I know I mispronounced it. The people on the

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internet are the ones that are influencers. You are an

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influencer wherever you are. I think the songwriter said, bright

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in the corner where you are. And therefore we need God,

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all of us to teach us, whether we have a

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big social media or mainstream media following or not, whether

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we have people in a classroom setting, or because we

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are sports figures we have a captive audience in that

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way or not. Whatever the case, if we're doctors, lawyers,

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if we are people who assemble vehicles, people who are

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plumbers and teachers, and all sorts of other vocations in

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the world, or currently you're unemployed, ask God to show

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you how to be responsible with your influence. And therefore

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we read from the lesson directly from the book The

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Desire of Ages paid seven hundred and thirty eight. And

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then we'll go into our companion guide. Okay, and you

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can get that again at your Daily Portion dot com.

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And it reads Pilot longed to deliver Jesus. I would say,

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cue the violence. Pilot longed to deliver Jesus, but he

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saw that he could not do this and yet retain.

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Oh wait a minute, she didn't stop when she said

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the The prophet didn't stop and say that he could

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not do this. She didn't say Pilot longed to deliver Jesus,

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but he couldn't do it. She said, but he saw

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that he could not do this and yet retain his

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own position and honor. So really, the question for us

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today is are we more cherishing our positions and our

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honor than we are his honor? Are you? Are you

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more interested in your own in your own position or

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potential position than his honor. You have to answer that

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question for yourself. I'm not asking you to type it

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in the chat. That is a time for you to

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go to God and ask him the same question about you.

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Because our hearts are desperately sick. We don't know how

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we think, really and truly, I feel like I'm one

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of the most self aware people I've ever met, because

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I've been doing this work, this work of self awareness,

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this work of mastering my behavior styles for decades, for decades.

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And yet at the same time, the Bible says, the

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heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who

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can know it? This is why I go to God,

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and I need to talk to him about how I

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really am so that he can make me how he

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wants me to be. I wish I had the time,

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but let's continue the quote. Rather than lose his worldly power,

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what are you willing to lose, brothers and sisters and

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gain by serving God? Rather than to lose his worldly power?

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He chose to sacrifice an innocent life. What how many

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to escape life or suffering in like manners? Sacrifice? Principle,

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conscience and duty point one way, and self interest points another.

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Oh God help us. The current sets strongly in the

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wrong direction, and he who compromises with evil is swept away.

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Are you getting this imagery trying to swim upstream? There

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are creatures who have learned to swim upstream because what

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is upstream is their survival. What isstream is what more

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they prize than going with the flow. And so the

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inspired inspired writer is saying, the current sets strongly in

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the wrong direction, and he who compromises with evil is

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swept away into the thick darkness of guilt. And that

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is the end of the quote. We need to be

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responsible with our influence. We're not here to make a

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name for ourselves. If God chooses to honor us like

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Solomon and to call all nations into your bosom so

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that you can teach them the mysteries of God. You

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can show them how to relate, how to live, You

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can show them the secrets of success in business and

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all kinds of other things because God sends them there,

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because you're a city upon a hill, a light that

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cannot be hit. If God does that, praise God, like

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thank God. But in the meantime, ask God to show

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you brother, show you sister, how to be responsible. Don't

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try to make a name for yourself. And sometimes it's

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hard for me. I'm a coach, right, I'm a coach

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of successful people. I'm a coach of aspiring people. And

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it's like, ah, sometimes we have to do things that

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get our names in air quotes out there. I used

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to have a publicist back in the day. I remember

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two thousand. Wow, it's been that long twenty years ago.

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Like I had people like I had handlers. They put

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me on TV, radio, in the magazines, in the news

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all the time, all the time. Be careful with that,

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brothers and sisters. Sometimes we can be swept away in

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that and not be responsible with the influence. So we

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continue to ask God to make us responsible with our influence.

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So I'm going to our guide, our life application guide,

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and go to the professional application again. You can get

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that at your Daily portion dot com. W what is

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important now in professional settings? Pilot was in one. By

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the way, ethical dilemmas can often arise when the temptation

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to prioritize self interest over ethical conduct is strong. Have

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you ever been in that situation? I certainly have. Pilot's

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choice is a stark reminder of the consequences of compromising

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integrity for the sake of position or gain. Oh my,

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let's go to the next best move because we don't

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have a lot of time for the eye n next

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best move, Commit to ethical leadership, commit to it. Set

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an example in your workplace, and I would say also,

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or your business by making decisions that reflect honesty, fairness,

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and integrity, encourage a culture where truth and righteousness are

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valued above personal gain or convenience. We thank God that

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we can ask him for responsibility with our infant.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,