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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, March eight,

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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 Heavenly minded net. Let's

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say that three times, heavenly mindedness. Before we get into that,

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I'd like to just 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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click that contribute button. We are listener and viewer supported.

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This is one of the ways we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for

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giving us the privilege of coming together one more time. Father,

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I'm asking you now to please make us heavenly minded

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and earthly good. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. So yeah, I just kind of gave you

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a sneak peek into my mind when I was praying,

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because we used to say, way back in the day,

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I was a little boy, and I used to hear

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my mom say it really that some people are so

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heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. That is

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not what we're talking about today. Not having our head

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up in the clouds, not making it seem as if

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nothing on planet Earth matters because we're going to heaven.

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That's not it. But when we are heavenly minded, When

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we are heavenly minded, that means that we are connecting

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so much with God that whatever his will is, whatever

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is going on in heaven, we need it. In earth. Remember,

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Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Okay,

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and so that is the goal. That is the goal.

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Let's go into the Bible book of Colossians, chapter three.

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That's Colossians chapter three, and I will read verses one

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through four three, verses one through four, and the Bible

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reads Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep

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seeking the things above where Christ is seated at the

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right hand of God. So now we have our positional perspective, Like,

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if you want to know what's important, I want you

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to look into the heavenly Throne room and see what's

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happening there with God seated with Christ at the right

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hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not

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on things on the earth, for ye are dead and

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your life is hid with Christ in God. So if

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your primary focus is what's right in front of you,

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like your bills, what car you have or don't have,

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the home that you have, these are all benign things.

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Like these are things that you know. We need somewhere

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to live. We need a way to move around, whether

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it's by foot, by animal, by bicycle, by motorbike, by scooter,

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by car, by suv, something else, boat, plane, or combination

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of all of what I just said, But that is

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not our focus. That may be a part of our reality,

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but it must not be our focus. Don't set your

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affection on the things beneath. Keep thinking about the things above,

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not the things on earth. For you have died and

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your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ,

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who is your life, appears, then you too will be

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revealed in glory with him. So where your treasure is,

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that's not in this text. So your heart will be

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also wherever your mind set is, that's where your body

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will be. You understand where we're going with this. This

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is what the Bible teaches us. And so our first

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lesson then is that heavenly mindedness requires being raised with Christ.

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That is a miracle. We were born in sin, shaping,

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in iniquity. You understand that, of course you do, because

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you were born like I was born. You were born

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from a woman's womb of some sort, like some kind

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of way. We were born of a woman, and so

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as a result of that we have the woman and

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the man's DNA. We have our parents' DNA, and with

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our parents' DNA comes these foibles, these predispositions towards sinning.

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The proclivity towards sinning were bent that way naturally, but

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supernaturally when we are reborn, when we take on the

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mindset of Christ, because we're submitting to God's will. Now

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we are dying to the mindset that tends to the

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earth and being raised to the mindset that Jesus had.

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Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ.

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Jesus others focused. God's will be done focused, you understand.

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And so heavenly mindedness requires the miracle of resurrection. We submit,

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we die to self, and we need the miracle of resurrection.

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So Paul makes heavenly mindedness conditional. Uh oh, it doesn't

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begin with discipline, effort or spiritual elevation. It begins with resurrection.

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You see, God is making the first move. Only those

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who have died with Christ and have been raised with

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Him can seek heavenly things. Without resurrection, life heavenly focused

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becomes a religious aspiration rather than a spiritual reality. I

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just say it another way, like, if we don't have

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resurrection power in our lives, meaning if we're not raised

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to be holy with Christ, then what we're talking about

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is a possible. We can't even we can't even begin

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to do what God has called us to do if

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we don't receive the resurrection of life unto life. Okay,

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And so our action step is to ask yourself daily.

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I want you to fill in your name here, like,

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ask yourself honestly whether your pursuit of God flows from

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resurrection life or from personal effort? You know, all that

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praying that you're doing. Is it that you are trying

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to be like something, trying to be holy? You know how,

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I'm on here every day, sometimes twice a day, well

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really sometimes even three times a day. I would say

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on Sundays it's three times a day. Does that mean

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that I'm trying to do something? I'm trying to get

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brownie points somehow, earn some extra credit in heaven, like

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get an A on my report card? So God pats

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me on the back to say well done? Or is

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it because God's life is already resident in me and

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this is an out growth of that life? Okay? And

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so flows from resurrection life or from personal effort? And

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recommit daily to living from Christ's life within you. This

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is good. We're going to need the Holy Ghost to

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make that one make sense. Let's go with our second lesson,

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a hidden life produces a visible witness. I'll read the

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passage again in Colossians three and verse three. For ye,

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for you have died, and your life is hidden with

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Christ in God, a hidden life produces a visible witness. Okay,

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let me slow it down. Let me slow it down.

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So if I am covered in the righteousness of Christ,

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that that means that whatever I do, however I come

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into the world, however I share, then that is an

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outgrowth of God's character. And people are no longer really

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seeing me. They're seeing Christ within the hope of glory.

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Whatever they're seeing they can easily attribute to God, because

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human beings can do that, you understand. So the Christian

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life is hidden at its source, but visible in its expression.

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Our security is not found in our performance or consistency,

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but in union with Christ. Because our life is hidden

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with Him, we are safe even while we struggle. I

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just say that, Praise God. Make it a great day, peace.

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Thanks 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,