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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 Thursday, March nineteen,

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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 Walking in Wisdom, Walking

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in Wisdom. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to go over

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this is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and

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get underway. Father, We thank you for your wisdom. Thank

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you for being wisdom to us. Please help us to

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ask and receive in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and

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Amen again. So I have shared with you a few

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times that a prayer besides Lord, please give me your

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Holy Spirit, a prayer that I pray every day is Lord,

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give me please double the wisdom of Solomon. I don't

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have the time to tell you why I pray that

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prayer in particular, but it's based on my calling, okay,

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And so God is wanting us to walk in wisdom.

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Solomon said, I don't know how to lead this your people,

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so please will you give me the wisdom that I need.

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The Bible writer said that if we lack wisdom, we

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need to ask of God who will give us liberally

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and will not will not withhold any and so and

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so it is important for God's people to continue to

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ask for wisdom. And Proverbs chapter eight, if you study

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it closely, when you get toward, you know, the middle

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to the last part of the chapter, you will notice

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that the attributes of the person or what's being personified

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there absolutely, uncategorically is Jesus Christ. And so when we

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ask for wisdom, we are really asking for Christ to

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be in our lives. And you're like, well, can you

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prove it outside of Proverbs chapter eight. Well, of course,

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Paul actually taught us in First Corinthians chapter one, verses

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thirty and thirty one, among other things, Jesus is our wisdom, okay.

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And so our first lesson comes in from Colossians chapter

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four and verse five. Colossians chapter four and verse five,

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where the Bible reads, walk in wisdom toward them that

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are without redeeming the time. Let me say it another way,

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conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders. Do you have encounters

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with people who are not yet children of God, who

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have not yet said yes to God and live for

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Him today? When you encounter them, the Bible writer is saying,

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to conduct yourselves with wisdom. Well, where do we get

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the wisdom we ask of God? Are we sure that

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we will have the wisdom so we don't have to

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make up stuff? You know what? There are times, as

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I ask that question, there are times that Christian Eese

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speaking people make up all kinds of new machinery, all

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kinds of trying to contrive new methods. We sit in

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committee meetings sometimes trying to reinvent the wheel. And in

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fact God is saying, to come to me, I will

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show you the wisdom, especially the wisdom toward people who

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do not yet have faith in God. And as you

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lift up Jesus, I will draw people to myself. And

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so conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most

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of the opportunity. So our lesson number one is wisdom

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has lived and not just known. Wisdom is lived and

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not just known. We are not asking God to make

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us a sage. We're not asking God to have us

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to be mounted atop the pinnacle of somewhere where people

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will look up to us and say, all thou with wisdom,

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endow us with filling the blank. No, we are asking

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God for his wisdom because in his presence, we are

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able to help people who don't yet know God. Paul

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places wisdom in motion. Truth revealed must become the truth

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we live or practice. The focus here is not life

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inside of the church building those edifices that we created,

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but life before those who don't yet believe. I'm talking

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about at the gym. I'm talking about in that taxi.

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I'm talking about in other public transportation. I'm talking about

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when you're in the supermarket. I'm talking about when you

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are at Carnation Market or Linsted Market, or the market

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in Montego Bay, or wherever it is in the world

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that you buy your produce. I'm talking about in our

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day to day activities, maybe on your job. Outsiders often

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encounter the gospel first because of you and for those

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listening on the radio, we're still here. I just need

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that to settle in because of you, not because of

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Like sometimes I drive by billboards. I've purchased billboards before.

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I'm talking about the big ones that big like a

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bus big billboards. Sometimes I walk by billboard or drive

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by billboards that have interesting messaging that's supposed to be

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like godly messaging, but I don't have time to deal

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with the ones that I'm talking about in my head.

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But sometimes people think if they splatter these these stark

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and like arresting things on a billboard, that somehow somebody's

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going to get converted. And maybe you know, God will

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do something in spite of us, but it will be

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indeed and in fact in spite of us, considering some

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of the ones that I'm talking about, Like some people

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think that the outsiders driving by the KFC sign will

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also see that other sign that they made up and

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suddenly become holy. Well, that makes daily behavioral witness. We

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need to be. We need to live among the people

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and live like Jesus lived like brighten the corner where

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we are. And if you're going to put up a billboard,

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at least put up the message that God has given

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to us. I digress, I digress. So this walking means

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to conduct, It means to live, to order one's life,

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to move through daily conduct. And so what God wants

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us to do and this action is to be intentional

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about how you live in public spaces. Let consistency, integrity,

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and calm reflect Christ before words are ever spoken. And

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when I say like I hate that, I have to

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qualify everything, but we kind of do. When I said

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in public spaces, I'm saying that because that's where the

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people observe us. That is not to the exclusion of

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our personal devotion. I used to ask this question back

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in the day when I was teaching the Bible, even

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more than I do now. Can you believe it? I

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remember asking people like, if I am locked up, I

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made this up? Like if I'm locked up in a

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room where nobody is and no one ever will know

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what happens in that room, only my own brain, and

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maybe I don't even utter what's in my brain, so

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no sound is attached to what I'm about to say next,

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How does it impact other people? So if I am

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entertaining wicked thoughts, it doesn't matter which one it is,

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but I'm entertaining those in my mind, so I'm sinning

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in my brain and I don't ever act it out.

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I made this up. Does it have an impact on

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other people? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Or no?

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Speaker 2: If I'm locked up in a room, it's just me

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and my brain, and I don't speak or act on

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the things that I'm doing in my brain that are

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not according to God's will? Does it have an impact

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on other people? And of course, the answer is yes,

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because when people come to us, when people experience us,

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it's only as we are in full alignment with God

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in our thoughts that our conduct can have the impact

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that it needs to have.

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Speaker 1: Make it a joining us peaking 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 el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,