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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 fourteen,

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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 living with each other,

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Living with each other. Before we begin with lesson number twelve,

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i'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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

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and get underway. Father, We thank you for this day

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and for the privilege of having fellowship with other believers.

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Help us to become so much like you that we

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want to live around one another. In Jesus' name, I

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pray Amen and day man again. So my mother, my

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late mother h said something many years ago to me,

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you know, in a moment of candor when she was

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a young woman, I think she was newly married. She said,

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if these people are going to be in heaven, I

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don't want to be there now. She admitted that that

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was a fit of passion, and obviously that was an

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emotion based response instead of a principle based response. But

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this is really some of your reality. Like some of

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you believe somehow that people will be in the Kingdom

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with the same broken character traits that we experience on

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planet Earth, and that has nothing could be further from

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the truth, okay, and so and so, Like if you

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think that gossip is going to gossiping is going to

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be allowed in heaven, something's wrong. Like if you think

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that we can be upset when people are experiencing a

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level of success or they have some triumphs, like they

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have a testimony, and then we get upset like the

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brother prodigal Son's brother did that wouldn't even go into

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the house and celebrate. He wouldn't even accept the dude

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as his brother. He was just like, your son went

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out and wasted all of your stuff, and you are

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throwing him a party. Like if that's you, if you're

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Jonah when he was upset with God because God made

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his evangelistic campaign successful and didn't destroy the Ninovites immediately,

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then there's something wrong. Don't worry about heaven, Like, don't

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worry about the earth made new because you're not going there.

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And I hope nobody thinks I'm being a judgmental I'm

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just saying, Lord, without the character of Christ superimposed upon

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our lives, we not about to be in heaven if

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we can't live with one another down here. The Bible

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says that they will know that you are mind de

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disciples if you have love one toward another. So if

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we don't have love for humanity, then that means we

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have broken. We have trampled the second and great commandment,

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which is like unto the first, namely, to love the

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Lord our God with everything we have and everything we are. Okay,

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And so the Bible gives us some guidance here in

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Colossians chapter four and verse six. Let your speech always

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be with grace, Oh my, seasoned with salt. That means

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you it needs to preserve something, It needs to preserve somebody.

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Preserve people's dignity when you speak to them. Ah, season

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that with salt. That's what salt does. It preserves among

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other things, it preserves Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So let

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what you say be preserving in nature, not breaking. Okay,

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that you may know how how you ought to answer

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each other. You know, the power of life and death

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is in the tongue, and so many of humans wield

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that tongue like a like an unsheathed, super sharpened sword

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and shop people's heads right off because of the way

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that we speak to people. I hope that algorithm doesn't

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mess with my video because I said what I just

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said but that's the reality. You say that you want

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to be holy, you say that these are supposed to

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be your brothers and sisters in Christ, but somehow your

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mouth is showing something different. And so Christ in our

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lesson number one, Christ governs relationships, not power or preference.

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Not power or preference, and so Paul, as we talk

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about living in family relationships, does not ground family relationships

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and cultural dominance or personal authority. I remember a young

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dude when we were both young, really in university. This

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dude said he's the boss of his wife. Trigger alert.

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I was like, you the what the boss of your what?

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Where did you get that from? And somehow he believed

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the Bible was teaching authoritarianism where he was the dude

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that could lord over his spouse, his wife. And I'm

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like filling the blank name here, brother, you are not

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even close to what God is teaching here. Paul does

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not ground the family relationships in that kind of a

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dominant mindset. By the way, the brother's divorced. Now, I'll

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just figured i'd put that in there. He roots them

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in Christ's lordship. Every instruction in the Christian home flows

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from being in the lord. Authority is expressed through love,

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submission is practiced through trust. Both are governed by Christ

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and not ego HM. So examine whether your closest relationships

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actually reflect Christ's character more than the cultural habits or

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personal preferences. So let me just say. The Bible says

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wives submit to your husbands as fitting in the Lord. Husbands,

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love your wives, and do not be embittered against them.

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That's what we're getting our lesson from. So I am

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to love my Simone that we've been married almost twenty

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five years, in the same way that Jesus loves us.

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He gave himself. You know, Jesus got up on a

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cross to save his bride from her sins. Do you

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realize that he gave up everything so that she could

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have everything? You see what I mean? So I am

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to love Simone in that way. I am to put

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her before mid Sell. That's what Jesus did. That's what

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Jesus did. And when and when it says wives are

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to submit to your husbands, did not Jesus submit to

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God our father. He wasn't subjugated by the father. He

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wasn't pressed under the thumb of the father. He wasn't

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disrespected by the father. He was not commanded to do

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all kind of crazy stuff like some husbands think that

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they have the power to do with their wives. God,

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our Father was not an authoritarian. It was not beneath

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Jesus to be submissive to the Father, and so it

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must not be beneath our sisters to be submissive to

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their own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. I

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wish I had the time to really drill this, but

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it is not dishonorable. It's not dishonorable in the same

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way it wasn't dishonorable for Jesus to submit to the Father.

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It's not dishonorable for our wives to submit their own

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husbands and the Lord. That's not subservience. It's not demeaning

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or degrading. I wish I had the time, and so

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and so again. Examine now we have some contexts your

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closest relationships and see if they reflect the character of Christ.

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Number two. Number two, children and parents grow best under

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loving discipline. And finally, finally, our third lesson is Christian

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witness is shown in speech and conduct. Walk in wisdom

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toward them that are without redeeming the time. Let your

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speech always be with grace, that you may know that

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you ought to answer every day.

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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,