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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.

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Speaker 3: It is Friday, March twenty twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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Speaker 3: 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 get into that, I

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would like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking

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you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please,

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will you pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application Guide.

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Join our online community, and please also click the contribute

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have already begun supporting. Also for those who are on

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the radio and on podcasts and on Facebook. You may

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not know that on Friday evenings at seven pm, we

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have a musical Bible class going through the lesson using

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eight songs that I produce specifically for that time that

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help to solidify what we have been learning. So please

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come through tonight on the YouTube channel exclusively at your

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Daily Portion site. Okay, let's go ahead and pray. Father,

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we thank you for this day of preparation and for

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the privilege of being able to live together throughout eternity.

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Help us to get a good head start. Now in

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a men again. So

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we're going to just go ahead and jump in with

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two feet. I know that there are people who are

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among my faith community who will be in church services

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tomorrow and going through the lesson, who often just skip

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over Fridays like we need to revive the Fridays. This

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is not just bonus stuff. And maybe the church could

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do better by giving a title. I don't know what

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would cause people to actually use what we get on Fridays,

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but here we're gonna go ahead and use it, okay.

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And so the first thing we're gonna do is read

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from Read from the book The Adventist Home, pages one

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seventy nine and one one seventy nine and one at

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from Adventist Home, and it reads every member of the

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family should realize that a responsibility rests upon them individually.

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All should unitedly engage in the good work of encouraging

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one another. One of the things that I pray about

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and say thank God to about every day when Josiah,

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Simona and I pray together, is that we have a

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built in We have a built in community, like we

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have a built in support group. We don't have to

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worry about what's going on out in the world. We

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don't have to worry about if there is anything going

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on in the extended family. We can be safe in

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our tight knit group. And every other positive experience is

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a bonus, okay. So I want you to protect whatever

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you have at home. If you do have a family

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at home. And then if that's not the case, then

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the next plausible family would be your friendship core if

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you have fellowship with them, and then the next group

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would be likely the faith community that you are attached to.

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You don't need thousands of people or hundreds of people,

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just a few very good friends and companions who also

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love God and love to you. Okay, So let's go

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ahead and begin with Colossians, chapter three and verse seventeen

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with our lesson number one. Christian faith is lived first

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at home. Christian faith is first lived at home, and

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the Bible reads and whatsoever ye do in word, or indeed,

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do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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giving thanks to God and the Father by him. And

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so Paul's instruction to live in Christ applies most immediately

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in the home circle. Faith that cannot be practiced in

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close relationships is not mature. The family becomes the proving

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ground of patience, humility, and service. And I used to

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say to my wife alone when we first got married,

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and I would, you know, ascend a pulpit or some platform,

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and then somebody would say something positive during the introduction,

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you know, twenty some years ago, like you know, and

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and it's almost like ladies and gentlemen, whoever it is,

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El David Harris. And then people would either applaud or

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say amen, or you could see that there was some

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welcome coming and now it's my time to ascend the pulpit, podium, whatever.

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And after a while, I started to hear in my

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mind the times that it happened with my dad, and

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I was like, oh, wait a minute, so this sounds

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just like it was when I was young. And I

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also remember that our relationship wasn't so great. And I'm

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not just bringing up negative stuff. It's what it is. Like,

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that's just the way it is. That's a part of

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my history. So leave that right there. And so I

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asked my simone, when when they make the announcement of

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this wonderful dude that's supposed to go up there and

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talk to them or whatever I was supposed to do,

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does that guy live in your house? That's the question?

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Does that brother live in your house? Because I'm thinking,

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like when I was young, I'm like, man, I wish

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the dude that they announced.

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Speaker 2: That's about to go up Pastor L. F. Harris.

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Speaker 3: I wish that that dude the way they described him

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lived in my house on a daily basis. And listen,

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no shade, I'm just telling you as a young child

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what I wished. And now that we have Josiah, same question, like,

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is that dude the same guy that lives in your house?

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Of course, thank God. I shouldn't say, of course, but

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I will say, thank God. Yes, the two people are

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the same. And I'm grateful because and it's the same

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with Josiah saying with Simone, they are the ones people

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think outside, they're the ones that live with me because

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happy the home where God is there. We really believe that.

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In fact, I use that song as sort of a

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ballad at Simone in my wedding as we were about

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to get married. Okay, and so and so the family

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becomes the proving ground of patience, humility and service. That

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means now we can go out into the world and

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be a witness to people because we are in our

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home what God would have us to be. Okay, and

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so I want you to identify one responsibility at home

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that you can carry more faithfully in the coming week

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without being asked. And yes, I know I'm speaking to

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grown folks. I know that the majority of you are

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above us certain age. I'll just keep it like that.

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Seventy four percent of you are above a certain age,

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and you have had your children, your grandchildren, and some

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of you even your great grandchildren. But wherever you happen

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to be at home, if there is anybody there with you,

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then what is it that you can be helpful with?

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And I'm saying it not in a way where you

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become overbearing or you are trying to invent things to

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be helpful, because a lot of times when people are

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inventing things to be helpful, it's just to sort of

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fill in a gap in your own emotion so you

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can feel like you're wanted. And that's not the same

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as actually helping. So help in the ways that are helpful.

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And don't force yourself upon people, because that's another discussion,

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like am I forcing myself upon people? If I am,

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then that's not a healthy relationship, okay. And so unity,

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our second lesson requires shared responsibility. Here's a passage an Ecclesiastes,

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chapter four and verse nine. Two are better than one

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because they have a good reward for their labor. Let

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me read it in another version. Two people are better

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than one because they can reap more benefit from their labor.

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Are you a part of a community outside of your home?

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I did give you a few examples where you can

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pull together, just like ET always talks about the African

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wild dogs and shout to TJ as well. And if

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we are pulling together, and that means we eat together,

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we thrive together. Everybody wins together. Make it a great day, peace.

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Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with L. David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,