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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 Marning, Good morning. It is Sabbath. It's

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March seven, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth Christ in

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Philippians and Colossians. We're jumping in at Lesson number eleven

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of thirteen under the caption living with Christ, Living with Christ.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome

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to you and ask you to go over to your

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Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Please

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let us know where you are in the world, and

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by all means, share, share, share, keep sharing, keep sharing

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the program with as many people as possible. Because we

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are looking to change the world. The Gospel of the

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Kingdom must be preached into all the world for a witness,

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and then and only then shall the income. Just a

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quick question, were you on with me last night during

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our musical Bible class. If you're on the radio, a podcast,

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or on Facebook, you're like, what the what? Yes, we

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have that only on the YouTube channel for your daily

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portion every single Friday evening at seven pm Jamaica time.

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So please, if you were there, go ahead and type

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in the chat I was there and what did God

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do for you? Share a little bit about what God

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did for you through experience as we studied the lesson

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using music as are means. Just go ahead and type,

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But let me pray first and we'll get underway. Father,

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We thank you for this Sabbath, teach us to live

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with Christ in our hearts. In Jesus's name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. So for those of you who

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can do two things at once, go for it. Go

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ahead and type the blessing that you experienced last evening

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while we jump in with two feet to our lesson study. Okay,

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and so the lesson writer gave us as a memory

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text Colossians chapter three and verse fourteen. Colossians chapter three

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and verse fourteen, where the Bible reads, but above all

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these things, put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

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Put on love. Are you wearing love? Are you wearing

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love as you're covering Jesus? You know the Bible actually

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says John speaking that God is love. Yes, those who

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have not got the okay, you know what. The text says.

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God is love. So have love on, have Christ on

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as you are covering, and you cannot lose. No, let

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me just go ahead and begin. Let me go ahead

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and begin with verse fourteen. Actually, yeah, that's it. That's it.

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Verse fourteen. Put on love. My notes went funny. Love

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is the evidence of Christ living within. Love is the

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evidence of Christ living within. Remember Jesus said, how will

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they know? Like people know that you are my disciples?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I know? If you have love one toward another. And

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so Paul presents love as the final evidence of resurrection life.

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M h, that's the evidence. Love is not optional. Like

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some people are just too angry and annoying at all times,

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Like some people are miserable, and it's like, well, how

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can a person who was complaining, always annoyed, miserable and

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just ah hard to be around. How can that person

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be called a child of the king. How can that

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person say they're representing Christ? God forbid, It's one of us.

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And so love is not optional. It is the binding

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force that holds Christian character together. Heavenly minded people love

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differently because Christ is living within us. This love enables

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obedience that human strength cannot sustain. Listen, when you read

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the book The Great Controversy right through to the end,

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we see that ultimately, after we've read all of the

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things that went on way back in the past, all

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of the persecution that happened, what happened in heaven where

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the Great Controversy began, and all of these other things

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in the last days that are going to be very difficult,

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I must add, But we see that the culmination of

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what God is doing as he is leading as people

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through those different times and experiences throughout history, is that

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one pulse of love will be going right through the universe.

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Because God so loved the world that he gave his

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only begotten son, that whoever believes in him would not

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perish but have everlasting life. So God's love in the

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person and work of Jesus Christ in the Plan of Salvation,

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should so impress and transform our lives that we love

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in the way that Jesus loved. Yep, we love despite

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what people do, because now we have the mindset of Christ.

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Let this mind be in you, which was also in

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Christ Jesus. Okay, and so the action step in this

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case is to practice intentional christ Like love towards someone

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difficult today. Some of you are on your way to church,

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You're going to encounter You're going to encounter some difficult people,

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some people that are so in your mind annawing. But really,

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that's not the stance we're taking anymore. We're saying, God,

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this is a child of yours. They are not my children,

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they are not my servants. Teach me to love like

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you love. So practice intentional christ Like love toward someone

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difficult today without expecting anything in return. What that's right,

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that's right, that's right. Let me read J. H. Wagner.

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True Christianity begins when self ends and Christ reigns within. Ah.

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This is so good, this is so good. Let me

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continue because I'm feeling it just like you are. In

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Romans chapter six and verse six, we read, knowing this

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that our old man, or the way that we are

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without Christ, that person before we got sick, right, knowing this,

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that our old man is crucified with him, that the

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body of sin might be destroyed. That henceforth we should

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not serve sin. Remember sin is the transgression of the law.

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Remember the Ten Commandments law are summed up in two principles,

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love for God and love for humanity. And so Paul

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makes clear that living with Christ requires dying before living,

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dying to self. The Christian life is not behavior modification.

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Let me say that's hard for me. Not in the

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realist sense. I mean philosophically, because behavior modification is my

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training and what my practice used to be behavior modification

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and management. So I know how to modify behavior. And

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it's like, oh wait a minute. So when I don't

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say a bad word to somebody who is exhibiting road rage,

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when I don't become violent toward them, that's only part

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of the story. You mean, I don't get brownie points

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for not knocking somebody out that I felt angry toward. No, Well,

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that's not transformational. That's just a behavioral reality. Maybe you

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were protecting your maybe you were protecting your reputation, or

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maybe you were thinking, oh, I don't want Josiah to

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be without a daddy, because if I do that in

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the wrong setting, then I might die or get locked up.

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Maybe you're doing it as a legalist and not because

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you are in love with God. And maybe it's not

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because you don't want to misrepresent him to the people

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who may be watching. Maybe it's not for the right reasons.

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Maybe you're just doing it because you've learned how to

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modify your behavior. You're not saying bad words, but you're

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thinking them. You're not what is it in Matthew five?

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You're not touching that person that you're not supposed to touch,

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but in your mind you're lusting after them. Right, you

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see what I'm saying. So God is giving us. God

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is giving us not a behavioral change or shift, its

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participation in Christ's death and resurrection. We literally die to

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sin and we're raised into a victorious lifestyle. Self rule

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must end before Christ's rule can begin. I have to

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stop trying to run things myself, stop trying to drive

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my spiritual vehicle, and yield the steering wheel to God.

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Without this death, heavenly minded living remains just theoretical. My God,

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would you please help us to identify a habit or

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mindset where we're still dominating the conversation with ourselves. Help

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us to submit peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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