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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 Tuesday, March seventeen,

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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 work Relations, Work Relations.

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

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welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for

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the very first time. I want you to please go

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online community. Pick up the Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide,

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which we're going to use today for sure on this broadcast. Also,

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's pray, Father, we thank you for this day. Help

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us to work as unto the Lord, help us to

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live like we are in your presence at all times.

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In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a man again.

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Yes's so much to say, And as you know, the

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Sable School Quarterly was not created so that I could

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create a ten minute program off of it. So this

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is one that if you rush through it, you will

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get all mixed up and sometimes even angered, like if

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you don't understand what the Bible is and is not saying.

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So what I'm going to do is shift over now

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to our life Application Guide, the Your Daily Portion Life

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Application Guide, where we go into four key areas for

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every day's lesson for application and in this case we're

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going to go to the professional application because there is

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a lot of stuff we can misunderstand and misapply, and

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I don't know that I can treat it the way

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that we need to treat it in just a few

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minutes here. So let's defer and go over there and

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look at the application professional one and we're using the

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acronym or framework win W. What is important now? What

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is important now? Recognizing that the principles from Colossians chapter three,

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Versus twenty two through chapter four and verse one apply

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to work relations generally, and that whether you are a

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boss some people don't like that word, fine supervisor, boss,

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the founder of a company, or an employee, your first

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obligation is to the Lord. Where is our first obligation,

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No matter where we are on the ladder in this

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corporate or organizational structure, where is our first obligation with whom?

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Is it with our clients, is it with our boss,

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is it to someone else? Our first obligation is to

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the Lord. And you must I repeat and underscore and

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bold and put it in read letters and put it

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in italics too, and then highlight it too. You must

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treat others fairly. That is the governing principle. So, no

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matter what other language we read in the in the

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text from way back in ancient history. You must first

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be obligated and responsible to the Lord and treat others fairly.

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Now we need to internalize the insight what instructions are

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given to And now there's the word that I don't like, slaves.

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I don't have time to get into the historical context.

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But slaves. Let's work with the term that's there in

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that scripture. Please do not mix this up with the

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transatlantic slave trade. Please do not mix this up with

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a supremacist mindset that people were to be treated as

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to be treated as as chattel or somehow property. Okay,

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don't mix this up. Don't conflate this with that, because

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that's where the confusion and mix up is going to come. Okay,

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I gave you a standard in the beginning. What was it.

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Number One, We are obligated and responsible to the Lord.

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Number two, that we must treat others fairly. That means

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with dignity, That means according to the way God would

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do it. Okay, So what was the principle given to

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the people who are identified in the text with that

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word I don't like, but it was their slaves? What

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principles are here for work relations. Generally in fact within

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the Church, unlike more generally within the Roman Empire, the

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slave's first obligation was to the Lord, and their quote

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masters were instructed to do what treat them fairly. That

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means that all of the stuff that we understood from

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the Transatlantic slave trade, all of that stuff is disqualified.

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All of that stuff needs to be thrown out the window.

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All of that should be identified as what the world

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overall has seen that it was not holiness, it was

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not godly, so we must not treat it as such.

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But let me go here before I become to passionate.

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And their masters were instructed to treat them fairly, knowing

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that you also have a master in heaven, that's God.

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So in your work, your first obligation is to the creator,

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whether you are a boss or an employee, treat others

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fairly knowing that you have a master, meaning God who's

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in heaven. Now, how do we apply this? I know

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it's difficult to apply this when we're talking about the

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modern era versus what they were doing way back in

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Paul's day, versus what we've seen in the Transatlantic slave trade,

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plus the things that are going on in many parts

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of the world today where people are being subjugated in

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every way, treated without dignity, and they're not doing what

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God has taught us to do. But again, next best

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move is to apply the principles from the same passage

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to your work relationships today, remembering what your first obligation

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is to the Lord, and if you are a boss

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or a founder or somehow the leader of a team,

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treat employees fairly knowing you have a master in Heaven,

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or if you're an employee, work as unto the Lord

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and not unto humans. I needed to get that out

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because this one can be very triggering depending on the

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culture or place you're from. Okay, and so let me

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start here from the Signs of the Times article. I

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cannot put my finger on where exactly it came from,

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what the date was, but I know it was by J. H. Wagner,

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and it reads the Gospel does not destroy order, but

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purifies it, lifting duty from fear to conscience. Now, now

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let's use lesson number three in my notes, which is

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authority must reflect Heaven's justice. Authority must reflect Heaven's justice.

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So Paul speaks directly to those who are in quote

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authority Leadership is not ownership. You do not own the

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people that may work for you, or if you're not

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the owner of the company or whatever you want to

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call the founder, whatever your your your direct reports are

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not your are not your property. So leadership is not ownership.

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Rather it is stewardship. Earthly authority is exercised under Heaven's oversight.

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So God is watching. God is the one that's given

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us the standard, our marching orders. He's shown us what

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this is to look like, and therefore whatever doesn't align

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with what God has said is unholy. So justice and

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fairness are not optional virtues, but divine requirements. There was

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just so much. If you lead others, examine whether your

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decisions reflect fairness, dignity, and accountability before God. 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,