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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, January thirteenth,

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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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Our caption for today is being confident, Being confident. I

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want you to be confident in Christ. I want you

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to have godfidence. Yes, before we get into that, I'd

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like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those

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joining us for the very first time. Please go over

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we thank you for this

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day and the privilege you have given us to be

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confident in You. That we don't have to come behind

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in any gift, that we don't have to fear in

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the judgment because we are perfected in love. But help

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us to keep our confidence in You and not in ourselves.

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In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Being confident?

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Being confident? Is there a problem with confidence? Let me

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just start with that question. I want you to type

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in the chat. Type your answers in the chat. Is

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there a problem with confidence? Does God want us to

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be unsure? Does God want us to second guest life?

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Does He want us to be unstable and wavering? Or

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is confidence? Okay? So I think there is context to everything.

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If our confidence is only in ourselves, then that's where

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the problem lies, okay. And so our problem is not confidence.

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The problem is wherein do we really center our confidence?

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And if it's in what God is doing what God

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has done. Yes, even in our own lives, the skills

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He has given us, the gifts that He has imparted

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to our lives, then we are in a good stead. Okay.

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We begin by reading from way back in eighteen fifty

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eight in the reviewing Harold James White, The sleep of

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death holds no terror for the child of God. That means,

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don't be afraid, brothers and sisters, for the next moment

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brings the waking glory. So if God forbid one of us,

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if we are His children in fact, and indeed, if

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one of us should die, right we go to sleep

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in Christ in the next moment that we know that

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our consciousness is given to us will be when Jesus

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calls us up from the grave. You understand. So, if

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God forbid I die in twenty twenty six, and if

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Jesus comes in another year, I'm not pushing his coming

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to a year. I don't know when he's coming, but

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let's just say arbitrarily that he comes in several years

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from twenty twenty six. To me, it's a moment. To me,

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it's a moment I'm resting in the grave, and in

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the moment that Jesus does return, and I receive my

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consciousness and I am raised incorruptible by God's grace, then

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I don't have a I have no understanding of the

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passage of time. If Paul, dying millennia ago, wakes up

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when Jesus, when he wakes up as Jesus comes millennia later,

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he only knows that he went to sleep, and then

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in an instant, as far as he is concerned, Jesus

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is here, okay. And so we don't fear death, not

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as God's people, because we know that when Jesus does come,

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he will awaken us and it'll be all glory for

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the rest of eternity. Can I say rest of eternity?

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That's that's kind of weird. But throughout the ceaseless ages

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of eternity And from the book Desire of Ages, page

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seven hundred eighty seven. To the believer, death is but

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a small matter. To the Christian, death is but asleep,

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a moment of silence and darkness. And so yes, we

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will miss our loved ones if one of our loved

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ones passes away, because God never intended for us to

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be separated. But we do not weep like those who

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have no hope. We weep sometimes because we're separated. We

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weep because we want their companionship and don't have it

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right now. We weep because we desire to hear their

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voices in our ears. But for this moment their voice

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is silent except through their legacy. But when Jesus comes,

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all of that will be resolved for the believer now

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Lessen Number one is Paul longed for Christ so deeply

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that death felt like a momentary step toward seeing him

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at the resurrection. In Philippians, chapter one and verse twenty three,

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the Bible says, like, I feel torn between two between

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two decisions right because I have a desire to depart

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or to rest and to be with Christ. So when

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Jesus comes, he wants He's like, if I get some

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rest now, in a moment, I will see Jesus. Because

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we have no understanding of passage of time when we

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are resting, and so to depart actually means to break camp.

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It's a metaphor for death as a temporary rest. And

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so the action step is reflect on the resurrection, hope

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today and thank Jesus for the promise of waking to

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see him. If God forbid some of you are facing

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terminal illness. This is the reality for you at this moment,

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and I'm trying to be to be cognizant that this

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could sound terse. So please, just please, just charge any way.

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I communicate with you to my head and not my heart. Okay.

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And if God forbid, if God forbid, he gives you

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the opportunity to rest. You intended to see your grandchildren

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live for another several years before you lay down your

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burdens and rest. But if God allows for you to

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rest in the near future, in that moment, it is

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temporary for you. And one day you'll see and you'll

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be able to know what happened, what happened, You'll meet

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your loved ones again. So I want you to find

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courage in the fact that if you rest, you rest

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under the faith of God, and at the appointed hour,

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you will hear that trumpet sound. You will hear that

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voice as if an archangel. You will hear God call

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you from wherever you are resting. And thank God, thank God,

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we're looking forward to that day. So reflect on the resurrection,

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hope today, thank God for the promise of waking to

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see him. Lesson Number two is coming in from First

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Thessalonians Chapter four, verses sixteen and seventeen. Paul knew the

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dead sleep until the resurrection, and yet he also knew

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the next conscious moment after death is Christ's return. You

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see how he did that, And so let me just

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read part of it from verse sixteen and then jump

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over to seventeen. The dead in Christ shall rise first

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when Jesus comes back. The dead Christ will rise first,

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and then we which are alive and remain, shall be

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caught up together with them to meet the Lord in

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the air. And there shall we ever be with the Lord.

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And so now we understand that kum mayol kumayo. It

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is the Hebrew word four or koi excuse me, I apologize,

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I do not speak coin a Greek. Koi meo means

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to sleep. It's the biblical term for death and unconscious rest.

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And so the action step for us is to trust

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Jesus today with one fear that you have about death

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or the future, yield it to him and ask him

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for the victory. And our final, our final, our final

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lesson is that Paul chose to stay. He rather to

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stay alive, not because of benefit for himself. Like I said,

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the other day, but for the spiritual good of others.

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Serve one person today, brothers and sisters, in a way

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that strengthens their faith in Christ, and in that case

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your life will have been well invested. 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,