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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 Wednesday, January seven,

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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 new

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lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth christ in Philippians

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and Colossians, and our caption for today is Gospel Fruit,

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Gospel Fruit. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, We thank you,

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thank you for giving us the privilege of prayer, the

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privilege of the gospel message. Father, I'm asking you now

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to please fill us with your spirit and help us

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to live the power of God unto salvation. In Jesus' name.

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so let me

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just begin the lesson. Writer points out that Paul's relationship

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with the Colossians was different from those in Philippi. But

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that's something that we really should have already anticipated. He

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included them among those who have not seen my face

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in the flesh. I said that to you last week,

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that he never even visited. As far as we can tell,

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he never even visited Colossie. So this is seen in

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Colossians chapter two and verse one. Nevertheless, Paul assures them,

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as he did the Philippians, that he thanks God for

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them always and he is praying for them. Now. This

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is very interesting. I remember talking about thousands of years ago,

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and somehow God led brother Paul to be able to

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lead a people that he didn't even see. I wish

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I had the time to talk about how the church

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has changed in the last since about twenty nineteen. Think

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you know where I'm going with this. And God has

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given us more creative and necessary ways of ministering that

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don't require our physical presence. Even though most of us

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look look look at my mic sock or the covering

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for my mic, look at my beard. This means that

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I have seasoning in my life. Like I'm over fifty

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years of age, and so in my generation everything was

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hands on. This is how we were cultured. But the

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way that things are now, and the way that God

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even showed in the case of Paul way back then,

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which is ironic to me, is that ministry can be

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done in so many ways as long as Jesus Christ

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is central, and that his message is the key in

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the situation. Let me just go ahead into our lesson

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for today. Before I go too far Afield, let me

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read a quote from the Reviewer in Herald in eighteen

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sixty one. Hope in Christ lifts the believer above the

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trials of earth and fixes the mind on the inheritance

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reserved in heaven, and so our retention is focused heavenward.

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While we live on planet Earth. Our goal is to

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do is to invest as much as we can down here,

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create prosperity in Babylon. I know what I just said.

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It's biblical. Jesus God told his people that as long

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as you are in Babylon, I need you to make

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sure that everything around you prospers. Now, don't get too

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settled in like do not make it a place where

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you will build up idols, like, don't do that. But

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while you're there, make sure everything around you is successful

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as much as it lies unto you. And then, of

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course I will deliver you. And so we look forward

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to the Kingdom of heaven. But while we are living

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on planet Earth, we're occupying or investing until Jesus comes,

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ever turning away from the principles that God has given

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us while living here. Now from the Signs of the

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Times April eleventh, eighteen ninety two, it reads, the gospel

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is the power of God to transform the life. Well,

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where does this life happen? Down here? Where does the

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life happen? And through its power the believer becomes a

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new creature in Christ? Where does that transformation happen? Again?

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It happens down here on planet Earth. And what are

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we supposed to do? Brighten the corner where we are.

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What are we supposed to do? We are to occupy

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until he comes? Oh, do we lose focus on the

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until he comes part? Absolutely not. The Gospel now gives

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us the ability to transcend through Christ this earthly dwelling.

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One day, when Jesus returns, we will go to heaven

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and live there for a thousand years. After the thousand

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years have finished, we will occupy the new Earth. After

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there is no more sin, no more sickness, sadness, death,

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or pain. The former things will have been passed away.

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But in the meantime, God is transforming his people to

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transform our surroundings for him, and then one day we

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will see him face to face. Lesson number one today

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is Paul thanked God for their faith in Christ. And

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of course we see that in Collassians one and verse four,

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since we heard of your faith in Christ, he was

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thinking right thanking God. And so the kind of faith

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that he is talking about is trust, obedience, confidence in God.

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If Paul were living today and he did not have

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the privilege of coming to wherever you are congregating in

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air quotes, if he were an online minister, if he

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were someone who would send messengers to where you are,

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and then the messenger would send back to him him,

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and then you would build strategy for reaching the world

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from your vantage point. Would he be thanking God for

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your confidence in him in God? Would he be thinking

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God for your trust in God? Or would he have

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to pray another prayer as Moses and and and and

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Caleb dealt with murmuring people back in ancient days of

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God's people and had to really just settle them down

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because they were losing focus of what God had for

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them and their mission because they were murmuring. They were

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faith less many times. Or would Paul have this this

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prayer of thanks for you and so the action step

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really for you and for me is to thank God

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today for one area where your faith has grown. Is

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it that you have more confidence in God? Is it

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that you're not worried about the month being longer than

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the money because of furloughs and other things that you're

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that are not within your control, or something else? Okay,

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lesson number two before I go too far. Paul thanked

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God for their love toward all believers. What did Jesus say,

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they will know that you are my disciples if you

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have what love one for another one toward another Colossian

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Chapter one and verse four again, and of the love

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which ye have to all saints. So he's thanking God

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for the confidence in God, the trust in God that

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you're demonstrating, that faith that you're demonstrating. But he also

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thanked God for their love self giving love agape, I

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love you in spite of what you do, the kind

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of godly love that made God say for God's soul

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love the world, that he gave all of heaven in

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one gift, that he gave his only begotten son, that

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whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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God didn't send his son into the world to condemn

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the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

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And so people are still condemning one another. Even within

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the faith fellowship. Sometimes people are condemning themselves. I am

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a coach of multiple let's call it platforms, but one

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of the paradigms that I learned talks about how in

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our in our mindset, like we have a judge, and

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that judge is always trying to separate us from the

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reality of God, and God is saying no. I want

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you to love despite what you do, what people do,

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and I want you to love yourself as God would

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love you. Make it a great day.

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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,