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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.

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Speaker 2: The power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: It is Tuesday, February twenty four, 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 God's Eternal Plan, God's

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Eternal Plan. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to you and ask you to please go

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,

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We thank you, Thank you for this day and the

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opportunity to open up your word again. And I pray

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that we will align ourselves with your eternal plan for

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us and the universe. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen

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and a man again. You know, because God has given

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us such so much of his attention and focus. I

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almost forgot that there was a universe beyond planet Earth.

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And even while I'm praying, I'm thinking, okay, and I'm

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self focused, meaning human focus. But listen, God's eternal plan

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for the entire of his creation is that one pulse

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of love reverberate through all of creation at all times.

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We are the renegade planet. We are the place where

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Sin now lives. This is the po box or post

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office box for Sin. You want to find out where

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Sin is? Okay, it's on planet Earth. Po Box Earth

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six seven sixty seven. And then you understand, like, so

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what God wants is for sin no longer to abound,

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that the enemy and all of his cohorts no longer

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be here where where God has to destroy them full stop.

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Like there's no real soft way to go around this.

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There's no diplomacy here. It's over because the enemy has

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made his decision and his cohorts and then God forbid,

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there are human beings that continue to ally themselves with

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him and then on planet Earth, on planet Earth, like,

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as far as you are concerned, I'm talking about the

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ones who are listening and viewing right now.

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Speaker 2: You.

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Speaker 3: God's eternal plan has always been that you live with

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Him forever and ever.

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Speaker 2: Amen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no hostility, no enmity. God has always intended for

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us to be with him forever and ever. And so well,

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how do we get there? Well through submission. We continue

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to submit ourselves to God. And one thing about Paul,

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when you look at him and these two let Philippians

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and Colossians, Yeah, he's locked up. He is in prison,

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but the word is not bound. The word is not

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locked up. While Paul, as the Lesson writer says, was

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in his confinement in these you know, like Philippians, Ephesians, Phileman.

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They were also written, so he's he's bound, but not

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the word is not bound. After his release, God inspired

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him to write the important councils found in first Timothy

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and Titus. Then, during his final imprisonment, like this dude

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kept getting locked up in a Roman jail, he wrote

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two Timothy.

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Speaker 2: In short.

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Speaker 3: These final years provided Paul the opportunity to write a

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significant portion of the New Testament, which probably also included

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and I'm going to remove probably which included Hebrews. I

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understand by the writer said probably because commentators, you know,

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that's how they speak. But he wrote Hebrews. We have

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all evidence points to Paul. Okay, so and so is

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the Word of God free to move in your life?

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Is the Word of God free to move through your life?

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Or do you catch it on the way in and

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not allow it to go out?

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Speaker 2: What do I mean? Like?

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Speaker 3: When people see you, are you a living, moving, breathing

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epistle that they can read and say.

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Speaker 2: Wow, this is what God is like?

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Speaker 3: Are you a living, moving letter from God and say, well,

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this is what God thinks of me in a positive way?

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This is God's plan for me in a positive way.

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That's the question. That's the question. And so and so

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we begin now with listen number one. Considering God's eternal plan.

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It comes in from Colossian chapter one and verse twenty four. Colossians,

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Chapter one and verse twenty four. Now I rejoice in

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my sufferings for you, and I complete what is lacking

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in Christ's affliction for the sake of his body, that

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is the Church. Okay, and so the lesson is suffering

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for Christ is purposeful, not accidental or incidental. Paul doesn't

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mean that Christ's sacrifice was incomplete, so let's not get

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that twisted. He's not saying he's a vice Christ. I

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understand that there are some folks that are in certain

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religious positions that believe that they are vice Christ. That

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is not true. So Paul is not saying that the

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atonement was finished at the cross. At one min we

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were made at one with God like peace was settled

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right there. And we understand that Jesus came, he picked

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up his life again on the Sunday morning, he continued

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in his heavenly ministry and now ever live it to

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make intercession for us so we can be cleansed ultimately

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from all and righteousness, but own was sealed at the cross.

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All we need to do is continue to surrender our

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will to him. What remains is the lived out cost

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of the Gospel ministry in a fallen world. We live

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this thing now so others can see the light that

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shines through us. Let your light so shine before men

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that they when these humans see your good works, they

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will glorify your Father, which is in heaven. And so

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Paul's suffering participates in the mission of Christ. Of course,

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we're not saying that somehow he earns anything. We earn

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anything through sufferings. We don't flagellate. I don't know if

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you've ever seen that where people would flage like beat themselves,

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or you know, do these wearisome pilgrimages upsteps on their

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knees to show that they somehow can suffer for Christ.

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That's not what we're talking about, okay. And so sometimes

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we go through pressure and distress and tribulation. Paul's afflictions

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were the inevitable pressure that comes from advancing the Gospel

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in enemy territory hostile territory. Faithfulness carries a cost, and

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so the action step is not to go generate some

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punishment for yourself or look for trouble and feel like

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you can you can.

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Speaker 2: You can earn.

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Speaker 3: Something from God by bumping into all kinds of trouble. No,

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but when obedience brings difficulty in real life, we're not

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looking for trouble. We're not creating trouble. We're not creating

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a time of trouble before the time.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: But when obedience brings difficulty, resists interpreting hardship as failure

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just because you're going through something and it's consistent, this

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stuff keeps happening. You're going through something for Christ's sake.

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Don't don't just choose to interpret that as as failure.

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Suffering is a part of the package until God comes

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and releases us from all of that. Lessen number two

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coming in from two Timothy, chapter two and verse nine.

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But God's message, or but the word of God is

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not bound. I said that a little bit earlier. No

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matter what the suffering is, if you will suffer for

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Christ's sake, but you are yielded it to His will,

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the word cannot be stopped. Sometimes the suffering is the

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is the what spreads the word of God. Paul's confinement

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did not halt God's plan, it directed it in a

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different way. Some of the most influential writings emerged from

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him during suffering. We trust God no matter what, We're

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looking forward for his eternal plan.

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Speaker 2: 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 l David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,