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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 Thursday, February

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twenty six, 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, and our caption for today is Power

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of the Gospel, The Power of the Gospel. Before we

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get into that, i'd like to say welcome to everyone

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joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.

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Daily Portion YouTube channel. All right, let's go ahead and pray, Father,

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thank you for this day. Thank you for the privilege

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that you have entrusted to us today to open up

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your word. Now, please give us the power of God

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unto salvation. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a

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man again, Yes, the power of the gospel. The power

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of the gospel, Jesus said, they will know that you

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are my disciples. The whole world. They'll know that you

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are my disciples. If you have love one for another.

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That's the power of the gospel. Now, there is so

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much more to it, but I wanted to shift it

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to brass tax before we begin to drill it more deeply. Okay,

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And so first, first we go to reviewing Herald in

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the year eighteen sixty eight, where we read from John

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Nevin's Andrews the Gospel demands growth. I love that the

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Gospel demands growth. That means that if we stagnate, then

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that means that we are not vivified or enlivened by

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the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We cannot say we are

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saved by grace through faith and stagnate at the same time.

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Status quo cannot be something we embrace when we accept

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the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because we should grow in

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grace just like Jesus did, and in the knowledge of

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the Lord, and of course respect among our fellow human beings. Okay,

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So the Gospel, continuing the quote, demands growth. To stand still, Oh,

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plot twist is to fall backward. The Gospel demands growth.

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To stand still is to fall backward. Now there's one

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from the book Christ's object Lessons, page three hundred and

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thirty one. And I will say, just in the odds

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at the outset, that spiritual things are spiritually deserned. So

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take your time with this one and be prayerful. Okay,

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Perfection of character m M is attainable to every soul

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who strives for it. We're not talking about anybody earning

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or attempting to earn anything from God. We're talking about

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striving unto blood, resisting sin. Now, the Bible tells us

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very clearly how we can do this. It teaches us

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in James chapter four and verse seven, that we are

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to submit ourselves therefore unto God, and then we will

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be able to do what resist the devil? And what

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will the devil have to do? Then the devil will

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have to flee? You understand. And so yeah, let's let

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that settle in as we go into our lesson number

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one for today from the Bible Book of Colossians, chapter

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one and verse twenty eight. Colossians one and verse twenty eight,

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and the Bible reads whom we preach, we proclaim him

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by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom. The

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Bible teaches us that Jesus Christ is our wisdom in

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one Corinthians chapter one, Versus thirty and thirty one, and

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Proverbs chapter eight and other places. So we proclaim Him

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by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom, so

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that we may present every person much sure in Christ.

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Now you know what the word perfection actually means. When

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we're talking about Christ and his people Covered in the

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righteousness of Christ, then we become complete and mature. Okay.

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And so the lesson is the Gospel's aim is Christ

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like much surety in every believer. So Paul repeats every

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person or every man three times to remove all exceptions.

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That means you, anybody listening in one of the any

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one of the two hundred radio stations, any one of

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those devices. I don't know what you're on. Are you

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on an Amazon device or some other device. You're on

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satellite radio, you are on YouTube, Facebook, and all of

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those podcasts aggregators. This means you, brothers and sisters in

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that one television station. This means you. This means you,

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every person three times to remove all exceptions. The Gospel

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is not selective. It is not for elites. It is

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not just for leaders, nor is it for the spiritually

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gifted so called only. God's redemptive goal includes every believer

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bar none, and so and so the word for perfect

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means complete mature, fully developed. Biblical maturity does not mean

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sinless performance. This is where everybody who has a problem,

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like the people who used to argue about this in

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the eighteen eighties within my faith community, that's where they

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started to itch it developed in them an allergic response

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because they couldn't figure out, well, how in the world

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are we gonna become perfect? Well, Jesus said it, like

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be he perfect, for I the Lord thy God, am

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perfect like you understand. So that's God's business, not yours.

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Biblical maturity does not mean sinless performance. It means completeness

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in Christ. A believer grounded in the Gospel, a life

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shaped by the truth, a character growing. Now we get it.

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That's what sanctification is about. Being set aside for a

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holy use and set upon a growth trajectory, a growth

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path in the paths of righteousness, a character growing into

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Christ's likeness. And so the action step is to measure

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spiritual growth by faithfulness and transformation and not comparison. We

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don't have a checklist to say, okay, well, okay, so

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Simona and I are married. So if I do this

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and then she does that, let me carry the one.

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What's the weighted score. What's the score for this one?

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All right? So that means that she's holier than me,

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be holier than I am, because that one has a

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heavier No, no, that's not how it works. Surrender your

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will to Christ. If you surrender your will to Christ

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and you are covered in Christ's righteousness, then you are

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in the growth path, in the paths of righteousness. Lesson

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number two coming in from Hebrews chapter four and verse twelve,

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where we read the Word of God is quick and powerful,

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meaning living and active, and is the discerner of the

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thoughts and intents of the heart. It judges the desires

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and thoughts of the heart. And so maturity comes when

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the scriptures shape our beliefs and exposes the error in

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our lives, our mindset, the way we live, the way

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we interact with humans, other humans, and God, and it

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corrects our direction. Growth without discernment leads to deception. So

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can we just submit that? That's kind of the action

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step submit to God every time he reveals something to you. 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,