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02 03 2026 The Things That Matter · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, February three,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the Things that Matter,
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  Speaker 2: The Things that Matter. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and get under way. Father, We
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day. Thank you for loving us
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  Speaker 2: beyond our capacity to listen and understand that you love us. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to love you in return, and to
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  Speaker 2: make the right thing the right thing, Make the most
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  Speaker 2: important thing, the most important thing in Jesus' name. I pray,
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  Speaker 2: amen and amen again, the things that matter. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to just do an exercise with me very quickly
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  Speaker 2: and type in the chat. You're on YouTube, you're on Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: Type in the chat what matters most to you? What
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  Speaker 2: matters most to you? Is it your family? Is it
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  Speaker 2: somebody in particular? Is it something and no shade like?
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  Speaker 2: Is it peace of mind? Is it faith in God?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: What matters most to you? The lesson writer says, as
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  Speaker 2: yesterday's study pointed out, the things that previously made Paul
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  Speaker 2: proud are actually hinderances to faith because they blinded him
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  Speaker 2: as to his need for Christ. Paul uses the language
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  Speaker 2: of commerce, gain and loss to describe his spiritual ledger
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  Speaker 2: prior to faith. I see what they did there. Although
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  Speaker 2: we don't like to think about it much, every human
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  Speaker 2: being has a spiritual ledger in air quotes for those
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  Speaker 2: who can't see me. Previously, Paul's ledger was measured by
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  Speaker 2: the values that he learned in his faith community of
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  Speaker 2: the time, rather than by biblical values as taught by Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: So again, I'm not asking you to type in the
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  Speaker 2: chat again, but I'm just saying, like, how are you
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  Speaker 2: even measuring? How are you measuring the value? Is it
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  Speaker 2: core values? Is it something that God gave you in
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  Speaker 2: a vision or a dream. Is it something that God
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  Speaker 2: just brought to your mind as you were interacting with someone,
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  Speaker 2: or you were in a worship experience, and then God
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  Speaker 2: just started to shine the light of understanding into your consciousness.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. Were you studying the
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  Speaker 2: Bible and then it seemed that WHOA, I'm experiencing this
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  Speaker 2: passage in a way that I had never done before,
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  Speaker 2: and now I have clarity. Whatever your experience are. Prayer
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  Speaker 2: is that God will help us make the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing the most important thing, And so we begin our
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  Speaker 2: study with lesson number one. Spiritual sight begins when we
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  Speaker 2: see our past quote gains and losses compared to knowing Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say another way I need to say. I
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  Speaker 2: to just it, I have to adjust it. Spiritual sight
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  Speaker 2: begins when we see our past gains as loss. That's
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  Speaker 2: it compared to knowing Christ. And so in Philippians chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: verses seven and eight, the Bible reads, but what things
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  Speaker 2: were past tense gained to me? Those I counted loss
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  Speaker 2: for Christ? Yay, doubtless, I count all things but loss
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  Speaker 2: for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, Jesus, my Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say right here, excellency of the knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: It's not an intellectual thing to know, in Biblical speak,
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  Speaker 2: is to have an intimate experience, a fruitful and intimate
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  Speaker 2: Adam knew his wife Eve, and they and she bear
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  Speaker 2: a son, and so this kind of knowing, this kind
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  Speaker 2: of intimacy brings forth fruit. It's not just an intellectual situation.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read it from the New English translation. These
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  Speaker 2: assets you see that, But these assets, though the lesson
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  Speaker 2: writer was telling the truth, these assets I have come
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  Speaker 2: to regard now as liabilities because of Christ. More than
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  Speaker 2: that I now regard all things as liabilities compared to
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  Speaker 2: the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,
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  Speaker 2: and so loss in that text actually means disadvantage or detriment.
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  Speaker 2: So all of the good things about his past, his
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  Speaker 2: perfect resume, all that in his faith community gave him accolades,
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  Speaker 2: he said that it's a disadvantage. So it had been
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  Speaker 2: better if he hadn't had all of those accolades. It
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  Speaker 2: would have been better if he didn't have the plaques.
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  Speaker 2: I have plaques under my desk. No disrespect to those
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  Speaker 2: who gave them to me. I'm just saying I have
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  Speaker 2: plaques and awards and all kinds of things. And what
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  Speaker 2: he's saying is that those things were a detriment to him.
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  Speaker 2: What once seemed profitable is revealed as spiritual debt. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about the Greek word. I'm talking about the actual
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  Speaker 2: word he used for lost. Huh zamia. That's what it means,
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  Speaker 2: a detriment. All the good stuff they say about you,
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  Speaker 2: all of the awards ceremonies that they have even inside church.
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  Speaker 2: What Paul is saying is, oh wait a minute, that
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  Speaker 2: became spiritual debt. I think I'll stop before I get
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  Speaker 2: on a soapbox. So the action step is to identify
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  Speaker 2: just one gain you've mistake we can ly valued, and
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  Speaker 2: surrender it, asking Christ to reshape your ledger with Heaven's values.
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  Speaker 2: Shout to the accountants in the room. Shout to the
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  Speaker 2: bookkeepers in the room. Okay, Lessen number two, Lessen number two.
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  Speaker 2: True spiritual sight comes only when Christ removes blindness, when
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  Speaker 2: Christ removes blindness and reveals our real condition. Here is
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  Speaker 2: an example here in John chapter nine and verse thirty nine.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, for judgment, I have come into this
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  Speaker 2: world so that those who do not see may gain
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  Speaker 2: their sight. So if in your own mind you are
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  Speaker 2: not able to see, you recognize that you are not
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  Speaker 2: able to see, you'll gain your sight, and those who
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  Speaker 2: see might become blind. So the proud people, the people
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  Speaker 2: who have all of the accolades, the people who think
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  Speaker 2: that they got it all figured out, the ones who
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  Speaker 2: have studied and know in air quotes, and they are
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  Speaker 2: resting on their laurels of knowledge and understanding and wisdom
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  Speaker 2: and thought and persuasion and philosophical prowess. Yeah, those people,
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  Speaker 2: it says, well, those will become blind. And so to
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  Speaker 2: be blind in this text is tough loss. Tough loss.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, it's actually too floss. It's hard to pronounce.
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  Speaker 2: In English. Two floss, it means literal or spiritual inability
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  Speaker 2: to perceive divine truth. Oh wait, literal or spiritual inability
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  Speaker 2: to perceive divine truth. So God is saying, I want
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  Speaker 2: to remedy this too, floss. I don't want you to
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  Speaker 2: have an inability to see or perceive divine truth. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to give you the principle of spiritual things are
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  Speaker 2: spiritually discerned. I'm going to ignite your mind with my
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  Speaker 2: vision so you can see as I see, as I
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  Speaker 2: reveal it to you through the Holy Ghost. And so
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  Speaker 2: the action step is to pray, Lord, reveal where I
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  Speaker 2: think I see, but I'm actually blind. And then what
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  Speaker 2: I want you to do is actually write it down.
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  Speaker 2: Write down one area where pride or habit may be
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  Speaker 2: blocking your site. It's not for somebody else to read,
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  Speaker 2: it's for you. And then finally, lessen number three, as
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  Speaker 2: we come to a swift close, earthly values and heavenly
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  Speaker 2: values cannot coexist. One will always choke out the other one.
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  Speaker 2: Ah choose wisely, Brothers and sisters choose the things that
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  Speaker 2: actually matter to God. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,