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09 06 2026 The Example of Jesus · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God, to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges? On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sunday, the
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  Speaker 2: sixth day of September, 2026. Hello, my name is L.
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: daily portion, where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing this new
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  Speaker 2: week in our lesson study series in 1 and 2 Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the example of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: The example... of Jesus. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and jump in here and
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  Speaker 2: get underway. Father, we thank you for giving us the
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  Speaker 2: perfect example of Jesus. Please help us to live like him.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen again. So
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  Speaker 2: it's likely that some people may have gotten sort of
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  Speaker 2: mental indigestion when I ask God to help us to
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  Speaker 2: live like Jesus because it's like, well, Well, I'm only human.
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  Speaker 2: That's the thing that comes into a lot of people's minds. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I could never be like Jesus. And you tell yourselves that,
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  Speaker 2: which is why so many times in Bible classes and
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of other interactions among the faith fellowship, people
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  Speaker 2: are always saying negative things about us as human beings
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  Speaker 2: rather than believing God. He said that we are to
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  Speaker 2: be holy for the Lord our God is holy and perfect.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the text says. And there are multiple of
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  Speaker 2: those passages, okay? And so God is welcoming us to
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  Speaker 2: be like Jesus. Now, let me say how I understood it, finally.
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  Speaker 2: It clicked in my mind many years ago when, as
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  Speaker 2: a new elder, an elder came to me and he said, Hey, listen, listen,
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  Speaker 2: before we are renewed or transformed or born again, whichever
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  Speaker 2: word you want to use here, before we are born again,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is our Savior, okay? Jesus is our Savior, Dave.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, Jesus is my Savior. That's what
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says. He's my Savior. He's the Savior of
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  Speaker 2: the world. Perfect. Okay, good. But after we are born again,
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  Speaker 2: He becomes our Savior and our example. You see, before
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  Speaker 2: a human being is born again, that human being literally
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  Speaker 2: cannot do what God says. And so we surrender our
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  Speaker 2: will to God, and that begins that beautiful process of
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  Speaker 2: renewal that puts us in a position where we can
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  Speaker 2: do whatever God says. If he says turn left, we
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  Speaker 2: now have the power to turn left. If he says
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  Speaker 2: turn right or stand still, we have the power to
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  Speaker 2: do that. See, he said, if you love me, you
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  Speaker 2: will keep my commandments. Guess what? He's not talking about
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  Speaker 2: just a response. He's saying that once... His love is
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  Speaker 2: inside of us. He's living in us. Then we are
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  Speaker 2: empowered by his love. We love him because he is
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  Speaker 2: the cause of our ability to love him.
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: So if we love him, he is promising us that
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  Speaker 2: he in our lives will keep his commandments. Through our lives,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus will live the life that he lived when he
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  Speaker 2: was on planet Earth. Let me say it another way.
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  Speaker 2: The same elder, he said, Dave, listen, listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 2: The same way, the same success that Jesus had from
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  Speaker 2: his birth until his death, we can have from our
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  Speaker 2: new birth until our death. I'm going to say it
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  Speaker 2: one more time, the same spiritual success, the same connection
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  Speaker 2: with God, the same way that Jesus lived from his
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  Speaker 2: birth until his death, we can have from our rebirth,
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  Speaker 2: our new birth, until we die. And I know people
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  Speaker 2: are like, but we make mistakes. Well, we only make
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  Speaker 2: mistakes after the new birth because we choose that path.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to. Not anymore. We don't have to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that we can't make mistakes. I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: that we don't have to make mistakes. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had the time to really drill this. So what God
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  Speaker 2: is saying is, my little children, these things write I
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  Speaker 2: unto you that ye sin not. That's what John said
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  Speaker 2: under the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: And if....
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  Speaker 2: Any one of you. Talking about the people who are newborn,
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  Speaker 2: like who are new creatures in Christ, not the people
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  Speaker 2: who don't have that new birth experience. And if, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't say when, it doesn't say because you have to.
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  Speaker 2: He said, if any person sins, you have an advocate
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  Speaker 2: with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He's talking about
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  Speaker 2: specifically in that context, people who are renewed do not
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  Speaker 2: have to continue down that path of unrighteousness because we
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  Speaker 2: have a new seed living in our lives, okay? And so,
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  Speaker 2: let me go on now to our first lesson. That
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  Speaker 2: felt like a first lesson, but we're going into 2
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  Speaker 2: Corinthians chapter 8 and verse 9. Somebody's just getting what
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  Speaker 2: I said. You can rewind this if you're on the internet,
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube, yep, or a podcast. Okay, so the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: that though he was rich for our sakes, he became poor,
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  Speaker 2: that through his poverty... you can become rich. Well, what
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  Speaker 2: does that mean? He's using a word that sounds like plousios,
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  Speaker 2: and that means abundantly wealthy, possessing everything. Paul opens up
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  Speaker 2: this part of his letter with the richness of Christ
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  Speaker 2: in his, careful here, preexistent glory. So before he took
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  Speaker 2: on his human body, eternal Jesus Christ, the second one
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  Speaker 2: of the Godhead, the one who created you, he had
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  Speaker 2: everything in his glory, the one who spoke worlds into existence,
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  Speaker 2: the one who was worshipped by angels, who shared the
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  Speaker 2: throne of the universe, as you can see in Revelation
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  Speaker 2: chapters 4 and 5. What a beautiful scene there. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time. And then shows what he voluntarily,
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  Speaker 2: he voluntarily yielded for the sake of sinners. Let this mind,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, be in you, which was also in
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  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. He didn't see the fact that he was
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  Speaker 2: all of that. as a way to put an impediment
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  Speaker 2: or a block between him and you. He didn't see
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  Speaker 2: that and say, I need to stay like that, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to let those people down there die in
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  Speaker 2: their sins. No, he did not. And so the teaching
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  Speaker 2: here is that the the incarnation, that is when Jesus
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  Speaker 2: took on human form in order to save us from
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  Speaker 2: our sins, was the greatest act of financial sacrifice in
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  Speaker 2: the universe. I know what I just said. Jesus divested
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  Speaker 2: himself of infinite wealth in those moments. For 33 and
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  Speaker 2: a half years, he was dependent upon his Father, just
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  Speaker 2: like you have to be dependent upon the Father and
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  Speaker 2: through the Holy Ghost, and the ministry of angels. Through
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  Speaker 2: those moments, moments of 33 and a half years of
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  Speaker 2: the glory. He was not in the glory. He begged
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  Speaker 2: his father. He was like, listen, when this is all
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  Speaker 2: said and done, Father, I've done what you have said,
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  Speaker 2: and I have not lost any. Could you please just
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  Speaker 2: restore me to the way things were? Can you restore
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  Speaker 2: me to that former glory? And the worship. He divested
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  Speaker 2: himself in those moments of the worship that he had
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  Speaker 2: throughout the ages in the past. The prerogatives in the
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  Speaker 2: way that he acted on planet Earth. He did not
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  Speaker 2: use any of those divine prerogatives to make his life
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  Speaker 2: easier down here. Let me just say it that way.
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  Speaker 2: And he took on poverty of a borrowed manger, a
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  Speaker 2: borrowed boat, a borrowed tomb. Every offering the believer gives
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  Speaker 2: is a small, it's just like that, or a small
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  Speaker 2: version of that immeasurable gift. My God. So Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: now our example. You see how he was giving this
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  Speaker 2: equal sacrifice, not equal giving. Come on, y'all. Let's do it.
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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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day.