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07 15 2026 Christlike Servanthood · 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: and receive 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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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, July fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 through First and Second Corinthians, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is christ Like servant hood, christ Like servanthood.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father, thank you for getting us into
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  Speaker 2: the middle of this week and pushing us over the
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  Speaker 2: edge where we're going over down toward the time of
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  Speaker 2: preparation and down to the Sabbath. And Father, will you
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  Speaker 2: please help us to be faithful here in this moment
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  Speaker 2: so that we can live like Jesus lived and serve
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  Speaker 2: like Jesus served. In Jesus' name, I pray a man
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  Speaker 2: and a man again. Christ Like servanthood the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing to me in this lesson, and again I want
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  Speaker 2: you to find the same for yourselves. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to write notes and say, well, this is the thing
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  Speaker 2: that stands out most to me is that Christ did
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  Speaker 2: not save you by exalting himself. And this is ironic
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  Speaker 2: to me because Jesus is worthy of all praise, worship,
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  Speaker 2: and honor. But the Bible is teaching us that He
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  Speaker 2: didn't save us through exalting himself, but by humbling himself
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  Speaker 2: for us. Hmm. Jesus humbled himself even though he's the
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  Speaker 2: one who created all things. Ah, he's the one who
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  Speaker 2: knows all things and is all powerful. Blessed be his name,
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  Speaker 2: equal to his father. And yet he humbled himself when
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  Speaker 2: he took on the form of a servant, took on
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  Speaker 2: human form. If the Cross was truly reached by our hearts,
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  Speaker 2: that is, if we are fully grasping what God is
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  Speaker 2: doing for us, then we can't keep living for self
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  Speaker 2: while claiming to follow Christ. Yeah, we're keeping the Cross
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  Speaker 2: of Christ, the sacrifice of Christ, the life and example
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  Speaker 2: of Christ as prominent in each of our lessons. Let
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  Speaker 2: me read a quote very quickly from the book The
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  Speaker 2: Acts of the Apostles, page two hundred and seventy nine,
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  Speaker 2: and it reads, the higher the position a man occupies,
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  Speaker 2: the greater should be his humility. Think about it. Are
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  Speaker 2: you the president of something? Are you the C level
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  Speaker 2: or C suite executive of something ceoc foco and others
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  Speaker 2: C level? Are you a director of something? Are you
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  Speaker 2: the pastor of something? Are you the of something? Even
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  Speaker 2: in your household then the higher huh. That means, the
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  Speaker 2: greater the humility should be, the more circumspect his bearing,
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  Speaker 2: the more careful his spirit and influence. We have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of influence, brothers and sisters. I think about that
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  Speaker 2: every time I come to you, because for years, for
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  Speaker 2: thousands and thousands of consecutive days, we have been coming together.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like God, when these certain temptations come up,
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  Speaker 2: what would happen in the lives and mindset? Even though
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  Speaker 2: I know Jesus is the model, even though I know
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is the savior, but there is responsibility incumbent
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  Speaker 2: upon on me, because for a few minutes every day
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  Speaker 2: we change the world together. What would happen if I
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  Speaker 2: decided to jump into sin?
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  Speaker 1: God?
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  Speaker 2: And of course we know the answer is not a
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  Speaker 2: positive one. And so for your sakes, only yours, but
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  Speaker 2: the sake of my family, ha the sake of what
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  Speaker 2: God has called me to do by his grace, we
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  Speaker 2: are choosing to manage this influence the way God says so,
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  Speaker 2: and to be careful for him. And so our first
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  Speaker 2: lesson is coming in from Philippians Chapter two. Obviously, Chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: verses five through eight. Hopefully your minds were sparked there
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  Speaker 2: when you heard christ like servanthood. The Bible says, let
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  Speaker 2: this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're gonna use another translation to continue continue
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  Speaker 2: the text new English translation. You should have the same
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  Speaker 2: attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had, who, though
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  Speaker 2: he existed in the form of God meaning he's eternal,
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  Speaker 2: blessed be his name, did not regard equality with God.
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  Speaker 2: We see that he is, excuse me, equal with God
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  Speaker 2: the Father as something to be grasped. That means that
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  Speaker 2: when presented with what we're going to do in order
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  Speaker 2: to save humanity, he didn't say, oh mm hmmm, ah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm divine. I'm not going down there. Nope, Nope, that's
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  Speaker 2: not what he did. Ah. But he emptied himself by
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  Speaker 2: taking on the form of a servant, a slave, by
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  Speaker 2: looking like other men, by sharing inhuman nature, meaning his form.
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  Speaker 2: He had to sleep, he had to eat right, he
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  Speaker 2: had to pray and be connected to God the Father
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  Speaker 2: through and have. He needed the power the Holy goes,
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  Speaker 2: He needed the protection of angels. As God saw fit
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  Speaker 2: the Father saw fit. He humbled himself, Paul said, by
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  Speaker 2: becoming obedient to the point of death, even the death
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  Speaker 2: of the cross. You know, Jesus could resisted death. He
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  Speaker 2: in his divinity, could have said, I am not going
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  Speaker 2: to allow my humanity to die, because the humanity of
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  Speaker 2: Christ did not sin. He was innocent, almost said not guilty.
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  Speaker 2: He was innocent of all charges. There's nothing that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: either thought or did that is contrary to the will
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  Speaker 2: of God. Therefore, his divinity could have said, no, we're
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  Speaker 2: not dying on the cross. I'm not allowing my human
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  Speaker 2: form to die on the cross. And you're like, why
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  Speaker 2: are you segmenting him? Because great is the mystery of
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  Speaker 2: God that God took on human flesh in order to
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  Speaker 2: save you. He laid down his life, Jesus said, and
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  Speaker 2: he took it up again. He could have decided, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not laying it down. I don't care what you do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lay down my life. But he
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  Speaker 2: chose instead to lower himself, to humble himself. And so
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  Speaker 2: the lesson is the mind of Christ is seen in humility, obedience,
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  Speaker 2: and giving self giving love. Jesus chose the lowest place
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  Speaker 2: so that sinners could be saved. And I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to say sinners, I want to say, so that I
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  Speaker 2: can be saved, so that you can be saved. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to type in the chat your name so
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  Speaker 2: that ld H so that ld can be saved. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to put your name so that simone can
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  Speaker 2: be saved. He did this so that you can be saved.
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  Speaker 2: The action is to choose the humble way today in
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  Speaker 2: one situation where self wants to be seen, praised, or preferred.
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  Speaker 2: Choose the humble way today, in one situation where self
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  Speaker 2: wants to be seen, praised, or preferred, be honest about it.
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  Speaker 2: Our final lesson for today, because of the time, is
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  Speaker 2: coming in from First Corinthians, Chapter four and verse seven.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, for who maketh thee to differ from
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  Speaker 2: one another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now,
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  Speaker 2: if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: If God gave it to you, why are you glorying
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  Speaker 2: in yourself? As if thou did not receive it? And
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  Speaker 2: so the lesson really is everything we have we received
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  Speaker 2: that from God. Yes, the truth leaves no room for
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  Speaker 2: pride or comparison or self exaltation in the church. Thank
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  Speaker 2: God today for everything He has given you and the
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  Speaker 2: opportunities that you have, and refuse to boast in the
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  Speaker 2: things that God has given you. Make it a great
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  Speaker 2: day peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah.