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01 16 2026 Unity Through Truth · 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 2: 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.
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  Speaker 3: It is Friday, January sixteen, twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 3: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 3: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 3: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 3: are continuing in our Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth,
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  Speaker 3: christ in Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 3: is Unity through Truth, Unity through Truth. We'll get into
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  Speaker 3: that in just a moment, but before we do, I'd
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  Speaker 3: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 3: please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  Speaker 3: join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 3: Life application guide, and do click that donate link at
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  Speaker 3: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 3: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and pray and we will get under way. Father,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for this day of preparation. Please unify us,
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  Speaker 3: unify us under your banner in Jesus' name. I pray,
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  Speaker 3: Amen and a man again. So let me go ahead
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  Speaker 3: and just begin. We're going to use I think this
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  Speaker 3: will be a good practice that we will use our
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  Speaker 3: Life Application Guide, the Life Application Guide from your Daily Portion.
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  Speaker 3: We'll use that on Fridays for sure, and at least
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  Speaker 3: tackle one of the four key areas. Okay, and so
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  Speaker 3: we're going to begin this study with our personal application
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  Speaker 3: Personal application And for those who don't know, we use
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  Speaker 3: a framework. It's the win method, the win method WI
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  Speaker 3: WIN W. What is important now based on what we
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  Speaker 3: study for today, and I'll circle back to that looking
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  Speaker 3: unto Jesus, looking to Jesus on the cross as the
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  Speaker 3: fullest expression of God's love, especially during our worst times,
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  Speaker 3: when the challenges turn up on us. Then we it's
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  Speaker 3: important that we look back and say, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 3: look at what Jesus did for us, Look at the
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  Speaker 3: suffering that he experienced. Look at the purpose of him
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  Speaker 3: living on planet Earth for thirty three and one half
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  Speaker 3: years ah. Look at why his high priestly ministry is
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  Speaker 3: structured in the way that it is for forgiveness and
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  Speaker 3: then ultimately for cleansing, so that he can save us.
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  Speaker 3: He can be just and the justifier of those who
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  Speaker 3: are yielding to him. So we look to him. We
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  Speaker 3: keep our minds focused on what Jesus has done in sacrificing,
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  Speaker 3: being sacrificed for our sins. I let's internalize that same insight.
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  Speaker 3: The great controversy between Christ and Satan helps you understand
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  Speaker 3: the terrible reality of suffering in this world. But ultimately
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  Speaker 3: you must look to Jesus on the crost as the
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  Speaker 3: fullest expression of the Father's love. When you are facing suffering,
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  Speaker 3: the cross reminds you that God did not distance himself
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  Speaker 3: or become indifferent, but has entered into your pain and defeat.
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  Speaker 3: Did the enemy trust him even when you do not understand.
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  Speaker 3: I remember a woman her name was Stella. When I
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  Speaker 3: used to go to the Bladensburg church early on Sunday mornings.
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  Speaker 3: We would have our Sabbath experience. Yes on Saturdays and
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  Speaker 3: then early Sunday mornings. We would have prayer meeting every
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  Speaker 3: single Sunday morning when I was a new believer, early
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  Speaker 3: in the morning. For hours we were in there growing together.
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  Speaker 3: And one thing that she used to say was that
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  Speaker 3: we need to trust Him, meaning God, where we cannot
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  Speaker 3: trace him. Trust him where we cannot trace him. And
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  Speaker 3: so our next best move then is when you face
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  Speaker 3: suffering or confusion today. When you encounter suffering or confusion today, pause,
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  Speaker 3: meditate on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, asking God to
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  Speaker 3: help you see his love and try him when the
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  Speaker 3: answers are not clear. Okay, okay, okay, I think I
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  Speaker 3: think we're tracking now. So what I want to do
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  Speaker 3: is read read a quote, Read a quote from RF.
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  Speaker 2: Cautrell. From R. F. Cautrell, one of our pioneers.
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  Speaker 3: If the gifts were necessary to preserve the unity of
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  Speaker 3: the primitive church, how much more so to restore unity now.
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  Speaker 3: When God brings again Zion, his watchman shall see I
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  Speaker 3: to eye. So we're talking about the people of God
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  Speaker 3: standing or being on the wall watching so that we
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  Speaker 3: can do what God would have us do in the
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  Speaker 3: last days. So we will not compromise, no creeping or
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  Speaker 3: quick compromises in the last days with evil. If this
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  Speaker 3: was the way of the believer in the early Church,
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  Speaker 3: how much more now in twenty twenty six, How much
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  Speaker 3: more now back in the eighteen hundreds when many of
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  Speaker 3: the pioneers were alive, this is what they said. How
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  Speaker 3: much more now as we are approaching the coming of
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  Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. So we will come, we will not come
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  Speaker 3: behind in any gift, and we will be more unified
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  Speaker 3: now than ever before. And so our first lesson today
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  Speaker 3: is truth produces courage, because the word of God anchors
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  Speaker 3: the believer even under persecution. And again I'll read we
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  Speaker 3: read it yesterday, verse nineteen of John chapter seventeen. And
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  Speaker 3: for their sayings I sanctify myself that they also might
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  Speaker 3: be sanctified through the truth. And so I want you
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  Speaker 3: to read one promise of scripture today and speak it
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  Speaker 3: aloud as your declaration of courage. In Christ lesson number
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  Speaker 3: two coming in from Philippians, chapter one and verse twenty seven.
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  Speaker 3: I read many years ago that repetition deepens the impression.
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  Speaker 3: We're using this passage again, And the Bible reads, only
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  Speaker 3: conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ.
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  Speaker 3: So unity comes when we allow scripture, not opinion, to
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  Speaker 3: shape faith and character. And so this great news of
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  Speaker 3: the Gospel of Jesus Christ should cause us as we
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  Speaker 3: act now, as we do what God has us to do,
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  Speaker 3: to invite the Holy Ghost to correct one belief or
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  Speaker 3: attitude or mindset in your life.
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  Speaker 2: Through the scriptures.
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  Speaker 3: There are many times that people are doubting our connection
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  Speaker 3: with God because we're looking at ourselves for how good
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  Speaker 3: or less than good we are in air quotes. And
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  Speaker 3: what we need to do is surrender our will to God,
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  Speaker 3: ask the Holy Spirit to guide us to the degree
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  Speaker 3: that we're not looking at ourselves anymore, but we're looking
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  Speaker 3: unto Jesus, who's the author and finisher of our faith.
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  Speaker 3: Lessen Number three and final comes in from Ephesians, chapter
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  Speaker 3: four and verse thirteen, where the Bible reads, till we
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  Speaker 3: all come in the unity of the faith, that is
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  Speaker 3: the outcome, that's the desired outcome. The Bible says Jesus
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  Speaker 3: speaking that they will know that you are my disciples
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  Speaker 3: when you have love one for another. So the kind
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  Speaker 3: of love that we're talking about is the kind of
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  Speaker 3: unity that God has required of us in order for
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  Speaker 3: the Holy ghosts to give us the fullness of power
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  Speaker 3: in the last days. And so the lesson is the
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  Speaker 3: action step, excuse me, is to affirm and support someone
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  Speaker 3: in your faith community who is exercising a spiritual gift
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  Speaker 3: for the body's growth. This is the action step. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm grateful. I'm grateful because God has put us in
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  Speaker 3: a position that we can see throughout the ages the
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  Speaker 3: original people of God. We can see the early Church.
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  Speaker 3: We can see the believers in the eighteen hundreds, yes,
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  Speaker 3: mid eighteen hundreds, and now the people of God in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. We know that God has given us
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  Speaker 3: the blueprint, and that blueprint is airtight. If we follow
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  Speaker 3: God's guidance, we will win. One more quote really quickly
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  Speaker 3: from Acts of the Apostles, page five hundred twelve. From
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  Speaker 3: the rack the stake the dungeon, from dens and caves
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  Speaker 3: of the earth, there falls upon his ear the martyr's
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  Speaker 3: shout of triumph. These yielding up their lives for faith,
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  Speaker 3: declare to the world that he who they trust is able.
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  Speaker 1: To a member. We cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with el David Harris,
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  Speaker 1: make it a great day. Yeah,