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02 17 2026 Head of the Body (the Church) · 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: 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 Tuesday, February seventeen,
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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. Then 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 Head of the Body
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  Speaker 2: the Church, Head of the Body the Church. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, i'd like to say welcome to everyone
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, thank you for this day,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you, thank you for being being so kind
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  Speaker 2: to give us the head that is so brilliant, so
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  Speaker 2: powerful that if we just follow, we will not get lost.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to follow. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. The head of the body. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I just say very simply this morning that if the
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  Speaker 2: head in our real, live bodies, I'm not being philosophical,
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  Speaker 2: hm or spiritual if the he if our head is healthy,
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  Speaker 2: then we're on a good track. Can I say it again,
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  Speaker 2: If if the head is healthy, then we are on
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  Speaker 2: a good track. Somebody asked me the other day, like,
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  Speaker 2: how do you know what is the most important or
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  Speaker 2: he didn't say how do you know? He said what
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  Speaker 2: is the most important part of the body? And he
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  Speaker 2: was saying the head, because you know, if God forbid
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  Speaker 2: someone is declared brain dead. Then that means they really
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  Speaker 2: have expired and are now resting, you see. And so
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is not dead, He's alive. Jesus Christ took
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  Speaker 2: his life up again. He is the preeminent one who
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  Speaker 2: kept his promise. He said that I will lay down
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  Speaker 2: my life in order to save you and to save me,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. I will lay down my life that
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  Speaker 2: I may take it again. I have this commandment of
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  Speaker 2: my father. And so Jesus, the head, who was dead
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  Speaker 2: but is now alive, yes, has the keys to hell,
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  Speaker 2: grave and death, and has the keys to your salvation.
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  Speaker 2: You see. And so when Jesus is the head of
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  Speaker 2: this body, we cannot lose. Now, let me just read
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  Speaker 2: from eighteen seventy four review in Harold. It reads, the
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  Speaker 2: church has one head, one head, really, he said, but
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  Speaker 2: one head, but one head. That's to the exclusion of others.
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  Speaker 2: Back then, of course, they were struggling, like, is the
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  Speaker 2: head of the church a bishop? Is the head of
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  Speaker 2: the church some other character? Is it a pope? Is
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  Speaker 2: it something else? Well, the Bible teaches us that the
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  Speaker 2: church has been but one head. The actual church. Peter
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  Speaker 2: is not the head of the church. Your pastor is
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  Speaker 2: not the head of a church like I have pastored before.
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  Speaker 2: I know what it means. My pastor is not the
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  Speaker 2: head of the church. That that pastor of my church
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  Speaker 2: has been assigned by God to lead but under Christ. Right,
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  Speaker 2: and that head is Christ, continuing the quote, all true
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  Speaker 2: authority flows from Him. Every member, meaning everybody part in
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  Speaker 2: the body. Every member finds purpose only in union with Him.
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  Speaker 2: So these hands that I'm wiggling around right now on
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  Speaker 2: the screen you can see me if you're on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: or on Facebook. These fingers only understand to move around
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  Speaker 2: because because my head, the brain, the head is commanding.
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  Speaker 2: So if I need to grasp something, then it's the
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  Speaker 2: head that said I must grasp it. You understand. And
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  Speaker 2: God wants us to grasp the truth that Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: is the head. Did you see what I did there?
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  Speaker 2: And so from the book Acts of the Apostles, page
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy five, we read the church is
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  Speaker 2: dependent on Christ for life, for light and instruction. Our
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  Speaker 2: eyes are the light to the body, isn't that right? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: And if we're if our head is alive, then we
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  Speaker 2: are alive instruction. Our brains are giving the body instruction. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: there are other parts that communicate that instruction, but the
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  Speaker 2: brain is the one that came up with it and
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  Speaker 2: sent the signal down. Okay, So the church is dependent
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  Speaker 2: upon Christ for light, for life, and instruction. He is
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  Speaker 2: the head of the body, and without him it cannot
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  Speaker 2: have any power. That shouldn't be something I'm so passionate about,
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  Speaker 2: as if people don't understand or know it. But for
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  Speaker 2: some reason, people keep trying to install other heads. Lucifer
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  Speaker 2: try to install himself into the position as head in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: which is why he is cast out because he would
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  Speaker 2: not repent from that. So Jesus Christ is the only
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  Speaker 2: legitimate head of the church. No, okay, I won't go
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  Speaker 2: on no soapbox this morning. Let me just go ahead
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  Speaker 2: to the biblical lessons going in now. From the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of Ephesians, chapter one and verse twenty two, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, he has put all things under his feet
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  Speaker 2: and gave him to be the head over all things
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  Speaker 2: to the church. And so we've already said this, but
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  Speaker 2: let me say it another way. Christ as head means
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  Speaker 2: supreme authority and direction. And what this term for head
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  Speaker 2: means is chief one with authority, Oh, and responsibility. See
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  Speaker 2: all of these humans that want to be the head
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  Speaker 2: of something I'm talking about in terms of the Church,
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  Speaker 2: rather than understanding that we are all under Christ. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about those who usurp God's authority, Yes, or attempt to.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want the responsibility part. They want what they
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  Speaker 2: consider to be authority, but they are running away from
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  Speaker 2: the reality of the responsibility. So in scripture, the head
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  Speaker 2: constantly refers to leadership and governing authority. So when Paul
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  Speaker 2: calls Christ the head of the church, he is affirming
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  Speaker 2: that Christ alone directs, Christ alone governs, Christ alone leads
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  Speaker 2: his people. The Church does not define its mission independently. You, Understan,
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  Speaker 2: and like some of you, are a part of a
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  Speaker 2: faith community, just like the one I'm a part of.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, when the leaders do come together on a periodic,
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  Speaker 2: predictable interval and then cast the vision, well, that vision
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  Speaker 2: really just floats right up to the great co mission
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  Speaker 2: if it's worth its weight in salt. And so that
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  Speaker 2: vision or mission that is given based on our committees
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  Speaker 2: or whatever it is that we do within our faith fellowship,
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  Speaker 2: it must always align with the mission or co mission
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus Christ gave in the Bible Book of Matthew,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty eight. Okay, and so Christ determines the purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Christ determines the Bible teachings. Christ determines the direction. So
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  Speaker 2: he affirms that Christ alone directs, governs, and leads his people.
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  Speaker 2: The Church of God does not define its mission independently,
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  Speaker 2: and so our actions depth necessarily is Before making decisions
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  Speaker 2: that affect others, pause ask whether your choice reflects Christ's
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  Speaker 2: authority or personal preference. Leaders, please listen. I'll say it
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  Speaker 2: one more again. Before making decisions that affect others, please,
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  Speaker 2: will you pause and ask whether those are Christ's authority,
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  Speaker 2: reflection or personal preference. Yeah. Christ is the head of
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  Speaker 2: the body. I am so glad because if I were
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  Speaker 2: the head of the body, y'all will get lost. Thank
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  Speaker 2: God for Jesus. Make it a great day, 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.