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01 18 2026 Disunity in Philippi · 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: 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 Sunday, January eighteen,
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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 Disunity in Philippi. This
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  Speaker 2: unity in Philippi. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to just welcome everybody joining us, especially those people who
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty five, twenty five. It takes me about
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and get under way. Father, thank you, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this new work WEEKND. I pray that we will
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  Speaker 2: learn unity, learn unity, and then do exactly what you
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  Speaker 2: have called us to do. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: amen and amen again disunity in PHILIPPI. Okay, let's go
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  Speaker 2: right into the scriptures. We're not going to burn any
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  Speaker 2: time going into Philippians chapter two, beginning at verse one.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Book of Philippians, chapter two, and I will
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  Speaker 2: read beginning at verse one. The Bible reads, Therefore, if
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  Speaker 2: there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort provided by love,
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  Speaker 2: any fellowship in the Holy Spirit, any affection or mercy,
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  Speaker 2: complete my joy and be of the same mind. What
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  Speaker 2: is the same mind? Unity? He wants you to be
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  Speaker 2: bound together in love. He wants you to have affection.
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  Speaker 2: He wants you God's people in Philippi. But of course
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  Speaker 2: us two to understand what it's like to be merciful
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  Speaker 2: and live according to the code of condom of people
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  Speaker 2: who are merciful, Complete my joy and be of the
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  Speaker 2: same mind. Like the bonus round in Paul's mind was
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  Speaker 2: all of those things are wonderful, all of them are necessary,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to see this manifest in a unified
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  Speaker 2: or a united spirit. By still in verse one two,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me by having the same love, being united in
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost, and having one purpose instead of being
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  Speaker 2: motivated by selfish ambition. In that word selfish ambition means,
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  Speaker 2: it means. It means that we are thinking thoughts motivated
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  Speaker 2: by only ourself. We couldn't care less about other people.
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  Speaker 2: We couldn't care less about what God is doing in
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  Speaker 2: their lives, couldn't care less about what people are supposed
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  Speaker 2: to receive from us because we are focused on something
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  Speaker 2: other than what God wants. And then of course our vanity.
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  Speaker 2: Each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat
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  Speaker 2: one another as more important than ourselves. What now? The
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  Speaker 2: lesson writer says it must have been a tremendous disappointment
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  Speaker 2: for Paul to see that the Church of God that
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  Speaker 2: he established and loved so much was racked with rivalry
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  Speaker 2: and consumed with contention. He uses a very strong word
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  Speaker 2: to describe the problem, selfish ambition, which being translated, is
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  Speaker 2: used in other places referring to self interested rivals in
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  Speaker 2: Rome bent on promoting themselves rather than advancing the cause
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. Oh, wait, man, like, what year was this
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  Speaker 2: the two twenty twenty six when Paul wrote that, No,
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  Speaker 2: Paul has been resting since a long time ago. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like the people of God still have the
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  Speaker 2: same problem sometimes. And so what God wants us to
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  Speaker 2: do is take the guidance straight out of the scriptures
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  Speaker 2: and yield to Him and be unified by the spirit.
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  Speaker 2: So our first lesson is self ambition destroys unity and
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  Speaker 2: opens the door to every kind of spiritual confusion. My
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  Speaker 2: brother and friend with whom I work every day, it
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  Speaker 2: seems of my life. Eric Thomas talks about the pack.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pack mentality, and this pack we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: it in a positive way. The African wild dog like
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  Speaker 2: they have no self interest, it's weird. And their ability
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  Speaker 2: to hunt and to be successful in the hunt for
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  Speaker 2: the thriving of their species, not just survival, is eighty
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  Speaker 2: percent success rate in their hunting because they don't fight
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  Speaker 2: among themselves like other species of even dogs. They come
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  Speaker 2: in late and take stuff that doesn't belong to them.
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  Speaker 2: And I could go on through other species completely, but
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  Speaker 2: what we're seeing in nature, and I'm thankful that E
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  Speaker 2: and TJ. Pastor TJ. Tius have pointed these things out,
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  Speaker 2: Like our focus needs to be all for one and
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  Speaker 2: one for all. Remember the Three Musketeers. Maybe that's not
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  Speaker 2: the best example, but humans have a habit of looking
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  Speaker 2: out for ourselves. I remember being taught growing up in
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  Speaker 2: New York City, like the first law of nature is
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  Speaker 2: self preservation. Wow, that's antithetical to the Gospel, isn't it? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so we need to make sure that nothing be
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  Speaker 2: done through strife or vein glory. Examine one area of
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  Speaker 2: rivalry or competitiveness in your life and surrender it to
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  Speaker 2: Christ today for cleansing. Again, if you look at the
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  Speaker 2: African wild dogs, and you see that their success is
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  Speaker 2: eighty percent or more, sometimes even up to a ninety
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  Speaker 2: percent success rate. It's because they don't have these selfish ambitions.
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  Speaker 2: They want to make sure that everybody in the pack,
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  Speaker 2: from the alpha male alpha females to the pups. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: in the pack gets to eat, and the weaker ones
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  Speaker 2: are served first. I wish I had the time, like
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful that God is showing us in his word,
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  Speaker 2: he shows us in nature, and he's showing us through
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost the way that we must live, not
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  Speaker 2: only to survive in the last days, but to thrive lesson.
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  Speaker 2: Number two comes in from Philippians chapter two. In verse one,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, the Holy Spirit creates unity when believers
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  Speaker 2: choose compassion, fellowship, and mercy over pride. Let's go back
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  Speaker 2: to verse one of Philippians chapter two. We read it already.
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  Speaker 2: If there be any consolation in Christ and any fellowship
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  Speaker 2: in the Spirit, then of course we see what Paul
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  Speaker 2: continues to say. So we're looking for that encouragement in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking for that fellowship in Christ, and it is
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  Speaker 2: found in that love and mercy and godly affection and
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  Speaker 2: in unity, as he described later. And so we want
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  Speaker 2: all of these things in place of pride. This fellowship
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  Speaker 2: connea means shared life, spiritual partnership. Again shout to et
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  Speaker 2: on this one too. Covenant living is greater than just
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  Speaker 2: co It's just greater than just a commitment. Covenantal living
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  Speaker 2: is greater than a commitment. Let me say it this way.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it this way. I remember one time,
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  Speaker 2: many years ago, somebody was looking at what, you know,
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  Speaker 2: trying to talk about what Cain said, Am I my
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  Speaker 2: brother's keeper when he had exterminated his brother. Am I
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  Speaker 2: my brother's keeper? Where is your brother? Am I my
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  Speaker 2: brother's keeper? This? This guy said, I'm not my brother's keeper.
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  Speaker 2: I am my brother. Can I say it again, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not merely my brother's keeper. I am my brother. And
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  Speaker 2: that lines up perfectly with the second and great commandment,
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  Speaker 2: namely this to love your neighbor as yourself. That's covenantal
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  Speaker 2: living if you think about it the way he talks
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  Speaker 2: about it. Covenantal living doesn't only look on others to
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  Speaker 2: be of assistance to them. It's a mutual lifestyle that
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  Speaker 2: really sees the people that we love, the people we're
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  Speaker 2: serving as ourselves like. We literally see ourselves in them,
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  Speaker 2: and it makes us inseparable. It makes us unified under
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  Speaker 2: the Holy gullst to do whatever it is that God
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  Speaker 2: has called us to do as a collective. Make it
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  Speaker 2: 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.