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01 22 2026 The Mystery of Godliness · 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 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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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 in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians
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  Speaker 2: and Colossians, and our caption for today is the Mystery
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  Speaker 2: of Godliness. You've heard me use that phrase before, The
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  Speaker 2: Mystery of Godliness. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. I'm asking you to
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and pray. Father, We thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: day and the opportunity to continue to consider your word.
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  Speaker 2: But Lord, help us to live your word, help us
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  Speaker 2: to benefit from the mystery of Godliness. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again. And so for me,
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  Speaker 2: the most you know focused passage on the mystery of Godliness,
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  Speaker 2: and I know that there is so much more we
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  Speaker 2: can learn from the Bible in that regard is when
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  Speaker 2: the Bible writer says that great is the mystery of Godliness,
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  Speaker 2: that God became a man, so Jesus Christ came into
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  Speaker 2: human flesh, and then for the purpose of saving us
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  Speaker 2: from our sins, he could not stay way up in
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  Speaker 2: heaven and do something miraculous from there and remain somehow
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  Speaker 2: separated or distant from us. But he took on humanity
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  Speaker 2: in order to do but save us from our sins.
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  Speaker 2: And the lesson writer actually actually began to break down
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  Speaker 2: Philippians chapter two. In the body of the lesson in
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  Speaker 2: a beautiful hymn Philippians two, Paul here elaborates on Jesus's
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  Speaker 2: condescension more fully in some respects than anywhere else in
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  Speaker 2: the scripture, And of course he points out the lesson
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  Speaker 2: writer points out that he was being in the form
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  Speaker 2: of God, that he also emptied himself. Even though he
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  Speaker 2: was in the form of God, he humbled himself, and
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  Speaker 2: then he yielded himself to die on the cross to
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  Speaker 2: save us from our sins. Okay, and that is our
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  Speaker 2: focus for now, But let me jump into some lessons
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  Speaker 2: for today. Our first one is Christ took real so
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  Speaker 2: we're not talking about it in some kind of spiritual sense.
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  Speaker 2: He took on real human flesh so he could conquer
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  Speaker 2: sin where we fall and bring us the victory. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says in Romans chapter eight, it's one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite chapters in the Bible maybe top three for me,
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  Speaker 2: that God sending his own son in the likeness of
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  Speaker 2: sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Bible continues in order to fulfill the
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  Speaker 2: righteousness of the law or the righteous requirements of the law,
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  Speaker 2: that they may be fulfilled in our lives so that
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  Speaker 2: we could be saved. Okay. And so when Jesus comes
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  Speaker 2: in the likeness of human flesh, it means true similarity
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  Speaker 2: without identical nature. Let me just say it like this,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was like us, but not just like us, because
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  Speaker 2: part of the mystery of him is that he is
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent God. But in this case, he was
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent God and one hundred percent human. Don't
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  Speaker 2: try to do it like a math problem, okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so even though he's one hundred percent God, he said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I'm not going to let those guys
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  Speaker 2: down there, those people down there, those men, women, boys,
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  Speaker 2: and girls down there die in their sins. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to tabernacle with them. I'm going to take on human
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  Speaker 2: form in the fullness of time so they can be saved.
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  Speaker 2: So they can be saved. And so today I want
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  Speaker 2: you to thank God, Thank God that Jesus is entering
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  Speaker 2: your world fully so he can break sins power in
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  Speaker 2: your life. Have you ever gotten bad advice or advice
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  Speaker 2: where you're like, yeah, that's easy for you to say,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just like, oh, yeah, just do this, and
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  Speaker 2: you're like, you have literally no experience in the area
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  Speaker 2: that you are you know, so brilliantly expounding and spouting
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  Speaker 2: answers for But in Jesus's case, he is He is
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  Speaker 2: the perfect example because he remember was in all points
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  Speaker 2: tempted like as we are, and yet without sin, and
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  Speaker 2: so he can give us the guidance that we need.
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  Speaker 2: He can be empathetic toward us as we struggle to
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  Speaker 2: make the right decisions. Okay, I don't want to go
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  Speaker 2: too far right there, but I just want you to
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  Speaker 2: give thanks to God. Give thanks to God for Christ
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  Speaker 2: and how he's entered into your world fully so he
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  Speaker 2: could break sin's power in your life. Lesson number two
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  Speaker 2: is coming in from Hebrews Chapter two, verses fourteen through seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: I'll read some of it that though that through death
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  Speaker 2: he might destroy him that had power of death. So Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: when he came and gave his life for us. He
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  Speaker 2: died the sin, the death excuse me that we deserve,
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  Speaker 2: so we can live the life that he deserves. When
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  Speaker 2: he died that death, it was to break the back,
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  Speaker 2: break the power of death, break the fear that's attached
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  Speaker 2: to it, and break the back of the enemy who
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  Speaker 2: brought death on planet Earth, the devil himself. Let me
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  Speaker 2: keep reading. Wherefore in all things it behooved him to
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  Speaker 2: be made like his brethren. So again Christ became fully
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  Speaker 2: human to break the power of death and to serve
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  Speaker 2: as a mercyful, faithful high priest. Oh, that's where the
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  Speaker 2: empathy comes from. You see, when Jesus had finished his
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  Speaker 2: ministry on planet Earth, and he went into heavenly places
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  Speaker 2: to continue ministry in the Holy Placed ministry and then
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  Speaker 2: eventually eighteen hundred and ten years later, into the High
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  Speaker 2: priestly ministry that happens in the most holy place, principle,
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  Speaker 2: where cleansing happens. Okay, yeah, he's going in there with
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  Speaker 2: all of his experience, having lived down here on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: He is the perfect advocate. He knows how to assist
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  Speaker 2: human beings because he was a human being. He knows
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  Speaker 2: what it's like to be hungry, He knows what it's
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  Speaker 2: like to be thirsty and tired. He knows what it's
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  Speaker 2: like to have the people who were supposedly the closest
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  Speaker 2: to you to abandon you right in the time of
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  Speaker 2: greatest need. And so he's the perfect high priest to
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  Speaker 2: be faithful. And so the action step is to bring
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  Speaker 2: one struggle honestly, And I want you to think of
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  Speaker 2: this keenly, honestly to Jesus, because remember he can understand
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  Speaker 2: mm hm, trusting that he knows it from the inside,
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  Speaker 2: and he intercedes for you. He's in heaven as the
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  Speaker 2: perfect advocate, knowing what you're going through, brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: So I want you to focus your attention there. And
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  Speaker 2: of course the word, the word that has to do
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  Speaker 2: with him taking on our humanity, means to share fully,
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  Speaker 2: to participate in the same experience. Lesson number three. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads in verse fifteen. But he was in all
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  Speaker 2: points tempted like as we are, and yet without sin.
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  Speaker 2: Christ's sin less life and suffering show us the path
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  Speaker 2: of humble obedience. And so the action is to choose
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  Speaker 2: one temptation you're facing today and meet it by saying, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: face this Jesus overcame this and his strength I will too.
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  Speaker 2: And of course we are praying to God always for
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  Speaker 2: his strength to overcome. 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.