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03 12 2026 Living the New Life · 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, March twelve,
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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 Living the New Life,
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  Speaker 2: Living the New Life. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion Life application guide, and will you please please click
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  Speaker 2: the contribute button. There are so many things that we
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  Speaker 2: are seeking to accomplish for others and within the ministry,
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  Speaker 2: so please, without you, we're not able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: at your daily portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get
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  Speaker 2: under way. Father, we thank you for this day. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to live like Jesus lived. Please thank you in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again living the
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  Speaker 2: New life. So it's it's a lot. Listen. We can
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  Speaker 2: talk about this thing or we can live it. I
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  Speaker 2: know yesterday I gave you two examples in real living color,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, would I divorce or not divorce my
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  Speaker 2: wife if she did the thing that usually just sends
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  Speaker 2: marriages in like to a tizzy. And listen, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: projecting that on her. I'm just telling you what happened
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  Speaker 2: in social media. Go back to yesterday for the discussion.
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  Speaker 2: So this is not a real discussion. It's just something
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  Speaker 2: that somebody was talking about theoretically about whether you would
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  Speaker 2: you would divorce your wife if she fill in the
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  Speaker 2: blank this negative thing, And I'm like, absolutely not. You
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  Speaker 2: know why, because for Christ's sake, God has chosen that
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  Speaker 2: he would not put me away. I would have to
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  Speaker 2: take myself away. I wish I had the time, but
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  Speaker 2: I would have to take myself. Everybody who's lost takes
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  Speaker 2: themselves away from God. God does not divards us. We
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  Speaker 2: get rid of God. We are the unbelieving spouse that
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  Speaker 2: Paul describes. And then those individuals who choose not to
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  Speaker 2: be with God. Because God is a god of peace,
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  Speaker 2: that's all throughout the scriptures. He's not going to handcuff
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  Speaker 2: you and put you in the basement and put you
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  Speaker 2: and set you up and say, well, you can't leave me.
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  Speaker 2: But but God is not putting anybody away. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time. So living the New life is
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  Speaker 2: that like a relationship that is unbroken with God that
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  Speaker 2: we work through whatever the trial is, whatever the tribulation is,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the skirmish might be, whatever the hostility might be.
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  Speaker 2: God is willing to work it through so that we
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  Speaker 2: can have communion with Him, fellowship with God and with people.
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  Speaker 2: So and so we are going to begin with our
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  Speaker 2: first lesson, which is Christ rules from within through his word.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean? In the Bible Book of Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse sixteen, we read, let the Word
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  Speaker 2: of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching
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  Speaker 2: and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
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  Speaker 2: singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord. And
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  Speaker 2: so I like this passage because it actually illuminates, it
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  Speaker 2: shines a light on what we do on Friday evenings.
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  Speaker 2: On Friday evenings, we have what I call a musical
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  Speaker 2: Bible class, and that is only on YouTube, not on
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  Speaker 2: any of the other platforms for your daily portion. And
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  Speaker 2: what we're doing is exactly this. We're teaching and admonishing
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  Speaker 2: one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with
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  Speaker 2: grace in your hearts to the Lord. This is where
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  Speaker 2: we marry the word of God under the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 2: and the kinds of music that pleases him, like King
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  Speaker 2: David played, King David played when King Saul was having
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of devilish challenges. And so we do that,
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  Speaker 2: letting the Word of Christ become a part of us,
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  Speaker 2: become a part of us, and so Christ does not
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  Speaker 2: govern his people through external force. Yes, there is a
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  Speaker 2: ten Commandments of laws. Yes, God has some requirements. Yes
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  Speaker 2: there is a standard of righteousness. Yes God has expectations
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  Speaker 2: of us. But he doesn't force us to do any
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  Speaker 2: of that. But He has offered us though, that if
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  Speaker 2: we love him, which is a miracle, like if we
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  Speaker 2: receive his love, then we can love him. We love
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  Speaker 2: God be cause he first loved us. That means he's
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  Speaker 2: the cause of our ability to love him. And when
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  Speaker 2: we love him, he keeps his that we will now
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  Speaker 2: keep his commandments. He is now positioning our minds and
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  Speaker 2: giving us the power to have no other gods before him.
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  Speaker 2: He now becomes the impetus for us to honor our parents.
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  Speaker 2: Now he becomes the impetus for us to be faithful
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  Speaker 2: to our spouses and not commit adultery. You understand. And
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  Speaker 2: so God is doing this. He's doing this internally through
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  Speaker 2: his word, dwelling richly in our hearts. So when the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: those sixty six blessed books, huh yeah, when the scripture
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  Speaker 2: is internalized, Christ's peace governs our decisions. I'm gonna slow
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  Speaker 2: down now our relationships and our responses. I think this
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  Speaker 2: is a good plug for you actually picking up the
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  Speaker 2: Life Application Guide, because this is our focus with the
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  Speaker 2: Life Application Guide to say, well, how do we make
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  Speaker 2: decisions and how do we have the kinds of relationships
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  Speaker 2: that we need based on the lesson study and with
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  Speaker 2: the Bible's teaching us. And our response is like, what's
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  Speaker 2: the next best move? What should we be doing based
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  Speaker 2: on what we are learning? Without the Word of God,
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  Speaker 2: dwelling within Christ cannot truly rule in our lives. And
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  Speaker 2: so to dwell, to dwell means to settle down, to
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  Speaker 2: make a permanent home. Is God settled down in your life?
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  Speaker 2: Has He made a permanent home in your life? You
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  Speaker 2: realize the only way he can do that is if
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  Speaker 2: you welcome him. If I welcome him? Is his word
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  Speaker 2: settled down in your life? Does it have a permanent
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  Speaker 2: space in your life? And so the action step in
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  Speaker 2: this case then is create intentional daily space for the scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: So Christ's word is not a visitor who just wipes
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  Speaker 2: his feet on the welcome matt And then when you're
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  Speaker 2: tired of him, you can say okay, oh, start stretching,
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  Speaker 2: and then say Okay, well, yeah, what you're about to
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  Speaker 2: do now because we're about to go and fill in
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  Speaker 2: the blank, meaning we're ushering him out of the door
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  Speaker 2: until the next time. No, we want him not to
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  Speaker 2: be a visitor, but a resident in our lives. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's use music as a teaching tool. Lesson number two.
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  Speaker 2: Music is a teaching tool and not just something we
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  Speaker 2: use to get ourselves pumped up emotionally. Again in Kalassians three,
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  Speaker 2: verse sixteen, we'll just pick up on a part of
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  Speaker 2: it teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns
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  Speaker 2: and spiritual songs. So these songs need to be guiding
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  Speaker 2: us to a right connection with God. Not every hymn
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  Speaker 2: is holy? Can I just say that again? Part of
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  Speaker 2: me I should have mute at myself. I apologize. Not
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  Speaker 2: every hymn is holy. Presents music as instruction, not just entertainment.
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  Speaker 2: Biblical music teaches truth, reinforces what God has taught us,
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  Speaker 2: and shapes Christian character. Songs or music is not neutral.
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  Speaker 2: They either align the heart with Christ or subtly reshape
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  Speaker 2: values away from Him. So this is what I need
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  Speaker 2: you to do. Evaluate the music you listen to regularly
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  Speaker 2: ask whether it teaches the truth and strengthens your walk
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  Speaker 2: with Christ, or it leads you away from Christ. If
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  Speaker 2: it's the latter, leave it alone, y'all. You want Christ
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  Speaker 2: to live within you, not the enemy. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends. Always remember 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.