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01 27 2026 A Living Sacrifice · 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 Tuesday, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, 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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in
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  Speaker 2: Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today is a
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  Speaker 2: living sacrifice. A living sacrifice. I'd like to say good
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  Speaker 2: morning to everybody, and welcome and welcome especially to those
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day.
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  Speaker 2: Please make us holy and acceptable in Jesus's name. I
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  Speaker 2: pray Amen and a man again. I'm grateful because God
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  Speaker 2: has not left our acceptability. Yeah, I know it sounds complicated.
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  Speaker 2: He had not left that up to us. He has
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  Speaker 2: not put us in a position where we have to
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  Speaker 2: make ourselves acceptable to him. He has given us Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: who lived as the perfect specimen of a living sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: And all we need to do is yield our will
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  Speaker 2: to God. And when we yield our will to God,
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  Speaker 2: he will do what he'll teach us his way. He
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  Speaker 2: will teach us his way. And so I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and begin begin our with our first lesson. Our
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  Speaker 2: first lesson for today is coming in from Philippians chapter
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  Speaker 2: two and verse seven. Philippians chapter two and verse seven,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, yay, and if I be offered
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  Speaker 2: upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy
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  Speaker 2: and I rejoice with you all. I'm gonna read it
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  Speaker 2: another way. But even if I am being poured out
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  Speaker 2: like a drink, offering on the sacrifice and service of
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  Speaker 2: your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
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  Speaker 2: So this is interesting. A life poured out for Christ
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  Speaker 2: is never wasted. May I say it one more again? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: A life that is poured out for Christ is never
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  Speaker 2: wasted because devotion has eternal value. Okay. And so there
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  Speaker 2: are times that people are measuring ourselves by other people's actions. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I could do thus and such because that
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  Speaker 2: person over there whom I respect, can do it. Or
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had these gifts. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: those talents. Well, whatever God entrusts to us, he will
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  Speaker 2: also multiply. He said, in the parable of the talents.
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  Speaker 2: He said, listen, if I give you one and you
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  Speaker 2: bury it, I'm gonna take that one away from you.
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  Speaker 2: If I give you a hundred and you bury it,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna take those away from you. But if you
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  Speaker 2: are given, if God gives you one and you invest it,
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  Speaker 2: he will multiply. If He gives you a few more
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  Speaker 2: and you invest it, then he will do what multiply it.
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  Speaker 2: And so the question is not what we have, it's
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  Speaker 2: when God gives this to us, what are we gonna
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  Speaker 2: do with it? Any effort that we pour out on
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  Speaker 2: behalf of God I'm talking about in reality, then it
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  Speaker 2: is never wasted. That's now an investment into the work
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  Speaker 2: of God's an investment into the people that God is
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  Speaker 2: taking us to serve. Never waste it because devotion has
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  Speaker 2: eternal value. So the action step forward today is to
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  Speaker 2: offer God one intentional sacrifice today. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 2: you finding something that is so difficult to do so
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  Speaker 2: you can call it sacrificial. No, that's not what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: It is what is it that I have in my possession?
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  Speaker 2: Is it time? Is it my energy? Is it convenience?
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  Speaker 2: Is it financial resources? Is it something in my house
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  Speaker 2: that's wasting away when somebody outside of my house could
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  Speaker 2: be using it to their benefit and to God's glory.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, whatever it is, give that to God today, time, comfort,
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  Speaker 2: convenience as an act of worship. Yeah, what I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: with you all every morning and now on Wednesdays in
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  Speaker 2: the evening, now on Sundays, now on Friday evenings, like,
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  Speaker 2: whatever I'm doing with you is a sacrifice. Not because
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  Speaker 2: it's painful or it causes me to have to do
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  Speaker 2: so much, that's not it. It's something that I'm giving
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  Speaker 2: to God and saying, God, this is this is you,
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  Speaker 2: this is for you. Thank you for what you've done
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  Speaker 2: for me. Thank you for what you've done for me.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, somebody just heard what Wednesday? What
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  Speaker 2: those other days? Yeah, it's only because this happens only
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  Speaker 2: on the Your Daily Portion YouTube channel and none of
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  Speaker 2: the other platforms. I apologize for the interruption. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: go into our second lesson, and this one is coming
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  Speaker 2: in from the passage you were expecting in Romans chapter twelve,
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  Speaker 2: versus one and two. Romans Chapter twelve, versus one and two,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads present your bodies as a living sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: Be not conformed to this world. I'm fast forwarding, but
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  Speaker 2: be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, and
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  Speaker 2: so our lesson very simply is a living sacrifice is
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  Speaker 2: transformed life, shaped by renewed thinking and surrendered obedience. May
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  Speaker 2: I say it again, A living sacrifice is a transformed life.
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  Speaker 2: God is here to transform us by the renewing of
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  Speaker 2: our minds, so we won't be squeezed into the mold
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  Speaker 2: of the world. Shaped by renewed thinking and surrendered obedience. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: God wants to metamorpho transform us. That's what the word
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  Speaker 2: metamorphosis comes from. And look at this. This is this
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  Speaker 2: is how important it is to me. If you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at me on the screen, you see metamorphosis, expert hah,
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  Speaker 2: transform your mind, transform your life like that's how important
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  Speaker 2: this is to me, that transformation. So today I want
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  Speaker 2: you to identify one habit or mindset that reflects conformity
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  Speaker 2: to the world and replace it with a christ centered practice.
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  Speaker 2: If you notice, when I'm speaking to you, I get
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  Speaker 2: into a preacher mode. Sometimes I get into a teacher mode.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I get oftentimes I get into a coaching mode
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  Speaker 2: because transformation requires all of these things, Like, we can't
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  Speaker 2: just be inspired all the time. We can't just only
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  Speaker 2: be informed all the time. There has to be a
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  Speaker 2: moment that we act, and we need to have guidance
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  Speaker 2: about how to act to find clarity. That is part
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  Speaker 2: of the mission of your daily portion in fact. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so please do that. Listen number three, as we come
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  Speaker 2: to a swift close coming in from First Corinthians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: eleven and verse one, the Bible reads, bee followers of me,
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  Speaker 2: even as I also am a follower of Christ. He
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  Speaker 2: said it another way, be imitators of me, Paul speaking,
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  Speaker 2: just as I also am of Christ. So the lesson
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  Speaker 2: is that true discipleship multiplies the Gospel through personal effort.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, just as the Early Church and the
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  Speaker 2: early advent believers did. Well, what does that mean? What
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  Speaker 2: does that mean? If Paul is following Christ and I
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  Speaker 2: am following the same blueprint that Paul follows, then that's two.
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  Speaker 2: Well is it two? Or is it more? Because when
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  Speaker 2: Paul follows Christ, he is leading many to God. And
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  Speaker 2: if we continue to do that, we will spread the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel fully into the world as a model of discipleship.
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  Speaker 2: So share one biblical truth or testimony with someone today
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  Speaker 2: as a part of living out your personal reasonable service 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,