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01 15 2026 United and Fearless · 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 fifteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 United No uniting Heaven and Earth. I'm still
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  Speaker 2: getting used to it. Christ in Philippians and kalais uniting
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  Speaker 2: heaven and Earth. Christ in Philippians and Colossians. And our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is United and Fearless. Yes, United and fearless.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us this day for the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to open up your word. Thank you for your word
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  Speaker 2: that is sanctifying in nature. Please make us holy today
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again, united
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  Speaker 2: and fearless. Yes, let's go ahead and begin with an
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  Speaker 2: interesting quote I found from way back in eighteen eighty six,
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  Speaker 2: a Review and Herald article by Urrayah Smith. Unity among
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  Speaker 2: God's people brings courage. So of course we know what
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  Speaker 2: the standard of unity is. It's God's truth. Unity among
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  Speaker 2: God's people brings courage. Division brings weakness. When we stand
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  Speaker 2: together in truth, no enemy can terrify us. Ooh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to read it one more time. Unity among God's
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  Speaker 2: people brings courage, Division brings weakness. When we stand together
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  Speaker 2: in truth, no enemy can terrify us. I'm grateful that
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  Speaker 2: God has given us the standard. It's an immovable standard.
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  Speaker 2: It is solid. It is solid as the nature of
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  Speaker 2: God himself, his word, his word. And therefore when we
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  Speaker 2: are unified on his word, that means that we are
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  Speaker 2: accepting and choosing to live by faith his word. Then
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  Speaker 2: we have no need to fear, because His word is
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  Speaker 2: solid and it is the undergirding of all that we do.
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  Speaker 2: And so with that we are going into the Word.
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  Speaker 2: You see what I did there Philippians chapter one, and
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  Speaker 2: I will read the beginning at verse twenty seven. We
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  Speaker 2: used this passage yesterday, or at least part of it,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, only let your conversation or it
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  Speaker 2: is conduct, conduct conversation be as it becometh the Gospel
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. So that means whatever way we live and
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  Speaker 2: conduct ourselves needs to be like Jesus would. If the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the
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  Speaker 2: power of God unto said salvation, then what I say
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  Speaker 2: and how I live must not be flying in the
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  Speaker 2: face of that. If it's power of God unto salvation,
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  Speaker 2: then I don't live week a week life. I don't
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  Speaker 2: live a weak and broken mindset, because why that is
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  Speaker 2: not the Gospel of Christ. I do not live according
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  Speaker 2: to against the word of God. I live according to
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  Speaker 2: the Word of God, because it becometh the Gospel of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Christ leads us to living what God has taught us.
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  Speaker 2: That whether I come to see you or else be absent,
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  Speaker 2: I may hear of your affairs. That ye stand fast
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  Speaker 2: in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the
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  Speaker 2: faith of the Gospel. This is the blessing verse twenty eight.
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  Speaker 2: And in nothing terrified by your adversaries. We've said that
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  Speaker 2: which is to them an evident token of perdition. If
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  Speaker 2: you're fearful and you are in the faith community, then
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  Speaker 2: that means there's some problem in our unity, our unity
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  Speaker 2: of faith under the Holy Ghost. Because the first century believers,
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  Speaker 2: those individuals when right after the Day of Pentecost, they
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  Speaker 2: were running forward knowing that God was with them. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: but to you of salvation and that of God for
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  Speaker 2: unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: not only to believe on him, but also to suffer
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  Speaker 2: for his sake. So he's saying that you don't need
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  Speaker 2: to be fearful. And by the way, while you're believing,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to suffer. If you live godly in Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: in this present world, you will suffer persecution. But you
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  Speaker 2: don't have a reason to be fearful. Why because you're
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  Speaker 2: unified in the faith based on the Word of God
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  Speaker 2: Verse thirty. Having the same conflict which ye saw in
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  Speaker 2: me and now here to be in me. Let me
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  Speaker 2: go and read that, since you are encountering the same
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  Speaker 2: conflict that you saw me face, and now you hear
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  Speaker 2: that I am facing. So he knew that the people
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  Speaker 2: of God would suffer persecution like he suffered persecution, but
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  Speaker 2: they had no need to fear. Why because they were
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  Speaker 2: unified in faith under the banner of the Word of God.
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  Speaker 2: In the last days, is there no more appropriate guidance
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  Speaker 2: for us that we will indeed face the worst persecution.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we will. But if we are unified not with
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  Speaker 2: the world, not with apostate churches, but unified under faith,
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  Speaker 2: unified under the actual Word of God, not the edited version,
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  Speaker 2: not the artificially intelligent version, but the actual Word of God,
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  Speaker 2: then we have no need to fear because we are
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  Speaker 2: together in faith and harmony based on the Word of God.
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  Speaker 2: And God has promised special power in that case. So
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  Speaker 2: Our first lesson in that regard is unity strengthens courage,
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  Speaker 2: because united believers stand firm against opposition. And so the
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  Speaker 2: action step is for you to encourage at least one
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  Speaker 2: person in your faith fellowship today to stand firm with
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  Speaker 2: you in Christ be present with them. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: stand firm from Afar, not saying stand firm and I falter.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that we together both and we together can
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  Speaker 2: stand firm in our faith. Our lesson number two comes
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  Speaker 2: in from Acts, chapter fourteen and verse twenty two, where
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, we must, through much tribulation enter into
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom of God. In another version, it says it
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  Speaker 2: is necessary to enter the Kingdom of God through many persecutions.
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  Speaker 2: That means pressure, there is affliction, there is distress. Do
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  Speaker 2: I need to ask like, do I need to put
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  Speaker 2: out a poll right now to ask you if you've
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  Speaker 2: been going through trials, whether you've been going through pressures
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  Speaker 2: or afflictions or distress. Do I even need to do this?
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  Speaker 2: The fact is that if you're one of God's children,
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  Speaker 2: then Jesus Christ, having gone through the same experience already,
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  Speaker 2: is the indicator that you will too. Could it be
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  Speaker 2: that God's people, who are supposedly representatives of him, would
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  Speaker 2: suffer less than Come on, now, Jesus suffered, and therefore
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  Speaker 2: we will. It's not something that we necessarily look forward to,
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  Speaker 2: but that's the fact. Because the devil hates Jesus. The
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  Speaker 2: devil hates Jesus's people. Huh. He pushed Jesus in situations
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  Speaker 2: where there was tribulation, and therefore we are as well.
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  Speaker 2: We are not greater than our master. So the action
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  Speaker 2: step is to identify one hardship you face and choose.
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  Speaker 2: This is a decision. Choose to walk through it with
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  Speaker 2: Christ instead of being fearful lesson. Number three in final
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Romans chapter eight and verse seventeen. If
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  Speaker 2: so be that we suffer with him, that we may
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  Speaker 2: also be glorified together. If indeed we suffer with him,
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  Speaker 2: we will also be glorified together with him. We will
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  Speaker 2: honor him, we will share in his glory. And so
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  Speaker 2: suffering with Christ's leads to sharing in his glory when
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  Speaker 2: he returns. So pray today, Lord, help me to endure
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  Speaker 2: whatever comes with your strength and for your glory 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,