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03 02 2026 Rooted and Growing in Christ · 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 Monday, March two,
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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 Rooted and Growing in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Rooted and Growing in Christ. Before we get into this,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion. Please your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion Life application Guide. Please contribute. We are
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  Speaker 2: and also please let us know where you are in
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  Speaker 2: the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we thank you for this day.
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  Speaker 2: Teach us that growth is non negotiable, that you created
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  Speaker 2: us for growth, and help us, Father to yield to
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  Speaker 2: the process and grow and grace. And in the knowledge
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  Speaker 2: of our our savior, Father, we thank you in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and day men again rooted and growing
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  Speaker 2: in Christ. And so it is not lost on me
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  Speaker 2: that we are living in the last days. Do you
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  Speaker 2: believe that we are near to the coming of Jesus Christ?
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  Speaker 2: Please type in the chat do you believe that we
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  Speaker 2: are living in the time like where Jesus will soon come.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the way that my parents' parents
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  Speaker 2: talked about it in the forties and thirties. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: talking about that in the nineteen thirties or forties. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about that. I'm talking about do you believe
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is right upon us? Like soon we will
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  Speaker 2: look into the eastern sky and see Jesus coming. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I do, I do. And one of the things, one
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  Speaker 2: of the blessings, is that the Church, the Church of God,
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  Speaker 2: God's people, are in the shaking time, the shaking time.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that people have interesting perspectives on that,
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  Speaker 2: but let me just say that the shaking time is
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  Speaker 2: for us to settle into the truth. Some of you
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  Speaker 2: work in construction, and so you know what it's like
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  Speaker 2: to not just tamp down earth, but to cause it
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  Speaker 2: to vibrate and settle it down so that whatever you're
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  Speaker 2: building has a firm footing. And so I'm grateful that
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  Speaker 2: we are in the time to settle into the truth
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  Speaker 2: and to remember, as the lesson writer pointed us to Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter two and verse six, as you therefore have received Christ,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus the Lord. So walk in him like don't forget
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  Speaker 2: about it. Don't go away from the basis of your
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  Speaker 2: faith that you started with. Like he who began a
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  Speaker 2: good work in you is able to keep you, and
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  Speaker 2: so we or to complete it. We don't want to
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  Speaker 2: start with Jesus and then end up in the flesh.
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  Speaker 2: Start with Jesus, end up with our own human ingenuity.
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  Speaker 2: We start with Jesus and then continue to walk in Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: rooted and growing in Christ. Let's go ahead and begin
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  Speaker 2: with our lesson number one. Then from the same passage
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  Speaker 2: I just read, salvation begins and continues. Get this with
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  Speaker 2: a person. Yes, I don't know that believers have done
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  Speaker 2: a good job at communicating this with people. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: say that our journey or our salvation begins with a
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  Speaker 2: Bible class. Sometimes we say and inadvertently misguide people to
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  Speaker 2: say that it begins with a process, which is baptism
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  Speaker 2: by immersion immersion. And I agree that baptism by immersion
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  Speaker 2: is essential to be baptized by the water and by
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost. But we need to understand that salvation
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  Speaker 2: doesn't begin with the Ten Commandments law which I fully
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  Speaker 2: embrace and espouse even in twenty twenty six. Salvation begins
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  Speaker 2: with a person. It's Jesus Christ. We receive Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and then we receive his power to walk like him.
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  Speaker 2: And so Paul makes salvation relational and ongoing. So the
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  Speaker 2: longer we are connected with Jesus, then the more secure
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  Speaker 2: we are in terms of salvation. If we are disconnected
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  Speaker 2: from Jesus the person that relational experience, then we are
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  Speaker 2: at risk of being lost. We remain connected to the
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  Speaker 2: person Jesus Christ. We receive Christ himself, not boy, not
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  Speaker 2: ideas about him. I need to just pause right here.
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  Speaker 2: We're so good Christian Heese speaking people, but I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: and for those of you who are just getting acquainted
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  Speaker 2: with God, please just can you hold on for a second,
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  Speaker 2: give me a second to speak to the people who've
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  Speaker 2: been around a long time, like I've been in the
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  Speaker 2: way a long time, Like we used to hear the
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  Speaker 2: church people say right yeah, to get out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Get out of the way, Get out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Because sometimes our focus is communicating ideas about Him. Our
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  Speaker 2: prayer meetings have become preach meetings, preach and intelligence meetings
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  Speaker 2: when God wants us to connect with him, Like, how
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  Speaker 2: did our prayer meetings turn into preach meetings? How is
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  Speaker 2: it that we pray for five to ten minutes and
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  Speaker 2: preach for thirty minutes. That's not prayer meeting, that's preach
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  Speaker 2: meeting with a prayer bonus, you understand, Because our connection
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  Speaker 2: with Him seems to be waning in a way to
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  Speaker 2: where we are comfortable ideating about him, conceptualizing about him,
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  Speaker 2: referencing him as if he's not in the room with us.
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  Speaker 2: You ever talk about somebody behind their backs in front
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  Speaker 2: of their face, as if they're not even there, and
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  Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, so and so feeling the neck blank
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  Speaker 2: blank name that's right there, and just talking about the
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  Speaker 2: person that's like hello, hello, like I'm right here, I'm
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  Speaker 2: listening to you, and so Paul is taking a shot
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  Speaker 2: at that. The same way we begin our Christian journey
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  Speaker 2: is the way we continue daily dependence replaces self direction.
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  Speaker 2: Christianity that shifts from trust to Christ trust, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: Christianity that shifts from trust in Christ to confidence in
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  Speaker 2: methods and systems or traditions or churches quietly loses its power.
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  Speaker 2: We talk a lot about creeping compromise, what people need
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  Speaker 2: to not have on their faces, what people need to
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  Speaker 2: not wear, what things we don't need dangling on our
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  Speaker 2: bodies or poked into holes that we created on our bodies.
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  Speaker 2: And listen, I understand, like no disrespect, Like I get it,
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  Speaker 2: I get it. But how come we don't? We don't.
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  Speaker 2: It's a blind spot that we put our confidence in
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  Speaker 2: methods and systems and traditions and organizations instead of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: who is the head of all of these things if
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  Speaker 2: they if those things are godly. If your methods are godly,
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  Speaker 2: then God is the head of that. Your systems, if
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  Speaker 2: they're godly, then He is the head of that. Like
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  Speaker 2: if your traditions are godly, then He's the head of that.
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  Speaker 2: If your church organization and its structure are godly, then
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  Speaker 2: Christ is the head of that. And so we thank
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  Speaker 2: God for that, but don't replace Christ with the things.
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  Speaker 2: And so the action step is to begin today by
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  Speaker 2: consciously placing one decision under Christ's lordship through prayer and
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  Speaker 2: studying the scriptures before you act. Our second lesson is
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  Speaker 2: from Colossians chapter two and verse seven. As we come
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  Speaker 2: to a swift close root to and built up in Him,
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  Speaker 2: and established in the faith as ye have been taught,
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  Speaker 2: abounding therein with thanksgiving. So we are rooted in faith,
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  Speaker 2: and that produces stability and growth. So Paul uses a
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  Speaker 2: plant metaphor to describe spiritual life. Roots develop below the
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  Speaker 2: surface before they grow visibly, and so a believer grounded
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  Speaker 2: in Christ draws nourishment from Him, nourishment from the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: so that he or she will have the resilience to
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  Speaker 2: grow no matter what pressure comes. Stability doesn't come from appearance,
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  Speaker 2: but from depth of our connection with God. 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,