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10 19 2026 Apostles and Prophets · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, October 19, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion, where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series, The Gift
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  Speaker 2: of Prophecy, under the caption, Apostles and Prophets. Apostles and Prophets.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment. But before
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  Speaker 2: then get underway. God, we are thankful for this day
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  Speaker 2: and for getting us so far into our work week.
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  Speaker 2: I know that many people started today, but you said
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  Speaker 2: six days shalt thou labor. And so some of us
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  Speaker 2: worked yesterday too. But in any case, God, we thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the ability to make an impact on the world.
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  Speaker 2: Now help us to understand the roles of apostles and
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  Speaker 2: prophets and all of us being servants of you. And
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  Speaker 2: I pray that we will have respect for the offices.
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  Speaker 2: and to do your will. In Jesus' name, I pray.
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  Speaker 2: Amen and amen again. The most important thing for me
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  Speaker 2: today is that God appointed both apostles and prophets, according
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  Speaker 2: to his own will, to carry his revelation with equal authority. So,
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  Speaker 2: there is no pecking order. There is no hierarchy. God
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  Speaker 2: is saying that when I speak through my people in
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  Speaker 2: whatever way I see fit, Really, the messages are coming
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  Speaker 2: from me, and I am choosing, like the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit is doing this severally as he wills.
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  Speaker 2: So that is the reality. Their own focus, though, their
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  Speaker 2: central focus is Jesus Christ, and the Bible is the
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  Speaker 2: only official record of their witness, which is why Scripture
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  Speaker 2: has to have final authority for all we believe about Christ.
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  Speaker 2: How do I say that in English? Yeah, if you
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  Speaker 2: hear a message regarding Christ and somebody says that they're
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  Speaker 2: an apostle, and I'm not trying to be funny, but
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  Speaker 2: some people say apostle. You have somebody being a prophet.
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  Speaker 2: They are a seer. That's what they say. If they
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  Speaker 2: are saying something different than what the scriptures say, then
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  Speaker 2: you don't need to believe them. And the Bible writer
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  Speaker 2: said concerning false prophets, neither do you need to fear them.
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  Speaker 2: You understand? So God is telling us that the baseline
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  Speaker 2: understanding about any message that is received through apostles, prophets,
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  Speaker 2: or any other messenger of the Lord, yeah, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: is our guide. The Bible is our guide. And so
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  Speaker 2: we begin from the Bible book of Romans chapter 1,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read verses 1 and 2. And this
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  Speaker 2: is a salutation, if you want to say, Paul, A
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  Speaker 2: servant of Jesus Christ, see that's the baseline, called to
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  Speaker 2: be an apostle. Okay, we have this calling on Paul's
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  Speaker 2: life to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
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  Speaker 2: which he had promised before by his prophets in the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Scriptures. And so this word apostle, and the Greek
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  Speaker 2: term sounds just like apostle, it means one sent forth,
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  Speaker 2: a messenger, a delegate with authority. So apostles don't originate
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  Speaker 2: their authority, and they do not contradict Christ or the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: And so Paul's calling is as one sent forth, and
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  Speaker 2: it rested entirely on the will of God. God still calls.
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  Speaker 2: He still sends his servants. by his own choosing, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and not by human qualification. So there are people who
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  Speaker 2: feel like that they have been in the way, like
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  Speaker 2: some people say colloquially about being believers. They've been in
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  Speaker 2: the way for this number of years, and therefore, they
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  Speaker 2: are now qualified to be a fill in the blank.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, oh, well, that's not what the Bible says.
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  Speaker 2: God equips the called. You understand? He equips the called.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that does it for whatever his reasons,
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  Speaker 2: as his thoughts are higher than our thoughts, his ways
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  Speaker 2: are higher than our ways, and he doesn't do things
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  Speaker 2: based on our prescriptions. So, God is the one that
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  Speaker 2: fully governs this. It should go without saying, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what is wrong with human beings that cause
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  Speaker 2: us to forget about that. And so, What I want
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  Speaker 2: you to do is receive your place today, though, in
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  Speaker 2: the work that God has called you, your appointment, and
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  Speaker 2: serve where God has sent you. Now, my friend and
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  Speaker 2: mentor Ralph told me many years ago, it was like 1999-ish,
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  Speaker 2: he was just like, if Peter had done Paul's work,
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  Speaker 2: he would have sinned. If Paul would have done Peter's work,
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  Speaker 2: he would have sinned. Both of them, great work. If
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  Speaker 2: Peter had gone to the Gentiles, God called him to
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  Speaker 2: the people of God. If Paul had gone to the
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  Speaker 2: people of God instead of the Gentiles, then they would
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  Speaker 2: have been going away from, they would have abandoned their calling.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not just looking for work to do. We
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  Speaker 2: are looking to do the work God has called for
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  Speaker 2: us to do. In the Bible book of Ephesians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: 2 and verse 20. In the book of Ephesians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: 2 and verse 20, we've read this, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: was it yesterday or the day before? And the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: they were built, you've been built upon the foundation of
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  Speaker 2: the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the
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  Speaker 2: chief cornerstone. And so whatever we're doing, let's call it
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  Speaker 2: in 2026, whatever it is that we are understanding concerning
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  Speaker 2: God's words, Whatever we're doing in terms of the work
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  Speaker 2: of the gospel, there were people here before us. The
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament prophets, they were here before us, pointing forward
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  Speaker 2: to Messiah who was to come, the anointed one. The
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  Speaker 2: apostles who were experiencing Christ, they experienced Christ. That first
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  Speaker 2: century church leadership, those people, they are also a foundation
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  Speaker 2: for us because they experienced Christ. The New Testament people, prophets.
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  Speaker 2: They also talked about what they experienced with Christ and
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  Speaker 2: foretold things yet to come. And so, they are our foundation. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't say foundation. The foundation of the apostles, that's
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  Speaker 2: what we are saying. But that is even set upon
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  Speaker 2: the true foundation, which is Christ, the chief cornerstone. And so,
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  Speaker 2: this foundation represents Really, we're talking about where the apostles
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  Speaker 2: and prophets are concerned comes from a word that simply
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  Speaker 2: means the groundwork on which a building rests. So we're
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  Speaker 2: building based on what God showed them, what God taught
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  Speaker 2: them and taught through them. But Jesus Christ ultimately is
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  Speaker 2: the true foundation. And so the apostles and the prophets
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  Speaker 2: laid the foundation, and Jesus is the ultimate foundation. foundation
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  Speaker 2: who holds the entire church together. We're not talking about
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  Speaker 2: a physical building. If you notice, I often say faith fellowship,
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  Speaker 2: that is the church. When you go to a building
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  Speaker 2: on a Sabbath, you go to a building at some
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  Speaker 2: other point to meet with the people of God, that
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  Speaker 2: building is not accurately called church. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: we call it that, but that's a different discussion. But
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  Speaker 2: the people of God, though, whether we're in a building,
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  Speaker 2: whether we are outside an open field or wherever we
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  Speaker 2: are gathered together in God's name and he is in
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  Speaker 2: the midst of us, that is the church, the people
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  Speaker 2: of God. Your faith rests on this same solid ground.
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  Speaker 2: So build one part of your life today on the
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  Speaker 2: foundation of Scripture rather than the shifting sands of opinion.
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  Speaker 2: There is so much more that we could or maybe
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  Speaker 2: even should say, but alas, we are out of time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so grateful that God has given us the example
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  Speaker 2: of the prophets, example of the apostles. Now we can follow.
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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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