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12 20 2024 Be Responsible with Your Influence · 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: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, December
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty twenty four. 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 themes in the Gospel of John, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is be responsible with your influence, responsible
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  Speaker 2: for your influence. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to pick up this companion guide, the
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  Speaker 2: Life Application Companion for this lesson study because again there
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  Speaker 2: are so many ways that we need to apply these
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  Speaker 2: things to our lives. We pick four ways, four ways spiritually, personally, relationally,
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and then we will get underway. Father, we do
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day of preparation. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the opportunity to worship you, and I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: you now to give us the fullness of your holy spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Please teach us how to love and to serve you,
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  Speaker 2: and teach us, please, God, to be responsible with what
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  Speaker 2: you give us in terms of influence. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray a man and a man again. I hope
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  Speaker 2: you realize that you are very influential. I know the
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  Speaker 2: way that we live in twenty twenty four, there are
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  Speaker 2: people out there that are called influencers, and it's just like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I'm trying not to be disrespectful.
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  Speaker 2: I have a following, I'm on so many different platforms
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  Speaker 2: on the radio, on the television. Influential people are not
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  Speaker 2: people necessarily who just have a microphone. When you go
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  Speaker 2: into work, you're an influencer. Ah, when you are in
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  Speaker 2: the gym, working out, or on the road walking on
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  Speaker 2: the trail and there are people there, you are an influencer.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand in your family unit, you are an influencer.
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  Speaker 2: Do not succumb to the mindset that people on the internet,
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  Speaker 2: and I know I mispronounced it. The people on the
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  Speaker 2: internet are the ones that are influencers. You are an
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  Speaker 2: influencer wherever you are. I think the songwriter said, bright
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  Speaker 2: in the corner where you are. And therefore we need God,
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  Speaker 2: all of us to teach us, whether we have a
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  Speaker 2: big social media or mainstream media following or not, whether
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  Speaker 2: we have people in a classroom setting, or because we
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  Speaker 2: are sports figures we have a captive audience in that
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  Speaker 2: way or not. Whatever the case, if we're doctors, lawyers,
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  Speaker 2: if we are people who assemble vehicles, people who are
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  Speaker 2: plumbers and teachers, and all sorts of other vocations in
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  Speaker 2: the world, or currently you're unemployed, ask God to show
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  Speaker 2: you how to be responsible with your influence. And therefore
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  Speaker 2: we read from the lesson directly from the book The
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  Speaker 2: Desire of Ages paid seven hundred and thirty eight. And
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  Speaker 2: then we'll go into our companion guide. Okay, and you
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  Speaker 2: can get that again at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: And it reads Pilot longed to deliver Jesus. I would say,
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  Speaker 2: cue the violence. Pilot longed to deliver Jesus, but he
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  Speaker 2: saw that he could not do this and yet retain.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, she didn't stop when she said
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  Speaker 2: the The prophet didn't stop and say that he could
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  Speaker 2: not do this. She didn't say Pilot longed to deliver Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: but he couldn't do it. She said, but he saw
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  Speaker 2: that he could not do this and yet retain his
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  Speaker 2: own position and honor. So really, the question for us
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  Speaker 2: today is are we more cherishing our positions and our
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  Speaker 2: honor than we are his honor? Are you? Are you
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  Speaker 2: more interested in your own in your own position or
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  Speaker 2: potential position than his honor. You have to answer that
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  Speaker 2: question for yourself. I'm not asking you to type it
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  Speaker 2: in the chat. That is a time for you to
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  Speaker 2: go to God and ask him the same question about you.
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  Speaker 2: Because our hearts are desperately sick. We don't know how
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  Speaker 2: we think, really and truly, I feel like I'm one
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  Speaker 2: of the most self aware people I've ever met, because
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  Speaker 2: I've been doing this work, this work of self awareness,
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  Speaker 2: this work of mastering my behavior styles for decades, for decades.
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  Speaker 2: And yet at the same time, the Bible says, the
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  Speaker 2: heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who
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  Speaker 2: can know it? This is why I go to God,
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  Speaker 2: and I need to talk to him about how I
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  Speaker 2: really am so that he can make me how he
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  Speaker 2: wants me to be. I wish I had the time,
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  Speaker 2: but let's continue the quote. Rather than lose his worldly power,
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  Speaker 2: what are you willing to lose, brothers and sisters and
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  Speaker 2: gain by serving God? Rather than to lose his worldly power?
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  Speaker 2: He chose to sacrifice an innocent life. What how many
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  Speaker 2: to escape life or suffering in like manners? Sacrifice? Principle,
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  Speaker 2: conscience and duty point one way, and self interest points another.
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  Speaker 2: Oh God help us. The current sets strongly in the
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  Speaker 2: wrong direction, and he who compromises with evil is swept away.
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  Speaker 2: Are you getting this imagery trying to swim upstream? There
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  Speaker 2: are creatures who have learned to swim upstream because what
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  Speaker 2: is upstream is their survival. What isstream is what more
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  Speaker 2: they prize than going with the flow. And so the
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  Speaker 2: inspired inspired writer is saying, the current sets strongly in
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  Speaker 2: the wrong direction, and he who compromises with evil is
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  Speaker 2: swept away into the thick darkness of guilt. And that
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  Speaker 2: is the end of the quote. We need to be
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  Speaker 2: responsible with our influence. We're not here to make a
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  Speaker 2: name for ourselves. If God chooses to honor us like
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  Speaker 2: Solomon and to call all nations into your bosom so
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  Speaker 2: that you can teach them the mysteries of God. You
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  Speaker 2: can show them how to relate, how to live, You
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  Speaker 2: can show them the secrets of success in business and
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of other things because God sends them there,
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  Speaker 2: because you're a city upon a hill, a light that
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  Speaker 2: cannot be hit. If God does that, praise God, like
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  Speaker 2: thank God. But in the meantime, ask God to show
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  Speaker 2: you brother, show you sister, how to be responsible. Don't
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  Speaker 2: try to make a name for yourself. And sometimes it's
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  Speaker 2: hard for me. I'm a coach, right, I'm a coach
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  Speaker 2: of successful people. I'm a coach of aspiring people. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like, ah, sometimes we have to do things that
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  Speaker 2: get our names in air quotes out there. I used
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  Speaker 2: to have a publicist back in the day. I remember
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  Speaker 2: two thousand. Wow, it's been that long twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Like I had people like I had handlers. They put
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  Speaker 2: me on TV, radio, in the magazines, in the news
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  Speaker 2: all the time, all the time. Be careful with that,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Sometimes we can be swept away in
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  Speaker 2: that and not be responsible with the influence. So we
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  Speaker 2: continue to ask God to make us responsible with our influence.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to our guide, our life application guide,
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  Speaker 2: and go to the professional application again. You can get
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  Speaker 2: that at your Daily portion dot com. W what is
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  Speaker 2: important now in professional settings? Pilot was in one. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, ethical dilemmas can often arise when the temptation
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  Speaker 2: to prioritize self interest over ethical conduct is strong. Have
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  Speaker 2: you ever been in that situation? I certainly have. Pilot's
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  Speaker 2: choice is a stark reminder of the consequences of compromising
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  Speaker 2: integrity for the sake of position or gain. Oh my,
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  Speaker 2: let's go to the next best move because we don't
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of time for the eye n next
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  Speaker 2: best move, Commit to ethical leadership, commit to it. Set
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  Speaker 2: an example in your workplace, and I would say also,
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  Speaker 2: or your business by making decisions that reflect honesty, fairness,
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  Speaker 2: and integrity, encourage a culture where truth and righteousness are
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  Speaker 2: valued above personal gain or convenience. We thank God that
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  Speaker 2: we can ask him for responsibility with our infant.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,