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02 18 2026 The “Beginning” (and Initiator) · 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: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Wednesday, February eighteen,
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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 uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the Beginning and Initiator,
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  Speaker 2: The Beginning and Initiator. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: you and ask you to go over to your Daily
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  Speaker 2: know where you are in the world at your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day. Thank you for not leaving
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  Speaker 2: us after you created us. In Jesus' name, I pray
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. You know, boy, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to be controversial. However, the reality is there are times
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  Speaker 2: that parents will start something and not finish. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just say it could be almost like our son Josiah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just say that Simona and I got together. I'm
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  Speaker 2: making this up right because this is not my reality.
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  Speaker 2: But Simona and I got together, and then we have
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  Speaker 2: a liaison, and then Josiah is the fruit of that,
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  Speaker 2: he's born to us. And then I leave Simone and Josiah. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm done thinking about that because that's crazy, Like I
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  Speaker 2: couldn't even imagine doing something like that. But this is
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  Speaker 2: what happens in real life, and it happens in reverse. Two.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes mommies, for whatever reasons, abandon their children. This is
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  Speaker 2: not what God did. This is not what God did.
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  Speaker 2: God didn't start the process and then abandon us. He is. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so back in the day, and I think it was
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  Speaker 2: in the eighteen hundreds, I know that the people were
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  Speaker 2: struggling over pantheism and deism, etc. Creeping into the church mindset.
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  Speaker 2: But deism basically means and part of me I'll oversimplify that. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: God started us. He started, he created, He created all things,
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  Speaker 2: and then he was just like, all right, so y'all,
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  Speaker 2: y'all work it out from here. You got it from here,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go do something else, right, wind up and
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  Speaker 2: go all right, so you know, and then have no
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  Speaker 2: personal influence, have no personal interaction over his creation. And
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  Speaker 2: then then some other people got extremely creative and said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, that Big Bang theory doesn't work for me,
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  Speaker 2: Like the traditional sort of evolutionary thought doesn't work for me.
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  Speaker 2: So what we're gonna do is say, maybe this is
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  Speaker 2: not how they devised this. But what we're gonna do
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  Speaker 2: is say that God is the God is the initiator
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  Speaker 2: of the bang. This is what they would say, Like, God,
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  Speaker 2: what did the Big Bang? It wasn't that, It just happened.
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  Speaker 2: But God is the one who initiated, like he's the
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  Speaker 2: big bang initiator. That's called theistic evolution. Of course I'm
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  Speaker 2: oversimplifying again. That ain't true. Now let's talk about what
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  Speaker 2: is true. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith.
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  Speaker 2: Let me start right there. But even before faith needed
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  Speaker 2: to exist, we can understand that Christ is the source
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  Speaker 2: and origin of all true life. Coming in from the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: Book of Colossians, chapter one and verse eighteen. This is
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  Speaker 2: where I get excited. I love learning about Jesus being
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  Speaker 2: the preeminent one, the author of our lives, the one
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  Speaker 2: who is still keeping us and the Bible reads. And
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  Speaker 2: he is the head of the body, the Church, who
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  Speaker 2: is the beginning, the first born from the dead man.
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  Speaker 2: Just say this real quick, that no one has ever
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  Speaker 2: come back from or ever can or will come back
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  Speaker 2: from the second death. Accept Jesus. May I just say
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  Speaker 2: that if God forbid. Like my mother who passed in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty, she passed away because at tractor trailer won
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  Speaker 2: in the fight between her and attractor trailer, She in
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  Speaker 2: her vehicle unfortunately and tragically lost that battle. That is
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  Speaker 2: not what we're talking about. We're not talking about the
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  Speaker 2: first death, because she will be resurrected when Jesus comes.
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  Speaker 2: This is what our hope is. You understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus Christ, when he died, he died the second death.
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  Speaker 2: He died what we consider as eternal separation from God.
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  Speaker 2: He died the punishment for sin. The punishment for sin
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  Speaker 2: is not a car accident. The punishment for sin is
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  Speaker 2: not the untimely demise at the hands of a gunman
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  Speaker 2: like that is not the punishment for sin. The punishment
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  Speaker 2: for sin is eternal death, eternal separation from God, and
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  Speaker 2: that is executed after one thousand years following the coming
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, you understand. And that is when hell
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  Speaker 2: fire will rain down from heaven and destroy all sin
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  Speaker 2: and unrepented sinners. Of course, the devil is the chief
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  Speaker 2: one who's gonna be destroyed. So Jesus died that death,
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  Speaker 2: the second death. And guess what, He's the only one
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  Speaker 2: who came back from that. He's the only one who
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  Speaker 2: can or ever will come back from that.
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  Speaker 1: Ah.
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  Speaker 2: So this is amazing to see that Jesus Christ is
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  Speaker 2: the first born from the dead, that in all things
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  Speaker 2: he might have pre eminence. Let me read it in
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  Speaker 2: another version. He is the head of the body of
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  Speaker 2: the church as well as the beginning, the first born
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  Speaker 2: from among the dead, so that he himself may become
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  Speaker 2: a first in all things. He's first and being able
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  Speaker 2: to deliver you from your addictions to drugs or alcohol abuse.
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  Speaker 2: He's first and being able to deliver you and break
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  Speaker 2: the back of pride if you have spiritual pride. He
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  Speaker 2: is first in the ability, first and only and pre
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  Speaker 2: eminent and as the only one that can deliver you
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  Speaker 2: from every single besetting sin, whether it is an inherited
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  Speaker 2: tendency toward evil or it is a cultivated tendency toward evil.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is the only one whoever lives and makes
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  Speaker 2: intercession for you, who was acquainted with all of your infirmities,
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  Speaker 2: because he was tempted like as you are, and yet
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  Speaker 2: without sin. So Jesus being the pre eminent one that
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  Speaker 2: is critical in the place of salvation. So yes, he's
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. Yes he's the origin. Yes he's the source.
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  Speaker 2: Yes he is the initiating cause. Paul teaches that that
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  Speaker 2: word that I just described a moment ago beginning, origin, source,
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  Speaker 2: initiating cause, is to describe Jesus as the originating source,
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  Speaker 2: not merely the first in sequence. Christ does not begin
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  Speaker 2: things and then step aside. He remains the sustaining origin
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  Speaker 2: of creation, redemption and the church. So the ability to
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  Speaker 2: breathe here, how many times I have to inhale in
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  Speaker 2: order to get all these words out? Yep, He's the
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  Speaker 2: one that is responsible for that. For you to be
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  Speaker 2: able to listen and then go apply and share the
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  Speaker 2: gospel with people. You were leading people to Christ. Why
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  Speaker 2: because he is the preeminent one with all of the power,
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  Speaker 2: who is sustaining you and redeeming you so you can
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  Speaker 2: help someone else get saved. Do you understand every spiritual
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  Speaker 2: beginning flows from him? So here is the action step.
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  Speaker 2: Examine where you seek momentum. Recommit to letting Christ be
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  Speaker 2: the starting point of decisions, plans, and authorities, and not
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  Speaker 2: only that, not only that, to continue His good work
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  Speaker 2: in you. Second lesson, Christ initiates the new creation through resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: I said that already in another way. And then finally,
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  Speaker 2: Christ's pre eminence is earned through victory and not positioned alone.
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  Speaker 2: He was victorious over the grave and he can be
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  Speaker 2: victorious in your life. Make it a great day 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,