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02 14 2026 The Preeminence of Christ · 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 Sabbath, February fourteen,
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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, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is Christ in Philippians and coloss Christ and Philippians
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  Speaker 2: and Colossians, And our caption for today is the pre
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  Speaker 2: Eminence of Christ, one of my favorite subjects in the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: the pre eminence of Christ. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time, I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this Sabbath morning, and I'm praying
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  Speaker 2: that you will become number one in our lives, and
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  Speaker 2: please make Jesus pre eminent in our lives and help
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  Speaker 2: us to serve you with all we have and all
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  Speaker 2: that we do. Under the Holy Ghost. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again, the pre Eminent of Christ. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what does that mean? That means that he That means
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  Speaker 2: that he is the one that matters. May I say that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there are people that will come and knock on your door,
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  Speaker 2: knock on your gate, or call out to you, coming
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  Speaker 2: to you by twos, they will come to quote witness
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  Speaker 2: to you. Or if they don't come on your property,
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  Speaker 2: you'll see them on the road with their stand and
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  Speaker 2: their magazines and they're just waiting for you to give
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  Speaker 2: them a little attention. And then they will begin to
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  Speaker 2: talk to you. And many times they will talk to
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  Speaker 2: you about whatever's in their magazine or whatever they think
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  Speaker 2: that God wants for them to share. But there is
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  Speaker 2: just one problem with this certain set of people who
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  Speaker 2: will come to quote witness to you. I think you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Those individuals do not believe in
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  Speaker 2: the pre eminence of Christ. And they're not the only ones.
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  Speaker 2: There are plenty of people out here who are in
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  Speaker 2: various faith communities that diminish who Christ is, who tried
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  Speaker 2: to make him a mere prophet, maybe even the best
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  Speaker 2: prophet that the earth has ever seen, to diminish him
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  Speaker 2: to a small god, someone that came out of the
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  Speaker 2: bosom of God our Father and has been set as
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  Speaker 2: the lead of some spiritual being in heaven, but that
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  Speaker 2: he was created. And it's like, no, that doesn't cut
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  Speaker 2: it either. When we're talking about the pre eminence of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about the fact that every knee shall bow
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  Speaker 2: and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
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  Speaker 2: to the glory of God the Father. I'm saying that Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: based on the Bible, is worthy of worship. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to read from Revelation chapters four and five in
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  Speaker 2: your spare time, I would challenge you to see where
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  Speaker 2: in chapter four the beings are worshiping God our Father,
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  Speaker 2: who was seated upon the throne, and by the time
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  Speaker 2: we get to Revelation chapter five, they are worshiping Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the lamb that was slain, who came from the midst
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  Speaker 2: of the throne. And of course in the book of
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews we see that he is worthy of worship in
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  Speaker 2: so many other places. Okay, And so when we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the pre eminence of Christ, we're not saying that
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  Speaker 2: he is simply superior to humans or simply superior to
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  Speaker 2: all of the heavenly angels, but then inferior somehow to
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  Speaker 2: God our Father. When we see Jesus subjecting himself to
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  Speaker 2: the Father, it is in the context that's a big word,
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  Speaker 2: look up the word context. It is in context of
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  Speaker 2: the plan of salvation, when he is saving his people
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  Speaker 2: from their sins, from our sins. Jesus volunteered to take
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  Speaker 2: on human form. But let me just say he existed
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  Speaker 2: from before there was a beginning. He existed in eternity past.
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  Speaker 2: Micah chapter five and verse two says that Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: or the Messiah, was everlasting, even from everlasting. Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: always he. He's the one that created us. In John
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  Speaker 2: chapter one, Hebrews chapter one, and in other places in
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Colossians, we see that Jesus is indeed
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  Speaker 2: and in fact equal with God our Father. But again
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  Speaker 2: in the Plan of Salvation we see that he he
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  Speaker 2: humbled himself in order to save us. So I needed
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  Speaker 2: to give that as the backdrop as we now jump
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  Speaker 2: into the Bible Book of Colossians, chapter one, verses fifteen
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  Speaker 2: through seventeen. And let me tell you why I am
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  Speaker 2: so passionate, Because if anybody is able to convince you
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is a lesser form of God and not
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  Speaker 2: equal with God our Father, than they have flushed your
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  Speaker 2: salvation right down the toilet. You know why, because the
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  Speaker 2: one who gave his life for you must be equal
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  Speaker 2: to or greater than the law that was offended. And
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  Speaker 2: so Jesus allowed himself, as he took on humanity to die,
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  Speaker 2: so his divinity allowed his humanity to die. He laid
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  Speaker 2: down his life, and after the time was finished, on
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  Speaker 2: the first day of the week, Jesus, with his own
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  Speaker 2: power unborrowed underived, raised himself. He took up his life again,
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  Speaker 2: just like he promised. And so if he was not
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent divine and one hundred percent human when
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  Speaker 2: he was up on that cross, then our salvation is
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  Speaker 2: null and void. That's why I'm so passionate about that.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible reads here beginning at verse fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: he Christ is the image of the invisible God. Remember
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  Speaker 2: God with us. His name will be called Emmanuel, God
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  Speaker 2: with us, the first born overall creation. That means the
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  Speaker 2: pre eminent one, for by him all things were created. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Even in the Book of Colossians, it shows that he
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  Speaker 2: is the creator. Yes, that are in heaven, oh my,
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  Speaker 2: and that are on the earth, visible and invisible, whether
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  Speaker 2: they be thrones, whether they be dominions or principalities or powers.
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  Speaker 2: This is why when we studied on our prayer school
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  Speaker 2: call our Prayer School, which happens at on Wednesdays at
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  Speaker 2: seven pm. This is why when we were talking about
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  Speaker 2: about the whole armor of God. This is why it
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  Speaker 2: was important because those principalities that are our actual enemy.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it was our Sunday morning call. Yeah, those enemies,
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  Speaker 2: those principalities and powers and rulers of the darkness of
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  Speaker 2: this world world in spiritual wickedness and high places. They
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  Speaker 2: were created perfect by Jesus Christ, and they chose to
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  Speaker 2: side with the fallen Lucifer who became the devil. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: created all of those powers. This is why they must
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  Speaker 2: bow when he comes through.
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  Speaker 3: This is why they believe and tremble when he comes through,
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  Speaker 3: so visible or invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions,
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  Speaker 3: or principalities or powers, all things, how many things, all
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  Speaker 3: things were created through Him and for him, and He
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  Speaker 3: is before all things, and in him all things consist.
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  Speaker 2: Everything that has life is borrowed from Jesus. Everyone who
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  Speaker 2: has life borrowed from Jesus. Every animal or creature who
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  Speaker 2: has life borrowed from Jesus. Every plant borrowed from Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Everything where life exists, except for God himself, our father,
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  Speaker 2: borrowed from Jesus. So if Jesus pulls the plug, then
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  Speaker 2: everything down here dies, because in him is life, and
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  Speaker 2: the life is the light of men. So I invested,
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  Speaker 2: really all of the time to say just that. Let
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  Speaker 2: me just read one quote, one quote, and let you
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  Speaker 2: go from reviewing Herald eighteen sixty nine. Christ is the
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  Speaker 2: creator of all the world and by his power they
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  Speaker 2: are repelled. This is the highest evidence of His divinity
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  Speaker 2: and the sure foundation of our redemption. I could have
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  Speaker 2: just read that, couldn't I. Yeah, if the Lord's bears
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  Speaker 2: life will see you in the morning. 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.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.