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01 31 2026 Confidence ONLY 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 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, January
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians
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  Speaker 2: and Colossians. We are coming in at lesson number six
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  Speaker 2: under the caption confidence only in Christ. I was passionate yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I hit that point over and over again. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I digress. Before we get into this, I'd like to
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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 get underway. Father, we thank you, Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this Sabbath day. Thank you for the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: being called by your name. God. I know you don't
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  Speaker 2: call everybody by your name. It's those who submit to you.
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  Speaker 2: So teach us submission and help us to be self distrustful,
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  Speaker 2: like we said yesterday. Please, in Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Confidence only in Christ. Now, some
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  Speaker 2: of you have no problem with self confidence. And when
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  Speaker 2: I say no problem, I mean you don't sit around
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  Speaker 2: and think how you are incapable of this or unqualified
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  Speaker 2: for that, Like you don't have imposter syndrome. You don't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're not wondering if you can or cannot
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  Speaker 2: do a thing. You just run forward. You're driven. You're
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  Speaker 2: powerful people who are driven. And then there are other
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  Speaker 2: people who flip it way on the other side, and
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  Speaker 2: you're always talking about how you can't do something. You
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  Speaker 2: can't do nothing, like because fill in the blank. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not as qualified as this person. I'm not as capable
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  Speaker 2: as that person. I don't have as many talents or
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  Speaker 2: gifts as that other person. I wish I could do
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  Speaker 2: what that one over there is doing. So we have
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  Speaker 2: people on both sides of this continuum. But God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, right now, I need you to focus
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  Speaker 2: on me. Focus on me, and your confidence must come
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  Speaker 2: from Christ or through Christ. So your confidence in Christ
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  Speaker 2: will be manifesting your lifestyle and your life will be
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  Speaker 2: a testament to that. And so let's read first the
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  Speaker 2: Memory text for today Philippians Chapter three Versus ten and eleven,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads that I may know him and
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  Speaker 2: the power of his resurrection, the fellowship of his sufferings,
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  Speaker 2: being conformed to his death, if by any means I
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  Speaker 2: may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just say this very simply. Paul was the super He
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  Speaker 2: was the super believer in his own mind. He had
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  Speaker 2: qualifications that were on the extreme end of his particular quote, faith, fellowship,
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  Speaker 2: all of the qualifications if you looked at his resume.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my, Like this dude was super qualified in his
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  Speaker 2: spiritual community, except he wasn't actually connected to God. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, like when he had his first real encounter
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  Speaker 2: with God to where he was being transformed, he realized,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, I am done being qualified by what
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  Speaker 2: I'm able to do. I'm done being qualified by my
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  Speaker 2: past experiences, which are enormous in a good way. I
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  Speaker 2: am done being qualified by my skill set. The only
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  Speaker 2: way I can now be of value and of use
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  Speaker 2: in the world is that I am no longer confident
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  Speaker 2: in myself. I couldn't care less about my resume or
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  Speaker 2: my curriculum vita. If you're in education, I understand, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: but what he is saying, is I'm more focused now
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  Speaker 2: on the resurrection of God's the power of God's resurrection,
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  Speaker 2: because in the power of the resurrection, I can overcome pride.
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  Speaker 2: In the power of resurrection, I can overcome the addictions
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  Speaker 2: to illicit drugs and alcohol. In the power of the resurrection,
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  Speaker 2: I can overcome watching stuff on the Internet that I
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  Speaker 2: should never have ever seen, much less continue to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Because of the power of the resurrection, I can remove
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  Speaker 2: myself from relationships that I should never have had. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. In this power of
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  Speaker 2: the resurrection, I can actually represent Christ. And yeah, there's
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  Speaker 2: a cost, though it comes with a cost, and it's
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  Speaker 2: okay because Jesus paid it all all to him. I owe,
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  Speaker 2: Sin has left a crimson stain, but he has washed
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  Speaker 2: it white as snow. There comes a cost. What is
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  Speaker 2: the cost suffering? We will suffer. Jesus suffered, and so
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  Speaker 2: we have fellowship with Christ and other believers when we
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  Speaker 2: suffer for Christ's sake. That's the caveat though, that's the
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  Speaker 2: qualifier for Christ's sakes, for Christ's sake, being conformed to
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  Speaker 2: his death, so that means Jesus he died. Actually, it
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  Speaker 2: was an act of humility and love, where he, in
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  Speaker 2: his divinity, allowed his humanity to die. Because he could
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  Speaker 2: have resisted. He is life unborrowed, underrived. He could have said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not about to die on that cross, his humanity
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  Speaker 2: not going to die on that cross. He could have said, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's not gonna happen. We're gonna keep him, We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna stay alive over here. He could have said that,
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  Speaker 2: but for you, he humbled himself and was obedient unto death,
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  Speaker 2: even the death of the cross. We need to die
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  Speaker 2: to self, We need to yield ourselves to God and
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  Speaker 2: die to sin. And in that, the Bible continues, if
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  Speaker 2: by any means I may attain to the resurrection from
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  Speaker 2: the dead, that means that when I die with Christ,
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  Speaker 2: I die in Christ to self. I die. Then that
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  Speaker 2: means I can I can also receive the power of
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  Speaker 2: His resurrection. I can be victorious over any besetting sin.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful. And so that is the short version. I
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  Speaker 2: got a bit carried away, but that's good today. So
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and read a quote. Now that we
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  Speaker 2: have a baseline from first the General Conference bullet from
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  Speaker 2: eighteen ninety three at Jones. That was a pivotal time
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  Speaker 2: in the church's history, by the way, eighteen eighties, eighteen nineties,
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  Speaker 2: unbelievable time. Righteousness by faith, Oh, that's what the church
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  Speaker 2: argued about. The church even split about like, I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe they were arguing about what is righteousness by faith? Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Righteousness by faith is the life of God in the
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  Speaker 2: soul of humans, he said, Man, in the soul of humans.
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  Speaker 2: It is not what we do, but what God works
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  Speaker 2: in us when self is surrendered. Righteousness by faith is
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  Speaker 2: the life of God in the soul of man. It
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  Speaker 2: is not what we do. It's not Let me put
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  Speaker 2: the emphasis on it. Let me get that statement again.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm going to put the emphasis on the word correctly.
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  Speaker 2: It is not what we do. You get it. It
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  Speaker 2: is not what we do, but what God works in
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  Speaker 2: us when self is surrendered. My God, I'm grateful. I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just give you one quick lesson. Righteousness comes
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  Speaker 2: only through Christ, never through our human effort alone. Philippians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse three. The Bible reads, for we
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  Speaker 2: are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit and
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  Speaker 2: rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence hah in
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  Speaker 2: the flesh, and so I want you to identify one
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  Speaker 2: place where you subconsciously trust your own works and surrender
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  Speaker 2: it intentionally to Christ. 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,