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03 25 2026 Living in This World but Not of It · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, March
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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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: final lesson in our lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth,
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  Speaker 2: christ in Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is living in this world but not of it, Living
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  Speaker 2: in this world but not of it. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to just say welcome to everyone
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  Speaker 2: joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: But this is one of the ways that we continue
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  Speaker 2: to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray
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  Speaker 2: and get underway. Father, We thank you for this day
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  Speaker 2: for getting us to the midway of the week. Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for the privilege of being called by your
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  Speaker 2: name and God. I'm asking you to please ah teach
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  Speaker 2: us to exist and live and cause where we are
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  Speaker 2: to flourish like you told your people when they lived
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  Speaker 2: in Babylon. But never lose focus of the calling and
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  Speaker 2: our privilege to lead people to You. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Type of one in
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  Speaker 2: the Chat. If you remember in the scriptures where God
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  Speaker 2: told his people when they were in captivity, really in Babylon,
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  Speaker 2: that they should cause Babylon to prosper while they are
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  Speaker 2: in Babylon, but of course never to lose sight or
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  Speaker 2: focus of God. He said to cause where you are
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  Speaker 2: to flourish while you were there, and in the last
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  Speaker 2: days he wants us to occupy or invest until he comes.
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  Speaker 2: But we are to make an impact, a transformative impact
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  Speaker 2: on the world while we live here. And that transformative
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  Speaker 2: impact is to lead as many people in our day
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  Speaker 2: to God. Is possible to learn how to serve God,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that Jesus is on his way, knowing that his word,
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  Speaker 2: his ten commandments, still are true, and that Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: is the Way, the Truth, and the life, and no
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  Speaker 2: one can have life without him. Yeah, type of one
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  Speaker 2: in the Chat if you remember what God said to
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  Speaker 2: his people back in those days. And so we have
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  Speaker 2: the modernized version of this through Paul's writings. To live
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  Speaker 2: in the world and not be of the world, not
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  Speaker 2: to allow the world to transform us into its mold
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  Speaker 2: or squeeze us into it's mold. And in the book
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  Speaker 2: Testimonies for the Church Volume five, we read those who
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  Speaker 2: wait for the bridegroom's coming are to be purified. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's not a worldly concept. The worldly concept is to
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  Speaker 2: just do whatever's out there, like, if it feels good,
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  Speaker 2: do it no matter what, regardless of what God thinks.
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  Speaker 2: But we are given the privilege to be purified like Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Huh and old, bold like Jesus, and sanctified, set aside
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  Speaker 2: for by a holy for a holy use, by obedience
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  Speaker 2: to the truth. Let me read it without commentary. Now,
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  Speaker 2: those who wait for the bridegroom coming, bridegrooms coming are
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  Speaker 2: to be purified and no bold and sanctified by obedience
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  Speaker 2: to the truth. Jesus modeled that behavior, he modeled that mindset,
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  Speaker 2: that character when he lived on planet Earth in human form.
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  Speaker 2: And John Nevins Andrews said, the greatest danger to the
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  Speaker 2: people of God the Church is not persecution from without,
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  Speaker 2: but conformity to the world. Oh, my within. The greatest
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  Speaker 2: danger to the Church is not persecution from without, but
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  Speaker 2: conformity to the world within. And so this is why
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  Speaker 2: we are given the encouragement to be in the world,
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  Speaker 2: but not of the world. When we are in the world,
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  Speaker 2: we do all that we can do so that the
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  Speaker 2: people can know how to become overcomers. There are things
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  Speaker 2: that people are struggling through, like chronic stress, and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the chronic stress is based on all kind
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  Speaker 2: of diletarious habits. That they have some things that they
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  Speaker 2: could do in order to promote stronger health practices and
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  Speaker 2: a better mindset. And of course godliness, and so lessen
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  Speaker 2: Number one is faithfulness is revealed by what we love. Hmm,
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  Speaker 2: by what we love. And so Luke remained faithful. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about one, of course the Bible characters. Luke remained
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  Speaker 2: faithful because his heart was anchored in Christ. Demus walked
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  Speaker 2: away because his heart was anchored in the world. Love
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  Speaker 2: always determines loyalty, and of course we get that from
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  Speaker 2: Second Timothy chapter four Versus ten and eleven, where i'll
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  Speaker 2: just read part of it. For Demus deserted me because
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  Speaker 2: he loved the present age. Only Luke is with me. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember this text. It says,
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  Speaker 2: great peace have they which love Thy law, and nothing
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  Speaker 2: shall offend them. And the term to offend is not
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  Speaker 2: what we think it is in our way of speaking
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  Speaker 2: in English. It's not that it means to turn away,
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  Speaker 2: to leave. Nothing will cause them to do what this
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  Speaker 2: brother Demus did. Nothing will cause people who love God's
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  Speaker 2: law to desert him, to walk away from him. Like
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  Speaker 2: Jesus turned to his disciples one time, I think it
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  Speaker 2: was in recorded in John chapter six, when there were
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  Speaker 2: people who could not they just really couldn't deal with
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  Speaker 2: Jesus saying, you need to eat of my flesh and
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  Speaker 2: drink of my blood, and you will never hunger, you'll
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  Speaker 2: neither thirst again. And they departed from him because they
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  Speaker 2: didn't know what he was talking about because of their unbelief.
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  Speaker 2: They thought it was on some cannibalism stuff and that
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  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with what he was talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And they left him. They departed, and Jesus went to
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  Speaker 2: his disciples and like you, are you you going to
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  Speaker 2: abandon me too? Are you gonna follow suit? Are you
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  Speaker 2: going to become just like these worldians who are masquerading
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  Speaker 2: as God's people and you gonna depart from me? Well,
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  Speaker 2: those who love God's law will not cause or allow
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  Speaker 2: anything to cause them to offend or to depart from Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And it means to love the love. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about that love for a moment here that Demas
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  Speaker 2: had for this present age to give oneself to, to
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  Speaker 2: set affection, set affection upon. Okay, so what do we love?
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  Speaker 2: What are we giving ourselves to to? What is our
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  Speaker 2: affection set? What do we literally love like the things
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  Speaker 2: of the world or the things of God? And so
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  Speaker 2: Demus did not stop believing overnight, his affection slowly shifted.
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  Speaker 2: Luke's faithfulness shows his perseverance is not about circumstances, but
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  Speaker 2: about his devote to God and the ministry of God.
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  Speaker 2: And so the action step for this lesson, I think
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  Speaker 2: this will be our only lesson for today, is to
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  Speaker 2: ask ourselves, honestly, what currently receives the most of my affection?
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm asking myself attention and energy. Pray for my
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  Speaker 2: love to be reordered or oriented around Christ. Honestly, what
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  Speaker 2: currently receives the most of my affection and attention and energy.
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  Speaker 2: Pray for my love to be reordered around Christ. Living
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  Speaker 2: in this world but not becoming like it.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. 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 el David Harris make it a great day. Yeah.