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02 05 2026 Just One Thing—Knowing 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 is Thursday, February five,
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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 number six, actually Lesson number six. The theme is
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  Speaker 2: uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ and Philippians and Colossians, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is just one thing Know in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I like it, just one thing know in Christ. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but before I do,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: those joining for the very first time. I know that
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  Speaker 2: in the world. And please click that red button. I
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  Speaker 2: told you before. I've done a poor job of letting
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  Speaker 2: you know that this used to be it still kind
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  Speaker 2: of is, but it's now balancing out like personally supported,
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  Speaker 2: ahead and click that butchet if the Lord inclines and
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  Speaker 2: we will continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you for this day You've entrusted to us.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to be enamored by obsessed by. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if that's a good word, but be drawn to
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  Speaker 2: the one thing, knowing Christ, knowing you Father, in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Just one thing, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: Just one thing, and business and every other thing that
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  Speaker 2: I do where coaching is concerned. Listen, one of the
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  Speaker 2: things I say to the people, and many of them
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  Speaker 2: are so successful and still scattered and all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, well, if you can attain to that
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  Speaker 2: level of success being scattered, can you imagine if you
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  Speaker 2: were focused? Can you imagine if you would, you would
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  Speaker 2: have a single eye toward that one powerful goal. And
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  Speaker 2: until you achieve that, don't move on to something else,
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  Speaker 2: don't spread yourself very thin and so spiritually even more
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  Speaker 2: interesting because humans are trying to do that spiritually, like
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  Speaker 2: trying to serve self and God both and at the
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  Speaker 2: same time. And so let me just say, let me
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  Speaker 2: just see say I'm going to dial it back. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to go back to the eighteen eighties again. Eighteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty four a Review and Herald article and it's by
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  Speaker 2: jenn En Loughborough, and it reads, every advanced step in
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  Speaker 2: the Christian race demands an eye fixed upon the goal.
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  Speaker 2: Do we use that word again, transfixed or fixed? Do
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  Speaker 2: we use that anymore? Fixed upon the goal and a
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  Speaker 2: heart willing to lay aside? Here is the big word.
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  Speaker 2: Every weight that hinders progress toward Christ? Is it a human?
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  Speaker 2: Lay aside the weight? Is it a thought? Lay aside
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  Speaker 2: that weight? Is it a mindset? Lay aside that weight?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a philosophy? Is there a conflict of what
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  Speaker 2: you do with whom you do and your core values?
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  Speaker 2: Lay aside that weight, anything that hinders progress toward Christ?
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  Speaker 2: And in that vein we go with our lesson Number one.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing Christ requires experiencing both the power of his resurrection
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  Speaker 2: and the fellowship of his sufferings. In Philippians, chapter three
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  Speaker 2: and verse ten, the Bible reads my aim right, single eyed,
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  Speaker 2: fixed goal, laying aside everything else. He's following the guidance.
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  Speaker 2: Here Paul is under the Holy Ghost. My aim is
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  Speaker 2: to know him. And I explained to you yesterday. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was what to no means. It's an intimacy
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  Speaker 2: that has fruit, It bears fruit. Okay, to know him,
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  Speaker 2: to experience the power of his resurrection. That is, I
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  Speaker 2: die to sin, and I'm alive to holiness. I'm alive
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  Speaker 2: to righteousness. I'm alive to the ability to submit myself
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  Speaker 2: to God and resist the devil, and he will flee.
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  Speaker 2: I'm alive to the ability that when trials and tribulations
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  Speaker 2: come Paul in the Philippians rejoices even though he's in prison.
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  Speaker 2: That comes only from God. Okay. So that's his aim,
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  Speaker 2: know him experience the power of his resurrection and to
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  Speaker 2: also share in his sufferings. And we see that there
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  Speaker 2: is an outcome. There's an outcome that he can also
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  Speaker 2: attain to the resurrection. So he wrote it almost like
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  Speaker 2: a sandwich. So, yes, power of his resurrection. Oh, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, you will suffer along the journey. But when
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  Speaker 2: your suffering has done its work and God perfects you,
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  Speaker 2: then you will receive the ultimate resurrection, and that will
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  Speaker 2: be eternally okay. And so this word fellowship, this word fellowship,
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  Speaker 2: it really was in the King James. I didn't read it.
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  Speaker 2: It said fellowship. In his sufferings, Paul used that word.
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  Speaker 2: The word is cornanea is interesting, a deep participation, a
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  Speaker 2: deep participation or shared experience. The church into which I
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  Speaker 2: was baptized back in nineteen ninety six in Alexandria, Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: had we had an actual ministry, a fellowship for new
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  Speaker 2: believers called Kynanea. I don't think we were thinking about
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  Speaker 2: we were thinking about fellowship or Conanea in suffering. But
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  Speaker 2: that's what That's what Paul was saying. He shared experience
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  Speaker 2: a deep participation. When Christ died, we died in him.
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  Speaker 2: It reminds me of the song were you there when
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  Speaker 2: they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified
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  Speaker 2: my Lord? Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
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  Speaker 2: Were you there and they crucified my Lord? But if
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  Speaker 2: we participate in this not to crucify him, but to
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  Speaker 2: be crucified alongside him spiritually speaking, dying to sin as
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  Speaker 2: in Romans chapter six, and then being raised in Romans
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  Speaker 2: chapter three, and being raised now spiritually incorruptible. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time, And so the action step is
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  Speaker 2: to thank Jesus for just one hardship. I know, I know,
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know. For me, it's in retrospect. I've
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  Speaker 2: thanked him in the past for hardships that have passed already.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever way you need to do it, thank Jesus for
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  Speaker 2: one hardship that you faced recently, and ask him to
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  Speaker 2: use it to draw your heart closer to him. There
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  Speaker 2: is a place of quiet rest near to the heart
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  Speaker 2: of God. That's what we want. That is the goal.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number two. Knowing Christ requires forgetting what is behind
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  Speaker 2: and pressing forward with undivided focus toward the goal God
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  Speaker 2: has set. Who said it? God set it? Philippians, Chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: Verses thirteen and fourteen. I will truncate just a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: abbreviate it. This one thing I do, I'm forgetting those
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  Speaker 2: things which are behind, and I am pressing toward the
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  Speaker 2: mark for the prize of the high calling of God
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  Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus. Let me read it in another version.
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  Speaker 2: But one thing I do, I'm forgetting the things that
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  Speaker 2: are behind. I strive toward the goal for the prize.
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  Speaker 2: What is the prize. It's the upward call of God
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  Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus. Some of us have been downward. Some
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  Speaker 2: of us have been downward, some of us have been earthward,
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  Speaker 2: some people have been hell bound. But what God is
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  Speaker 2: saying to us is that when we surrender our will
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  Speaker 2: and we are singly focused toward that relationship with God
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  Speaker 2: and doing whatever he says as an outgrowth of this relationship,
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  Speaker 2: then the prize is upward. It's the upward look. It's
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  Speaker 2: the upward lay away. You understand. Yeah, new heights I'm
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  Speaker 2: gaining every day. Huh. That's a good song, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a better principle. And then finally, lessen number number three.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't give you an action step, but let's get
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  Speaker 2: to the final lesson. Knowing Christ means daily maturity, thinking
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  Speaker 2: as Christ's minded believers, and walking in the light. We
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  Speaker 2: have already attained the stuff God has revealed. Live according
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  Speaker 2: to that principle, beginning at this moment. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with l David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,