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01 10 2026 Life and Death · 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 Sabbath, January ten,
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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 with Lesson number three 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 Life and Death. Life and Death. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to 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 go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community, and please let us know
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  Speaker 2: where you are in the world at your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this Sabbath morning and for giving us the
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  Speaker 2: ability to see that life is what You've always wanted
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  Speaker 2: for us, and that more abundantly help us to live
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  Speaker 2: knowing that one day you will destroy death. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and a man again. So let me
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  Speaker 2: read from Philippians, chapter one and verse twenty one, the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Philippians, chapter one and verse twenty one. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, for me to live is Christ, and to
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  Speaker 2: die is gain. One more time, for me to live
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  Speaker 2: is Christ and to die is Gain. And so Paul
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  Speaker 2: was struggling with something very interesting at that time of
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  Speaker 2: his life to just basically say, listen, whatever it is
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  Speaker 2: that God wants me to do. Maybe struggle is not
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  Speaker 2: the right word, but it was a philosophical struggle, like,
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  Speaker 2: whatever God wants me to do while living on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I want to do. I want to be
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  Speaker 2: here as long as possible to make an impact on
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  Speaker 2: the people around me. And yet sometimes to the concept
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  Speaker 2: of laying down in rest is something that I consider,
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  Speaker 2: But then I think about the fact that people still
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  Speaker 2: need me for the glory of God. And then comes
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  Speaker 2: the idea that when I laid down my life. Now
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  Speaker 2: we're speaking spiritually and philosophically, I laid down my life,
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  Speaker 2: I gain eternal life. I laid down my way of thinking.
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  Speaker 2: I laid down my mistakes. I laid down even quote
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  Speaker 2: my righteousness. He was a Bible student and a Bible teacher.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, yes, scriptures, and he knew what Isaiah taught about.
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  Speaker 2: Even our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. So when we
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  Speaker 2: lay all of that down, we receive in exchange for
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  Speaker 2: this the life of Christ, the merits of Christ, all
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus did right will be placed into our spiritual
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  Speaker 2: bank accounts, if that's a good way of describing it.
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  Speaker 2: So for me to live is Christ and to die
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  Speaker 2: is Gain. Now let me just go ahead into our
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  Speaker 2: life application guide. Hopefully you will have gotten it or
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  Speaker 2: you can get it after the Sabbath, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: go with the spiritual app implication spiritual application of UH.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll begin with the letter W in when what
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  Speaker 2: is important? Now? Recognizing as the lesson writer identified early
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  Speaker 2: in the lesson that death is not a part of life.
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  Speaker 2: We've been telling ourselves that because I think we've accepted
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  Speaker 2: the status quo. We have somehow comforted ourselves in Babylon.
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  Speaker 2: I'm calling the whole earth Babylon. Don't quote me, don't
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  Speaker 2: say that I'm creating a new Bible standard. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying that. I'm just saying, like when God's people were
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  Speaker 2: in Babylon, some of them got comfortable with what was
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  Speaker 2: going on around them, and so I'm using I'm using Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: I'm using Babylon. I'm using all of the places where
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  Speaker 2: God exiled his people as a as a teaching point
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  Speaker 2: for planet Earth. Like some of us have gotten so
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  Speaker 2: comfortable down here that we just accept the negative things
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  Speaker 2: as a way a part of life, like just a
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  Speaker 2: side go in Jamaican parlance, Like that's not real. Death
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  Speaker 2: is not a part of life, but it is the
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  Speaker 2: enemy of life, defeated by Christ. He did that on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. And finally we will see the full fruit
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  Speaker 2: of that very soon. Now Jesus will be coming, and
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  Speaker 2: he's coming quickly, and his reward will be with him.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to eye internalize the insight. Death was never
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  Speaker 2: built into life. Anymore than wreckage was built into a car.
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  Speaker 2: Can I say that one more time? Death was not
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  Speaker 2: built into life anymore than wreckage was built into a car.
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  Speaker 2: Christ died to destroy the devil who had the power
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  Speaker 2: of death and to deliver those who lived in bondage
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  Speaker 2: to the fear of death. Think about Paul's writings about
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  Speaker 2: that you do not have to accept death as a
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  Speaker 2: natural or inevitable reality in the ultimate sense, I said
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  Speaker 2: ultimate sense. Christ has already won the victory and your
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  Speaker 2: hope is in his power to give eternal life. So
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  Speaker 2: what do we do with this? So we've thought about it,
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  Speaker 2: We've considered what we need to think about it. Now
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  Speaker 2: what do we do? Well? Thank God today this Sabbath morning.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to thank God today for Christ's victory
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  Speaker 2: over death and ask him to free you from any
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  Speaker 2: fear or bondage related to death that may be limiting
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  Speaker 2: your faith or joy. Let me say it to you
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  Speaker 2: this way. There are times that people are just bracing,
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  Speaker 2: especially when we reach into our elder years. Many of you,
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  Speaker 2: seventy four percent of you are in your elder years.
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  Speaker 2: The people who are listening to and watching me write,
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  Speaker 2: and what happens when we reach a certain age, is
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  Speaker 2: that our siblings, our aunties and uncles, and our closest
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  Speaker 2: friends start to pass away because of the age. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what happens sometimes on planet Earth. And we've accepted
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  Speaker 2: that as the status quo, and at the same time
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  Speaker 2: we have such fear and foreboding like what now, who next? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm challenging you today to thank God for Christ's victory
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  Speaker 2: over death and ask him to free you from any
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  Speaker 2: fear or bondage related to death that may be limiting
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  Speaker 2: your faith or your joy. What next? Jesus is gonna
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  Speaker 2: come soon, and He's going to put a complete and
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  Speaker 2: ultimate end to it, and we will finally live in
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  Speaker 2: his presence eternally. Now, let's go back into the lesson
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  Speaker 2: and see what else we can glean with the time
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  Speaker 2: that we still have left. Let's go ahead with lesson
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  Speaker 2: number one. Christ destroyed the power of death and freed
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  Speaker 2: believers from its feet. We're going into the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Hebrews chapter two, and I'll read parts of verses
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  Speaker 2: fourteen and fifteen Hebrews chapter two and parts of verses
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  Speaker 2: fourteen and fifteen, and the Bible reads that through death,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus he might destroy him that had the power of death,
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  Speaker 2: that is the devil, and to deliver them who, through
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  Speaker 2: fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
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  Speaker 2: So God through Christ is rendering death and the devil powerless, powerless,
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  Speaker 2: and he's abolishing death for the final time. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: action step is to speak a prayer of gratitude that
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  Speaker 2: Christ has broken the power of death and the fear
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  Speaker 2: of death. Some of you are just entirely to fearful
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  Speaker 2: of death when Jesus has given us the victory. I
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  Speaker 2: just wish I had the time. I don't. Let's move
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  Speaker 2: to lesson number two. Lesson number two, and it's based
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  Speaker 2: on our memory text we've already read in Philippians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: one and verse twenty one. Paul lived with a singular
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  Speaker 2: focus to magnify Christ in life or in death. That
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  Speaker 2: was the I called it a conflict. I called it
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  Speaker 2: a thing, a challenge, But whatever it was, he was
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  Speaker 2: just saying, you know what, whatever God says, that's the
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  Speaker 2: right place, that's the right place. And so to live,
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  Speaker 2: to live, to live, to be alive with purpose, and
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  Speaker 2: to focus. That is what Paul taught us. Choose one
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  Speaker 2: action today that reflects a life centered in Christ.
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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,