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02 04 2026 The Faith 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
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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, February four,
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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, Christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the Faith of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the Faith of Christ. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: viewer supported. And of course there are so many things
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  Speaker 2: that we are doing, but we need to continue to
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  Speaker 2: do in the only way that we'll be able to
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  Speaker 2: do this reach higher heights, new levels, and to serve
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  Speaker 2: button for contribute at your daily portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: new day and for the privilege that we have to
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  Speaker 2: have the faith of Jesus. Please help us to accept
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  Speaker 2: it in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 2: Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence
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  Speaker 2: of things not seen, and Jesus is the author and
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  Speaker 2: finisher of our faith. And so I'm grateful that faith
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  Speaker 2: is is the prism like well know, this's not call
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  Speaker 2: it a prism. I'm going to complicate it. Faith is
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  Speaker 2: the conduit through which the power of God passes from
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  Speaker 2: Him to me. So when the woman who who had
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  Speaker 2: the issue of blood for twelve long years, she said,
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  Speaker 2: if I but touch the hem of his garments, then
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  Speaker 2: I will be made whole. So she is touching Christ
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  Speaker 2: by faith, and then the power, the energy from Christ
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  Speaker 2: transfers from him to her, so that that conduit, that
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  Speaker 2: line of where the through which the power tras, that's
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  Speaker 2: called faith. Jesus said, who touched me, I sense that
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  Speaker 2: virtue has left me. So the virtue passed along. Call
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  Speaker 2: it a wire for lack of a better word, like
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  Speaker 2: there was a wire connected to Jesus, and that other
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  Speaker 2: end of the wire was connected to the woman, and
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  Speaker 2: his power flowed to her from him. That's faith, that
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  Speaker 2: is faith. So I hope you can see that visually
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  Speaker 2: in your mind. And so we move on for our
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  Speaker 2: lesson number one to talk about this faith of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And we will read from Ephesians chapter one and verse ten.
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  Speaker 2: Ephesians chapter one and verse ten. The Bible reads that
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  Speaker 2: in let me read it in the New English translation,
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  Speaker 2: toward the administration of the fullness of the times to
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  Speaker 2: head up all things in Christ, the things in heaven
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  Speaker 2: and the things in earth. So the things in heaven
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  Speaker 2: and the things in earth. So this happens, that connection
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  Speaker 2: between heaven and earth. Some of you can remember the
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  Speaker 2: steps to Christ's book, the physical copy from in the
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  Speaker 2: eighties and the seventies where you could see a hand
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  Speaker 2: hanging down a man that they said was Jesus. I
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  Speaker 2: just don't have the time to deal with the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we should beat that idea of depicting Christ is
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  Speaker 2: a different challenge for me. But I get it, Like,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a hand coming from heaven and then there
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  Speaker 2: is a man being let down from heaven and his
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  Speaker 2: other hand is reaching down and toward the people. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was Steps to Christ that book, right, And
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  Speaker 2: so that gives us a clear indicator that God is
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  Speaker 2: uniting heaven and earth, and it's through Christ. And that word,
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  Speaker 2: that word in Christ, in what we just read, is
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  Speaker 2: an indication of union, participation, and shared life in Christ. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So the lesson is to be found in Christ means
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  Speaker 2: that all of God's saving work, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and
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  Speaker 2: redemption flows from Him alone. In fact, I should have
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  Speaker 2: used that, probably should have used First Corinthians chapter one
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  Speaker 2: Versus thirty and thirty one to make this illustration. So
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  Speaker 2: you go home and go ahead and read that. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you're already at home, but you go ahead and read
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  Speaker 2: that as well. And so the action step in this case,
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  Speaker 2: the action step in this case is to pray, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: place every part of my life under Christ's lordship everything
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  Speaker 2: Like there are people who what's the word. We believe
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  Speaker 2: that he's our savior, but we don't live like he's
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  Speaker 2: our lord. So we believe that intellectually. We believe that
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  Speaker 2: God's that through Christ we are saved from our sins,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't allow him to to be the lord
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  Speaker 2: of our life to give us the guidance every day
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  Speaker 2: to listen to him, to be covered and to listen
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  Speaker 2: to him. So Lord, please place every part of my
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  Speaker 2: life under Christ's lordship and identify one area where you
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  Speaker 2: need Him to be the source instead of self. Let
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  Speaker 2: me say it another way. Sometimes I'll say it for
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  Speaker 2: single parents of both sexes. I'll say it for individuals
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  Speaker 2: who live without a spouse. I'll say someone who has
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  Speaker 2: left home and now is on their quote own. People
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  Speaker 2: say that it's all on me. I'm on my own.
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  Speaker 2: It rises and falls, everything is in my lap. Like
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  Speaker 2: I get what we mean by it. But we are
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  Speaker 2: the resource. Even when we're helping people, we are a resource.
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  Speaker 2: God is the source. If we don't have that priority
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  Speaker 2: clear in our minds, that is a problem. God is
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  Speaker 2: the source. We are the resource. So let me read
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  Speaker 2: what we can pray as an action step one more time.
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  Speaker 2: So Lord, place every part or place every part of
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  Speaker 2: my life under Christ's lordship. And then I want you
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  Speaker 2: to identify one area where you need Him to be
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  Speaker 2: the source instead of self, instead of you the resource
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  Speaker 2: lesson number two coming in from Philippians chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: verse nine, which this title is actually based upon, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, and being found in Him. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: this is coming into a conversation not having mine own righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: which is of the law or derived from trying to
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  Speaker 2: keep the law, but that which is through faith of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it comes by so righteousness, the righteousness
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  Speaker 2: that I can actually have that matters, that the only
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  Speaker 2: righteousness that registers in heaven. That righteousness comes by way
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  Speaker 2: of Christ's faithfulness. So the faith of Christ, I won't
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  Speaker 2: try to pronounce the term in Greek here, but the
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  Speaker 2: faith of Christ means Christ's own faithfulness, which becomes ours
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  Speaker 2: when He dwells in us. Do you understand the shift?
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand what happens when we submit our will
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  Speaker 2: to God, His righteousness becomes our righteousness in judgment, When
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  Speaker 2: we appear before the judgment seat. We are not appearing
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  Speaker 2: as ourselves. We're appearing in the person of Christ like
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  Speaker 2: we are. God is seeing us just as if we
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  Speaker 2: had never sinned. This is why it's great news. Like
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  Speaker 2: great news, because if I appear on my own as
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  Speaker 2: the I consider myself to be the source of my righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: I consider myself to be the source of faithfulness and faith.
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  Speaker 2: If I pump up my chest like Paul did, and
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  Speaker 2: he was spouting the resume before he got saved, I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying all of the things that he was. He was
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  Speaker 2: circumcised on the eighth day from the tribe of Benjamin,
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  Speaker 2: a Pharisee, and persecuted the church, and all of these
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  Speaker 2: things were great accolades, like plaques and awards all over
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  Speaker 2: the place. Huh, a certain peace prize all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: This is what he thought. And really, yeah, we need
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  Speaker 2: the righteousness of Christ. We need to stand in the
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  Speaker 2: righteousness of Christ. So the action is to confess where
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  Speaker 2: you have depended upon performance and rest today in Christ's
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  Speaker 2: righteousness as your standing before God. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you this evening in the prayer school. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day, yeah,