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08 15 2026 The Power of Christ’s Resurrection · 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, the
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  Speaker 2: fifteenth day of August in twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our Lesson study series through the books
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  Speaker 2: of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is the power of Christ's Resurrection, The power of Christ Resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, i'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: many people who are wondering, like why am I here
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  Speaker 2: a listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and then we will get underway. Father, We thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this Sabbath day and for the privilege of prayer,
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of the power of the resurrection. Father, Please
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  Speaker 2: please give us your spirit. Today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again the power of Christ's resurrection. Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: for the most important thing segment I'm going to share.
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  Speaker 2: If Christ is not risen, then your faith is vain
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  Speaker 2: or empty. You're still in your sins. There is a song,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about all
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  Speaker 2: of us. There's a song that I really love and
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  Speaker 2: I remember it very keenly from the early eighties. I
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  Speaker 2: think it was Andre Crouch Heaven. If heaven never was
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  Speaker 2: promised to me, it's been worth just having the Lord
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  Speaker 2: in my life. Living in the world of darkness. He
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  Speaker 2: came along and he brought me the light. And I
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  Speaker 2: understand the sentiment. And you know, no disrespect to the
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  Speaker 2: legacy of the great Andre Crouch, great gospel minister and singer. However,
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  Speaker 2: Paul said, if that is what we had, He said,
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  Speaker 2: if that was all that we had, if in this
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  Speaker 2: life alone we had Christ, then we are above all
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  Speaker 2: people most miserable. So God is saying that the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus Christ is risen, the fact that we now
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  Speaker 2: have the power of the resurrection in our lives, puts
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  Speaker 2: us in a position where we transcend this current earthly experience,
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  Speaker 2: that one day have Christ already having formed his character
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  Speaker 2: deeply within us, his stamp upon our lives, to where
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  Speaker 2: we are without spot, we are without wrinkle or any
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  Speaker 2: such thing. That when Jesus does come, those who are
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  Speaker 2: stuck righteous right, let those who are righteous remain that way.
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  Speaker 2: This is what the great proclamation at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the last days is. Those individuals and those who have
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  Speaker 2: fallen asleep with that same kind of imprint of their
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  Speaker 2: character from God, those individuals will finally receive immortality. That
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  Speaker 2: means we'll never be able to sleep or slumber, or
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  Speaker 2: get tired or die. We will finally be alive throughout
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  Speaker 2: the ceaseless ages of eternity. That is the goal. That
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  Speaker 2: is the goal. So Christ is risen and that changes everything.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna go ahead and read the passage that
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  Speaker 2: I loosely quote it a moment ago from First Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifteen. Hopefully you have your bibles. You're reading with me,
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  Speaker 2: you're not just listening First Corinthians chapter fifteen, and I
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  Speaker 2: will read verses fourteen and fifteen. The Bible reads, and
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  Speaker 2: if Christ be not risen, then your preaching is vain.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine there are some people during Jesus's day
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  Speaker 2: who taught there was no resurrection. What well, he said,
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  Speaker 2: If there's no resurrection, if Christ be not risen, especially,
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  Speaker 2: then your faith or your preaching is vain. And your
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  Speaker 2: faith also is vain. Yeay, And we are found false
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  Speaker 2: witnesses from God, because we have testified of God that
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  Speaker 2: he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if
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  Speaker 2: so be that the dead be not raised, So we
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  Speaker 2: don't want this empty kind of faith. That's the vanity
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  Speaker 2: that he was talking about. It's kenos from from the
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  Speaker 2: Greek language of that time without content or result. So
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  Speaker 2: he's saying, it's a waste of time. Like everything that
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  Speaker 2: we're doing on your daily portion a waste of time.
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  Speaker 2: Everything that you're doing in your evangelistic series around the
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  Speaker 2: world in your church is a waste of time. All
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  Speaker 2: of those wonderful ministries that many of us love know
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  Speaker 2: and love know and experience on a regular basis, it
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  Speaker 2: is written, a waste of time. Voice of prophecy a
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  Speaker 2: waste of time. All of the other usual ones, right,
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  Speaker 2: the breath of life ministries a waste of time. All
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  Speaker 2: of your teaching to your children at your knee, about
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  Speaker 2: how wonderful God is and how He is able to
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  Speaker 2: transform us and make him make us after his own character.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been a waste of time if Christ
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  Speaker 2: be not raised. Paul uses this word to describe what
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  Speaker 2: preaching and faith become without the resurrection, hollow shells with
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  Speaker 2: no power, no truth, no hope at their center. I
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  Speaker 2: remember not long after I got baptized, thirty some years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty years I guess it's thirty years ago. A few
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  Speaker 2: months ago, okay, somebody asked me do you believe that
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  Speaker 2: we can live above sin? And I know that that
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  Speaker 2: can be a loaded question to some people, but immediately,
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  Speaker 2: because God gives me the gift of analysis and analysis
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  Speaker 2: and logic, I sat back for a moment and I said, well, hmm,
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  Speaker 2: if he can't. If I didn't believe that, I would
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  Speaker 2: not be a Christian. If I did not believe that
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  Speaker 2: God can empower us through his grace by the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: to live above sin, I would not be a believer.
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  Speaker 2: What sense would it make? And guess where that power
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  Speaker 2: comes from, the power of the resurrection, the same one
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  Speaker 2: who created all things first. In the Book of John
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  Speaker 2: we see it in chapter one. We see it in
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews chapter one Colossians. We see it in multiple places
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures. That Jesus is our creator, he also
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  Speaker 2: is our recreator that means our savior, the redeemer of
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  Speaker 2: all of us. If Jesus is not able to recreate us,
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  Speaker 2: to give us the rebirth experience, the new birth experience,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, then why are we even here? So I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done thinking that from that direction. I am so
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  Speaker 2: grateful that God is well able not only to create
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  Speaker 2: all of the things that we can see and cannot see,
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  Speaker 2: but Jesus, in his obedience to death, even the death
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  Speaker 2: of the cross, he also showed us that God is
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  Speaker 2: able to transform our lives to the degree that we
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  Speaker 2: lived like Jesus lived. And we know that Jesus lived
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  Speaker 2: from his natural if you want to call it natural,
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  Speaker 2: but from his birth from Mary's womb until he died
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  Speaker 2: on the cross. We know Jesus lived above sin. Did
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  Speaker 2: you know that from our new perse we receive new
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  Speaker 2: spiritual dna, that we are able to live above sin
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  Speaker 2: if God forbid we do stumble and fall subsequent to that,
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  Speaker 2: then John said, we have an advocate with the Father,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ the Righteous. But God has empowered us, through
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  Speaker 2: the power of Christ's resurrection, to live in the way
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus lived. And I'm hoping that this Sabbath morning
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  Speaker 2: and beyond you will embrace that power in your life.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah.