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01 07 2026 Gospel Fruit · 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, January seven,
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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 new
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth christ in Philippians
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  Speaker 2: and Colossians, and our caption for today is Gospel Fruit,
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  Speaker 2: Gospel Fruit. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  Speaker 2: for the very first time. Please go over to your
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  Speaker 2: up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and also
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, We thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us the privilege of prayer, the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of the gospel message. Father, I'm asking you now
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  Speaker 2: to please fill us with your spirit and help us
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  Speaker 2: to live the power of God unto salvation. In Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so let me
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  Speaker 2: just begin the lesson. Writer points out that Paul's relationship
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  Speaker 2: with the Colossians was different from those in Philippi. But
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  Speaker 2: that's something that we really should have already anticipated. He
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  Speaker 2: included them among those who have not seen my face
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  Speaker 2: in the flesh. I said that to you last week,
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  Speaker 2: that he never even visited. As far as we can tell,
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  Speaker 2: he never even visited Colossie. So this is seen in
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  Speaker 2: Colossians chapter two and verse one. Nevertheless, Paul assures them,
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  Speaker 2: as he did the Philippians, that he thanks God for
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  Speaker 2: them always and he is praying for them. Now. This
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  Speaker 2: is very interesting. I remember talking about thousands of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: and somehow God led brother Paul to be able to
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  Speaker 2: lead a people that he didn't even see. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time to talk about how the church
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  Speaker 2: has changed in the last since about twenty nineteen. Think
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  Speaker 2: you know where I'm going with this. And God has
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  Speaker 2: given us more creative and necessary ways of ministering that
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  Speaker 2: don't require our physical presence. Even though most of us
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  Speaker 2: look look look at my mic sock or the covering
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  Speaker 2: for my mic, look at my beard. This means that
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  Speaker 2: I have seasoning in my life. Like I'm over fifty
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  Speaker 2: years of age, and so in my generation everything was
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  Speaker 2: hands on. This is how we were cultured. But the
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  Speaker 2: way that things are now, and the way that God
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  Speaker 2: even showed in the case of Paul way back then,
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  Speaker 2: which is ironic to me, is that ministry can be
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  Speaker 2: done in so many ways as long as Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: is central, and that his message is the key in
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  Speaker 2: the situation. Let me just go ahead into our lesson
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  Speaker 2: for today. Before I go too far Afield, let me
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  Speaker 2: read a quote from the Reviewer in Herald in eighteen
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  Speaker 2: sixty one. Hope in Christ lifts the believer above the
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  Speaker 2: trials of earth and fixes the mind on the inheritance
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  Speaker 2: reserved in heaven, and so our retention is focused heavenward.
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  Speaker 2: While we live on planet Earth. Our goal is to
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  Speaker 2: do is to invest as much as we can down here,
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  Speaker 2: create prosperity in Babylon. I know what I just said.
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  Speaker 2: It's biblical. Jesus God told his people that as long
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  Speaker 2: as you are in Babylon, I need you to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that everything around you prospers. Now, don't get too
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  Speaker 2: settled in like do not make it a place where
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  Speaker 2: you will build up idols, like, don't do that. But
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  Speaker 2: while you're there, make sure everything around you is successful
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  Speaker 2: as much as it lies unto you. And then, of
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  Speaker 2: course I will deliver you. And so we look forward
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  Speaker 2: to the Kingdom of heaven. But while we are living
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth, we're occupying or investing until Jesus comes,
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  Speaker 2: ever turning away from the principles that God has given
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  Speaker 2: us while living here. Now from the Signs of the
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  Speaker 2: Times April eleventh, eighteen ninety two, it reads, the gospel
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  Speaker 2: is the power of God to transform the life. Well,
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  Speaker 2: where does this life happen? Down here? Where does the
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  Speaker 2: life happen? And through its power the believer becomes a
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  Speaker 2: new creature in Christ? Where does that transformation happen? Again?
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  Speaker 2: It happens down here on planet Earth. And what are
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  Speaker 2: we supposed to do? Brighten the corner where we are.
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  Speaker 2: What are we supposed to do? We are to occupy
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  Speaker 2: until he comes? Oh, do we lose focus on the
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  Speaker 2: until he comes part? Absolutely not. The Gospel now gives
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  Speaker 2: us the ability to transcend through Christ this earthly dwelling.
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  Speaker 2: One day, when Jesus returns, we will go to heaven
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  Speaker 2: and live there for a thousand years. After the thousand
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  Speaker 2: years have finished, we will occupy the new Earth. After
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  Speaker 2: there is no more sin, no more sickness, sadness, death,
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  Speaker 2: or pain. The former things will have been passed away.
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  Speaker 2: But in the meantime, God is transforming his people to
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  Speaker 2: transform our surroundings for him, and then one day we
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  Speaker 2: will see him face to face. Lesson number one today
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  Speaker 2: is Paul thanked God for their faith in Christ. And
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  Speaker 2: of course we see that in Collassians one and verse four,
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  Speaker 2: since we heard of your faith in Christ, he was
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  Speaker 2: thinking right thanking God. And so the kind of faith
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  Speaker 2: that he is talking about is trust, obedience, confidence in God.
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  Speaker 2: If Paul were living today and he did not have
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of coming to wherever you are congregating in
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  Speaker 2: air quotes, if he were an online minister, if he
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  Speaker 2: were someone who would send messengers to where you are,
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  Speaker 2: and then the messenger would send back to him him,
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  Speaker 2: and then you would build strategy for reaching the world
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  Speaker 2: from your vantage point. Would he be thanking God for
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  Speaker 2: your confidence in him in God? Would he be thinking
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  Speaker 2: God for your trust in God? Or would he have
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  Speaker 2: to pray another prayer as Moses and and and and
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  Speaker 2: Caleb dealt with murmuring people back in ancient days of
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  Speaker 2: God's people and had to really just settle them down
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  Speaker 2: because they were losing focus of what God had for
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  Speaker 2: them and their mission because they were murmuring. They were
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  Speaker 2: faith less many times. Or would Paul have this this
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  Speaker 2: prayer of thanks for you and so the action step
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  Speaker 2: really for you and for me is to thank God
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  Speaker 2: today for one area where your faith has grown. Is
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  Speaker 2: it that you have more confidence in God? Is it
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  Speaker 2: that you're not worried about the month being longer than
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  Speaker 2: the money because of furloughs and other things that you're
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  Speaker 2: that are not within your control, or something else? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: lesson number two before I go too far. Paul thanked
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  Speaker 2: God for their love toward all believers. What did Jesus say,
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  Speaker 2: they will know that you are my disciples if you
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  Speaker 2: have what love one for another one toward another Colossian
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  Speaker 2: Chapter one and verse four again, and of the love
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  Speaker 2: which ye have to all saints. So he's thanking God
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  Speaker 2: for the confidence in God, the trust in God that
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  Speaker 2: you're demonstrating, that faith that you're demonstrating. But he also
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  Speaker 2: thanked God for their love self giving love agape, I
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  Speaker 2: love you in spite of what you do, the kind
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  Speaker 2: of godly love that made God say for God's soul
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  Speaker 2: love the world, that he gave all of heaven in
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  Speaker 2: one gift, that he gave his only begotten son, that
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  Speaker 2: whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 2: God didn't send his son into the world to condemn
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  Speaker 2: the world, but that the world through him might be saved.
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  Speaker 2: And so people are still condemning one another. Even within
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  Speaker 2: the faith fellowship. Sometimes people are condemning themselves. I am
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  Speaker 2: a coach of multiple let's call it platforms, but one
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  Speaker 2: of the paradigms that I learned talks about how in
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  Speaker 2: our in our mindset, like we have a judge, and
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  Speaker 2: that judge is always trying to separate us from the
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  Speaker 2: reality of God, and God is saying no. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to love despite what you do, what people do,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to love yourself as God would
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  Speaker 2: love you. Make it a great day.
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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,