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03 20 2026 Living With Each Other · 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.
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  Speaker 3: It is Friday, March twenty twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 3: where we give you God's word every single day and
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  Speaker 3: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 3: study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 3: and our caption for today is living with each other,
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  Speaker 3: Living with each other. Before we get into that, I
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  Speaker 3: would like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 3: those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking
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  Speaker 3: not know that on Friday evenings at seven pm, we
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  Speaker 3: have a musical Bible class going through the lesson using
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  Speaker 3: eight songs that I produce specifically for that time that
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  Speaker 3: help to solidify what we have been learning. So please
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  Speaker 3: come through tonight on the YouTube channel exclusively at your
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  Speaker 3: Daily Portion site. Okay, let's go ahead and pray. Father,
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  Speaker 3: we thank you for this day of preparation and for
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  Speaker 3: the privilege of being able to live together throughout eternity.
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  Speaker 3: Help us to get a good head start. Now in
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  Speaker 3: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a men again. So
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  Speaker 3: we're going to just go ahead and jump in with
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  Speaker 3: two feet. I know that there are people who are
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  Speaker 3: among my faith community who will be in church services
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow and going through the lesson, who often just skip
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  Speaker 3: over Fridays like we need to revive the Fridays. This
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  Speaker 3: is not just bonus stuff. And maybe the church could
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  Speaker 3: do better by giving a title. I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: would cause people to actually use what we get on Fridays,
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  Speaker 3: but here we're gonna go ahead and use it, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And so the first thing we're gonna do is read
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  Speaker 3: from Read from the book The Adventist Home, pages one
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  Speaker 3: seventy nine and one one seventy nine and one at
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  Speaker 3: from Adventist Home, and it reads every member of the
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  Speaker 3: family should realize that a responsibility rests upon them individually.
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  Speaker 3: All should unitedly engage in the good work of encouraging
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  Speaker 3: one another. One of the things that I pray about
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  Speaker 3: and say thank God to about every day when Josiah,
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  Speaker 3: Simona and I pray together, is that we have a
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  Speaker 3: built in We have a built in community, like we
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  Speaker 3: have a built in support group. We don't have to
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  Speaker 3: worry about what's going on out in the world. We
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  Speaker 3: don't have to worry about if there is anything going
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  Speaker 3: on in the extended family. We can be safe in
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  Speaker 3: our tight knit group. And every other positive experience is
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  Speaker 3: a bonus, okay. So I want you to protect whatever
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  Speaker 3: you have at home. If you do have a family
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  Speaker 3: at home. And then if that's not the case, then
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  Speaker 3: the next plausible family would be your friendship core if
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  Speaker 3: you have fellowship with them, and then the next group
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  Speaker 3: would be likely the faith community that you are attached to.
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  Speaker 3: You don't need thousands of people or hundreds of people,
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  Speaker 3: just a few very good friends and companions who also
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  Speaker 3: love God and love to you. Okay, So let's go
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  Speaker 3: ahead and begin with Colossians, chapter three and verse seventeen
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  Speaker 3: with our lesson number one. Christian faith is lived first
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  Speaker 3: at home. Christian faith is first lived at home, and
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  Speaker 3: the Bible reads and whatsoever ye do in word, or indeed,
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  Speaker 3: do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 3: giving thanks to God and the Father by him. And
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  Speaker 3: so Paul's instruction to live in Christ applies most immediately
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  Speaker 3: in the home circle. Faith that cannot be practiced in
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  Speaker 3: close relationships is not mature. The family becomes the proving
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  Speaker 3: ground of patience, humility, and service. And I used to
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  Speaker 3: say to my wife alone when we first got married,
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  Speaker 3: and I would, you know, ascend a pulpit or some platform,
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  Speaker 3: and then somebody would say something positive during the introduction,
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  Speaker 3: you know, twenty some years ago, like you know, and
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  Speaker 3: and it's almost like ladies and gentlemen, whoever it is,
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  Speaker 3: El David Harris. And then people would either applaud or
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  Speaker 3: say amen, or you could see that there was some
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  Speaker 3: welcome coming and now it's my time to ascend the pulpit, podium, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: And after a while, I started to hear in my
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  Speaker 3: mind the times that it happened with my dad, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, wait a minute, so this sounds
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  Speaker 3: just like it was when I was young. And I
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  Speaker 3: also remember that our relationship wasn't so great. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not just bringing up negative stuff. It's what it is. Like,
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  Speaker 3: that's just the way it is. That's a part of
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  Speaker 3: my history. So leave that right there. And so I
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  Speaker 3: asked my simone, when when they make the announcement of
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  Speaker 3: this wonderful dude that's supposed to go up there and
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  Speaker 3: talk to them or whatever I was supposed to do,
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  Speaker 3: does that guy live in your house? That's the question?
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  Speaker 3: Does that brother live in your house? Because I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 3: like when I was young, I'm like, man, I wish
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  Speaker 3: the dude that they announced.
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  Speaker 2: That's about to go up Pastor L. F. Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I wish that that dude the way they described him
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  Speaker 3: lived in my house on a daily basis. And listen,
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  Speaker 3: no shade, I'm just telling you as a young child
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  Speaker 3: what I wished. And now that we have Josiah, same question, like,
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  Speaker 3: is that dude the same guy that lives in your house?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, thank God. I shouldn't say, of course, but
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  Speaker 3: I will say, thank God. Yes, the two people are
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  Speaker 3: the same. And I'm grateful because and it's the same
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  Speaker 3: with Josiah saying with Simone, they are the ones people
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  Speaker 3: think outside, they're the ones that live with me because
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  Speaker 3: happy the home where God is there. We really believe that.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I use that song as sort of a
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  Speaker 3: ballad at Simone in my wedding as we were about
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  Speaker 3: to get married. Okay, and so and so the family
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  Speaker 3: becomes the proving ground of patience, humility and service. That
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  Speaker 3: means now we can go out into the world and
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  Speaker 3: be a witness to people because we are in our
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  Speaker 3: home what God would have us to be. Okay, and
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  Speaker 3: so I want you to identify one responsibility at home
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  Speaker 3: that you can carry more faithfully in the coming week
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  Speaker 3: without being asked. And yes, I know I'm speaking to
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  Speaker 3: grown folks. I know that the majority of you are
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  Speaker 3: above us certain age. I'll just keep it like that.
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  Speaker 3: Seventy four percent of you are above a certain age,
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  Speaker 3: and you have had your children, your grandchildren, and some
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  Speaker 3: of you even your great grandchildren. But wherever you happen
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  Speaker 3: to be at home, if there is anybody there with you,
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  Speaker 3: then what is it that you can be helpful with?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm saying it not in a way where you
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  Speaker 3: become overbearing or you are trying to invent things to
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  Speaker 3: be helpful, because a lot of times when people are
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  Speaker 3: inventing things to be helpful, it's just to sort of
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  Speaker 3: fill in a gap in your own emotion so you
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  Speaker 3: can feel like you're wanted. And that's not the same
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  Speaker 3: as actually helping. So help in the ways that are helpful.
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  Speaker 3: And don't force yourself upon people, because that's another discussion,
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  Speaker 3: like am I forcing myself upon people? If I am,
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  Speaker 3: then that's not a healthy relationship, okay. And so unity,
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  Speaker 3: our second lesson requires shared responsibility. Here's a passage an Ecclesiastes,
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  Speaker 3: chapter four and verse nine. Two are better than one
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  Speaker 3: because they have a good reward for their labor. Let
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  Speaker 3: me read it in another version. Two people are better
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  Speaker 3: than one because they can reap more benefit from their labor.
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  Speaker 3: Are you a part of a community outside of your home?
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  Speaker 3: I did give you a few examples where you can
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  Speaker 3: pull together, just like ET always talks about the African
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  Speaker 3: wild dogs and shout to TJ as well. And if
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  Speaker 3: we are pulling together, and that means we eat together,
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  Speaker 3: we thrive together. Everybody wins together. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 3: 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 L. David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,