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03 11 2026 Character of the New Life · 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 2: 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 Wednesday, March eleven,
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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 character of the New Life,
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  Speaker 2: Character of the New Life. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: daily portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new day
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  Speaker 2: and bringing us to the middle of the week. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you to please give us your understanding, help
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  Speaker 2: us to have the new life perspective, live like people
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  Speaker 2: who have a new life in you. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and a man again. Character of the
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  Speaker 2: new life. What does the new life look like? That's
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  Speaker 2: the question, that is the overarching question. What does the
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  Speaker 2: new life look like? Okay, well, let's see. Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. I think the Bible says that those who
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  Speaker 2: are in Christ become new creatures, all things passed away,
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  Speaker 2: all things become new. But let me read from the
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  Speaker 2: book The Ministry of Healing, page four hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 2: to get our discussions started here. No other influence that
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  Speaker 2: can surround the human soul has such power as the
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  Speaker 2: influence of an unselfish life. An unselfish life. So now
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  Speaker 2: we know that part of what this new life looks
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  Speaker 2: like is unselfishness. Let me just say that my wife
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  Speaker 2: is unselfish, Simon. She's unselfish. So it was a few
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  Speaker 2: months ago where she needed to go on a trip
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  Speaker 2: to the United States to funeralize her grandmother and on
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  Speaker 2: the particular carrier. I won't talk about who it is
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  Speaker 2: because then it will get me a little bit upset
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  Speaker 2: because I'm like, why do they do things this way?
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  Speaker 2: But on the particular carrier? Okay, so you buy your ticket,
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  Speaker 2: but then it's like, oh, but if you want to
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  Speaker 2: be able to choose your seat, then you have to
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  Speaker 2: go and select the seat on each leg of the flight,
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  Speaker 2: and not all of the seats cost the same. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about first class, I'm just talking about other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know what, I normally fly Delta Airlines,
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  Speaker 2: but this was another carrier, and I'm like, what in
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  Speaker 2: the world. So I chose a seat, a specific seat
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  Speaker 2: for her on each leg of the flight, and I
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  Speaker 2: had to pay for those seats separately, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what kind of what is this discharge? What you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to charge? Anyway, there was someone who needed because of
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  Speaker 2: his height the seat that she was in. She was concerned,
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  Speaker 2: and she switched seats with him. And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I gave I paid for that seat that
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  Speaker 2: I paid a different fare for that seat that you
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  Speaker 2: were in. But still she was so kind, whether she
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  Speaker 2: understood the details or not. Well, he's tall, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: as tall. It's just a shift of one seat, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give it away. Well I'm like, wow,
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  Speaker 2: Like that's unselfish, that is that is something that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people wouldn't have done. You know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: simple thing. But I promise you, even driving on the
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  Speaker 2: road these days, people not allowing one another to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get get into traffic is a thing much less to
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  Speaker 2: give up a seat so someone could be seated more comfortably.
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  Speaker 2: And so the strongest argument in favor of the Gospel
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  Speaker 2: is a loving and lovable Christian. Of course, I gave
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  Speaker 2: you a very a simple experience. But now I want
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  Speaker 2: you to think about some ways that you can be
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  Speaker 2: kind to other people. Okay, And so our first lesson today,
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  Speaker 2: our first lesson today is coming in from Colossians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: three and verse twelve. The Bible reads put on therefore,
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  Speaker 2: as the elect of God, holy and beloved bowels of
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  Speaker 2: mercy or a heart of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
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  Speaker 2: and long suffering. I'll read it in another way, Holy
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  Speaker 2: and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's one way that the character of the New life
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  Speaker 2: looks kindness. That's another way that the New life looks humility, gentleness,
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  Speaker 2: and patience. And so Paul doesn't begin with commands. He
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  Speaker 2: begins with identity. Who am I? I am kind, I
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  Speaker 2: am humble, I am merciful, I am gentle, I am patient.
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  Speaker 2: I do love like you see where I'm going with this?
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  Speaker 2: And so believers are already described as chosen, holy, and loved.
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  Speaker 2: The call to put on christ like character flows from
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  Speaker 2: who we already are in Christ, and not from an
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  Speaker 2: effort to earn acceptance. This is a repeating theme. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so and so before correcting your behavior today, I
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  Speaker 2: want you to remind yourself allowed who you are in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: You are chosen, I'm chosen. You can say that now.
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  Speaker 2: I am chosen in Christ, I am holy in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and I am loved because of Christ. Yes, well, I
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't say because of Christ. I am loved in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so the elect that is who God's people are.
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  Speaker 2: That's in the text. That means that we are chosen
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  Speaker 2: for a purpose selected by God's initiative. And since that's
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  Speaker 2: the case, then all of these outgrowths come or devolve
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  Speaker 2: upon the humans who are elect chosen for a purpose
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  Speaker 2: selected by God's initiative. That means I'm holy. That means
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  Speaker 2: I am chosen. That means I am loved. That means
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind, humble, I'm meek and long suffering, are patient.
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  Speaker 2: So identity comes before behavior. Our next lesson is christ
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  Speaker 2: like character is relational, like you know, between humans or
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  Speaker 2: between us and God, whichever way you want to cut it,
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  Speaker 2: not in abstract, not in a vacuum. So in Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse thirteen, the Bible reads for bearing
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  Speaker 2: one another and forgiving one another. If any man have
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  Speaker 2: a quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you, so
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  Speaker 2: also do ye? Now listen. I was reading on the
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  Speaker 2: internet some years ago where a brother, a friend of mine, typed,
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  Speaker 2: what would you do if your wife? No? Would you
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  Speaker 2: divorce your wife if she cheated on you? Would you
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  Speaker 2: divorce your wife if she cheated on you? And you
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  Speaker 2: can imagine what the comments all were saying, you know,
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  Speaker 2: majority of them was saying. And I typed, when you say,
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  Speaker 2: quote your wife, what are you talking about? What are
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  Speaker 2: you talking about? Like, are you talking about my actual
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  Speaker 2: wife or my theoretical wife based on the question, like
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  Speaker 2: the woman that doesn't really exist, like just conceptually, like
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  Speaker 2: your wife, or the one that I know, like Simone
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  Speaker 2: that I married after eleven years of good friendship, You
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  Speaker 2: talking to about that wife or the theoretical wife. The
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  Speaker 2: theoretical wife doesn't even matter. We can talk about this
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  Speaker 2: philosophically all we want, but if you're talking about the
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  Speaker 2: one and I don't remember how how long we were
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  Speaker 2: married at the time, it was only a couple of
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  Speaker 2: years ago. So we're almost we're going on twenty five
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  Speaker 2: years now, so that means twenty five plus eleven. We
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  Speaker 2: met in university, we were good friends there, and then
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  Speaker 2: way later we got married, So we're talking about thirty
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  Speaker 2: six years of friendship hmm and twenty five of love.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, ah, I'm not putting my wife away for
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  Speaker 2: any reason because I love her. And so the kind
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  Speaker 2: of character from the New Life says that I love
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  Speaker 2: Simon so much that I'm gonna stay with her no
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  Speaker 2: matter what.
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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,