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01 17 2026 Unity Through Humility · 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 Sabbath, January seventeen,
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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. This is lesson number four in the series
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  Speaker 2: Uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is Unity through Humility, Unity through Humility.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this Sabbath morning, and I pray
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  Speaker 2: that you will give us a unified mind, help us
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  Speaker 2: to be unified with you and then have fellowship with
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  Speaker 2: your people. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen
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  Speaker 2: again unity through humility. Well, I want you to type
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  Speaker 2: in the chat what does humility mean to you? What
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  Speaker 2: does humility mean to you? Is it something positive? I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about how you feel about it, how you see it?
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  Speaker 2: Are something other than positive? Is it negative? Is it
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  Speaker 2: something like when I was growing up in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: humility and being passive or whatever word you would use,
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  Speaker 2: were seen as weakness. What is humility to you? Now?
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  Speaker 2: For God's people, humility is a pathway of success because
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  Speaker 2: when we are proud, when we are in a position
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  Speaker 2: where we quote know everything, or we're trying to manage
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  Speaker 2: and do everything in our own strength or own mindset,
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  Speaker 2: then God is not in position to help us. He's
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  Speaker 2: not in position to give us the things that we
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  Speaker 2: need because we think we have it all covered already, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so unity in or through humility. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and begin with a quote from Jan Laffenborough Loftborough Part
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  Speaker 2: of Me from eighteen seventy five, a Reviewing Herald article.
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  Speaker 2: Where humility is cherished, unity thrives, for no one seeks
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  Speaker 2: a higher place, but each seeks a deeper likeness to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: You see the crabs in a barrel. Mentality is antithetical
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  Speaker 2: to the connection with God that He wants for us.
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  Speaker 2: You see, when you have people that are all on
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  Speaker 2: the same team, God has given us all the same
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  Speaker 2: great commission to go ye into all the world, teach, preach, baptized,
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  Speaker 2: to represent Christ, so that others can be like him too,
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  Speaker 2: can be transformed and be and be in eternity with God.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But when pride gets in, then the power of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost is not available to us. And without the
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  Speaker 2: Holy ghosts, we can't accomplish the goals the will that
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  Speaker 2: God has positioned for us in these last days. You
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  Speaker 2: see where I'm going with this. Let me read, Let
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  Speaker 2: me read from a quote in the Patriarchs and Prophets. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a quote, but it's a thought based on
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  Speaker 2: the quote in chapter one. This is what I'm getting
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  Speaker 2: from it. The origin of disunity is found in pride
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  Speaker 2: and self exaltation of one who once stood in the
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  Speaker 2: presence of God. So where did pride come from? Where
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  Speaker 2: did the where did humility go down the tubes? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: With Lucifer in his heart, Christ's humility alone can restore
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  Speaker 2: unity in his people. Okay, And so our lesson number
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  Speaker 2: one comes in from Jeremiah chapter seventeen and verse nine.
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  Speaker 2: And really, God wants us to tell the truth about ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Tell the truth about ourselves. The heart is deceitful above
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  Speaker 2: all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? So
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  Speaker 2: we are naturally on our own. If left to our
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  Speaker 2: own devices, we are deceitful and crooked and unreliable. That is,
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  Speaker 2: that is the natural reality. But true unit requires us
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  Speaker 2: not to simply identify that reality. I think Christian he
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  Speaker 2: speaking people are very good at identifying problems. But what
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  Speaker 2: we need now is for God to transform us. So
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  Speaker 2: if our problem is that we are desperately wicked, our
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  Speaker 2: minds are deceitful above all things, then we surrender our
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  Speaker 2: mind and will to God so he can transform us
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  Speaker 2: so we're not in that same regard anymore. So true
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  Speaker 2: unity requires humility, because pride is the root of all disunity.
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  Speaker 2: So ask the Holy Ghost this Sabbath morning, God, reveal
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  Speaker 2: one area where pride is hindering my unity in the
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  Speaker 2: kinds of relationships that you want me to have. God,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm supposed to be unified in that faith fellowship
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  Speaker 2: that I am to attend in a couple of hours
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  Speaker 2: from now, then please show me where my pride is
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  Speaker 2: hindering the process. If we are to reach people outside
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  Speaker 2: of the wall that facility we call church, I said facility.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time that we call the
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  Speaker 2: church so that people can be the church. Like, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the way, show me in what way I
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  Speaker 2: am in the way, Show me in what way I'm
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  Speaker 2: not yielding my will to you. Show me in what
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  Speaker 2: way I need to be marching in lockstep with other
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  Speaker 2: people who are serving you so that your name can
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  Speaker 2: be glorified. So ask God to reveal one area where
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  Speaker 2: pride is hindering unity in your relationships, especially inside the
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  Speaker 2: faith fellowship. Our second lesson is unity grows when believers
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  Speaker 2: think like Christ through his spirit guided thoughts. Remember, let
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  Speaker 2: this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Remember in Philippians chapter four and verse eight that God
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  Speaker 2: gives us lift of a list of things. Whatsoever things
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  Speaker 2: are just and honest and kind, and of good report,
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  Speaker 2: if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,
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  Speaker 2: think on these things. So our minds need to be
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  Speaker 2: yielded to God. We need to yield ourselves to God
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  Speaker 2: so that his mindset will being superimposed upon our mindset,
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll walk away from the sinful mindset. You see,
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Testament, God promised that he would he
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  Speaker 2: would do a surgery of sorts, a spiritual surgery, a
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  Speaker 2: transformative procedure, where he said he would take out from
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  Speaker 2: us the heart of stone and put in us a
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  Speaker 2: heart of flesh. That heart of flesh is the one
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  Speaker 2: that is more pliable, the one that is receptive to
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  Speaker 2: the will of God. And so we want to meditate
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  Speaker 2: intentionally on only things that are up in line with
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  Speaker 2: the mindset of God. And so choose one christ like
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  Speaker 2: thought one of the ones in the list in Philippians
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and verse eight, is it of good report?
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  Speaker 2: You want to do that when people are gossiping, is
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  Speaker 2: the good report one the one you want to focus on,
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  Speaker 2: whatever one it is, choose one and then meditate on
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  Speaker 2: it all throughout the day. Sounds simple, doesn't it. It's
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  Speaker 2: because it is, but it's not easy. Human beings are
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  Speaker 2: bent toward destruction, and so what we're doing is saying, God,
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  Speaker 2: I'm yielding my thought process to you, because without you,
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  Speaker 2: I will only go down the path toward destruction. Our
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  Speaker 2: third and final lesson is humility. The humility of Christ
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  Speaker 2: is the anchor and model for all Christian unity. And
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  Speaker 2: I said it already to you, but let me repeat
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  Speaker 2: it now. It's from Philippians, chapter two and verse five,
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  Speaker 2: Let this mind be in you, which was also in
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  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. And then the Bible writer identifies how Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: in his humility, literally gave up his life. Can we
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  Speaker 2: just start with the fact that Jesus, because he is divine,
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  Speaker 2: had to agree to take on a human form in
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  Speaker 2: order to give up his life. Before he could even
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  Speaker 2: give up his life, he had to take on the
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  Speaker 2: life that would feel physical pain, that would experience hunger,
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  Speaker 2: that would need to rest at night, that would need
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  Speaker 2: to rely on God, our Father, through the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 2: like he is the one who created us, and yet
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  Speaker 2: he assumed human flesh so he could humble himself further
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  Speaker 2: and die the death, even the death of the cross.
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  Speaker 2: And so we want the same attitude of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the same mindset practical moral wisdom of Jesus Christ. And
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  Speaker 2: so our action as we close is to emulate Christ
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  Speaker 2: today by choosing one of those humble actions, like I
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  Speaker 2: said a little earlier, in a situation where you could
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  Speaker 2: insist on doing things your own way.
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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,