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02 26 2026 Power of the Gospel · 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 Thursday, February
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth Christ in
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  Speaker 2: Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today is Power
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  Speaker 2: of the Gospel, The Power of the Gospel. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, i'd like to say welcome to everyone
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion YouTube channel. All right, let's go ahead and pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day. Thank you for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that you have entrusted to us today to open up
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  Speaker 2: your word. Now, please give us the power of God
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  Speaker 2: unto salvation. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a
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  Speaker 2: man again, Yes, the power of the gospel. The power
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  Speaker 2: of the gospel, Jesus said, they will know that you
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  Speaker 2: are my disciples. The whole world. They'll know that you
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  Speaker 2: are my disciples. If you have love one for another.
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  Speaker 2: That's the power of the gospel. Now, there is so
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  Speaker 2: much more to it, but I wanted to shift it
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  Speaker 2: to brass tax before we begin to drill it more deeply. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so first, first we go to reviewing Herald in
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  Speaker 2: the year eighteen sixty eight, where we read from John
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  Speaker 2: Nevin's Andrews the Gospel demands growth. I love that the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel demands growth. That means that if we stagnate, then
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  Speaker 2: that means that we are not vivified or enlivened by
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We cannot say we are
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  Speaker 2: saved by grace through faith and stagnate at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: Status quo cannot be something we embrace when we accept
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because we should grow in
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  Speaker 2: grace just like Jesus did, and in the knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, and of course respect among our fellow human beings. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So the Gospel, continuing the quote, demands growth. To stand still, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: plot twist is to fall backward. The Gospel demands growth.
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  Speaker 2: To stand still is to fall backward. Now there's one
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  Speaker 2: from the book Christ's object Lessons, page three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirty one. And I will say, just in the odds
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  Speaker 2: at the outset, that spiritual things are spiritually deserned. So
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  Speaker 2: take your time with this one and be prayerful. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Perfection of character m M is attainable to every soul
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  Speaker 2: who strives for it. We're not talking about anybody earning
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  Speaker 2: or attempting to earn anything from God. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: striving unto blood, resisting sin. Now, the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 2: very clearly how we can do this. It teaches us
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  Speaker 2: in James chapter four and verse seven, that we are
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  Speaker 2: to submit ourselves therefore unto God, and then we will
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  Speaker 2: be able to do what resist the devil? And what
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  Speaker 2: will the devil have to do? Then the devil will
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  Speaker 2: have to flee? You understand. And so yeah, let's let
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  Speaker 2: that settle in as we go into our lesson number
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  Speaker 2: one for today from the Bible Book of Colossians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: one and verse twenty eight. Colossians one and verse twenty eight,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads whom we preach, we proclaim him
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  Speaker 2: by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible teaches us that Jesus Christ is our wisdom in
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  Speaker 2: one Corinthians chapter one, Versus thirty and thirty one, and
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  Speaker 2: Proverbs chapter eight and other places. So we proclaim Him
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  Speaker 2: by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom, so
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  Speaker 2: that we may present every person much sure in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know what the word perfection actually means. When
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about Christ and his people Covered in the
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  Speaker 2: righteousness of Christ, then we become complete and mature. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson is the Gospel's aim is Christ
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  Speaker 2: like much surety in every believer. So Paul repeats every
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  Speaker 2: person or every man three times to remove all exceptions.
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  Speaker 2: That means you, anybody listening in one of the any
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  Speaker 2: one of the two hundred radio stations, any one of
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  Speaker 2: those devices. I don't know what you're on. Are you
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  Speaker 2: on an Amazon device or some other device. You're on
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  Speaker 2: satellite radio, you are on YouTube, Facebook, and all of
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  Speaker 2: those podcasts aggregators. This means you, brothers and sisters in
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  Speaker 2: that one television station. This means you. This means you,
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  Speaker 2: every person three times to remove all exceptions. The Gospel
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  Speaker 2: is not selective. It is not for elites. It is
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  Speaker 2: not just for leaders, nor is it for the spiritually
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  Speaker 2: gifted so called only. God's redemptive goal includes every believer
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  Speaker 2: bar none, and so and so the word for perfect
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  Speaker 2: means complete mature, fully developed. Biblical maturity does not mean
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  Speaker 2: sinless performance. This is where everybody who has a problem,
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  Speaker 2: like the people who used to argue about this in
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  Speaker 2: the eighteen eighties within my faith community, that's where they
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  Speaker 2: started to itch it developed in them an allergic response
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  Speaker 2: because they couldn't figure out, well, how in the world
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  Speaker 2: are we gonna become perfect? Well, Jesus said it, like
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  Speaker 2: be he perfect, for I the Lord thy God, am
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  Speaker 2: perfect like you understand. So that's God's business, not yours.
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  Speaker 2: Biblical maturity does not mean sinless performance. It means completeness
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  Speaker 2: in Christ. A believer grounded in the Gospel, a life
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  Speaker 2: shaped by the truth, a character growing. Now we get it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what sanctification is about. Being set aside for a
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  Speaker 2: holy use and set upon a growth trajectory, a growth
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  Speaker 2: path in the paths of righteousness, a character growing into
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  Speaker 2: Christ's likeness. And so the action step is to measure
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  Speaker 2: spiritual growth by faithfulness and transformation and not comparison. We
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  Speaker 2: don't have a checklist to say, okay, well, okay, so
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  Speaker 2: Simona and I are married. So if I do this
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  Speaker 2: and then she does that, let me carry the one.
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  Speaker 2: What's the weighted score. What's the score for this one?
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  Speaker 2: All right? So that means that she's holier than me,
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  Speaker 2: be holier than I am, because that one has a
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  Speaker 2: heavier No, no, that's not how it works. Surrender your
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  Speaker 2: will to Christ. If you surrender your will to Christ
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  Speaker 2: and you are covered in Christ's righteousness, then you are
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  Speaker 2: in the growth path, in the paths of righteousness. Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number two coming in from Hebrews chapter four and verse twelve,
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  Speaker 2: where we read the Word of God is quick and powerful,
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  Speaker 2: meaning living and active, and is the discerner of the
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  Speaker 2: thoughts and intents of the heart. It judges the desires
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  Speaker 2: and thoughts of the heart. And so maturity comes when
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures shape our beliefs and exposes the error in
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  Speaker 2: our lives, our mindset, the way we live, the way
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  Speaker 2: we interact with humans, other humans, and God, and it
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  Speaker 2: corrects our direction. Growth without discernment leads to deception. So
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  Speaker 2: can we just submit that? That's kind of the action
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  Speaker 2: step submit to God every time he reveals something to you. Peace.
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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,