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03 09 2026 End Earthliness · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, 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 Monday, March nine,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle 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 and Earthly net. Yes, what,
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  Speaker 2: that's where I come from. I come from planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where you come from. Well maybe I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know end Earthliness. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for those who are you know, consistent viewers and listeners.
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  Speaker 2: Without you, this just wouldn't make sense. And for those
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  Speaker 2: who are coming in for the first time, I am
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  Speaker 2: so glad you're here. We're going to be here if
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  Speaker 2: the Lord spears life tomorrow as well. Please, please, if
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's pray and get underway. Father, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Thank you for this day. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us something to look forward to. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: how it is down here anymore.
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  Speaker 1: God.
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  Speaker 2: I know that you have given us so many blessings,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm tired of the way it is down here.
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  Speaker 2: So please, will you give us heaven soon and then
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  Speaker 2: we can have the New Earth. In Jesus' name, I
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  Speaker 2: pray Amen and Amen again, And so Lord Jesus quickly come.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of things the way they are. If you're
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  Speaker 2: tired of planet Earth the way that it is. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care how beautiful the country is, where you live,
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  Speaker 2: the home you live in, what your bank account looks like.
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  Speaker 2: There's always something that just really just really makes certain
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  Speaker 2: things unpleasant. I don't know if it's it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to go down the list. You know
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  Speaker 2: what it is. And so I'm really looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: the day that we can end this situation down here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen anybody with a placard or a picket
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  Speaker 2: sign that said end earthliness. That's what I'm looking forward to,
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  Speaker 2: ending earthliness. And so I'm going to begin I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to begin by reading reading a quick quote. True victory
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  Speaker 2: over sin comes only as the believer yields fully to
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  Speaker 2: Christ's in dwelling life, not by human resolve. I can't
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  Speaker 2: quite put my finger on exactly where this one is from,
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  Speaker 2: but E. J. Wagner is purported to have said this
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  Speaker 2: one more time. True victory over sin comes only as
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  Speaker 2: the believer yields fully to Christ's indwelling life, not by
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  Speaker 2: human resolve. Oh, this is good. So we're not talking
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  Speaker 2: about willpower here, brothers and sisters. Hopefully that'll take some
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  Speaker 2: of the pressure off of you. Mm hm. In Colassan,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse five, we read, so mortify or
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  Speaker 2: put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth.
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  Speaker 2: This is good. Put to death whatever in your nature
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  Speaker 2: belongs to earth. Is it your temper? Put that to
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  Speaker 2: death that belongs to the earth. Oh, my goodness, is
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  Speaker 2: it anxiety? Put that to death that belongs to this earth?
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  Speaker 2: Oh worry? Put that to death that belongs to this earth?
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  Speaker 2: Are you getting it? Okay? Okay? Oh and here's a
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  Speaker 2: list that the Bible writer gave us. Sexual immorality, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: put that to death that belongs to earth. Impurity, shameful passion, evil, desire,
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  Speaker 2: and greed, which is idolatry. Put all of that stuff
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  Speaker 2: to death. So earthliness is ended by death, not by management.
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  Speaker 2: What does management look like? Management means trying to wean
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  Speaker 2: yourself off of pornography. You're not gonna do it that way.
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  Speaker 2: That's not what God wants. Trying to wean myself off
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  Speaker 2: of saying bad words. That is not how this thing works.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to wean myself off of road rage. That's not
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  Speaker 2: about the work. Pride not going to work. God is
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  Speaker 2: saying mortify those, put those to death by surrendering them
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  Speaker 2: to God. So Paul doesn't call us to manage our
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  Speaker 2: sinful impulses or negotiate with them. He calls for death.
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  Speaker 2: Earthliness is not restrained through willpower, but ended through union
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  Speaker 2: with Christ's death. Because believers have already died with Christ,
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  Speaker 2: they are now empowered to put earthly practices to death
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  Speaker 2: in lived experience. I know, take a deep breath, I said,
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  Speaker 2: a mouthful. So please, would you identify one specific earthly
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  Speaker 2: pattern you have tried to manage some examples in the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: rather than putting to death and surrender it fully to
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  Speaker 2: Christ today. M that's it. Yeah, lesson number two. It's sobering.
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  Speaker 2: I know resurrection power makes mortification possible. Putting these things
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  Speaker 2: to death? Are its possible? Because Jesus, when he took
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  Speaker 2: his life back up again, he had the keys to
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  Speaker 2: hell death in the grave in his hands. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads in Romans chapter six and verse six. Knowing this,
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  Speaker 2: we know that our old man was crucified with him,
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  Speaker 2: so that the body of sin, which no longer would
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, no longer dominate us, so that we would
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  Speaker 2: no longer be enslaved to sin. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: be a slave no more. A slave. You should be
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  Speaker 2: excited about this. You don't have to be bound to
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  Speaker 2: the liquor bottle anymore. You don't have to be bound
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  Speaker 2: to anxiety or spiritual pride anymore. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: be bound to abusing your spouse anymore. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to be bound to those entertainment patterns that you know
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  Speaker 2: God is not pleased with anymore, because you have a
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  Speaker 2: new life in Christ. And so the insight is to
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  Speaker 2: command to mortify earthly desires is rooted the command to
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  Speaker 2: mortify earthly desires is rooted in a completed spiritual reality.
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  Speaker 2: Believers don't fight sin to gain life. You see how
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  Speaker 2: that's backwards. Yeah, Christ came to give us life, and
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  Speaker 2: that life more abundantly. That's the gift that he came
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  Speaker 2: to give. We don't have to earn. We can't earn it.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to try to earn it. We don't
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  Speaker 2: fight for it. That's not how it's attained. We receive
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  Speaker 2: the life as a free gift and we continue to
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  Speaker 2: cooperate with him. They fight from life already given. Resurrection
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  Speaker 2: power does not remove temptation instantly, but it does remove
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  Speaker 2: sin's authority. Victory flows from identity, that is our identity
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  Speaker 2: with God not trying harder the next time. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: take a deep breath and really think about what we
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  Speaker 2: are saying. Sin has authority over human beings who have
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  Speaker 2: not surrendered our will to God. So that means whenever
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  Speaker 2: sin comes bump bump bump knocking at your door, God forbid.
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  Speaker 2: But whenever that happens, that means you have to answer it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to do the wickedness that is a temptation
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  Speaker 2: to you when you don't have resurrection power working in
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  Speaker 2: your life. And so today the action step for this
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  Speaker 2: one is when temptation arises or comes bump bump knocking
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  Speaker 2: at the door, as I described, a firm allowed that
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  Speaker 2: you are no longer enslaved to sin, but alive with Christ. Lessen.
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  Speaker 2: Number three and final, persistent earthliness invites condemnation? Who persistent
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  Speaker 2: earthliness invites condemnation? May I just say this, simply surrender
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  Speaker 2: your will. I will do the same to God. And
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  Speaker 2: then we don't have to worry about condemnation because there's
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  Speaker 2: no condemnation for those who are in Christ. Jesus 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,