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12 29 2025 Paul in Chains · 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: 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, December
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, twenty twenty five. 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: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: the Philippians and Colossians. That's a mouthful. But before we
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: grow in our faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this morning, Thank you for this workday.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to work as unto the Lord. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to be bound to you and free in all
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  Speaker 2: other ways. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a
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  Speaker 2: man again. Our caption is Paul in chains. Paul in chains. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let's go down to a quote. Well, you don't
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  Speaker 2: know it's down, but that's where it is in my
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  Speaker 2: notes here in the book Desire of Ages, page six
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  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy one. The Holy Spirit makes effectual what
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  Speaker 2: has been wrought by the world's redeemer. So what Jesus lived,
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus taught, the Holy Spirit makes effective in the
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  Speaker 2: lives of God's people. How Jesus lived, what he taught,
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit makes to live and be effective in
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  Speaker 2: the heart and minds of God's people. This is the
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  Speaker 2: only reason Paul had this way of thinking, because the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit was bringing what Jesus said. He said, he
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  Speaker 2: will teach you whatsoever I have commanded you, and I
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  Speaker 2: will be with you alway, even unto the end of
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  Speaker 2: the earth of the world. So through the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: the agency of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ is present
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  Speaker 2: and available in the life of Paul, and that must
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  Speaker 2: be our reality. Thank God, it's available. It is that
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  Speaker 2: reality is available. God is still available in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: five going into twenty twenty six, for everybody who is
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  Speaker 2: yielding our will to him and thus our lesson. Number
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  Speaker 2: one for today is Paul endured trials because Christ's power
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  Speaker 2: sustained him. Maybe I could skip the word power because
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  Speaker 2: Christ sustained him in Tewo Corinthians, Chapter four and verse seven.
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  Speaker 2: Let me just say it, but we have this treasure
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  Speaker 2: in Earthen vessels. I read it in another translation in
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  Speaker 2: a second that the excellency of the power may be
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  Speaker 2: of God and not of us. I read it the
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  Speaker 2: other day. Let me read it from New English translation.
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  Speaker 2: But we have this treasure. What treasure? The treasure of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the treasure of all that He has done, the birth,
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  Speaker 2: the life, the death, the burial, the resurrection, and the
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  Speaker 2: ministry of Jesus Christ. Until one day he comes, and
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  Speaker 2: we see him seated upon the throne as King of
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  Speaker 2: kings and Lord of lords. We see this in reality.
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  Speaker 2: We have this treasure in clay jars, so that the
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  Speaker 2: extraordinary power that belongs to God does it belongs to
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  Speaker 2: God and not from us. So God is manifesting this
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  Speaker 2: thing down on planet Earth. And we know, now, wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, it must be a miracle, it must be
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  Speaker 2: the power of God. In fact, the word power in
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  Speaker 2: this case, this case, in this particular text, dunamis. It
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  Speaker 2: means power and divine ability. Dunamis power and divine ability.
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  Speaker 2: And somebody's already saying, wait a minute, that sounds like
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  Speaker 2: exactly exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. The power that God gives
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  Speaker 2: us is explosive. His message goes into all the world boom.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody who is in your sphere of influence now has
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of experiencing God. Why because God is living
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  Speaker 2: in you. Christ is in you the hope of glory.
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  Speaker 2: And so your action step is ask God for strength
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  Speaker 2: in one area where you are feeling pressured. I said,
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  Speaker 2: feeling pressured, Talk to God about it. God, can you
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  Speaker 2: give me the strength in this one key area I'm
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  Speaker 2: feeling anxiety. I'm feeling pressured and trust that God will
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  Speaker 2: do it. Listen. Number two, Paul focused on revealing Christ's
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  Speaker 2: life through his own suffering. Yeah, He's like, okay, since
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  Speaker 2: I'm going through this as like I say e t
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  Speaker 2: Eric Thomas often says, don't let a good crisis go
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  Speaker 2: to waste, and Paul is living that reality. He's just like, yo,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going through all of this. I'm going through this suffering.
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  Speaker 2: Let's use it as a teaching tool. Let's use it
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  Speaker 2: as use my situation as a case study for the
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  Speaker 2: fact that God never leaves us, neither does he forsake us.
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  Speaker 2: And so in tewod Corinthians chapter four, beginning at verse ten,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads always bearing about in the body the
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  Speaker 2: dying of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the life also
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  Speaker 2: of Christ might be made manifest in our body, for
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  Speaker 2: we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus's sake,
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  Speaker 2: and that the life also of Christ might be made manifest.
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  Speaker 2: Can I say it another way, always carrying around in
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  Speaker 2: our body the death of Jesus Christ, so that the
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  Speaker 2: life of Christ may also be made visible in our body.
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  Speaker 2: We go through persecutions, we have to die to ourselves daily.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that we will have trials and tribulations.
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  Speaker 2: But I promise you that if the Holy Ghost is
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  Speaker 2: with us, and we are not just bringing these trials
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  Speaker 2: upon ourselves and pumping our chests, beating our chest making
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  Speaker 2: it seem as if we're holy because of what we're
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  Speaker 2: going through, but we are indeed and in fact yielded
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  Speaker 2: to Christ, then also the life of Christ will be
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  Speaker 2: manifest in us where we revealed in us going into
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  Speaker 2: verse eleven New English translation for we who are alive
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  Speaker 2: are constantly being handed over to death for Christ's sake,
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  Speaker 2: so that the life of Christ may also be made
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  Speaker 2: visible in our mortal body. Visible it means to reveal.
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  Speaker 2: God wants to make you a revelation of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I'm clapping. I said, God wants you to be a
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  Speaker 2: revelation of Jesus Christ. You thought it was a book
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible. He wants you to be the manifestation
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, let your light so shine before men
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  Speaker 2: that when they see your good works, they will glorify
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  Speaker 2: your Father, which is in heaven. He said that you
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  Speaker 2: are the sanctuary, the temple of the Holy Ghost. Who
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  Speaker 2: was in you what you didn't know that you were
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  Speaker 2: bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body,
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  Speaker 2: which are which is the Lord's and so he wants
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  Speaker 2: you to be the revelation of Jesus Christ. Please choose
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  Speaker 2: one response today that means something is happening and you
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  Speaker 2: need to respond to it, that will clearly reflect Christ's character.
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  Speaker 2: Is it road rage? Is it traffic? Is it that
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  Speaker 2: person who is supposed to be checking you out in
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  Speaker 2: the supermarket and he or she has an attitude problem,
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  Speaker 2: and you want to give that person a piece of
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  Speaker 2: your mind, Well, give them a piece of the gospel,
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  Speaker 2: Like show them what it's like to be connected with
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  Speaker 2: God God, so that these earthly things do not get
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  Speaker 2: us off of our spiritual mark or square lesson number
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  Speaker 2: three and final, as we come to a swift close, Paul,
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  Speaker 2: use spiritual resources to face hardship with integrity. In Two Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter six, verses six and seven, it says, by pureness,
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  Speaker 2: by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 2: by love unfeigned, by the Word of truth, by the
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  Speaker 2: power of God. This is the kind of resource that
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  Speaker 2: God has given to all of his people. The truth.
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  Speaker 2: Open your Bible and read a passage that strengthens your
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  Speaker 2: courage and ask God to apply it in your life. Peace.
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  Speaker 2: See you tomorrow.
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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,