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01 12 2026 To Die Is Gain · 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 Monday, January twelve,
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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 den 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 to die is gain,
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  Speaker 2: to die is gain. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this new morning and for the work week
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  Speaker 2: that you have helped us to embark upon. Please help
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  Speaker 2: us to serve you with everything that we have, everything
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  Speaker 2: that we are, and to just give it all away.
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  Speaker 2: Give it all to you, and you will use us.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a man Again.
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  Speaker 2: Before we read our Bible passage, let me give you
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  Speaker 2: a couple of quick quotes. As per usual. One is
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  Speaker 2: coming in from the General Conference bulletin in eighteen ninety five,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen ninety five, and this one is by at Jones.
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  Speaker 2: At Jones, victory is found only in the complete surrender
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  Speaker 2: of self to Christ. We could really just end our
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  Speaker 2: program right here. Let me read it one more time.
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  Speaker 2: Victory is found only in the complete surrender of self
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  Speaker 2: to Christ. See Jesus modeled that behavior we read about that.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Friday when we read that. He
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  Speaker 2: right out of the lesson that he made no plans
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  Speaker 2: for himself, but he surrendered his will to the Father.
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  Speaker 2: And allowed him day by day to mark out his path.
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  Speaker 2: And so a lot of times we're looking for victory.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking for success by generating it or strategizing it,
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  Speaker 2: or somehow mapping it out for ourselves and then saying God, now,
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  Speaker 2: could you please bless this and listen? There are some
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  Speaker 2: nuances in what I'm saying that would make that seem logical,
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  Speaker 2: like that actually makes sense. But if you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: be an overcomer, overcoming sin and self, overcoming selfishness, overcoming
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  Speaker 2: the foibles that come with us as a package deal
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  Speaker 2: when we are humans, then that must come from Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: full stop. We cooperate with him. We don't operate without him.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody just got that, all right. And so something else
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  Speaker 2: from Acts of the Apostles, actually some reading in the
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  Speaker 2: Acts of the Apostles, not a direct quote, but submission
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  Speaker 2: to God will. God's will is the only way to
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  Speaker 2: be victorious the warfare in which we find ourselves. Now
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  Speaker 2: let's go back up to our lesson number one. Now
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  Speaker 2: you know how my notes are organized. I have my
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  Speaker 2: quotes at the bottom and my lessons at the top.
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  Speaker 2: So now you know, lesson number one is coming in
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  Speaker 2: from Second Corinthians, chapter ten. Second Corinthians, chapter ten and
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  Speaker 2: verse four, and the Bible reads for the weapons of
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  Speaker 2: our warfare are not carnal or not human weapons, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the ones people go to war with. Okay, now we're clear,
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  Speaker 2: but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
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  Speaker 2: So our instruments of battle must be spiritual. Remember when
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  Speaker 2: we went through that whole quarter on how Joshua led
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  Speaker 2: the people of God by faith through to the promised land.
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  Speaker 2: And there were times that God would say, stand still
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  Speaker 2: and see the salvation of the Lord. There were times
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  Speaker 2: that he would say shout, he would say blow to trumpets.
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  Speaker 2: He would say, do not war like, do not do
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  Speaker 2: the things that make actual sense. It's logical that if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to go and have war, then you should
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  Speaker 2: bring your armaments. And God was saying, no, no. The
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  Speaker 2: only reason I would have them do that. Have you
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  Speaker 2: do that was because you wouldn't cooperate with the miraculous
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  Speaker 2: in this case. And so if you need to know
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  Speaker 2: what the weapons of our warfare that our spiritual are,
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  Speaker 2: then one quick place is to go right to Ephesians
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  Speaker 2: chapter six, where it gives us the mandate to put
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  Speaker 2: on the whole armor of God. Seven implements of war.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to count them when you have an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: I've said this many many times over the years to you,
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  Speaker 2: but I want you to count them from the very
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  Speaker 2: top of the text, straight through until it's over, and
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  Speaker 2: tell me if you found seven. Okay, So please do
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  Speaker 2: that for me, and we'll come back to it at
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  Speaker 2: another point. But the instrument of our battle to pull
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  Speaker 2: down the strongholds in our mindset, in our lives, the
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  Speaker 2: things that cause people to turn away from God must
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  Speaker 2: come from the Holy Ghost. Must come from God himself.
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  Speaker 2: Not brute force of will huh, not will power, not
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  Speaker 2: cessation plans which may have some place in the equation.
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  Speaker 2: But that is only after we have yielded our will
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  Speaker 2: to God and if He gives us that guidance as
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  Speaker 2: our direction. So the action step in this case is, well,
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  Speaker 2: we submit ourselves to God first, as the Bible writer says,
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  Speaker 2: submit yourself therefore unto God, and then resist. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: we submit ourselves to God. We submit ourselves to God
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  Speaker 2: and then resist one negative thought today by responding to
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  Speaker 2: it or reply lacing it with a Bible promise, you're
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  Speaker 2: not good enough. You see, if that thought, that negative thought,
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  Speaker 2: that thing, you're going to fail. Well, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: what I can do all things through Christ, which strengthens me.
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  Speaker 2: So as soon as the mind goes in that wrong direction,
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  Speaker 2: or in that direction that is contrary to what God
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  Speaker 2: has taught us, then we go to the scriptures. I'll
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  Speaker 2: never overcome this temptation. I'll never overcome I keep doing it,
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  Speaker 2: and my parents did it, and their parents before them.
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  Speaker 2: And then you can say, well, there hath no temptation
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  Speaker 2: taken you, but such as is common to man. But
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  Speaker 2: God is faithful, who will with the temptation provide a
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  Speaker 2: way of escape that ye may be able to bear it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not wise enough, I'm dumb. I'm stupid. Sometimes people
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  Speaker 2: say these kinds of things. I'm so stupid. I keep
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  Speaker 2: making that mistake. If any man lacks wisdom, let him
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  Speaker 2: or her ask of God, who will not withhold any thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and so we replace that negative thought today by responding
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  Speaker 2: with a Bible promise. Lesson number two. In the Great
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  Speaker 2: Controversy we talked a lot about that last quarter. Paul's
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  Speaker 2: life was completely surrendered to Christ. As we read in Philippians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one and verse twenty one. For me, to live
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  Speaker 2: is Christ and to die is gained. That means he
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  Speaker 2: sees an advantage, He sees profit and yielding his life
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  Speaker 2: for Christ. I wish I had the time. Let me
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  Speaker 2: go to the action step. Ask God to help you
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  Speaker 2: live one action today that reflects full surrender. You see
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  Speaker 2: Jesus when he was in the garden of Gethsemity. Think
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  Speaker 2: about what Paul said. When Jesus was in the garden
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  Speaker 2: of Gethsemite. He said, if there's another way, please God,
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  Speaker 2: let this cup Father pass from me. Nevertheless, not as
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  Speaker 2: I will, but as thou wilt. Whatever your will is, God,
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  Speaker 2: let me live it out lessen number three and final.
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  Speaker 2: Even death cannot defeat the believer who remains connected to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads in Philippians chapter one and verse twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: But if I live in the flesh, this is the
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  Speaker 2: fruit of my labor. Or now, if I am going
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  Speaker 2: on living in this body, this will mean productive work
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  Speaker 2: for me. Since I'm still here. The result of my
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  Speaker 2: steel here nests the outcome of that. The fruit of
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  Speaker 2: that is production. For God, make it a great day. 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,