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02 08 2026 Role Models · 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 Sunday, February eight,
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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 uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is role Model's role Models.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. And let me just say to our
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  Speaker 2: regular listeners and viewers for your Daily Portion at eight am.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you have already seen it. At eight am
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday mornings, we have the new Sunday School of Thought.
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  Speaker 2: And for those who care, there is a reason for this.
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  Speaker 2: It is for evangelistic purposes. You will share this with
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  Speaker 2: your friends. It's about thirty minutes in length and based
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  Speaker 2: on the book Evangelism, page two hundred and forty four.
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  Speaker 2: I will not teach about it. You will go research
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  Speaker 2: it and then you will understand why the Lord is saying.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we will do here at your Daily Portion. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you, Thank you for this day. Please
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  Speaker 2: teach us to seize the day and live as role models.
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  Speaker 2: And if there's someone who's following Christ, help us to
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  Speaker 2: follow suit. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a
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  Speaker 2: man again, let's go ahead and jump into the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of Philippians. Somebody's catching up, like what evangelism, page
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  Speaker 2: two forty four. What yeah read that today? Please before
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  Speaker 2: eight am? All right? So Philippians, chapter three, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: read verses seventeen through nineteen the Book of Philippians chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: Versus seventeen through nineteen, and the Bible reads, be imitators
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  Speaker 2: of me, brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who
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  Speaker 2: are living this way, just as you have us as
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  Speaker 2: an example. So he's saying, be an imitator of people
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  Speaker 2: who live according to God's principles. We're not people pleasing.
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  Speaker 2: We are not running after human individuals as if they
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  Speaker 2: are the standard. That's not the goal. So if you
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  Speaker 2: see something in me, let's make it modern. You listen
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  Speaker 2: to me, you watch me every single day. Right, If
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  Speaker 2: you see something positive, this is evangelistic, So imitate that.
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  Speaker 2: If I am kind, I want you to imitate that,
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  Speaker 2: that's really coming from Christ. If you see that I'm
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  Speaker 2: here all the time, never fail, I'm faithful at this,
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  Speaker 2: then really you're imitating the faithfulness that you see in
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  Speaker 2: a human being. But that faithfulness comes from the author
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  Speaker 2: and finisher of our faith. If you see someone that
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  Speaker 2: treats their spouse as God would have them treat the spouse.
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  Speaker 2: I have twenty four years of treating simon the way
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  Speaker 2: that God says. So you want to imitate that, not
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  Speaker 2: because it's me, but because that is a spiritual principle
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  Speaker 2: coming directly from God. You understand, be imitators of me,
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  Speaker 2: Paul said, Brothers and sisters, and watch carefully those who
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  Speaker 2: are living this way, just as you have us as
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  Speaker 2: an example. For many live, for many live about whom
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  Speaker 2: I have often told you, And now with tears, I
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  Speaker 2: tell you that they are enemies of the Cross of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: So he's saying, don't do that, Do not do that.
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  Speaker 2: Do not be enemies of the Cross of Christ. Don't
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  Speaker 2: do that because we're not doing that Verse nineteen. Their
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  Speaker 2: end is destruction. Their God is their belly. They exult
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  Speaker 2: in their shame, and they think about earthly things. That's
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  Speaker 2: where their focus is. Don't do that, right, their destruction
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  Speaker 2: and whose God is their belly is their shame. Those
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  Speaker 2: who think of earthly things. That is the what not
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  Speaker 2: to do list. Okay, So imitate the spiritual blessing of
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  Speaker 2: the lifestyle of people who are living according to God's principles.
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  Speaker 2: That's as simple as we can make it. And so
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  Speaker 2: in that vein, I'm going to give one quote here
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  Speaker 2: from an eighteen eighteen sixty eight that's a year right, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going back there in eighteen sixty eight quote from
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  Speaker 2: the reviewer in Herald, and it reads, the Christian becomes
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  Speaker 2: a living epistle. That's a letter in a living epistle
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  Speaker 2: the world reads in his life the doctrine he professes.
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  Speaker 2: This is why when you're at work and people see you,
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  Speaker 2: God forbid, see you doing a certain thing, or speaking
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  Speaker 2: a certain way, or behaving in a certain way. And
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  Speaker 2: they say, but people of your faith community don't do
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  Speaker 2: that because they've been reading the letter. Okay. And then
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  Speaker 2: from messages to young people page thirty six, Yes, we
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  Speaker 2: can still benefit from that because I know the majority
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  Speaker 2: of you are not young people, and neither am I.
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  Speaker 2: But here we go. Every act of life is a
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  Speaker 2: revelation of character, and by our example we lead others
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  Speaker 2: either nearer to Christ or farther from him. Let me
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  Speaker 2: say it again, every act of this life or life
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  Speaker 2: is a revelation of character. So whenever I'm doing anything,
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  Speaker 2: it's showing, Okay, what kind of character does he have?
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  Speaker 2: And by our example we lead others either nearer to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: This is a This is a decision that we need
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  Speaker 2: to be making every day, all day long, with what
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  Speaker 2: we say and what we do, what we say and
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  Speaker 2: what we do, what we say and what we refrain
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  Speaker 2: from doing, what we refrain from saying, and what we
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  Speaker 2: refrain from doing. All of that should be giving us
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  Speaker 2: one of the one or the other outcomes, either nearer
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  Speaker 2: to Christ or farther from Him. Pick a side, choose
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  Speaker 2: you this day whom ye will serve, either the wickedness
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  Speaker 2: or God. Pick aside. And of course God always implores
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  Speaker 2: us to choose Him, choose life, choose holiness. Okay, And
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  Speaker 2: so our first lesson in that case is role model
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  Speaker 2: shape spiritual direction. So believers must intentionally follow that direction
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  Speaker 2: after the pattern of Christ. Again in verse seventeen, I'll
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  Speaker 2: read it one more time, verse seventeen. Be followers of me,
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  Speaker 2: and mark them which walk as ye have done, Mark
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  Speaker 2: them which also walk as ye have us. For an example,
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  Speaker 2: and I won't tell you the story, but there were
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  Speaker 2: a couple of people that I said many years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about more than twenty years ago. I want
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  Speaker 2: to be just like you when it comes to broadcasting
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  Speaker 2: the word of God around the world. And well, I
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  Speaker 2: kind of do that today. You see what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: So that was one thing I wanted to imitate, watch closely,
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  Speaker 2: examine carefully. So identify one spiritually trustworthy person. We're not
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  Speaker 2: worshiping them, we are not following them. You can even
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  Speaker 2: go in the Bible and read and say, like, for me,
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  Speaker 2: the person is Joseph. Okay, that's the one whose model,
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  Speaker 2: whose model I follow. And then Solomon on the upside,
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  Speaker 2: on the positive side, regarding wisdom, I ask God directly
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  Speaker 2: and deliberately to give me double of what God gave
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  Speaker 2: Solomon in terms of wisdom. And so identify one spiritually
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  Speaker 2: trustworthy person you can observe more intentionally this week. And
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  Speaker 2: if it's a human that's still alive, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to schedule a time if possible, to learn from them.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, yeah, we want to be really intentional. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I said. I went to a human and said I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be like this that you do. Yeah, schedule
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  Speaker 2: some time if possible. Okay. Number two. Lesson Number two.
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  Speaker 2: Bad role models live by earthly appetites. Their example leads
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  Speaker 2: people away from the path of God. And so what
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  Speaker 2: do we want to do. Examine one habit influenced by
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  Speaker 2: worldly voices and replace it with scripture centered alternative for
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  Speaker 2: the next seven days. If you overeat, go into Bible,
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  Speaker 2: find out what the Bible says about that, and do
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  Speaker 2: what the Bible says. All right, So we have role models,
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  Speaker 2: but more importantly, be a role model as you follow Christ. 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,