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02 24 2026 God’s Eternal Plan · 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 2: 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.
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  Speaker 3: It is Tuesday, February twenty four, twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 3: where we give you God's word every single day and
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  Speaker 3: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 3: study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 3: and our caption for today is God's Eternal Plan, God's
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  Speaker 3: Eternal Plan. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 3: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 3: We thank you, Thank you for this day and the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to open up your word again. And I pray
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  Speaker 3: that we will align ourselves with your eternal plan for
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  Speaker 3: us and the universe. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen
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  Speaker 3: and a man again. You know, because God has given
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  Speaker 3: us such so much of his attention and focus. I
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  Speaker 3: almost forgot that there was a universe beyond planet Earth.
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  Speaker 3: And even while I'm praying, I'm thinking, okay, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: self focused, meaning human focus. But listen, God's eternal plan
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  Speaker 3: for the entire of his creation is that one pulse
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  Speaker 3: of love reverberate through all of creation at all times.
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  Speaker 3: We are the renegade planet. We are the place where
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  Speaker 3: Sin now lives. This is the po box or post
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  Speaker 3: office box for Sin. You want to find out where
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  Speaker 3: Sin is? Okay, it's on planet Earth. Po Box Earth
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  Speaker 3: six seven sixty seven. And then you understand, like, so
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  Speaker 3: what God wants is for sin no longer to abound,
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  Speaker 3: that the enemy and all of his cohorts no longer
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  Speaker 3: be here where where God has to destroy them full stop.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's no real soft way to go around this.
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  Speaker 3: There's no diplomacy here. It's over because the enemy has
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  Speaker 3: made his decision and his cohorts and then God forbid,
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  Speaker 3: there are human beings that continue to ally themselves with
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  Speaker 3: him and then on planet Earth, on planet Earth, like,
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  Speaker 3: as far as you are concerned, I'm talking about the
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  Speaker 3: ones who are listening and viewing right now.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 3: God's eternal plan has always been that you live with
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  Speaker 3: Him forever and ever.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no hostility, no enmity. God has always intended for
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  Speaker 3: us to be with him forever and ever. And so well,
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  Speaker 3: how do we get there? Well through submission. We continue
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  Speaker 3: to submit ourselves to God. And one thing about Paul,
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  Speaker 3: when you look at him and these two let Philippians
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  Speaker 3: and Colossians, Yeah, he's locked up. He is in prison,
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  Speaker 3: but the word is not bound. The word is not
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  Speaker 3: locked up. While Paul, as the Lesson writer says, was
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  Speaker 3: in his confinement in these you know, like Philippians, Ephesians, Phileman.
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  Speaker 3: They were also written, so he's he's bound, but not
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  Speaker 3: the word is not bound. After his release, God inspired
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  Speaker 3: him to write the important councils found in first Timothy
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  Speaker 3: and Titus. Then, during his final imprisonment, like this dude
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  Speaker 3: kept getting locked up in a Roman jail, he wrote
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  Speaker 3: two Timothy.
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  Speaker 2: In short.
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  Speaker 3: These final years provided Paul the opportunity to write a
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  Speaker 3: significant portion of the New Testament, which probably also included
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to remove probably which included Hebrews. I
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  Speaker 3: understand by the writer said probably because commentators, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's how they speak. But he wrote Hebrews. We have
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  Speaker 3: all evidence points to Paul. Okay, so and so is
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  Speaker 3: the Word of God free to move in your life?
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  Speaker 3: Is the Word of God free to move through your life?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you catch it on the way in and
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  Speaker 3: not allow it to go out?
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  Speaker 2: What do I mean? Like?
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  Speaker 3: When people see you, are you a living, moving, breathing
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  Speaker 3: epistle that they can read and say.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, this is what God is like?
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  Speaker 3: Are you a living, moving letter from God and say, well,
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  Speaker 3: this is what God thinks of me in a positive way?
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  Speaker 3: This is God's plan for me in a positive way.
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  Speaker 3: That's the question. That's the question. And so and so
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  Speaker 3: we begin now with listen number one. Considering God's eternal plan.
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  Speaker 3: It comes in from Colossian chapter one and verse twenty four. Colossians,
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  Speaker 3: Chapter one and verse twenty four. Now I rejoice in
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  Speaker 3: my sufferings for you, and I complete what is lacking
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  Speaker 3: in Christ's affliction for the sake of his body, that
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  Speaker 3: is the Church. Okay, and so the lesson is suffering
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  Speaker 3: for Christ is purposeful, not accidental or incidental. Paul doesn't
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  Speaker 3: mean that Christ's sacrifice was incomplete, so let's not get
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  Speaker 3: that twisted. He's not saying he's a vice Christ. I
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  Speaker 3: understand that there are some folks that are in certain
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  Speaker 3: religious positions that believe that they are vice Christ. That
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  Speaker 3: is not true. So Paul is not saying that the
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  Speaker 3: atonement was finished at the cross. At one min we
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  Speaker 3: were made at one with God like peace was settled
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  Speaker 3: right there. And we understand that Jesus came, he picked
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  Speaker 3: up his life again on the Sunday morning, he continued
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  Speaker 3: in his heavenly ministry and now ever live it to
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  Speaker 3: make intercession for us so we can be cleansed ultimately
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  Speaker 3: from all and righteousness, but own was sealed at the cross.
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  Speaker 3: All we need to do is continue to surrender our
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  Speaker 3: will to him. What remains is the lived out cost
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  Speaker 3: of the Gospel ministry in a fallen world. We live
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  Speaker 3: this thing now so others can see the light that
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  Speaker 3: shines through us. Let your light so shine before men
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  Speaker 3: that they when these humans see your good works, they
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  Speaker 3: will glorify your Father, which is in heaven. And so
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  Speaker 3: Paul's suffering participates in the mission of Christ. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: we're not saying that somehow he earns anything. We earn
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  Speaker 3: anything through sufferings. We don't flagellate. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you've ever seen that where people would flage like beat themselves,
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  Speaker 3: or you know, do these wearisome pilgrimages upsteps on their
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  Speaker 3: knees to show that they somehow can suffer for Christ.
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  Speaker 3: That's not what we're talking about, okay. And so sometimes
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  Speaker 3: we go through pressure and distress and tribulation. Paul's afflictions
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  Speaker 3: were the inevitable pressure that comes from advancing the Gospel
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  Speaker 3: in enemy territory hostile territory. Faithfulness carries a cost, and
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  Speaker 3: so the action step is not to go generate some
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  Speaker 3: punishment for yourself or look for trouble and feel like
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  Speaker 3: you can you can.
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  Speaker 2: You can earn.
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  Speaker 3: Something from God by bumping into all kinds of trouble. No,
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  Speaker 3: but when obedience brings difficulty in real life, we're not
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  Speaker 3: looking for trouble. We're not creating trouble. We're not creating
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  Speaker 3: a time of trouble before the time.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: But when obedience brings difficulty, resists interpreting hardship as failure
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  Speaker 3: just because you're going through something and it's consistent, this
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  Speaker 3: stuff keeps happening. You're going through something for Christ's sake.
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  Speaker 3: Don't don't just choose to interpret that as as failure.
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  Speaker 3: Suffering is a part of the package until God comes
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  Speaker 3: and releases us from all of that. Lessen number two
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  Speaker 3: coming in from two Timothy, chapter two and verse nine.
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  Speaker 3: But God's message, or but the word of God is
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  Speaker 3: not bound. I said that a little bit earlier. No
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  Speaker 3: matter what the suffering is, if you will suffer for
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  Speaker 3: Christ's sake, but you are yielded it to His will,
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  Speaker 3: the word cannot be stopped. Sometimes the suffering is the
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  Speaker 3: is the what spreads the word of God. Paul's confinement
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  Speaker 3: did not halt God's plan, it directed it in a
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  Speaker 3: different way. Some of the most influential writings emerged from
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  Speaker 3: him during suffering. We trust God no matter what, We're
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  Speaker 3: looking forward for his eternal plan.
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  Speaker 2: 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 l David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,