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03 06 2026 Guarding Divine Revelation · 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 Friday, March sixth,
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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: Steady series uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ and Philippians and Colossians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Guarding Divine rev Guarding
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  Speaker 2: Divine Revelation. Before we get into that, i'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith in fellowship. Let's pray,
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  Speaker 2: Father in Heaven, thank you for this time of preparation.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to be protective, protective of the revelation
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  Speaker 2: that you have given to us. In Jesus' name, I
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  Speaker 2: pray a men and a men again. Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Our first lesson is human philosophy erodes biblical authority. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there are times that people just feel like they can
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  Speaker 2: add stuff, like do not add anything to what God
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  Speaker 2: is teaching us? He didn't need help. He knows what
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  Speaker 2: we need, So why are we adding? Like why do
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  Speaker 2: human beings have a habit, especially Christiani speaking people, like
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  Speaker 2: why do we have a habit of adding stuff to
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  Speaker 2: what God is saying? And so we read now in
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  Speaker 2: Colossians chapter two and verse eight, be careful not to
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  Speaker 2: allow anyone to spoil you or captivate you through an empty,
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  Speaker 2: deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the
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  Speaker 2: elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Stop making up stuff like I need. If I needed to,
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  Speaker 2: if I needed to, like truncate this, I would just say,
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  Speaker 2: stop making up stuff. Stop holding people accountable to stuff
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  Speaker 2: that we humans made up. You understand what I'm saying here.
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  Speaker 2: So Paul's warning is not against thinking, but against thinking
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  Speaker 2: disconnected from Christ. When philosophy or speculation or modern reinterpretation
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  Speaker 2: replaces scripture as final authority, then our faith weakens. Stop
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  Speaker 2: making up stuff. Divine revelation does not need improvement. We
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  Speaker 2: just need to submit. The moment the Bible is treated
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  Speaker 2: as adjustable, yeah, we're I think I'm driving down somebody street. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there are times that people feel like, oh, well, let's
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  Speaker 2: make it practical, and then they rip what God is
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  Speaker 2: saying right out of the scriptures, remix it, and then
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  Speaker 2: put it back in as if that is then the
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  Speaker 2: actual scripture, and then try to hold people accountable to that.
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  Speaker 2: I gave you an example the other day, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: some people say that there it's a Sabbath day's journey.
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  Speaker 2: Like in twenty twenty six, somebody is saying in Rockland County,
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  Speaker 2: New York, right now that I can only walk a
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  Speaker 2: certain number of paces in a certain part of Rockville, Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: and Montgomery County in Maryland are saying the same thing,
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  Speaker 2: a certain number of paces on Saturday from sunset Friday
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  Speaker 2: to sunset Saturday. Then there are only a certain number
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  Speaker 2: of paces that I can walk. There are some people
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  Speaker 2: who are saying, let the elevators go up and down
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  Speaker 2: in the building on Sabbath, the seventh day Sabbath by themselves,
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  Speaker 2: who open the door, close the door by themselves, go
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  Speaker 2: up to the floors by themselves, because pushing the button
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  Speaker 2: is work, and we're not to work or do servile
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  Speaker 2: labor on the Sabbath. That's something that somebody made up.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying. There are so many
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  Speaker 2: things that people have made up and decided that we
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  Speaker 2: must do them and be governed by them. So the
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  Speaker 2: actions here is to evaluate what voices shape your beliefs
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  Speaker 2: and ensure that Scripture remains as your authority. Can I
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  Speaker 2: just go to lesson number two? Somebody's catching up with me.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's catching up. Scripture without Christ loses its power. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we are to share the truth in love.
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  Speaker 2: We are to share the truth in the spirit of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: who gave us this truth. And so when we separate
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  Speaker 2: the two, then the scriptures are nullified in the minds
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  Speaker 2: of the people. The Bible reads in Psalm chapter one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and nineteen and verse one oh five, thy word
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  Speaker 2: is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto
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  Speaker 2: my path. And so we are warned that scripture is
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  Speaker 2: filtered through speculative belief systems. When that happens, it becomes
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  Speaker 2: a lamp, oh, without oil. When I add my spin
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  Speaker 2: on it that God never intended. When I add rules
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  Speaker 2: and regulations to it, that God never intended. When I
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  Speaker 2: add anything or subtract what God did intend, then the
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  Speaker 2: lamp becomes without oil. Oh. The Bible is not merely
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  Speaker 2: for our informational purposes, just to learn stuff and to
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  Speaker 2: be more intelligent. At the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 2: transformational when approached as God's living voice. God, what are
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  Speaker 2: you actually saying here? This is why I advocate when
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  Speaker 2: we read the scriptures, that we pray through the scriptures
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  Speaker 2: and say, God, what did you mean the look thy
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  Speaker 2: word is a lamp unto my feet? Well, God, I
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  Speaker 2: grew up in New York City in the seventies and eighties,
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have like oil lamps. So I don't really
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  Speaker 2: understand what did you mean when you said, how do
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  Speaker 2: I apply this? Like I don't understand an oil kerosene
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  Speaker 2: oil in my day, Like how I live in Jamaica. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Like what does that mean? God? Like what does that mean?
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  Speaker 2: And now we have this conversation with God concerning what
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  Speaker 2: he has said. When other voices come in, they're intrued.
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  Speaker 2: They are intruders to us, and we say, no, that's
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  Speaker 2: not what the scriptures say. This is not what God
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  Speaker 2: is saying actively as he teaches us his word, not
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  Speaker 2: as an object of human dissection. We don't get to dissect.
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  Speaker 2: This is not Bible biology class. You don't go into
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  Speaker 2: the lab with the scriptures and dissect it and cause
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  Speaker 2: it to mean whatever in the world you want it
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  Speaker 2: to mean. And of course that applies to me. And
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  Speaker 2: so the action step is to read scripture devotionally before
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  Speaker 2: reading it analytically. Lord, help me to communicate this. Read
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures devotionally before you read it analytically. I'm an
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  Speaker 2: analytical person. Some of you are as well, and we
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  Speaker 2: would want to Like I used a big word the
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  Speaker 2: other day maybe two days ago. About exegesis Isojesus, And
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we get stuck in that. Jesus actually said it
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  Speaker 2: to some of his people. He said, listen, you search
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures for in them ye think you have eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: They are they that testify of me. I have been
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  Speaker 2: bringing you into my presence, drawing you to me, but
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  Speaker 2: you've been rejecting me. And so we don't want to
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  Speaker 2: do it cerebrally. We want to say, God, how how
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  Speaker 2: do you transform me? Would you transform me by the
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  Speaker 2: renewing of my mind? Well, you show me how this
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  Speaker 2: scripture relates to my salvation and how I can glorify
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  Speaker 2: and honor you. Would you do that? And then as
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  Speaker 2: you learn the details of the scriptures, and we should,
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  Speaker 2: and we study point by point, we've already been established
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  Speaker 2: in a relationship with God so that the points actually
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  Speaker 2: are transformational. Now, let God's speak before you analyze. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: let God speak before you analyze. Let me go to
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  Speaker 2: a quote. Let me go to I haven't read a
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  Speaker 2: pioneer quote lately. When the Bible is taken as it reads,
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  Speaker 2: the reason is made the servant of revelation part of me.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say I mixed it up. When the Bible
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  Speaker 2: is taken as it reads, and reason is made the
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  Speaker 2: servant of revelation, faith is strengthened, and truth stands secure.
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  Speaker 2: Listen if the Lord Spear's life will see you this
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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.
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  Speaker 2: David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah.