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03 14 2026 Living With Each Other · 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 Sabbath, March fourteen,
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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 living with each other,
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  Speaker 2: Living with each other. Before we begin with lesson number twelve,
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  Speaker 2: i'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray
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  Speaker 2: and get underway. Father, We thank you for this day
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  Speaker 2: and for the privilege of having fellowship with other believers.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to become so much like you that we
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  Speaker 2: want to live around one another. In Jesus' name, I
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  Speaker 2: pray Amen and day man again. So my mother, my
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  Speaker 2: late mother h said something many years ago to me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in a moment of candor when she was
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  Speaker 2: a young woman, I think she was newly married. She said,
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  Speaker 2: if these people are going to be in heaven, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be there now. She admitted that that
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  Speaker 2: was a fit of passion, and obviously that was an
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  Speaker 2: emotion based response instead of a principle based response. But
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  Speaker 2: this is really some of your reality. Like some of
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  Speaker 2: you believe somehow that people will be in the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: with the same broken character traits that we experience on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, and that has nothing could be further from
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  Speaker 2: the truth, okay, and so and so, Like if you
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  Speaker 2: think that gossip is going to gossiping is going to
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  Speaker 2: be allowed in heaven, something's wrong. Like if you think
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  Speaker 2: that we can be upset when people are experiencing a
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  Speaker 2: level of success or they have some triumphs, like they
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  Speaker 2: have a testimony, and then we get upset like the
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  Speaker 2: brother prodigal Son's brother did that wouldn't even go into
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  Speaker 2: the house and celebrate. He wouldn't even accept the dude
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  Speaker 2: as his brother. He was just like, your son went
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  Speaker 2: out and wasted all of your stuff, and you are
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  Speaker 2: throwing him a party. Like if that's you, if you're
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  Speaker 2: Jonah when he was upset with God because God made
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  Speaker 2: his evangelistic campaign successful and didn't destroy the Ninovites immediately,
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  Speaker 2: then there's something wrong. Don't worry about heaven, Like, don't
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  Speaker 2: worry about the earth made new because you're not going there.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope nobody thinks I'm being a judgmental I'm
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  Speaker 2: just saying, Lord, without the character of Christ superimposed upon
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  Speaker 2: our lives, we not about to be in heaven if
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  Speaker 2: we can't live with one another down here. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that they will know that you are mind de
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  Speaker 2: disciples if you have love one toward another. So if
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  Speaker 2: we don't have love for humanity, then that means we
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  Speaker 2: have broken. We have trampled the second and great commandment,
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  Speaker 2: which is like unto the first, namely, to love the
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  Speaker 2: Lord our God with everything we have and everything we are. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible gives us some guidance here in
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  Speaker 2: Colossians chapter four and verse six. Let your speech always
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  Speaker 2: be with grace, Oh my, seasoned with salt. That means
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  Speaker 2: you it needs to preserve something, It needs to preserve somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Preserve people's dignity when you speak to them. Ah, season
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  Speaker 2: that with salt. That's what salt does. It preserves among
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  Speaker 2: other things, it preserves Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So let
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  Speaker 2: what you say be preserving in nature, not breaking. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that you may know how how you ought to answer
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  Speaker 2: each other. You know, the power of life and death
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  Speaker 2: is in the tongue, and so many of humans wield
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  Speaker 2: that tongue like a like an unsheathed, super sharpened sword
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  Speaker 2: and shop people's heads right off because of the way
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  Speaker 2: that we speak to people. I hope that algorithm doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mess with my video because I said what I just
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  Speaker 2: said but that's the reality. You say that you want
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  Speaker 2: to be holy, you say that these are supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be your brothers and sisters in Christ, but somehow your
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  Speaker 2: mouth is showing something different. And so Christ in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson number one, Christ governs relationships, not power or preference.
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  Speaker 2: Not power or preference, and so Paul, as we talk
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  Speaker 2: about living in family relationships, does not ground family relationships
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  Speaker 2: and cultural dominance or personal authority. I remember a young
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  Speaker 2: dude when we were both young, really in university. This
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  Speaker 2: dude said he's the boss of his wife. Trigger alert.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you the what the boss of your what?
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  Speaker 2: Where did you get that from? And somehow he believed
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  Speaker 2: the Bible was teaching authoritarianism where he was the dude
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  Speaker 2: that could lord over his spouse, his wife. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: like filling the blank name here, brother, you are not
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  Speaker 2: even close to what God is teaching here. Paul does
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  Speaker 2: not ground the family relationships in that kind of a
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  Speaker 2: dominant mindset. By the way, the brother's divorced. Now, I'll
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  Speaker 2: just figured i'd put that in there. He roots them
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  Speaker 2: in Christ's lordship. Every instruction in the Christian home flows
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  Speaker 2: from being in the lord. Authority is expressed through love,
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  Speaker 2: submission is practiced through trust. Both are governed by Christ
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  Speaker 2: and not ego HM. So examine whether your closest relationships
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  Speaker 2: actually reflect Christ's character more than the cultural habits or
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  Speaker 2: personal preferences. So let me just say. The Bible says
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  Speaker 2: wives submit to your husbands as fitting in the Lord. Husbands,
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  Speaker 2: love your wives, and do not be embittered against them.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're getting our lesson from. So I am
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  Speaker 2: to love my Simone that we've been married almost twenty
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  Speaker 2: five years, in the same way that Jesus loves us.
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  Speaker 2: He gave himself. You know, Jesus got up on a
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  Speaker 2: cross to save his bride from her sins. Do you
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  Speaker 2: realize that he gave up everything so that she could
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  Speaker 2: have everything? You see what I mean? So I am
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  Speaker 2: to love Simone in that way. I am to put
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  Speaker 2: her before mid Sell. That's what Jesus did. That's what
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  Speaker 2: Jesus did. And when and when it says wives are
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  Speaker 2: to submit to your husbands, did not Jesus submit to
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  Speaker 2: God our father. He wasn't subjugated by the father. He
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  Speaker 2: wasn't pressed under the thumb of the father. He wasn't
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  Speaker 2: disrespected by the father. He was not commanded to do
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  Speaker 2: all kind of crazy stuff like some husbands think that
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  Speaker 2: they have the power to do with their wives. God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father was not an authoritarian. It was not beneath
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  Speaker 2: Jesus to be submissive to the Father, and so it
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  Speaker 2: must not be beneath our sisters to be submissive to
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  Speaker 2: their own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time to really drill this, but
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  Speaker 2: it is not dishonorable. It's not dishonorable in the same
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  Speaker 2: way it wasn't dishonorable for Jesus to submit to the Father.
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  Speaker 2: It's not dishonorable for our wives to submit their own
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  Speaker 2: husbands and the Lord. That's not subservience. It's not demeaning
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  Speaker 2: or degrading. I wish I had the time, and so
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  Speaker 2: and so again. Examine now we have some contexts your
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  Speaker 2: closest relationships and see if they reflect the character of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Number two. Number two, children and parents grow best under
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  Speaker 2: loving discipline. And finally, finally, our third lesson is Christian
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  Speaker 2: witness is shown in speech and conduct. Walk in wisdom
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  Speaker 2: toward them that are without redeeming the time. Let your
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  Speaker 2: speech always be with grace, that you may know that
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  Speaker 2: you ought to answer every day.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El. David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,