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02 15 2026 Image of the Invisible God · 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 fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: twoenty 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 in the Image of the
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  Speaker 2: Invisible God. Image of the Invisible God. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this new day and the opportunity we have
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  Speaker 2: to open up your word and I'm asking you to
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  Speaker 2: please please give us the fullness of your Holy spirit
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  Speaker 2: so we can see that your image is clearly manifest
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  Speaker 2: in the life and mind ministry of Jesus Christ, so
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  Speaker 2: we can be saved in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Let me just say to those of
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  Speaker 2: you who are not on YouTube with me, you're on Facebook,
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  Speaker 2: you're on the radio and podcasts, et cetera. Yes, there
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  Speaker 2: is a program that I do every Sunday morning at
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  Speaker 2: eight am. This is for you to share with your friends,
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  Speaker 2: especially your friends who may not have experienced the worship
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  Speaker 2: experience with you on yesterday. I think you know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So we have a program dedicated just for them,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully you'll come through and support as well. Eight
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  Speaker 2: o'clock every single Sunday morning, okay, and so the image
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  Speaker 2: of the invisible God. Let me begin by reading a
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  Speaker 2: quote from Reviewing Harold way back when eighteen seventy six.
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  Speaker 2: As you can see, I am enamored by and am
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  Speaker 2: encouraged by these pioneers quotes, and it reads, in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the divine glory is revealed. See back then, they did
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  Speaker 2: not play around with this thing, man, They were direct
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  Speaker 2: the glory. The divine glory is revealed because in him
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  Speaker 2: dwells the fullness of the Godhead. I think I went
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  Speaker 2: on a rant yesterday. I don't know if rant is
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  Speaker 2: a good word, but I was passionate yesterday, so I
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  Speaker 2: won't do it again today. To see Christ is to
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  Speaker 2: behold the Father's own character shining through my my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read one more from eighteen ninety nine December
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  Speaker 2: twenty except the signs of the Times. In Christ, we
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  Speaker 2: behold the image of the Invisible God. That's what the
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  Speaker 2: text says. He is the embodiment of the law of God. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I think I said something about that yesterday, which is
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  Speaker 2: a transcript of his character. Jesus is the embodiment of
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  Speaker 2: the law of God. Huh. And also he is the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of what God our Father represents. You understand, so
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  Speaker 2: he must not be diminished. If you see Jesus, you
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  Speaker 2: see God our Father. You see the character of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: you see the power of Christ, you see the dedication
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  Speaker 2: of Christ to our salvation. Then you see the Father,
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  Speaker 2: you see the love of Christ, you see the Father.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and begin. In Genesis chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: verses twenty six and twenty seven, the Bible says, let
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  Speaker 2: us make man in our image. So that is God,
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  Speaker 2: the Father, God the Son. And we see the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit hovering over the waters. So let us make man
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  Speaker 2: in our image. So God created man in his own image.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I left some of the things out in
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  Speaker 2: the scripture. Humanity reflects God partially because humanity was created
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  Speaker 2: in the image of God. Do you see where we're
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  Speaker 2: going with this? So we represent God his attributes, the
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  Speaker 2: more nurturing attributes of his character seen in woman, the
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  Speaker 2: more stern attributes of his character in man. But that
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  Speaker 2: is still down the wrung. Even though Adam and Eve
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  Speaker 2: were created in the image of God, but Christ reveals
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  Speaker 2: God perfectly. Do you see those two humans even before
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  Speaker 2: they sinned? Do you needed two of them to even
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  Speaker 2: represent at all the attributes of the character of God.
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  Speaker 2: And even then it wasn't enough. Jesus Christ reveals God
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  Speaker 2: perfectly and so and so and so humanity bears God's
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  Speaker 2: likeness in terms of capacity and relationship, moral nature when
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  Speaker 2: we are surrendered to God and authority. And yet the
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  Speaker 2: image is a derivative and it's damaged by sin. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: do we need a whole Bible study about that? Like?
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  Speaker 2: What Christ, however, is not a shadow of God our Father.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to get this, brothers and sisters. Christ
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  Speaker 2: is not a shadow. Please never use that language where
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  Speaker 2: Christ is concerned. He is not a shadow of God
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  Speaker 2: our Father. He is the full, undiminished revelation of the
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  Speaker 2: unseen Father. And so what I want you to do
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  Speaker 2: and listen. I've had this discussion even within my faith fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: There were a few people, even prominent people within my
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  Speaker 2: faith fellowship. I can think of one in particular who
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  Speaker 2: does not accept this. The Bible teaches us very clearly.
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  Speaker 2: So in this action step, I want you to thank
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  Speaker 2: God specifically for today for one way his image still
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  Speaker 2: shines through your life. But remember, Jesus is the undiminished
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  Speaker 2: revelation of the unseen Father. You know why this is
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  Speaker 2: so important. I said a bunch of things yesterday, but
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  Speaker 2: I left out something critical. See, when Lucifer was becoming Satan,
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  Speaker 2: that mysterious fall of Satan, How art thou fallen? O Lucifer,
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  Speaker 2: Son of the Morning? How art thou you see? Like
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  Speaker 2: even the prophet is mystified? Like what in the world
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  Speaker 2: is going on here? One of the things that he
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  Speaker 2: was trying to do was usurp the authority of God.
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  Speaker 2: He has extreme disdain for Jesus Christ himself. We can
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  Speaker 2: see all of that as Jesus was living on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: especially as people worshiped him. The devil does not like
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  Speaker 2: people to worship Jesus. The devil does not like that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is not a created being. The devil does not
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  Speaker 2: like the fact that Jesus is not simply an a angel.
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  Speaker 2: He does not like the fact that, Oh now I
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  Speaker 2: understand that he created me. He tried to beat He
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  Speaker 2: tried to replace God. He tried to replace Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: God the Son. And therefore it makes sense that Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the one with his holy angels as they
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  Speaker 2: fought and the dragon and his evil angels it makes
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  Speaker 2: sense that Jesus single handedly, well I shouldn't say single handedly,
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  Speaker 2: but you get what I'm saying, kick the devil out
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  Speaker 2: of heaven, you see. And so the devil was defeated
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus laid down his life for us and then
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  Speaker 2: took it again on that first day. Colossian Chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: in verse fifteen, Who is the image of the invisible God?
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  Speaker 2: We said that Christ is the perfect and complete image,
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  Speaker 2: the visible manifestation of the invisible God. Unlike human reflections
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  Speaker 2: that are partial and marred, Jesus perfectly unveils the Father's character, will,
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  Speaker 2: and identity. He that hath seen me, Jesus said in
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  Speaker 2: John fourteen and verse nine, has seen the Father. And
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  Speaker 2: so I want you to read read one gospel verse
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  Speaker 2: one of those first four books of the Bible in
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  Speaker 2: the New Testament, Yes, a gospel verse today, and answer
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  Speaker 2: what does this reveal about the Father's heart. I'm so
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  Speaker 2: glad that God so loved the world that he gave
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  Speaker 2: us the best possible manifestation of his character in the person, work,
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  Speaker 2: and ministry of Jesus Christ. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 2: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 2: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 2: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah,