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12 31 2025 Paul and Colossae · 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 Wednesday, December
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: new Lesson study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in
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  Speaker 2: Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today is Paul
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  Speaker 2: and Colossie. Very interesting, Very interesting. We're gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: fun fact in just a moment, but before we do,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: those joining us for the very first time. Please go
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  Speaker 2: those of you who have picked it up this quarter,
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  Speaker 2: you'll notice that even though we keep the same structure,
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  Speaker 2: my tone is more pastoral in nature, and the part
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  Speaker 2: where we are are really focusing on like how to
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  Speaker 2: apply before we get to the next best move that
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  Speaker 2: insight part like you'll notice that it's a little longer,
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day, for giving us the privilege of spreading the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel in whatever way you've called us to, if it's
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  Speaker 2: at the gym, You've shown us how to be kind
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  Speaker 2: to people or helpful in some way. Father, there are
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  Speaker 2: just so many ways that you have manifest your power
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  Speaker 2: in our lives so that we can we can be
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  Speaker 2: the word of God to the people or representation, if
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  Speaker 2: that's better way of saying it. God in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen Amen again. Okay, So fun fact, right,
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  Speaker 2: out of the lesson. The beginning of the lesson, we
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  Speaker 2: have no record of Paul ever visiting Colossie. Now this
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  Speaker 2: tells us something about the effectiveness of his evangelistic strategy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if he called it an evangelistic strategy,
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  Speaker 2: or if he called it a strategy at all, or
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  Speaker 2: whether he was simply listening to what God would say.
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  Speaker 2: Go here, do this, brother, Paul, do this. First, it
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  Speaker 2: was Epaphras, a resident of Colossie, who brought the gospel
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  Speaker 2: to that city. But now, how was he converted? Most
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  Speaker 2: likely it was in the mid fifties when Paul, or
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  Speaker 2: let's just see how most likely it was in the
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  Speaker 2: mid fifties when Paul was in nearby Ephesus, and all
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  Speaker 2: they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus. And I could go on. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: it to become too academic. I just need you to
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  Speaker 2: focus on the fact that God has a way of
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  Speaker 2: impacting places, impacting societies and communities people around the world
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  Speaker 2: because of your faithfulness, the faithfulness that He has placed
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  Speaker 2: in your life, and you going out and doing what
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  Speaker 2: God has called you to do has now impacted places
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  Speaker 2: all around the world, people you may never meet. Your
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  Speaker 2: daily portion is an example. I may never meet. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm never going to meet most of you. Really, I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's hundreds of thousands of you watching every day.
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  Speaker 2: I hope to meet many of you, and I have
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  Speaker 2: met some of you. But the Word of God goes
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  Speaker 2: forward from this vantage point and from your vantage point
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  Speaker 2: where you are sharing the Word, you are sharing this program,
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  Speaker 2: you are sharing other things that you enjoy from the
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  Speaker 2: Word of God with people, and they are being transformed.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is the case with brother Paul. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going in for a quote now, a quote now from
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  Speaker 2: the book The Acts of the Apostles, page sixty nine.
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  Speaker 2: When the laws of men conflict with the Word and
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  Speaker 2: law of God, we are not to oh, we are
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  Speaker 2: to obey God, whatever the consequences. Paul was told many
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  Speaker 2: times stop the preaching, stop preaching in that name, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible teaches us that rather than to listen to
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  Speaker 2: that and to separate himself from God, he did exactly
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  Speaker 2: what God said instead. And so Lesson Number one is
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  Speaker 2: that the Gospel spreads most effectively when converted believers are
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  Speaker 2: those are people who are really transformed by God, not
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  Speaker 2: just talking about it, Uh take it home. We take
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  Speaker 2: it home. And I already mentioned something about epaphras, but
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  Speaker 2: let's read it from Collassians, chapter one and verse seven.
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  Speaker 2: As ye also learned of Epaphras, our fellow servant, who
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  Speaker 2: is for you a faithful minister of Christ. He was
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  Speaker 2: a servant. He was a minister for Christ based on
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  Speaker 2: what he was learning from the mission of Brother Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Share one truth. That's the action for you right now,
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  Speaker 2: for me to share one truth from scripture today with
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  Speaker 2: someone in your natural circle. And why do I say
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  Speaker 2: natural circle? See, Jesus said that when he was here
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  Speaker 2: he was going to go back to Heaven, and he
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  Speaker 2: was telling the people how to be a witness. He said,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be witnesses in Jerusalem, then in all Judea.
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  Speaker 2: And then you see what I mean like if you
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  Speaker 2: look at the progression of what Jesus was teaching them,
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  Speaker 2: it was going out from the nearest part where we
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  Speaker 2: had the they had the most influence in concentric circles,
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  Speaker 2: ever widening out into where he finally says, into the
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  Speaker 2: utterermost parts of the world. So we start right here
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  Speaker 2: and then move out from right here? Is it in
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  Speaker 2: your home? Is it at the gym where you are
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  Speaker 2: now exercising. Is it in the taxi that you take
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  Speaker 2: often and you experience that same driver often. Is it
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  Speaker 2: on the bus where you travel, or train or tram
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  Speaker 2: or some other mode of transportation. Some of you live
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  Speaker 2: in Asia where you may be taking different modes of transportation,
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  Speaker 2: And so God wants you to share the truth, whatever
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  Speaker 2: that means in your experience in your natural circle. Starting
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  Speaker 2: with the nearest point. Our second lesson is that the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel transforms relationships and elevates believers to a shared spiritual family.
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  Speaker 2: So we find fellowship with one another. I am a
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  Speaker 2: part of a community that doctor Eric Thomas is the
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  Speaker 2: leader of. Yes, I'm a coach. Yes, I'm a a
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  Speaker 2: a consultant of sorts and some other things. And we're
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  Speaker 2: a part of a squad or a pack of individuals
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  Speaker 2: who are living in covenant relationship. And that is the
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing like once our relationships are elevated under God,
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  Speaker 2: then our effectiveness is elevated under God. What we could
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  Speaker 2: do as one loan individual is maximized by a thousandfold,
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  Speaker 2: by a millionfold when we have the kind of unity
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  Speaker 2: that is necessary to go forward in the Gospel. We
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  Speaker 2: see that in the first century church, Jesus told them
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  Speaker 2: to tarry in place and then wait for the fullness
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Ghost so they could go out and
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  Speaker 2: do what God said on a new level. And so
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel transforms relationships and elevates believers to a shared
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  Speaker 2: spiritual family. In the book Philemann, verses fifteen and sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: we read, for perhaps he therefore departed former season, that
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  Speaker 2: thou shouldest received him forever, not now as a servant,
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  Speaker 2: but above as a servant, a brother and beloved. So
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  Speaker 2: this is showing us that kind of covenant family, that
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  Speaker 2: kind of relationship transition that goes much farther and beyond
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  Speaker 2: the simplistic of Okay, I know you, I'm an associate
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  Speaker 2: of yours and that's it. And so what I want
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  Speaker 2: you to do is to treat one person today with
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  Speaker 2: the dignity you would give a spiritual sibling in Christ. See,
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to elevate people in the way that we
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  Speaker 2: relate to them that hopefully they will see the blessing
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  Speaker 2: and then become actual spiritual siblings. I was in the
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  Speaker 2: store the other day buying whatever. After I went to
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  Speaker 2: the gym and the security officer, a woman. She said, hello,
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  Speaker 2: church brother, you see what I'm saying because we are
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  Speaker 2: indeed and in fact brothers and sisters in Christ. And
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  Speaker 2: our final lesson for this morning is Paul appealed to
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  Speaker 2: conscience when he was witnessing. He wasn't trying to force
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  Speaker 2: anybody into anything. He was showing the true that true
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  Speaker 2: Christian change grows from the heart, from the heart, not compulsion.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day, well, heyse for joining us listening.
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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,