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09 13 2026 Spiritual War · 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: Welcome to Your Daily Portion. with your host, author, speaker, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Sunday, the
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  Speaker 2: 13th day of September in 2026. And hello, my name
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  Speaker 2: is L. David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  Speaker 2: is your daily portion where we give you God's word
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  Speaker 2: every single day. And today is no exception. We are
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  Speaker 2: continuing in our lesson study series through the books of
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  Speaker 2: 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: a spiritual war. Spiritual war. It's not what you think,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Like, please, before we get into that, though,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: pray and get underway. Father, I thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this new day, this new week, and the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of seeing how you wage war. Father, please give us
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  Speaker 2: a pure heart, a pure mind, the mind to serve
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  Speaker 2: you in all things and not ourselves, please. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 2: name I pray. Amen and amen again. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: say at the outset here that the war that we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about is in our minds. In our minds. In
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  Speaker 2: our faith fellowship, we call this the great controversy. It
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  Speaker 2: is in our minds. And so, for the people who
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  Speaker 2: tend to go to the extreme and do all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things in the name of God, That is not
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  Speaker 2: what we're talking about. We're talking about governing ourselves based
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  Speaker 2: on the power of the Holy Ghost leading us into
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  Speaker 2: the paths of righteousness, not us making up things and
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  Speaker 2: trying to drag human beings into some weird or evil
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  Speaker 2: ideological physical battles. We said yesterday ad nauseum over and
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  Speaker 2: over again that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
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  Speaker 2: They're not earthly. They're not that way. They're spiritual. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said it right before he gave his life. He said,
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  Speaker 2: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my
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  Speaker 2: servants fight. So that is... I just want to be
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  Speaker 2: very clear as we begin to teach this thing that
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  Speaker 2: we're not talking about a physical battle on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about that spiritual battle in our minds. So
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  Speaker 2: the most important thing is an extension of this. It
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  Speaker 2: is not a human conflict. It is the divine battle
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  Speaker 2: for souls. Meekness, which is power under control, and boldness
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  Speaker 2: are not opposites in this war. They are both weapons
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  Speaker 2: in the hands of Christ. And so we go now
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  Speaker 2: quickly to our first lesson that's coming in from 2 Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 10. And I will
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  Speaker 2: read beginning at verse 3. 2 Corinthians chapter 10. And
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  Speaker 2: I will read beginning at verse 3. where the Bible reads,'
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  Speaker 2: For though we walk in the flesh,' that means that
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  Speaker 2: we're walking on planet Earth, we're human beings, run-of-the-mill human beings,
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  Speaker 2: we eat, drink, sleep, get tired, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: We're human beings.' Though we walk in the flesh, we
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  Speaker 2: do not war after the flesh, for the weapons of
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  Speaker 2: our warfare are not carnal.' So, we only read some
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  Speaker 2: of that yesterday, but 'mighty through God.' to the pulling
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  Speaker 2: down of strongholds.
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, very good. So Paul is saying that this is
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  Speaker 2: not political maneuvering. It's not intellectual superiority or forceful personality.
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  Speaker 2: The weapons are divine, and divine weapons accomplish what human
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  Speaker 2: weapons never can accomplish. A person of God who tries
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  Speaker 2: to fight spiritual battles with human tools will lose 100%
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  Speaker 2: of the time. How many times? What is the percentage
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  Speaker 2: of time that people will lose if we try it
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  Speaker 2: with our own weapons? 100% of the time. And so
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  Speaker 2: the next conflict or false idea that you face today,
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  Speaker 2: whether in your own mind or let's get it out
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  Speaker 2: of our minds and put it into the world in
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  Speaker 2: a conversation. It could be somebody in your faith fellowship,
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  Speaker 2: somebody who's standing outside the doors to that faith fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: You want to engage in that and lose? Then try
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  Speaker 2: to do it with your own strength, with your own intellect,
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  Speaker 2: those prefabricated ideas and methods that maybe you learned even
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  Speaker 2: in theological training. If this is a spiritual battle, you
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  Speaker 2: do not want to go into that battle with your
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  Speaker 2: human ingenuity. Reach for the divine weapons. First, connecting to
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  Speaker 2: God in prayer. Prayer is what? The opening of the
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  Speaker 2: heart to God as to a friend. So you want
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  Speaker 2: to talk to God immediately. Not consult your library of
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  Speaker 2: the things that you know worked in the past. Right?
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  Speaker 2: The word of God that you're submitting yourselves to. Not
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  Speaker 2: just that you can quote. The devil quotes the scriptures
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  Speaker 2: better than any human being could. But he is not
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  Speaker 2: subject to it because he decided he wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: God's enemy, right? So we talk to God as to
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  Speaker 2: a friend, listening for his guidance and have the will
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  Speaker 2: to do of his good pleasure. And then when we
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  Speaker 2: are in the Scriptures looking for what God designed for
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  Speaker 2: this to be, we are also submitting to that design. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, through the Holy Ghost. That's where we begin.
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  Speaker 2: And I will challenge you to go into... the Bible
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  Speaker 2: book of Ephesians chapter 6, and see what the whole
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  Speaker 2: armor of God looks like, those seven implements of war. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I said seven implements of war, which basically amount to
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  Speaker 2: what Paul said in another place in the book of Romans,
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  Speaker 2: that we should not make provision for the flesh. Like,
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  Speaker 2: we need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and
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  Speaker 2: make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.
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  Speaker 2: We're putting on Christ. We're putting on Christ. And so,
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  Speaker 2: our second lesson comes in from 2 Corinthians 10 and
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  Speaker 2: verse 1. 2 Corinthians 10 and verse 1, where the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, Now I, Paul, myself, beseech you by the
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  Speaker 2: meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am I.
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  Speaker 2: base among you, but being absent and bold toward you.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it another way. Now I, Paul, appeal to
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  Speaker 2: you personally by the meekness and gentleness of Christ. I,
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  Speaker 2: who am weak or meek, excuse me, when present among you,
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  Speaker 2: but bold toward you, went away. So meekness was not
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  Speaker 2: Paul's weakness. Remember, I said meekness is power under control.
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  Speaker 2: That means that he was Christ-like. He was saying that
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  Speaker 2: he was living like Christ, power under control. His opponents
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  Speaker 2: confused gentleness with cowardice because they did not understand that
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  Speaker 2: the most powerful force in the universe operates under God
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  Speaker 2: with gentleness. God did not send a warrior to conquer sin.
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  Speaker 2: When I say warrior, He wasn't there fighting. He was
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  Speaker 2: giving people an opportunity to, by choice, deliberately surrender our
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  Speaker 2: will to God. He sent a lamb, the meek and
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  Speaker 2: mild one in that moment. Of course, we've seen him
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  Speaker 2: in other ways, but the way to conquer sin was
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  Speaker 2: to yield, to submit, to surrender, and to give his life.
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  Speaker 2: In your next conversation, Lead with gentleness instead of force.
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  Speaker 2: Trust that the meekness of Christ is not a compromise
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  Speaker 2: of truth, but the most powerful way to carry the
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  Speaker 2: truths by love into the hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, listening friends. Always remember, we cannot
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