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09 19 2026 Grace, Love, and Fellowship · 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, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and happy Sabbath. It
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  Speaker 2: is Sabbath, September 19, 2026. Hello, my name is L.
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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: lesson study series through the books of 1st and 2nd Corinthians.
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  Speaker 2: This is actually our final lesson or our final week,
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  Speaker 2: lesson 13 of 13. And our caption for today is Grace, Love,
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  Speaker 2: and Fellowship. Grace, Love, and Fellowship. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to please, please go over to yourdailyportion.com if you've not
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  Speaker 2: your life. You're going to scroll down till you see
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  Speaker 2: that great big header under designed to serve. so you
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  Speaker 2: can discover God's design for your life or get a
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  Speaker 2: better awareness of it. And if you click that button there,
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  Speaker 2: I've highlighted with the little yellow arrow on my screen,
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  Speaker 2: you will come away with a personal blueprint, a clearer
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  Speaker 2: picture of how God gifted you and the word behind
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  Speaker 2: each gift and the first step toward using it. If
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  Speaker 2: you've already taken this assessment, And now you know more
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  Speaker 2: about what God is calling you to do. Go ahead
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  Speaker 2: I see them when they come through, so I'm not
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  Speaker 2: confused about it. But I want others to see that
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  Speaker 2: to your daily portion ministries because we are a listener
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  Speaker 2: and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: then we can get underway. Father, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this Sabbath morning and I'm asking you to please, please
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  Speaker 2: bring us into fellowship with you and with others. This
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  Speaker 2: is the fulfillment of your law. We know this, God,
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  Speaker 2: but help us to live it now. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray. Amen, amen, and amen. Again, grace, love, and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Grace is unmerited favor. That's true. So God gives us favor,
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  Speaker 2: not because we deserve it, but because he loves us.
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  Speaker 2: Not because we have somehow impressed him or we are
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  Speaker 2: finally coming the right direction and therefore he gives us
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  Speaker 2: this favor. No, it's unmerited, meaning there's literally nothing we
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  Speaker 2: can do or have done in order to earn this
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  Speaker 2: favor with God. He loves us because he loves us
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  Speaker 2: because he's so good. You see where that is? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And it's also, though, in addition to that, grace is
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  Speaker 2: the power to do God's will. It's the go and
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  Speaker 2: sin no more energy that God gave that woman when
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  Speaker 2: she was caught in the, quote, very act of adultery.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time to deal with that one.
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  Speaker 2: But God is saying that he loves us so much.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you love us, God, that I am
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  Speaker 2: going to show you I love you by giving you
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  Speaker 2: all of heaven and one gift in the person and
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  Speaker 2: work of Jesus Christ? And I'm also going to empower
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  Speaker 2: you to live like Jesus lived. That is grace. And
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  Speaker 2: we see love in action in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so our most important thing in my mind this
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  Speaker 2: morning is the grace of Christ, the love of God,
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  Speaker 2: and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost are not just
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  Speaker 2: theological concepts that our pastors, preachers, and other ministerial people
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  Speaker 2: get in schools. They are the living presence of God.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about God the Father. I'm talking about God
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  Speaker 2: the Son. I'm talking about God the Holy Ghost, who
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  Speaker 2: are all equal. They have always existed from eternity past.
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  Speaker 2: They are all completely powerful. Blessed be God's name. And
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  Speaker 2: that's who we're talking about. That's who offered to every
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  Speaker 2: one of the believers today. On this Sabbath morning, God,
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  Speaker 2: as I've just described God, is making himself available to
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  Speaker 2: all of us through his presence so that we can
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  Speaker 2: live with God eternally and, of course, with God's people.
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  Speaker 2: And so we are going into our first lesson for
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  Speaker 2: today today. to the Bible book of 2 Corinthians chapter 13.
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  Speaker 2: I said 2 Corinthians chapter 14, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: read what I would call a salutation or a preamble.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I shouldn't say it that way. That's not
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  Speaker 2: probably the best way to say it. It's God through
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  Speaker 2: Paul bidding the people well, okay? So, the grace of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ And the love of God and
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  Speaker 2: the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. See,
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  Speaker 2: he would start conversations that way and sometimes end conversations
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  Speaker 2: that way. That's why I twisted my own brain up
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  Speaker 2: by saying it in a moment ago. The grace of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the
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  Speaker 2: fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. And
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  Speaker 2: so this fellowship is communion. participation in something shared. And
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  Speaker 2: we're not just talking about anything shared. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. is more than warm,
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  Speaker 2: fuzzy feelings. It's not you running around the church because
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  Speaker 2: you've heard something that you love. It's not flipping over
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  Speaker 2: the church pew because you are somehow energized by what
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  Speaker 2: you are experiencing or heard. It is not you saying
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  Speaker 2: words that neither you nor the people who are listening
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  Speaker 2: to you know what you're saying. It is none of that.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Holy Ghost's active participation. through and in
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  Speaker 2: the community of faith. That's all of us. You're listening
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  Speaker 2: on 200 radio stations right now. You're watching on YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening on multiple different podcasting platforms. Wherever we happen
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  Speaker 2: to be in the world, if we are God's children,
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  Speaker 2: then this applies to us. We are a part of
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  Speaker 2: the community of faith and binding us to God and
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  Speaker 2: to one another in a shared life that is holy
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  Speaker 2: in its Origin. It is divine in its origin. I
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  Speaker 2: almost said supernatural, but it has to go even above
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  Speaker 2: supernatural because there are other powers out there. Spiritual powers
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  Speaker 2: of darkness out there, too. This is God's power in you,
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  Speaker 2: the hope of glory. And that means now all of
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  Speaker 2: us have this same hope and fellowship. And so Paul
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  Speaker 2: closes his most difficult letter with a benediction. that brings
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  Speaker 2: the entire Godhead into the room. Father, Son, Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: grace from Christ, love from the Father, fellowship from the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. And this is the fullness of what God
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  Speaker 2: is offering his people, especially in this moment. No human conflict,
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  Speaker 2: no false teachers. We talked about that the other day, right?
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  Speaker 2: Nor moral failure. We talked about all of the adultery
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  Speaker 2: and all kind of wicked stuff that was worse than
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  Speaker 2: even some of what the world would do that don't
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  Speaker 2: know nothing about God. And none of that is beyond
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  Speaker 2: the reach of of this three-fold gift from God. And
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  Speaker 2: so today, on this Sabbath morning, receive this benediction personally.
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  Speaker 2: Speak it over your life and ask God to make
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  Speaker 2: each element real in your experience, not just to observe
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  Speaker 2: it or to tell other people or to hear me
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  Speaker 2: yelling into my microphone and directly into your ears canal.
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  Speaker 2: I said ears canal. No.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: The grace of God, we want that covering your failures
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  Speaker 2: because God is transforming you. The grace of Christ coming
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  Speaker 2: in that way, the love of the Father holding you,
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  Speaker 2: holding you to him, and the fellowship of the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost connecting you to other people just like us, other
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  Speaker 2: believers looking forward to the coming. Let's see how much
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  Speaker 2: of this quote from Testimonies for the Church, volume 8,
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  Speaker 2: page 243, we can get in as we come to
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  Speaker 2: a swift close. The unity of believers is the most
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  Speaker 2: convincing argument that can be presented to the world in
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  Speaker 2: favor of Christianity. When the followers of Christ are one
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  Speaker 2: in their allegiance to him, the world will be constrained
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  Speaker 2: to confess that God has sent his son. Represent him
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  Speaker 2: well today.
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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. David Harris. Make it a great day.