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08 10 2026 What Love Does · 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: 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 Monday, the
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  Speaker 2: tenth day of August in twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our Lesson study series through the books
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  Speaker 2: of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is What Love Does? What Love Does. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: pray and get underway. Father, We thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this new day, this Monday morning, where we get
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  Speaker 2: to go to work, to school, or wherever we go
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  Speaker 2: to add value to the people in this world that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus died for. Now, I'm asking you God to show
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  Speaker 2: us what love is and help us to live according
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  Speaker 2: to the principle of love in Jesus name. I pray, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and a man again. What love does. Love is an
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  Speaker 2: action word. Brothers and sisters. Can we just start right there.
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  Speaker 2: The most important thing is, like I just said, it's
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  Speaker 2: an action word. It's not simply how I feel about
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  Speaker 2: a person. Sometimes people will say they love pasta, or
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  Speaker 2: they love that video that they saw on YouTube, they
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  Speaker 2: love how somebody spoke or sang right. And then in
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  Speaker 2: the same breath they'll say they love their child, they
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  Speaker 2: love their spouses, they love God, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you are you saying that you love God as much
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  Speaker 2: as you love Macni, Like what does that even mean?
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  Speaker 2: So we have so many times diminished what love really means,
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  Speaker 2: just in the way that we communicate that. It's really difficult.
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  Speaker 2: It's difficult to have our minds elevated to where God
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  Speaker 2: wants us. And so Paul describes love entirely in action, words,
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  Speaker 2: in verbs, because love proves itself in action, not just
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  Speaker 2: in sentiment. And so we begin with First Corinthians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirteen and verse four. First Corinthians, Chapter thirteen and verse four,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads charity or love suffereth long. That
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  Speaker 2: means it's patient, is kind, charity enviath, not charity vaunteth,
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  Speaker 2: not up itself. It doesn't brag, That's what it's saying.
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  Speaker 2: It is not puffed up. And so the Bible is
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  Speaker 2: saying that love is long suffering that means to bear
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  Speaker 2: along with people without giving away our Uh, how do
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  Speaker 2: we want to say it? Without giving away the anger
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  Speaker 2: or or giving way to anger or retaliation. We put
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  Speaker 2: it like that because when we're forgiving people, we are
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  Speaker 2: giving away our right to keep people in like our
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  Speaker 2: mental prisons, right. And so when we are patient and
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  Speaker 2: long suffering, we're not giving way to anger or retal retaliation.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not just tolerant of people. It's active. It's
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  Speaker 2: a sustained choice to remain steady toward another person regardless
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  Speaker 2: of what they do. And I have shared with you
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  Speaker 2: before that the kind of love that God, that God
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  Speaker 2: has for us agape is that God loves in spite
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  Speaker 2: of what we do. Doesn't mean that he doesn't care
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  Speaker 2: what we do. But his love is not dependent upon
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  Speaker 2: what we do or do not do. And so patience
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  Speaker 2: in love is not the absence of frustration. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: may get frustrated with people. It is the decision to
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  Speaker 2: remain committed to the person despite frustration. Sometimes our children
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  Speaker 2: frustrate us, or we're frustrated by our children. Let me
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  Speaker 2: put it like that. Sometimes in our relationships with our spouses,
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  Speaker 2: there are frustrations. Sometimes God is frustrated. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that's the right word, but you understand what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: Like when Jesus was on planet Earth, he's like, what
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  Speaker 2: how long do I have to be with you? And
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  Speaker 2: you're still asking me these kinds of questions, And please
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  Speaker 2: do not mistake I'm not trying to give God our emotions.
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  Speaker 2: But we do see where God is still like remenstrading
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  Speaker 2: with his people to say how long haltsy between two opinions,
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  Speaker 2: like can you just do the right thing? So God
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  Speaker 2: has shown us patience, but he calls us to extend
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  Speaker 2: that same patience toward other people. Yeah, he loves us
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  Speaker 2: even when it's like, man, why what is the problem?
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  Speaker 2: Can we just can we just get this thing right?
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  Speaker 2: And at the same time, he's saying, Okay, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you some more chances, but I
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  Speaker 2: need you to truly truly walk with me here and
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  Speaker 2: stop stop playing around, y'all, like stop playing around? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so our next lesson is coming in from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of First Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and I'll read
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  Speaker 2: verses six and seven. It rejoices not in unrighteousness or iniquity,
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  Speaker 2: but rejoiceth in truth beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth,
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  Speaker 2: all things, endureth all things. Okay, and that's the action.
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  Speaker 2: So to rejoice together with to share in the joy
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  Speaker 2: of another. Love does not celebrate when someone fails or falls.
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  Speaker 2: Love celebrates truth, Love celebrates goodness. You hear these action words.
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  Speaker 2: Love celebrates the restoration of what was broken. Love that
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  Speaker 2: rejoices in someone else's failure is not love at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's not love at all. There are times that people
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  Speaker 2: use love in ways that or you, or try to
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  Speaker 2: misuse love in ways to bring dissension. So if you
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  Speaker 2: supposedly love me, you come to me to tell me
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  Speaker 2: that somebody speaking behind my back something that's not kind,
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  Speaker 2: and then some kind of way you rev up a
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  Speaker 2: war and say, see, I told you not to trust him.
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  Speaker 2: I told you not to trust her. What we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: do about it? And then some people couch that in
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  Speaker 2: love and it's like, no, that's not the kind of
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  Speaker 2: love that God has shown us. It celebrates truth and
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  Speaker 2: longs for the good of every person. So the next
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  Speaker 2: time you hear news about someone's failure or struggle, choose
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  Speaker 2: to pray for their restoration rather than to pass the
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  Speaker 2: bad news along. Our third and final lesson is coming
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  Speaker 2: in from Galatian Chapter five, verses twenty two and twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, the fruit of the spirit is what love, joy, peace,
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  Speaker 2: long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there
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  Speaker 2: is no law. May I just say that all of
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  Speaker 2: those other ones come from love. Joy comes from love,
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  Speaker 2: Real peace comes from love. The kind of long suffering
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  Speaker 2: that is godly comes out of love. Gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance,
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  Speaker 2: those all come out of love. So the fruit singular
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  Speaker 2: of the spirit is love, and love acts in this way.
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  Speaker 2: The action of love, the action of the principle of love,
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  Speaker 2: is manifest in meekness. That's power under control. It manifests
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  Speaker 2: in being patient and peaceful and making peace with under
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  Speaker 2: other people. You understand, And so Goddess is saying that
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  Speaker 2: he wants us to choose the fruit of the spirit
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  Speaker 2: today and ask him to reproduce it in us. Do
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  Speaker 2: not try with your effort alone, but surrender to the
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  Speaker 2: God who makes us holy. Make it a great day. Peace.
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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 El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,