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07 25 2026 All to the Glory of God · 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 Sabbath, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifth day of July in twenty twenty six. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: books of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is all Glory to God, All all to the
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  Speaker 2: glory of God. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to ask you to go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Please go ahead and click that big button
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  Speaker 2: that says stop guessing, Stop guessing what God has called
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  Speaker 2: you to do. It actually says, stop guessing what to
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  Speaker 2: do with your life, because you can discover God's design
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  Speaker 2: for your life. Click that button and after you have
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  Speaker 2: answered a few questions, you will see what God has
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  Speaker 2: called you to do and a way to lean into that.
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  Speaker 2: So please please go ahead to your Daily Portion dot
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  Speaker 2: com and do that. Also, let us know where you
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  Speaker 2: are in the world, and this is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: pray and get underway. Father, thank you for this Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: morning and the privilege that you have given to us
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  Speaker 2: to enter into the glory, into the glory that you
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  Speaker 2: are in, the glory that you are are sharing with
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  Speaker 2: your people in these last days. Help us to live
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  Speaker 2: glory in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen, Amen, and a
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  Speaker 2: man again. And so as per usual, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: share with you what I consider for the Sabbath morning
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  Speaker 2: to be the most important thing. And like I say,
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  Speaker 2: like sometimes I may change my mind right after I've
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  Speaker 2: said it, but in this moment I see the antidote
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  Speaker 2: for idolatry is a life lived entirely to the glory
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  Speaker 2: of God. And it's interesting that I'm saying this on
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  Speaker 2: a Sabbath mourning because we understand that for if people
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  Speaker 2: would have taken the Sabbath truth seriously, there would never
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  Speaker 2: have been an idolater. Can you imagine how God has
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  Speaker 2: instilled this in his message force people in the last days.
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  Speaker 2: And so every choice, even every meal. I did say
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  Speaker 2: that every meal God does care what we eat, what
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  Speaker 2: we drink. Every act is either an act of worship
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  Speaker 2: or it's not. It's simple. It's simple. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 2: to over spiritualize it. I'm just saying it's an act
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  Speaker 2: of worship or it's not. It draws us closer to
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  Speaker 2: God or it takes us farther away. God cares about
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  Speaker 2: everything in our lives. And this is why in our
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  Speaker 2: first lesson we read First Corinthians, chapter ten and verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, where the Bible reads, whether therefore ye eat.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're saying it in your mind. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to say it out loud if you're able to.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if somebody's resting next to you, whether
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  Speaker 2: therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever you do, do
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  Speaker 2: all to the glory of God. This is an invitation,
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  Speaker 2: like God is not trying to put us on punishment.
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  Speaker 2: He's saying, I want you to live glory in all things.
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  Speaker 2: And this word glory, this word glory actually means. It's
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  Speaker 2: from the word docsa. It means to honor. It means
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  Speaker 2: to show splendor. In the Bible, to glorify God means
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  Speaker 2: to make his character visible through your life. To make
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  Speaker 2: God's character visible through your life, glory. Aren't you glad
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  Speaker 2: that God has given us the privilege of showing him glory,
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  Speaker 2: that we can show His character through our lives. Even
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  Speaker 2: ordinary acts become an act of worship when we offer
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  Speaker 2: those acts to Him. Now, Paul does not limit glory
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  Speaker 2: to prayer or worship services. We're talking about eating and drinking,
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  Speaker 2: which means every corner of daily life is a space
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  Speaker 2: where God is either honored or displaced. You know, in
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  Speaker 2: the Last Days, we see an image of Jesus standing
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  Speaker 2: at the door and knocking in the Book of revel
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  Speaker 2: I think is in chapter three we see him standing.
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  Speaker 2: He said, behold, I want you to pay attention. Behold,
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  Speaker 2: I stand at the door and knock, And if any
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  Speaker 2: of you hear my voice, open the door. I will
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  Speaker 2: come into whoever it is, and I will suck. That
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  Speaker 2: means to eat he's going to bring dinner. Yeah, John
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  Speaker 2: Chapter six gives clarity on that reality that Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: offering himself for us to imbibe and then to grow
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  Speaker 2: as a result of what comes when we eat and
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  Speaker 2: drink of Jesus. But he said he's going to bring dinner.
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  Speaker 2: I will sup with him and he with me. He
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  Speaker 2: wants us to welcome him into every corner of our lives,
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  Speaker 2: every conversation, every relationship, every business dealing. You understand, every transaction,
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  Speaker 2: everything we do. While we're in our vehicles driving on
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  Speaker 2: the road, God is saying, welcome me there. Let that
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  Speaker 2: become a place of work, and let my character be
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  Speaker 2: shown through your life. Live glory. And so what is
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  Speaker 2: the action? The action is to choose one ordinary act today,
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  Speaker 2: like me speaking into a microphone or me scrolling on
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  Speaker 2: my telephone. I don't really do it much, but even
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  Speaker 2: if I did, flipping and scrolling through the phone, live
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  Speaker 2: glory that way, and do it consciously as an offering
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  Speaker 2: to God, asking him to be glorified. You hear the
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  Speaker 2: song in your mind like I'm hearing right now in
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  Speaker 2: my life, Lord be glorified. Are you hearing that song
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  Speaker 2: in my life? Lord be glory fied, Be glory fired.
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  Speaker 1: In my.
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  Speaker 2: Life. Lord, be glory fie today. And if every moment
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  Speaker 2: of our day that is our reality, we cannot lose.
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  Speaker 2: God will get his glory through our lives. Our second
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  Speaker 2: lesson comes in from verse fourteen First Corinthians, chapter ten,
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  Speaker 2: where the Bible reads, wherefore my dearly beloved, So clearly
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  Speaker 2: the Man of God, under the power of the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 2: is speaking to people who love God, who are to
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  Speaker 2: be his children. He said, flee from idolatry, run away.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he's saying. Flee from idolatry. In idolatry from
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  Speaker 2: a word that has too many syllables for me to
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  Speaker 2: pronounce right now, it means the worship of idols. But
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  Speaker 2: in the New Testament, idolatry is not limited to stone statues.
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  Speaker 2: You understand. It's not just brass icons and all that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. It is the elevation of anything above
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  Speaker 2: God in action, in loyalty, or obedience. Is the elevation
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  Speaker 2: of anything above God in affection, in loyalty, or in obedience.
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  Speaker 2: And so Paul links fleeing sexual immorality and fleeing idolatry
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  Speaker 2: with the same word and with the same urgency some
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  Speaker 2: of the people of God. I'm not talking about the world.
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  Speaker 2: That's obvious. Some of the people of God have lost
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  Speaker 2: our way because we are bowing to the alters of
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  Speaker 2: sexual impurity, the things we see, the things we experience,
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  Speaker 2: the people that we are relating to, and in the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we are relating to those individuals, unlike what
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  Speaker 2: God has taught us in his word. And we think
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  Speaker 2: that we can quote our way through the scriptures out
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  Speaker 2: of it. We think we can sing our way through it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes God's people think that we can go to church
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  Speaker 2: services and feel and get goose bumps on our skin
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  Speaker 2: our way out of it. And God is saying no,
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  Speaker 2: flee with urgency. Run like both our departures from God
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  Speaker 2: as the center. Huh, And both require the same decisive action.
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  Speaker 2: What is it? R you and like run away from
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  Speaker 2: those things? And so what can we do now? What
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  Speaker 2: is the action step? Ask God today, yes, even on
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  Speaker 2: this Sabbath morning, to show you what you have been
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  Speaker 2: treating as a functional God. Is it comfort, approval, money, pleasure, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, surrender it to God and He'll get glory.
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  Speaker 2: All to the glory of God. Make it a great
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,