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12 12 2025 The Importance of Unity and Charity · 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: 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 Friday, December twelve,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for this Friday Morning I got mixed up is the
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  Speaker 2: importance of unity and charity. The importance of unity and charity.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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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, we thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this day of preparation. Thank you for loving us
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  Speaker 2: so much and giving us everything that we have, everything
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  Speaker 2: we need. Father, Please fill us with your Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. The
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  Speaker 2: importance of unity and charity. Now let me read from
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  Speaker 2: me read from the book. Let's see the book Patriarchs
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  Speaker 2: and Prophets, page five hundred nineteen. Beginning in page five
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  Speaker 2: hundred nineteen, and it reads, even under false accusation, those
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  Speaker 2: who are in the right can afford to be calm
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  Speaker 2: and considerate. Did you hear that even under false accusation,
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  Speaker 2: those who are in the right can afford to be
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  Speaker 2: calm and considerate. So you don't have to get in
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  Speaker 2: a tizzy like get wound up, get all wound up
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  Speaker 2: because somebody said something that is not true. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus warned us that this would happen, and he said
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  Speaker 2: that you're in good company like people who were holy
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  Speaker 2: before you, generations ago had the same challenge. And so
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  Speaker 2: you can afford to be calm and considerate those who
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  Speaker 2: are actuated by the spirit of Christ. We will possess
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  Speaker 2: that charity which suffers long and is kind by my ma.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go to quote from March eighteen, eighteen sixty two.
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  Speaker 2: The review in Herald. Unity among God's people is a
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  Speaker 2: sacred trust. It is preserved not by force, but by patience, charity,
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  Speaker 2: and the spirit of Christ. Very interesting, very interesting, And
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  Speaker 2: so our first lesson is coming in from you guessed
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  Speaker 2: it first. Corinthians, chapter thirteen and verse four. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: charity or love suffereth long, or is patient, and is kind.
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  Speaker 2: Charity envieth not. Charity does not brag or vaunteth not itself.
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  Speaker 2: It is not puffed up. And so this word, this
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  Speaker 2: word for charity or love is one that you're accustomed to. Agape. Agape.
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  Speaker 2: It means self giving love grounded in God's character. The
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  Speaker 2: Eastern tribes modeled agape when they listened patiently. Remember they
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was some question about how they were
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  Speaker 2: dealing with this. What they were doing, like is is idolatry?
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  Speaker 2: Like two dot? Oh, what are you guys doing they
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  Speaker 2: listened patiently, answered gently, and refused to retaliate under false accusation.
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  Speaker 2: True unity cannot exist where love is absent. Charity makes
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  Speaker 2: room for understanding, mercy and peaceful dialogue. So what is
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  Speaker 2: the action step to practice agape today? Now, let me
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  Speaker 2: just say very clearly that the first and great commandment
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  Speaker 2: is to love our God with everything we have and
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  Speaker 2: everything we are. Now, this is a miracle. The ability
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  Speaker 2: to love God because He first loved us like that
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  Speaker 2: is a miracle. So when we go down through to
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  Speaker 2: the second and great commandment, namely this to love our
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  Speaker 2: neighbor as ourselves, this kind of godly love agape love
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  Speaker 2: the highest experience of love and principle, which is His character,
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  Speaker 2: then it takes as much of a miracle as it
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  Speaker 2: does to love God. We need the miracle of God
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  Speaker 2: that comes when we surrender our will and He transforms
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  Speaker 2: our character so that we can practice agape today by
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  Speaker 2: giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Oh my, oh my,
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  Speaker 2: So you're seeing everything that looks like it's pointing in
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  Speaker 2: some direction. Hm hm. Even if some of the words
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  Speaker 2: of the of the experience is true, are true, but
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  Speaker 2: what are the intents what is the intent behind the words?
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  Speaker 2: What are the experiences of the individual who's speaking or
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  Speaker 2: not speaking, as the case may be. So we want
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  Speaker 2: to give someone godly godly love and the benefit of
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  Speaker 2: the doubt, extend kindness even when the person has not
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  Speaker 2: earned it. That's agape. I love you despite what you do,
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  Speaker 2: in spite of what you do. Lesson number two. Unity
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  Speaker 2: reflects the character of Christ to the world, coming in
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  Speaker 2: from John chapter seventeen and verse twenty one in his
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  Speaker 2: high priestly prayer, and it reads that they all may
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  Speaker 2: be one. This is what Jesus is begging his father for.
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  Speaker 2: Please give them the kind of connection that you and
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  Speaker 2: I have, that they may be one, as Thou Father
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  Speaker 2: art in me and I in thee, that the world
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  Speaker 2: may believe that thou hast sent me so a manifestation
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  Speaker 2: of the fact that Jesus is indeed and in fact
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  Speaker 2: who he said he is, whom the prophets forecast that
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  Speaker 2: he would be. And all of that is that you
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  Speaker 2: and you, you, dear brother, you dear sister, learn how
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  Speaker 2: to love one another and become one or unified. That
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  Speaker 2: is the manifestation on planet Earth that Jesus is in
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  Speaker 2: fact who he said he is in fact, that the
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  Speaker 2: prophets were correct about who he in fact is. How
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  Speaker 2: many times can I say fact in a sentence so
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  Speaker 2: that you now represent him? The Greek term for this
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  Speaker 2: one hen pronounced hen just like it looks, meaning a
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  Speaker 2: unified whole. Jesus prayed for his followers to experience unity
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  Speaker 2: that mirrors the unity of the Godhead. Such oneness is
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  Speaker 2: not uniformity. I said this to you the other day.
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  Speaker 2: But shared purpose, shared spirit, shared love. Nothing testifies of
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  Speaker 2: it writes power more than the people of God loving
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  Speaker 2: one another deeply. The action step is to pray intentionally
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  Speaker 2: for unity in your faith fellowship. Ask God to heal
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  Speaker 2: the divisions, soften hearts, and bind members together. In Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I will say that people are putting a lot of
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  Speaker 2: effort into evangelism, and often oftentimes not nearly enough effort
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  Speaker 2: in revival and reformation, not nearly enough effort in mending
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  Speaker 2: the broken fences in church, not nearly enough time becoming unified. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: before he sent his people out on that special special
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  Speaker 2: time in the first century church, he said, wait for
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost, and when he, the spirit of truth
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  Speaker 2: has come upon you, he will guide you into all truth.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course the first century believers, we're able
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  Speaker 2: to teach the Gospel in a way that they had
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  Speaker 2: never ever done. Okay, and so now in less than
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  Speaker 2: number three we see true peace comes from trusting God
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  Speaker 2: to vindicate us. In Psalm chapter thirty seven and verse five,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, commit thy way unto the Lord. Trust
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  Speaker 2: also in him, and he will act on your behalf.
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  Speaker 2: Turn one stressful relational situation over to God today. Pray, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: I roll this burden on to you. You promise to
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  Speaker 2: take it, bring peace and truth in your time. This
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  Speaker 2: is the importance of unity. And thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,