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08 24 2026 Simplicity and Sincerity · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Monday, August
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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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 First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Simplicity and Sincerity. Simplicity
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  Speaker 2: and Sincerity. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray and then get
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  Speaker 2: under way. Father, we thank you for this this morning. God,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us simplicity. Thank you for loving
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  Speaker 2: us so much that you're willing to listen to us.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. One
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  Speaker 2: great preacher said many years ago, and when I was
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  Speaker 2: under his tutelage, if it ain't simple, it ain't so.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that you can find air in that argument.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. But the truth is that
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  Speaker 2: no matter what you put into an argument or a discussion,
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  Speaker 2: or a teaching or a life experience, if it is
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  Speaker 2: overly complicated, you will not hit the target. You will
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  Speaker 2: not people who are listening to you as you maybe
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  Speaker 2: teach them the word of God. If it isn't simple, simple,
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  Speaker 2: then the uptake is nearly impossible. I didn't say impossible.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying nearly possible because God wants us to live
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  Speaker 2: simply in your relationship. If you complicate your communication style
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  Speaker 2: with your beloved spouse, I promise you it will not
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  Speaker 2: be a positive experience. If it ain't simple, the positivity
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  Speaker 2: won't be so. And I could go down through a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of things that I make up, but suffice it
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  Speaker 2: to say, if it ain't simple, then we're really just
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  Speaker 2: making it more difficult for people to receive. And so
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to begin by reading from the book Testimonies
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  Speaker 2: for the Church, Volume five, Testimonies for the Church, Volume five,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read page ninety six. From page ninety six,
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  Speaker 2: and it reads, not the Bible, this is a quote.
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  Speaker 2: God requires straightforward integrity. Oh, we're starting to get closer.
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  Speaker 2: Not policy workers are needed who will not swerve from
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  Speaker 2: principle who will not act from selfish motives, who will
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  Speaker 2: not resort to shrewd management to gain their ends. You see,
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  Speaker 2: there are some people who reach into the coffers of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord's work, if you will, and start to siphon
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  Speaker 2: out little bits here, little bits there, like Judas, because
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  Speaker 2: they are in control of the coffers. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to say, even if it's even a little portion, and
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, yeah, don't do that. Don't try to
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  Speaker 2: put yourself in a more advantageous position based on the
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  Speaker 2: energies of God's people or the resources that God has
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  Speaker 2: entrusted to his people. Do not try to be so
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  Speaker 2: shrewd that you are trying to make yourself better based
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  Speaker 2: on the work that you're doing in and among the
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  Speaker 2: people of God. Let me continue, let me continue, let
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  Speaker 2: me start again. Workers are needed who will not swerve
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  Speaker 2: from principle, who will not act from selfish motives, who
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  Speaker 2: will not resort to shrewd management to gain their ends,
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  Speaker 2: but who will move from a pure, sincere desire to
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  Speaker 2: do the will of God. There are times that people
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  Speaker 2: try to leverage other people's energy so that they can
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  Speaker 2: look better before the cameras. Whatever the cameras may be
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean the cameras literally. I'm saying, when there
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  Speaker 2: are reports, do are you doing what you're doing? So
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  Speaker 2: the ones to whom you are reporting are saying, Wow,
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  Speaker 2: what a wonderful person this one is?
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it from the motive that God has placed
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  Speaker 2: in your heart? And so, for me, the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing today, based on Paul's experience here, is that his
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  Speaker 2: ministry was built on pure motives and sincerity that came
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  Speaker 2: from God. Notice that the the sincerity and the motives
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  Speaker 2: come from God, not from human strategy. Integrity is not
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  Speaker 2: just a personal virtue. It is a form of love
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  Speaker 2: towards the people you serve. So serving with honesty, purity
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  Speaker 2: of mind, which God gives and sincerity is a way
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  Speaker 2: that we can grow together. That second and great commandment
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  Speaker 2: is to love the people that God has placed on
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  Speaker 2: earth with you as you love yourself. And so we
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  Speaker 2: go for our first lesson into Second Corinthians chapter one.
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  Speaker 2: That's Second Corinthians chapter one, and I will read verse
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  Speaker 2: twelve first, I mean Second Corinthians chapter one, and verse
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  Speaker 2: twelve it reads, for our reason for confidence, is this
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  Speaker 2: the testimony of our conscience that with pure motives. See,
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  Speaker 2: that's a simple thing. It's basic, pure motives and sincerity
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  Speaker 2: which are from God, not from human wisdom, but by
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  Speaker 2: the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and all the more toward you. And so let's use
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  Speaker 2: that word simplicity, that is in the text from the
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  Speaker 2: Greek term have blow tastes HaLow tastes, and it means singleness,
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  Speaker 2: purity of motives. It's the word that describes a life
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  Speaker 2: with no hidden agenda. Can you imagine being in a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with someone with no hidden agenda? If you are
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  Speaker 2: in a church or a faith fellowship where all of
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  Speaker 2: the people of God that are there with you have
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  Speaker 2: no hidden agendas, none of the leadership, none of the
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  Speaker 2: new people that are coming in have a hidden agenda,
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  Speaker 2: no double meaning. Going back to what this term actually means,
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  Speaker 2: no secondary purpose. What you see is what you get.
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  Speaker 2: Paul's conduct toward the people inn was exactly what it
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  Speaker 2: appeared to be. What a mighty God we serve, and
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  Speaker 2: so simplicity of motives is one of the rarest qualities
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  Speaker 2: in ministry. When a servant of God, and hopefully all
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  Speaker 2: of us are, I am choosing to be in this moment.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you are too, operates with a hidden agenda.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, When a servant of God, that's what
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  Speaker 2: we all need to be. But if we operate with
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  Speaker 2: a hidden agenda building a platform, protecting a reputation, securing influence,
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  Speaker 2: the people they serve eventually will sense it and they
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  Speaker 2: will immediately begin to suffer from it. And so Paul's
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  Speaker 2: conscience was clear because his motives were pure, and that
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  Speaker 2: purity was a gift from God. And so what do
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  Speaker 2: we do with this lesson today? Examine our motives under
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  Speaker 2: the Holy ghost in one area of service today? Is
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  Speaker 2: it an office that you occupy within the faith fellowship?
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  Speaker 1: M M?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a service that you are you are offering
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  Speaker 2: to someone who is in need. Is it something that
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  Speaker 2: you're doing but you can't do it until or unless
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  Speaker 2: somebody switches on a camera, writes an article, or generates
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  Speaker 2: some publicity for it. Just between you and God, ask
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  Speaker 2: God to reveal any secondary agenda operating beneath what you
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  Speaker 2: present to others, and surrender it to him. Surrender it
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  Speaker 2: to him. I think this is where we're going to
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pause. Simplicity and sincerity really has to
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  Speaker 2: do with our heart posture toward God and the service
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  Speaker 2: to the people of God for the Gospel Ministry. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.