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08 11 2026 What Love Does Not Do · 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 Tuesday, the
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  Speaker 2: eleventh 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: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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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 not Do. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you for this day. Help us to
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  Speaker 2: live the principle of love. Your love so help us
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  Speaker 2: to be love. Thank you in Jesus name. I pray, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and amen again. What love does not do? So clearly
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  Speaker 2: we are going with the opposite of what we talked
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  Speaker 2: about yesterday. I got tongue tied a couple of times,
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  Speaker 2: but hopefully you will forgive me. But we're going to
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  Speaker 2: run right in for the most important thing this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Love is defined as much by what it refuses to
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  Speaker 2: do as by what it does. Every item in Paul's
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  Speaker 2: list is a mirror, right, and every one of us
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  Speaker 2: will find ourselves somewhere in it, one side of this
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  Speaker 2: mirror or the other. May I just say love in
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  Speaker 2: my household means that I don't consider divorce. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: talking about your household. So don't get upset with me
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  Speaker 2: if you know, for whatever reason, that is the pathway
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  Speaker 2: that you chose or you felt that you needed to choose.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm saying in our household because of the way
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  Speaker 2: that we have been building in our marriage for the
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  Speaker 2: last twenty five years, we have decided, like, this is
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  Speaker 2: the pathway to be with one another until Jesus comes.
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  Speaker 2: That's our pathway where love is concerned. And so you
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  Speaker 2: would know what your pathway is in the different areas
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  Speaker 2: of your life. In First Corinthians, chapter thirteen, verses four
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  Speaker 2: and five, we find again, we find again our lesson
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  Speaker 2: number one. You're like, wait a minute, but we talked
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  Speaker 2: about this yesterday. Just give me a second. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: it is not envious, Love does not brag, It is
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  Speaker 2: not puffed up. It is not rude. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: What it is not rude? So when people are rude,
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  Speaker 2: they're not demonstrating love. Wait a minute. It is not
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  Speaker 2: self serving. So when people are self ish. You see,
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  Speaker 2: that's not a manifestation of love. It is not easily
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  Speaker 2: angered or resentful. Some people that are just walking around
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  Speaker 2: with a dark cloud, they are a dark cloud. And
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  Speaker 2: the Bible is saying not easily angered or resentful. And
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  Speaker 2: so to envy means to burn with jealousy over what
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  Speaker 2: another possesses. You know, just want to pause right there.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many ways we can look at this,
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  Speaker 2: but I just want to pause and look at the
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  Speaker 2: envy piece. Paul uses the same word positively for desiring
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  Speaker 2: spiritual gifts. Remember he said, covet the best gifts. But
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  Speaker 2: here it turns destructive. Envy of gifted persons is one
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  Speaker 2: of the primary engines of division in the church. Envying
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  Speaker 2: other people what other people have is one of the
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  Speaker 2: primary engines of division inside of the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so envy our lesson is envy is a quiet
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  Speaker 2: conviction that God has been more generous to someone else.
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  Speaker 2: Then you wait a minute, that sounds like what the
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  Speaker 2: devil was doing with Eve at the treat of the
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  Speaker 2: Knowledge of Good and Evil. God, it's hiding something from you.
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  Speaker 2: He knows that in the day that you eat thereof
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  Speaker 2: then you'll be like him, knowing good and evil, and
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  Speaker 2: it's like, wait a minute, hold on there, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: If in that moment she was still enfolded in her
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  Speaker 2: mind with the love that God had given to her
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  Speaker 2: and created her with, then she would not have succumbed.
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  Speaker 2: So love kills that conviction at the root of celebrating
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  Speaker 2: what God has placed in others rather than resenting it.
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  Speaker 2: Identify someone whose gift or position you have envied. Now
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  Speaker 2: this may not be the reality for you. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if it is, then now I want you to
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  Speaker 2: switch it, begin to celebrate, and ask God to make
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  Speaker 2: this celebration genuine. Not oh I wish I was, well,
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  Speaker 2: why do they feel like they are? But rather say God,
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  Speaker 2: I see what you're doing in this sister. I see
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing in this brother, and I celebrate you
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  Speaker 2: God because I know that you are getting glory through
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  Speaker 2: their lives. And then, and then, and then ask God
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  Speaker 2: to replace if this exists in you, because not everybody
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  Speaker 2: is envious, but if it exists within you, then ask
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  Speaker 2: God to please please replace envy with love. Lesson Number
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  Speaker 2: two is coming in from verses five and six. Five
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  Speaker 2: and six from First Corinthians, Chapter thirteen. Love is not
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  Speaker 2: easily provoked. Thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but
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  Speaker 2: rejoices in truth. So God is saying that keeping records
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  Speaker 2: of wrong is an act of self per man Just
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  Speaker 2: say that doesn't work. It doesn't work, so we should
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  Speaker 2: just throw that away under God. But it makes genuine
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  Speaker 2: relationships impossible. I'm talking about the kind of the kind
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  Speaker 2: of checklisting that says, wait a minute, three years ago,
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  Speaker 2: this is what you said to me three years ago,
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  Speaker 2: this is what you did to me yesterday. I know
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  Speaker 2: that I said I forgave you, but I remember that
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  Speaker 2: thing that you did to me. And God is saying
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  Speaker 2: love forgives not because the offense didn't hurt. We're not
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  Speaker 2: playing peekaboo as if the offense didn't happen, but because
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  Speaker 2: Christ has already absorbed and paid the debt of every
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  Speaker 2: sin for every sinner who repents on the cross. Now,
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  Speaker 2: now some people are like, why did you make that distinction? Man,
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  Speaker 2: Just say, for he made availability for forgiveness for every
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  Speaker 2: human being. Maybe I should have said it better that way.
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  Speaker 2: He made it available for every single human being. It's
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  Speaker 2: just that some people will avail ourselves and unfortunately some
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  Speaker 2: will not. But it's not for us to judge for
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  Speaker 2: the other people. And that's why we need to ask
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  Speaker 2: God how to show us If I am keeping a
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  Speaker 2: record of wrongs, I needed to shift it from us
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  Speaker 2: to me. Am I keeping a record of someone's wrongs
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  Speaker 2: in my mind? And to bring that ledger huh, that
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  Speaker 2: book to the cross today and leave it there. God,
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  Speaker 2: I've been keeping a record of wrongs. I bring these
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  Speaker 2: to you. I lay them at your feet. Please, will
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  Speaker 2: you take care of this because I don't have the
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  Speaker 2: capacity on my own. Let me read a quote real
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  Speaker 2: quick before before we let you go from Testimonies for
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  Speaker 2: the Church Volume five, page three hundred thirty seven. Testimonies
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  Speaker 2: for the Church, Volume five, page three hundred and thirty seven.
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  Speaker 2: We read, Pride, self esteem, and complacency are at the
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  Speaker 2: root of the greatest sins. It is these that separate
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  Speaker 2: the soul from God. Wow. And it is these that
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  Speaker 2: Love casts out. Can you hear that? So God is
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  Speaker 2: casting out pride, He's casting out self esteem, self complacency,
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  Speaker 2: and He's giving us his love so that we can
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  Speaker 2: be holy just like Jesus was.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Peace. 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: it a great day. Yeah,