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08 12 2026 Portrait of Jesus · 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: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Wednesday, August twelve,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host in 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 through the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is a portrait of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: A portrait of Jesus. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: your life and here's the button right about down here
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  Speaker 2: begin the assessment. And this is so you can get
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  Speaker 2: closer to God and know what God's design is for
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  Speaker 2: your life. If you already know, then this will enhance
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and forgetting us into the middle of this week. Father,
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  Speaker 2: will you get give us a portrait of yourself? And God,
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  Speaker 2: I know that people have made graven images and try
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  Speaker 2: to portray you, But God, can you show us your
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  Speaker 2: character today? In Jesus' name? I pray, Amen and a
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  Speaker 2: man again a portrait of Jesus. What is the most
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  Speaker 2: important thing to me today? For this lesson? Well, every
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  Speaker 2: quality that Paul describes in what we call the Love
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  Speaker 2: chapter is a portrait of Jesus Christ. And I know
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  Speaker 2: like there are stained glass windows and book covers and
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of trinkets and ornaments and stuff that supposedly
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  Speaker 2: are portraying Jesus Christ. I've pointed when I was a
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  Speaker 2: little Not when I was little, but when my son
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  Speaker 2: Josiah was a little boy, I pointed at an image
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  Speaker 2: in a book and said, who's that. He said, that's Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I said, no, no, it ain't. That is not him.
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  Speaker 2: That is not him. I understand that the authors and
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  Speaker 2: designers were trying to portray something, but that's not him.
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  Speaker 2: But if you want to know what Jesus is like,
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  Speaker 2: look no further than his word. In his word, we
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  Speaker 2: see this standard of love. He is not the standard
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  Speaker 2: we strive toward alone. He is the one who lives
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  Speaker 2: his love in us. So we're not just trying to
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  Speaker 2: become like him, like mustering up enough energy to study
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  Speaker 2: more and give more and do more. When since God
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  Speaker 2: is loved the Bible says that God is love, then
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  Speaker 2: that means because he loved us first, we love him.
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  Speaker 2: Because he first loved us. He is the cause of
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  Speaker 2: our ability to love. He is the cause, the impetus
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  Speaker 2: behind the power behind us being able to love, because
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  Speaker 2: he lives his life within us. As the hymn writer
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  Speaker 2: would have penned, and so the most important thing is
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  Speaker 2: that the portrait of Christ is love. Our first lesson
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  Speaker 2: comes in from John chapter thirteen. Hopefully you're tracking with me,
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  Speaker 2: John chapter thirteen, and I will read verse one John
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirteen, and I will read verse one, where the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads now before the Feast of the Passover, when
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  Speaker 2: Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should
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  Speaker 2: depart out of this world unto the Father. Having loved
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  Speaker 2: his own which were in the world, he loved them
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  Speaker 2: unto the end. He loved them unto the very end.
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  Speaker 2: And of course this means to the uttermost completely and
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  Speaker 2: without reservation. Jesus loved his disciples, knowing he knew that
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  Speaker 2: one would betray him. He knew that one would deny him,
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  Speaker 2: and all would flee, all would flee. His love didn't
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  Speaker 2: stop the point of their failure. Aren't you glad that
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  Speaker 2: God did not put himself in a position that he
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  Speaker 2: was dependent upon you or me to give us love?
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  Speaker 2: And so the love of Jesus Christ is not conditional.
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  Speaker 2: It is not conditional upon the worthiness of its object.
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  Speaker 2: He loved to the uttermost, beyond betrayal, beyond denial, beyond abandonment,
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  Speaker 2: that is the love Paul is describing in First Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirteen, and it finds its only perfect expression in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. So what do we do with this? Ask
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  Speaker 2: God today to help you love one person in your
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  Speaker 2: life beyond their point of failure, to love them to
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  Speaker 2: the end the way Jesus has loved you. Our second
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  Speaker 2: lesson is coming in from First Timothy chapter one and
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  Speaker 2: verse sixteen. That's the Bible book of First Timothy, chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: and I will read verse sixteen the Bible reads. But
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  Speaker 2: for that reason I obtained mercy that in me first
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ might show forth all long suffering for a
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  Speaker 2: pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to
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  Speaker 2: life everlasting. So God wants us to be patient and
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  Speaker 2: to have endurance, to have the ability to remain under
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  Speaker 2: heavy load without giving way. Jesus displayed his power toward Paul,
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  Speaker 2: the chief of sinners. This is what Paul called himself,
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  Speaker 2: so that every believer who came after would know there
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  Speaker 2: is no one beyond the reach of his patient love. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so what is the insight? Paul points to himself as
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  Speaker 2: the exhibit of Christ's patients, the worst sinner he knew
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  Speaker 2: became the proof that Christ's love does not run out.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever you have done, you have not exhausted His patience
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  Speaker 2: toward you. So what do we do with this? Receive
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  Speaker 2: the patience of Christ toward you today, Stop treating your
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  Speaker 2: failures as evidence that God has grown weary of you,
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  Speaker 2: and let His patient love be the foundation upon which
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  Speaker 2: you stand. Sometimes people think that because we have failed
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  Speaker 2: so miserably and this is nothing for us to be
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  Speaker 2: flippant about. But sometimes people think that because we have
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  Speaker 2: done these things in this way, that somehow that limits
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  Speaker 2: God's ability to love. In fact, sometimes we compare our
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  Speaker 2: ability to sin and make it seem as if God's
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  Speaker 2: ability to love, God's ability to transform is lesser than
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  Speaker 2: our ability to sin. If I say it the other way,
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  Speaker 2: it'll be more startling. We make it seem as if
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  Speaker 2: our ability to sin is more powerful greater than God's
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  Speaker 2: ability to save. That ain't the truth. And so we
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  Speaker 2: ask God to show us how to receive the patience
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  Speaker 2: of Christ toward us today, To stop treating our failures
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  Speaker 2: again that God has evidence that God has grown weary
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  Speaker 2: of us. Sometimes we need this repeated in our minds,
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  Speaker 2: and then let His patient love be the foundation upon
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  Speaker 2: which we stand. Let me read from the book The
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  Speaker 2: Ministry of Healing, The Ministry of Healing, page twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible, and it reads, excuse me not the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: and it reads, the life of Christ was a life
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  Speaker 2: of perfect love, no personal selfishness, martyd He lived for others,
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  Speaker 2: and his love for humanity was manifest in a tender
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  Speaker 2: sympathy that never varied, in service that never faltered, in
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  Speaker 2: a sacrifice that was complete. God's love was perfect and
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  Speaker 2: there was no selfishness. Aren't you glad that God already
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  Speaker 2: did this work for us? Aren't you glad that now
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  Speaker 2: we can surrender our will to him and then He
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  Speaker 2: will make us holy. He will make us the kind
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  Speaker 2: of loving beings that he saw when he created us.
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  Speaker 2: Let the Cross be your definition of love today. When
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  Speaker 2: love feels costly or inconvenient, look at the one who
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  Speaker 2: laid down his life for you.
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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.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah,