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07 22 2026 Antidote Against Sexual Immorality · 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: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty second day of July and 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: We are continuing in our lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: book of First and Second Corinthians. I should have said
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  Speaker 2: books through the Books of First and Second Corinthians. And
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is and to dote against sexual immorality.
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  Speaker 2: Some of you have been bound. You know what the
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  Speaker 2: struggle is against sexual immorality, and so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about that today from the Word of God. Also,
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Pray, Father, thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 2: this day and getting us halfway through our work week. Father,
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  Speaker 2: will you give us victory if we are bound, give
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  Speaker 2: us victory over sexual immorality. Help us to tell the
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  Speaker 2: truth to ourselves and to you about whatever the struggle is,
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  Speaker 2: so that we can be free and be free to
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  Speaker 2: serve you in the way You've designed us to. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, Amen, and Amen again. The
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  Speaker 2: antidote against sexual immorality. Oh my, I've just said a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but God has given us a way out. He's given
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  Speaker 2: us a way through that in reality. Okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: we're going to begin with what I consider to be
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  Speaker 2: the most important thing for today. Freedom in Christ is
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  Speaker 2: freedom from sin. Notice I did not pick a sin
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  Speaker 2: or sin type or category. When we have the truth,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, the truth will make us free. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ is the truth. His word is truth, and his
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  Speaker 2: ten commandments are truth. And so freedom from sin not
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  Speaker 2: freedom to sin. Can I say it one more time
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  Speaker 2: without interrupting myself? Freedom in Christ is freedom from sin,
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  Speaker 2: not freedom to sin. The gospel of Jesus Christ does
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  Speaker 2: not loosen the standards. God actually empowers us. Like the
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  Speaker 2: woman who was caught in the very act of adultery. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he dealt with those judgmental dudes that dragged her in there,
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  Speaker 2: that didn't mean her no good. But he also said
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  Speaker 2: to her, listen, I'm not going to condemn you, but
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  Speaker 2: in fact, I'm going to empower you. Empower you in
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  Speaker 2: what way, empower you to go and to sin no more.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to be bound, sister. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to be bound. Brother. God has given us the antidote
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  Speaker 2: through Christ. And so our first lesson is coming in
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  Speaker 2: from First Thessalonians, chapter four, verses three and four, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, for this is God's will that you
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  Speaker 2: be holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality. So
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  Speaker 2: let me just start right there, brothers and sisters, if
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  Speaker 2: you have been begging God because you found yourself with
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  Speaker 2: that person you should never have been with. You found
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  Speaker 2: yourself in front of a screen or a tablet, a
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  Speaker 2: cell phone, or in a place where you should not
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  Speaker 2: have been because nothing but sexual immorality is present there,
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  Speaker 2: and it's over and over, and you're begging God and
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  Speaker 2: begging God. Let me just say to you, He's already
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  Speaker 2: told you it is his will for us to flee
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  Speaker 2: from sexual immorality. He's already given you the answer. He
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  Speaker 2: has already said if you ask anything according to my will,
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  Speaker 2: I will give it you. The Father will give it you.
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  Speaker 2: So we know, because we just read it, that it
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  Speaker 2: is the will of God that you be holy, that
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  Speaker 2: you keep away from sexual immorality, even the ones that
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  Speaker 2: are in your mind. God forbid. But if it's in there,
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  Speaker 2: God can deal with that too. That each of you,
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  Speaker 2: continuing in the text, each of you know how to
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  Speaker 2: possess his own body in holiness and in honor. Holiness
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  Speaker 2: and in honor and so in this text, that holiness,
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  Speaker 2: that sanctification principle, that holiness. It means the process of
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  Speaker 2: being set apart for God, for God, set apart for God. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: Paul presents holiness not as an optional upgrade to the
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  Speaker 2: Christian life. It's not an add on when you get
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  Speaker 2: that vehicle and they say you want leather, seeds, or
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  Speaker 2: you want you want the other material. Now, it's not that.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that, but as the stated will of God
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  Speaker 2: for every single person who's a believer, and so and so,
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  Speaker 2: our lesson is to recognize that sanctification and sexual purity
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  Speaker 2: are not separate topics. In Paul's mind, holiness and sexual
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  Speaker 2: purity go together. Huh. Holiness is the will of God,
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  Speaker 2: and the body is the place where that holiness is
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  Speaker 2: either honored or violated. God showed us Adam and Eve.
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  Speaker 2: He showed us that. He showed us it's not multiple partners.
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  Speaker 2: He showed us that in Eden when he created us.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's listening and you're like, boy, that sounds judgmental. It's
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  Speaker 2: not judgmental. I'm just literally reading what he wrote. Like
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  Speaker 2: he said, he created Adam and Eve, and he said
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  Speaker 2: he also only gave them one plus one, not one
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  Speaker 2: plus many. You understand, there's no polly in this thing.
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  Speaker 2: There's no incompatibility in this thing. God has shown us
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  Speaker 2: what his measure is because he said, and I'm showing
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  Speaker 2: you the relationship between Christ and his bride, the woman,
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  Speaker 2: the church, and so anything we do to disturb that
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  Speaker 2: is disturbing the image of God in terms of our relationships.
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  Speaker 2: God forbid. Okay. So holiness is the will of God,
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  Speaker 2: and the body is the place where that holiness is
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  Speaker 2: either honored or violated. Somebody's catching up. You're catching up.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, God, what does this mean for my life?
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  Speaker 2: What does this mean for the relationship I'm in that
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  Speaker 2: I should not be in. God is speaking to your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Do not run away from it, do not hold on
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  Speaker 2: to it, because if you are in a relationship God
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  Speaker 2: has not called you to be in. Then you go
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  Speaker 2: to God about that, and He will help you to
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  Speaker 2: be delivered. I promise you he will. So submit one
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  Speaker 2: area of your physical life today as a deliberate act
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  Speaker 2: of sanctification, give it to Him by name in prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Put that device down, Brothers and sisters. If that device
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  Speaker 2: is offending you, cut that off.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: If that time with that human being that is also
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  Speaker 2: embroiled in sexual immorality, cut that off. Cut it off today,
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  Speaker 2: not later on, Cut it off right now, under God.
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  Speaker 2: If it's a thought, if there are thoughts that you
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  Speaker 2: play over and over in your mind, submit your mind.
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  Speaker 2: Let this mind be in you, which was also in
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  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Go to Philippians chapter four and verse eight and say, God,
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  Speaker 2: you said that I'm supposed to think on these things,
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  Speaker 2: but my brain is thinking on those things. Bring me
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  Speaker 2: into subjection to your will, Father, Please and thanks, please
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  Speaker 2: and thanks. I think I'll pause right there and read
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  Speaker 2: a quote from the book Testimonies for the Church, Volume five,
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  Speaker 2: page one hundred and seventy seven. The sole Temple of
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  Speaker 2: God must be kept pure, undefiled. There must be no
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  Speaker 2: compromise with evil, no tampering with sin. Those who are
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  Speaker 2: indulging appetite or passion are playing into the hands of
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  Speaker 2: the enemy of our souls. That is the end of
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  Speaker 2: the quote. Let me just say this is a solemn moment.
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  Speaker 2: It is the privilege of God's people to surrender our
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  Speaker 2: will to Him, and many of us. I would say,
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  Speaker 2: even most of us have struggled in some way or
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  Speaker 2: the other, and even gone farther than struggling. But God
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  Speaker 2: is here to deliver us right now, right now. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a great day for joining us listening. Friends.
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