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07 29 2026 Warning Against Idolatry · 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're going to
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  Speaker 1: change all of that. Let's experience God's words today and
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  Speaker 1: receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Wednesday, July
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, 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 warning against Idolatry. Warning
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  Speaker 2: against Idolatry. Not so fast, Just take your time with me.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get back into that in just a moment. But
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  Speaker 2: to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray
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  Speaker 2: and then get under way. Father, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the privilege of being your children, to be
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  Speaker 2: called by your name, and to be true worshipers of
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  Speaker 2: the most High God. Blessed be your name, God, help
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  Speaker 2: us to live that way today. Please, in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amn again. I'm tempted to go
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  Speaker 2: into the Bible Book of Romans, chapter one, but instead
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you to go there in your
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  Speaker 2: spare time and study very closely what happens when human
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  Speaker 2: beings decide to start worship being something other than God.
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  Speaker 2: What happens in our lives? What kinds of things do
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  Speaker 2: we become susceptible to vulnerable to if we God forbid
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  Speaker 2: shoes to go that pathway. But in order to stay focused,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to share what I believe the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing right now is you can't drink the cup of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord and the cup of the Devil at the
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  Speaker 2: same time. You got one mouth, one body. If you're
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  Speaker 2: drinking the things of the enemy, then that's going to
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  Speaker 2: get in the way of the things of God. We're
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  Speaker 2: not talking about a real cup, you understand. So God
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  Speaker 2: is saying pick aside. God demands whole hearted loyalty. Of
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  Speaker 2: course He can demand this, of course, because he created
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  Speaker 2: you in his image and for his glory. Of course
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  Speaker 2: he can demand it because he has. He's given us
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of breathing his air, eating his food, using
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  Speaker 2: his money, right his resources, like everything that we have
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  Speaker 2: is from God, and therefore it is his right to
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  Speaker 2: guide and command and demand wholehearted loyalty. And he's worthy
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  Speaker 2: every bit of it. It's his right. Yeah, he's God.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name, So we jump in. I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to say that very forcefully this morning, because sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we Christian people speak passively, and I'm one of them.
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  Speaker 2: I speak passively most of the time. But this is
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  Speaker 2: one that requires us to be direct and forceful, not
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  Speaker 2: because God forces us, but we need to feel the
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  Speaker 2: sincere weight of the responsibility. And so our first lesson
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  Speaker 2: is coming in from verse twenty first Corinthians, chapter ten,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, but I say that the things
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  Speaker 2: which the gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils and not
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  Speaker 2: to God. And I would not that ye should have
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  Speaker 2: fellowship with devils. What don't partner with them? Don't be
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  Speaker 2: a sharer with them, one who participates in and common
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  Speaker 2: Paul is using the same word for fellowship with Christ
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  Speaker 2: at the Lord's table and fellowship with the devils at
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  Speaker 2: the pagan altars. Participation and spiritual consequences, whether we recognize
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  Speaker 2: them or not, whether we recognize them or not. And
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  Speaker 2: so our lesson is to think about like, participation in
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  Speaker 2: idolatrous worship is not neutral. And I know that they're
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  Speaker 2: probably most of you who are listening to me have
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  Speaker 2: never worshiped an idol. You don't have any people in
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  Speaker 2: your direct family that you know, at least in the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of generations, who may have done this. I
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  Speaker 2: do have friends who do have right in their blood.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I have a friend who's younger than me
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  Speaker 2: who has done it himself. Won't go into that detail,
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  Speaker 2: but the fact is that most of you don't know
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  Speaker 2: what it's like to bow to an actual image. You understand,
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  Speaker 2: but this is a broad principle and a concept. Have
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  Speaker 2: no other gods before me? Anything that is in place
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  Speaker 2: of or placed before God in our lives are idols.
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  Speaker 2: And so Paul is warning us as an urgency because
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  Speaker 2: the steaks are high. The steaks are high. So what
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  Speaker 2: is the action step? You're like, what, Yeah, do you
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  Speaker 2: put your phone above God? Do you put those conversations
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  Speaker 2: with people that you shouldn't be having in the first
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  Speaker 2: place above God, Like do you put your belly before
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  Speaker 2: God because you eat too much? Can I just say that,
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  Speaker 2: like are you drinking too much? Or eat or drinking
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  Speaker 2: the wrong things? Like are you putting your belly before God?
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  Speaker 2: Are you putting that desire to be in the relationship
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  Speaker 2: that God has already forbidden above God? So examine what
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  Speaker 2: you regularly give your time to, your attention, to your
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  Speaker 2: devotion to and ask God to reveal whether any of
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  Speaker 2: it has become a form of partnership with what He opposes.
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  Speaker 2: There are some people who worship our own brains and intellect.
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  Speaker 2: We feel like we can think our way through anything,
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  Speaker 2: and then we can go to God and ask him
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  Speaker 2: to stamp his approval on it. And God is saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: I need you to come to me. Come to me,
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  Speaker 2: all ye who are laboring and are heavy laden. I
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  Speaker 2: will give you rest, Like what you commit to me,
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  Speaker 2: I will keep until the coming of the Lord. Like
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  Speaker 2: hitherto you have not asked anything in my name, but
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  Speaker 2: if you do ask, I will give it. This is
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  Speaker 2: the confidence you can have that if you ask anything
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  Speaker 2: according to God's will, then he hears it. And we
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  Speaker 2: know that when he hears it, then we have the
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  Speaker 2: desires or the petitions we desire of him. And so
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, come to him so that we are
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  Speaker 2: not trying to do this thing on our own. Ask
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  Speaker 2: God to reveal if anything is getting in the way
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  Speaker 2: of a relationship with him. I think i'll read now
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  Speaker 2: from the book Testimonies for the Church, Volume two, Volume two,
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  Speaker 2: page three hundred seventy eight. Testimonies for the Church, Volume two,
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  Speaker 2: page three hundred and seventy eight. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: listen for this power word. God is a jealous God.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the same as envy. Jealousy in this case
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  Speaker 2: has everything to do with the affection, the allegiance, the
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  Speaker 2: love that we have. God is owed that he is
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  Speaker 2: worthy of it. And if we, God forbid, choose to
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  Speaker 2: put something or someone else ahead of him, then he
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  Speaker 2: becomes protective of what he deserves. That's different. That's different
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  Speaker 2: than envy. You understand, Okay. God is a jealous God
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  Speaker 2: and he will not permit his people to divide their
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  Speaker 2: attentions between himself and any idol. He requires the whole heart,
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  Speaker 2: the entire affections. Nothing less than this will he accept.
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  Speaker 2: So God is demanding wholehearted loyalty. And I know for
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  Speaker 2: the majority of you that word demanding is throwing you off.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact is, come on, the one who gave
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  Speaker 2: you everything. Of course he has the right to demand
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  Speaker 2: something from you in return. Peace.
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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. Yeah,