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07 16 2026 A Lifestyle That Reflects the Cross · 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 Thursday, July sixteenth,
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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, and 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 First and Second Corinthians, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is a lifestyle that reflects the crosses that
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  Speaker 2: is the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Lifestyle that reflects the cross.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new day and for the
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  Speaker 2: privilege we have to see the lifestyle of the Cross. Father,
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  Speaker 2: will you please help us to serve you with everything
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  Speaker 2: we have, everything we are in Jesus name, I pray, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. A lifestyle that reflects the Cross. I'm wondering, like,
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  Speaker 2: what does that lifestyle look like? Yeah, you can type
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  Speaker 2: in the chat what does that lifestyle look like? One
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  Speaker 2: that reflects the Cross? Is it one of self sacrifice?
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  Speaker 2: Is it one where you are loving? Maybe you're caring?
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  Speaker 2: What is the lifestyle that reflects the Cross? Well, for
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  Speaker 2: me today, the most important thing is and I've said
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  Speaker 2: to you many many times already, that you should find
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  Speaker 2: what is the most important thing to you. Jesus didn't
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  Speaker 2: save you from a distance. He could have stayed way
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  Speaker 2: up in heaven and somehow miraculously saved you. But in
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  Speaker 2: the same way when he created us, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that he he molded human kind from the dust of
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  Speaker 2: the earth. He came down and actually did that with
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  Speaker 2: his with his hands, his glorified hands, and then he
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  Speaker 2: breathed into that form that he created, his own breath,
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  Speaker 2: and that became a living soul. And so Jesus in
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  Speaker 2: the same way when he recreated us, as he is
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  Speaker 2: recreating us. He's not doing it from far away. He's
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  Speaker 2: not saying, let there be and then it happens. He's
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  Speaker 2: actually because we see Jesus coming in as Messiah, also
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  Speaker 2: God with us, Emmanuel, God with us. He came here,
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  Speaker 2: he gave himself for you. If the Cross has changed
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  Speaker 2: your heart, then pride has to go. If what Jesus
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  Speaker 2: did by not staying out there way up in heaven
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  Speaker 2: and speaking only, but coming down here and taking your
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  Speaker 2: punishment for you, I want you to really get that
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  Speaker 2: in your mind, he took the punishment that you deserve,
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  Speaker 2: the death that we deserve. That's what he died so
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  Speaker 2: that we can live the life that Jesus deserves. If
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  Speaker 2: the Cross has changed my heart and pride has to go,
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  Speaker 2: my life must become willing to serve. And there are
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  Speaker 2: times that we need to be willing to suffer and
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  Speaker 2: obey for the benefit and good of others. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads here in First Corinthians, chapter four, verses one and two.
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  Speaker 2: As we go to our first lesson for today, let
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  Speaker 2: a man so account of us. Let me read it
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  Speaker 2: from the New English translation, What one should think about
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  Speaker 2: us this way? As servants of Christ? Should we look
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  Speaker 2: at you that way? Dear brother, dear sister, as a
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  Speaker 2: servant of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God?
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  Speaker 2: Are you a steward of the mysteries of God? The
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  Speaker 2: things that God has taught you that the average human
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  Speaker 2: being does not know, because that human being is not
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  Speaker 2: yet surrendered to God? Are you a good steward of
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  Speaker 2: those things? Are you sharing as you should those things
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  Speaker 2: that God giving you? In this In this connection, it
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  Speaker 2: is required that stewards. That's all of us. Right, we're
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  Speaker 2: managing the things that God has owned from eternity past,
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  Speaker 2: and He has given to us freely. He has has
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  Speaker 2: given to us freely. Ye have received. Now He's saying,
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  Speaker 2: freely give, So don't hold it back. Jesus didn't hold
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  Speaker 2: back grace. Jesus didn't hold back his love. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: hold back his power withhold his power. He's saying, I
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  Speaker 2: want you to do exactly the lifestyle of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: not the very things, because of course Jesus, Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: in his own class, so to speak. But the Bible
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  Speaker 2: is teaching us that we need to be trustworthy and
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  Speaker 2: faithful and dependable. And so Paul teaches that God's people
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  Speaker 2: in leadership is measured by faithfulness, not by how we look,
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  Speaker 2: not how we are able to pose for the camera
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  Speaker 2: or post in social media applause or even God forbid,
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  Speaker 2: not even control, like some people who cling to be
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  Speaker 2: God's people, who are supposedly leaders among the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes are controlling authoritarians. And God is saying that's not
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  Speaker 2: the measure. A life shaped by Jesus's sacrifice serves under
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  Speaker 2: Christ and answers to God. We answer to God. And
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  Speaker 2: so the action step in this regard, then, is to
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  Speaker 2: ask God today to make you faithful in every responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: Are you babysitting today? Are you a patient care techt
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  Speaker 2: somewhere in a hospital somewhere around the world. Uh? Are
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  Speaker 2: you someone who drives a taxi? Do you manage in
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  Speaker 2: a gym? Or maybe you don't have employment right now,
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  Speaker 2: But you are on social media even right now, watching,
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  Speaker 2: or you're on the radio listening. Well, how can you
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  Speaker 2: be trustworthy and faithful in that whatever it is that
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  Speaker 2: God has placed in your hands? Please ask God to
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  Speaker 2: make you faithful and responsible. Our second lesson comes in
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  Speaker 2: from Second Corinthians, chapter eleven, verse twenty three. Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter eleven, verse twenty three, and the Bible reads here,
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  Speaker 2: are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool.
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  Speaker 2: I am more in labors, more abundant in stripes above
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  Speaker 2: measure in prisons, more frequent in deaths. Oft Let me
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  Speaker 2: read it in regular English? Are they servants of Christ?
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  Speaker 2: I am talking like I am out of my mind?
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  Speaker 2: I am even more so with much greater labors. He's
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  Speaker 2: talking about his connection with God. He's talking about him
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  Speaker 2: being an apostle in his day. And this is what
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  Speaker 2: he has been going through a lot of labors, far
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  Speaker 2: more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.
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  Speaker 2: So he was a servant who rendered service. And listen,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't a bet of roses at all times. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: people teach, even in the last days, that it'll be
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  Speaker 2: a bed of roses, that if his yoke is easy
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  Speaker 2: and his burden is light. Then that means that there
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  Speaker 2: will be no trials that come our way. But the
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  Speaker 2: Bible is teaching us that no matter what the trials are,
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  Speaker 2: they are temporary and light afflictions that must not be compared.
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  Speaker 2: They're not worthy to be compared to the glory that
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  Speaker 2: will be revealed in us. And so Paul didn't prove
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  Speaker 2: his ministry by comfort, ease, or status. They roll out
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  Speaker 2: the red carpet. I'm a minister in my own right,
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  Speaker 2: and where I go there are times that people do
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  Speaker 2: very kind things for me. They roll out sometimes all
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  Speaker 2: of the best for me and my family. But that
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  Speaker 2: is not the indicator of our ministry. Comfort, positive things
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  Speaker 2: that happen, the blessing of the brothers and sisters who
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  Speaker 2: look out for us if we come into their presence
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  Speaker 2: or status. Paul boors suffering for Christ's sake. The Cross
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  Speaker 2: teaches us that real ministry costs. It's not a bit
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  Speaker 2: of roses. And so the action for this one is
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  Speaker 2: don't run from every hard thing that comes your way.
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  Speaker 2: Ask Jesus for strength to stay faithful when serving Him
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  Speaker 2: becomes costly. Yeah, a lifestyle that reflects the Cross. Make
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  Speaker 2: 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: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,