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08 26 2026 Forgiveness and Reaffirmation of Love · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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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, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixth of August in twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is eld David Harris. I am your host, and
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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 Forgiveness and Reaffirmation of Love. Forgiveness and reaffirmation of Love.
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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, we thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for getting us
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  Speaker 2: right dead center into the week. Please will you teach
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  Speaker 2: us how to forgive as we are forgiven and experience
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  Speaker 2: love in the way you designed? Thank you in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray amen and a man again for me. The
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  Speaker 2: most important thing in our lesson today is that church
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  Speaker 2: discipline does not end in forgiveness, and restored love has
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  Speaker 2: not finished its work. Can I say that just one
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  Speaker 2: more time. Church discipline that does not end in forgiveness
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  Speaker 2: and not and restored love has not finished its work.
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  Speaker 2: So there are people who get excommunicated from the faith
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  Speaker 2: fellowship and they are separated from God's people because of
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  Speaker 2: maybe something that they that they did that was untoward
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  Speaker 2: or it required that level of discipline. And what we
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  Speaker 2: are learning is that forgiveness is a real thing. Like
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  Speaker 2: Jesus barred Adam and Eve from access to the Tree
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  Speaker 2: of life. That was a form of discipline, and yet
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  Speaker 2: he also covered them in his righteousness so that they
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  Speaker 2: did not need to die the second death and they
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  Speaker 2: could go through the process of being restored into right
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  Speaker 2: relationship with him. Do you understand where we're going. So
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  Speaker 2: the goal was never punishment in the way that some
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  Speaker 2: people see it like punitive and then separation. It has
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  Speaker 2: always been the human being human being, so that was
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  Speaker 2: a bonus. When you see discipline, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: see how God treated Adam and Eve in the Garden
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  Speaker 2: of Eden and even how he restored them. Okay, and
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  Speaker 2: so our first lesson is coming in from tewod Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: chapter two, and I will read verses six through eight.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads this punishment on such an individual. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you'd have to read more of the story in your
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  Speaker 2: spare time, by the majority is enough for him, so
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  Speaker 2: that now instead you should rather forgive and comfort him.
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  Speaker 2: This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief
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  Speaker 2: to the point of despair. So God is not interested
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  Speaker 2: in despairing the people who have to be disciplined. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: I urge you to read affirm your love for him.
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  Speaker 2: This is as practical as it gets. So and so
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  Speaker 2: you can read more of the story. But I want
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  Speaker 2: you to understand what it means to confirm him in love.
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  Speaker 2: It means to ratify, to make value, to make binding.
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  Speaker 2: Paul calls the church to make their love toward the
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  Speaker 2: repentant man official and binding. You see, sometimes we make
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  Speaker 2: official and binding those those things that don't that are
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  Speaker 2: that are that are less than desirable. It's easy to
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  Speaker 2: ratify and make binding that you have to step down
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  Speaker 2: from an office in ministry. It's easy to ratify and
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  Speaker 2: set as binding. To to have someone who is of
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  Speaker 2: influence in church position to have to sit down and
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  Speaker 2: go through a remedial process like it's easy to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But how about declaring and reaffirming that individual's love, and
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  Speaker 2: that that individual belongs within God's faith fellowship. And so
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  Speaker 2: we're not talking about a quiet, private feeling, but a public,
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  Speaker 2: declared reaffirmation that this person belongs. Some of you are
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  Speaker 2: reevaluating how things have been done in your faith fellowships,
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  Speaker 2: your local churches and congregations, as we all should. And
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  Speaker 2: so the insight for my perspective is that when discipline
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  Speaker 2: has done its work and repentance is genuine, then the
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  Speaker 2: church's next move. Really that process is all about love.
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  Speaker 2: But the next move is this kind of this reaffirmation
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  Speaker 2: declared openly, extended fully and offered without condition with holding.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of love from a repentant person is its
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  Speaker 2: own form of sin against the body. Are you hearing
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  Speaker 2: what God is saying to all of us? And so
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  Speaker 2: we need to go ahead and start with our next
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  Speaker 2: board meeting or our deacon board meeting, or whatever it
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  Speaker 2: is that governs your faith fellowship's disciplinary process an executive committee.
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  Speaker 2: If someone in your life or even among that faith
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  Speaker 2: fellowship has genuinely repented of a wrong against you or
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  Speaker 2: the community, take one concrete step today, even in your
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  Speaker 2: council meetings, to reaffirm your love for them and make
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  Speaker 2: it visible and not just something that you have just
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  Speaker 2: between us, between you and that person. Okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: our second lesson is coming in from Second Corinthians, chapter
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  Speaker 2: two and verse three. This is transformational, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: today's lesson is transformational. The Bible reads, and I wrote
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  Speaker 2: this very thing so that when I came, I would
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  Speaker 2: not have sorrow for those who ought to make me rejoice,
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  Speaker 2: since I am confident in you all that my joy
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  Speaker 2: is yours. And he had real and sincere joy and gladness,
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  Speaker 2: the delight that flows from a right relationship. Paul's joy
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  Speaker 2: and the Corinthian and joy were bound together. There was
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  Speaker 2: so much trifling, nasty stuff going on among those people.
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  Speaker 2: But but what brought grief to one brought grief to both.
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  Speaker 2: So so Paul wasn't being punitive and and just stroking
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  Speaker 2: his executive pen and saying, you people are banished from
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  Speaker 2: the faith fellowship. That's not what was happening. Okay, It
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  Speaker 2: was grief for him. And what brought restoration to one.
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  Speaker 2: Guess what brought joy to both the Body of Christ
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  Speaker 2: shares it's emotional life. And I know that some people
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  Speaker 2: run away from people who are more analytical like me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't per se run away from from emotion, But
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying there are people who are analytical like me,
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  Speaker 2: who habitually run away from what they considered to be emotional.
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  Speaker 2: But God gave us emotions. He gave us emotions so
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  Speaker 2: we can sense many different things our lives. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have the time to break this out, but God gave
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  Speaker 2: us emotions for a reason, not to throw them away.
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  Speaker 2: But we're not to be bound by them or or
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  Speaker 2: thrown around by them. So again, restoration is not a
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  Speaker 2: private matter. It's not It's not a private matter. Joy
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  Speaker 2: of the community of faith is interconnected. When one member
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  Speaker 2: is restored, the whole body rejoices. Are you hearing the
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  Speaker 2: Bible when Jesus is telling the story, rejoice with me.
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  Speaker 2: When one member is lost to despair, the whole body
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  Speaker 2: is diminished. And so God wants us to celebrate with
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  Speaker 2: one another as we restore those who have lost their way.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we
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