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07 18 2026 Sin in the Church · 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 Sabbath, July eighteen,
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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 the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is sin in the Church?
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  Speaker 2: What yep? Sin in a church. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new Sabbath morning. And Father,
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  Speaker 2: please you've given us the antidote for sin among us.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to accept it. Please make us holy in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name. I pray, Amen, and a man again. Sin
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  Speaker 2: in the church. I almost want to put a question
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  Speaker 2: mark there because I am appalled, well at myself, because
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  Speaker 2: I'm a part of the church too. I'm appalled that
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  Speaker 2: the people of God are still entertaining sin in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. We should be running far away from sin,
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  Speaker 2: not playing around with it. I'm appalled, but is what
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  Speaker 2: is appalling. Also though, when I was in worship service
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  Speaker 2: a couple of months ago in Kingston, Jamaica at New
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  Speaker 2: Kingston Fellowship, somebody, the elder who was teaching a lesson,
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  Speaker 2: said talked about something that was going on inside of
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  Speaker 2: the faith fellowship, not at that local, but just overall.
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  Speaker 2: And there was a woman sitting a couple of seats
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  Speaker 2: down from me, and she was like in the church.
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  Speaker 2: She was appalled, as we should be. But I did
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  Speaker 2: have to remind the dear sister and the rest of
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  Speaker 2: us who were there worshiping, that sin and war began
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  Speaker 2: in heaven. And so the enemy, the same one who
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  Speaker 2: started that war, has not gotten tired. He is not
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  Speaker 2: sleepy and is still starting fires inside the faith fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: But I am reminded, and I am grateful that the
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  Speaker 2: same one who kicked the devil out of heaven because
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  Speaker 2: of his warlike self huh, because of his discord and strife,
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  Speaker 2: because of his unrepentant spirit, he kicked him and his
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  Speaker 2: angels out of there. He Jesus is able and willing
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  Speaker 2: to kick him out of our faith fellowship. But we
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  Speaker 2: have to submit our wills to God and unify through
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost. And so the most important thing as
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  Speaker 2: we continue in our discussion, is that the world's standards
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  Speaker 2: will always press into the church when the Cross is
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  Speaker 2: not at the center. So that is the qualifier once
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  Speaker 2: the cross of Jesus Christ, all that he has done
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  Speaker 2: in sacrificing his life for us and empowering us to
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  Speaker 2: live like he lived. As long as that is at
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  Speaker 2: the center, then the world's standards will not be able
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  Speaker 2: to press us into its mold. Our body was brought
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  Speaker 2: with the blood of Jesus, and that price, all that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus paid, demands a holy life. Let's go into our
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  Speaker 2: first lesson, coming in from First Corinthians, chapter five, so
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  Speaker 2: we can know what in the world they were doing
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  Speaker 2: over there in corinth Well, Verse one says, it is
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  Speaker 2: reported commonly. Now that's the problem. I don't like that
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  Speaker 2: word commonly, Like this is going on too much. It
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  Speaker 2: is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and
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  Speaker 2: such fornication is not so much as named among the gentiles.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, that one should have his father's wife.
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  Speaker 2: What let me read it from another translation. It says,
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  Speaker 2: it is actually reported that sexual immorality. That's what the
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  Speaker 2: terminology fornication really means. I'm oversimplifying. Has nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with whether you're married or if you're not married. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time. There's no real difference in
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  Speaker 2: that term. In reality, this is actually reported that sexual
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  Speaker 2: immorality exists among you. But this is how bad it is,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, the kind of immorality that is not
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  Speaker 2: even permitted among the people who are not of God.
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  Speaker 2: So that someone is actually shacking up with his father's
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  Speaker 2: wife cohabitating. What in the world were they doing out there?
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  Speaker 2: That is crazy? Yeah, and so I said that the
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  Speaker 2: term the term used there for that kind of immorality,
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  Speaker 2: sexual immorality, fornication. It actually is pornaa pornea in Greek.
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  Speaker 2: It means sexual immorality in its broadest sense, any sexual
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  Speaker 2: union outside of the covenant marriage as God designed it. Period. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's what was happening in the church. That's what was
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  Speaker 2: happening within the body of believers, and somebody was actually
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  Speaker 2: with his father's wife. My word, God help us. So
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  Speaker 2: the insight here is that sin tolerated in the church
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  Speaker 2: becomes normalized in the church. Yeah. I know, people say
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  Speaker 2: come as you are, and we should, but Jesus doesn't
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  Speaker 2: leave us as he found us. Yes, we are all sinners, yes,
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  Speaker 2: true saved by grace. That's right. We must not judge.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. But the fact is that God has given
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  Speaker 2: us in First and Second Corinthians and another places in
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures, the pathway for success, for correcting those who
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  Speaker 2: are taken in a fault, and for what it takes
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  Speaker 2: for us to be on the paths of righteousness, and
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  Speaker 2: how we have to deal with unrepentance among the people
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  Speaker 2: of God, especially where sexual immorality is concerned. And why
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  Speaker 2: do I say especially, I don't have the time to
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  Speaker 2: really drill this, but the bottom line is that fornication, adultery,
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  Speaker 2: whichever way you want to call it, sexual immorality is
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  Speaker 2: a symbol of our broken relationship with God. Where we
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  Speaker 2: have other gods before God, where we are choosing not
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  Speaker 2: to have relationship with Him but to join ourselves with idols,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's in our mindset, whether it's in other humans,
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  Speaker 2: whether it is actual idols, where we put actual other
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  Speaker 2: false gods before the God, the one, true and living
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  Speaker 2: God who created us. Whether we worship our bank account.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean just if you have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money, we talk about it like being wealthy is
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  Speaker 2: a sin. That is not the case. Like God made
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  Speaker 2: job wealthy, and I can go down through a long
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  Speaker 2: list of people whom he made wealthy but I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about worshiping the bank account, worshiping the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: don't have any you have a poverty mindset and everything
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  Speaker 2: is about money, or if you love and worship your
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  Speaker 2: abundance of money. In either case, God is saying anything
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  Speaker 2: that is in the way of relationship with God, anything
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  Speaker 2: that supplants our relationship and usurps his authority, is spiritual
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  Speaker 2: sexual sin. I know what I just said. It is
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  Speaker 2: laying down with idology, with idols. And God does not
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  Speaker 2: tolerate that. And so sin tolerated becomes becomes normalized. What
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  Speaker 2: Corinth allowed quietly was a louder sermoned and anything that
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  Speaker 2: Paul could have preached, they allowed it. They enabled the people,
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  Speaker 2: They emboldened the people when they did not correct the
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  Speaker 2: sin and seek to save the sinner. And so what
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  Speaker 2: is our action? It looks like we only have one
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  Speaker 2: for today. Bring before Christ today, anything the Word of
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  Speaker 2: God names as sin, so that you have quietly been
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  Speaker 2: excusing in your life, bring it before the people of
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  Speaker 2: God and be honest about it. 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,