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08 09 2026 The Essentialness of Love · 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 are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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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 Sunday, the
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  Speaker 2: ninth day of August in twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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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 under the caption the essential
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  Speaker 2: ness of Love, the essential ness of Love. I laughing
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  Speaker 2: because I didn't even know essential ness was a word,
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  Speaker 2: But now we know the essential ness of love, the
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  Speaker 2: essential nature of it. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: to open your eyes and say when you see it,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to say, God, oh my, I didn't realize
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  Speaker 2: so much about myself and how I am, how you
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  Speaker 2: supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for this new work week. Help us
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  Speaker 2: to experience the essential nature of love and stop putting
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  Speaker 2: it way out into the sky somewhere or demeaning and
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  Speaker 2: diminishing it and putting it under our feet, as though
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  Speaker 2: we need to fall down into it in order for
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  Speaker 2: it to benefit us. Father, please fill us with your
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  Speaker 2: spirit in Jesus's name. I pray a man, a man
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  Speaker 2: and a man again. The essential ness of love. The
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  Speaker 2: most important thing is I've said it to you others
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple of days. Is that agape we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about. That selfless in spite of what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Style of love is not an emotion. It is a spirit,
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  Speaker 2: holy spirit, given total commitment of your actions, your feelings,
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  Speaker 2: and your thoughts toward Christ and your neighbor. Remember, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was quizzed by someone who said, well, what is the
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  Speaker 2: great commandment? What is the one? What's the big one? Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: and he taught the person like, listen, the first and
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  Speaker 2: great commandment is to love the Lord your God with
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  Speaker 2: everything you have and everything you are. And the second
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  Speaker 2: is like unto it, to love your neighbor as you
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  Speaker 2: have miraculously learned to love yourself under God. And so
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  Speaker 2: this is it. Without that kind of love, everything else
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  Speaker 2: you do counts for Here comes that big word nothing,
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  Speaker 2: It counts for nothing. Paul said that very clearly in
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  Speaker 2: the beginning First Corinthians, chapter thirteen. And so we go
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  Speaker 2: for our first lesson today into verse three First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirteen, where the Bible reads, though I bestow all
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  Speaker 2: my goods to feed the poor, and though I give
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  Speaker 2: my body to be burned and have not charity, it
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  Speaker 2: does what profiteth me nothing? I receive no benefit. I
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  Speaker 2: receive no benefit to profit. This is the Greek term
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  Speaker 2: o failure, and it means to benefit to gain anything
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  Speaker 2: of value. Paul is saying that even the most extreme
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  Speaker 2: acts of sacrifice, and you can go down through a list,
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  Speaker 2: you know what they are, what people consider them to be.
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  Speaker 2: Even in those most extreme acts of sacrifice, we see
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  Speaker 2: some of these things on the news, where where mothers
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  Speaker 2: save their children from all kinds of crazy danger situations,
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  Speaker 2: and fathers do the unthin in order to bless his
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  Speaker 2: or his family. Father has shown us in those circumstances
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  Speaker 2: some incredible examples. But if those are not bayed, then
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  Speaker 2: fully enfolded into love or motivated solely by love, than
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  Speaker 2: giving everything, surrendering the body produce zero spiritual benefit because
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  Speaker 2: it's absent from the heart. If I said it again,
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  Speaker 2: it would take you take twenty more minutes, but just
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  Speaker 2: let that settle in. And so our first lesson for
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  Speaker 2: today is it is impossible to do all it is possible,
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  Speaker 2: pardon me, to do all of the right things. You
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  Speaker 2: can take all of the boxes on your list, but
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  Speaker 2: for all the wrong reasons. God does not measure the
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  Speaker 2: size of the act. He is looking at the love
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  Speaker 2: that drives it. And listen, I'm not trying to give
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  Speaker 2: you another checklist item to say, up, well, then let
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  Speaker 2: me kind I gotta make sure that this love is
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  Speaker 2: perfect love. No, we receive this love from God. We
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  Speaker 2: accept this love from God. We agree to move in
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of this love. So God is not asking
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  Speaker 2: you to manufacture that somehow, huh. But he is going
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  Speaker 2: to inspect, like to see what is driving all of
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  Speaker 2: those wonderful actions. What looks like sacrifice from the outside
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  Speaker 2: can be emptiness from the inside. And I'm not apologizing
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  Speaker 2: for breaking this to you. Jesus said that there were
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  Speaker 2: some people in his day, and these were people that
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  Speaker 2: were supposedly leaders among the faith fellowship. He said, you
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  Speaker 2: are white watched sepulchers on the outside, your bright and
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  Speaker 2: gleaming white, just so so clean, so clean looking from
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  Speaker 2: the outside, but on the inside, on the inside, you
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  Speaker 2: are dead men's bones. So God is saying, don't be that.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to be that. Brothers and sisters, all
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  Speaker 2: of you from across the globe who are listening or watching,
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  Speaker 2: or ever will listen or watch to your daily portion.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to be among those people. You can
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  Speaker 2: be the ones who are transformed by the love that
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  Speaker 2: God is. And so, what is the action step before
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  Speaker 2: your next act of service or giving pause and examine
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  Speaker 2: your motivation with God. We're talking about going with God.
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  Speaker 2: You're alone with God and saying, God, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what my motivation is, but I'm surrendering myself to you.
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  Speaker 2: Ask Him to purify this motivation and fill it with
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  Speaker 2: genuine love for Him and for the person or persons
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  Speaker 2: that you are serving. Our next lesson is coming in
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  Speaker 2: from first Thessalonians, chapter three and verse twelve, where the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads and the Lord make you to increase and
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  Speaker 2: abound in love one toward another and toward all men,
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  Speaker 2: even as we do toward you. Okay, okay. This means
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  Speaker 2: to increase, to grow, that abounding word, to increase, to grow,
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  Speaker 2: to overflow, in abundance. Paul is praying that love will
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  Speaker 2: not merely exist in the believer and you thought that
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  Speaker 2: was the pinnacle, Like, thank you God for letting your
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  Speaker 2: love be a part of who I am, my new DNA, right,
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  Speaker 2: my new birth DNA. Well, you know it's a good start,
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  Speaker 2: but that it will multiply and then overflow toward every
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  Speaker 2: person that we encounter. That we encounter, and so love
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  Speaker 2: is not meant to be contained, It's meant to overflow.
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  Speaker 2: Paul's prayer is that love of the believer will keep
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  Speaker 2: growing and keep expanding and keep reaching further that it
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  Speaker 2: has before. Love that stops growing is the kind of
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  Speaker 2: love that becomes frozen in place. We don't want that.
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  Speaker 2: We needed to expand and to grow. And so the
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  Speaker 2: action step is to really extend your love today beyond
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  Speaker 2: your usual circle. It's easy to love those you love
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  Speaker 2: that love you back. You understand Jesus said that very clearly,
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  Speaker 2: find one person God, ask God who this one person
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  Speaker 2: may be outside of your comfort zone, and show them
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  Speaker 2: the kind of love that can only be explained by
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  Speaker 2: the Holy ghost living in side of you. This is
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  Speaker 2: the essentialness of love. Maybe you learned a new word
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  Speaker 2: today like I did. I hope you make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day. We'll see you in the morning. 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,