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08 05 2026 The Gift of Tongues · 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: 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: fifth 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: are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
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  Speaker 2: of or the books of First and Second Corinthians, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is the Gift of Tongues, The
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  Speaker 2: Gift of Tongues. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: what we're gonna do today, for me, this is the
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost. Because Simona and I got married on
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  Speaker 2: this day twenty five years ago. The time runs by quickly,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm really pumped up today because because God is
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  Speaker 2: good like God has been really good to us, and
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  Speaker 2: we love each other even more than we have ever
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  Speaker 2: loved one another in the past. So so happy anniversary,
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  Speaker 2: Simone and I am. I'm just there's no better place
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather be than to be married to you. So
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  Speaker 2: I praise God for what He's doing in our lives.
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  Speaker 2: And great big shout out to Ron and Daria Gatsten
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  Speaker 2: who who told us all those years ago that your
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  Speaker 2: So we thank God. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: get underway. Father, We thank you for this day, Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the privilege you've given us to consider your word.
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  Speaker 2: Now give us your speaking style, help us to communicate
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  Speaker 2: like you. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, Amen, and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. I just want to give this a real
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  Speaker 2: simple primer. Yeah, speak, We speak intelligently and intelligiblely, okay,
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  Speaker 2: intelligibly intelligibly yeah, yeah. Whenever we say things, they actually
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  Speaker 2: have meanings, they mean stuff. There many times that even
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  Speaker 2: maybe today I'll even i may not say the Greek term,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm gonna come from the Greek term term or
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  Speaker 2: the Hebrew term, and that's tongues like. God has given
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  Speaker 2: people the ability to speak in languages that they did
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  Speaker 2: not first understand in order for the people on the
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  Speaker 2: under other end of the conversation to receive the blessing
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  Speaker 2: the message of God. Do you understand what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: That account at the in the first century church where
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  Speaker 2: where the men of God were preaching, and the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: what are these men drunk like? And and and and
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  Speaker 2: then and then the Man of God was like, no,
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  Speaker 2: these are these men are not drunken as he supposed,
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  Speaker 2: seeing that it's on it's early in the morning, Like
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  Speaker 2: they're not drunk. Ah, But God is showing you what
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  Speaker 2: he was teaching. Way back in the Old Testament. There
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  Speaker 2: were Parthians and Meads, and people from Mesopotamia and from
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  Speaker 2: other Phrygia Pamphilia, from outhermost parts of the world, and
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  Speaker 2: they are hearing the word of God in their own languages.
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  Speaker 2: So God gave the gift of tongues to communicate the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel across language barriers, not to create disorder in worship.
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  Speaker 2: Every gift must serve the building up of the body.
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  Speaker 2: So if you feel like and I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 2: be disrespectful, but if you feel like you can just
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  Speaker 2: start blabbing off at the mouth something that nobody knows
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  Speaker 2: what in the world you're saying, then that is not
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  Speaker 2: the gift of tongues. If it's not bringing people closer
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  Speaker 2: to God through language, teaching what God is saying in
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  Speaker 2: the moment, then it is not the gift of tongues.
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  Speaker 2: Tongues equals languages. I wish I had the time to
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  Speaker 2: go to a deep study. But let's just go now
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  Speaker 2: with lesson number one from First Corinthians, chapter fourteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse six. Some people are like, what you two oversimplified it.
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  Speaker 2: That's not true. Okay, we'll go into your Bible and
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  Speaker 2: find that thing that nobody knows what you're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: and then we can talk. So the Bible reads, Now, brethren,
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  Speaker 2: if I come unto you speaking with tongues, so it's
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  Speaker 2: a legitimate biblical gift speaking with tongues, What shall I
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  Speaker 2: profit you? Except I shall speak to you either by
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  Speaker 2: revelation or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by Bible
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  Speaker 2: teaching or doctrine. And so this word of benefit, it's
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  Speaker 2: the word othelio. See I just used Greek coin, a
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  Speaker 2: Greek that's a tongue. Okay, to benefit, to profit, to
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  Speaker 2: be of use to another. Paul's measure for every gift
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  Speaker 2: exercised in public worship is whether it benefits those who
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  Speaker 2: are present. It's a gift that helps, a gift that helps,
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  Speaker 2: no one has missed its purpose entirely. And that just
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  Speaker 2: means it's not. Yeah, it edifies the people of God
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  Speaker 2: and magnifies God. You understand. And so the question that
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  Speaker 2: Paul applies to tongues is a question that applies really
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  Speaker 2: frankly to every gift. Does it benefit the body of Christ?
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  Speaker 2: A gift turned inward use for personal display or private
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  Speaker 2: spiritual experience in a public setting fails to meet the
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  Speaker 2: standard God set for corporate worship. It just happens that
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  Speaker 2: we are focusing on tongues in this moment. But that's
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  Speaker 2: all things. There are some people that will pray on
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  Speaker 2: and on and on and on and on and on
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  Speaker 2: and on and on, like you pray in your closet.
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  Speaker 2: You talk to God as to a friend for hours.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to all through the night season, that's
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  Speaker 2: your business. But when the people of God are together,
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  Speaker 2: why pray for thirty minutes? Why pray for fifteen in
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  Speaker 2: straight minutes? Why pray long prayers? Except that maybe people
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  Speaker 2: don't have the discipline to know that God can hear you.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a corporate setting, and unless there is
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  Speaker 2: something really pressing upon the people of God, then we
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  Speaker 2: don't weary the saints in that regard. I know I
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  Speaker 2: went over into prayer public prayer, but I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: that's the reality. And so today we want to ask God.
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  Speaker 2: Ask God whether the way you exercise your gifts, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is huh, whatever it is in community as genuinely
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  Speaker 2: benefiting others, or whether it has quietly become about your
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  Speaker 2: own spiritual experience like is focused on you. Let me
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  Speaker 2: read you a quote we're going to read from the
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  Speaker 2: book Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, page four hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty nine, where it reads, the Holy Spirit never
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  Speaker 2: leads to self exalt. Those who are under his influence
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  Speaker 2: will be meek and humble. They will seek to speak
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  Speaker 2: words that will be a blessing and an edification to
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  Speaker 2: those who hear. Aren't you glad that God thinks of
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  Speaker 2: you when he thinks about how these gifts are to
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  Speaker 2: be used within the faith fellowship? Let me read from
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  Speaker 2: First Corinthians, chapter fourteen, verse twenty seven. This is our
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  Speaker 2: next lesson. If a man speak in an unknown tongue,
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  Speaker 2: let it be by two or at the most by three,
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  Speaker 2: and that by course, and let one be one interpret.
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  Speaker 2: And people get hung up on the term unknown, Let
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  Speaker 2: me just say that term is a gloss. It's not
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  Speaker 2: really there. You look into modern translations, you'll read it'll
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  Speaker 2: read more like this. If a man speak in a
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  Speaker 2: if someone speaks in a tongue, it should be two
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  Speaker 2: or at the most three, one after the other. Someone
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  Speaker 2: must interpret. And so this means to translate. It's not
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  Speaker 2: that it can't be known some mystery language that only
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  Speaker 2: happens in heaven. To translate, to explain fully so that
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  Speaker 2: the understanding results. Paul requires interpretation, because intelligibility is the standard.
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  Speaker 2: What cannot be understood cannot build up the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so God has given us the privilege of speaking
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  Speaker 2: in all sorts of tongues in order to bring people
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  Speaker 2: closer to God. But we must know what in the
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  Speaker 2: world we're saying. 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,