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07 13 2026 Centered on Jesus · 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 Monday, the
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  Speaker 2: thirteenth day of July 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, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is centered on Christ. Centered on Christ. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: There was a form over there and also please click
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  Speaker 2: listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this new day and for getting us thus
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  Speaker 2: far into our work week. Is stay too, Father, Will
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  Speaker 2: you give us understanding today? And will you give us
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  Speaker 2: the minds that lean toward you and focus on you.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray a men and a men again,
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  Speaker 2: centered on Jesus, the most important thing, brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 2: in my mind, and again I want you to do
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  Speaker 2: that for yourselves. Look through what we are studying for
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  Speaker 2: the day and see what is most important to you.
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  Speaker 2: But this is what is most important in my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was crucified for you. Let me emphasize the name
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  Speaker 2: or the words differently. Jesus was crucified for you, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus alone is the Lord of the Church. When your
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  Speaker 2: heart is centered on him, pride loses its grip, self
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  Speaker 2: begins to die, and unity becomes possible. So Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: the one who gave his life for you, not another
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  Speaker 2: human being. And if you give your own life, then
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  Speaker 2: that means that judgment is next or condemnation, because we
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  Speaker 2: cannot pay for the debt of sin. We cannot pay
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  Speaker 2: for that debt except we lose our lives eternally. And
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  Speaker 2: so Jesus possess dous so that since he the innocent one,
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  Speaker 2: the all powerful one, blessed be his name, since he
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  Speaker 2: gave his life for us, then we can live the
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  Speaker 2: life that he deserves.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: He died the death we deserve. Now we can live
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  Speaker 2: the life that he deserves. Our lesson number one comes
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  Speaker 2: in from First Corinthians, Chapter one and verse ten. I'll
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  Speaker 2: read it again. This is not the first time we've
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  Speaker 2: read it, but the Bible reads, I urge you, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: to agree together and end what your divisions, and to
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  Speaker 2: be unified or united by the same mind and purpose.
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  Speaker 2: God wants to restore, to mend, to put to proper order,
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  Speaker 2: and to make complete the people of God. I'm teaching
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  Speaker 2: you the Greek terminology that's in the text about this
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing. He wants us to be restored. He's
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  Speaker 2: restoring us. He wants us to be mended. He's the
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  Speaker 2: one actively mending us. He wants us to be in
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  Speaker 2: proper order. He is the one putting us to proper
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  Speaker 2: order and to make complete. This is what God's will
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  Speaker 2: is for us, brothers and sisters. It's the will of
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  Speaker 2: God concerning us. And so Paul was calling the people
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  Speaker 2: of God, the Church back to its proper condition in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: A couple of days ago, I said something about the
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  Speaker 2: body being diseased. When there is a cut, there is
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  Speaker 2: a wound, there is something that is not functioning in
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  Speaker 2: the way that God designed. That's called dis ease. God
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  Speaker 2: wants to end the disease in the body of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and so he's putting us back into proper condition. Unity
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  Speaker 2: does not happen when everyone gets their own way. It
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  Speaker 2: does happen, however, when the hearts of God's people are
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  Speaker 2: under the lordship of Christ. That means we're all marching
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  Speaker 2: under the same banner. We don't look alike. We may
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  Speaker 2: not even communicate in the same way. I shouldn't even
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  Speaker 2: say may not. There are four major ways that humans
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  Speaker 2: are wired, if I were to be specific, and those
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  Speaker 2: ways are not the same in everybody's bosom. I may
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  Speaker 2: be more analytical than some of you, hah. Some of
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  Speaker 2: you may be more decisive and direct than I am.
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  Speaker 2: Others of you may be more friendly and bubbly than
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  Speaker 2: I am. Most of you may be for real, for real.
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  Speaker 2: There are some of you who are super caring and empathetic,
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  Speaker 2: almost to a fault where you start to feel the
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  Speaker 2: sorrows of other people, to where it becomes so heavy
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  Speaker 2: for you. Now you have to give it to Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. But the point is that there are
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  Speaker 2: ways that God wired dies Us and everything that we do,
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  Speaker 2: even the way we learn about God and serve comes
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  Speaker 2: becomes becomes a microcosm of all of that. Okay, And
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  Speaker 2: so it happens when the hearts of God's people are
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  Speaker 2: under the lordship of Christ. That's how we get to unity.
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  Speaker 2: So what must we do in this regard? Ask Jesus
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  Speaker 2: today to mend any broken attitude relationship or spirit of
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  Speaker 2: division within you. Ask Jesus today to mend any broken
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  Speaker 2: attitude relationship or spirit of division in you today. Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number two. Lesson number two. The Bible reads in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one and verse nine. God is faithful. God is
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  Speaker 2: faithful by whom you are called into fellowship with His son,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. God is so kind to us, How kind
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  Speaker 2: is he? We were born hostile toward God. We were
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  Speaker 2: born hostile toward God. And He's saying, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: them to be hostile toward me anymore. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: there to be a division between me and my people,
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  Speaker 2: the ones that I created in the beginning, in my
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  Speaker 2: image and the image of God created he Him, Adam,
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  Speaker 2: in the image of God created He them, Adam and Eve,
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  Speaker 2: the nurturing, more nurturing attributes of his character in the
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  Speaker 2: bosom of Eve, ha the sterner attributes of God's character
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  Speaker 2: in the Bosom of Adam. And together they form the
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  Speaker 2: image of God. And God is saying, I need to
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  Speaker 2: get back to that, to where they can have relationship
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  Speaker 2: with Me, independent of one another, so that when they
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  Speaker 2: do come together, they come together with unity and power.
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  Speaker 2: And so God is faithful by whom you were called
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  Speaker 2: into fellowship with His son, the Lord Jesus Christ. That
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  Speaker 2: means that we are sharing, we are in communion, we
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  Speaker 2: are in close participation. God did not call us into
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  Speaker 2: loyalty to personalities. We're going to say this over and
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  Speaker 2: over because many times that is part of the division problem.
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  Speaker 2: We're divided by who we like God called his people
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  Speaker 2: into fellowship with his son Jesus Christ. Real unity begins
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  Speaker 2: and believers share life in Christ before they share opinions
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  Speaker 2: with others. You see, sometimes our opinions are shared before
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  Speaker 2: we share them with God, and then God corrects them,
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  Speaker 2: fixes them up, and then shows us what his actual
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  Speaker 2: will is. You see where I'm going with this and
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  Speaker 2: when that happens, that is why there's divisions. So share
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  Speaker 2: your opinions, share your grouses, share your problems hah, share
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  Speaker 2: your underlines and your markings about how God's people are
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  Speaker 2: going astray in your mind. Talk to God about it,
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  Speaker 2: and whatever comes out of that conversation and experience with God,
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  Speaker 2: then you bring it to the others, to the public
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  Speaker 2: you understand, to the fellowship, But do not come to
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  Speaker 2: one another before you go to God. Choose today to
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  Speaker 2: relate to other believers as people joined to you in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and not as rivals or opponents. Yeah, make it a
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  Speaker 2: 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,