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08 03 2026 Unity Through Diversity · 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: third 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, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is unity through diversity, Unity through Diversity. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to welcome you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please, please,
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  Speaker 2: will you click that button that says click here to
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  Speaker 2: discover God's design for your life. Stop guessing what to
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  Speaker 2: do with your life. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we have made contribution to the world of God's believers.
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  Speaker 2: I said world, I meant to say the fellowship of
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  Speaker 2: God's Believers, because we go into the world to glorify
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  Speaker 2: Him and of course we are edified in the process.
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  Speaker 2: So discover God's design for your life. And also, please
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  Speaker 2: will you click the contribute button because your daily portion
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  Speaker 2: ministries is a listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for giving us the privilege of coming
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  Speaker 2: together in this manner to be called by your name
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  Speaker 2: and to be able to be ourselves and still go
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  Speaker 2: into the world to lead men, women and children, boys
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  Speaker 2: and girls into a right relationship with You. Please make
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  Speaker 2: us faithful today God in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and a men again. Unity through diversity. So much to say,
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  Speaker 2: so little time. So when I talk about unity through diversity,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not using a church administrator term when I say
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  Speaker 2: that based on votes and some of the things that
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  Speaker 2: we say in official sessions, and no disrespect to those
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  Speaker 2: sessions because they are mission critical for the faith fellowship,
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  Speaker 2: the people of God. But what I'm talking about is
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  Speaker 2: something that is one hundred percent Bible centered. It is
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  Speaker 2: it's Bible centered. Every member in the Body of Christ
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  Speaker 2: is necessary, the gifts that God has given us, the
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  Speaker 2: ones that we carry. It was placed in you by
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  Speaker 2: God himself, and the body cannot be complete without you.
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  Speaker 2: Can I just say it one more again for the
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  Speaker 2: people in the back. Every member of the body is necessary.
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  Speaker 2: The gift you carry was placed inside of you. God
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  Speaker 2: created you with these. He did it. He's done by God,
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  Speaker 2: and the body cannot be complete without you. I see
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  Speaker 2: online and it's not because I'm looking. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: scrolling through. I don't like the doom scrolling thing like.
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  Speaker 2: It's not my style. I don't have that kind of time.
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  Speaker 2: But once in a while I will run into formers
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  Speaker 2: fill in the blank, formers of this faith fellowship, former
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  Speaker 2: former and people are saying that they are much better off,
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  Speaker 2: and they are making it seem as if their lives
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  Speaker 2: are peachy king because they have chosen to detach themselves,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, God, how is this possible? The only
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  Speaker 2: way that that's possible is that somehow the devil has
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  Speaker 2: caused them to believe that the body can be complete
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  Speaker 2: without them, that somehow they can go to what they
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  Speaker 2: consider to be greener pastures and find something better than
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  Speaker 2: what God has placed within his body. How can a
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  Speaker 2: person who was a member of the body of Christ
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  Speaker 2: detach themselves from the head and feel like we're still living?
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  Speaker 2: I think that even in medical science we see that
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  Speaker 2: once a person is brain dead, they're dead. So if
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  Speaker 2: the body and the brain no longer are able to communicate,
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  Speaker 2: that means that all of the functions of the body
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  Speaker 2: they die, and therefore it's all over for them. And
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  Speaker 2: so God is saying, no, no, no, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to remain connected to me. Remain connected to me, because
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  Speaker 2: when you abide in the vine, then you will continue
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  Speaker 2: to have life. I know I said a lot. Don't
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  Speaker 2: misinterpret what I said. Just listen under God to what
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  Speaker 2: I said. I said very clear words that are easy
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  Speaker 2: to understand. And so we go back again into First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twelve, and we'll read verses twelve and thirteen, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll read it from the New English translation of the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, for just as the body is one
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  Speaker 2: and yet has many members, and all members of the body,
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  Speaker 2: though many, are one body, so too is Christ. For
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  Speaker 2: in one spirit, we are all baptized into one body.
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  Speaker 2: Whether Jews or Greeks, or slaves or free, we are
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  Speaker 2: all made to drink of one spirit to baptize. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible used the word baptizo. It means to immerse, to
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  Speaker 2: place fully into Every belief, regardless of our backgrounds or status,
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  Speaker 2: has been immersed into the same body by the same
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. Baptism is the great equalizer that makes unity
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  Speaker 2: through diversity possible. Yes, we are baptized by the water
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  Speaker 2: and by the Holy Spirit, and this is the great equalizer.
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  Speaker 2: So what is the lesson? Diversity in the body of
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  Speaker 2: CHRISTI is not a source of tension. I've said this
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  Speaker 2: to you two different ways until now, since a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days ago. Be every background, every temperament, every behavior, style,
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  Speaker 2: every spiritual gift is brought into one body by the
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  Speaker 2: same one Holy Ghost for one purpose. So what do
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  Speaker 2: we need to do? What is our action step? Celebrate
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  Speaker 2: someone in your faith fellowship today? Can you do that?
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  Speaker 2: Can you find somebody to celebrate today who's background or
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  Speaker 2: give is different than yours. There are times that people
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  Speaker 2: are tempted to say, well, since you don't look like me,
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  Speaker 2: you don't behave like me, you do not process like
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  Speaker 2: me at the same pace as me. Then somehow then
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  Speaker 2: there is something. There's something off, there is something wrong.
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  Speaker 2: And God is saying, celebrate somebody in the faith fellowship
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  Speaker 2: whose background or gift is different than yours. And thank
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  Speaker 2: God that he designed the body to need both of you.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Thank God that he has designed all of
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  Speaker 2: this and he needs both The body needs both of you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read from the book Testimonies for the Church,
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  Speaker 2: Volume six and page four hundred thirty. Testimonies for the Church,
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  Speaker 2: Volume six, page four hundred and thirty, and we read
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  Speaker 2: the church is composed of imperfect erring men and women
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  Speaker 2: who need patient, painstaking effort that they may be molded
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  Speaker 2: after the divine pattern. Every member of the church is
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  Speaker 2: to be tenderly, what nurtured, carefully, what guarded, that no
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  Speaker 2: one may become negligent and indifferent. Say, I, you're like
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  Speaker 2: a shepherd, lead us. This is what God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: that he has put us in a position to be
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  Speaker 2: shepherded in the body. Okay, and so in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter twelve, as we come to a swift clothes verses
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  Speaker 2: twenty six and twenty seven, we read if one member suffers,
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  Speaker 2: all suffer together. If a member is honored, all rejoice together.
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  Speaker 2: Now you are Christ's body and each of you is
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  Speaker 2: a member of it. This means we were talking about suffering.
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  Speaker 2: It means to do this together. Right to feel the
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  Speaker 2: pain of another one's own. Paul says, the body of
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  Speaker 2: Christ shares both joy and pain. What touches one member
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  Speaker 2: touches all members, because the body is genuinely one. Can
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  Speaker 2: we just say amen to that? Like in your physical body,
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  Speaker 2: when something is off, the whole body is is disased.
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  Speaker 2: I'm overstating it, but you get the point. We are
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  Speaker 2: not in isolation. So find out today how someone in
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  Speaker 2: your faith fellowship is doing today. I'm talking about truly
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  Speaker 2: doing and respond to what you find with the care
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  Speaker 2: of a body that shares in one another's suffering and joy.
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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,