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07 06 2026 Foolishness to Those Who Are Perishing · 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, July sixth,
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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 in the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is foolishness to those who
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  Speaker 2: are perishing, Foolishness to those who are perishing. Before we
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for giving us this message, the truth
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  Speaker 2: that transforms us. Thank you for giving us your holy
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  Speaker 2: spirit to understand, help us not to take him for granted.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus naying, I pray, Amen and amen again. Foolishness
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  Speaker 2: to those who are perishing. Okay, so we have read
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  Speaker 2: one of these passages over and over again verse eighteen
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  Speaker 2: of First Corinthians, Chapter one, like I mentioned we would,
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  Speaker 2: and so I'll just make it like you can go
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  Speaker 2: back and read it yourself and be and understand it
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  Speaker 2: during your own time. But the first thing that's most
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  Speaker 2: important to me today is what the world calls foolish.
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  Speaker 2: God uses to save right. Think about what Jesus did.
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  Speaker 2: He allowed people to abuse him, He allowed people to
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  Speaker 2: do things that he had the power to stop them
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  Speaker 2: from doing. He gave his life for people, many of
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  Speaker 2: whom hated him and some of whom would never love
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  Speaker 2: him just to give them the opportunity to be saved.
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  Speaker 2: At least, that's foolishness to people who don't love God right.
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  Speaker 2: God uses those kinds of things and more to save.
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  Speaker 2: Do not turn away from Jesus because the cross offends
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  Speaker 2: human pride. Couldn't you do something Jesus, Come down now
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  Speaker 2: from the cross and then I'll worship you. You see
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  Speaker 2: what I mean? The mindset of those who were unsaved
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  Speaker 2: that thought that that was foolish, that he wouldn't come
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  Speaker 2: down and save himself. Is he saved others himself, he
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  Speaker 2: cannot save Come down now and then I'll worship you.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, no, your mind is on the wrong things.
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  Speaker 2: It is still the only power strong enough to rescue
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  Speaker 2: the perishing. Rescue the perishing. And so Paul is showing
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  Speaker 2: that the problem is not that Jesus gave his life
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  Speaker 2: for us, not the cross, but in the heart that
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  Speaker 2: rejects what Jesus did for us. Those who are perishing
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  Speaker 2: see no beauty in the gospel of Jesus Christ. But
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  Speaker 2: those who are being saved know that God's power is
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  Speaker 2: found right there. So I want you to do this
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  Speaker 2: for this day. Don't measure God's truth by human opinion today,
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  Speaker 2: there are times that you will say things like to
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  Speaker 2: return tithe is a godly principle and a free will offering.
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  Speaker 2: You mean, you're giving ten percent plus ten, fifteen, twenty
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent to the church. Do you realize how? And
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  Speaker 2: then they'll say something negative about something that they may
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  Speaker 2: have seen or experienced in an unfaithful fellowship. That doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make sense well, because the saved mindset does understand this
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  Speaker 2: that God is the one that's watching, He's the one
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  Speaker 2: that's in control, and we do what God says in cooperation.
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  Speaker 2: But you have so many bills, your month is longer
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  Speaker 2: than your money, and you're still giving all that money
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  Speaker 2: to the You see what I'm saying. And I'm just
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  Speaker 2: talking about money because that's the thing people think about
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  Speaker 2: the most. It's in the news the most. It's spoken
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  Speaker 2: of in language related to currency and trade and money.
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  Speaker 2: That's spoken of more in the scriptures than anything else,
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  Speaker 2: and so people are fixated on that. But there was
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  Speaker 2: just so much more. You mean, just one lover your
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  Speaker 2: own spouse, that's it. You don't want to have other
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  Speaker 2: people come on. That's not enough to satisfy your fill
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  Speaker 2: in the blank, and God is saying, yeah, that's because
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  Speaker 2: your mindset is still on the foolishness. But the power
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  Speaker 2: of God unto salvation is in the Cross of Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So hold fast to the
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  Speaker 2: cross and trust in God's saving power. Our second lesson
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  Speaker 2: comes in from First Corinthians, chapter one and verse twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: where the Bible reads, for after that, in the wisdom
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  Speaker 2: of God. Let me say it in another translation New
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  Speaker 2: English translation, for since in the wisdom of God, the world,
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  Speaker 2: by its wisdom, did not know God. God, God was
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  Speaker 2: pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, in just ten minutes every single day,
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  Speaker 2: people can be saved. Yes, in a few minutes, that
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  Speaker 2: people are inside of a congregational setting and there is
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  Speaker 2: a preacher and there are psalmists who are sharing the
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  Speaker 2: gospel in musical form, that people can be saved. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: in the testimony of someone being transformed by God and
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  Speaker 2: sharing that transformation story. You mean somebody can be saved. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and yes. So God is here to save and to rescue,
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  Speaker 2: to deliver and make cold. That's what this is talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And so human wisdom cannot discover a way of salvation.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't come naturally or intellectually. God has chosen preaching
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  Speaker 2: to tell forth, that is, to speak the words of
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  Speaker 2: God in a way that guides people, lifting up Jesus
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  Speaker 2: and guiding people to the way of righteousness. He's chosen
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  Speaker 2: that to bring believing sinners into saving relationship with Him.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who will think, wait a minute, I
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  Speaker 2: thought that didn't make sense, and maybe it still doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make a lot of sense to me. But I am
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  Speaker 2: feeling something on the inside. I am now clear that
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  Speaker 2: I need to give myself to Him, Jesus Christ, and
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  Speaker 2: that begins the process. And so what I want you
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  Speaker 2: to do is listen humbly to God's word today. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about even even believers. Yes, listen to his word today.
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  Speaker 2: Believe what he says, even when it goes against human prier.
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  Speaker 2: It's too simple, God, there must be something else. Keep
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  Speaker 2: it simple, everybody, keep it simple. Our next lesson is
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  Speaker 2: coming in from First Corinthians, chapter one and verse twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: But we preach Christ and him crucified unto the ancient
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  Speaker 2: people of God. Came coming from Abraham, a stumbling block,
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  Speaker 2: and unto the Greeks, foolishness. So now you have two
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  Speaker 2: sets of people. The first set of people should be
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  Speaker 2: easily accepting it, but Abraham's kids sometimes had lost their minds,
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  Speaker 2: and even in twenty twenty six, still losing their minds
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  Speaker 2: because it's just too simple, still looking for our Messiah
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  Speaker 2: to emerge, when the Messiah has already come. And of
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  Speaker 2: course to the Greeks, the people who were not connected
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  Speaker 2: to God at all in those ancient times, of course, foolishness.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 2: The stumbling block concept means to cause offense. It's a
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  Speaker 2: cause of offense. So for people who say that this
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  Speaker 2: message does not fit their prescription or what they believe already,
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  Speaker 2: that's a cause of offense. Or it can be an
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  Speaker 2: obstacle that causes rejection. That's what the Greek term here
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  Speaker 2: for stumbling block means. The Cross offended both people of
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  Speaker 2: God who rejected him weird and then people who were
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  Speaker 2: just worldly because they were just too proud. Yet Paul
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  Speaker 2: would not change the message. The gospel does not bend
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  Speaker 2: to please the people. It calls the people to bow
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  Speaker 2: before Jesus Christ. The foolishness to those who are perishing yeah,
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  Speaker 2: make it a great day. 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,