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07 04 2026 The Message of the Cross · 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 Sabbath, July fourth,
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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 new
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series with lesson number two and first and
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  Speaker 2: second Corinthians under the caption the Message of the Cross,
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  Speaker 2: The Message of the Cross. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father, We thank you for this day,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for allowing us to come into your presence
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  Speaker 2: this Sabbath morning and experience independence from sin, to be
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  Speaker 2: delivered and to be free to do what you have
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  Speaker 2: called us to do. Please help us to do it
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  Speaker 2: until Jesus comes in his name, We pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: amen again. The most important thing, even though the title
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  Speaker 2: gives us really the focus, but the most important thing
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  Speaker 2: in my mind this Sabbath morning is when sin has
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  Speaker 2: broken your life. I think I can just pause right here.
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  Speaker 2: But the people on the radio might get antsy like
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  Speaker 2: the broadcast cut. But when sin has broken your life
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  Speaker 2: and pride has divided God's people, your answer is still
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ and him crucified. That's still the answer. It's
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  Speaker 2: the right answer. Still. The Cross of Christ is the
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  Speaker 2: power of God to save you, to still humble you,
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  Speaker 2: and to bring you back into peace with God and
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  Speaker 2: with one another. And I'm grateful. So our first lesson
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  Speaker 2: comes in from verse eighteen of First Corinthians, Chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: First Corinthians, Chapter one, and verse eighteen. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: for the preaching of the cross to is to them
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  Speaker 2: that perish foolishness. Can I just pause right there? So
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  Speaker 2: I don't want you to feel disrespectful toward your friends
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  Speaker 2: and neighbors and others, maybe some in your family circle
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  Speaker 2: who are not yet saved, sanctified and filled with the
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  Speaker 2: Holy goes when you say to them things concerning God's
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  Speaker 2: word and how they can be transformed, and they think
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  Speaker 2: it's foolishness. I actually remember, boy, it was well before
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  Speaker 2: I got married, but after I got baptized, so it
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  Speaker 2: was around nineteen ninety seven ish, and I remember going
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  Speaker 2: into the apartment that I was living in in Washington,
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  Speaker 2: d C. In the United States, and I remember going right.
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  Speaker 2: I just walked into the into the lobby and two
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  Speaker 2: of the elders, they are women where there looked like
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  Speaker 2: they were having an argument with a with a with
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  Speaker 2: a man with a man, and they were all elders
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  Speaker 2: to me, and the two women were Christians, and the
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  Speaker 2: other gentleman. He was not even close, like he had
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  Speaker 2: no interest. And when they were having this argument, the
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  Speaker 2: sisters they were like, David, come in here and weigh
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  Speaker 2: in on it, way in on this discussion that we're having.
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  Speaker 2: And I began to explain to him, and I said,
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  Speaker 2: I understand that you don't believe or agree with what
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  Speaker 2: these sisters have said, but can I just talk to
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  Speaker 2: you a moment about how much God loves you. See,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even want to get involved in the argument
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  Speaker 2: they were having and what that love meant. And I
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  Speaker 2: began to teach him the plan of Salvation in just
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  Speaker 2: a couple of moments time. And you know what that
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  Speaker 2: brother said, Brothers and sisters, you know what he said.
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  Speaker 2: And he's an elder. He would be an elder to
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  Speaker 2: me now. And I'm in my fifties. He said, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: that's foolishness. I don't believe that. And I said, God, wow,
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  Speaker 2: and listen. It had nothing to do with anything he
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  Speaker 2: needed to believe except that God loved him. That God
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  Speaker 2: loves him part of me, had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: any new teaching that he needed to have an argument
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  Speaker 2: in his mind about. It had everything to do with
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  Speaker 2: the fact that God loves him despite all of the
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  Speaker 2: things that he had done, and God is willing to
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  Speaker 2: have a relationship with him, and here is the pathway.
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  Speaker 2: He literally threw up his hands and started shaking his
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  Speaker 2: head side to side, walking away in frustration, and said, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: that's foolishness. That doesn't make any sense. I don't believe that.
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  Speaker 2: This is what the text is saying. At minimum, this
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  Speaker 2: is what the text is saying. But unto us us
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  Speaker 2: which are saved, it is the power of God. So
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  Speaker 2: what is the goal to get as many people into
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  Speaker 2: the position of being saved so they can experience this power?
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters and so and so? What the world
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  Speaker 2: despises God is using to save them the sacrifice of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. We keep using the term the cross, but
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  Speaker 2: we're really talking about what Jesus did and giving his
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  Speaker 2: life for us. That is not a weakness, Like nobody
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  Speaker 2: ran up on him and took his life, even though
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  Speaker 2: they are guilty of murder, because that was their intent.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that Jesus yielded to the process. He volunteered
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  Speaker 2: because he could have resisted. But that was not a weakness.
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  Speaker 2: It was the place where God reveals his power to
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  Speaker 2: rescue the perishing. Oh, say, those who are dying, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, that's the goal when Jesus gave his life
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  Speaker 2: for us and took it up again. And so what
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  Speaker 2: do we need to do? Here is an action step.
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  Speaker 2: Stop looking for human answers to your deepest need. Trust
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  Speaker 2: fully and what Jesus accomplished for you on the cross.
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  Speaker 2: I'm speaking to the brothers and sisters who are saying
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  Speaker 2: that we're believers, but I'm especially speaking to someone who
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  Speaker 2: may have been invited here and you're like, well, what
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  Speaker 2: is the deal with this guy on here yelling every day?
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  Speaker 2: What is the deal with this ten minutes every single
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  Speaker 2: day every day? You don't have anything better to do?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely not. I have nothing better to do than to
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  Speaker 2: preach the blessing of Jesus Christ. Giving all so that you,
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  Speaker 2: dear brother, you dear sister, can be saved. And so
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  Speaker 2: whatever the problems are, give those to Jesus. Find a
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  Speaker 2: faith fellowship whoever invited you. And if you can't find somebody,
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  Speaker 2: please please reach out and we can connect to somehow. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: all right? So this is what God is doing. Our
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  Speaker 2: lesson number two and probably final for this Sabbath morning
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  Speaker 2: is coming in from Colossians chapter one and verse twenty,
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  Speaker 2: where the Bible reads and having made peace through the
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  Speaker 2: blood of Jesus Christ, by him reconcile all things to himself.
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  Speaker 2: You see, we were born as enemies to God. Can
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  Speaker 2: I just say that very clearly? We were not born save,
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  Speaker 2: We were not born filled with the Holy goes. We
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  Speaker 2: were not born with a seat firm in the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of God. We were born hostile because we inherited the
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  Speaker 2: bloodline of Adam. That's what it says. And I think
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  Speaker 2: it's Genesis chapter five where his offspring were in his image,
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  Speaker 2: you understand. And so it is through the new birth
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  Speaker 2: experience as identified in John chapter three and first John
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  Speaker 2: chapter three that God transforms us and we get a
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  Speaker 2: new bloodline, and now we're able to be reconciled completely,
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  Speaker 2: able to be restored to harmony. That's what that word means,
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  Speaker 2: where God is making peace or reconciling us unto himself.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Cross does more than just expose our
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  Speaker 2: sins and sinfulness. It makes peace with God possible. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: gave his life so broken sinners like you, broken sinners
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  Speaker 2: like me, could be brought back to the Father. So
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  Speaker 2: come to God today this Sabbath morning. Come to Jesus
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  Speaker 2: with repentance and faith, and receive the peace that only
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  Speaker 2: Jesus can give.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,