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12 11 2025 Conflict Resolution · 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: 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 Thursday, December eleven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Conflict Resolution, Conflict Resolute. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, i'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: our care. Please, God, you said that we should, as
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  Speaker 2: much as it lieth unto us, live peaceably among all people,
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  Speaker 2: So help us to do that. Please, please, please, in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again. Conflict resolution.
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  Speaker 2: I need to be honest with you. If you go
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  Speaker 2: into the actual lesson the adult study guide for today,
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  Speaker 2: you will see some really interesting communication principles, and I
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  Speaker 2: want you to go through those. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: do that here because you already have that in front
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  Speaker 2: of you, so I want you to drill that on
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  Speaker 2: your own time. It is six really good principles and
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  Speaker 2: so just again I wanted to highlight that so that
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  Speaker 2: you can go back and revisit. Now, let me share
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  Speaker 2: what's not in the actual study guide because I'm preparing
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  Speaker 2: for you. Right, We're going to go ahead and begin.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to begin with an old article again, let's
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  Speaker 2: call it a classic or a pioneer's article from Jan
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  Speaker 2: Andrews Reviewing Harold August fourteenth, eighteen sixty six and it reads.
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  Speaker 2: Unity must not be preserved at the expense of truth.
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  Speaker 2: Yet truth loses none of its strength when spoken in love.
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  Speaker 2: Reproof mingled with tenderness wins the heart. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: conflict resolution, So there is a balance here about how
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  Speaker 2: we share what we share when there is a conflict.
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  Speaker 2: Is truth at stake?
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a relationship that is at stake? Is it
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  Speaker 2: love that can be challenged here because of the way
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  Speaker 2: that we respond to people. Yeah, so reproof mingled with
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  Speaker 2: tenderness wins the heart. Now, coming in from the book
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  Speaker 2: Gospel Workers, page one hundred and nineteen, let us remember
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  Speaker 2: that in seeking to correct others, we must be tender, patient,
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  Speaker 2: and kind. Harsh words stir up strife, but a gentle
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  Speaker 2: answer will subdue anger and inspire confidence. So people really
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  Speaker 2: just need to know that you have their best interest
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  Speaker 2: at heart, even when they have to be reproved. So
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  Speaker 2: relationship matters. Relationship matters. It's all about relationship. And of
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  Speaker 2: course we are remaining true to God, his word and
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  Speaker 2: his guidance. Okay, So our first lesson is unity thrives
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  Speaker 2: when we seek understanding first. That's a basic Honestly, that's
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  Speaker 2: a basic communication principle seek to be seek to hear
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  Speaker 2: before seeking to be heard. That's a common principle. Let's
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  Speaker 2: read it from the Book of Psalm chapter one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and thirty three and verse one, and it reads, Behold,
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  Speaker 2: how good and how pleasant is it for brethren to
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  Speaker 2: dwell together in unity? How good and how pleasant it
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  Speaker 2: is for brethren to dwell together in unity? And so
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  Speaker 2: the Hebrew word for unity in this case means togetherness
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  Speaker 2: and one. So, of course, there was this big crisis
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  Speaker 2: in the Book of Joshua, chapter twenty two that almost
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  Speaker 2: tore the nation apart, and yet unity was preserved. Why
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  Speaker 2: how did they preserve unity? Let's see, did they apply
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  Speaker 2: the principles that we shared just a second ago. Because
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  Speaker 2: the leaders chose conversation over confrontation, conversation over confrontation. They
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  Speaker 2: asked questions before passing judgment, and I will say even
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  Speaker 2: instead of passing judgment, they listened before acting. You should
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  Speaker 2: be thinking like, is this the way that I deal
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  Speaker 2: with conflict? Is this the way I deal with fact finding?
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  Speaker 2: Or am I coming across as judgmental or as someone
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  Speaker 2: who was cross examining a witness on the witness stand.
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  Speaker 2: Listen before acting unity is not automatic or passive. God
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  Speaker 2: is giving us the privilege to choose unity, to protect unity,
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  Speaker 2: and strengthen unity through intentional communication. You already know that's
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  Speaker 2: my thing, and so our action step is before reacting
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  Speaker 2: to conflict. It's almost like what we talked about yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Take time or invest time in understanding the other person's perspective,
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  Speaker 2: ask clarifying questions with a calm spirit under God. Lesson
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  Speaker 2: number two, Christ praise for unity based on love and truth.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know we're going into the Bible Book of John,
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  Speaker 2: chapter seventeen and verse twenty one. That is the what
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  Speaker 2: is called the high priestly Prayer of Christ and it
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  Speaker 2: reads He's asking his father that they may be one,
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  Speaker 2: as Thou Father art in me. So God has given
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  Speaker 2: us the standard of unity. Sometimes people are trying to unify,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm talking about people who say we're doing it
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  Speaker 2: under God, or trying to unify by throwing away truths,
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  Speaker 2: trying to subjugate people's mindsets so that they can become
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  Speaker 2: what they call unified. But really it's uniform. Uniformity and
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  Speaker 2: unity are two different things, but Jesus is giving us
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  Speaker 2: the standard first. The standard is the Father and Jesus's relationship. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what does it look like the Father, it says art
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  Speaker 2: he said, art in me and I in thee. So
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  Speaker 2: they are so closely aligned and allied it's difficult to
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  Speaker 2: tell who is at work here. At times. It's people
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  Speaker 2: are always trying to splice God and say, well, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was at work here, God the Father was at work here,
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost was at work here. Well, really, they
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  Speaker 2: are so allied and aligned that we sometimes can't even
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  Speaker 2: tell who's at work. Because God, the family of God, Father, Son,
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  Speaker 2: holy ghosts are at work so unified thou art in
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  Speaker 2: me and I in thee, that they also may be
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  Speaker 2: one in us. So if God's people are unified, they
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  Speaker 2: are unified in the same way and by the same
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  Speaker 2: standard that the Father and the Son are unified. So
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  Speaker 2: God has set the standard of unity, and when we
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  Speaker 2: are attaining to that same standard, then we also are
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  Speaker 2: one with God. And so the Greek word here in
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  Speaker 2: this case for unity means of purpose and of spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's prayer reveals that unity is not sameness, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: not uniformity, but shared allegiance to him. The Western and
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  Speaker 2: Eastern tribes had different territories, different geographies, different concerns, but
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  Speaker 2: one God, one faith, one covenant. Christ Like unity places
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  Speaker 2: mission above misunderstanding and truth above tradition. Our action step
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  Speaker 2: is to pray each day for the unity of your
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  Speaker 2: local fellowship, your church fellowship. Ask God to make you
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  Speaker 2: an instrument of peace and truth in your relationships. And
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  Speaker 2: let me just say the final lesson simply is conflict
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  Speaker 2: resolution requires humility, kindness, and restraint. We've already talked about that,
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  Speaker 2: So please, please please continue to trust God, continue to
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  Speaker 2: allow peace to live in your heart, and let God
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  Speaker 2: fight your battles 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,