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07 23 2026 Marriage and Singleness · 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: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, July
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series through the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is marriage and Singleness, Marriage
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  Speaker 2: and Ness. I want you to type in the chat
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  Speaker 2: if you are married or are you singled? Single singled?
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  Speaker 2: Are you married or single? I'm just curious. Go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and type it in the chat I'm married or I
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  Speaker 2: am currently single. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: will get underwaigh. Father, thank you, thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the fullness of your spirit, and we're asking you
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  Speaker 2: to for those who've not received him, please let that
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  Speaker 2: be their reality even in this moment. And Father, I
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  Speaker 2: pray that you will give us your wisdom concerning what
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  Speaker 2: it is to be married, what it is to be single,
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  Speaker 2: and not make up for us not to make up
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  Speaker 2: stuff in our own minds. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Marriage and singleness. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: put one against the other, as if one is greater
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  Speaker 2: than the other. Of course, for me, marriage is exceptional
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  Speaker 2: simone and I have just short of a month left
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  Speaker 2: until we are twenty five years married, Praise God. And
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  Speaker 2: so I love to be married. I love to be married.
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  Speaker 2: And some of you are exceptionally satisfied with your current
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  Speaker 2: state of singleness. And so we're just going into the
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  Speaker 2: by to see what God has to say on this subject.
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  Speaker 2: The most important thing in my mind this morning, based
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  Speaker 2: on our lesson, is that Joseph did not debate with
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  Speaker 2: temptation when Potiphar's wife, See that's somebody else's wife, Joseph.
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  Speaker 2: Potiphar's wife tried to get Joseph to do the unthinkable
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  Speaker 2: and to defile himself sexually with her, breaking the trust
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  Speaker 2: with God, breaking trust with Potiphar, breaking trust with his
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  Speaker 2: own community, etc. We could go down the list. He
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  Speaker 2: ran away, literally, he ran from it. So, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: when you flee for anication, you can do that literally.
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  Speaker 2: You might have to fling your phone somewhere. You may
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  Speaker 2: have to run away from somebody who's being overbearing, and
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  Speaker 2: that if you stay in his or her presence, then
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  Speaker 2: you will defile yourself. So please take a page out
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  Speaker 2: of Joseph's book. Don't debate with temptation. Run away from it.
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  Speaker 2: Not because you're fearful. We're not saying it's a fear thing.
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  Speaker 2: But listen, you play around with temptation, you end up
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  Speaker 2: like Eve at the tree hah. You play around with temptation,
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  Speaker 2: you end up like Samson with your hair cut off
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  Speaker 2: and your power gone. And so the power to flee
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  Speaker 2: sexual immorality comes from being joined to Christ, filled with
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  Speaker 2: his Holy spirit. For those who linger and feel like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I can just stop at just the right point, I
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  Speaker 2: can go this far and no further. That doesn't work,
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, Our minds are not designed that way.
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  Speaker 2: Our minds are designed to make these decisions sequentially. If
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  Speaker 2: that's the right way of saying it. God is saying
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  Speaker 2: don't play with it. That's it. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: else to say it. Do not play with it, because
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  Speaker 2: if you play with it, you're going to lose. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I don't like to lose. So, by God's grace, I
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  Speaker 2: ain't playing with it less the number one it's coming in.
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  Speaker 2: You can already imagine. From First Corinthians, Chapter six, First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter six, verses eighteen and nineteen. First Corinthians, Chapter six,
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  Speaker 2: verses eighteen and nineteen, the Bible uses the word flee,
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  Speaker 2: flee fornication or sexual immorality. Most of you have the
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  Speaker 2: wrong view of what fornication is. It comes from a
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  Speaker 2: word that basically means all sexual immorality. Has nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with married or not married. I don't know where
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  Speaker 2: we got that from, So flee all of that every
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  Speaker 2: sin that a man do with Let me switch to
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  Speaker 2: the new English translation. It's clearer here. Every sin a
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  Speaker 2: person commits is outside of the body. But immrality or
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  Speaker 2: the immoral person sins against his or her own body.
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  Speaker 2: Or do you not know that your body is the
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  Speaker 2: temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, whom
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  Speaker 2: you have from God, and you are not your own
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  Speaker 2: You know? The Bible says we are bought with a price. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ gave him life. The Holy Spirit seeks to
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  Speaker 2: live inside our lives. We must not crowd out the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost because of our sexual immorality. Please and thanks,
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  Speaker 2: and it's for your own good and for God's glory.
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  Speaker 2: Then to flee in this case means to escape, feel go.
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  Speaker 2: It means to escape, to run away from danger. It
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  Speaker 2: is not a passive resistance, but it is active. It
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  Speaker 2: is urgent departure, the same instinct a person has when
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  Speaker 2: running from physical danger. And let me just speak, because
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  Speaker 2: the culture requires this for some reason, men feel, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, some kind of negative way, and people even
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  Speaker 2: use insults to try to entrap males, even if other
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  Speaker 2: dudes are saying to the dude that runs away from
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  Speaker 2: the woman that he is tempted by in that moment,
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  Speaker 2: they use insults to say you're not a man, you're
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  Speaker 2: less than a man by running away. The sisters are
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  Speaker 2: being manipulated by some men who may say, if you
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  Speaker 2: loved me, you would and that would sound is going
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  Speaker 2: to like you would do this evil And they're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna says evil though you would do this thing that
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  Speaker 2: God said not to do. They're not gonna say God
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  Speaker 2: said not to They're gonna say, you would give me
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  Speaker 2: yourself and this, what we know now is immoral way
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  Speaker 2: if you loved me, And the Bible says no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: God is love, and everything that is love is also godly,
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  Speaker 2: So that act of fornication is not godly. Therefore it
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  Speaker 2: is not love. So the devil tries to manipulate both
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  Speaker 2: sexes with these weird ways of looking at things, and
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  Speaker 2: so and so the power to run away from sexual
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  Speaker 2: immorality flows directly from our relationship with Jesus Christ. And
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  Speaker 2: so the next time the temptation presents itself, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: sexual immorality or something else, do not engage in it physically.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have a conversation with it, don't play around with it,
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  Speaker 2: don't window shop with it, like don't peek in and
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  Speaker 2: see how far you can go and rationalize it like
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  Speaker 2: Eve did at the tree. Don't do that, Okay, remove
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  Speaker 2: it from yourself immediately and run not away necessarily from
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  Speaker 2: the temptation. I know I worked that one just a
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  Speaker 2: minute ago. But you're really running toward Jesus. You're fleeing fornication,
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  Speaker 2: you're fleeing other temptations, but you're really running to Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: So think of it that way. You're running toward Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: towards safety, toward that refuge that he promised in the
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  Speaker 2: time of trouble. Huh, that refuge in the time of storm.
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  Speaker 2: He is our hiding place in every single generation, from
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  Speaker 2: everlasting to everlasting. How urt God? This is what the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says. So we're running toward God in prayer. I
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  Speaker 2: really ran that time out. I got passionate. So let
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  Speaker 2: me just skip now to a quote from the book
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  Speaker 2: Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred and seventeen, where we
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  Speaker 2: read Joseph's virtue was the fruit of principle. He saw
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  Speaker 2: that to consent to sin would be to dishonor God.
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  Speaker 2: He had learned to love righteousness and to hate sin,
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  Speaker 2: and this determined his course. Aren't you glad that we
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  Speaker 2: see an example in Joseph in the way that we
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  Speaker 2: can live? Yeah, under God, 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.