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04 13 2025 One Flesh · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Sunday, April thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is one Flesh, One Flesh. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first i'd like to
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 2: this new day and for the privilege that you have
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  Speaker 2: given us to become one with you and one with
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  Speaker 2: our spouses. I pray that we will have your spirit
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  Speaker 2: and your wisdom, your perspective on all of this, and
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  Speaker 2: holiness in Jesus name. I pray a man and a
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  Speaker 2: men again one flesh. As I said to you the
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  Speaker 2: other day, this is one of my favorite Bible subjects
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  Speaker 2: because I am I'm happily married. Just let me just
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  Speaker 2: be clear right there, happily married for almost twenty four years.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thankful because I didn't come up in an
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  Speaker 2: environment where I saw happy marriage, you understand. So I
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  Speaker 2: am over the top with gratefulness because God has manifest
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  Speaker 2: his power in my household and marriage is a big
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  Speaker 2: deal to us. Okay, And so I'm going to quote
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  Speaker 2: way at the bottom of the lesson where it reads
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  Speaker 2: marriage the intimate pairing of two imperfect people. Can we
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  Speaker 2: just pause right here? I know I didn't finish the statement.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody who's married is imperfect on our own. We were
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  Speaker 2: born in sin, shaping in iniquity, imperfect on our own.
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  Speaker 2: So can you imagine now you have two people that
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  Speaker 2: are brought together who were both imperfect, and we're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to become one flesh. We'll get into a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more of that. Just give me a second, give me
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  Speaker 2: a second marriage. The intimate pairing of two imperfect people
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  Speaker 2: will always give cause for tension, will always give cause
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  Speaker 2: for tension. That doesn't mean that we must have tension, etc.
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  Speaker 2: But there's always an opportunity. There's always something in terms
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  Speaker 2: of our differences of opinions, difference of how we were
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  Speaker 2: brought up in our independent households before we got together.
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  Speaker 2: We will see things differently and sometimes it will stir
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  Speaker 2: up tension. Let me continue the quote. A marriage between
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  Speaker 2: the Church, God's Church and Christ is the pairing of
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  Speaker 2: a perfect savior a very imperfect bride, meaning God's people. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: we can learn about God's love from what a good
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  Speaker 2: marriage offers. Okay, and so now we can go back
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  Speaker 2: to the Bible book of Genesis chapter two, Genesis chapter
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  Speaker 2: two and read beginning at verse twenty three, before humans
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  Speaker 2: were imperfect, and it reads and Adams said, this is
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  Speaker 2: now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.
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  Speaker 2: She shall be called woman because she was taken out
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  Speaker 2: of man. And so now we see these two human beings,
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  Speaker 2: perfectly crafted in the mind and hands of God. They
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  Speaker 2: are put together after each of them had independent time
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  Speaker 2: with God. I wish I had the time, but both
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  Speaker 2: of them had independent time with God. And then God
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  Speaker 2: brought them together and they became one flesh. But the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that Adam immediately understood that this woman was
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  Speaker 2: a part of himself. Brothers, if you recognize that your
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  Speaker 2: wife is a part of you, how will you treat her?
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  Speaker 2: But then again, I realize that some of us are
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  Speaker 2: mistreating ourselves on a daily basis the way that we
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  Speaker 2: mistreat our minds with some of the entertainment that we consume,
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  Speaker 2: and some of us consume food and drinks that are
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  Speaker 2: destroying our health. Some of us have other kinds of
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  Speaker 2: dangerous and overly adventurous practices taking our lives into our
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  Speaker 2: own hands. And now it makes sense that if we
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  Speaker 2: are seeing her as a part of us, And I
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  Speaker 2: ask what I think is a logical question, like if
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  Speaker 2: you realize that your wife brother is a part of you,
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  Speaker 2: why would you mistreat her? Well, maybe I'm mistreating myself
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  Speaker 2: as a brother, Like maybe I'm mistreating myself in the
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  Speaker 2: street goes both ways. I'm just going to focus here
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  Speaker 2: because that is the way that the text is written.
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  Speaker 2: Verse twenty four. Therefore, shall a man leave his father
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  Speaker 2: and mother. We're going back to the ideal here, back
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  Speaker 2: to the ideal. Leave his father and mother, and shall
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  Speaker 2: cleave to his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says, and they were both naked, and
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  Speaker 2: we're not ashamed. Can I just say something that may
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  Speaker 2: seem simple to you, but it is not for me.
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  Speaker 2: It is not semantics, even though I understand what people mean.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you see Simone or you see me, and
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  Speaker 2: then because you don't see the other person, you go
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  Speaker 2: to either of us and say, where's your better half?
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  Speaker 2: Where is your better half? I'm like, ah, I understand
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  Speaker 2: where you're going with this, and listen, I have no
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  Speaker 2: problem saying that Simone's better than me. That is not
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  Speaker 2: my challenge. My challenge. My challenge is calling her a half.
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  Speaker 2: My challenge is calling me a half. Why Because the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says the two shall become one flesh. That means
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  Speaker 2: that God creates us, and then He delivers us from sin.
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  Speaker 2: And as we are living our lives according to His principles,
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  Speaker 2: we are whole and complete beings, and together we become
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  Speaker 2: one flesh. So one plus one equals one, not one half,
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  Speaker 2: not one fragmented parasitical part. I'm not saying that that
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  Speaker 2: is okay. It is not okay. But the one plus
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  Speaker 2: the one equals one flesh. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. Somebody's catching up. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible continues in Ephesians chapter five, beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty nine. For no man yet hated his own flesh.
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  Speaker 2: But nourisheth it, and cherisheth it, even as the Lord
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  Speaker 2: the Church. For we are members of his body, of
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  Speaker 2: his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall
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  Speaker 2: a man leave his father and mother, and they shall
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  Speaker 2: be joined unto each other. He shall be joined to
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  Speaker 2: his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. This
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  Speaker 2: is a great mystery that I am speaking concerning Christ
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  Speaker 2: in the Church. So this entire discussion about marriage, even
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  Speaker 2: though practical and we can learn and have clinics and
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of retreats concerning how we can be married
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  Speaker 2: in a successful context. Really, this is about being connected
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  Speaker 2: with God in a relationship. Christ and the Church is
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  Speaker 2: people and Christ. And when we look at it that way,
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  Speaker 2: then it's like, oh, wait a minute, Should I be
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  Speaker 2: selfish to Simone any at all? Because I'm supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be representing Christ? Simone? Should she be in any way
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  Speaker 2: disrespectful or selfish toward me? Ah, because she represents the
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  Speaker 2: apple of God's eye, of Christ's eye, she's the Church.
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  Speaker 2: Should I be disrespectful or should I humble myself before
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  Speaker 2: God and give my all according to this love principle?
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  Speaker 2: And so there are parallels between our marriage and Christ's relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Number One, it's of divine origin. Marriage is woman taken
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  Speaker 2: from man's flesh. And then together we see in the
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  Speaker 2: Church born from Christ's sacrifice. And then that union, that
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  Speaker 2: union brings us together under the power of God, so
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  Speaker 2: we can represent Him to the world. I wish I
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  Speaker 2: had the time. 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,