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08 31 2026 Suffering and Glory · 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, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, the
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  Speaker 2: 31st day of August in 2026. Hello, my name is L.
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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 1st and 2nd Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Suffering Today. and glory,
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  Speaker 2: suffering and glory. We'll get into that in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: But first, I'd like to go ahead and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to go to yourdailyportion.com, yourdailyportion.com. It's a website. I know
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  Speaker 2: some of my elders don't know what I'm trying to say,
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  Speaker 2: but you go to your web browser, not to WhatsApp.
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  Speaker 2: You go to your web browser, And you're going to
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  Speaker 2: whatever way you want to call it, and look for this.
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  Speaker 2: Stop guessing what to do with your life. No matter
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  Speaker 2: what age we are these days, there's a way for
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  Speaker 2: us to get more acquainted, discover God's design. for our lives, okay?
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  Speaker 2: And then click that button down there. I put a
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  Speaker 2: yellow arrow on my screen so you can see where
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  Speaker 2: the button is right there. Begin, begin the assessment and
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  Speaker 2: then follow the instructions there and get closer to what
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  Speaker 2: God has called you to do. Also, please, please, if
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  Speaker 2: getting closer to God, you are learning anything more from
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures or even experiencing some community elements when you're
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  Speaker 2: watching online. I know the radio folks can't experience that
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  Speaker 2: unless you come online, right? But if any of those
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  Speaker 2: is listener-friendly. and viewer supported. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, we thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for the work
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  Speaker 2: that you have called us to do. Father, will you
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  Speaker 2: please teach us context for suffering and know that once
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  Speaker 2: you're with us, we're good to go. In Jesus' name
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  Speaker 2: I pray.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And amen again. Let me jump in, jump in. The
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  Speaker 2: first and most important thing for me today is that
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  Speaker 2: present suffering and future glory are not opposites. And I
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  Speaker 2: know because the Bible says that these temporary and light
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  Speaker 2: afflictions that are for but a moment are not worthy
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  Speaker 2: to be compared to the glory that is revealed in us.
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  Speaker 2: And I agree, of course, with the scriptures, but I
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to shift the mindset a little bit because
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  Speaker 2: those go together. They're companions. They're like, not twins, but
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  Speaker 2: like cousins, like every affliction carried for Christ is producing
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  Speaker 2: a weight of glory that will far outweigh it. That
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  Speaker 2: means that God is watching. It means that he did promise.
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  Speaker 2: He promised that those who are who are living godly
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  Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution, but it's the living
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  Speaker 2: godly in Christ Jesus part. He said that when men
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  Speaker 2: revile you and persecute you and say all manner of
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  Speaker 2: evil against you falsely for my sake, rejoice and be
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  Speaker 2: exceeding glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for
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  Speaker 2: so persecuted they the prophets, which are which were before you.
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  Speaker 2: And so that kind of suffering for the sake of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: not for the evil we have done. The Bible writer
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  Speaker 2: said that when we suffer for Christ, for holiness, that
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  Speaker 2: is acceptable unto God. So when that is the reality,
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  Speaker 2: we know we're on the right track. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: we're welcoming suffering and begging God to cause us to suffer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that when suffering comes as a result
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  Speaker 2: of our connection with God, then we know we're on
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  Speaker 2: the right track and that glory is already being manifest
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  Speaker 2: in a way. But by God's grace, we will see
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  Speaker 2: more and more of his glory in the end, of course.
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  Speaker 2: And so I am going to read a familiar and
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  Speaker 2: near favorite passage of a lot of people in the faith.
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  Speaker 2: From 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verses 8 through 10, I'll
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  Speaker 2: read it from the King James because that is the
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  Speaker 2: most familiar one. We are troubled on every side. If
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  Speaker 2: you've been troubled, brothers and sisters, on every side, then
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  Speaker 2: just continue with me here. It says, yet not distressed. See,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people, when we are troubled, choose to be distressed.
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  Speaker 2: The trouble's coming, for sure. The trouble may, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: be right here, sitting on your plate right now, knocking
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  Speaker 2: on your door, sitting in your vehicle right next to
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  Speaker 2: you or the taxi behind you. That is a reality.
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  Speaker 2: But you get to choose, brothers and sisters, under the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost, to not be distressed. It says it right there.
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  Speaker 2: We are perplexed, but we get to choose. God, we
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  Speaker 2: don't understand this right now. We don't know why we
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  Speaker 2: have to go through these particular things. We thought we
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  Speaker 2: were going along more of a smooth journey for this day,
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  Speaker 2: but wow, here comes another one, God. Ah, but the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that we don't need to be in despair
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  Speaker 2: under the Holy Ghost, but not despair. but not in despair. Persecuted,
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  Speaker 2: that happens, but we are not forsaken. I know Jesus
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  Speaker 2: cried out, my God, my God, why have thou forsaken me?
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  Speaker 2: But he was not forsaken. It was just how he
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  Speaker 2: felt under persecution. The Father was there. Right there, suffering
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  Speaker 2: next to the cross, if you want to say suffering.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to be disrespectful to our Father, but
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  Speaker 2: you think it was easy, even though he had eternity
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  Speaker 2: in his hands, even though he knew exactly how this
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  Speaker 2: would pan out? Do you think it was easy for
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  Speaker 2: the Father to watch that? Do you think it was
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  Speaker 2: easy for those angels, the retinue of angels on their
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  Speaker 2: various levels and rank to watch Jesus suffer on the cross? Ah,
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  Speaker 2: but Jesus was not forsaken, and neither are you, cast
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  Speaker 2: down but not destroyed, always bearing about in the body
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  Speaker 2: the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ. There are times
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  Speaker 2: that we feel that pain of death, but they're temporary,
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  Speaker 2: they're light. These afflictions, they're temporary, they're light. And then
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  Speaker 2: it says that the life also of Jesus might be
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  Speaker 2: made manifest in your body. So you're feeling the suffering,
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  Speaker 2: you're feeling the perplexity, you're feeling the persecution, you're feeling
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  Speaker 2: the trouble on every side, you are feeling cast down,
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  Speaker 2: you are dying in your body with Christ. But he's
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  Speaker 2: not going to leave you there. You know, he's risen.
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  Speaker 2: Christ the Lord is risen. Hallelujah. That's what the hymn
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  Speaker 2: writer penned. And so you think he's only going to
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  Speaker 2: give you one side of this thing? Come on. If
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  Speaker 2: you are suffering with Christ, then the promise is that
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  Speaker 2: he will give you the same glory that is revealed
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  Speaker 2: in him. I want you to restudy the Bible book
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  Speaker 2: of Daniel. Very few Bible teachers really talk about this.
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  Speaker 2: But Daniel chapter 7, even in my faith fellowship, it's
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  Speaker 2: like people gloss over, gloss over the part that after
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  Speaker 2: the judgment... after the judgment that Jesus gives his people
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  Speaker 2: and shares with his people the same kingdom that, huh?
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  Speaker 2: As the scene opens up in the beginning of the text,
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  Speaker 2: it says that there was one like the Son of
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  Speaker 2: Man appearing before the Ancient of Days, right? And he eventually,
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  Speaker 2: he receives a kingdom. People don't talk about how Jesus
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  Speaker 2: gives that kingdom to the people of God who come
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  Speaker 2: through judgment in a positive sense. So that is the promise.
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  Speaker 2: That is our reality. The lesson writer actually quoted from
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  Speaker 2: the book, The Great Controversy, page 105. Page 105, John Huss,
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  Speaker 2: the great reformer of the old bohemia, once said about Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: what did this reformer say? The protest is not over,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. He is master of the world, and
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  Speaker 2: we are... So that's the end of the quote. So
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  Speaker 2: God has seen fit. to be so kind to us.
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  Speaker 2: How kind? He has seen fit to be so kind
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  Speaker 2: that this suffering has an outcome, that he will purify
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  Speaker 2: our souls, and one day we will be revealed in light, ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: with Christ. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day.