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07 17 2026 Unity Wins · 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 Friday, July seventeen,
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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 Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Unity Wins. Unity Wins.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this day and the privilege that you
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  Speaker 2: have entrusted to us to open up your word again.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm asking you on this preparation day that you
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  Speaker 2: will make us unified, make us holy, help us to
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  Speaker 2: be one with you and one with each other. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray a man and a man again.
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  Speaker 2: Unity really does win. I'm going to begin, as always
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  Speaker 2: with what I consider to be the most important thing,
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  Speaker 2: at least at this moment. That's how I see it.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus prayed for your unity right before, right before he
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  Speaker 2: gave his life for us, he prayed for all of
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  Speaker 2: our unity. Let's put it that way. Right before he
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  Speaker 2: gave his life for us. The blood he shed is
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  Speaker 2: the power that makes it possible. So when he is
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  Speaker 2: speaking to his father and saying, Father, make them one
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  Speaker 2: as you and I are one, it is because of
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  Speaker 2: his life that this is possible. Because remember we were
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  Speaker 2: born hostile toward God. That's what happened at our birth.
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  Speaker 2: We were born in sin Shapen in iniquity, and now
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  Speaker 2: that we are reconciled unto God by Jesus's blood, we
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  Speaker 2: can have fellowship with God and fellowship with one another.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the most important thing in our lesson for today.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're going to go ahead and jump in
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  Speaker 2: with our first lesson right from John chapter seventeen. This
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  Speaker 2: is where that prayer is taken from. And I'll read
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  Speaker 2: verses twenty and twenty one. John chapter seventeen, Verses twenty
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  Speaker 2: and twenty one. The Bible reads, neither pray I for
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  Speaker 2: these alone, but for them also, which shall believe on
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  Speaker 2: me through their word, that they all may be one,
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  Speaker 2: as Thou Father art in me and I in thee,
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  Speaker 2: that they also may be one in us, that the
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  Speaker 2: world may believe that thou hast sent me. So listen
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  Speaker 2: to what the text says at the end, so that
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  Speaker 2: the world will believe that you sent me. So the
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  Speaker 2: name of God is on the line. May I to
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  Speaker 2: say that the oneness of purpose that God wants us
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  Speaker 2: to have, the oneness of will and nature that he
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  Speaker 2: is talking about, that he and the Father had a
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  Speaker 2: unity that mirrors the relationship between the Father and son,
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  Speaker 2: is what he's after for the purpose of the world,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that in fact, the ministry of Jesus Christ is valid.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted people to know that this plan of salvation
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  Speaker 2: is real and has the power God has the power
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  Speaker 2: to actually transform us. And so the insight from this
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  Speaker 2: is that this prayer of Jesus reaches across the centuries.
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  Speaker 2: Here in twenty twenty six, way down in the month
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  Speaker 2: of July, we are still experiencing the reality of his
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  Speaker 2: prayer and lands directly in our churches and faith fellowships. Today.
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  Speaker 2: He is still interceding for us. Did you understand understand
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  Speaker 2: that like this didn't stop just because Jesus did give
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  Speaker 2: his life for us, just because that part of his
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  Speaker 2: ministry has concluded. No, he is still interceding for that
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  Speaker 2: same unity before the Father, because he still wants the
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  Speaker 2: world to know where you live, that he is the
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  Speaker 2: one that the Father has sent. And so what do
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  Speaker 2: we need to be doing? Then we'll pray today specifically
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  Speaker 2: for unity in your local faith fellowship, your church community,
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  Speaker 2: Name it, ask for it, and ask God to show
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  Speaker 2: you your part in it. God, what do I need
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  Speaker 2: to do to bring about this unity? Where it liath
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  Speaker 2: unto me? The Bible says, inasmuch as it is attached
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  Speaker 2: to me that I should live peaceably with all people,
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  Speaker 2: where can I bring about unity? Where there are people
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  Speaker 2: who are coming to our faith fellowship, but they're not
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  Speaker 2: reconciled to you, Father, how can I What can I
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  Speaker 2: do to help reconcile them to you? Our second lesson
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Titus, the Bible Book of Titus, chapter
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  Speaker 2: two and verse fourteen, where the Bible reads, he gave
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  Speaker 2: himself for us to what set us free from every
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  Speaker 2: kind of sin and lawlessness, and to purify for himself
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  Speaker 2: a people. This is what God has done by giving
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, God giving him so that we won't have
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  Speaker 2: ever so we won't perish, but we will have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 2: It's to purify for himself a people who are truly his,
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  Speaker 2: who are eager to do good, eager zealous unto good works.
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  Speaker 2: And so he gave himself so he could purchase us
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  Speaker 2: from sin, purchase us from the penalty that comes for
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  Speaker 2: people who are what on the side of the enemy.
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  Speaker 2: He's saying, I can no longer well, he could never
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  Speaker 2: do it. I cannot stand being separated from you. So
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  Speaker 2: I need to do something to reconcile you. And of
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  Speaker 2: course he wants to cleanse us, and indeed he does.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to purify us. The word used for cleansing
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  Speaker 2: of the lepers is what we're talking about, the purification
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  Speaker 2: of the temple. God's goal is a clean, unified people
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  Speaker 2: set aside for his purposes, and so Christ gave himself
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  Speaker 2: to purify for himself the people, one people, unified, zealous holy.
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  Speaker 2: Discord in the church resists the work that the Cross
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  Speaker 2: came to do. Let me say that again just a
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  Speaker 2: little slower. If there is discord in your faith, fellowship,
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  Speaker 2: then that is nullifying in that moment all that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: did by giving his life for us. That's something that
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  Speaker 2: you and I need to be considering. And our action
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  Speaker 2: in that regard is then to take one step today
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  Speaker 2: toward reconciliation in any relationship that is broken. Matthew chapter
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  Speaker 2: eighteen gives us a blueprint for where there is tension.
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  Speaker 2: There is something that is in the way of our
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  Speaker 2: relationship down here on planet Earth, in our faith fellowships,
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  Speaker 2: than God has given us a blueprint at least in
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter eighteen. But there are more, of course. Could
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  Speaker 2: it be that A kind word can change the trajectory.
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  Speaker 2: Could it be a message that someone speaks, preaches, or sings,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe even sends as a text message or a
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  Speaker 2: prayer on their behalf. Whatever it takes in order to
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  Speaker 2: achieve unity, we need to be doing it, not just
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  Speaker 2: be willing to do it, but actually do it. I'll
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  Speaker 2: read you a quote and then let you go from
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  Speaker 2: the book Testimonies for the Church, Volume one, page three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seven, which reads the Oneness and Unity
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  Speaker 2: of God's true, believing, remnant People carries powerful conviction to
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  Speaker 2: the world that they have the truth and are the
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  Speaker 2: peculiar chosen people of God. This oneness and unity disconcerts
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  Speaker 2: the enemy, and he is determined that it shall not exist. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: bless you see you tonight. 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,