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06 27 2026 Paul’s Ministry in Corinth · 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: 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 Sabbath, June
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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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 in our new
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series on the Bible books of First and
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  Speaker 2: Second Corinthians, and our caption for today is Paul's Ministry
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  Speaker 2: in Corinth Paul's Ministry in Corinth. Before we begin, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: viewer supported. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father, We thank you for this new
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath morning and the new study that you have given
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  Speaker 2: to us. I know it's going to be transformational. Father.
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  Speaker 2: Will you please give us the fullness of your Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit and help us to see life and the people
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  Speaker 2: of God in the way that you see us. And
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  Speaker 2: it in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, and a man again,
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  Speaker 2: let me just say I remember it was thirty It
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  Speaker 2: was just shy of thirty years ago. And maybe it
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  Speaker 2: was right at thirty years ago when the church studied
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  Speaker 2: this same subject, but I'm sure it was from a
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  Speaker 2: different perspective and it transformed how I dealt with people.
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  Speaker 2: I was a manager, I was twenty three years of age,
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  Speaker 2: and I was off track. My mind was in the
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  Speaker 2: right place, but I didn't allow at that moment the
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  Speaker 2: word to teach me what I needed to do when
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  Speaker 2: it came to managing the people that were under my charge.
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  Speaker 2: And this message to the Corinthians leveled everything out and
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  Speaker 2: then charted a course for me for the next thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm thankful that God's people have decided that we
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  Speaker 2: were going back here, okay. And so the lesson writer
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  Speaker 2: brings to us the Bible Book of Acts, chapter eighteen
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  Speaker 2: to begin our discussion. In Acts chapter eighteen, verses nine
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  Speaker 2: and ten, and it reads, one night the Lord said
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  Speaker 2: to Paul in a vision, do not be afraid, but speak,
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  Speaker 2: and do not be silent. Why God, why, like, why
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  Speaker 2: should I not be afraid? How am I going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to speak and not be silent?
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  Speaker 1: God?
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  Speaker 2: For I am with you, and no one will lay
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  Speaker 2: a hand on you to harm you. For there are
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  Speaker 2: many in this city who are My people. And so
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  Speaker 2: God gave brother Paul a charge when he was about
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  Speaker 2: to do a particular mission. We'll come back to that text.
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  Speaker 2: But one thing I learned in the Book of First
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  Speaker 2: Corinthians is that Paul wanted everybody to understand that his
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  Speaker 2: narrow focus in ministry and in life was that people
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  Speaker 2: would see Christ and him crucified, that they would see
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  Speaker 2: the love of God in the plan of salvation. Because
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  Speaker 2: Jesus died the death that we deserve so we can
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  Speaker 2: live the life that we deserve. And so I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to begin every lesson with what I consider to be
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  Speaker 2: the most important thing, with that focal point, with that lens.
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  Speaker 2: When your life is messy, yeah, I think some of
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  Speaker 2: you can attest to the fact that sometimes life gets messy,
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  Speaker 2: and your church, meaning the fellowship, the faith fellowship of believers,
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  Speaker 2: the congregation you're attached to, has problems. Your deepest need
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  Speaker 2: is not for human wisdom, not for another meeting or
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  Speaker 2: planning meeting, but for Christ and Him crucified. When we're
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  Speaker 2: going through any trial inside of the faith fellowship, we
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  Speaker 2: need to narrow our focus before we start to plan,
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  Speaker 2: before we start to put another initiative in place, before
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  Speaker 2: we start beating our heads and re examining the minutes.
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  Speaker 2: We need to focus our attention on what did Jesus
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  Speaker 2: do for us and how does that impact our lives today?
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  Speaker 2: And eternity my God. Okay, And so the Cross of
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  Speaker 2: Christ is still the power to save us. Yes, the
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We're not focusing on the Cross
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  Speaker 2: as an emblem. We're saying what Jesus did, the sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ still has the power to save, still
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  Speaker 2: has the power to correct and heal and restore. So
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  Speaker 2: if you don't learn anything today, keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 2: And so we go back to our lesson number one
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  Speaker 2: from the passage we've already read. And God told Paul
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  Speaker 2: not to fear. That means not to be afraid, not
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  Speaker 2: to be affrighted, because God is not abandoning his servant
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  Speaker 2: in those hard places. He comes to Paul to give
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  Speaker 2: him courage and to promise his presence to Paul. So
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  Speaker 2: what does the action step in this case? Keep speaking
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  Speaker 2: to Christ today and speaking for him. Speak to him
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  Speaker 2: so we can remain connected. Yes, when we enter into
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  Speaker 2: what the old timers used to call straight places, those
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  Speaker 2: difficult and sticky situations, keep speaking to Christ and saying, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: what would you have me to do? What would most
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  Speaker 2: glorify you? And honor and honor your presence in the
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  Speaker 2: lives of me and of the people, even in uncomfortable places,
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  Speaker 2: because God is with you and still reaching the people
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  Speaker 2: to save them. Our second lesson comes in from First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter two and verse two, where the Bible reads, for
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  Speaker 2: I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ and him crucified. That goes along with the passage
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned in First Corinthians chapter one. So the word
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  Speaker 2: for to crucify means to fasten to a cross or steak. Well,
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus was fastened to the cross or steak for us,
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  Speaker 2: he also was was fastening our old lives to that
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  Speaker 2: same state or cross.
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  Speaker 1: He was. He was.
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  Speaker 2: He was fastening the old paradigms that would would kill
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  Speaker 2: us if we did not surrender them to God. He
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  Speaker 2: was fastening all of that and nailing that to the
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  Speaker 2: cross or steak, so that when he is done dying
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  Speaker 2: for our sins, and he is taking up his life
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  Speaker 2: again in the resurrection, that we can be raised to
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  Speaker 2: the newness of life. So your doubts to the cross,
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  Speaker 2: fastened to the stake, your fears nailed to the cross,
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  Speaker 2: fastened to the stake. Every argument that comes up because
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  Speaker 2: of your early childhood or adverse childhood experiences and traumas,
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  Speaker 2: nail to the cross and fastened to the stake, so
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  Speaker 2: that when Jesus now gives you resurrection power in your
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  Speaker 2: life transformation, then you can be holy. And so Christ
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  Speaker 2: faced a troubled church by keeping Christ and the Cross
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  Speaker 2: at the center. God still brings clarity, healing, and power
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  Speaker 2: through this message of Jesus and him crucified. And so
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  Speaker 2: what should we do in that regard? We bring our
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  Speaker 2: burdens back to Jesus today, and I want you to
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  Speaker 2: see in your mind Jesus with you now nailing it
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  Speaker 2: to the cross, now nullifying it, so that you can
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  Speaker 2: die to those things. Take those things to Jesus and
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  Speaker 2: let his sacrifice shape how you think, how you speak,
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  Speaker 2: and even how you react and respond. Our third lesson.
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  Speaker 2: Our third lesson is from Two Corinthians, chapter two and
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  Speaker 2: verse four. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart,
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  Speaker 2: I wrote unto you with many tears, not that you
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  Speaker 2: should be grieved, but that she may know the love
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  Speaker 2: which I have more abundantly on to you. Paul's correction
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  Speaker 2: of in all of these cases flowed from love and
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  Speaker 2: not harshness. The Gospel teaches us that this truth is
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  Speaker 2: carried in the spirit of what Jesus did for us.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day.
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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,