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09 12 2026 Dealing with False Teachers · 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: us through today's challenges? On this program, we are going
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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 3: Good morning, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: It is Sabbath, the 12th day of September in 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion, where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: books of 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is Dealing, oh my, with False Teachers.
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  Speaker 3: My, my, my.
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  Speaker 2: Dealing with False Teachers. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to please,
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, we thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: new Sabbath morning and for the special privilege that we
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  Speaker 2: have to come together in your presence. And I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: you now to help us to Never take on your job.
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  Speaker 2: Help us never to take in hand the things that
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  Speaker 2: you have not entrusted to us, but submit our will
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  Speaker 2: so when we do encounter those things you've entrusted to us,
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  Speaker 2: that we'll be faithful.
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  Speaker 3: In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. And amen again. Okay, okay, okay. So,
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  Speaker 3: God said, vengeance is mine. Amen. He said, vengeance is mine.
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  Speaker 3: I will repay.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, within the faith fellowship, sometimes people take into our
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  Speaker 2: own hands the things that are God's. And it has
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  Speaker 2: to do with how we deal with people and especially
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  Speaker 2: the people who come in like wolves. Sometimes we take
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  Speaker 2: into hand the things that are God for God to
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  Speaker 2: do when people come into the faith fellowship as wolves.
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  Speaker 2: But let me just start right here before I get
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  Speaker 2: into our first lesson that'll make that make sense. The
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  Speaker 2: most important thing to me is that— okay, our real goal
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  Speaker 2: is eternal life. I don't know how else to say that.
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  Speaker 2: When we are in relationship with God and we are
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  Speaker 2: in our faith fellowships, the focal point is service to
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  Speaker 2: God and eternity with Him. And so the gospel— which
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  Speaker 2: is the pathway, right, the path of righteousness, that is
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  Speaker 2: the pathway to this eternal experience and relationship with God,
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  Speaker 2: must be preserved as pure and unspoiled because life depends
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  Speaker 2: upon it. Okay, so let's go here with the principle
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  Speaker 2: of what I was saying a little bit earlier when
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  Speaker 2: I was shouting in the beginning, okay? Coming in from
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  Speaker 2: 2 Corinthians 10, verses four and five. Listen, we're not
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  Speaker 2: trying to take God's job. We're not trying to do
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  Speaker 2: things or take things into our own hands like Peter
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  Speaker 2: did when the arrest of Jesus was happening. So the
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  Speaker 2: Bible gives us, for the weapons of our warfare are
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  Speaker 2: not human weapons. They're not carnal, but mighty through whom?
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  Speaker 2: Through God alone. To the pulling down of strongholds. Let
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  Speaker 2: me just say here that the sons of thunder were
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  Speaker 2: ready to fight all the time. Peter, ready to fight
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  Speaker 2: all the time. And it's like, ah, I understand where
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  Speaker 2: you're going with this. And you have a jealousy for God,
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  Speaker 2: a jealousy for the work of God. But do not
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  Speaker 2: let it slip into the human way of doing things.
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  Speaker 2: So what God is after is breaking those yokes, those
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  Speaker 2: burdens that the devil places on people, and you can't
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  Speaker 2: get your hands around that. You cannot get a license
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  Speaker 2: to carry a firearm in order to deal with that.
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  Speaker 2: You can't send an army or some other regiment to that.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot send the police. You can't call the police
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  Speaker 2: and say, go there to that location and deal with
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  Speaker 2: that spiritual problem. This is why the weapons of our warfare,
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  Speaker 2: they're not carnal. You can't learn how to cage fight,
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  Speaker 2: do MMA. You can't become an elite boxer, kickboxer, multi-fighter,
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  Speaker 2: like Thai boxer. You can't do any of those things
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  Speaker 2: to deal with those strongholds, those imaginations that Paul said
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  Speaker 2: need to be cast down. and every high thing that
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  Speaker 2: exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. You can't call
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  Speaker 2: a mediator. You can't sue. You can't get a judge
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  Speaker 2: in chambers, a magistrate. You can't get a tribunal to
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  Speaker 2: deal with this. You can't line the devil's plots up
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  Speaker 2: against the wall with a firing squad ready to deal
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  Speaker 2: with that problem. These are God's jobs. Okay, for the
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  Speaker 2: weapons of our warfare, they're not carnal, but mighty through
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  Speaker 2: God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations
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  Speaker 2: and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge
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  Speaker 2: of God and bringing into captivity every thought. See, the
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  Speaker 2: controversy is in the mind and for the mind. To
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  Speaker 2: bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so what we're talking about where strongholds are concerned,
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  Speaker 2: I know that Christian-y speaking people often use that term,
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  Speaker 2: and you don't know what in the world people are
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  Speaker 2: talking about. And so we're going to define it based
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  Speaker 2: on the word that Paul used. A stronghold is a
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  Speaker 2: fortified position, a defensive structure built to resist attack. Paul
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  Speaker 2: uses military language to describe the ideological and spiritual systems
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  Speaker 2: that resist the knowledge of God. So if at any
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  Speaker 2: time you want to go left and you in fact
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  Speaker 2: go left and the Lord wants us to go right,
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  Speaker 2: then you know that's a stronghold.
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: If the temptations are overwhelming you, you know that's a stronghold.
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  Speaker 2: Are you seeing where this is going? And so false
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  Speaker 2: teaching builds a fortress in the mind, and only divine
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  Speaker 2: weapons can dismantle them. There was a false teaching at
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  Speaker 2: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The
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  Speaker 2: devil said something opposite and different to what God commanded
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve. That was a stronghold. Jesus was tempted,
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  Speaker 2: and while he was tempted, the devil attempted to build
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  Speaker 2: up a stronghold, but Jesus knew that the weapons of
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  Speaker 2: our warfare are not carnal, and therefore that stronghold did
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  Speaker 2: not hold. And so false teaching builds a fortress in
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  Speaker 2: the mind, and the only solution Only divine weapons can
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  Speaker 2: dismantle them. And so the lesson from this is that
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  Speaker 2: the battle against false teaching is not fought with cleverness, charisma,
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  Speaker 2: your best teachers, institutional and ecclesiastical authority, your traditions, your dogma,
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  Speaker 2: none of the stuff that you've been teaching over the
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  Speaker 2: years just as teaching. Without the Holy Ghost, you will
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  Speaker 2: not break down any stronghold. It is fought with the
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  Speaker 2: weapons that have divine power. Prayer, the word of God
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  Speaker 2: under the Holy Ghost, the spirit of truth are the
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  Speaker 2: only tools that can dismantle what false teaching constructs in
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  Speaker 2: a human heart. And so let me read a quote
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  Speaker 2: to you because I left out everything else I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to teach today because this was important. The quote is
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  Speaker 2: coming in from Testimonies for the Church, Volume 8, page 298.
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  Speaker 2: where we read, we are to hold fast to the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of our confidence, firm to the end. We need
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  Speaker 2: to guard carefully the truth that has been committed to
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  Speaker 2: our trust. Not a thread of the great web of
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  Speaker 2: truth should be broken. We are not to accept human
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  Speaker 2: wisdom in the place of the word of God. I
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  Speaker 2: thank God that he has given us the kind of power,
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  Speaker 2: the kind of faith to deal with false teachers and
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  Speaker 2: let him do what he will do. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day.
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  Speaker 3: 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.