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07 30 2026 Overcoming Idolatry · 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 Thursday, the
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  Speaker 2: thirtieth day of July and twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our Lesson study series through the books
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  Speaker 2: of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is Overcoming Idolatry. Overcoming Idolatry. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: Father in heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to come into your presence again this Thursday morning. Please
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  Speaker 2: will you give us the overcoming power of your Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit to be transformed in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and a man again overcoming idolatry. So well, the first
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  Speaker 2: thing we need to do is agree if this is
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  Speaker 2: the case. I'm not saying this is the reality for
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  Speaker 2: everybody listening, but I'm saying that if it is in
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  Speaker 2: fact that you put anything in place of God or
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  Speaker 2: before God, then you have to be honest with yourself, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so that is our reality all of us. But
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  Speaker 2: the important thing this morning for me is that idolatry
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  Speaker 2: is overcome by love, plain and simple. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to give you some kind of what do you call it,
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  Speaker 2: like a formula where you, you know, connect these certain
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  Speaker 2: dots and then somehow you will overcome this thing. It's
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  Speaker 2: overcome by love, love God above all, and love for
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  Speaker 2: your neighbor as yourself. These two commandments leave no room
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  Speaker 2: for any rival. You understand, like love for God and
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  Speaker 2: love for man. These are the two great commandments. And
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit can transform our minds, and then we
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  Speaker 2: will not have this problem.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So our first lesson comes in from the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Mark Mark chapter twelve, and I will read verses
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  Speaker 2: thirty and thirty one Mark Chapter twelve, Verses thirty and
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, where the Bible reads, and thou shalt love
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  Speaker 2: the Lord thy God. Whom should we love the Lord
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  Speaker 2: our God? How with all of thy heart, and with
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  Speaker 2: all of thy soul, and with all thy mind, and
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  Speaker 2: with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. The
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  Speaker 2: second is like unto it, namely this, thou shalt love
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  Speaker 2: thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: said greater than these. And so this word aga paw
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  Speaker 2: aga pow, and don't mix that up with agape agapow.
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  Speaker 2: It actually means to love with a deliberate, self giving commitment.
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  Speaker 2: This is not alone emotion. It's not emotion all by itself.
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  Speaker 2: It is an orientation of the entire person toward God
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  Speaker 2: and toward others, leaving nothing available for idolatry. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about the holy love that God is the one who gives,
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  Speaker 2: you see, And so Jesus bound these two commandments together
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  Speaker 2: because they cannot be separated. A person who loves God
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  Speaker 2: fully will love their neighbor genuinely, and that double love
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  Speaker 2: is the complete answer to idolatry in every form. Somebody's
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  Speaker 2: catching up. Somebody's just catching up. And so what we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do is ask God today to show us show you.
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  Speaker 2: You ask God to show you one person you have
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  Speaker 2: been overlooking. I think you're starting to get it. You see,
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  Speaker 2: If I love myself in an evil way, we're not
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  Speaker 2: talking about really like holy love When I talk about
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  Speaker 2: aga paw, We're talking about the kind of like self
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  Speaker 2: centered stuff that people call love. Like if that is
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  Speaker 2: my case, then I can't love other people. And that
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  Speaker 2: means that I'm idolizing myself. I'm idolizing my own comfort.
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  Speaker 2: I'm idolizing the things that I have made up in
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  Speaker 2: my mind as most important. And God is saying, Nope,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to ask me to show you one
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  Speaker 2: person you've been overlooking and then love them in a
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  Speaker 2: concrete and manifest way as an act of h oh.
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  Speaker 2: Here it comes worship to God. Worship. It's an act
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  Speaker 2: of worship that God is asking of us. Our second
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  Speaker 2: lesson comes in to Mark chapter ten versus twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: Well twenty one and twenty two. Mark chapter ten versus
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  Speaker 2: twenty one and twenty two. If you're tracking so far,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and type A one in the chat Mark
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  Speaker 2: chapter ten versus twenty one, Mark chapter twelve, part of
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  Speaker 2: me versus twenty ten versus twenty one and twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting tongue tied and mixed up here, Okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible reads here. As Jesus looked at him,
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  Speaker 2: he felt love for him, and he said, you lack
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  Speaker 2: one good thing. This is one thing that you're still lacking.
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  Speaker 2: Go and sell whatever you have and give the money
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  Speaker 2: to the poor. And you will have treasure in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: then come follow me. But at his statement, the man
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  Speaker 2: looked sad and went away sorrowful because he was very rich,
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  Speaker 2: because he held on to his riches instead of loving
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  Speaker 2: God and loving humanity. And so this kind of riches
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  Speaker 2: is the kind of wealth, it's in abundance. The rich
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  Speaker 2: young Ruler's possessions were not financial. They were the functional
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  Speaker 2: God of his life. We know that he had money,
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  Speaker 2: but so did Solomon. We know that David, he was
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  Speaker 2: rich and increased in goods, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Like Abigail, she was well to do. Yeah, So the
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  Speaker 2: issue with job was not you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: has nothing to do with the money. But in the
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  Speaker 2: case of the rich young ruler, they were functionally his God.
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  Speaker 2: He kept every commandment, at least in his own mind. Please,
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  Speaker 2: let's not get this twisted. Let's not make it seem
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  Speaker 2: as if this dude could keep the commandments of God
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  Speaker 2: and be selfish at the same time. No, but in
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  Speaker 2: his mind he kept the commandments but could not surrender
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  Speaker 2: the one thing that had taken God's place. In his mind,
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  Speaker 2: he was a commandment keeper? Are you a commandment keeper?
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  Speaker 2: And between you and God, like Are you somebody who says, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I believe that the ten Commandments law are binding on
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  Speaker 2: believers in the last days, including the fourth which enjoins
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  Speaker 2: keeping holy the seventh day of the Lord are God?
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  Speaker 2: And then, in your own mind, in secret place, are you?
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  Speaker 2: Are you actually selfish? This is between you and God.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to type this in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: Do you withhold from God? Do you withhold from people
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  Speaker 2: that you could actually functionally be of assistance to? And
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  Speaker 2: so in his own mind, he kept the commandments but
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  Speaker 2: could not surrender the one thing that had replaced God
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  Speaker 2: in his life. And so what God is saying to
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  Speaker 2: us is that Jesus looked at the rich, young ruler,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus loved him, and then he told him the
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  Speaker 2: hardest thing that he had ever heard, and was only
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  Speaker 2: because the guy was selfish. Real love does not leave
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  Speaker 2: people comfortable in their idolatry. It names what has taken
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  Speaker 2: God's place and calls us, calls them to release it.
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  Speaker 2: Ask God to show you the one thing in your
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  Speaker 2: life if it exists, if He has asked you to
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  Speaker 2: release it, that would make you walk away sad overcoming idolatry.
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  Speaker 2: This is really joining us listening.
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  Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 1: by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,