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07 19 2026 Dissonance Between Faith and Practice · 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,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, July nineteen,
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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 dissonance between faith and
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  Speaker 2: practice listenance before between excuse me, faith and practice. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day and the blessing that
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  Speaker 2: you have have given us to open your word one
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  Speaker 2: more time together. Thank you for all of the brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters who are listening and viewing around the world.
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  Speaker 2: And God, I'm asking you to help us not to
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  Speaker 2: be hypocrites, help us to be faithful to you. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. See before
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  Speaker 2: I go on my soapbox, I just want to say
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  Speaker 2: what I believe the most important thing is for today's
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  Speaker 2: lesson the people of God. The church at Corinth was listen.
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  Speaker 2: They were making a mess. It would have been bad
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  Speaker 2: enough if they were just tolerating sin, but they were
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  Speaker 2: actually boasting in it. That's how bad it got. It
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  Speaker 2: was almost like they wanted it on their resume. It
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  Speaker 2: was almost like if they were in business, it would
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  Speaker 2: have been on their lead magnet page, their landing page.
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  Speaker 2: This is all the wickedness that we are very, very
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  Speaker 2: proficient at committing. This is how bad it was, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters. But Jesus did not give his life so
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  Speaker 2: that grace could become a cover for what God's word
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  Speaker 2: clearly condemns. God is saying, I do want to forgive
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  Speaker 2: you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. That is the goal,
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  Speaker 2: that is my will for you. But I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to put on the righteousness of Christ so we can
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  Speaker 2: sweep your sins under the rug. So our lesson number one, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know that's startling, isn't it. Our lesson number one
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  Speaker 2: comes in from First Corinthians, Chapter five, Versus one and two.
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  Speaker 2: I know we're rushing, we're running. I know we're running.
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  Speaker 2: But God, God will give us grace. The Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: it is reported commonly that there is fornication among you.
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  Speaker 2: That's not just for unmarried people. I don't have time
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  Speaker 2: to go into the Greek term for it, but the
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  Speaker 2: bottom line is this is sexual immorality of all kinds.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's happening among you. And look it gets worse,
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  Speaker 2: and such fornication as is not so much as named
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  Speaker 2: among even the gentiles, but that one should have his
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  Speaker 2: father's wife what in the world, And that ye are
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  Speaker 2: puffed up and have not rather mourned. So, yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: an example of what we were talking about just a
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  Speaker 2: second ago. Like these guys were doing some stuff and
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  Speaker 2: they were excited about it. They were excited about it,
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  Speaker 2: and so Paul was not shocked by the sin alone.
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  Speaker 2: He was shocked also by the pride. That's like, whoa
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute. Now it's bad enough that you're living
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  Speaker 2: in that way, but now you're you're you're putting it
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  Speaker 2: out there like it's a thing that you should be
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  Speaker 2: doing in a church that boasts and what God mourns. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: we not to grieve. The Holy Ghost has lost its
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  Speaker 2: spiritual bearing entirely. Where do God's people go? How far
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  Speaker 2: have we fallen if we are excited about the things
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  Speaker 2: that that are an affront to God? And so what
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking us to do is to ask God to
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  Speaker 2: give all of us a heart. And you personalize it,
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  Speaker 2: don't talk about it as a church thing. But personalize it.
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  Speaker 2: Ask God today to give you a heart that grieves
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  Speaker 2: over sin the way that he does, and we begin
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  Speaker 2: with our own. Our second lesson again is in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter five and verse six, where the Bible reads, your
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  Speaker 2: glorying is not good. Know ye not that even a
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  Speaker 2: little leaven or yeast levin hit the whole lump. And
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  Speaker 2: of course we're using yeast as in this context, as
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  Speaker 2: as something that is creeping in as sin, and as
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  Speaker 2: leaven or yeast is used in doe to make bread,
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  Speaker 2: and it pervades the entire bit of dough that it
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  Speaker 2: impacts the dough and double sometimes triples it in size.
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  Speaker 2: Just a little bit of what people call a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of sin can really destroy our lives, destroy our
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  Speaker 2: relationship with God, destroy the witness that God wants to
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  Speaker 2: have in our lives. And God is saying, don't play
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  Speaker 2: with it, don't trifle it, don't look at it as
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  Speaker 2: a tiny thing. So sin left unchecked and the community
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  Speaker 2: of faith does not stay contained. It spreads, and it
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  Speaker 2: spreads fast, It shapes, and it slowly redefines what the
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  Speaker 2: people of God, the Church, the body of Christ, considers
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  Speaker 2: to be acceptable. One writer called it creeping compromise. And
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  Speaker 2: so what God is saying is like, I'm giving you
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to stem the tide. I'm showing you that
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  Speaker 2: when these things are creeping in, you have to deal
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  Speaker 2: with them head on. Look at Achan and you have
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  Speaker 2: an opportun tunity. There's an achin in the camp. Go
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  Speaker 2: back to that story. But in the Corinthian the church
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  Speaker 2: at Corinth they were just so sexually deviant and Paul
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  Speaker 2: had to deal with it. He's like, listen, if we
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  Speaker 2: just let this thing go, then the people of God
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  Speaker 2: will think it's okay, and that is disruptive to the
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  Speaker 2: image of God. The relationship between man and woman is
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  Speaker 2: supposed to represent the relationship between God and his church.
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  Speaker 2: There is a pure kind of relationship when a man
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  Speaker 2: and woman are married as an example, and when we
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  Speaker 2: do things it to disrupt that, then we're saying that's
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  Speaker 2: the way that the relationship with Christ is. And so
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  Speaker 2: what I need us to do is to identify one
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  Speaker 2: attitude if it exists. I'm not saying make it up,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not saying this is everybody, but if it
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  Speaker 2: exists that you have been treating as small and ask
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  Speaker 2: God to show you what it is doing to your
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  Speaker 2: whole life and the life of the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: or the life of your family, the life of your community.
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  Speaker 2: But look at those things that people tend to ignore.
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  Speaker 2: Is it pride? Huh? Is it that you pop off
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  Speaker 2: sometimes depending on the subject, when somebody says something you
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  Speaker 2: don't like, do you act in a way that is ungodly?
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  Speaker 2: And then you just let it go. You don't apologize
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is. Give that to God and ask him
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  Speaker 2: what that impact is, and then of course yield, yield
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  Speaker 2: to his spirit and don't entertain that again. I know
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  Speaker 2: what I just said, Hm, that's between you and God.
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  Speaker 2: And verse eleven one Corinthians, Chapter five, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: but now I have written unto you not to keep
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  Speaker 2: company if any man that is called a brother be
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  Speaker 2: a fornicator or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer,
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  Speaker 2: or a drunkard or an extortioner with such an one,
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  Speaker 2: no not to eat. And so the Bible writer is
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  Speaker 2: giving us accountability as an act of love and not cruelty.
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  Speaker 2: He's not saying that if people make mistakes that we
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  Speaker 2: are supposed to throw them away. That's not what he's saying,
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  Speaker 2: but listen, listen. If you hanging out with people who
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  Speaker 2: say that we are believers and they are living contrary
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  Speaker 2: to God's will. I'm not talking about mistakes, but people
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  Speaker 2: who are living in open sin. God is saying, do
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  Speaker 2: not give those people the idea that that is the
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  Speaker 2: right lifestyle. If anything, show them the path to righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: Love them toward God, but do not participate in those
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  Speaker 2: sins with them, and do not give them a place
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  Speaker 2: of comfort while they are sinning in that way, as
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  Speaker 2: if it's just fine. I know. Yeah, make it a
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  Speaker 2: great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,