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07 26 2026 Knowledge Versus Love · 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: 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.
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  Speaker 3: It is Sunday, July twenty six, twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I am your host in this is your Daily Portion,
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  Speaker 3: where we give you God's word every single day and
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  Speaker 3: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 3: study series through the book of Books of First and
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  Speaker 3: Second Corinthians, and our caption for today is Knowledge Versus Love,
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  Speaker 3: Knowledge versus Love. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 3: viewer support it. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 3: get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity to come together one more day, just one
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  Speaker 3: more time. You've allowed us to come together just one
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  Speaker 3: more time. And Father, I'm asking you to give us
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  Speaker 3: the right kind of knowledge of you that will lead
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  Speaker 3: us to love. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 3: and a man again. Of course, the Lesson writers has
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  Speaker 3: crafted this caption knowledge versus love, and I understand why
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  Speaker 3: it is set that way. But let me just say
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  Speaker 3: not to contradict the lesson, but to say very simply
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  Speaker 3: that when Adam knew his wife and they had a child.
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  Speaker 3: That meant that their knowledge of one another intimately was fruitful.
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  Speaker 3: Can I just say that one more time? When Adam
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  Speaker 3: knew his wife Eve and they bear a son, that
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  Speaker 3: meant that their intimate knowledge of one another was fruitful
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  Speaker 3: and as a matter of it was a result of
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  Speaker 3: their love. And so we're not talking about head knowledge here.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not interested in head knowledge. We're talking about the
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  Speaker 3: kind of knowledge that connects us with God. But now
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  Speaker 3: let's get to the way that the lesson has said it.
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  Speaker 3: This is not the ideal that the lesson is talking about.
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  Speaker 3: The lesson is talking about a head knowledge, Okay, And
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  Speaker 3: so the most important thing, according to the way that
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  Speaker 3: the lesson is written, is that a head knowledge that
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  Speaker 3: does not produce love is not true knowledge at all.
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  Speaker 3: The measure of what you know about God is how
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  Speaker 3: much you love the people around you.
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  Speaker 2: Newsflash.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go into our first lesson, coming in from
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  Speaker 3: First Corinthians, chapter eight, and I will read I think
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  Speaker 3: this time, I'll just read verse one. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 3: with regard to food sacrificed to idols, we know, oh
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  Speaker 3: that we all have knowledge, so we know about the
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  Speaker 3: fact that, like, the idol is nothing, so why are
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  Speaker 3: you worrying about it? But but but but knowledge puffs up,
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  Speaker 3: but love builds up. So the reality is there was
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  Speaker 3: a there's this this problem between the people who were
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  Speaker 3: once gentiles and the people of God coming in from
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  Speaker 3: you know, the people of God generation right, and and
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  Speaker 3: and the people of God would just make it seem
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  Speaker 3: like just because this lamb is a clean animal and
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  Speaker 3: without fat, without blood and not strangled of itself, didn't
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  Speaker 3: die of its own and it was you know, prepared
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  Speaker 3: the right way, that that's clean meat. Uh if if
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  Speaker 3: if the gentile brother was was having a problem because
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  Speaker 3: he was like, wait was that sacrifice to idols? And
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  Speaker 3: and the the person who wasn't a gentile was just like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna eat these lamb toiles.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what you say.
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  Speaker 3: Then Paul is saying the fact that you know that
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  Speaker 3: the idol is nothing, but you eaten them lamb chops
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  Speaker 3: in front of your weaker brother, knowing that your weaker
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  Speaker 3: brother has not quite reconciled or figured this thing out.
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  Speaker 3: Then that means you're not showing love with the knowledge
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  Speaker 3: you have. You're not showing love you're not demonstrating that
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  Speaker 3: love matters more. Connection with the people and with God
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  Speaker 3: matters more to you than the lamb chops on your
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  Speaker 3: pleate you understand, I know, I know, I modernized it,
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  Speaker 3: but that was the reality. That's exactly what it was, okay.
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  Speaker 3: And so the insight for us is the knowledge of
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  Speaker 3: the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Is a gift. God gives us the blessing of knowing
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  Speaker 2: the truth. Bible says, and you shall know the truth,
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  Speaker 2: and the truth will what make you free. But it
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  Speaker 2: can become a weapon in the hands of pride, the knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: the intellectual understanding that a person has, if that individual
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  Speaker 2: is a prideful person, it becomes a weapon of destruction.
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  Speaker 2: God gives truth so that his people will be built
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  Speaker 2: up together, not so that the informed can look down
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  Speaker 2: on the uninformed. And so the action step for this
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning is before you correct or instruct someone today,
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  Speaker 2: ask whether what you are about to say will build
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  Speaker 2: them up or that you are right and you're just
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  Speaker 2: proven that you're right. Is it going to build them
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  Speaker 2: up or is it just going to prove that you're right? Great, like, congratulations,
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  Speaker 2: give yourself a hand. You're we correct, you were actually correct?
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  Speaker 2: But but but will it build them up? Well?
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  Speaker 3: It help your weaker brother or sister get closer to God.
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  Speaker 3: I wish I had the time, but I know that
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Ghost will drive this home to all of
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  Speaker 3: us Verses three and four. First Corinthians, Chapter eight. The
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  Speaker 3: Bible says, but if if someone loves God right, he
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  Speaker 3: is known by God with regard to eating food sacrificed
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  Speaker 3: to idols or meat sacrifice to idols, then we know
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  Speaker 3: that an idol in this world is nothing, and that
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  Speaker 3: there is no God but one. So we know in
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  Speaker 3: the deepest relational sense. Paul says that the truth or
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  Speaker 3: the true mark of knowing God is being known by God. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: the Bible says that there's some people some deny people
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  Speaker 3: in the last days, I said, didn't I cast out devils,
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  Speaker 3: did not give people money? Didn't I watch your daily portion?
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't. In the text. I just kind of added
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  Speaker 3: it there, didn't I didn't. I didn't. I didn't I
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  Speaker 3: do all of these wonderful things God. And God is like, come, well,
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  Speaker 3: let me look at your picture. I'm gonna look at
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  Speaker 3: the baby picture that I created, and now let me
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  Speaker 3: compare this to the one that's here talking about didn't
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  Speaker 3: I didn't I I know, I never knew you? Depart
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  Speaker 3: from me, ye worker of Iniquiti, because the picture that
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  Speaker 3: I created is not the picture of the individual that's
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  Speaker 3: coming in here now talking about didn't I didn't I
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  Speaker 3: didn't I I never knew you, and so and so
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  Speaker 3: God is saying that our theological understanding, our intellectual pursuits,
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  Speaker 3: is not the indicator. It is not the measure. It
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  Speaker 3: is not a key performance indicator. Shout to the business people,
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  Speaker 3: who know, what I just said has nothing to do
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  Speaker 3: with it. It has everything to do with does God love?
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  Speaker 3: Does God know me too? I know God? I can
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  Speaker 3: say that, but does God know me? Does God know me?
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  Speaker 3: And the evidence of that relationship is love, not your
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  Speaker 3: doctrinal superiority. You are so intellectual that you know what
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  Speaker 3: ganthropic means, so intellectual you know what a kiasm is.
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  Speaker 3: You feel me like. That is not the measure, and
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  Speaker 3: so the sight is the Shamah. The great declaration that
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  Speaker 3: the Lord God he is one, was followed by the
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  Speaker 3: command to love. Theology and love were never meant to
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  Speaker 3: be separated. The study of God and love were never
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  Speaker 3: to be separated. To know God rightly is to love
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  Speaker 3: God deeply? Can I just say that one more again?
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  Speaker 3: To know God rightly is to love God deeply. So
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  Speaker 3: the action is to let your knowledge of God drive
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  Speaker 3: you towards someone today who needs to be loved, not corrected,
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  Speaker 3: not instructed, but simply loved. Knowledge versus love. Make it
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  Speaker 3: a great day, 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.