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07 14 2026 Wisdom and Maturity · 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: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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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. It is Tuesday, July fourteen,
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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 First and Second Corinthians, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Wisdom and Maturity. Wisdom and Maturity. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the contribute button, because your daily portion ministries is a
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  Speaker 2: listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new day, and thank you
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  Speaker 2: for the promise that you would give us wisdom. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the promise that you would you would help
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  Speaker 2: us to grow in grace and in the knowledge of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Let that be our reality today. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again. So we begin with
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  Speaker 2: what I consider to be the most important thing. You
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  Speaker 2: may have something else, as you have seed, but the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing from this lesson, in my view, is
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  Speaker 2: that if Christ is truly the center of our lives,
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  Speaker 2: then you will stop building your identity around human leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus died to save you and grow you up in
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  Speaker 2: Him so that you would live by His spirit and
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  Speaker 2: not by the pride of the flesh. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: talking only about the pride of our flesh, like thinking
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  Speaker 2: of ourselves more highly than we ought. But sometimes humans
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  Speaker 2: think more highly of other humans than we ought. And
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  Speaker 2: so our lesson number one comes in from First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter three and verse one. First Corinthians chapter three, and
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  Speaker 2: I will read verse one, and the Bible reads, and I, brethren,
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  Speaker 2: could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as
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  Speaker 2: unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. So the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says again, So, brothers and sisters, I could not
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  Speaker 2: speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people
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  Speaker 2: of the flesh, as infants in Christ. This means characterized
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  Speaker 2: by human weakness, the flesh. The word that this comes
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  Speaker 2: from Sarkinos fleshly characterized by human weakness and governed by flesh,
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  Speaker 2: meaning not fully converted, not fully connected to God. And
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  Speaker 2: so Paul is speaking to believers. It's not talking about
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  Speaker 2: fully worldly people that are deliberately and daily turning our
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  Speaker 2: backs away from backs to God, but they are still
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  Speaker 2: thinking and acting in flesh. I'm talking about at the
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  Speaker 2: traffic light, when someone does something to you and you
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  Speaker 2: want to get into road rage. I'm talking about gossiping
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  Speaker 2: at the water cooler at work. I'm talking about when
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  Speaker 2: you are in the doom scrolling meaning I know some
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  Speaker 2: of the elders, you may not know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes you pick up your cell phones too, and
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  Speaker 2: scroll and scroll and keep scrolling. And now you're listening
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  Speaker 2: into all kinds of stuff that are not from real humans.
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  Speaker 2: They are AI generated fake humans telling you all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of foolishness about your health. And God is saying no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: no no no no no no. Spiritual immaturity shows up
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  Speaker 2: when Christ is not fully shaped in our hearts. And
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  Speaker 2: so the action step then is to ask God today.
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  Speaker 2: This is a conversation that we're talking about. Now, ask
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  Speaker 2: God today to show you where you're still reacting in
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  Speaker 2: the flesh. When at work body says something that's contrary
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  Speaker 2: to what you believe. When you're in a board meeting
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  Speaker 2: or in some other departmental meeting, how do you respond
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  Speaker 2: to that? Surrender that area to Christ. If you have
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  Speaker 2: challenges in that area, surrender that to Christ. If your
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  Speaker 2: supervisor seems to have the hot button and knows how
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  Speaker 2: to get on your nerves and you are tempted to
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  Speaker 2: do fill in the blank something that is not godly,
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  Speaker 2: give that to God today.
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  Speaker 1: M HM.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number two comes in from the next verse First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three and verse two. I have fed you with milk,
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  Speaker 2: not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: you're still not ready, like a child or an infant,
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  Speaker 2: someone who is not mature. God does not want his
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  Speaker 2: children to stay childlike, childish maybe child likes not the
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  Speaker 2: right word. He doesn't want us to remain immature. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus grew in stature and not in favor with God
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  Speaker 2: and man. He wants us to grow in grace and
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  Speaker 2: in the knowledge of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't want us to remain stagnant. When we come
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  Speaker 2: in as infants, then we are nourished, we continue to grow,
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  Speaker 2: and as we grow, then we become more and more
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  Speaker 2: like Jesus. This is what he wants for us. So
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  Speaker 2: take one step deeper today in God's word. Don't just
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  Speaker 2: sit at the surface level. Don't use the quarterly that
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  Speaker 2: we use on a daily basis as as sort of
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  Speaker 2: a quick fix and say, well, I reviewed the lesson
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  Speaker 2: this week, I read the lesson today. No invest more
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  Speaker 2: time in one or two of the passages until you
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  Speaker 2: have their meaning fixed in your minds. You understand where
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  Speaker 2: we're going with this, especially attaching it to the relationship
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  Speaker 2: we have to God. How does it fit into the
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  Speaker 2: plan of salvation, How does it relate to our experience
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  Speaker 2: with God? So that one day we can be transformed
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  Speaker 2: into new bodies.
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  Speaker 1: M h.
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  Speaker 2: And ask God to help you grow beyond spiritual infancy.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number three and final comes in from First Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: chapter three, Versus three and four, where the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: for whereas there is among you envying, Oh, now we
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  Speaker 2: know what that worldliness is like. When we were talking
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  Speaker 2: about a little earlier, envying strife, divisions, are ye not carnal? Hmm,
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  Speaker 2: And walk as men? For while one saith, I am
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  Speaker 2: of Paul and another I am of Apollos, are ye
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  Speaker 2: not carnal? Some and I want to name names. I
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  Speaker 2: want to name some of the preachers that we love
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  Speaker 2: to listen to, but I won't do it because they
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  Speaker 2: don't have anything to do with this. But some of
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  Speaker 2: you have your favorite preachers and teachers too. And sometimes
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  Speaker 2: there are lines drawn in the sand everywhere in the
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  Speaker 2: world where people are saying, where these are the ones
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  Speaker 2: that I follow? Nope, I don't follow that one. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like, do you follow Jesus? That's the question? Am
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  Speaker 2: I following Jesus? Am I jealous? Am I having heated
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  Speaker 2: rivalry based on this foolishness or something else? When well,
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  Speaker 2: I won't get into anything more on that one. So
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  Speaker 2: Paul makes it plain that jealousy, strife, and the party spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the partisan politics, even within the church spirit, are
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  Speaker 2: not signs of maturity. Think about when session comes for
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  Speaker 2: the different levels. If you want to say, of our
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  Speaker 2: organizational structure within our faith fellowship, do we see this
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  Speaker 2: partisan politics show up? Do we see immaturity show up?
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  Speaker 2: They show that the flesh is still ruling where Christ
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  Speaker 2: should be lord. So what is the practice? Refuse jealousy
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  Speaker 2: and rivalry today and choose instead to honor Christ above
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  Speaker 2: every personality and preference. Sister White said, the true minister
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  Speaker 2: does not seek to exalt self, but to magnify his master,
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  Speaker 2: which is Christ. 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,