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08 08 2026 A Portrait of 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: 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 Sabbath, April April.
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  Speaker 2: Why am I saying April August eight, twenty twenty six. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: My name is Elle 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 First and Second Corinthians with lesson number seven
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  Speaker 2: under the caption a portrait of Love of a portrait
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  Speaker 2: of love. I know some of you listening on the
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  Speaker 2: radio or you're watching me online, You're like, well, why
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  Speaker 2: would you and just not fix the thing when something
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  Speaker 2: goes wrong when you're online or wherever, and I'm like, naturally,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we make mistakes. We're not trying to cover up
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  Speaker 2: our mistakes. My brain sometimes is not clicking so clearly.
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  Speaker 2: But we got it right. We're in August, not in April,
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  Speaker 2: and we're thinking about the Love of God, the portrait
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  Speaker 2: of Love. Before we get into that, i'd like to
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this Sabbath morning and the privilege you have given
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  Speaker 2: to us to not just consider your word, but to
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  Speaker 2: be able to be enfolded into your love to see
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  Speaker 2: more clearly this portrait of love, and Father, please help
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  Speaker 2: us to become loving too, like you designed in Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen, Amen, and a man again a portrait
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  Speaker 2: of love. The most important thing for me the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: morning really is love is not an emotion you wait
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  Speaker 2: to feel. Can I pause right there for a moment,
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  Speaker 2: because there are people saying that they fell in love.
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  Speaker 2: You fell in love, and I'm like to fall in love.
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  Speaker 2: I've never really seen too much pause about falling, Like
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  Speaker 2: falling down the stairs is negative, right, falling and bump
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  Speaker 2: bumping your head is negative, like falling down so you
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  Speaker 2: can get back up again. The get back up again
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  Speaker 2: part is the positive, and the falling down is a
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  Speaker 2: spiritual failure. Like so, love is elevating, it's ennobling, it's elusive.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm quoting now from myself. Twenty five years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I told you, Simone and I celebrated twenty five years
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  Speaker 2: of marriage. At our wedding. I had a poem, of course,
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  Speaker 2: that I wrote, and our brother Gil Chris Sprow, he
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  Speaker 2: actually played happy the home behind me reciting this poem
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  Speaker 2: to Simone, Behold my love. That was the caption of
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  Speaker 2: the poem. But that was I was, you know, disturbing
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  Speaker 2: to me those years ago where people said fall No,
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  Speaker 2: it's elevating. God is ennobling as people through love. So
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  Speaker 2: love is not an emotion you wait to feel. You
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  Speaker 2: don't fall down into it. It's an attitude expressed in
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  Speaker 2: deeds and action, deeds and words, words and action. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ is the full, get this big word revelation you've
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  Speaker 2: been waiting for it. Jesus is the full revelation of
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  Speaker 2: what love actually looks like in a human life. But
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  Speaker 2: let me just add to that that it is. It
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  Speaker 2: is a manifestation like Jesus, and the Gospel of Christ
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  Speaker 2: is a manifestation of how God loves us. Because He
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  Speaker 2: could have just left us to die the eternal death.
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  Speaker 2: He could have he could have just added us to
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  Speaker 2: the docket of those who would be destroyed in the
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  Speaker 2: lake of fire. The Bible says that it was prepared
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  Speaker 2: for the devil and his evil angels. But he could
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  Speaker 2: have said. God could have said, you know what, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna make it for people too. But God said, no,
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  Speaker 2: I love you so much that I gave my only
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  Speaker 2: begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
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  Speaker 2: but have everlasting life. Guess what. God did not send
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  Speaker 2: his son into the world to condemn the world, but
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  Speaker 2: that the world through him might be saved. And so
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  Speaker 2: our first lesson in that regard is coming in from
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  Speaker 2: First Corinthians, chapter thirteen and verse thirteen. First Corinthians, Chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirteen and verse thirteen. I hope you're catching up now,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, and now abideth these What are they? Faith?
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  Speaker 2: That's a big one, hope, yep, Biblical charity or love?
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  Speaker 2: These three. But the greatest of these, come on, y'all.
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  Speaker 2: You already know what it is. Type it in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: The greatest of these is love or charity above faith
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  Speaker 2: above hope. Is charity or love? Why? Because God is
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  Speaker 2: love like that is the principal thing. The Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that the fruit of the spirit is love. And of
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  Speaker 2: course we see the outgrowth of love in the other tentacles,
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  Speaker 2: the other principles that are in the text that Paul,
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  Speaker 2: of course wrote for us. And so we're back to Agathe.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned this the other day, but let me say
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  Speaker 2: it again. This is self giving. This is the kind
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  Speaker 2: of love from the Greek language, that this text was
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  Speaker 2: written in the self giving, unconditional love that seeks the
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  Speaker 2: good of others regardless of cost. This word appears more
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  Speaker 2: than one hundred and thirty five times in Paul's letters.
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that alone? Just in Paul's letters? It
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  Speaker 2: is not incidental, right, Like, it's not a sidebar, It's
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  Speaker 2: not some small thing like, oh yeah, let me just
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  Speaker 2: add that in for good measure in his theology. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's actually the center of it. This is the focal point,
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  Speaker 2: the love of God, the love that comes from God.
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  Speaker 2: And then we begin to embody. That is a central
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  Speaker 2: point of his teaching. And so faith will become sight
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  Speaker 2: and hope will be fulfilled. But love endures into eternity
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  Speaker 2: because love is the very character of God. I said
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  Speaker 2: that a moment ago, just another way to grow in love.
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  Speaker 2: You see, I did not say fall. To grow in
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  Speaker 2: love is to grow into the nature, y'all, take your
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  Speaker 2: time right here is to grow into the nature of
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  Speaker 2: God himself. To grow in love is to grow into
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  Speaker 2: the nature of God himself. So what do we do
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  Speaker 2: with all of that?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: That was heavy? LD I know, I know that's why
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost is here. To teach us and to
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  Speaker 2: lead us well. Read First Corinthians, chapter thirteen. Please slowly today,
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  Speaker 2: not like how I'm breathlessly speaking to you, trying to
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  Speaker 2: cram it all into just ten minutes. Read it slowly
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  Speaker 2: as a mirror, and then begin to talk to God
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  Speaker 2: about it. Ask him. Ask God, show you where your
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  Speaker 2: love falls short and where He is calling you to grow?
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  Speaker 2: Where is my love falling short of this measure? God?
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  Speaker 2: In One Corinthians thirteen, I see these principles. Where are
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  Speaker 2: you calling me to grow? And then, of course we
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  Speaker 2: want you to be like cooperative. All of us need
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  Speaker 2: to be cooperative. And let me see if I can,
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  Speaker 2: if I can just give you one more lesson from
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  Speaker 2: the for God so loved the world passage. Okay, the
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  Speaker 2: love described in First Corinthians. This is our second lesson,
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  Speaker 2: the love that is described in First Corinthians chapter thirteen. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: actually it's not a human ideal. It's not something God
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  Speaker 2: is asking us to aspire to. And I need you
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  Speaker 2: to just slow down and hear me on this one.
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  Speaker 2: It is the divine reality already demonstrated in Christ at
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  Speaker 2: Calvary where he gave his life. So God is not
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  Speaker 2: asking us to aspire to. So every quality that Paul
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  Speaker 2: lists in chapter thirteen of First Corinthians was lived out
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  Speaker 2: perfectly in Jesus Christ. Jesus lived all of those principles perfectly,
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  Speaker 2: and of course that first and magnificent principle is the
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  Speaker 2: one of love. The strongest argument in favor of the
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  Speaker 2: gospel is a loving, lovable Christian. That is from the
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  Speaker 2: Ministry of Healing, book page four seventy. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great Sabbath, peaks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with l David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,