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07 02 2026 Paul’s Letters to the Corinthians · 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 Thursday, July two,
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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 in First and Second Corinthians, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Paul's Letters to the Corinthian. I know
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  Speaker 2: that sounds exciting, Paul's Letters to the Corinthians. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to just say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, we thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this new day and bringing us closer to you.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you please to help us to see ourselves
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  Speaker 2: in these letters and see our cells fully connected to you.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus's name, I pray a men and a men again.
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  Speaker 2: If you were to cut the broadcast right here, I
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  Speaker 2: would need you to just get the one thing and
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  Speaker 2: then we're good to go. Jesus does not give up
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  Speaker 2: on his troubled people, the Church. Whenever the people of
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  Speaker 2: God are troubled because of circumstances internally, externally, even in
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  Speaker 2: our own spiritual development, God's tendency is not to give
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  Speaker 2: up on us. Through the Gospel, he speaks the truth. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and in that truth there is correction. There are things
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  Speaker 2: that we need to do to amend our ways, and
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  Speaker 2: then he calls us back to himself in love, order
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  Speaker 2: and faithfulness to him. All right, I'm gonna ask you
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  Speaker 2: to continue the broadcast though, even though I said you
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  Speaker 2: could go okay. So our first lesson is coming in
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  Speaker 2: from First Corinthians, chapter one and verse ten. That's the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of First Corinthians, Chapter one and the verse ten.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, now, I beseech you, brethren, by the
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  Speaker 2: name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. God wants us to be unified, not uniform.
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  Speaker 2: God has created us from every nation, kindred tongue, tribe,
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  Speaker 2: and people from every malu. And unfortunately on planet Earth
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  Speaker 2: we do have different strata. But the fact is that
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  Speaker 2: everybody in the body of Christ is important. The ear
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  Speaker 2: cannot say to the eye, you are not important. The
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  Speaker 2: eye cannot say of itself that it is less important
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  Speaker 2: than the kneecap. You understand, but we do need to
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  Speaker 2: be unified. And the Bible continues that there be no
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  Speaker 2: divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together
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  Speaker 2: in the same mind and judgment. God does not want
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  Speaker 2: us to be split. That's the word for the divisions
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  Speaker 2: is schisma, a split, division, tear, or dissension. He tears hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Division means that we cannot be on the same page
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  Speaker 2: and marching toward the Kingdom with the mission of Christ
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  Speaker 2: in our lives. We cannot have dissension backbiting and tearing
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  Speaker 2: at each other's flesh like savages inside the body of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: because that is disease, and a diseased body is not
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  Speaker 2: fully functional or capable of doing what God has called
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  Speaker 2: us to do. And so Paul wrote, because the Church
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  Speaker 2: was being torn from within, you can really attest that
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  Speaker 2: you likely have been a part of local congregations that
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  Speaker 2: have been torn for some reason or another from within.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Gospel calls God's people away from this
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  Speaker 2: kind of behavior, this kind of spiritual division, and back
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  Speaker 2: into Christ centered unity. And I want you to get
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  Speaker 2: that nuance, though it's a qualifier Christ sent unity. People
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  Speaker 2: are unified on all kinds of wickedness. Do I need
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  Speaker 2: to really get into that? There was all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: war and rumors of war where the certain players on
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  Speaker 2: one side of the field are unified. That's not what
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about. It's not generic. And then you can
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  Speaker 2: see even within faith fellowships, there are people who are
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  Speaker 2: willing to throw away Bible teaching and Bible truth for
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  Speaker 2: the sake of what they consider to be unity. So
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about Christ centered unity, the kind of unity
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus spoke of as he prayed to his father,
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  Speaker 2: as recorded in John chapter I was It seventeen, where
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  Speaker 2: he is in his what we call high priestly prayer,
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  Speaker 2: and he's saying, Father, make them one even as we
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  Speaker 2: are one. And so the action step then is to
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  Speaker 2: refuse to feed division today. I'm saying, when somebody gets
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  Speaker 2: in your phone and your ears, somebody is typing to
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  Speaker 2: you in WhatsApp, sending you something from another so called
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  Speaker 2: ministry page, where they are highlighting the things that they
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  Speaker 2: consider to be the errors of other believers and teachers
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures. Instead of dealing with it as a family,
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  Speaker 2: according to Matthew chapter eighteen, they broadcast it on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: and on other social media platforms. Refuse to feed that
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  Speaker 2: today and ask God to help you pursue peace, help
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  Speaker 2: you to pursue unity and humility in his church. Our
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  Speaker 2: second lesson comes in from First Corinthians, chapter seven and
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  Speaker 2: verse one, now concerning the things whereof he wrote, unto
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  Speaker 2: me it is good for a man not to touch
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  Speaker 2: a woman, not to touch a woman. Well, what Paul
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  Speaker 2: is is being specific here. Can I just say he's
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  Speaker 2: being specific. Clearly, he's not talking about el David Harris
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  Speaker 2: and Simone Harris. We're married, Okay, So let's just be clear.
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  Speaker 2: He is speaking specifically. He's answering real questions from real
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  Speaker 2: believers who are trying to be faithful in a confused world.
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  Speaker 2: And so in that particular instance, he's showing them the pathway.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of people who are confused so
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  Speaker 2: unnecessarily so about how people should be relating, especially between
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  Speaker 2: the two sexes, and Paul is giving direct, direct guidance.
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  Speaker 2: And so when we have real questions in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: we bring those real questions before God and we talk
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  Speaker 2: to him and say, God, I want to be married.
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  Speaker 2: But this person over here is not a part of
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  Speaker 2: the faith fellowship. What must I do?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 2: The Bible already says, don't be unequally yoked with unbelievdvers. Father.
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  Speaker 2: I have some urges that I need that you put
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  Speaker 2: in me, like as a human being. I have urges
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  Speaker 2: because you said be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth and
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  Speaker 2: subdue it. But I don't have a spouse. What must
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  Speaker 2: I do? Go back to the scriptures. It is better
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  Speaker 2: to marry than to burn. There's guidance there. So go
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  Speaker 2: before God in his word in prayer and say God,
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  Speaker 2: what must I do? And then ask Him to teach
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  Speaker 2: you how to live faithfully in these every day practical matters.
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  Speaker 2: And brothers and sisters who have influence inside of congregations,
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  Speaker 2: please will you host Bible class for the youth and
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  Speaker 2: not that same old, same old stuff from books. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be disrespectful because I come from a
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  Speaker 2: call porter's household. I am from a publishing household from
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  Speaker 2: in the sixties, the nineteen sixties, and I've been in
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  Speaker 2: publishing for thirty years by now. Yeah, last month was
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  Speaker 2: thirty years where I have personally actively been in the
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  Speaker 2: gospel publishing work personally. But the stuff that was written
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  Speaker 2: back in the fifties and sixties don't always address what
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  Speaker 2: these youths are dealing with today. So we need to
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  Speaker 2: be hearing from them and teaching them practically on the
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  Speaker 2: things that are in the scriptures. And let me read
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  Speaker 2: a quote right before we come to a swift close.
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  Speaker 2: It reads, it is with trembling hand and aching heart
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  Speaker 2: that Paul wrote to the church at Corinth and that
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  Speaker 2: is the burden that God has given us. This is
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  Speaker 2: also coming in from Acts of the Apostles, page three,
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. Make it 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.