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07 20 2026 Dealing With Scandals · 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're going to
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  Speaker 1: change all of that. Let's experience God's words today and
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  Speaker 1: receive the power we need to live healthy.
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  Speaker 2: 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 3: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, the
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  Speaker 3: twentieth day of July in twenty twenty six. Hello, my
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  Speaker 3: name is El David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 3: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 3: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 3: are continuing in our Lesson study series through the books
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  Speaker 3: of First and Second Corinthians, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 3: is dealing with scandals. Dealing with scand it's no laughing matter,
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  Speaker 3: but it just brings back to my mind some things
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  Speaker 3: that used to go on on the internet. I'm like, scandalous. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: how do we deal with that though? Among the people
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  Speaker 3: of God? When it arises before we get into that.
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  Speaker 3: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 3: I do thank you for giving us the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: come together again. Just one more time to open your word,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm asking you please to give us your mindset.
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  Speaker 3: Please need your mindset, especially when dealing with scandalous behavior
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  Speaker 3: among your people. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 3: Amen again. The most important thing to me this morning
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  Speaker 3: for this subject is that church discipline is not the
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  Speaker 3: same as punishment. I wish I had the time to
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  Speaker 3: teach you what I learned when I was in the
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  Speaker 3: field of behavior modification and management my psych position back
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  Speaker 3: in the mid nineties. But there was a total difference
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  Speaker 3: between corrective or disciplinary action and punishment. But let me
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  Speaker 3: just say from a biblical perspective, we're pursuing the soul.
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  Speaker 3: We're pursuing the soul if God forbid, people are taken
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  Speaker 3: in a fault or are going down the wrong path
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  Speaker 3: to the degree that the Church needs to step in
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  Speaker 3: as a body. The purpose is really to reconcile the
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  Speaker 3: soul to God God and preserve the glory of God
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  Speaker 3: among the people at the same time. So Jesus went
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  Speaker 3: to the cross to save sinners, and every act of
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  Speaker 3: correction within the church must carry the same purpose, that
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  Speaker 3: same spirit that Jesus showed as he gave his life
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  Speaker 3: for us. He could have destroyed us, he could have,
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  Speaker 3: but instead he gave his life for us. When when
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  Speaker 3: Peter pardoned me, when Peter had been so bosy and
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  Speaker 3: big chested and said he would never betrade Christ, and
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  Speaker 3: then even looking in his eyes, right after he betrayed Christ,
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  Speaker 3: Jesus still went to the cross. He didn't say, Peter,
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  Speaker 3: I told you you would do this, so this doesn't
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  Speaker 3: apply for you. No, he went to the cross. And
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  Speaker 3: then when he took up his life again on that
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  Speaker 3: Sunday morning, he told the sister listen, go tell my
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  Speaker 3: disciples and Peter, and then he told the message of hope,
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  Speaker 3: and that.
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  Speaker 2: He was going to come back and build with them.
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  Speaker 3: But he made sure that Peter was in a position
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  Speaker 3: to receive not only that that discipline or correction, but
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  Speaker 3: that that he would he would go and deliver the
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  Speaker 3: soul of the life of Peter. So our first lesson
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  Speaker 3: is coming in from First Corinthians, Chapter five, Verses four
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  Speaker 3: and five, and the Bible reads, when you gather together
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  Speaker 3: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I
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  Speaker 3: am with you in spirit, along with the power of
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  Speaker 3: the Lord Jesus Christ, hand this man over to Satan
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  Speaker 3: for destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may
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  Speaker 3: be saved. What in the day of the Lord? What
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  Speaker 3: Let me read it from the King James version, In
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  Speaker 3: the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are
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  Speaker 3: gathered together and my spirit with the power of our
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  Speaker 3: Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such an one unto Satan
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  Speaker 3: for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may
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  Speaker 3: be saved in the day of the Lord. What in
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  Speaker 3: the world, what are we talking about? We're talking about saving, rescuing, preserving.
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  Speaker 3: The ultimate goal of even the most severe church discipline
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  Speaker 3: is the salvation of one purpose of one person. God's
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  Speaker 3: redemptive purpose drives every corrective action. So when you see
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  Speaker 3: that word to be saved, that is actually it's zozo.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's weird in Jamaica if you hear that word,
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  Speaker 3: it means something else, but zoso. But that's the ultimate goal.
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  Speaker 3: That's the term that I just defined. And so what
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  Speaker 3: we are learning here is that Paul's strongest language still
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  Speaker 3: points towards salvation. Even when you're like what it was
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  Speaker 3: jarring for some of you to hear what Paul just said,
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  Speaker 3: or we read the record of what he said, but
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  Speaker 3: but it was still towards salvation. The goal of this
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  Speaker 3: handing over in air quotes really is not to destroy
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  Speaker 3: the person. The goal of remor moving a person from
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  Speaker 3: that fellowship was recovery.
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  Speaker 2: Now let me give you a visual example.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus removed Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden,
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  Speaker 3: but he also set an angel so that the angel
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  Speaker 3: would not allow anybody who has sinned to eat from
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  Speaker 3: the tree of life, because a person who's in a
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  Speaker 3: sinful state eating from the tree of life would extend
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  Speaker 3: them throughout eternity as sinners, all the pain, suffering and
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  Speaker 3: everything else that goes along with sinning except for the
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  Speaker 3: death part. Yeah, that would go out forever if the
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  Speaker 3: person is able to eat from the tree of life.
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  Speaker 3: So what did God do? Did he excommunicate them? No,
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  Speaker 3: he did not execute communicate them, but he did disrupt
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  Speaker 3: that place, that cocoon of fellowship in order to protect them.
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  Speaker 3: And then he taught them in the process the plan
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  Speaker 3: of salvation.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Ellen White said it this way.
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  Speaker 3: She said, the hand that is correcting people is the
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  Speaker 3: same hand that must be redeeming people. The hand that
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  Speaker 3: is correcting people must be the same one that is
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  Speaker 3: redeeming people. Jesus did not leave Adam and Eve out
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  Speaker 3: in the cold, even though he really did have to.
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  Speaker 3: He had to deal with them, He had to deal
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  Speaker 3: with Moses. He didn't go into the promised land. But
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  Speaker 3: the Bible says that Jesus resurrected him and he is
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  Speaker 3: in the heavenly Promise even now as we are speaking.
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  Speaker 3: And so before you form an opinion about someone who
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  Speaker 3: has fallen into sin or jumped, as the case may be,
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  Speaker 3: ask God to show you his redemptive purpose for that
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  Speaker 3: person's life. God, what do you want us to do
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  Speaker 3: here in order to save this person, What do you
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  Speaker 3: want us to do? First Corinthians, chapter five, verses nine
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  Speaker 3: to ten. For our second lesson, I wrote unto you
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  Speaker 3: an epistol not to company with fornicators, yet not all
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  Speaker 3: together with the fornicators of this world, or with the
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  Speaker 3: covetous extortioners or idolators. For then ye must needs go
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  Speaker 3: out of the world. Like what, let me read it
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  Speaker 3: in another version, I wrote to you this letter not
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  Speaker 3: to associate with sexually immoral people. In no way did
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  Speaker 3: I mean the immoral people of this world or the
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  Speaker 3: greedy and swindlers and idolators, since you would then have
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  Speaker 3: to go out into the world. So he's saying, like
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  Speaker 3: he's talking about people who were living in open and
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  Speaker 3: blatant sin among the faith fellowship. Jesus actually ate with
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  Speaker 3: real sinners, like Jesus went into the world in order
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  Speaker 3: to save the world. That's how you got saved, isn't it,
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  Speaker 3: Brothers and sisters. That's how he saved me. So he's
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  Speaker 3: not saying, don't be an evangelist, but he's saying that
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  Speaker 3: we should not be and I know yesterday we ended
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  Speaker 3: on this point, but we should not be in the
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  Speaker 3: position where if I have a brother that got baptized
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  Speaker 3: with me, and he has said yes to God. But
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  Speaker 3: that brother now is a fornicator, an extortioner, a drunk,
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  Speaker 3: or someone who is bound by alcoholism. People who are
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  Speaker 3: who are not struggling now they are living in open sin.
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  Speaker 3: God is saying. God is saying that there has to
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  Speaker 3: be a pathway of correction, a pathway of reconciliation. But
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  Speaker 3: in the meantime, don't make them comfortable in sin. Make
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  Speaker 3: them comfortable in coming to God and repenting and yielding
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  Speaker 3: their will to God.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, 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 l. David Harris. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah,