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07 28 2026 Learning From the Past · 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 are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, 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 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Tuesday, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighth day of July in twenty twenty six. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El 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, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is learning from the past, Learning from the past.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to go over to your
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  Speaker 2: click here. What is it saying to click here to do?
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  Speaker 2: Stop guessing what to do with your life? Discover God's
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  Speaker 2: design for your life. And it's interesting. I was studying
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  Speaker 2: a little bit ahead and next week this is going
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  Speaker 2: to become more and more relevant when we get into
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  Speaker 2: spiritual gifts. So, as the Lord would have it, you
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  Speaker 2: with your life. I'd like to just go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and get underway. Let's pray. Father, We thank you
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  Speaker 2: for the privilege of coming into your presence this morning. Please,
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  Speaker 2: will you teach us how to serve? You teach us
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  Speaker 2: how to give everything that we have and everything we
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  Speaker 2: are into your care In Jesus name, I pray, Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Learning from your past. I am reminded
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  Speaker 2: of a quote by the servant of the Lord that says,
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  Speaker 2: we have no fear for the future except we forget
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  Speaker 2: how God has led us in the past. We have
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  Speaker 2: nothing to fear, brothers and sisters, except we forget how
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  Speaker 2: God has led us in the past. But what can
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  Speaker 2: we learn from the past? Of course, there are so
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  Speaker 2: many things. But let's focus on our particular lesson. And
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  Speaker 2: the most important thing from my perspective on this one
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  Speaker 2: is that God's people had the cloud hm the cloud
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  Speaker 2: as a visible measure of the presence of God, that
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  Speaker 2: led them by day, the sea, the manna, the water
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  Speaker 2: from a rock, ah, and they still jumped into idolatry.
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  Speaker 2: I almost said they fell into idolatry. But really and
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  Speaker 2: truly they jumped into idolatry because God made himself abundantly
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  Speaker 2: clear and he empowered them to use to use the
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  Speaker 2: power of God to live according to his principles. But
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  Speaker 2: privilege has never guaranteed faithfulness. They had the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: being led by God in the day, pillar of fire,
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  Speaker 2: by night, crossing over on dry ground through the red sea,
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  Speaker 2: and yet the people of God took that privilege for granted,
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  Speaker 2: they took the privilege lightly. And so the most important
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  Speaker 2: thing for me is that God is kind enough to
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  Speaker 2: lead us, and we should be following him. Can I
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  Speaker 2: just say that, like where Thou leadest, I will follow.
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  Speaker 2: That should be our our daily prayer, our daily tone,
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  Speaker 2: if you will. And so our lesson number one comes
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  Speaker 2: in from First Corinthians, chapter ten and verse six, where
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, now these happened as examples for us,
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  Speaker 2: so that we will not crave evil things as they did,
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  Speaker 2: were not to lust after the evil things of the
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  Speaker 2: people of God at that time. And so it's interesting
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  Speaker 2: that this is a type or a pattern, an example
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  Speaker 2: stamped out as a warning. In this case, it's a warning.
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  Speaker 2: God's people's history in the wilderness was not recorded just
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  Speaker 2: for us to read another story about our past, not
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  Speaker 2: just for information. God recorded this history partially as a
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  Speaker 2: mirror for every generation that followed. And so our lesson
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  Speaker 2: really is that God preserved God's people's failures in scriptures
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  Speaker 2: so we could see it as a gift to the
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  Speaker 2: Church of God in the last days. And of course
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  Speaker 2: I'm limiting it to us now because it's us now
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  Speaker 2: talking like we are the ones talking right now. Of
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  Speaker 2: course there's so much more to it. The warning was
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  Speaker 2: written in their story. But God wants us to land
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  Speaker 2: that squarely on our time today, this Tuesday morning, like
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  Speaker 2: literally right now, right now, Like look at your watch,
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  Speaker 2: right now? What time is it? Let me look at
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  Speaker 2: my watch. It is uh yep, it is five oh
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  Speaker 2: five am. Where I am. God wants us to look
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  Speaker 2: at our time, look at our watches, look at our lives.
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  Speaker 2: And those who ignore these realities are in danger today.
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  Speaker 2: So God, we begin to pray even in this moment
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  Speaker 2: and say, God, will you please let me see these
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  Speaker 2: as in samples. Will you please help me to see
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  Speaker 2: how while you are so kind to lead your people
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  Speaker 2: in the past and help us in our day, help
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  Speaker 2: me in this moment six minutes after the hour to
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  Speaker 2: live according to your principles. And so the action step
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  Speaker 2: is to read one account of God's people's failure in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness today and ask God, well, what does it
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  Speaker 2: reveal about a tendency in your own heart? If anything, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: that needs to be brought under His authority. Moving on
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  Speaker 2: to lesson number two, coming in from verse twelve. Wherefore,
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  Speaker 2: let him that taketh, that thinketh he standeth take heed
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  Speaker 2: lest default. If you're like God, those people were silly.
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  Speaker 2: Look at how God led them, Why would they be
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  Speaker 2: so wicked? And maybe that's your reality. If you, by
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  Speaker 2: God's grace, are faithful in this moment, then praise God.
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  Speaker 2: But listen, don't get ahead of your skis. If you
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  Speaker 2: think that there is enough strength in your humanity that
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  Speaker 2: you can simply avoid by logic or studying your way
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  Speaker 2: through or somehow observing the history of God's people and saying,
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  Speaker 2: then I would never do that. That is a judgmental mindset.
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  Speaker 2: But if by God's grace you are faithful because of
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  Speaker 2: what God reveals in verse thirteen, that He's able to
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  Speaker 2: keep you, huh, from falling, He's able to get you
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  Speaker 2: through any temptation and make a way of escape for you,
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  Speaker 2: then praise God, but do not become proud. Let the
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  Speaker 2: one who thinks that he stands be careful that he
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  Speaker 2: does not fall. And so the thinking that the Bible
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  Speaker 2: writer is using right here coming from the word do
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  Speaker 2: ko it means to suppose, imagine. The danger Paul identifies
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  Speaker 2: is not ignorance, but over confidence. He's not talking about
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  Speaker 2: you being oblivious to anything, but over confidence. The person
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  Speaker 2: who thinks they are standing firm is the one most
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  Speaker 2: likely to fall. I want to say without warning, but
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  Speaker 2: really it's more like suddenly. That's almost the same as
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  Speaker 2: without warning, Like we knew that it was, we could
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  Speaker 2: see that it was coming, because there was. It was
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  Speaker 2: like a creeping compromise. And so what God is saying
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  Speaker 2: is is that, yeah, don't do that. Spiritual overconfidence is
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  Speaker 2: its own form of vulnerability. The believer who walks in
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  Speaker 2: humility before God and dependence on Christ is far safer
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  Speaker 2: than the one who trusts in our own spiritual track record.
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  Speaker 2: So what is the action? What do we need to do?
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  Speaker 2: Bring your confidence before God? All of it. People come
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  Speaker 2: to you and they say, brother, I come to you. Sister,
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  Speaker 2: I come to you because I need prayer and in
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  Speaker 2: this experience, and I want you to pray for me
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  Speaker 2: because I know God listens to you. And maybe that
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  Speaker 2: is the case. Maybe it is true that you have
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  Speaker 2: a special connection with God. And what God is saying
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  Speaker 2: is I want you to bring that strength, that confidence.
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  Speaker 2: Bring that to me in honest prayer today. Ask God
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  Speaker 2: to show you any area where you are standing in
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  Speaker 2: your own strength though, rather than in His. Yeah, let
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  Speaker 2: me give you a quote before we go. Testimonies for
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  Speaker 2: the Church, Volume four, page six hundred and eight. It reads,
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  Speaker 2: those who are trusting in self are weak. They may
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  Speaker 2: think themselves capable and be puffed up with self confidence,
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  Speaker 2: but they will meet with disastrous failure. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: 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,