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08 31 2024 The Last Days · 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, August
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series through the Book of Mark, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Last Days. We're in lesson
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  Speaker 2: number ten already just three more lessons to go. But
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  Speaker 2: we are grateful. We are grateful, and we'll get into
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  Speaker 2: it in just a moment. But first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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  Speaker 2: so as soon as you can. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us the privilege to come into your
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  Speaker 2: presence today. Thank you for the fact that we are
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  Speaker 2: living in the last days in Jesus name, am I pray?
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  Speaker 2: Amen and amen again. Yeah, so here is a great
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  Speaker 2: big question, right, what do you think about the last days?
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about the last days? And I
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  Speaker 2: want you to be honest, and if you're in social
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  Speaker 2: media or on YouTube, I want you to go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and type it in the chat, like, how do you
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  Speaker 2: feel about the Last Days? Are you fearful because of
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  Speaker 2: the last days? Are you concerned because we are living
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  Speaker 2: in the last days? What are your thoughts your feelings
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  Speaker 2: related to the last days? And then we need to
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  Speaker 2: be asking and answering the question by ourselves, like do
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  Speaker 2: we have the same perspective that Jesus has regarding the
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  Speaker 2: last days? Because sometimes sometimes religious people and I know
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  Speaker 2: the word I just used, I used it advisedly. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: religious people are confused concerning the last days because we
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  Speaker 2: don't have God's perspective. And when I say that, like
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  Speaker 2: God never intended to frighten people concerning the last days.
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  Speaker 2: That was never his intention. Like God never used the
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  Speaker 2: last day's concept as a bludgeoning tool. He never used
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  Speaker 2: it as a way to just use it as a
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  Speaker 2: whipping stick in order to get people into shape. No,
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  Speaker 2: because really and truly, whether it's the Last days or
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  Speaker 2: the First Days or some other days like that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: work to transform people's lives. We may have information, we
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  Speaker 2: may even have for a moment inspiration, but in order
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  Speaker 2: to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, there
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  Speaker 2: is no independent teaching like just to say that from
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  Speaker 2: this date to this date, we now understand based on
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  Speaker 2: these events that we are living in the Last days,
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  Speaker 2: and then these are the things that will happen in succession.
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  Speaker 2: And the longest time prophecy is this, and this is
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  Speaker 2: what happened within this part of the prophecy for seventy
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  Speaker 2: weeks of years, and then the other part of the
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  Speaker 2: prophecy for the remaining part of the twenty three hundred
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  Speaker 2: days or ye years. In that prophecy, that is not
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  Speaker 2: going to transform anybody. And I know there are some
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  Speaker 2: people who who are confused right now, because what are
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  Speaker 2: you saying? Are we watering down the message? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: We will teach this message according to what God has
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  Speaker 2: given us in these quote last days. We will see
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  Speaker 2: the revelation of Jesus Christ in the way that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: has presented this to us. And we will look forward
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  Speaker 2: to the blessings, the threefold blessing of those who hear
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  Speaker 2: and receive and do the things concerning or contained in
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  Speaker 2: the prophecy of this book. Why because the time, what time,
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  Speaker 2: the Last Days is at hand? And so okay, so
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  Speaker 2: what are you saying, Dave, You're starting to confuse me.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're actually getting at what are
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  Speaker 2: you saying. I'm saying we need to have the perspective
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  Speaker 2: Jesus had. This is the perspective that Jesus had. And
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  Speaker 2: I know somebody's expecting me to go right to Matthew
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, but I'm going to pause first and go
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  Speaker 2: into John chapter fourteen. First, Jesus said, let not your
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  Speaker 2: heart be troubled. He said, let not your heart be troubled.
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  Speaker 2: Why not, Jesus, because ye believe in God, believe also
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  Speaker 2: in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If
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  Speaker 2: it were not so, I would have told you I
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  Speaker 2: go to prepare a place for you. And if I
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  Speaker 2: go and prepare a place for you, I will come again.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, I will come again and receive you unto myself.
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  Speaker 2: That where you are, where I am, there ye may
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  Speaker 2: be also. And so the days just prior to him
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  Speaker 2: coming again are the last days. He's looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: the day when he will come. He's looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: the day that we will be finally transformed in a moment,
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  Speaker 2: in a twinkling of an eye. He's looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: the day that the last trump of God, the shout
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  Speaker 2: from the archangel will happen, and the dead in Christ
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  Speaker 2: will rise first. He's looking forward to the day. He's
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to the day whenevery me shall bow and
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  Speaker 2: every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to
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  Speaker 2: the glory of God the Father. But he would like
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  Speaker 2: for us to do it now and not be bound
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  Speaker 2: by circumstance, because we have made for our final decision
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  Speaker 2: to go against God. And then that reality of bowing
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  Speaker 2: and confessing only comes because we can't help but to
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  Speaker 2: see the truth. But we God forbid, have chosen to
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  Speaker 2: go down to destruction. No, so the moments before Jesus
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  Speaker 2: comes back the last days, Jesus wants us to have
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  Speaker 2: an expectant faith. He wants us to be submissive to
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  Speaker 2: his will and to lead others into a right relationship
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  Speaker 2: with him. And incidentally, now he is recorded in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Matthew chapter twenty four, says, don't be deceived.
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  Speaker 2: There will be false prophets and false Christs who will
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  Speaker 2: deceive many. But and there will be some things that
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  Speaker 2: happen in government. There will be some things that happen
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  Speaker 2: in the natural environment. But these are not the focus.
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  Speaker 2: These are the beginnings of sorrows. But one day we
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  Speaker 2: will finally fulfill the mission that he also said that
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  Speaker 2: this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached into the
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  Speaker 2: entire world for a witness. And then and only then
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  Speaker 2: shall the income when those who hear his voice, his sheep,
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  Speaker 2: hear his voice, those who are his sheep that are
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  Speaker 2: not of this fold, them also will he bring during
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  Speaker 2: the last moments of the last days, so that the
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  Speaker 2: family of God can continue to grow just before Jesus comes. Finally, finally, finally,
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  Speaker 2: we can see that Jesus is on his way. That
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  Speaker 2: is his perspective, and so if we don't have his perspective,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be doom and gloom. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: be fearful. And don't get me wrong, the last of
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  Speaker 2: the Last Days are no joke. There're gonna be some
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  Speaker 2: complicated things going on. But guess what, in the same
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  Speaker 2: way that He taught his people or his children during
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  Speaker 2: the time that they were in captivity in Egypt, that
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  Speaker 2: he is able even during those plagues, those ten plgues
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  Speaker 2: that fell in their captivity, he protected his people. And
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  Speaker 2: when the seven last plags fall on the people who
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  Speaker 2: have ultimately chosen to go against God in the last
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  Speaker 2: of the Last days when there will be trouble. There
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  Speaker 2: will be a time of trouble unlike anything we've ever
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  Speaker 2: seen before. God is going to protect his people. He's
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  Speaker 2: going to protect his people. Every earthly support will be
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  Speaker 2: cut off, but God's people, if we continue to lay
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  Speaker 2: our hands in the hands of the one of the
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  Speaker 2: man who stilled the waters, we will be just fine.
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  Speaker 2: It will be painful, but we will have to learn
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  Speaker 2: from the experience of brother Jakob, Jacob whose name now Israel.
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  Speaker 2: The sons of Israel, the daughters of Israel, we need
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  Speaker 2: to learn as those children of the promise. We need
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  Speaker 2: to recognize that if we lay hold upon God and
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  Speaker 2: do not let him go until he blesses us, that
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  Speaker 2: we will get through the last days in bright, shining colors.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, the reward that He has promised will be
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  Speaker 2: with us to give every person according as our work
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  Speaker 2: shall be. And then the Bible says here in March
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirteen, then will we see the Son of Man
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  Speaker 2: coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And
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  Speaker 2: then he will send his angels and gather his elect
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  Speaker 2: from the four winds of the farthest part of the
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  Speaker 2: earth to the farthest part of heaven. We look forward
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus coming, but in the meantime we are sitting
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  Speaker 2: in the last days. But we need to have God's
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  Speaker 2: perspective until he comes. 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.