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07 01 2026 Many in This City · 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 Wednesday, July one,
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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. This is your Daily Portion where
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  Speaker 2: we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  Speaker 2: is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study
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  Speaker 2: series through the books of First and Second Corinthians, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is many in this city, Many
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  Speaker 2: in this city. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Will you
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  Speaker 2: please join our online community. Will you please please let
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world, And one more,
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  Speaker 2: click the contribute button. Because your Daily Portion ministries is
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  Speaker 2: a listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father. We thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this day and getting us in deep into our week. Father,
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  Speaker 2: and I ask you to get us over this speed
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  Speaker 2: bump and down into a right relationship with you and
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  Speaker 2: to be among the people who do love you and
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  Speaker 2: do serve you wherever we are in the world. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again many in
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  Speaker 2: this city. And so we begin with what I consider
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  Speaker 2: for today to be the most important thing. And maybe
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  Speaker 2: if I thought about it tomorrow, I might see something new.
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  Speaker 2: But for now, when people reject you, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: if you are a child of God, you have chosen
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  Speaker 2: to surrender your will to God. When people reject you,
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  Speaker 2: or oppose you, or speak against you, Jesus still has
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  Speaker 2: people calling. He's calling to salvation. There are still people
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  Speaker 2: who are receptive. Okay, So the rejection that I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 2: the opposition I'm talking about, has to do with you
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  Speaker 2: coming into a space wherever it is, is it at work,
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  Speaker 2: at home, on the road, you know, somewhere in between,
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  Speaker 2: when the message of God is all on you in
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  Speaker 2: your bosom, and people are rejecting you trust me, really,
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  Speaker 2: don't trust me? Trust what the Bible says. There are
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  Speaker 2: people who are ripe ready for the harvest to listen
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  Speaker 2: to the word of God. So don't give up, because
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  Speaker 2: the Cross of Christ has power still in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: deep into the year, to save more people than you
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  Speaker 2: can currently see. And so our first lesson comes in
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  Speaker 2: from the Book of Acts, chapter eighteen and verse eight,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads and Crispus, the chief ruler of
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  Speaker 2: the synagogue, believed on the Lord and all his house.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you glad that even people who are leading in
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  Speaker 2: faith fellowships and maybe even faith fellowships there are not
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  Speaker 2: exactly the one that you're attached to right now when
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  Speaker 2: they hear the message of Christ and him being able
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  Speaker 2: to transform our lives and the love that God has
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  Speaker 2: toward us. Huh, they are still saying yes to God.
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  Speaker 2: And this chief ruler actually brought his entire household with him.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of leadership is that? And many of the
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  Speaker 2: Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized, And so to believe
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  Speaker 2: means to trust, to place confidence in Paul faced resistance,
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, that you and I do sometimes when
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  Speaker 2: we are doing whatever we do throughout the day. But
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  Speaker 2: the gospel still bore fruit. We saw this. God's saving
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  Speaker 2: work was moving in Corinth, and the people who heard
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  Speaker 2: the message were led to faith in Jesus. So I
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  Speaker 2: want you to be encouraged, keep the faith, keep sharing
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  Speaker 2: your faith today. Whatever it is that God has called
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  Speaker 2: you to do. I don't know. Are you somebody who
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  Speaker 2: speaks more openly? Are you someone who is helpful to
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  Speaker 2: people when they are down and out there going through
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  Speaker 2: some health issues or problems with their children, or they
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  Speaker 2: may be just coming out of an incarceration, or maybe
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  Speaker 2: even locked up right now. I don't know what your
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  Speaker 2: way is, but the fact is that you must keep
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  Speaker 2: the faith even if some resist, because God is opening
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  Speaker 2: hearts to those who are willing to believe. All is
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  Speaker 2: not lost. Our second lesson is coming in from verses
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  Speaker 2: nine and the beginning of verse ten Acts Chapter eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, then spake the Lord to Paul in
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  Speaker 2: the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak,
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  Speaker 2: and hold not thy peace. Okay, So why shouldn't he
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  Speaker 2: be afraid? Why should he speak? Why shouldn't he hold
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  Speaker 2: his peace? Jesus said, for I am with thee yes.
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  Speaker 2: He said, don't be affrighted. Paul was feeling weakness, he
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  Speaker 2: was even trembling, but Jesus didn't leave him there. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: Paul was the one who had that incredible experience as
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  Speaker 2: he was moving toward Damascus to do some things that
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  Speaker 2: are just evil against the people of God. And it
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  Speaker 2: was on that road to Damascus that Jesus rested him.
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  Speaker 2: So he knows what it's like to have an encounter
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  Speaker 2: with God. He knows what it's like for his for
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  Speaker 2: God's mercy to find someone on the road toward destruction.
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  Speaker 2: And even though right now he's losing courage and he's
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  Speaker 2: trembling and his faith is having a little challenge, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible is teaching us that Jesus didn't leave him. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord met his servant in that fear. He didn't throw
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  Speaker 2: Paul away with his own presence, and he told them, listen,
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  Speaker 2: go get that work that I had already commanded you
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  Speaker 2: to do. And so the action is to move and
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  Speaker 2: listen to God's voice when you have fear. You may
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  Speaker 2: or may not suffer from this, But I believe that
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  Speaker 2: most human beings do encounter fearful situations when where our
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  Speaker 2: faith is concerned, and so when that happens, listen to
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  Speaker 2: God's voice and do not stop, keep ongoing, and do
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  Speaker 2: so in faith. Our third and final lesson for today
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Isaiah, chapter forty one and verse ten.
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  Speaker 2: Forty one and verse ten Isaiah the Bible reads, fear not,
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  Speaker 2: for I am with THEE. Be not dismayed, for I
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  Speaker 2: am thy God. So because God is with you, because
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  Speaker 2: he's your God, meaning he's the one who created you.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one who is currently and presently empowering you.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that knows the end from the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: He knows exactly what will and will not happen as
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  Speaker 2: you follow on those paths that he on the path.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not those paths, the path of righteousness that he
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  Speaker 2: is opening before your feet. He said, I will help
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  Speaker 2: ye yea, I will help thee, yeay. I will uphold
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  Speaker 2: THEE with the right hand of my righteousness. Don't be afraid,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. He said that he would strengthen. That's
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  Speaker 2: what the word means. The strength that he's going to
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  Speaker 2: give us is kazakh in the Greek, I mean and
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  Speaker 2: Hebrew pardon me to make firm. If your knees are knocking,
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  Speaker 2: he said, He's gonna firm those up. If your faith
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  Speaker 2: is is waning and your unsteady on your feet, he said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to firm you up. If your mind is
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  Speaker 2: starting to unsteady a little bit. Not that you have
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  Speaker 2: given up, not that you have forgotten God, but but
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  Speaker 2: you're having a little challenge. But you're willing to surrender
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  Speaker 2: to God still, he said, He'll make you firm, and
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  Speaker 2: he will make you strong. God doesn't simply tell his
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  Speaker 2: children not to fear, because it's easy to say that,
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  Speaker 2: just don't fear, don't do that, Okay, Well, he gives
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  Speaker 2: his presence, he said, I'm gonna be with you. And
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  Speaker 2: while he's there with us, he empowers us like he
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  Speaker 2: gives us his strength. He helps us. Don't be afraid,
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  Speaker 2: don't be afraid. I'm with you. Come on, come on,
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  Speaker 2: and he gives us all the strength that we need.
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  Speaker 2: The command comes with that promise of his presence. And
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  Speaker 2: so what must we do in this regard? Take one
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  Speaker 2: burden to God today. I want you to fix the
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  Speaker 2: burden in your mind or in the couple of moments
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  Speaker 2: after we are done with this broadcast today, and trust
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  Speaker 2: him to strengthen you for what you cannot handle alone.
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  Speaker 2: One quote before we come to a swift close Acts
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  Speaker 2: of the Apostles, page two hundred and fifty one. Paul
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  Speaker 2: saw that his sufficiency was not in himself, but in
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  Speaker 2: the presence of the Holy Ghost, whose gracious influence was
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  Speaker 2: to control his heart, bringing every thought into subjection to Christ.
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  Speaker 2: 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,