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08 03 2024 Inside Out · 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 Sabbath, August three,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. 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 through the Book of Mark, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is inside Out, Inside Out. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  Speaker 2: to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online
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  Speaker 2: community and let us know where you are in the
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  Speaker 2: world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is a
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  Speaker 2: way that we continue to build faith and fellowship let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Bothering Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  Speaker 2: and for the privilege that we have to open your word.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm asking you now to give us the fullness
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  Speaker 2: of your holy spirit, make us holy from the inside out.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so,
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  Speaker 2: especially in twenty twenty four, but this is not the
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  Speaker 2: only time in Earth's history people are more concerned about
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  Speaker 2: the outside than we are the inside. Yes, if you
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  Speaker 2: go to a hotel in twenty twenty four, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we ain't no telling how nasty it might be. As
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  Speaker 2: beautiful as it may be. May go in in the
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  Speaker 2: sheets look beautiful, you may go in. And if there
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  Speaker 2: are glass glasses from which to drink, they may look
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  Speaker 2: shine and nice. The surfaces in the bathroom may look wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: And we have seen on all kinds of documentaries and reports,
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  Speaker 2: news reports, where in some of these places, if you
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  Speaker 2: turn on a certain kind of light that can detect impurity,
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  Speaker 2: you see all kinds of creepy stuff. Because sometimes the
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  Speaker 2: cleaning crew are using contaminated items. They may wipe the
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  Speaker 2: toilet with cloth and then use the same cloth to
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  Speaker 2: shine the glass that you're supposed to drink out of,
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  Speaker 2: and so on the outside it looks perfect. And I
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  Speaker 2: could give some more creepy examples, but I think you
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  Speaker 2: get the point. On the outside, it looks wonderful, But
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  Speaker 2: what is it like on the inside. The same thing
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  Speaker 2: with some of our social media tools. If I hold
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  Speaker 2: up my phone using certain apps in front of my face,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to speak to people as I'm walking along
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  Speaker 2: the road. There are options to put filters on and
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  Speaker 2: so to you, I look exceptional, but in reality I
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  Speaker 2: look like something else. And it's like because sometimes people
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  Speaker 2: are more interested in how we appear than how we
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  Speaker 2: actually are. Now, if we put this into a supernatural
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  Speaker 2: or a spiritual discussion, now we need to be thinking.
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  Speaker 2: But wait a minute, when I look like I'm holy,
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  Speaker 2: because maybe I use holy language? How many times have
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  Speaker 2: I spoken to someone and said, hey, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: And then they say God is good and listen, no disrespect.
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  Speaker 2: If that's how you respond, then find but that's not
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  Speaker 2: the question that I asked you. I did not ask
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  Speaker 2: you how God is. I know how God is. He's
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  Speaker 2: good and his mercies endure forever like we know this,
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  Speaker 2: and as truth endures to all generations, we know how
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  Speaker 2: God is. What I'm asking you, brother, what I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: you sis is how are you? And sometimes in our
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  Speaker 2: religiosity we are more concerned with how we look than
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  Speaker 2: how we are. I may not go into the rumbar
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  Speaker 2: because I think you might see me, but I may
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  Speaker 2: secretly drink rum behind a bush somewhere because I am
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  Speaker 2: more concerned about what you think of me than I
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  Speaker 2: am about who I really am. And I could make
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  Speaker 2: up more and more examples. But again, I think you
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  Speaker 2: understand where I'm going with this. In Mark chapter seven.
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  Speaker 2: In Mark chapter seven, Jesus actually fires on this reality
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  Speaker 2: when he says, there is nothing that enters a man
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  Speaker 2: from the outside which can defile him. It was a
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  Speaker 2: long discussion we'll get into another day. But the things
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  Speaker 2: which come out of him, those are the things that
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  Speaker 2: defile a man. I remember the Bible says, as a
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  Speaker 2: person thinks, as a man thinketh in his heart, so
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  Speaker 2: is he. As I have my mindset. Whatever my mindset is,
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  Speaker 2: that's my reality. However, I think that is my reality.
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  Speaker 2: What's inside of me is my reality, not the way
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  Speaker 2: that I appear when I get a perfect haircut and trim.
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  Speaker 2: How I appear. My vehicle is shine and nice, and
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  Speaker 2: I have on beautiful clothing. How I appear When I
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  Speaker 2: put deodorant over odor, I said, deodorant over odor without
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  Speaker 2: actually bathing like that is not real. It's a figment
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  Speaker 2: of what I want your imagination of me to be.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus is saying, don't be so concerned about
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  Speaker 2: this external stuff unless they are a fruit of the internal.
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  Speaker 2: If internally you are holy, then holiness will come out.
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  Speaker 2: If internally you are dependent upon God, then externally that
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  Speaker 2: dependence will manifest itself. You see. And so Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: concerned about changing us from the inside out. He dealt
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  Speaker 2: with those people who were supposed to be his friends,
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  Speaker 2: but they were really critics of his And that's really
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  Speaker 2: being flattering toward them. He said, you are white washed sepulchers.
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  Speaker 2: On the outside you're bright and shiny and white, but
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  Speaker 2: on the inside you are dead men's bones, full of
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  Speaker 2: dead men's bones. He doesn't want us to live that way.
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  Speaker 2: He wants us to simply surrender to him. I think
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  Speaker 2: I've said enough there. Let's go into the Bible now.
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  Speaker 2: From the Book of Proverbs chapter four, us we prepare
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  Speaker 2: for the coming week. Proverbs chapter fourget at verse twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, keep your heart with all diligence, for
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  Speaker 2: out of it are the issues of life. Let me
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  Speaker 2: read it in another version, net version, guard your heart
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  Speaker 2: with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
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  Speaker 2: So when God lives in us, he is the one
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  Speaker 2: who is in control of our minds and our mindset.
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  Speaker 2: Then everything that we do is from an overflow of
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  Speaker 2: life that God is inside of us. Okay, let's read
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  Speaker 2: now from Galatians chapter three and verse twenty eight. He
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  Speaker 2: said that there is neither Jew nor Greek. There is
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  Speaker 2: neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female,
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  Speaker 2: for we are all one in Christ Jesus. It's a
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  Speaker 2: discussion of people who are yielded to God, who are
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  Speaker 2: keeping covenant with God. And he said, when we are
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  Speaker 2: baptized into Christ, we are Abraham's seed and heirs according
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  Speaker 2: to the promise. So the promise God made to Abraham
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  Speaker 2: is what he is promising to us. When he has
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  Speaker 2: his laws written in our hearts. Oh inside again, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and in our minds. Oh that's internal again yes. And
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  Speaker 2: then we live in such a way that we are
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  Speaker 2: unified in Christ. All of us, everybody who yields our
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  Speaker 2: will to Christ, are now bound together to do the
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  Speaker 2: will of God on planet Earth. And so I read
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  Speaker 2: also from Matthew chapter sixteen. Matthew chapter sixteen and verse six,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, unto them, watch out, watch out, and beware
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  Speaker 2: of the leaven or the yeast of the Pharisees and
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  Speaker 2: the Sadducees. He was saying, like, do what they tell you.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that they would teach holy words, but
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  Speaker 2: don't do what they do, because they're showing you that
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  Speaker 2: really they're about talk and not action. He said, do
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  Speaker 2: what they teach you, but don't do what they do.
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  Speaker 2: And of course he wasn't saying absolutely, because some of
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  Speaker 2: the stuff they taught wasn't true. But he's showing us
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  Speaker 2: that there are times that we will again behave on
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  Speaker 2: the outside in a way that is really life like.
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  Speaker 2: If you listen to the four friends of job, we
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  Speaker 2: say three friends, but there was one dude at the
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  Speaker 2: end that criticized the first three friends. And we listened
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  Speaker 2: to what they said to him as he was going
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  Speaker 2: through struggles, and it seemed like what they were saying
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  Speaker 2: was really good. Like if you just listen to the
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  Speaker 2: words that they spoke, it was like, whoa, this is poetic,
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  Speaker 2: this is holy stuff. But when you realize that they
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  Speaker 2: were giving him bad advice and they were just pompous
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  Speaker 2: and religious, and Jesus actually told them, you need to
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  Speaker 2: go repent and let this dude offer sacrifice for you
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  Speaker 2: because you were on the wrong track. Yeah, we need
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  Speaker 2: to be allowing God to change us from the inside
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  Speaker 2: out and then the outbo.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,