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08 05 2024 Clean Hands or Clean Heart · 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 Monday, August five,
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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 clean hands or clean Heart. Clean hands
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  Speaker 2: or clean Heart. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but before we do, I just want to take a
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  Speaker 2: pause right here. It is the fifth day of August.
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  Speaker 2: It's a special day for me and because Simone and
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  Speaker 2: I have been married for twenty three years, so I
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  Speaker 2: just want to say great, big, happy anniversary. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to you in just a minute, Simon.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm thankful. I'm thankful. It's a special anniversary for
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  Speaker 2: me because my parents, my late parents, they divorced at
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  Speaker 2: twenty three years and so God has given Simona and
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  Speaker 2: I the privilege, the privilege of breaking the cycle. And
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  Speaker 2: some people think that's too much information, but you just
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  Speaker 2: have to know the nature of my praise. I am
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  Speaker 2: grateful because God made a promise. He said that we
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  Speaker 2: if we just yield our will to him, that he'll
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  Speaker 2: do mighty exploits in our lives. And so I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful for you, Simon, and I'm really really happy
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  Speaker 2: that God has made us whole and made us holy
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  Speaker 2: so that we can live together in harmony for twenty
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  Speaker 2: three great years. So Lord, bless you. Lord bless you,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you for everybody who's watching and listening for
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  Speaker 2: giving me just that moment to give God thanks. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in heaven, thank you for this day and for
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  Speaker 2: the privilege that we have in you to do your
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  Speaker 2: will and to hear your words. Help us to have
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  Speaker 2: congruence in our lives, so that what we do and
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  Speaker 2: what we say are holy. What we think and what
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  Speaker 2: we do, they are holy. In Jesus' name. I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Clean hands or clean heart. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that we have to decide between the two.
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  Speaker 2: But let's go in. Let's go in here and make
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  Speaker 2: some sense of this. Okay. I know what the context
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  Speaker 2: of the story is, because we started the discussion yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: But let's go now to the Bible Book of Mark,
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  Speaker 2: chapter seven, and I will read beginning at verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible reads, and when he had called all
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  Speaker 2: the people unto him, he said, unto them, hearken unto me,
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  Speaker 2: every one of you, and understand, there is nothing from
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  Speaker 2: without a man that entering into him can defile him.
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  Speaker 2: But the things which come out of him, those are
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  Speaker 2: they that defile the man. If a man have ears
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  Speaker 2: to hear, let him hear. And when he was entered
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  Speaker 2: into the house from the people, his disciples asked him
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  Speaker 2: concerning the parable, and he said, unto them, are ye
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  Speaker 2: so without understanding? Also do you not perceive that whatsoever
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  Speaker 2: thing from without entereth into the man cannot defile him,
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  Speaker 2: because it entereth, not into his heart, but into his belly,
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  Speaker 2: and go without in the draft, purging all meats. And
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  Speaker 2: let me just say the obvious stuff here, Jesus gave
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  Speaker 2: a basic lesson about like when you're eating based on
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  Speaker 2: a ceremonial thing, like so you're having let's give it
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  Speaker 2: a real meal, right, say you're having peep to bread, right,
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  Speaker 2: some whole wheat pita bread, and in it you have hummus,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, maybe you have some vegetables and you have
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  Speaker 2: something else, right, and it's good food. Right, And because
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  Speaker 2: you don't ceremonially wash your hands. And I'm speaking now
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  Speaker 2: from the mindset of the people who were listening ceremonially,
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  Speaker 2: it had nothing to do with cleanliness. It had nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with what they were about to eat. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: they were kosher as we call it today. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: eat unclean foods in an unclean manner. And they even
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  Speaker 2: took that to another level that was beyond what the
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  Speaker 2: scripture said. That's a different discussion. And so Jesus is saying, so,
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  Speaker 2: hold on, are you saying that if they pick up
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  Speaker 2: that same meal and then just begin to eat it,
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  Speaker 2: that you think that that makes a person unholy. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: come on, come on, come on, eating that meal that
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  Speaker 2: is clean, that meal that is healthy, that meal that
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  Speaker 2: is not in contrast to what God taught us about
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  Speaker 2: how we are to eat and to drink. You're saying
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  Speaker 2: that because they didn't do that ceremonial washing, that that
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  Speaker 2: makes them unholy. That is not the case. You should
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  Speaker 2: not be satisfied with simply washing your hands ceremonially and
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  Speaker 2: allowing your lives and hearts to be defiled. There are
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  Speaker 2: people right now who do all kinds of ceremonial things.
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  Speaker 2: I won't go into the details, but some religious practices,
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  Speaker 2: things that make us feel good, and we say that
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  Speaker 2: we have the truth, and we do all of these
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  Speaker 2: things in terms of our speech to show people that
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  Speaker 2: we have intellectual superiority. And then the way we treat
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  Speaker 2: people is foul and rude. Sometimes we who do these
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  Speaker 2: things that look like ceremonial and they look good. They're
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  Speaker 2: religiously pompous, like we give greetings in high places. When
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  Speaker 2: we're standing at the pullpit, we sing songs in perfect
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  Speaker 2: harmony and perfect pitch. We're never late to a religious
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  Speaker 2: organized a meeting. And then when it comes to how
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  Speaker 2: we treat our spouses something's wrong, or do our spouses
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  Speaker 2: even live with us? Like, what, where's my spouse? Hmmm?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we are in situations where we've done all of
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  Speaker 2: those things outwardly. And the way we treat our children,
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  Speaker 2: the way we treat people on the road who have needs, ah,
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  Speaker 2: the way we treat people when we are in our
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  Speaker 2: gyms working out and exercising, when we're on travel. How
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  Speaker 2: we are on travel may be different than how we
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  Speaker 2: are at home, and there is hypocrisy there. We fast,
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  Speaker 2: some of us long fasts and make ourselves look sullen
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  Speaker 2: and worn. And then we have the power to deliver
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  Speaker 2: people from oppression, and don't Some of us have people
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  Speaker 2: working for us direct reports one, two, three, or five
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  Speaker 2: or hundreds, depending on your level, and those individuals are
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  Speaker 2: not receiving the kind of love, the kind of attention,
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  Speaker 2: the kind of assistance that they need to do their
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  Speaker 2: work well. And we can make a difference and don't.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus is saying, don't worry about all that
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  Speaker 2: hand washing, all of that religious stuff that you all
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  Speaker 2: are doing. True religion and undefiled has a certain way
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  Speaker 2: that it acts under the power the Holy Ghost. How
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  Speaker 2: it actually lives from the inside out, not from the
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  Speaker 2: outside in. And so, of course I said something in
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  Speaker 2: the beginning that may have confused some of you. We
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  Speaker 2: don't have to choose, I say, clean hands or clean hearts. Well, scripturally,
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  Speaker 2: clean hands and hearts go together. The people who will
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  Speaker 2: see God in the end have clean hands. That is
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  Speaker 2: what we do. Our hands are clean. The things that
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  Speaker 2: we do are just like what God. What God has
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  Speaker 2: done in our hearts, in our minds. He said, as
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  Speaker 2: a human, as a man thinketh in his heart, so
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  Speaker 2: is he. So the way that I am connecting to God,
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  Speaker 2: Let's assume the way that I am holy, because God
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  Speaker 2: makes me holy, then that will come out in my
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  Speaker 2: actual way hands what I do. And if there is
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  Speaker 2: a contrast between the two, a conflict between the two,
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  Speaker 2: then we all who have these conflicts need to go
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  Speaker 2: to God and say, God, please wash my heart, make
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  Speaker 2: me holy. You promised that you would write your laws
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  Speaker 2: in my heart and on my mind so that I
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  Speaker 2: could be your child, so that I could represent you
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  Speaker 2: as a holy person in this world, a shining light
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  Speaker 2: in this wicked and perverse generation, so they would see
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  Speaker 2: my good works and glorify you. Because you're in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: and if we live that kind of lifestyle, then we're
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  Speaker 2: good to go. No contrast, it's not that we relax,
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  Speaker 2: but we continue to yield ourselves to God and surrender
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  Speaker 2: our will. So what can we learn here. You've already
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  Speaker 2: said that what defiles comes from within, that is the heart.
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  Speaker 2: So we need to yield our hearts, our lives to God.
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  Speaker 2: We have to have discernment over legalism. Over legalism, we
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  Speaker 2: can tick all of the boxes, we can color in
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  Speaker 2: all of the places, the circles and bubbles to say
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  Speaker 2: that we have completed this test of religious pomposity. Well,
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  Speaker 2: but God is saying, no, don't be legalistic. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to descern when it is appropriate for you to
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  Speaker 2: do X or y, and does it measure up to
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  Speaker 2: the spirituality of the law. And then finally, we should
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  Speaker 2: worship God. We have the privilege because God is a
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  Speaker 2: spirit and those who worship him must worship him in
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  Speaker 2: spirit and in truth. Your hands and your heart go
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  Speaker 2: together both under the power the Holy Ghost, must and
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  Speaker 2: can be clean 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,