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09 18 2026 The Laodicean Church · 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, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, the
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  Speaker 2: 18th day of September in 2026. Hello, my name is L.
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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, rounding out, I think it's week number 12,
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  Speaker 2: in our lesson study series through the books of 1st
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  Speaker 2: and 2nd Corinthians. And our caption for today is the
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  Speaker 2: Laodicean Church. And it's like, okay, if you're not already
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  Speaker 2: a Bible student, that may not even make sense to you.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll get back to that. We'll get back to
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment. But before we do, I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you, please, if you've not already done so, go
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  Speaker 2: over to yourdailyportion.com and stop guessing. Yeah, it's on the
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  Speaker 2: screen when you go to yourdailyportion.com and you scroll to
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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. Yep, in your mother's womb, God
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  Speaker 2: was already at work knitting you together and weaving his
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  Speaker 2: gifts into your life with purpose and for a purpose.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, now we are putting you in a
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  Speaker 2: place where you can come away with a personal blueprint,
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  Speaker 2: a clear picture of how God gifted you. The word
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  Speaker 2: behind each gift and the first step toward using it.
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  Speaker 2: So please go ahead and click that begin the assessment
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  Speaker 2: button and get closer to what God is calling you
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  Speaker 2: to do. Please also, if you are so inclined, click
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  Speaker 2: that contribute button because Your Daily Portion Ministries is a
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  Speaker 2: listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray
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  Speaker 2: and get underway. God, Thank you for this day of preparation.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to see your message the way you intended.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen again. I
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  Speaker 2: remember a quote, and it's encouraging to me, that we
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  Speaker 2: have no fear for the future except we forget how
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  Speaker 2: God has led us In the past, we have no
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  Speaker 2: fear as God's people for the future, no matter what
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  Speaker 2: we've been through, except we forget. how God has led us. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so God has been leading His people throughout the generations,
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  Speaker 2: and there was a message that He gave to the
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  Speaker 2: church at Laodicea in the Bible book of Revelation chapter 3,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to see this from the perspective
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  Speaker 2: of God, really, because it's Jesus speaking, okay? So, I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm going to verse 14, that's it, yeah, Revelation
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  Speaker 2: chapter 3, and I'll read beginning at verse 14, and
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  Speaker 2: to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write,
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  Speaker 2: these things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness,
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the creation of God. If I were
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  Speaker 2: teaching an entire series on this, I would drill this,
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  Speaker 2: but we literally just don't have We don't have the time. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so verse 15, I know thy works. So God
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  Speaker 2: is watching. He knows every one of you, wherever you
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  Speaker 2: are right now, four minutes into our broadcast. He knows
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  Speaker 2: exactly who you are. He knows exactly how you're built.
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  Speaker 2: He knows exactly what you've done and not done. He
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  Speaker 2: knows your works. But this is what he's saying to
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  Speaker 2: those folks that thou art neither hot. You're neither hot
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  Speaker 2: nor cold. And let me say very quickly that there
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  Speaker 2: is a blessing in cold water. There is a blessing
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  Speaker 2: in hot water. So God is not saying, I wish
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  Speaker 2: that you were like hot for me and that's good
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  Speaker 2: and cold. That means it's bad, but at least I
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  Speaker 2: can deal with you if I know where you are. No,
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  Speaker 2: in both cases, cold and hot are a blessing. Cold
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  Speaker 2: and hot are a blessing in terms of water. That's
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  Speaker 2: the context, right? I would that thou wert cold or hot,
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  Speaker 2: but because you are lukewarm, neither cold nor hot, I
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  Speaker 2: will spew thee out cold. Of my mouth. That means
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  Speaker 2: he's going to vomit. That turns his stomach. The not
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  Speaker 2: knowing where you are with God is causing him to
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  Speaker 2: have nausea, spiritually speaking, but not just not knowing, because
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  Speaker 2: he's the one who leads us into all truth, right? Well,
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  Speaker 2: why is that so nauseating to God? It says, because
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  Speaker 2: thou sayest, I am rich... Oh, wait a minute. And
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  Speaker 2: increased with goods and have need of nothing. That's the
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  Speaker 2: problem right there. And knowest not that thou art wretched
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  Speaker 2: and miserable, poor, blind, and naked. See, if God stopped
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  Speaker 2: right there, he would sound like most of y'all teaching
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  Speaker 2: this message. And I know, I just pointed at the
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  Speaker 2: camera for those on the radio. Just feel me pointing
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  Speaker 2: at somebody, maybe not you, but somebody you know, somebody
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  Speaker 2: you've heard preach this message, makes this a heavy, indicting
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  Speaker 2: message with no hope in it. Well, this is not
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  Speaker 2: the tenor of the message. God is coming straight down
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  Speaker 2: the line. Let's not get this confused. I'm not softening
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  Speaker 2: the message, but listen, he could have just said that
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  Speaker 2: and left it right where it was and said, now
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  Speaker 2: judgment is coming right down the middle and God is
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  Speaker 2: going to destroy your life. No, that is not where
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  Speaker 2: the message ends. He said, I counsel thee. So God
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  Speaker 2: is giving this message of repentance to the people in
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  Speaker 2: this moment who are causing him great nausea. The ones
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  Speaker 2: that he is, if you don't, if God forbid you're
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  Speaker 2: one of them, if you don't amend your ways, that
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  Speaker 2: is going to be destroyed. But God is saying, I
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  Speaker 2: have a way. I have a remedy for this. This
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  Speaker 2: is the remedy. I counsel thee. To buy of me
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  Speaker 2: gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich
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  Speaker 2: in real life. Brothers and sisters, these folks, based on
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  Speaker 2: their culture, based on their spiritual decline, they in their
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  Speaker 2: minds convinced themselves that they were richer than they really
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  Speaker 2: were and were oblivious to the reality of their poor lives.
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  Speaker 2: or their impoverished spiritual reality. And so God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the kind of riches that
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  Speaker 2: you need, the richness toward God, and white raiment. That is,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the covering of Jesus Christ. That is His righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you that, that thou mayest be clothed,
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  Speaker 2: and that your nakedness do not appear. Remember Adam and Eve?
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  Speaker 2: They put on their own kind of covering. They put
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  Speaker 2: on those little tiny aprons. And if you put an
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  Speaker 2: apron on and you turn your back, there's a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff exposed. And they were fig leaves, disrespectful
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  Speaker 2: to the sacrifice that God would give through Christ for them.
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  Speaker 2: And so God covered them with coats of skins. God
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  Speaker 2: is covering those who have the unfortunate, miserable, poor, blind
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  Speaker 2: and naked and oblivious to it mindset. He's saying, I
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  Speaker 2: have clothing for you. Like the prodigal son that the
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  Speaker 2: father saw a great way off and then gave him
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  Speaker 2: everything that he needed to be righteous and enfolded into
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  Speaker 2: his family. And it says that thy shame and nakedness
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  Speaker 2: don't appear and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou
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  Speaker 2: mayest see. God is wanting to give every one of us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those of us living in the last days who
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  Speaker 2: may have this problem. He's saying, I'm going to give
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  Speaker 2: you life. discerning eyes. I'm going to give you the
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  Speaker 2: ability to see as I see. He's saying, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to leave you in that blindness. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: give you the eyesight that you need in order to
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  Speaker 2: discern things spiritually. I'm not going to leave you in
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  Speaker 2: the way that I found you here. And guess what?
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  Speaker 2: He gives us his love. He says it clearly. Listen
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  Speaker 2: for the preachers and see the teachers and see if
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  Speaker 2: we highlight this reality. Verse 9, as many as I love.
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, I do not want to leave you
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  Speaker 2: in the state that I have found you. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want you to be oblivious. I'm going to send the
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  Speaker 2: spirit of truth to you to guide you into all
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  Speaker 2: truth about me and about you. You're miserable, poor, blind, naked,
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  Speaker 2: don't even know it. And you're not cold. You're not hot.
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  Speaker 2: You're lukewarm and nauseating. And you call yourself one of
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  Speaker 2: my people. But what I want to do is show
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  Speaker 2: you how much I love you and not just show
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  Speaker 2: you by saying it. I'm showing you by transforming your life.
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  Speaker 2: Those I rebuke. and chastened are the ones I love.
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  Speaker 2: So please, will you be zealous therefore and repent? And
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  Speaker 2: then he is knocking. Jesus is knocking at their heart's door,
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  Speaker 2: our heart's door. Let him in so he can bring
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  Speaker 2: dinner and transformation. That is the message to the church
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  Speaker 2: at Laodicea. 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 L. David Harris. Make it a great day.