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10 16 2024 Reappearing Themes—Belief Unbelief · 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 Wednesday, October sixteen,
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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 themes in the Gospel of John, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Reappearing themes Belief Unbelief, Hearing themes
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  Speaker 2: belief Unbelief. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: thank you for those who are connecting with that number
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  Speaker 2: you are still clicking and connecting. I'd like for you
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  Speaker 2: to do it. I said, please, for my birthday yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: hour span of time, and now a thousand in total.
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  Speaker 2: To go ahead and subscribe there at that number seven,
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  Speaker 2: so we can continue to build and fulfill the mission
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ and be transformed in the process. So
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  Speaker 2: we invest a good number of minutes every single day
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  Speaker 2: here and then if you get into that program, then
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  Speaker 2: there is another way that we can be transformed by
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  Speaker 2: the renewing of our mind. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this new day and for the privilege you
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  Speaker 2: have entrusted to us every day. I thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this how to open up your word, and I'm asking
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  Speaker 2: you now to put us in the category, help us
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  Speaker 2: to join that category of people who believe. And that's it.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I
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  Speaker 2: remember reading in the Book of John chapter six, where
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  Speaker 2: there were some people who said, teach us how to
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  Speaker 2: teach us how to work the works of God? How
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  Speaker 2: do we work the works of God? And he said, believe, believe.
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  Speaker 2: This is how you work the works of God believe
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  Speaker 2: and so what has happened throughout the scriptures, especially here
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  Speaker 2: we're reading in the Book of John, is that there
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  Speaker 2: are people who believe in people who don't, people who
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  Speaker 2: believe in people who don't. And we're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about today how to be certain or what can be
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  Speaker 2: an indicator of whether we actually believe in God through
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  Speaker 2: Christ or not. Okay, And so we begin by reading
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  Speaker 2: in John chapter three. We won't be able to read
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  Speaker 2: through all of the passages prescribed here, or maybe we will.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what the time shows. John chapter three, beginning
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  Speaker 2: at verse sixteen, very familiar. For God so loved the
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  Speaker 2: world that he gave his only begotten son. For what
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  Speaker 2: purpose did God the Father give us? God the Son,
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  Speaker 2: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
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  Speaker 2: everlasting life. So God's goal is to give us everlasting life.
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  Speaker 2: For God did not send his son into the world
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  Speaker 2: to condemn the world. That was not why Jesus came.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't can't come to say, ah, I caught you,
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  Speaker 2: and then find some charge against us and then charge
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  Speaker 2: us until we die. No, he did not send his
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  Speaker 2: son into the world to condemn the world, but that
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  Speaker 2: the world through Him might be saved. And so that
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  Speaker 2: is God's goal, that is his heart toward us. He
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  Speaker 2: wants us to be saved, and so he gave us
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  Speaker 2: all of heaven in one gift so we can be saved.
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  Speaker 2: That gift is the Word, the Light, the Life, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ himself. Okay, he that believeth on him is not condemned.
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  Speaker 2: So now we have to make a decision. There are
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  Speaker 2: those who believe in him, those individuals are not condemned,
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  Speaker 2: but but those who don't believe on Him are condemned already.
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  Speaker 2: There's hope we can be we can move from death
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  Speaker 2: to life. We can be transformed, we can have our
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  Speaker 2: minds renewed and our outlook finally changed. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: those who don't believe on him, they're already condemned because
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  Speaker 2: he hath not believed. Those individuals have not believed on
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  Speaker 2: the name of the only begotten Son of God. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the condemnation. That light is come into the
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  Speaker 2: world and love darkness rather than light because their deeds
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  Speaker 2: are evil. People won't come to God through Christ because
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to give up those evil lifestyle tendencies.
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  Speaker 2: People won't come to God sometimes because they allow their
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  Speaker 2: guilt feelings to defeat them. People won't go to God
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  Speaker 2: because sometimes people embrace their lifestyles that contradict the word
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  Speaker 2: of God. Can we just say it straight like that
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  Speaker 2: contradict the word of God? And so they just rather
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  Speaker 2: stay away and hope that if they cover their eyes
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  Speaker 2: and say peekaboo like that, they really can't be seen
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  Speaker 2: by the law of God that judges us. And I
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  Speaker 2: know that sounds heavy, Well, it is heavy because we're
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  Speaker 2: making decisions all day, every day for or against eternity
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  Speaker 2: with God. God is the decision that we're making every day.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible continues verse twenty. For everyone that doeth
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  Speaker 2: evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, because
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  Speaker 2: its deeds should be reproved. But he that do with
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  Speaker 2: the will or do with the truth cometh to the
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  Speaker 2: light that his deeds may be made manifest, that they
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  Speaker 2: are wrought in God. And that simply means that when
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  Speaker 2: we accept God into our lives, then we want to
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  Speaker 2: be around the light because we love being in His presence.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, the manifestation of this will be
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  Speaker 2: how we live, how we treat others, huh, whether we
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  Speaker 2: embrace the word of God. And I'll get into some
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  Speaker 2: more details there before I start getting into the preaching mode. Right, So,
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  Speaker 2: the fact is that God has positioned us, through the
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  Speaker 2: power of the Holy Ghost, to live holy lives. Now
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  Speaker 2: we have to decide we're gonna do it or not.
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  Speaker 2: There are more passages we can read, but we'll go
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  Speaker 2: through now this transformative process of our actions, our thoughts,
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  Speaker 2: and the entirety of our lives. Here are seven indicators
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  Speaker 2: that we do actually believe in Jesus. Number one in
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  Speaker 2: the Book of John, chapter fourteen, the Bible reads, if
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  Speaker 2: ye love me, keep my commandments. If you love me,
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  Speaker 2: you will obey my commandments. And so people who are
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  Speaker 2: commandment breakers, I'm talking about habitual I'm not saying the
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  Speaker 2: occasional misdeed. I'm not talking about that. And then we
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  Speaker 2: go to God and confess our sins. I'm saying that
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  Speaker 2: people who live in opposition to God's ten commandments and
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  Speaker 2: pick and choose which ones are binding and which ones
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  Speaker 2: are not, which ones are holy, which onlens are not,
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  Speaker 2: those individuals are manifesting the fact that they don't actually
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  Speaker 2: believe what God says. They don't believe in Christ because
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  Speaker 2: they reject the commandments. I didn't write it, I just
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  Speaker 2: read it. Number two, the fruit of the Spirit. I
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  Speaker 2: love this because it shows us the reality. And Galatians
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  Speaker 2: chapter five, beginning at verse twenty two, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
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  Speaker 2: long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there
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  Speaker 2: is no law. So not just that we can speak well,
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  Speaker 2: not just that we do certain actions and it looks godly.
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  Speaker 2: But God is saying that if we are his children,
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  Speaker 2: if we actually love Him, then the spirit of God
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  Speaker 2: is in our lives, and love is the fruit of
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  Speaker 2: that relationship. And then the rest of the principles that
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  Speaker 2: I shared are in outgrowth from that love. If we
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  Speaker 2: love God, we love God, we will have peace and
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  Speaker 2: we will be patient. If we love God, we will
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  Speaker 2: be good, we will have faith, we will be meek
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  Speaker 2: and temperant. If we love God, then these will be
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  Speaker 2: the manifestation our gentleness. Are you harsh? Do people want
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  Speaker 2: to get away from you because you're hard? You're harsh?
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  Speaker 2: We submit to God's will and receive the fruit of
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  Speaker 2: the spirit, and you will learn to be gentle. We're
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  Speaker 2: drawing a line in the sand based on the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: And then love for others in First John, chapter four
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  Speaker 2: and verse seven, which is really the truth about the
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  Speaker 2: law of God. Love for God and love for our
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  Speaker 2: fellow human beings. Beloved this, let us love one another,
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  Speaker 2: for love is of God. And everyone that loveth is
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  Speaker 2: born of God and knoweth God. And so yeah. There
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  Speaker 2: are these recurring themes in the scriptures, especially in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of John, where people believe or don't believe. Well,
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  Speaker 2: now we know what is a manifestation of our belief
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  Speaker 2: in God. Make it a great day.
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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,