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10 19 2024 Witnesses of Christ as the Messiah · 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, October nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 Witnesses of Christ as Messiah witness
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  Speaker 2: Says of Christ as Messiah. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to please go over to
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  Speaker 2: At your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and for the Sabbath that you have entrusted to us,
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  Speaker 2: so that we can become more connected with you. Father.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that today we will we will become your
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  Speaker 2: witnesses wherever we are in Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again, witnesses of Christ as the Messiah. This
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  Speaker 2: is lesson number four of thirteen. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: begin by reading from John chapter three, and I will
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  Speaker 2: read verse three. John chapter three, and I will read
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  Speaker 2: verse three. Jesus answered and said, unto him most assuredly.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus is making a point, and he wants to
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  Speaker 2: be certain that Nicodemus is getting this message. I say,
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  Speaker 2: unto you. Unless one is born again, he cannot see.
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  Speaker 2: I just I want to pause right there. People who
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  Speaker 2: are not born again can't see whatever happens after That
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  Speaker 2: is critical. But we can pause right here. Whoever is
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  Speaker 2: not born again, is not transformed, has not begun to
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  Speaker 2: experience a holy metamorphosis. Whoever is not born again cannot see,
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  Speaker 2: cannot see what Jesus in this case the Kingdom of God,
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom of God. And so this is an invitation.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is giving an invitation, not just information. You see,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes God's people are satisfied with giving information by just saying,
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  Speaker 2: I say, unto you, unless one is born again, he
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  Speaker 2: cannot see the Kingdom of God, and then move on
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  Speaker 2: to the next subject. Ah, but Jesus is inviting Nicodemus.
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  Speaker 2: He is welcoming Nicodemus into the metamorphosis, the transformation that
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  Speaker 2: comes when a human being gets connected with God and
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  Speaker 2: remains connected with God. The metamorphosis like going from where
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  Speaker 2: I was in darkness and now being translated and transformed
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  Speaker 2: into the Kingdom of light. Okay, so I say again
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  Speaker 2: unto you that unless one is born again, he cannot
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  Speaker 2: see the Kingdom of God. And so I'm thankful that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is actually saying that you can be born again.
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  Speaker 2: You must be born again. He's not going to leave Nicodemus.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to leave you. You can fill in
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  Speaker 2: your name right here. He's not going to leave us
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  Speaker 2: in a position where we can't be born again. And
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  Speaker 2: so I have a few questions that I wrote in
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  Speaker 2: my notes, why do we need to be reborn? Nicodemus
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  Speaker 2: had his own questions. I want you to read through
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  Speaker 2: John chapter three you can read his question. But I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: why do we need to be reborn? What was wrong
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  Speaker 2: with the first one the first time? Like I'm fifty
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  Speaker 2: one years old? Now why do I need to go over?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Do over? Why am I going to get new ears?
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  Speaker 2: Are my eyes going to be shaped differently? Am I
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  Speaker 2: going to get a new quality of voice?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Am I going to be stronger physically? If I'm reborn again?
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm reborn? What is the difference? Am I going
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  Speaker 2: to get new parents? The ones that I have are
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  Speaker 2: the ones that God gave me? So what is this
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  Speaker 2: rebirth experience? And I know the Christian needs speaking. People
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  Speaker 2: are accustomed to just shooting and darting an answer. But
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  Speaker 2: what God wants us to do is take a pause
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  Speaker 2: right here and say, well, what is it in my
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  Speaker 2: life that needs to be redone? Well, besides everything, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know when in my life needs to be redone?
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  Speaker 2: You see when I was born the first time, and
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  Speaker 2: this is the case with you too, Whether you know
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  Speaker 2: both of your parents or not. Whether if you know
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  Speaker 2: either of them or not, it doesn't matter what village
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  Speaker 2: you were born into, what town, whatever tribe, kindred, nation, tongue,
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  Speaker 2: or people you are attached to. This is the reality
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  Speaker 2: for all of us. We inherited the desire to sin
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  Speaker 2: from our first parents, and so what God wants to
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  Speaker 2: do in our lives through transformation is give us himself
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  Speaker 2: as our new parent through the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: and then give us the model for living, the model
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  Speaker 2: for living. Our parents some of them gave us good,
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  Speaker 2: good things, good model for living. Right, they taught you
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  Speaker 2: to read your Bible, pray every day so you can grow.
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  Speaker 2: But even if they did that, they also taught you
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  Speaker 2: by example sometimes some bad habits, some things that actually
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  Speaker 2: do separate us from God. Like in the best case scenario,
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  Speaker 2: we inherited good ideas, but the kind of DNA that
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  Speaker 2: drives us towards sin. So now God wants to be
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  Speaker 2: our father through the transformational process of rebirth, and then
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  Speaker 2: we receive spiritual DNA that is no longer hostile toward God.
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  Speaker 2: It is God's laws written on our hearts, on our minds,
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  Speaker 2: so we can have holy relationships with people. We can
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  Speaker 2: learn how to assist people who don't know God. We
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  Speaker 2: can have control of ourselves. We can love in a
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  Speaker 2: way that we couldn't love before. We can experience successes
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  Speaker 2: that we could not experience before. I don't care how
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  Speaker 2: many successes we've had. It's not the kind or the
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  Speaker 2: level of success that meets God's standard, you see. And
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  Speaker 2: so we need to be reborn because the first one
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  Speaker 2: just didn't work. Number two, why is God so kind
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  Speaker 2: to give me the privilege of rebirth? Why is he
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  Speaker 2: so kind to give me that privilege? Because God so
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  Speaker 2: loved the world that he gave his only begotten so
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  Speaker 2: like he wanted us to be able to experience Him
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  Speaker 2: for eternity, to be free of sin, to never be
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  Speaker 2: bound or enslaved by anything that separates us from God,
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  Speaker 2: so we can really begin to live the image that
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  Speaker 2: He intended for us to live the image of God.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm grateful. And so we need to be reborn
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  Speaker 2: because the first one didn't work. And we have the
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  Speaker 2: privilege why because God loves us? And then number three,
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  Speaker 2: how will my life be different as a result? Now,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to think about that. If you've been
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  Speaker 2: reborn or you're in the process of this metamorphosis, this transformation.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to be thinking, Wait a minute, I
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  Speaker 2: remember when I was this way, But I also know
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  Speaker 2: now that God is working with me. All things are
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  Speaker 2: working for my good, and now I am living this way.
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  Speaker 2: My mindset is different, the way I speak is different,
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  Speaker 2: how I relate to people is different.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Now I have the ability to resist the devil. I
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to submit myself to God. I have
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  Speaker 2: the ability to live the way God wants me to live.
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  Speaker 2: And then the lesson writer points out in John chapter
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  Speaker 2: six and verse forty seven. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
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  Speaker 2: he that believeth on me, hath everlasting life. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: we receive everlasting life in the moment that we say
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  Speaker 2: yes to God. Yes. When we have that experience, we
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  Speaker 2: receive everlasting life. Now we have to wait until Jesus
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  Speaker 2: comes to receive immortality, the body that cannot die at
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  Speaker 2: all or rest in the grave. But in the meantime
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  Speaker 2: we have that quality of life, that really relationship that
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  Speaker 2: will not be broken with God. And so the question
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  Speaker 2: that I want you to answer as you continue to
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  Speaker 2: prepare for the coming week now is Who is Jesus
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  Speaker 2: to you? Who is Jesus to you? Is he your provider?
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  Speaker 2: Is he your friend? Is Jesus your healer? Is he
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  Speaker 2: your life giver, your liberator? Who is Jesus to you?
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  Speaker 2: And as you begin to answer those questions honestly and
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  Speaker 2: then ask him to live, asking him to live his
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  Speaker 2: life within you, then look for people with whom you
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  Speaker 2: can share this so they can be transformed by the
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  Speaker 2: renewing of their mind, transform your mind, and transform your life.
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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,