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09 17 2026 Appeal to the Unrepentant · 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 Thursday, September 17, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion, where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: books of 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is, Appeal to the Unrepentant. If that's you, this
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  Speaker 2: is your day. If you, for a while, have just
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  Speaker 2: been walking away from God and nothing seems to be
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  Speaker 2: getting through, but today you're on this, I almost say call,
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  Speaker 2: on this program with us, today's your day to turn
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  Speaker 2: and live like God is inviting you to eternity with him. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: before we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome.
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time. I'm asking you to go over to yourdailyportion.com. Please,
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  Speaker 2: says begin the assessment. Stop guessing what to do with
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  Speaker 2: your life. You don't have to guess. God designed your
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  Speaker 2: life in a certain way before he ever formed you
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  Speaker 2: in your mother's womb. He knew you well and that
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  Speaker 2: you would be a fill in the blank to the
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  Speaker 2: nations like God designed designed you a certain way. He
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  Speaker 2: designed you to serve a certain way. And this assessment
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  Speaker 2: is a guided walk through the Scripture that helps you
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  Speaker 2: name the gifts that God has given to you, see
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  Speaker 2: that button. And also, also, if you have an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: and God has impressed your mind to do so, please, please,
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  Speaker 2: will you contribute to your Daily Portion Ministries? We are
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  Speaker 2: listener and viewer supported. Let's pray and get underway. God,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for wooing us. Thank you for coming
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  Speaker 2: after us, for not allowing us to just run along
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  Speaker 2: in life as if nothing's going on when you really
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  Speaker 2: do love us. Please, please, will you help us to
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  Speaker 2: respond to you and to live according to your will?
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And a Amen again. God is speaking to all of us,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, all of us. He's saying that when
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  Speaker 2: you hear his voice, don't harden your heart. Don't harden
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  Speaker 2: your heart. Listen to him and do whatever he is saying.
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  Speaker 2: And so the most important thing for today, at least
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  Speaker 2: in my estimation, is that Paul's deepest desire was not
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  Speaker 2: to discipline the unrepentant. Please, just understand, he wasn't looking
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  Speaker 2: to flog anyone. It was to see them restored. Restoration
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  Speaker 2: is what love prays for. You have a husband, you
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  Speaker 2: have a wife, you have children who seem to be
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  Speaker 2: going in the wrong direction, and maybe they've been offensive
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  Speaker 2: to you. I'm going that direction now. I'm going there.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they have been offensive to you, whether in the
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  Speaker 2: faith fellowship or in your home circle, at school or
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  Speaker 2: at work, and you're just tired. You're tired. You're worn out.
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  Speaker 2: And God is saying, no, when you pray for that person,
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  Speaker 2: restoration is what you're after. Please, God, will you restore
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  Speaker 2: this person? If they're not to be restored because they've
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  Speaker 2: never been with God, then God, please put them into
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  Speaker 2: the image. Restore them into the image that you had
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  Speaker 2: intended from before there was a beginning. Into your image, God.
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  Speaker 2: Make them in your image. Make them new creatures, God.
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  Speaker 2: And if it's somebody very, very close to you, then
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  Speaker 2: you see them every day. Just be on the lookout.
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  Speaker 2: Be thankful. Be on the lookout all the time, peeping
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  Speaker 2: in God's window and saying, God, is she changing today?
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  Speaker 2: Is there an adjustment that's happening that I can give
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  Speaker 2: you thanks for? And even when the correction is what
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  Speaker 2: love requires, there are times that God has to correct us,
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  Speaker 2: and it doesn't always feel good. But I promise you,
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  Speaker 2: he said those whom he loves, he rebukes and he
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  Speaker 2: chastens because he's our father. We're not out there by
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  Speaker 2: ourselves without a father. He's the daddy. God is the daddy. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so we go into 2 Corinthians chapter 13 and
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  Speaker 2: verse 5 to begin our discussion. Examine yourselves, whether ye
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  Speaker 2: be in the faith. Prove your own selves. Know ye
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  Speaker 2: not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you?
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  Speaker 2: Except ye be reprobates, let me say it in another language,
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  Speaker 2: put yourselves to the test to see if you are
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  Speaker 2: in the faith. Examine yourselves. Or do you not recognize
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  Speaker 2: regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless you
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  Speaker 2: fail the test, if you're in the faith, then he's
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  Speaker 2: in you. If that's the case, then God has given
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  Speaker 2: you the ministry of reconciliation, brother and sisters. And so
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  Speaker 2: God wants us to examine ourselves, not in some kind
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  Speaker 2: of morbid sort of introspective look where you're seeing all
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  Speaker 2: of the wickedness, you're seeing all of the things that
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  Speaker 2: are not right, and you begin to be down on yourself. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's in these moments. The closer we get to God
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  Speaker 2: is the more unholy we appear in our own eyes.
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  Speaker 2: And God is saying, now surrender yourself to me. If
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  Speaker 2: you surrender your will to God, then he is the
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  Speaker 2: one that's going to transform you. It is an honest
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  Speaker 2: accountability before God, the believer, who regularly examines whether Christ
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  Speaker 2: is truly in us, the hope of glory, who stays
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  Speaker 2: on the right road or in the presence of God,
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  Speaker 2: to see if there's evidence of faith. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: be in a right relationship with God. Yeah, avoiding the
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  Speaker 2: examination does not make the condition any better. You know,
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  Speaker 2: covering your eyes and saying peekaboo as if you vanish
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  Speaker 2: if you cover your eyes, it's not going to help you.
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  Speaker 2: It only delays the time of reckoning. And God forbid
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  Speaker 2: we should wait too long. God said if today is
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  Speaker 2: the day that if you hear his voice, that you
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  Speaker 2: harden not your hearts. And he's saying it to all
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  Speaker 2: of us. Don't harden your hearts. No, don't harden your hearts.
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  Speaker 2: It's the day, now is the time to surrender your
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  Speaker 2: will to God. And so invest some time today in
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  Speaker 2: some self-examination, honest self-examination, taking what you are and who
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  Speaker 2: you are, what you have to God and saying, God,
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  Speaker 2: will you show me if this is the authentic reality
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  Speaker 2: that you intended when you came, Jesus came to give
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  Speaker 2: his life for us? We're not trying to be condemnatory
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  Speaker 2: even toward ourselves. Invite the Holy Ghost to show you
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  Speaker 2: where genuine faith is producing fruit and where self-deception may
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  Speaker 2: have taken root. Yeah, that's where honesty is. Let me
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  Speaker 2: read a quote to you, and you can basically predict
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  Speaker 2: the pathway that I'm going when I am aware of
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  Speaker 2: the time. So the book, Testimonies for the Church, Volume
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  Speaker 2: 7 says, We're going to page 260 where the Bible,
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  Speaker 2: where it reads, pardon me, not the Bible, where it reads,
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  Speaker 2: those who are in danger of erring should be faithfully
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  Speaker 2: warned and kindly reproved. When the reproof is given in
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of Christ, the erring one is helped to
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  Speaker 2: see his or her mistakes and is encouraged to do better.
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  Speaker 2: Such reproof is a precious gift from God. Who do
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  Speaker 2: you think is supposed to do that? That would be you.
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  Speaker 2: That would be me, brothers and sisters. So don't watch
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  Speaker 2: people going down along the paths of toward destruction without
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  Speaker 2: slowing them down for a moment to say, listen, God
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  Speaker 2: has given you another way. I can tell you there's
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  Speaker 2: a young man in the gym that I talk to frequently.
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  Speaker 2: I call him my gym son. He's 30 something. And
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  Speaker 2: he just has this way with women. And I'm like, brother,
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  Speaker 2: you think that I don't understand what you're after, what
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to do? I was young once. Well, when
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  Speaker 2: I was his age, I was saved, sanctified, filled with
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost. But I digress. But I'm saying when
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  Speaker 2: I was a young boy, I had the same view,
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  Speaker 2: like I went the same path that you're going. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying there's no positive outcome here. Why don't you
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  Speaker 2: give yourself to God? Like, why don't you? Why don't
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  Speaker 2: you choose to have a vital relationship with him and
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  Speaker 2: with just one of these sisters? You don't need a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of them. You don't want to have that kind
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  Speaker 2: of life. Yeah, that's my appeal to the brother right now.
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  Speaker 2: And if the Lord spares life, hopefully, hopefully he will
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  Speaker 2: finally yield himself to obey God. Make it a great day. 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.