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02 21 2026 Reconciliation and Hope · 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 Sabbath, February
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in
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  Speaker 2: Philippians and Colossians, and our caption for today is Reconcilly
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  Speaker 2: and Hope. Reconciliation and Hope. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank you
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  Speaker 2: for this Sabbath morning and the opportunity to be reconciled
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  Speaker 2: to you. Help us to cooperate, Please, help us to
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  Speaker 2: serve you. Help us to do your will and then
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  Speaker 2: become ministers of reconciliation God, and never give up until
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  Speaker 2: Jesus comes. Help us, never to give up. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and a men again reconciliation. And and
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  Speaker 2: so the memory text for this Sabbath morning is coming
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  Speaker 2: in from Tewo Corinthians, chapter five and verse twenty one,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, for he Hath made him to
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  Speaker 2: be sin for us. I remember being a new believer
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  Speaker 2: and being blown away by this part of a passage,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll come back to it, For he Hath made
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  Speaker 2: him to be sin for us, who knew no sin,
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  Speaker 2: that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
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  Speaker 2: Do you realize that Jesus put everything on the line
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  Speaker 2: in order to save us. It really bothers me, And
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  Speaker 2: that's understating it. I just I'm saying bother so I
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  Speaker 2: don't get on my soapbox, but it really bothers me.
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  Speaker 2: When people who say that we are connected to God
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  Speaker 2: minimize what Jesus went through when he lived on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: They think it was a foregone conclusion, because God knows everything.
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  Speaker 2: They think it was a foregone conclusion that Jesus would succeed.
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  Speaker 2: And then you know, it's just sort of a I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, a judicial, sort of a stroke of a
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  Speaker 2: pen kind of situation, like a rubber stamp to say, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is gonna do this. He's going to do thirty
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  Speaker 2: three and a half years on planet Earth like a sentence,
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  Speaker 2: and as soon as that's done, he's going to tick
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  Speaker 2: the box and go back to Heaven and save everybody. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: may I just say inspiration has told us that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: could not see through the tomb. Think about it. The
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  Speaker 2: one who created all things without him was not anything
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  Speaker 2: made that was made in him was light and the
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  Speaker 2: life was the light of men. Do you understand, like
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about him, and when he became Jesus in
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  Speaker 2: the fullness of time took on human flesh. After four
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  Speaker 2: thousand years of human degradation and sin, he came into
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  Speaker 2: human form, and he had to maintain his connection with
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  Speaker 2: his father like a human would. Now he has to pray.
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  Speaker 2: Now he has to rely on God, our Father's guidance
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  Speaker 2: and leading through the Holy Ghost. Now when he is tired,
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  Speaker 2: he has to take a rest. What rest tired? What
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  Speaker 2: now he gets hungry? Now, whatever temptation you have to
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  Speaker 2: do evil, magnify that by a million or more fold, right,
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  Speaker 2: because you have no power in yourself to do anything.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus could have just said, you know what, forget this,
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  Speaker 2: I'm letting everybody down there die. In fact, I'll do
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  Speaker 2: it myself. These people don't even appreciate me. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine what it's like, No, you can't, that's rhetorical. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine what it's like to have the kind of power,
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  Speaker 2: the infinite, infinite power of God in your bosom that
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  Speaker 2: at any time you could decimate this world because of
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  Speaker 2: the wickedness of the people. And yet you are accepting
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  Speaker 2: for the moment that they are reviling you, accepting in
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  Speaker 2: the moment that they're wagging their heads and smacking and
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  Speaker 2: beating you and pulling out your beard, accepting in the
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  Speaker 2: moment that the people who are supposed to be representing you,
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  Speaker 2: the ones who are supposed to be the teachers of
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  Speaker 2: the law, are your arch enemies. Can you imagine what
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  Speaker 2: it must have been like for Jesus in the moments
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  Speaker 2: that he felt alone and separated from his father, to
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  Speaker 2: cry out, my God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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  Speaker 2: How can Jesus be minimized?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says he became sin for us. Hmm. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to do this exercise with me, but
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  Speaker 2: only do it for a short time, because it'll depress
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  Speaker 2: you irreparably if you do it too long. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to remember the most recent sin that you committed,
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  Speaker 2: even if you have repented of it. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to think about that one you drank rum when you
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  Speaker 2: promised not to. Was it that you smoked some more
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  Speaker 2: we that you determined that you shouldn't. Was it that
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  Speaker 2: you had secret pride while everybody thought that you were
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  Speaker 2: so holy, and yet you were hiding pride. You were
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  Speaker 2: hiding that you're beating up your spouse. I'm saying, don't
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  Speaker 2: type it in the chat. That's not our business. I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to fix that in your mind. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to think of the times that you have
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  Speaker 2: yelled at your children instead of showing them the way
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness. I want you to think of the times
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  Speaker 2: that you have murdered, where you have done all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things that are unmentionable. God forbid. You've done some
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  Speaker 2: things sexually to people that you should not have even
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  Speaker 2: been with, much less commit that heinous act with them.
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  Speaker 2: You understand, like, we're not playing around here. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine that. Now, Multiply it by the tenth time that
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  Speaker 2: you did it. Multiply it by the hundredth time that
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  Speaker 2: you did it and you didn't you didn't confess or repent.
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  Speaker 2: Multiply that by one hundred more, and then multiply that
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  Speaker 2: by every single human being who has ever sinned, who've
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  Speaker 2: ever lived, ever been born of a woman born on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, every single sin that every single human who
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  Speaker 2: has ever lived or ever will live until the coming
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. Now placed that on the back of
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  Speaker 2: one person, all of the guilt, all of the shame.
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  Speaker 2: Put that on the back of one person, and make
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  Speaker 2: that person innocent, Make that person be aware that he
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  Speaker 2: has never done anything wrong, and now he is paying
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  Speaker 2: for every single sin that has ever been committed and
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  Speaker 2: ever will be committed, and the people don't even appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you get a picture now of the pressure that
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  Speaker 2: must have been, No wonder he's sweat as it were
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  Speaker 2: great drops of blood. Now Jesus has become sin for us,
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  Speaker 2: who was innocent, completely innocent, who never needed to repent,
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  Speaker 2: never needed to confess or forsake a sin, because he
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  Speaker 2: was one hundred percent holy, one hundred percent of the time,
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  Speaker 2: even as he lived on planet Earth. And then some
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  Speaker 2: people misrepresent and disrespect him. Why did he do it?
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  Speaker 2: Because he loves us that we might be made the
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  Speaker 2: righteousness of God in him. Now we can walk around
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  Speaker 2: as if we had never sinned. We can be seen
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  Speaker 2: just as if we had never sinned. I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know what else to say. I know under inspiration, we
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  Speaker 2: are told that if we can read the story of redemption,
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  Speaker 2: if we can look into the Bible Book of Isaiah,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifty three and not be moved by God to
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  Speaker 2: see all that Jesus went a story about what Jesus
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  Speaker 2: went through, not all and not be moved, then we
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  Speaker 2: are sinning. We are we are in a sinful mindset
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  Speaker 2: to where we are not moved by all that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: did in order to save us. And listen. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of time left, but listen. All our
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  Speaker 2: want to say here is that is that the process
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  Speaker 2: of individual reconciliation is unpacked and the lesson. Yes, but listen,
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  Speaker 2: think about what God went through in order to reconcile us,
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  Speaker 2: and then think about humans who refuse to reconcile with
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  Speaker 2: God and reconcile with humans. God has given us the
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  Speaker 2: ministry of reconciliation, brothers and sisters. So if God can
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  Speaker 2: love us so much that he would bridge the divide
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  Speaker 2: between us, then we should be able to bridge the
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  Speaker 2: divide between us and other humans and help them also
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  Speaker 2: get saved. Make it a great Sabbath, peace, Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by
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  Speaker 2: bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  Speaker 2: mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  Speaker 2: el David Harris. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah,