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11 26 2024 The Believing and New Birth · 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 Tuesday, November
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty twenty four. 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 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 themes in the Gospel of John, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is Believing and new births. Believing
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  Speaker 2: and new birth. 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: ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: to click that number seven, Please please please. There are
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  Speaker 2: people around the world who need spiritual transformation, and it
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  Speaker 2: is sitting right behind that number seven. We need a
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  Speaker 2: thousand of you to do that minimally, but maybe even
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  Speaker 2: ten thousand, but let's start with the thousand. And I
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  Speaker 2: want you to let us know where you are in
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  Speaker 2: the world at your daily portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this new day and for the privilege that you
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  Speaker 2: have entrusted to us to consider the new birth experience.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us your Holy Spirit. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you now to help us to serve you with
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  Speaker 2: everything that we have and everything that we are. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to use the words of my brother and friend
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  Speaker 2: Eric Thomas and say, you can, you will, and you must.
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  Speaker 2: Now he doesn't say this last part here, but for
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  Speaker 2: the things that are most important to him as he
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  Speaker 2: is speaking to people around the world, he says, you can,
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  Speaker 2: you will, and you must. And in light of today's
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  Speaker 2: lesson be born again. Can I just say that again,
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  Speaker 2: you can, you will, and you must be born again.
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  Speaker 2: If you're on this platform with me day in and
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  Speaker 2: day out, like, there is no reason why any of
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  Speaker 2: us should not be born again, because it's our privilege.
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  Speaker 2: In the real question is, well, why do we need
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  Speaker 2: to be born again? We need to be born again
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  Speaker 2: because that which is flesh is flesh. So when we
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  Speaker 2: were born the first go around, when we came out
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  Speaker 2: of our mother's womb, it was the natural birth that
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  Speaker 2: gave us the way that our noses are shaped, and
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  Speaker 2: the way that maybe the quality of our voices are,
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  Speaker 2: or the ways that we think, because we inherited some
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  Speaker 2: of that from our parents and maybe their parents and
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  Speaker 2: on in generations before them. But what we need is
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  Speaker 2: a new birth experience because we also inherited from them
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  Speaker 2: spiritual depravity. We've also inherited from them the desire to
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  Speaker 2: do evil, the desire to separate ourselves from God. And
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  Speaker 2: so we can, we will, and we must be born again.
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  Speaker 2: Don't marvel when Jesus says unto you, you must be
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  Speaker 2: born again. That's in John chapter three. But today we
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  Speaker 2: are going to begin. We're going to begin by reading
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  Speaker 2: John chapter one, Verses twelve and thirteen, and for many
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  Speaker 2: years you have heard me make allusion to this set
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  Speaker 2: of scriptures, because it is it marks the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: our new birth experience. And the Bible reads in John
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  Speaker 2: chapter one, beginning at verse twelve. But to as many
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  Speaker 2: as received him, to them, gave he power to become
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  Speaker 2: the sons of God. That means the right to become
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  Speaker 2: the children of God. Okay, to as many as received him.
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  Speaker 2: That's in contrast to the people who were rejecting him,
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  Speaker 2: the people his own that he came to. Jesus came
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  Speaker 2: to his own, and his own rejected him. But those
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  Speaker 2: who didn't reject him, those who embraced him, those who
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  Speaker 2: received him. The Bible says, to them, he gave the
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  Speaker 2: power to become the sons and daughters of God, even
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  Speaker 2: to them that believe on His name, which are born
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  Speaker 2: not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, but
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  Speaker 2: of the nor the will of man, but of God.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read it in another translation, New English translation.
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  Speaker 2: But to all who have received him, those who believe
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  Speaker 2: in his name, he has given the right to become
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  Speaker 2: God's children, children not born of human parents, or by
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  Speaker 2: human desire, or by a husband's decision, but by God.
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  Speaker 2: You see, God has chosen us. You see, when humans
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  Speaker 2: come together and we have children, it is a natural
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  Speaker 2: it's a biological process, and whatever comes out comes out.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you have a baby boy, then that's what
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  Speaker 2: came out. Like if you have a baby girl, a
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  Speaker 2: bouncing baby girl, that's what came out. And really, whatever
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  Speaker 2: way that that child lives, that's what you get. Like,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way that you can change what comes out.
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  Speaker 2: And pardon me, I hope that's not a cross example. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus through Christ, God our Father, chooses us. He
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  Speaker 2: adopts us. He says, I know all that you are,
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  Speaker 2: I know how you think, I know what your tendencies are,
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  Speaker 2: and yet I still accept you through Christ into my family.
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  Speaker 2: This is not based on a human's desire, it's not
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  Speaker 2: based on human parents. It is not by a husband's decision.
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  Speaker 2: But God he chooses us as he did from before
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  Speaker 2: the world was. He chose us in the beloved to
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  Speaker 2: become his children. So He is giving us now the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of believing in him. If we believe in Him,
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  Speaker 2: and we believe unto salvation, then we will become his children.
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  Speaker 2: Then we are reborn, then we have eternal life. I'm
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  Speaker 2: so grateful. Let me read a quote before I move
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  Speaker 2: on to the next thought. Okay, And it comes from
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  Speaker 2: It comes from Fundamentals of Christian Education, page four hundred
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  Speaker 2: and thirty three. In order to have true, abiding faith
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  Speaker 2: in Christ, we must know Him as he is represented
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  Speaker 2: in the Word, so we go to the Bible. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: people say, well, what I don't know God, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to connect with God. I don't know God's
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  Speaker 2: will for my life. And He's saying, go into the
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  Speaker 2: Word to see. We have sixty six blessed books inspired
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  Speaker 2: by the Holy Ghost breathed breathed God breathed inspired by
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit, so that we can have the understanding
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  Speaker 2: that we need, that we can have the pathway to
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  Speaker 2: a right relationship that we need, so we can know
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  Speaker 2: what we need to know enough about God in order
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  Speaker 2: to say yes to Him and be saved. And from
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  Speaker 2: the SDA Bible Commentary, Volume seven, page nine hundred and forty,
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  Speaker 2: it reads, the Spirit, operating upon and enlightening the human mind,
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  Speaker 2: creates faith in God. Every one of us. That's the
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  Speaker 2: end of the quote. Every one of us is born
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  Speaker 2: with a measure of faith, and what God wants to
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  Speaker 2: do is increase and enhance that measure. Okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: the question here from the lesson study is what principle
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  Speaker 2: about salvation in Christ is found in a few passages.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see how many we can get through here. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible reads here in Ephesians chapter two and
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  Speaker 2: verse eight four, by grace, are you saved through faith
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  Speaker 2: and not of yourselves? It is the gift of God.
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  Speaker 2: It is the gift of God. So God gives us
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  Speaker 2: salvation through Christ as a gift. He's not asking us
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  Speaker 2: to pay for this. We couldn't afford it. He's not
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  Speaker 2: asking us to do some special thing out of our
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  Speaker 2: own strength, because we are not capable. He's saying it
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  Speaker 2: is unmerited favor. Through faith. We have faith in God
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  Speaker 2: and lay hold upon God's power so that we are saved.
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  Speaker 2: In First Corinthians, chapter one, verse beginning at verse seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, for Christ sent me not to baptize,
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  Speaker 2: but to preach the God, not with wisdom of words,
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  Speaker 2: lest the Cross of Christ be made of none effect.
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  Speaker 2: For the preaching of the cross to them that perish
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  Speaker 2: is foolishness. But unto us, which are saved, it is
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  Speaker 2: the power of God. And so we see now that
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  Speaker 2: the truth of God's Word that is manifest in the
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  Speaker 2: power of God. That's the gospel. The power of God
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  Speaker 2: unto salvation, is given so that we can be saved.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to be bound by our old habits
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  Speaker 2: that separate us from God. We don't have to be
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  Speaker 2: bound by our impoverished mindset or bank accounts for that matter.
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  Speaker 2: We can find life in Christ by believing in Christ
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  Speaker 2: and being read.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,