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08 10 2024 Teaching Disciples, Part I · 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, August ten,
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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 study.
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  Speaker 2: This is Lesson number seven through the Book of Mark,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Teaching Disciples Part one.
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  Speaker 2: Teaching Disciples Part one on. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to just say welcome, welcome, welcome,
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  Speaker 2: and happy Sabbath to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. I'm asking you to
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this Sabbath morning and the blessing of
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  Speaker 2: being your disciples. Please teach us how to hear your
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  Speaker 2: voice and then do your will and live like Jesus
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  Speaker 2: lived in Jesus name, I pray, Amen, and a man again.
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  Speaker 2: Teaching Disciples Part one. Let's go ahead and begin with
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  Speaker 2: Mark chapter eight and verse thirty four to set us
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  Speaker 2: up for the lessons that we will be looking at
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment. And the Bible reads in verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty four, Mark chapter eight, when he had called the
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  Speaker 2: people to himself with his disciples, also, he said to them,
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  Speaker 2: whoever desires to come after me, that means follow him,
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  Speaker 2: that means to live with Jesus. Right, whoever desires to
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  Speaker 2: come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross,
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  Speaker 2: and follow me. Okay, what did he say? He said,
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  Speaker 2: deny himself, that's number one. Take up his cross, that's
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  Speaker 2: number two. And actually follow me. You see how I
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  Speaker 2: added the word actually because he said whoever comes after me.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, that's the same as follow me. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there are people who talk about following, there are people
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  Speaker 2: who talk about being with Jesus, there are people who
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  Speaker 2: talk about that. We're Christians. But what Jesus is saying
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  Speaker 2: is you need to be about it. Now, Well, how
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  Speaker 2: can we be about it? First thing we need to
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  Speaker 2: do is have the desire in our hearts. You see
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  Speaker 2: I left that one out. Did you get that whoever
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  Speaker 2: desires to come after me? Yeah? God puts the desire
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  Speaker 2: in us. The Bible says, it is God that worketh
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  Speaker 2: in us both to will and to do of his
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  Speaker 2: good pleasure. So that desire comes from surrendering our will
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  Speaker 2: to God. Bible says, if we delight ourselves in the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: he will give us desires. It says, the desires of
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  Speaker 2: our heart. He's saying that he will supply the ability
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  Speaker 2: to desire the things that God desires. He will give
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  Speaker 2: us godly desires. So I hope you're listening. So that
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  Speaker 2: first step, it's the beginning, it's foundational. He gives us
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  Speaker 2: desires to follow him, and then he says Okay, now
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  Speaker 2: that you have this desire, now that you're learning to
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  Speaker 2: surrender your will, I need you to deny your self.
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  Speaker 2: Don't put yourself first. There will be trials and tribulations.
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  Speaker 2: Understand that that's par for the course. That's what happens
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  Speaker 2: when you follow jesus Ah. There will be tribulations, there
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  Speaker 2: will be temptations. There will be people that you'll have
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  Speaker 2: to put before you, ahead of you. And it's not
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  Speaker 2: only the people that you love. It's not only the laying,
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  Speaker 2: the main, the blind, the halt, those who are fatherless
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  Speaker 2: and motherless, those who have lost their her husband, not
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  Speaker 2: only them. There are people that you don't necessarily like
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  Speaker 2: too much, but God says to learn to love them.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who will curse you. There are people
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  Speaker 2: who will revile you and say all manner of evil
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  Speaker 2: things against you, falsely for God's sake. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: in that case, he wants you to rejoice. He wants
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  Speaker 2: me to rejoice and be exceeding glad for greatest your
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  Speaker 2: reward in heaven. For so persecuted they the prophets which
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  Speaker 2: were before you. So denying of self is something that
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  Speaker 2: God has put in our bosom. Once he gives us desires.
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  Speaker 2: Once we are surrendering our will to him. Now we
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  Speaker 2: put ourselves last, interesting and then take up take up
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  Speaker 2: the cross. And those who know me as a coach,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about coaching language here. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 2: about that, So don't get confused about what I say
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  Speaker 2: as a coach. This is something spiritual. Okay, Then take
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  Speaker 2: up his cross, take up his cross. What is your cross?
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  Speaker 2: What is that burden that you carry around? What is
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  Speaker 2: that burden that you carry around? He said, Those who
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  Speaker 2: are meek and heavy laiden, you have your cross, he said,
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  Speaker 2: give those things to me, and I will give you rest.
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  Speaker 2: Yes it's yours, Yes it is yours. But now you
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  Speaker 2: have the privilege of surrendering that to God. The things
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  Speaker 2: that you go through on a daily basis that burden
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  Speaker 2: in your life that you're carrying, that load of people
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  Speaker 2: in your life, legacy that you are are carrying through time,
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  Speaker 2: and then leaving behind the ability for someone to carry
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  Speaker 2: that torch or button. He said, give all of that
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  Speaker 2: to me. Everything that is a burden. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to give it to me, and then take up my
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  Speaker 2: yoke and learn of me. H. My yoke is easy,
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  Speaker 2: and my burden is light, for you shall find rest
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  Speaker 2: unto your souls. You see, Jesus took the ultimate cross.
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  Speaker 2: He was on the ultimate cross. He gave his life
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  Speaker 2: on the ultimate cross at Calvary. And so the things
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  Speaker 2: that we must bear, those burdens that we must bear,
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  Speaker 2: we don't turn back from those, We don't shrink from those.
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  Speaker 2: We simply surrender those to him. And then let me
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  Speaker 2: add that qualifier again, actually follow him. So let God
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  Speaker 2: give us desires, start the journey of following him. Then
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  Speaker 2: deny ourselves. Put God from first, put put all of
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  Speaker 2: what he wants. First, seek ye first, the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 2: God and his righteousness. Yes, first deny yourself. Then take
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  Speaker 2: up your cross. Whatever those burdens are, you're weary and
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  Speaker 2: heavy laid, and give those to him. Take up his yoke,
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  Speaker 2: and then he will give you rest. And when he
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  Speaker 2: has given you rest, or while he is giving you rest,
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  Speaker 2: you have the ability to follow him. Ah, Heavy people
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  Speaker 2: can't follow Jesus. People who are still in charge of
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  Speaker 2: themselves can't follow Jesus. People who still entertain desires that
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  Speaker 2: are not the desires that God has given to us
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  Speaker 2: cannot follow him. So again, surrender your will to him,
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  Speaker 2: deny yourself, put him first, and everything that matters to him. First,
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  Speaker 2: take up your burden and then give it to him
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  Speaker 2: and actually follow him so much. We could say there,
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  Speaker 2: but that is just part one of how we become
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  Speaker 2: his disciples. Okay, And so now I'll give you just
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  Speaker 2: a few life lessons before we come to a swift close.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, we need to identify and understand Jesus's true identity.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says here in Mark chapter eight and verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, and he saith unto them, But whom say
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  Speaker 2: ye that I am? And Peter said unto him, thou
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  Speaker 2: art the Christ? Who is Jesus? To you? Is he
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  Speaker 2: just a historic figure? Is he just a prophet? Is
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  Speaker 2: he a powerful avatar? Is he just someone in the
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  Speaker 2: past that you heard about that was a legend?
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Or is he indeed who he said he was? Like that?
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that He created all things, and in
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  Speaker 2: him was not anything made that was without him, was
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  Speaker 2: not anything made that was made? Is he the light
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  Speaker 2: and the life and the light of men? To you?
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  Speaker 2: Is he the one that changes your life, transforms you
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  Speaker 2: from a hopeless sinner into a hopeful saint? Yes, So
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  Speaker 2: understand his true identity in your life life and now
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  Speaker 2: have a relationship with him. And I've covered some of
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  Speaker 2: these other things, but we're going to talk about spiritual
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  Speaker 2: insight even more tomorrow if the Lord spaars life. But
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  Speaker 2: let's just start here in Mark chapter ten, verse fifty two,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus said, unto him, go thy way. Thy faith
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  Speaker 2: has made thee whole. And immediately he received his what
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  Speaker 2: his eyesight. There was a man who needed eyesight, and
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  Speaker 2: he followed Jesus in the way. So in the same
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  Speaker 2: way that Jesus can heal the physical eyesight, he wants
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  Speaker 2: us to have his vision, his holy vision for how
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  Speaker 2: things work on planet Earth and how we can serve
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  Speaker 2: others as we prepare for the Kingdom of Christ. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a great Sabbath, 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 el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,