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10 31 2024 The Testimony of the Samaritans · 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 Thursday, October
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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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 of the Gospel of John are
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  Speaker 2: themes in the Gospel of John. Our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is the Testimony of the Samaritans. The Testimonies of the Samaritans.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this day and for the opportunity that you've
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  Speaker 2: entrusted to us. Now, God, please help us to hear
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  Speaker 2: the testimony of people who are transformed. Help us to
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  Speaker 2: be the testimony of someone who has transformed, and then
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  Speaker 2: we all together become holy. And then one day we
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  Speaker 2: get to live with you and live with you eternally.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Damen again. I
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  Speaker 2: am so grateful. And you want to know why, right,
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  Speaker 2: Why am I grateful? I'm grateful because God is still
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  Speaker 2: transforming people. Even at this point in my life. He
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  Speaker 2: is still transforming me. He is transforming you if you're willing,
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  Speaker 2: if you are allowing Him to transform you. And so
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  Speaker 2: there is a testimony from the people that this woman
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  Speaker 2: whose name I don't know, but I said, I wish
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  Speaker 2: I knew her name. The woman at the well, testimony
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  Speaker 2: of her life is now a an impetus.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: A way for other people to also be transformed. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible reads here in the Book of John,
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  Speaker 2: John chapter four, I will read verses twenty seven to
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine. John Chapter four, verses twenty seven to twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: And now the Bible reads, now at that very moment,
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  Speaker 2: his disciples came back. They were shocked because Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: speaking with a woman. However, no one said what do
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  Speaker 2: you want or why are you speaking to her? Then
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  Speaker 2: the woman left her water jar. You see, she was
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  Speaker 2: at that well. We did not talk about this yet.
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  Speaker 2: She was at the well at that time of day,
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  Speaker 2: likely to avoid people, likely because she had she had
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  Speaker 2: had encounters with people in the community in a way
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  Speaker 2: that would have made it a problem for her. Let's
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  Speaker 2: just say, with the women who would also come to
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  Speaker 2: the well, this was a woman who had bodies for
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  Speaker 2: those who live in the hood and in the ghetto,
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  Speaker 2: or understand what I'm saying, Like she she had encounters
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  Speaker 2: with men that she shouldn't have had, and there are
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  Speaker 2: some people that might not have appreciated that. And so
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  Speaker 2: now she's coming at a time that hopefully she can
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  Speaker 2: avoid these other women. And so now she has this
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  Speaker 2: close encounter with Jesus Christ. It is a pure and
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  Speaker 2: holy encounter. It is a perfect encounter. He is the
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  Speaker 2: seventh Man. He's the perfect and complete man who doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want anything from her except what he wants for her,
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  Speaker 2: which is that she would have eternal life. I said,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't want anything from her except what he wants
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  Speaker 2: for her, which is that she would have eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: And now she left her water jar and went off
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  Speaker 2: into the town and said to the people, come, come
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  Speaker 2: see a man who told me everything I did? Could
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  Speaker 2: this be Christ? You see? They were waiting for Messiah
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  Speaker 2: to come. Despite all of the societ told, historical and
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  Speaker 2: theological challenges. Hmm, despite all of the beef that they
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  Speaker 2: had between them, they were same, of the same family.
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  Speaker 2: They knew that the Messiah was to come. Could this
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  Speaker 2: be him? Could this be him? Come and see a man,
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  Speaker 2: Come see a man. So the testimony, the testimony of
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  Speaker 2: this woman, was that he is transforming me. I am
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  Speaker 2: so blown away that it is hard for me to
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  Speaker 2: even believe, but I need you all to come and see.
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  Speaker 2: Come and experience what I am experiencing with this with God.
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  Speaker 2: And then you tell me, is this the one we've
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  Speaker 2: been waiting for? Is this the one we've been waiting for?
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters. Is this the moment that you have
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  Speaker 2: been waiting for on this day in October thirty one,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, is this the moment you have been
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  Speaker 2: waiting for where your metamorphosis would take place, where your
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  Speaker 2: mind would be transformed by God, your life will be
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  Speaker 2: transformed by God. And you can go into your community.
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  Speaker 2: You can go into the nightclub. I'm not saying you should,
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  Speaker 2: but you can go into the situation where you once were,
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  Speaker 2: where you used to sin. You can go into the rumbar.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying you should, but if God lead you there,
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  Speaker 2: go back into that space and lead men and women
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  Speaker 2: out of that situation and say, come see a man.
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  Speaker 2: You can go back to that space by the water
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  Speaker 2: cooler where you used to gossip with people. You can
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  Speaker 2: go to that corner in the gym where you used
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  Speaker 2: to well whisper and gossip about people, and now say
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  Speaker 2: I have met a man who knew all of the darkness,
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  Speaker 2: all of the skeletons in my closet, and still he
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  Speaker 2: loves me. And I know that you all don't understand this,
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  Speaker 2: because five minutes ago I was different. But today, right now,
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  Speaker 2: at this moment, God has transformed me in such a
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  Speaker 2: way that I have no shame about my past, because
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  Speaker 2: He has taken away my past and given me a
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  Speaker 2: new future and outlook in life, where He has taken
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  Speaker 2: my heart of flesh of stone and now given me
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  Speaker 2: a heart of flesh. And I can turn away from
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  Speaker 2: those sins, and so can you. She becomes an evangelist immediately.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't pitch a tent. She does not create creative,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful graphics and put them in social media. She does
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  Speaker 2: not create countdown timers ten days left until so and so,
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  Speaker 2: five days left until so and so. She doesn't do
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  Speaker 2: any of those things. She is now deployed, like we
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  Speaker 2: all must be deployed. With all she had was her testimony.
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  Speaker 2: She encountered the man Jesus Christ, who was no ordinary man,
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  Speaker 2: the man who is now transforming her life. She is
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  Speaker 2: now begging people to come see this man because this
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  Speaker 2: man can change you too. And so, really, really, there
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  Speaker 2: are some lessons of evangelism. If you want to say
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  Speaker 2: the impact that we can have on other people if
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  Speaker 2: we will just experience God for ourselves. Number One, there
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  Speaker 2: is a true in a true and powerful impact of
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  Speaker 2: our testimony. Or people can see the way that our
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  Speaker 2: life was. We can tell them, we can show them.
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  Speaker 2: They may have already witnessed how we were before we
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  Speaker 2: had this encounter with God, but come and see the
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  Speaker 2: many things that I have done and how He washed
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  Speaker 2: them all away. He's transforming my mind, and so that
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  Speaker 2: is a blessing the power of our testimony. But then
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  Speaker 2: there is authenticity and honesty. I need to speak to
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  Speaker 2: some of the elders in the Church of God, the
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  Speaker 2: people who are at least my age and older. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in my fifties. It could be you could start younger.
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  Speaker 2: But the reason why many times the young people are
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  Speaker 2: repelled by some of us. I said some, not all.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying some, is because some of us are dishonest
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  Speaker 2: about our own past. Some of us are dishonest about
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  Speaker 2: the things with which we now struggle, and the youth
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  Speaker 2: are seeing that and the like. But you're coming to
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  Speaker 2: me as a as holier than thou, and you're not
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  Speaker 2: even showing me that you're on the path to righteousness yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to make it seem like I'm the only
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  Speaker 2: one as a youth that is having these prob And
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  Speaker 2: so authenticity and honesty is a pathway to the hearts
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  Speaker 2: of people as we direct them and guide them toward Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And of course today we have the privilege of having
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  Speaker 2: an encounter with Jesus every single day that we wake up.
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  Speaker 2: We can be at the well of our lives. We
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  Speaker 2: can be at that point of worship, the point of prayer,
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  Speaker 2: the point of encounter and say, God, I got some
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  Speaker 2: more skeletons. I need you to look at these and
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  Speaker 2: fix it for me. Which it please God? Will you please?
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  Speaker 2: And so with that direct encounter that I can have today,
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  Speaker 2: I can now engage with people who are outside of
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  Speaker 2: my secret chamber and I can say, come see a man,
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  Speaker 2: a man that knows everything about me and still loves me.
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  Speaker 2: He loves you too.
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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,