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01 01 2025 Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen · 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.
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  Speaker 2: 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 Wednesday, January one,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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
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  Speaker 2: study series, God's Love and Justice. Happy New Year. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, it's going to take me a few days
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  Speaker 2: to get used to the new year. Like the date,
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  Speaker 2: I will mix it up and mix it up again.
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  Speaker 2: Likely I'm gonna do my best not to. But if
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  Speaker 2: I say twenty twenty four or some other year, like
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  Speaker 2: don't type in the chat, like don't send me a message,
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  Speaker 2: I understand, like it happens to me. Think about it.
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  Speaker 2: Every day I announce the date, and it's not only
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  Speaker 2: on your Daily Portion, it's somewhere else too, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it kind of gets locked in, like the year from before,
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  Speaker 2: it gets locked in. Okay, so yeah, I'll be okay.
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  Speaker 2: But it's January one, Happy new year to you, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is many are called, but few
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  Speaker 2: are chosen. This is right out of Jesus's mouth. Many
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  Speaker 2: are called, but few are chosen. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure you get your Daily Portion Life Application companion
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  Speaker 2: book for this quarter's lesson, because again we make reference
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  Speaker 2: to it sometimes and definitely when you come into the
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  Speaker 2: community we can build there. We're applying spiritually, personally, from
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  Speaker 2: a relationship perspective, and professionally every single day, So go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and get that at your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: This is the way that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Father, we do thank you for this day,
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  Speaker 2: for this new year. I know it's an artificial measure
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  Speaker 2: as we are humans down here, but to many. It
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  Speaker 2: represents a new beginning. So please teach us to number
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  Speaker 2: our days and to be grateful for this moment of
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  Speaker 2: this day, and to live in a holy way, live
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  Speaker 2: connected to you and doing your will in Jesus name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Many are called, but
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  Speaker 2: few are chosen. And what I want you to focus
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  Speaker 2: on today in the Your Daily Portion Companion Guide, pages
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  Speaker 2: sixteen and seventeen, whichever one you choose. But the one
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  Speaker 2: that's on my mind is relationship application. I'll circle back
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  Speaker 2: if I do have the time, Okay, And so I
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  Speaker 2: just want to say that relationship with God. Relationship with
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  Speaker 2: God is not an exclusive club. I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: it again. I know that we have set up because
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  Speaker 2: God showed us the blueprint. We have set up our
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  Speaker 2: worship centers, our churches, etc. The concept of congregating for
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  Speaker 2: the purpose of worship, right and praise and thanksgiving, etc.
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  Speaker 2: Right edifying the people of God with the truths of
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  Speaker 2: God in all key areas of our lives. This is
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  Speaker 2: the ideal at least right, but some people have mistreated
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  Speaker 2: it and politicized the space, the experience, the pavilion, the sanctuary,
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  Speaker 2: the place where God is meeting with his people in
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  Speaker 2: a special way when we come together like two or
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  Speaker 2: three gather together in his name style, and he is
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  Speaker 2: in the midst like That's what I'm talking about. Some
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  Speaker 2: people have turned it away from being a house of
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  Speaker 2: prayer for all people into an exclusive clique or a club,
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  Speaker 2: some kind of country club, like some kind of spiritual
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  Speaker 2: country club, and only the certain kinds of people, the elite,
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  Speaker 2: or those who bow in a certain way and scuffle
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  Speaker 2: and do what some people who have bad mind and
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  Speaker 2: disrespectful thoughts will command them to do. But God said
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  Speaker 2: you for the people who are are like that have
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  Speaker 2: turned my father's house into a dent of fees. And
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  Speaker 2: eventually he said, let your house has left them to
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  Speaker 2: unto you desolate. So we don't treat the House of
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  Speaker 2: God as an exclusive club. It is. It is a
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  Speaker 2: house of prayer for all people. So if we quote
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  Speaker 2: choose God by his grace he gives us the strength
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  Speaker 2: and grace to do so, then He has chosen us.
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  Speaker 2: When you have an opportunity, I want you to read
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  Speaker 2: from Matthew chapter twenty two, verses one through fourteen, so
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  Speaker 2: you can get the context of what I'm saying. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so I'm going to summarize. I'm going to summarize
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  Speaker 2: the passage. It's one of my favorite places in scripture.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I repeat that. I say that about a
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  Speaker 2: lot of places in scripture, but yeah, it is what
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  Speaker 2: it is, right and from the lesson writer of his
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  Speaker 2: own free will. God not only loves people of his
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  Speaker 2: own free will, but he also invites them to love
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  Speaker 2: him and return. We said that yesterday, okay. And so
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  Speaker 2: in this parable in Matthew chapter twenty two, there are
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  Speaker 2: two applications. I'm going to focus on the second one, right.
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  Speaker 2: The second one has to do with judgment. It has
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  Speaker 2: to do with God welcoming us into a relationship with him.
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  Speaker 2: And when we have the righteousness of Christ, he is
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  Speaker 2: celebrating because he is looking for people to be saved.
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  Speaker 2: He is welcoming us into relationship with him. And so
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  Speaker 2: the invitation goes out to the people. And I know
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  Speaker 2: there is another application that's about the Gospel call, and
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  Speaker 2: then the call goes out to people that were considered gentiles.
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  Speaker 2: And so that is historically and it's right in every way.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm focusing now on when God invites you into
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  Speaker 2: relationship and then he is proverbially. Now he's celebrating the
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  Speaker 2: connection that you are to have I am to have
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  Speaker 2: with his son. And then he discovers that some people
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  Speaker 2: said yes to him when others rejected him and said,
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  Speaker 2: now I don't want this relationship. So he's not even
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  Speaker 2: looking at them at that moment. Ah, But these people
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  Speaker 2: who said yes to God, yes to a relationship with him,
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  Speaker 2: some people turn back. Some people decide that, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not interested in this relationship with God anymore. I
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  Speaker 2: know that you are giving, You're loving, your kind, you
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  Speaker 2: provide the garment of salvation. You have given me everything
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  Speaker 2: so I can be supported in my relationship with you.
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  Speaker 2: You've made the invitation I have accepted, But God forbid
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  Speaker 2: now needlessly. Some people, having accepted God into their lives,
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  Speaker 2: reject him and say, you know what, I don't need
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  Speaker 2: this righteousness. And Paul talked about it. He was like, listen,
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  Speaker 2: how is it that you have chosen to accept God
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  Speaker 2: by faith, but then try to continue a relationship with
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  Speaker 2: him through your own works. Many are called, but few
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  Speaker 2: are chosen. And so now the King is seen as
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  Speaker 2: going around in this place where he made all provisions,
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  Speaker 2: all of the sacrifices necessary, everything that is related to
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  Speaker 2: the righteousness. Now we're just applying it very quickly of
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  Speaker 2: the people who are now present in this relationship experience
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  Speaker 2: with God and the folks. The person of honor is
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, and we're celebrating. And then he sees somebody
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  Speaker 2: that is not properly attired with the righteousness that he provided,
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  Speaker 2: and he's like, but hold on, friend, how camest thou
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  Speaker 2: in hither not having on the garment, the garment of
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  Speaker 2: righteousness the when you accept it? Otherwise you wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: been here in the first place. How is it that
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  Speaker 2: you have now taken this off?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you now in the flesh? When I brought
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  Speaker 2: you in here in the holy ghost? Like, how is
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  Speaker 2: it that you were covered in the righteousness of Christ
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  Speaker 2: and now you're in the flesh? And the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that the man was speechless. He was speechless then, and
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  Speaker 2: then the command from the from the king says, bind
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  Speaker 2: him hand and foot and take him out. And of
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  Speaker 2: course he's destroyed because he's trying to have he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to recommend himself like king, like he's trying to recommend
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  Speaker 2: himself for the Kingdom, but he is clad in his
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  Speaker 2: own righteousness, instead of being covered in the righteousness that
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  Speaker 2: God so freely givens. Many are given, many are called like.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is called into this both bad and good like
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  Speaker 2: people are called into this experience. But the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that if we God forbid, take off his righteousness. If
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  Speaker 2: God forbid, we reject him. The Bible says, many are called,
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  Speaker 2: but the few are chosen. See. The chosen are people
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  Speaker 2: who simply continue to accept the righteousness of Christ and
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  Speaker 2: submit our will to him, Come what may. Many are called,
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  Speaker 2: but few are chosen. Are you chosen?
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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,