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10 26 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 Sabbath, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, 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 in the Gospel of John. Pardon
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  Speaker 2: that sound. We are in lesson number five, the Testimony
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  Speaker 2: of the Samaritans. I like this one a lot, the
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  Speaker 2: Testimony of the Samaritans. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: you and ask you to go over to your Daily
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  Speaker 2: and let us know where you are in the world
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  Speaker 2: at your daily portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath morning. Thank you for identifying with all of us,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what walk of life we're in. Whatever our
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  Speaker 2: socioeconomic class, whether the predominant class or culture is accepting
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  Speaker 2: of us. We know God that you have accepted us
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  Speaker 2: in the Beloved, Please give us the fullness of your
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit today. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again the testimony of the Samaritans. You see, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: identified with all of humanity so he could save all
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  Speaker 2: of us from our sins. Can I say that again?
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  Speaker 2: Jesus identified with all of humanity so he could save
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  Speaker 2: all of humanity from our sins. I'm grateful. You want
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  Speaker 2: to know why I'm grateful because I didn't come from
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  Speaker 2: I didn't come from a class of people with a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot of money. I grew up in the city
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  Speaker 2: at the time that it was the murder capital of
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America. And then when I got
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  Speaker 2: to university. Right after I was no longer in classes,
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  Speaker 2: I lived in a city again, another city in Washington,
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  Speaker 2: d C. At the time when it was the murder
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  Speaker 2: capital of the United States. And I have so many
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  Speaker 2: other challenges that I had to with which I had
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  Speaker 2: to contend. And I'm like, but God, if you can
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  Speaker 2: save me, I know you can save others. If you
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  Speaker 2: can save others, I know you can save still others.
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  Speaker 2: You understand, And so well, the Bible reads here in
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  Speaker 2: the Book of John, chapter four and verse forty two.
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  Speaker 2: Then they said to the woman, now we believe. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about this woman at the well,
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  Speaker 2: the woman that Jesus met at a specific space that
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  Speaker 2: he orchestrated for this woman to have a life transformed
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  Speaker 2: by the renewing of her mind, that she could also
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  Speaker 2: go into her community and help people with their transformation.
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  Speaker 2: So they said, those people, those people said, now we believe,
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  Speaker 2: not because of what you said. You see, it was
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  Speaker 2: a good idea, and I am really severely understating it.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good idea for this woman who had
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  Speaker 2: a transformative encounter with Jesus to go into her own
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  Speaker 2: community where people sinned with her and observed her committing sin.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time to go and say,
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  Speaker 2: I have seen a man who knows everything about me,
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  Speaker 2: and he doesn't it against me. I know a man
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  Speaker 2: ha who knows all of my illicit relationships and doesn't
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  Speaker 2: hold it against me. I know a man I met
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  Speaker 2: him just now who understood all of my wicked thoughts
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  Speaker 2: and my fears and concerns. He knew from where I came,
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  Speaker 2: what my history was, who my grandparents were. He saw
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  Speaker 2: right through me, and he still loved me. Come see
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  Speaker 2: this man. And of course the testimony was enough for
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  Speaker 2: the people to say, Okay, tell us more, tell us more. Ah,
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  Speaker 2: But the Bible says, for we ourselves have heard him.
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  Speaker 2: After the woman's testimony, they gave keen attention to Jesus
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  Speaker 2: and what he taught and the spirit that obviously was
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  Speaker 2: emanating from him, the holiness, the compassion. Yes, and they said, ah,
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  Speaker 2: for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that
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  Speaker 2: this indeed is the Christ. But they didn't stop there.
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  Speaker 2: At the savior of the world, including me, including you,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. The man Jesus Christ, who was no
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  Speaker 2: ordinary man, was the savior of the world, including us,
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  Speaker 2: pardon me. I'm grateful. I'm grateful. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: drill this story throughout the week. But I just want
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  Speaker 2: to ask you a question. Is there anything in your
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  Speaker 2: life of which you are ashamed? Are you ashamed of
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  Speaker 2: anything in your life like anything that you have done?
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  Speaker 2: Are you ashamed? You see? The blessing about this question
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  Speaker 2: is that if you just admit that that you say,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, There's some things that I wish I
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  Speaker 2: hadn't done. There's some things I wish I had not seen.
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  Speaker 2: There are some things I wish I had not ushered
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  Speaker 2: people into doing, some habits that I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: not created.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: I can't unsee, undo, or uncreate any of those things.
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  Speaker 2: But I have heard today, on this twenty sixth day
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  Speaker 2: of October, in twenty twenty four, I have heard about
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  Speaker 2: a man who can see all of that and still
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  Speaker 2: love me, you see. And so I'd like to take
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  Speaker 2: us for a moment into the Bible Book of First John,
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  Speaker 2: First John, because if I don't go somewhere else today,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to really I'm really going to go too
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  Speaker 2: far into what we'll talk about during the week. So
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  Speaker 2: let's go to First John, chapter three, and beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse one, I want you to read with me, beginning
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  Speaker 2: at verse one, Behold what manner of love the Father
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  Speaker 2: hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the
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  Speaker 2: children of God, the sons of God. Therefore the world
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  Speaker 2: kneweth us, not because it knew him not. You see,
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  Speaker 2: as we have these encounters, and tomorrow we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about the encounter Jesus had with this woman, or
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  Speaker 2: Jesus or the woman had with Jesus. When we have
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  Speaker 2: these encounters with God and in our secret space, our minds,
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  Speaker 2: he begins to speak to us and show us this
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  Speaker 2: is the way, This is the direction that I want
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  Speaker 2: your life to take. And I know that right now
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  Speaker 2: that is not the pathway that you're on, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: giving you an opportunity to be transformed. When we have
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  Speaker 2: that experience, he now ushers us into his family. You see,
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  Speaker 2: when we were born, we were born hostile toward him.
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  Speaker 2: We were born as outcasts, not because of anything that
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  Speaker 2: we did, but we inherited the tendency toward evil. And
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  Speaker 2: if we are not reborn, we talked about this last week,
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  Speaker 2: if we are not reborn, if we are not transformed,
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  Speaker 2: we will just go, you know, idly, mindlessly, aimlessly toward
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  Speaker 2: destruction will meander and still end up in destruction. We'll
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  Speaker 2: try and try again and fail, and we will still
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  Speaker 2: end up in destruction if we don't yield our will
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  Speaker 2: to God. Okay, And so when God gives us the
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  Speaker 2: privilege because he loves us, to yield ourselves to God,
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  Speaker 2: it says that we are now His children. And the
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  Speaker 2: people around us who do not know God will say, well,
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  Speaker 2: what in the world, who is this person? Something has changed?
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  Speaker 2: And the people who are receptive will inquire and desire
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  Speaker 2: the Christ that is now manifest in your life. But
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  Speaker 2: the ones who reject, they won't know you through that
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  Speaker 2: spirit either. Verse two. Beloved, now are we the children
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  Speaker 2: of God? And it does not yet appear what we
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  Speaker 2: shall be, but we know that when He shall appear,
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  Speaker 2: we shall be like him. You see the woman at
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  Speaker 2: the well. She was transformed so she could be like him.
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  Speaker 2: See now, when we say yes to God. In the
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  Speaker 2: Book of John, chapter one and verses eleven and twelve,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, to as many as receive him, you
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  Speaker 2: accept him into your life, You yield your will to him,
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  Speaker 2: You submit to him. To as many as do that,
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  Speaker 2: they immediately become His children. So now in this body
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  Speaker 2: that you have, the one with the aches and the pains, ah,
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  Speaker 2: the ones that require surgeries at times, the ones that
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  Speaker 2: sometimes get hospitalized, the ones that get tired and hungry
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  Speaker 2: and frustrated. Even in that state, we are His children.
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  Speaker 2: But we're looking forward to a day. What day, Dave,
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  Speaker 2: It says here we don't know what. We know that
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  Speaker 2: when he shall appear, we will be like him, for
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  Speaker 2: we will see him as he is. One day God
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  Speaker 2: is going to give us a new body, the coming
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ. Those who are now His children will
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  Speaker 2: receive a body that will endure forever in the presence
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  Speaker 2: of God. And I'm looking forward to them.
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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,