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08 30 2025 The Covenant and the Blueprint · 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 thirty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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
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  Speaker 2: study series through the Book of Exodus, coming in at
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number ten of thirteen under the caption The Covenant
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  Speaker 2: and the blue Print. The Covenant and the Blueprint. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but before we do,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you in happy Sabbath.
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  Speaker 2: To everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time, I'm asking 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: 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. Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for this new Sabbath day and giving us
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  Speaker 2: the blueprint for our lives, the blueprint for connection with you.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to live according to this blueprint. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amn and a men again. Let
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  Speaker 2: me just jump right into the passage here in Exodus
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty four and verse three. We'll probably read it again,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads, so Moses came and told the
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  Speaker 2: people all the words of the Lord and the judgments.
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  Speaker 2: So we know now that the Bible has identified the commandments,
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  Speaker 2: the ten commandments. We know what those are. Yes in
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter twenty and then God gave the blueprint or
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  Speaker 2: the detailed view of what it looks like to live
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  Speaker 2: in society on planet Earth, governed by how God wants
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  Speaker 2: us to think and live, how we are to treat
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  Speaker 2: one another, how we're to treat debt, how we're to
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  Speaker 2: treat being able to come in and out of situations
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  Speaker 2: where we may be giving. I mean, now we might
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  Speaker 2: say our service, but we're living bound to somebody where
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  Speaker 2: we say for this number of years, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: serve you this way. But if you mistreat the person
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  Speaker 2: who is now your servant, you got to let them go.
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  Speaker 2: Like God gave the details of how they should live
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  Speaker 2: and think in the society on Earth as God's people. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so now we see that God told them the
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  Speaker 2: words and the judgments, and the people answered with one voice,
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  Speaker 2: what did they say all the words which the Lord
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  Speaker 2: has said, we will do? Now? The Bible teaches us
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  Speaker 2: that it is better to not make a vow than
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  Speaker 2: to make a vow and not keep it. It is
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  Speaker 2: better to not make a vow than to make a
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  Speaker 2: vow and break it. And so the people of God
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  Speaker 2: are saying, yes, we agree with everything you have said
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  Speaker 2: in the ten Commandments. We understand that they are a
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  Speaker 2: covenantal promise that you're making with us too, and we
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  Speaker 2: accept how we're supposed to live and think in society
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth as your people. Whatever you say, that's
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  Speaker 2: what we're going to do, that's what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, well, yeah, yeah, there are some things that
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  Speaker 2: they missed, like they missed a spot. The people of
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  Speaker 2: God failed in so many ways, but God did not
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  Speaker 2: leave them. Why not because lesson number one the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: Morning is Obedience flows from relationship. You see, God knows
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  Speaker 2: because he created us, and he knows because he knows
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  Speaker 2: the exact nature of sin subsequent to him creating us.
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  Speaker 2: That the only way that we can be obedient to
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  Speaker 2: God is if we have a relationship with him. I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'd read it again, and here it is again. I'll
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  Speaker 2: read it from another translation, New English translation. Moses came
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  Speaker 2: and told the people all the Lord's words and all
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  Speaker 2: the decisions, and the people all of them answered together,
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  Speaker 2: we are willing to do all the words that the
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  Speaker 2: Lord has said. We are willing. God, we are willing.
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  Speaker 2: We are will, We are willing. Sometimes people who are
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  Speaker 2: willing to do what God says fail miserably. Yeah yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 2: yeah yeah yeah yeah. So God seeks our full commitment.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're to do. God gives us the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of submitting to him and then committing like true obedience
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  Speaker 2: isn't about a mechanical sort of you know. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: your turn, my turn, your turn, my turn? What are
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  Speaker 2: you gonna say? God? Okay, yeah, me too, Like you
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. Like sometimes people say I love you,
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  Speaker 2: and you say automatically, sometimes even without thinking, I love
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  Speaker 2: you too. Somebody says good morning, and you automatically, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: without thinking, say good morning. Sometimes people will say how
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  Speaker 2: you're doing and you just say fine, without even thinking
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  Speaker 2: about it. That is not what we're talking about. We're
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  Speaker 2: not talking about a mechanical God said do it, and
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  Speaker 2: we say, okay, yeah, I'll do it. No, it's about
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  Speaker 2: our relationship with God. It's relational. It's all about relationship.
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  Speaker 2: It's by thy grace, I will follow THEE. Yes, I
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  Speaker 2: will follow THEE my Savior, wheresoe'er my lot may be.
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  Speaker 2: And then eventually we say, by thy grace, that is,
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  Speaker 2: by the power that you've entrusted to me, by the
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  Speaker 2: relationship that you have shown me, by giving me unmerited favor,
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  Speaker 2: I will follow THEE. The people responded with one voice,
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  Speaker 2: because they believed in God, they belonged to God, and
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  Speaker 2: they were learning how to trust in God. And so
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  Speaker 2: the action really is every morning, this week, this week
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  Speaker 2: that we are embarking upon, I should say every morning,
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  Speaker 2: tell God aloud, whatever you say, I will do. And
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  Speaker 2: I already warmed you up for this one by your strength.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson Number two, Time with God is the foundation of
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  Speaker 2: spiritual power. In the Bible, Book of Hebrews, chapter twelve
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  Speaker 2: and verse two, the Bible reads, we're looking unto Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: the author and finisher of our faith. So where does
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  Speaker 2: our faith come from? It comes from God. How are
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  Speaker 2: we to how are we able to enact the faith
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  Speaker 2: that God has put in us? Well, it's from Jesus Christ. Still,
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  Speaker 2: So he's the one that gives us the faith. He's
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  Speaker 2: the one who empowers us to use the faith that
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  Speaker 2: he's given us, so that to the end that we
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  Speaker 2: can actually serve him lay hold of the power of God.
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  Speaker 2: So we're looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of
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  Speaker 2: our faith, who, for the joy that was set before him,
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  Speaker 2: endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down
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  Speaker 2: at the right hand of the throne of God. Pardon me.
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  Speaker 2: And so we are fixing our minds on Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: because he's given us the ability to do so by faith. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and we know that he went through all things like
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  Speaker 2: I think I said yesterday before we did every trial
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  Speaker 2: that you can go through. He has gone through to
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  Speaker 2: the extreme degree, and so now he is able. He
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  Speaker 2: is able to show you how to live in the
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  Speaker 2: same way. So I want you to invest time with
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  Speaker 2: the one who does this, who has done this for us,
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  Speaker 2: Invest time in prayer with the word, and then keep
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  Speaker 2: your eyes on Jesus. We're going to grow stronger as
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  Speaker 2: we behold him. I'm talking about like if you have
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  Speaker 2: to set a timer, set a timer for reading, set
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  Speaker 2: a timer for prayer. I know it seems too regimented. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: some people aren't doing anything, so you might have to
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  Speaker 2: start right here with the formula a few minutes for
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  Speaker 2: reflection and we can let it grow from there to
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  Speaker 2: where it becomes second nature. And the Bible reads in
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  Speaker 2: for less than number three in John chapter fourteen and
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  Speaker 2: verse fifteen. If ye love me, then keep my commandments.
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  Speaker 2: God is not asking for compliance like in a forced automaton,
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  Speaker 2: like how missus White calls it an automaton. He's not
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  Speaker 2: making us robots. He desires willing hearts to be moved
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  Speaker 2: by love. We love him because he first loved us.
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  Speaker 2: He is the cause of our ability to love Him,
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  Speaker 2: and that's how last day type people will remain faithful.
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  Speaker 2: And so God has given us the privilege, the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of loving Him and it will fuel obedience, not because
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  Speaker 2: we fear God or are guilty.
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  Speaker 1: But because join love with you friends, peace always. Remember
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  Speaker 1: we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  Speaker 1: that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  Speaker 1: your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a
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  Speaker 1: great day. Yeah,