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08 13 2024 The Mountain and the Multitude · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, August thirteen,
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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 lesson number
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  Speaker 2: seven in our Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is the Mountain and the Multitude.
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  Speaker 2: The Mountain and the Multitude. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to please go over to
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the opportunity to see your ministry at work. Please
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  Speaker 2: teach us to model or emulate what we see. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to live like Jesus lived while he was on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. Father, and Jesus diay my pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again the mountain and the multitude. Now, Jesus had
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  Speaker 2: so much work to do when he lived on Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Saving people from our sins is no light matter like
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  Speaker 2: that is not a joke. It's not tiny, it's not small.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a simple task. But he took and stride
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  Speaker 2: because why he was reliant upon his father, and he
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  Speaker 2: was on a mission. He had a singular focus to
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  Speaker 2: seek and to save that which was lost. And of
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  Speaker 2: course that focus glorified his father, which was in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: which is in heaven. And so we read now with
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  Speaker 2: that in mind, from the Book of Mark chapter nine,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one, and see what we can glean
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  Speaker 2: from these lessons and the Bible reads and he said,
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  Speaker 2: unto them, verily, I say unto you, that there be
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  Speaker 2: some of them that stand here which shall not taste
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  Speaker 2: of death till they see, until they have seen the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom of God come with power. Jesus is about to
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  Speaker 2: reveal something massive. In not so long, He's going to
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  Speaker 2: reveal something massive. And after six days Jesus taketh with
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  Speaker 2: him Peter and James and John, and leadeth them up
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  Speaker 2: into a high mountain apart by themselves. Where were they
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  Speaker 2: in a mountain? The mountain in the multitude, the mountain
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  Speaker 2: in the multitude? Where were they they were in the
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  Speaker 2: mountain with whom were they in the mountain with Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen anybody in a mountain with Jesus
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible, I'm saying, anybody in the mount with Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I think Moses was in the mountain with Jesus and
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  Speaker 2: was enfolded into a cloud. Oh I think Joshua was
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  Speaker 2: up there with Moses on one of those occasions, and
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  Speaker 2: he experienced God in a special way. And sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: don't realize this, but Joshua was being primed and ready
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  Speaker 2: for taking over from Moses. And Moses. Neither Moses nor
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  Speaker 2: Joshua knew this. But that's a different story. So when
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  Speaker 2: you see God's people going into a mountain with Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: then something is about to happen. And in this case,
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  Speaker 2: when you see Peter and James and John together doing
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  Speaker 2: anything with Jesus, you know something spectacular is about to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible says that he was transfigured. He
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  Speaker 2: was transfigured before them. So when he said that you
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  Speaker 2: will see the Kingdom come, some people will see the
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  Speaker 2: kingdom come, they were getting a foretaste of the kingdom
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  Speaker 2: right there. To be transfigured means that he was. He
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  Speaker 2: appeared as dazzling brightness, just like you would expect a
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  Speaker 2: heavenly being to appear. You remember when Moses said, if
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  Speaker 2: I have found glory, if I have found favor with you,
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  Speaker 2: show me your glory, and Jesus said, there shall no
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  Speaker 2: man see me and live. So he allowed Moses to
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  Speaker 2: experience the glory before the time, but it was a
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  Speaker 2: distilled version, just so that that he could experience it
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  Speaker 2: but and not die. But that experience that Moses had
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  Speaker 2: was so incredible that it actually changed how Moses looked.
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  Speaker 2: It changed how Moses looked like his countenance was so
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  Speaker 2: bright that the people of God said, cover that up,
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  Speaker 2: like because of their lack of faith. But that's a
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  Speaker 2: different discussion. Cover that up. I can't take that brightness,
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  Speaker 2: put a veil over your face. But he was reflecting
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  Speaker 2: the brightness of God. And so Jesus is now transfigured
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  Speaker 2: before them, brighter than any fuller, as the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: could have whitened. Okay, and his raiment here it is,
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  Speaker 2: his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow, as no
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  Speaker 2: fuller on earth can white them. That is no cleaner
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  Speaker 2: if you want to say detergent verse four. And there
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  Speaker 2: appeared unto them Elias. Who is that? Elijah? They saw
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  Speaker 2: with their real eyes, the real man of God, who
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  Speaker 2: did not ever taste death, but God took him into
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  Speaker 2: heaven in chariots of fire. And who else did they see?
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  Speaker 2: They saw? They saw Elias and Moses. So Elijah and Moses.
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  Speaker 2: Bible says in the Bible Book of Jude that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: and the devil contended over the body of Moses, and
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  Speaker 2: of course Jesus won. He won. He rebuked the devil.
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  Speaker 2: He said, the Lord rebuke you, Satan. And of course
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  Speaker 2: we know now that Moses was resurrected. So Elijah, who
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  Speaker 2: never saw death experience death and Moses, who did die
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  Speaker 2: but was raised, now stand as representatives, representatives of those
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  Speaker 2: who will go to heaven one day and then the
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  Speaker 2: earth made knew first the people who will be what
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  Speaker 2: we call translated who are alive and remain, as Paul
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  Speaker 2: describes it, when Jesus comes, those who are alive and
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  Speaker 2: remain will be caught up together with them who's the them,
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  Speaker 2: people like Moses who were once dead but now raised incorruptible.
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  Speaker 2: And so those who are alive and remain will also
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  Speaker 2: go to heaven together with those who were dead that
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  Speaker 2: were God's people and raised. And together we go to
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  Speaker 2: heaven and invest a thousand years until we get the reward,
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  Speaker 2: which is the earth made new. I hope that made sense.
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  Speaker 2: I know I'm speaking quickly. We have to run along.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Bible says here that they and they
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  Speaker 2: were talking to Jesus. Can you imagine the kind of
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  Speaker 2: encouragement that Elijah and Moses were giving Jesus. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine it was not like what Peter did yesterday we
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  Speaker 2: discussed it where he rebuked Jesus saying that you will
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  Speaker 2: not do what you just said, do you will not
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  Speaker 2: give your life. The people won't hate you, they won't
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  Speaker 2: persecute you, or whatever it is that he was saying.
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  Speaker 2: But these men of God understood their assignment. They came down,
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  Speaker 2: they spoke with Jesus. What do you think that they
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  Speaker 2: were talking about? Can you imagine? If Jesus failed? God
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  Speaker 2: forbid banished the thought. But if Jesus failed on his mission,
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  Speaker 2: then Elijah, who had been living in heaven for thousands
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  Speaker 2: of years, would have to come back and then be punished,
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  Speaker 2: sentenced to each other dial death. Moses, who had been
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  Speaker 2: living in heaven for thousands of years, would have been
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  Speaker 2: taken out of heaven and then condemned, punished. And Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is now getting encouragement from these men. This is what
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  Speaker 2: I see in my mind. I see him, I see
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  Speaker 2: them encouraging Jesus. Verse five. And Peter answered and said,
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  Speaker 2: unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here.
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  Speaker 2: Let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses,
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  Speaker 2: and one for Elijah. And he wish not what to say,
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  Speaker 2: for they were sore afraid, and there was a cloud
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  Speaker 2: that overshadowed them, and a voice that came out of
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  Speaker 2: the cloud, saying, this is my beloved son. Hear him.
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  Speaker 2: So now, Father God is putting his stamp of approval
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  Speaker 2: on Jesus, just like he did at the Jordan River
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  Speaker 2: verse eight. And suddenly, when they had looked around about,
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  Speaker 2: they saw no man anymore save Jesus, only with themselves.
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  Speaker 2: And as they came down from the mountain, he charged
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  Speaker 2: them that they should tell no man what things they
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  Speaker 2: had seen till the Son of Man were raised from
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  Speaker 2: the dead. And they kept that, saying to themselves, questioning
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  Speaker 2: one with another what the rising of the raising of
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  Speaker 2: the dead should mean. And he asked them, saying, why
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  Speaker 2: say the scribes that Elias must first come? And he
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  Speaker 2: answered and told them, Elias verily is cometh first, and
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  Speaker 2: restoreth all things. And now, as it is written of
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  Speaker 2: the Son of Man that we must he must suffer
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  Speaker 2: many things and be set at naught. And I say
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  Speaker 2: unto you, Elias is indeed come, and they have done
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  Speaker 2: unto him whatsoever they desired. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your Daily Portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day, yeah,