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01 13 2025 Rejoicing With Gladness · 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 Monday, January thirteen,
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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, God's Love and Justice. Our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is rejoicing with gladness. Rejoicing with Gladness. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  Speaker 2: Pick up the Your Daily Portion companion guide for this
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  Speaker 2: quarter's lesson. It goes with the quarterly. It is not
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  Speaker 2: the quarterly. We put them together so that you can
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  Speaker 2: apply each of these principles in four key areas. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in a second. And also, please go
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  Speaker 2: behind that number seven. Click that number seven. I need
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  Speaker 2: ten thousand of you to click that number seven, and
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  Speaker 2: that is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to rejoice. Thank you for putting us in a position
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  Speaker 2: where we can turn away from our sins, that we
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  Speaker 2: can yield our will to you, and that we can
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  Speaker 2: rejoice with you and live eternally in Jesus name. I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Sometimes people feel guilty about the
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  Speaker 2: idea of rejoicing, because of course we're living in the
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  Speaker 2: last days. You understand this is a time where we
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  Speaker 2: should be. We should be afflicting our souls before God
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  Speaker 2: and asking Him to search us and see if there
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  Speaker 2: be any wicked way in us. And that is true.
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  Speaker 2: We should be searching our souls. We should have the
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  Speaker 2: holy ghosts in our minds so that He can shine
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  Speaker 2: the light on the reality of who we are. But
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  Speaker 2: let me just say this that as we are being
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  Speaker 2: reconciled to God, it's almost like when we are in
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  Speaker 2: the ordinance of humility during the communion service. In those moments,
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  Speaker 2: in those moments, in that service, we are to be
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  Speaker 2: afflicting our souls. In those moments, we are to be
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  Speaker 2: honest with God and to yield everything to him and
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  Speaker 2: then and then to be forgiven and cleansed from our unrighteousness.
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  Speaker 2: But after the ordinance of humiliation or humility, excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: then we go to the Lord's Supper with rejoicing. You
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  Speaker 2: understand where I'm going with this. So it is not
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  Speaker 2: always afflicting of our souls, but it is afflicting of
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  Speaker 2: our souls. It is not always bewilderment. But there are
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  Speaker 2: times that we when we're being honest with ourselves and
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  Speaker 2: with God, we are bewildered because we see the distance
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  Speaker 2: between our souls and our Savior. But once that gap,
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  Speaker 2: that bridge is divide, that divide is bridged, then there
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  Speaker 2: is rejoicing. And so the Bible reads in Zechariah chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: We're going back to that, and I'm reading from verses
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  Speaker 2: five fifteen through seventeen. Okay, verse five. The Lord in
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  Speaker 2: the midst of her is uncomfortab misingly righteous. He will
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  Speaker 2: not do iniquity. Every morning he brings his justice to light.
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  Speaker 2: He fails not. But the unjust person knows no shame. So,
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  Speaker 2: by show of hands, how many of you are unjust?
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  Speaker 2: Put your hands down. Unless you are not willing to
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  Speaker 2: yield your will to God, don't put your hands up
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  Speaker 2: unless you are holding on to your sin. If you
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  Speaker 2: are holding onto your sin, then go ahead and put
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  Speaker 2: your hands up. If you're holding onto your sin and
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  Speaker 2: you don't know how to let those sins go, then
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  Speaker 2: put your hand up. And today is the day that
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  Speaker 2: you turn away from those sins. You allow God through
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost, to teach you the truth about yourself
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  Speaker 2: and the truth about God. The truth about God is
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  Speaker 2: that he's holy and just and good at all times.
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  Speaker 2: He's one hundred percent righteous. And the truth about self
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  Speaker 2: is that we are unholy. We are sold under sin
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  Speaker 2: until or unless we allow the King of Kings to
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  Speaker 2: redeem us. You understand where we're going with this, And
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  Speaker 2: so the unjust person knows no shame. That person couldn't
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  Speaker 2: care less what God thinks verse fifteen four. Then it
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  Speaker 2: will be that the Lord has taken away the judgments
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  Speaker 2: against you. Okay, he has cast out your enemy, the
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  Speaker 2: king of Israel. Even the Lord himself is in the
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  Speaker 2: midst of you. And after he has come to you,
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  Speaker 2: you shall not experience experience or fear evil anymore. You
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  Speaker 2: see those who are perfected in love, that fear is gone.
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  Speaker 2: Cast out fear, fear hath torment. But those who are
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  Speaker 2: perfected in love, according to John, those who are perfected
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  Speaker 2: in love, those individuals stand boldly in the day of judgment.
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  Speaker 2: Let me continue right here in verse sixteen. In that
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  Speaker 2: day it shall be said of God's people or Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: fear not o Zion, let your let not your hands
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  Speaker 2: sink down, or be slow and listless. I said this
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  Speaker 2: the other day. That means to be a shamed. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be ashamed, don't be dejected, don't feel rejected, okay. Verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord your God is in the midst of you,
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  Speaker 2: and the Mighty One, the Savior who saves. He will
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  Speaker 2: rejoice over you with joy. If God is rejoicing over
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  Speaker 2: you with joy, how can you be discouraged? Hah. If
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  Speaker 2: the Lord of hosts, the one who is righteous all
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  Speaker 2: of the time, and his judgments are just. The one
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  Speaker 2: who sees and knows all is rejoicing over you. Then
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  Speaker 2: who are you to be bewildered? If you are yielding
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  Speaker 2: your will to him? Do you understand where this conversation
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  Speaker 2: is going. We're looking at it from God's lens, from
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  Speaker 2: his perspective, not silly praise. We're not looking at our
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  Speaker 2: own way to kind of positive think ourselves into a frenzy. No,
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  Speaker 2: this says that the Lord who's in the midst of me,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord who is our sin, in the midst of us,
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  Speaker 2: he will rejoice over you with joy. That is, when
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  Speaker 2: you yield your will to him, he will rest in
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  Speaker 2: silent satisfaction and in his love. He will be silent
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  Speaker 2: and make no mention of past sins or even recall them.
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  Speaker 2: He will exalt over you with singing. So in my
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  Speaker 2: mind I hear the word restoration. But really and truly,
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  Speaker 2: that word is not enough. I wrote it in my notes,
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  Speaker 2: but it's because I am at a loss for words,
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  Speaker 2: like I cannot really generate the concept that is sufficient.
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  Speaker 2: But I hear the word restoration. But it's better than restoration.
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  Speaker 2: If it were restoration, it would be back to the
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  Speaker 2: way that it was with Adam and Eve, like back then.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not good enough. See, it has to be
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  Speaker 2: better than that. It has to be better than that.
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  Speaker 2: The new heavens and the new Earth have to be
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  Speaker 2: better than that. Ah, there will be no more affliction.
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  Speaker 2: Affliction shall not rise a second time. See that's better
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  Speaker 2: than that. Like now are we the sons of God?
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  Speaker 2: And it does not yet appear what we shall be.
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  Speaker 2: You see what we shall be. It will be better
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  Speaker 2: than that what we shall be. But we know that
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  Speaker 2: when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for
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  Speaker 2: we shall see him as he is. Let those who
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  Speaker 2: have this hope in yourselves, Please, would you purify yourself
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  Speaker 2: even as he is pure? And so this restoration, this
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  Speaker 2: rejoicing and singing, is like the story of the prodigal
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  Speaker 2: when he comes home after exhausting everything on riotous living.
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  Speaker 2: He is there to the point that he is basically
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  Speaker 2: congregating with pigs. This boy, who is supposed to be clean,
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  Speaker 2: is now congregating with pigs. He's already burnt everything with
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  Speaker 2: Harlot's He's already lost all of his soul called friends,
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  Speaker 2: and now He is going to his father, and his
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  Speaker 2: father does not accept as a servant. His father doesn't
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  Speaker 2: simply restore him. His father exalts over him. He is
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  Speaker 2: with joy and singing and smiling and asking people come
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  Speaker 2: rejoice with me, for my son who was lost is found.
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  Speaker 2: The one who was dead is now alive again. Now
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  Speaker 2: let me ask you a question. Do you want God
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  Speaker 2: to rejoice over you? Do you want him to rejoice
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  Speaker 2: over you? This is all you need to do. Surrender
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  Speaker 2: your will to him. Today's the day that you cooperate
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  Speaker 2: with him, that you allow him to write his laws
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  Speaker 2: in your heart and on your mind, so that you
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  Speaker 2: can live according to his principles.
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  Speaker 1: And the joy of the Lord will be Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining us, listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live
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  Speaker 1: by bread alone, but by every word that comes from
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  Speaker 1: the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion
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  Speaker 1: with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,