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10 28 2024 The Woman at the Well · 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, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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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, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is the Woman at the Well. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're just going to call it that now. Finally, that's
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  Speaker 2: what we've been talking about the whole time, the woman
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  Speaker 2: at the Well. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first i'd like to say welcome to you. Welcome
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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 day
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  Speaker 2: our daily bread. And I'm asking you, God to help
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  Speaker 2: us to be children who are now transformed by You
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  Speaker 2: that will stop at nothing to lead others to also
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  Speaker 2: have that ex experience with you. In Jesus name, I
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  Speaker 2: pray Amen and a men again the woman at the well.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful that God makes himself available to us. I
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  Speaker 2: just say that yesterday we ended semi abruptly in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Isaiah, chapter fifty six, when I was saying
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  Speaker 2: that the Bible says that God's house is a house
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  Speaker 2: of prayer for all people, and so what went wrong.
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  Speaker 2: What went wrong during Christ's day is the two sets
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  Speaker 2: of descendants of Abraham were at war with each other.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually ridiculous because they're related. Like it's silly, and
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  Speaker 2: these kinds of things continue into our day. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time, but I don't want to politicize
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  Speaker 2: the situation. But different people groups around the world, and
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  Speaker 2: I have some specific in my mind that are actually related,
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  Speaker 2: are still warring with one another in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Still at war and we're relatives. It's crazy to me.
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  Speaker 2: And these were supposed to be the people of God.
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  Speaker 2: And let me read from the Desire of Age's page
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty four. The hatred between the Jews
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  Speaker 2: and the Samaritans prevented the woman from offering a kindness
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus. Can you imagine two sets of people who
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  Speaker 2: are supposedly related to one another are now it's preventing
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  Speaker 2: that barrier is preventing a woman from offering a kindness
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus. But the Savior, I want you to type that,
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  Speaker 2: but Jesus or but God type it in the chat
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  Speaker 2: but God, but the Savior was seeking to find a
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  Speaker 2: key to this heart and with tact born of divine love.
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  Speaker 2: He asked, not offered a favor. He asked, not offered
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  Speaker 2: a favor. Can I say it again? Jesus took the
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  Speaker 2: road or the pathway with the least amount of resistance,
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  Speaker 2: the least friction, he asked, because he knew what the
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  Speaker 2: barrier was. He asked, and he did not offer yet
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  Speaker 2: a favor. The offer of kindness might have been rejected.
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  Speaker 2: How many times have you rejected offers of favor from
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  Speaker 2: people that you don't like. It could be a race thing,
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  Speaker 2: it could be a class thing, it could be a
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  Speaker 2: cast thing. It could be a tribal thing. It could
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  Speaker 2: be a paradigm or a socioeconomic thing. You see, how
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  Speaker 2: many times have you seen or actually done or participated
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  Speaker 2: in this foolishness. Just be honest. I'm not asking you
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  Speaker 2: to type it. Just be honest. Just you and God.
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  Speaker 2: But hear what happens. But trust awakens trust. You see,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was building a bridge. He knew what was happening
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  Speaker 2: in the society. He knew what the historical argument was,
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  Speaker 2: he knew what the ch challenges were. And knowing that
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  Speaker 2: he is creating a space where his house shall be
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  Speaker 2: called a house of prayer for all people. The body
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  Speaker 2: of believers is regardless of any wall of partition, anything
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  Speaker 2: that formerly has separated us. He's ripping all of that down,
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  Speaker 2: and he's saying that under God we are one people.
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  Speaker 2: He was the one, the original one of eplur busunum
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  Speaker 2: huh that Latin out of many one people. He's the
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  Speaker 2: one that invented that, because he's the one who created
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve. He is the one that created the
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  Speaker 2: whole covenental structure that says, once we are yielding our
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  Speaker 2: will to God, there was nothing that separates us, neither
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  Speaker 2: Jew nor Greek, male, nor free male, nor female, bond
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  Speaker 2: nor free. There was all one love, one blood between
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  Speaker 2: us and God. We are connected through Jesus Christ. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so before I get to preaching, let's get to reading.
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  Speaker 2: And so from the Bible Book of John chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: we continue the encounter. At verse seven, there cometh a
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  Speaker 2: woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus seth unto her,
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  Speaker 2: give me to drink, where his disciples were gone away
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  Speaker 2: into the city to buy meat. And the woman seth
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  Speaker 2: unto him, how is it that you, being a Jew,
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  Speaker 2: askest me to drink? Which is a woman of Samaria,
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  Speaker 2: for the Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. And then
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  Speaker 2: Jesus answered, unto her, this is what I love. He's
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  Speaker 2: building the bridge. He's building the bridge. He's continuing to
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  Speaker 2: build the bridge. He said, unto her, if you knew,
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  Speaker 2: if thou knewest the gift of God, hmm. And who
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  Speaker 2: it is that seth to thee give me to drink?
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  Speaker 2: Thou would have had you would have asked him and
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  Speaker 2: he would have given you living water. So she's having
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  Speaker 2: a theological and cultural debate with God. She didn't understand
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  Speaker 2: what she was saying. She knew what she meant, but
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  Speaker 2: she didn't understand this encounter yet. And he's saying that
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  Speaker 2: if you knew that I was the life giver, if
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  Speaker 2: you could see very clearly, you would be asking me
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  Speaker 2: to drink. And guess what so say so done at
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  Speaker 2: the moment. In a few moments time, she begins to
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  Speaker 2: understand and get an inklink. Wait a minute, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: having an ordinary encounter. I'm having a transformative opportunity and
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to miss it. And so what he
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  Speaker 2: said would happen if she knew actually happened, And so
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  Speaker 2: the woman was like, hold up, Hold up. The woman said,
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  Speaker 2: unto him, sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and
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  Speaker 2: the well is deep. From whence hast thou that living water?
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  Speaker 2: Aren't they all greater than our father? Jacob? Here we
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  Speaker 2: go having an argument, which gave us this well, and
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  Speaker 2: drank thereof himself and his children and his cattle. And
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, unto her, whoever drinketh this water is going
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  Speaker 2: to thirst again. It doesn't matter what kind of water,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter who your grandpa was, It doesn't matter who
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  Speaker 2: you thought gave you. And in speaking in another voice,
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  Speaker 2: man in the wilderness in John chapter six, like what
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  Speaker 2: bread from heaven? You thought that that was the actual gift.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the bread of heaven. I'm the bread of life.
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  Speaker 2: You thought that that water that Jacob created for you,
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  Speaker 2: the well that Jacob positioned you to continue to give water,
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  Speaker 2: you thought that that was the gift. Come on, man,
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  Speaker 2: let me talk to you some more. And let me
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  Speaker 2: talk to you some more. And the Bible says Jesus
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  Speaker 2: answered and said, unto her, whoever drinketh of this water,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get thirsty again. Verse fourteen. But whosoever drinketh
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  Speaker 2: of the water that I shall give him, shall never
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  Speaker 2: thirst again. But the water that I shall give him
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  Speaker 2: shall be a well of water. See, some of us
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  Speaker 2: are thirsty and we just want a quick drink. We
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  Speaker 2: think that quick drink is an illicit relationship with somebody
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  Speaker 2: we should not be related to. Huh. We think that
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  Speaker 2: that drink is stealing finances from God or from people.
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  Speaker 2: We think that that drink is politicizing every little thing
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  Speaker 2: in our lives. We think that that drink is We
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  Speaker 2: think that that drink is some illicit drug that is
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  Speaker 2: going to take our mind away and off of our troubles.
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  Speaker 2: And God is saying that that pride, those things that
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  Speaker 2: you're reaching for, those maladaptive behaviors that you are bound by,
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  Speaker 2: those are not going to help you. But I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to put a well in your life. And I am
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  Speaker 2: that well that'll spring up unto everlasting life. And then
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  Speaker 2: the woman did exactly what Jesus said she would do.
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  Speaker 2: The woman saith unto her him, excuse me, sir, give
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  Speaker 2: me this water that I thirt not neither come here
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  Speaker 2: to draw. When Jesus gives you an encounter with him,
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  Speaker 2: ask him the question Jesus, will you give me everlasting life.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great day.
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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,