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06 19 2025 The Mark of the Beast · 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 Thursday. It
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  Speaker 2: is the nineteenth day of June in twenty twenty five. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series how to
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  Speaker 2: study Bible prophecy under the caption the Mark of the Beast,
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  Speaker 2: The Mark of the Beast. 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: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: get under way. Father, We thank you for this day,
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  Speaker 2: for the privilege we have to come together in this
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  Speaker 2: manner every single day and open up your word. Please
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  Speaker 2: give us wisdom and understanding in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. All right, let me start out
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  Speaker 2: with a couple of disclaimers. Number one, we are not
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  Speaker 2: going to be studying the detail of what the mark
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  Speaker 2: of the Beast is, etc. And number two, you can
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  Speaker 2: actually go to Sabbathtruth dot com. Sabbathtruth dot com. Over
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  Speaker 2: the years I've shared this site with you and you
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  Speaker 2: can discover all you need to know really from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible and history and ancient history about the change of
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  Speaker 2: the Sabbath and how or what was attempted to be
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  Speaker 2: a change of the Sabbath. Nobody can change the Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord our God, the seventh Day Sabbath, but
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  Speaker 2: all that you need to know in history, ancient history,
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  Speaker 2: and in the Bible concerning the Sabbath and the mark
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  Speaker 2: of the Beast is right there at sabbathtruth dot com.
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  Speaker 2: And so what I want to do now is elevate
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  Speaker 2: our minds principally and just ask a simple question, whose
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  Speaker 2: name or mark or impression do you want on your life?
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  Speaker 2: God's or the devils? Really, if you answer this question,
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  Speaker 2: we can almost end the program right here. If your
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  Speaker 2: answer is God's, then we will give you some principles
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  Speaker 2: about how to be connected with him. We all need
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  Speaker 2: that connection. And if it's the devil, then we will
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  Speaker 2: beg you please change your mind, ask the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 2: to change your mind. You should have no interest in
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  Speaker 2: going down a slippery slope toward wherever the enemy would
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  Speaker 2: have you to go, you see. And so where the
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath is concerned, it is something that the world somehow
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  Speaker 2: has made so complicated when the Bible is very clear
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  Speaker 2: that one of the ten Commandments, it's not all of
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  Speaker 2: the commandments, but one of the ten commandments says to
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  Speaker 2: keep the seventh day Sabbath holy. It's very simple. And
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  Speaker 2: God has said that it is the sign between God
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  Speaker 2: and his people that he is the Lord, which doth
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  Speaker 2: sanctify us. He said it in the Book of Moses,
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  Speaker 2: he said it in the book of Ezekiel. And of
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  Speaker 2: course we see the principle throughout scripture. But somehow worldly
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  Speaker 2: powers and religio political powers have thought that if they
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  Speaker 2: could just change and switch it to another day, then
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  Speaker 2: it would somehow signify their power. And it's like no, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: this is not acceptable. It's not acceptable. We do not
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  Speaker 2: allow people to get away with just changing what God
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  Speaker 2: has said. We see in Eden when the devil did
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  Speaker 2: that in the mind of Eve, and she was deceived
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  Speaker 2: and then ate of the fruit that God said not
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  Speaker 2: to eat. He tried the same thing with Jesus in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness, but of course Jesus didn't go for the
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  Speaker 2: okie dope or for the part of me. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: go for the deception that the devil had prescribed. And
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  Speaker 2: so let's just go ahead and start with one principle.
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  Speaker 2: Principle number one. The Sabbath is a test of allegian
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  Speaker 2: I pledge allegiance to God. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we can do so. And very interesting in
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter twelve and verse twelve, wherefore it is lawful
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  Speaker 2: to do well on the Sabbath days. Or so then
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  Speaker 2: it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. When
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was living on planet Earth, people who did not
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  Speaker 2: love him, in fact, they hated him, but they said
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  Speaker 2: that they were the children of God. Those individuals tried
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  Speaker 2: to teach Jesus what the Sabbath was and how to
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  Speaker 2: keep or to not keep the Sabbath. And when he
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  Speaker 2: was doing good works like healing people, setting people free
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  Speaker 2: on the Sabbath, they said, no, that's not the right
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  Speaker 2: use of the seventh day Sabbath. And so he taught them.
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  Speaker 2: Because he is the one who created us. He is
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  Speaker 2: the one whose voice thundered on Mount Horeb or Mount
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  Speaker 2: Sinai those ten words we call the ten Commandments. He
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  Speaker 2: is saying it is lawful to do well on the
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath days, to give life, to save life on the
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath day. And so the application for me is that
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  Speaker 2: the Sabbath reveals who's authority we honor. Is it human
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  Speaker 2: traditions or is it God and his laws. Keep the
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath as an act of covenant loyalty. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to get the cart in the horse priority mixed up.
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  Speaker 2: The only way we can keep the Sabbath, the only
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  Speaker 2: way we can love God, the only way that we
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  Speaker 2: can tell the truth on a consistent basis. The only
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  Speaker 2: way that we can love our neighbors as ourselves is
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  Speaker 2: if we have the power of the holy ghosts in
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  Speaker 2: our lives. And it's then that we can do his
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  Speaker 2: will if we love him. He promises us that he'll
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  Speaker 2: empower us to keep his commandments, including the Fourth Commandment,
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  Speaker 2: which enjoins keeping the seventh day Sabbath holy. Okay, and
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  Speaker 2: so in verse twenty, in verse fourteen, the Bye says,
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  Speaker 2: then the Pharisees went out and held a counsel against him,
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  Speaker 2: how they might destroy him? Now that's weird. How can
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  Speaker 2: people that say their people of God, who are trying
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  Speaker 2: to teach Jesus how to keep the seventh day Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: how can they now look for a way to destroy Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, man, come on, that's not right. So expect backlash,
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  Speaker 2: even from people who say they're God's people. Ah, when
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  Speaker 2: God's truth confronts man made systems, stand firm, even when
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  Speaker 2: obedience seems to be costly. I wish I had the time.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to John chapter five and verse sixteen. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, and therefore did the people of God, so
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  Speaker 2: called people of God, persecute Jesus and sought to slay
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  Speaker 2: him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.
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  Speaker 2: I said that earlier. I said it earlier. So the
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  Speaker 2: controversy over the Sabbath versus tradition is not minor. It
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  Speaker 2: will divide the world in the last days. It did
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  Speaker 2: it during Jesus's time. It wasn't about switching the time
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  Speaker 2: or switching the commandment, but those men and his time
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  Speaker 2: wanted to switch. How God showed what the Sabbath was
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  Speaker 2: really about. It was made for us. It was not
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  Speaker 2: that we should worship the Sabbath. We worship God, and
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  Speaker 2: He gives us the privilege of experience experiencing a special
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  Speaker 2: encounter with Him on the Sabbath. But the controversy will
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  Speaker 2: divide the world again. Practice faithfulness now while it is
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  Speaker 2: not controversial. While is not controversial. And then in James
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  Speaker 2: chapter four and verse seventeen, the Bible reads, therefore to
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  Speaker 2: him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not
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  Speaker 2: to him it is sin. And so when we rationalize disobedience,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, if it's something that God has revealed,
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  Speaker 2: we can't just lay back and say, well, God is
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  Speaker 2: working with me. If God has opened up his word
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  Speaker 2: to our minds and the Holy Ghost is now present
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  Speaker 2: and saying listen, there are people that have been talking
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  Speaker 2: about these truths. There are words in the scripture that
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  Speaker 2: show very clearly what God's view of this is, His
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  Speaker 2: intent for this and for you an eternity is And
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  Speaker 2: if I God forbid rationalize and turn my back on this,
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  Speaker 2: then of course to me it is sin. And why
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  Speaker 2: would anybody who really really says that I enjoy my
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  Speaker 2: relationship with God want to do anything contrary to His will.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much more that we could say, but again,
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  Speaker 2: go to sabbathtruth dot com for the details about the
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  Speaker 2: seventh day Sabbath, the Mark of the Beast, and these
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  Speaker 2: last days. Let me know what you find.
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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,