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02 26 2025 If You Worship Me · 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 you 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 Wednesday, February
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty twenty five. 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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is if you worship Me, If you worship Me.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
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  Speaker 2: join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion book.
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  Speaker 2: and if and If this is a success because you
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  Speaker 2: actually desire and need it, then we will do it
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  Speaker 2: next quarter. But this is the second quarter, and we're
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  Speaker 2: determining whether it is worth the time based on your needs. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You can download it to your devices, or you can
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  Speaker 2: pick up a physical copy, okay at your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us the opportunity to come together
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  Speaker 2: and to open up your word. I pray God now
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  Speaker 2: that you will give us the fullness of your understanding.
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  Speaker 2: Give us all of your holy spirit. We need as
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  Speaker 2: much as we can handle today the fullness, and I
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  Speaker 2: pray that we will live according to your principles. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. So I've
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  Speaker 2: talked to you about my friend Norman, whom I called Jonathan,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't ever tell you. I don't think what
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  Speaker 2: he said to me. Some time ago, it's like twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: I was preparing to teach a Bible series for the
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  Speaker 2: next several weeks, and we were in the parking lot
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  Speaker 2: praying together and he said, Father, we ask you to
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  Speaker 2: give my brother the Holy Spirit. Right, and then he goes.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, we are not satisfied with a double portion
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  Speaker 2: of your Holy Spirit. We're not satisfied with a triple
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  Speaker 2: portion of your spirit. We want the fullness. And I said, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: Now that changed my life. That request that my brother
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  Speaker 2: made of God changed my life. Because sometimes we are satisfied,
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  Speaker 2: we're satisfied. Elisha wasn't satisfied with the power that God
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  Speaker 2: had given Elijah, you see. And so it is in
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  Speaker 2: that vein that I come to you today because Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: when he went into the wilderness as he lived on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, now he's not about he is thirty years
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  Speaker 2: of age. He is preparing for his public ministry, and
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  Speaker 2: in the Jordan River he is being baptized. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that the Father his voice is heard from
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  Speaker 2: heavens saying this is my beloved son, and whom I
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  Speaker 2: am well pleased. And then we see, we see the
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  Speaker 2: manifestation of the power of God in the person of
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost coming and pouring out into Jesus's life.
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  Speaker 2: The Holy Ghost took the form of a dove enlighted
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  Speaker 2: upon him, and of course now the rest is history.
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  Speaker 2: But right after that, now Jesus is full of the
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  Speaker 2: awareness of God, his father's presence and approval. Now he
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  Speaker 2: is full of the Holy Ghost. And he goes into
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness, and he is being tempted by the devil.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what. The devil comes to him after
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  Speaker 2: he has fasted forty days. He's fasted forty days, and
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  Speaker 2: while he is at his physical most weakest point, he's hungry.
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  Speaker 2: I said, physically weak, hungry, And now the devil comes in.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the story. Now we're going to read
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  Speaker 2: it from Matthew chapter four, but it can also be
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  Speaker 2: found in Luke chapter four. And I will begin at
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  Speaker 2: verse one, and then the Bible reads, then was Jesus
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  Speaker 2: led up of the spirit, the Holy Spirit? Right we
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  Speaker 2: were talking about being full. Jesus is full of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
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  Speaker 2: And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights,
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  Speaker 2: he was afterward and hungered. So God had provided spiritual
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  Speaker 2: strength to him during those forty days. And now at
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  Speaker 2: the end of those forty days, his body is sensing
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  Speaker 2: the hunger. He's finally sensing the hunger verse three. And
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  Speaker 2: when I bet you somebody just learned something. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have the time right there. Yeah, somebody just caught that, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And when the tempter came to him, he said, if
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  Speaker 2: that'll be the Son of God, command that these stones
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  Speaker 2: be made bread. Now he's insinuating doubt. He's appearing. The
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  Speaker 2: tempter is appearing in a way that could be deceptive
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus if Jesus is not connected to God our father.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hear what I said? The devil or the
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  Speaker 2: tempter is appearing in such a way that would deceive
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  Speaker 2: Jesus if Jesus were not connected to God our Father.
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  Speaker 2: And so now there's this question, like, look at yourself here,
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  Speaker 2: look at yourself all emaciated, look at yourself physically weakened,
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  Speaker 2: look at yourself. If you're the son of God like
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  Speaker 2: I thought you were the son of God. Like, if
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  Speaker 2: you're the son of God, then prove it. Prove it now,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said verse four. And he answered and said, it
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  Speaker 2: is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but
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  Speaker 2: by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus is actually demonstrating that he really in fact,
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  Speaker 2: is the son of God, because he is implicitly trusting
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  Speaker 2: God his father, in the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 2: In that moment, then the devil taketh him up to
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  Speaker 2: a holy city and setteth him on a pinnacle of
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  Speaker 2: the temple. And then he said unto him, if thou
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  Speaker 2: be the son of God, cast thyself down from this place.
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  Speaker 2: For it is written he shall give his angels charge
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  Speaker 2: concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee
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  Speaker 2: up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against
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  Speaker 2: the stone? Can I just pause right here? The devil
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  Speaker 2: is not impressed by your Bible knowledge. I know that
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  Speaker 2: some people, as we discuss living in the last days
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  Speaker 2: and we talk about we should have God's word hidden
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  Speaker 2: in our hearts. Yes, it's true understanding memorization, being able
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  Speaker 2: to recall absolutely. But sometimes humans think that that is
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  Speaker 2: the way to be victorious, That if we can repeat
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  Speaker 2: God's words and hide ourselves in holy spaces, then that
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  Speaker 2: is the code, that is the way that we will
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  Speaker 2: be victorious. That is part of it. It's part of it.
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  Speaker 2: We have to yield our will to God, not just
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  Speaker 2: know his words. The Pharisees that didn't believe in Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Not all of them were that way. Some of them
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  Speaker 2: did believe in Jesus. But the Pharisees that did not
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  Speaker 2: believe in Jesus in those days, the Sadducees that did
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  Speaker 2: not believe in Jesus, and all of these wise, so
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  Speaker 2: called wise people, those individuals knew the scriptures inside and out,
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  Speaker 2: backways and forward, backward and forward, and they still missed him.
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  Speaker 2: And so we yield our will to God. Because the
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  Speaker 2: devil is not impressed. You see, the devil took him
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  Speaker 2: to a holy You like holy stuff, You want to
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  Speaker 2: repeat scriptures, So he takes him to the holy city.
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  Speaker 2: You like holy stuff, you want to repeat scriptures, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And then he takes them to the pinnacle of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Temple that God has put his presence there, Ha,
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  Speaker 2: And then he begins to quote holy writ holy scripture.
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  Speaker 2: He begins to quote from the same scrolls that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was quoting. And so again the devil is not impressed
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  Speaker 2: by your Bible knowledge. He's not impressed by your physical
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  Speaker 2: presence in some place that is holy. He has to
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  Speaker 2: flee when we yield ourselves to God. And of course Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus demonstrating again he is in fact connected with God
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  Speaker 2: our Father in the fullest sense. Jesus said, unto him
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  Speaker 2: in verse seven, it is written, thou shalt not tempt
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  Speaker 2: the Lord thy God. And then the devil taketh him
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  Speaker 2: to an exceeding high mountain and showed him all of
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  Speaker 2: the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.
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  Speaker 2: And Luke said, in the moment of time and seth
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  Speaker 2: unto him, all these things will I give thee. The
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  Speaker 2: devil can't give him this, but he said he could,
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  Speaker 2: if thou wilt fall down and worship me. And Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: unto him, get thee. Hence Satan, For it is written
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  Speaker 2: thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only
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  Speaker 2: shalt thou serve. And the Bible says the devil had
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  Speaker 2: to flee. You see, this was the devil's intent from
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  Speaker 2: the time he was in heaven. He wanted worship, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus showed him right there. Only God is worthy of worship. Peace.
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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.