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12 19 2024 Jesus and Mary · 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 Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: December nineteen, 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 of the Gospel or Themes in
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel of John, and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: Jesus and Mary. Jesus and Mary. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to you and ask you to please go over
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  Speaker 2: your daily portion companion guide for this quarter's lesson, because
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  Speaker 2: it is a way to continue to apply to our
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  Speaker 2: lives these lessons in four key areas. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to let us know where you are in the world
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  Speaker 2: and click that number seven. Click that number seven as well,
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  Speaker 2: and this is one of the ways that we continue
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  Speaker 2: to build faith and fellowship. You don't have to remember
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  Speaker 2: any of it. Just go to the web address and
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  Speaker 2: do what you see on the screen. Okay, let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: and Heaven, thank you for giving us this day our
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  Speaker 2: daily bread and giving us the opportunity to see the
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  Speaker 2: interactions that you have with humans as dream you draw
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  Speaker 2: us into a right relationship with you, as you bring
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  Speaker 2: us in to awareness and holiness. Please help us to
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  Speaker 2: live according to your principles. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Okay, so we're talking about Jesus
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  Speaker 2: and Mary, Jesus and Mary from the Bible Book of
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  Speaker 2: John chapter twenty. But I don't want to get there first.
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  Speaker 2: I want to start with really the end in mind.
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  Speaker 2: Recipie Ky for them. Shout to Norman Niles, I call
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  Speaker 2: him Jonathan that's my giant baby, bro. He always talks
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  Speaker 2: about starting with the end in view. So what is
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  Speaker 2: the end in view here? Well, it's found in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifteen, beginning at verse twelve, and the Bible reads, now,
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  Speaker 2: if Christ be preached, I do this all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I preach Christ every single day of my life. If
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  Speaker 2: Christ be preached that he rows from the dead, house,
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  Speaker 2: say some among you that there is no resurrection of
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  Speaker 2: the dead. And of course were Sadducees, they were Pharisees.
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  Speaker 2: Some believed in resurrection, some did not. That's beside the point.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, there are some of you who
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  Speaker 2: do not believe that Jesus is raised from the dead.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, come on, Dave, we believe in God. That's
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  Speaker 2: why we're here, that's why we're watching you. We're listening right. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes we still look into dead places for the
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  Speaker 2: living God. So do we really believe that Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: raised like the way that we exercise our faith. Are
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  Speaker 2: we thinking that He is powerful and he is alive?
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  Speaker 2: In my situation, Oh boy, keep listening, keep listening. And
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  Speaker 2: then the Bible says here in verse fourteen, and if
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  Speaker 2: Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain and
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  Speaker 2: your faith is vain. You know what's interesting? Somebody asks me,
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  Speaker 2: do you believe that you can live? Humans can live
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  Speaker 2: above sin? Do you believe that we can be victorious?
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe that we can live holy lives in
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  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus in this present world. They didn't say it
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  Speaker 2: that way, but I'm hearing the passage in my mind,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, you know what, if I didn't believe it,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be a Christian. I wouldn't be a Christian
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  Speaker 2: if I didn't believe that God is more powerful to
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  Speaker 2: save than I am to sin. If I didn't believe
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  Speaker 2: that God had more power to save me than I
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  Speaker 2: have to destroy my life, then I wouldn't be a Christian.
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  Speaker 2: His love is overwhelming, his power is unmatched. Blessed be
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  Speaker 2: his name. And so I'm grateful because he is a rise,
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  Speaker 2: he has a risen. Is he going to a rise
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  Speaker 2: in my life? Well, it's up to me to decide.
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  Speaker 2: It's up to you to decide in your life. And
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  Speaker 2: then the Bible continues verse fifteen YA, and we are
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  Speaker 2: found false witnesses of God because we have testified of
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  Speaker 2: God that he raised him up. Okay, whom he raised
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  Speaker 2: not up? If so be that the dead rise not.
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  Speaker 2: For if the dead rise not, then Christ is not raised.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to hear the next verse. And if
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  Speaker 2: Christ be not raised, your faith is vain. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't believe in vain faith. It's illogical to me faith
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  Speaker 2: in the power of God. I have faith in God.
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  Speaker 2: My faith lays hold on the power of God. And
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  Speaker 2: the other end of that faith is connected to my life.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm supposed to be able to live like God
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  Speaker 2: promised that I could live. Ye are yet in your sins?
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  Speaker 2: Then they which are also falling asleep in Christ their parish.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense to worry about that verse nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: If in this life only we have hope in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: we are above all men, all people, most miserable. But
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  Speaker 2: now is Christ's risen. Thank God, I'm glad that Paul
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  Speaker 2: didn't leave us hanging here. But now is Christ risen
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  Speaker 2: from the dead and become the first fruits of them
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  Speaker 2: that slept. And so in the same way that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: came forth from the tomb, we will see our loved
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  Speaker 2: ones who loved God again. We will see them. They
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  Speaker 2: will be raised incorruptible at just the right time, around
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  Speaker 2: the coming of Jesus, at the time of Jesus's return.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we can go back to where this
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  Speaker 2: story is set. But Mary John Chapter twenty, verse eleven.
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  Speaker 2: But Mary stood without at the sepulcher, weeping. Why is
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  Speaker 2: she weeping? As she wept? She stooped down because maybe
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  Speaker 2: her faith in that moment was vain, like she thought
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  Speaker 2: Christ be not raised. What she looked into the sepulcher,
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  Speaker 2: and she see it two angels in white sitting, one
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  Speaker 2: at the head and the other at the feet where
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  Speaker 2: the body of Jesus had lain. That is past tense.
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  Speaker 2: That is past tense, because now he's alive. He's alive.
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  Speaker 2: He's not laying there because he is rot He has arisen. Oh, yes, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And they say, unto her woman, why weepest thou? She said,
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  Speaker 2: unto them, because they have taken away my lord, and
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  Speaker 2: I know not where they have laid him. Verse fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: And when she had said thus, she turned herself back.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to type right now in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: She turned type in the chat she turned. She turned.
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  Speaker 2: She was weeping, But then she turned. She was weeping,
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  Speaker 2: But then she turned. She turned herself back, and she
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  Speaker 2: saw Jesus. Are you hearing me clapping? I am applauding Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Can we just give Jesus a round of applause right now?
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  Speaker 2: Because in the time, in her most weakened state, in
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  Speaker 2: the time that she was feeling rejected, dejected, she was
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  Speaker 2: desponding even to the degree that she would tell the
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  Speaker 2: angel that Jesus was gone. They took his body, his
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  Speaker 2: dead body. Why did they take his body? They didn't
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  Speaker 2: take his body. Jesus took up his life again. In
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  Speaker 2: the moment that you need Jesus the most, I need
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  Speaker 2: you to turn. I think the Bible teaches us that
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  Speaker 2: repentance is the turning of the shoulder, a one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and eighty greed turn. As we say here in Jamaica,
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  Speaker 2: we say right about turn, a right about turn. We
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  Speaker 2: turn and we see Jesus. Do you see Jesus when
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  Speaker 2: you turn away from your sins? Do you see Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, when you turn away from your faithlessness
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  Speaker 2: and hopelessness? Do you turn and see Jesus? Turn your
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  Speaker 2: eyes upon Jesus. The songwriter pen look full in his
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  Speaker 2: wonderful face and the things of this earth will grow
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  Speaker 2: strangely dim in the light of his Glorian grace. That's
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  Speaker 2: exactly what she did in reality. And she saw Jesus
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  Speaker 2: standing and knew not that it was Jesus. But Jesus said,
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  Speaker 2: unto her. He called her. He called her. He said, woman,
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  Speaker 2: why are you crying? Why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?
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  Speaker 2: In supposing him to be a gardener, She said, unto him, Sir,
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  Speaker 2: if you have borne him, hence, tell me where thou
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  Speaker 2: hast laid him, and I will take him away. And
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  Speaker 2: Jesus saith unto her, Mary, he called her by name.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is calling you by name. Type in the chat
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  Speaker 2: your name. Jesus is calling your name. If you're willing
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  Speaker 2: to turn away from your sin, turning away from your
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  Speaker 2: faithless ness, turning away from your hopelessness, He's calling you
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  Speaker 2: by name. Type your name in the chat. Mary, she
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  Speaker 2: turned herself and said, unto him, Oh, my God, rab
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  Speaker 2: bon nine, which is to say, master. Jesus said, unto her,
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  Speaker 2: touch me not. I am not yet ascended unto my father.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm going to ask you to do me some favor.
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  Speaker 2: Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend
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  Speaker 2: to my father and your father, my God and your God.
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  Speaker 2: See she learned to turn her eyes upon Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore she was saying thanks for joining us. Listening
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  Speaker 1: to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris,
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  Speaker 1: make it a great day. Yeah,