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10 12 2025 Crossing the Jordan · 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 Sunday, October twelve,
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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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Crossing the Jordan. Crossing the Jordan. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get in that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com this is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. 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: We thank you for this day, this new work weekend.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that you will get us over the Jordan
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  Speaker 2: to the land of Promise, teach us faithfulness and holiness,
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  Speaker 2: and to submit our will to you. In Jesus's name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen, and a man again crossing the Jordan. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm going to talk about two stories, one
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  Speaker 2: during the time of Moses, one during the time of Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: and see what God has to say for us in
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  Speaker 2: our day. Okay. And so we're going to begin. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to begin with a quote from the book Patriarchs
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  Speaker 2: and Prophets, page four hundred, and it reads, before we
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  Speaker 2: can stand in the presence of a Holy God, and
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  Speaker 2: I want you to slow down in your thinking, slow
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  Speaker 2: down in your anticipation of what I will say, even
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  Speaker 2: if you know where we're going with this, but just pause.
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  Speaker 2: Even as we consider the holiness of God, even as
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  Speaker 2: we consider being in his presence, we need to really
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  Speaker 2: sort of be in the mindset of worship. Because God
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  Speaker 2: is all powerful, He knows everything. He is completely holy
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  Speaker 2: in every single way, and yet he still loves us.
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  Speaker 2: Yet he is still coming after us to bring us
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  Speaker 2: into a relationship with him, because he wants us to
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  Speaker 2: live with him eternally. So as we even consider the
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  Speaker 2: concept or principle or the privilege of being in the
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  Speaker 2: presence of a holy God, the Holy God, then we
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  Speaker 2: need to reflect and say, God, now, why would you
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  Speaker 2: be so good to me? Please teach me how to
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  Speaker 2: prepare for these encounters that you've been so kind to
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  Speaker 2: condescend and allow me into, to transform me, to use
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  Speaker 2: me as an ambassador for you. How can I represent you?
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  Speaker 2: Being such a broken human? How can I represent you God?
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course, so before we can stand in
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  Speaker 2: the presence of a holy God, we must first be
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  Speaker 2: cleansed from all sin. We must first be cleansed from
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  Speaker 2: all sin. When's the last time you spoke to God
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  Speaker 2: about what may be separating you from him? Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that God is really quick to listen to us. He's
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  Speaker 2: quick to give us what we need, He's quick to
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  Speaker 2: relate to us. Except oh, wait a minute, there are
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  Speaker 2: some of us who have iniquities. Our iniquities have separated
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  Speaker 2: between us and our God that he will not hear.
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  Speaker 2: And so if God is not hearing you, then is
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  Speaker 2: there something that you've not come clean with him about.
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  Speaker 2: We've not yet confessed your sin, so he can be
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  Speaker 2: faithful and just to forgive you of your sin and
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  Speaker 2: to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. This is something for
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  Speaker 2: you to reflect upon, not for me. It was for me, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but not in your behalf. Like you have to do
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  Speaker 2: it for you, I have to do it for me.
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  Speaker 2: And so from the Bible Book of Joshua, chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: this is what was happening, verse five. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: sanctify yourselves four Tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And so this is as they're going to go over
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  Speaker 2: the Jordan River. Now we're going to take some steps
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  Speaker 2: back in history and realize. Oh and let me just
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  Speaker 2: say the lesson is God's presence requires preparation, take time
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  Speaker 2: and vest time before worship, before prayer, any major decisions.
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  Speaker 2: To consecrate yourself, confess, surrender, and invite God to lead
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  Speaker 2: you and then follow him. Okay. And so our second
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  Speaker 2: lesson goes back in time. From the Book of Numbers,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen and verse forty two, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: go not up, for the Lord is not among you,
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  Speaker 2: that ye be not smitten before your enemies. See, the
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  Speaker 2: people of God in the time of Moses were about
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  Speaker 2: to overcorrect. We're going to talk about that in a second.
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  Speaker 2: But but God is saying, don't overcorrect. When it's time
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  Speaker 2: to repent. It's time to also pause. Okay, so don't
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  Speaker 2: go up and be smitten by your enemies. We'll come
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  Speaker 2: back to that in a second. Never run ahead of
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  Speaker 2: God's timing. Align your actions with His presence and word
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  Speaker 2: before moving forward. Okay, So, like I said, I'll come
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  Speaker 2: right back to that in a second. Let's get our
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  Speaker 2: third lesson and then circle back. And this one is
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  Speaker 2: back in the Book of josh and again from verse
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  Speaker 2: five Joshua three, let me read it again. Sanctify yourselves
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  Speaker 2: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you. God
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  Speaker 2: is promising something super special. And from the book Christ's
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  Speaker 2: object Lessons, page three, p. Sixty three, we read when
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  Speaker 2: we give ourselves entirely or wholely to God and in
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  Speaker 2: our work follow his directions, he makes himself responsible. Let
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  Speaker 2: me just pause. Right there, are you hearing this? When
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  Speaker 2: we surrender ourselves to God. He makes himself responsible for
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is that we need to accomplish. God makes
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  Speaker 2: himself responsible for your name's sake. God, do this please.
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  Speaker 2: I'm laying on you, asking you and begging you for mercy.
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  Speaker 2: For your name's sake, God, I ask you to do
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  Speaker 2: this thing please and thanks? Will you do this special
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  Speaker 2: thing for me? God? I trust you. I trust you,
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  Speaker 2: And he makes himself responsible. Okay, And so God prepares
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  Speaker 2: his people before he gives us miracles. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: say that he prepares his people before the miracles. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let's go back to the Numbers text. So the people
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  Speaker 2: of God had rebelled against God after hearing the SPI's
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  Speaker 2: negative report, as recorded in Numbers chapter thirteen. They refused
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  Speaker 2: to enter the promised land, even though Joshua and Caleb said,
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  Speaker 2: God has given us this land. He's promised that this
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  Speaker 2: is the way it was going to be. But the
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  Speaker 2: people of God who are above age twenty, above age twenty,
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  Speaker 2: they refused to enter when God told them to move forward,
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  Speaker 2: and as a result, God declared that this unbelieving generation
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  Speaker 2: would not enter into the promise and they would wander
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  Speaker 2: for forty long years until they died till they all died.
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  Speaker 2: That generation that was above age twenty that came out
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  Speaker 2: of Egypt, all of them died except for Joshua and
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  Speaker 2: Caleb because of some style of unbelief. Now, after hearing
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  Speaker 2: God's judgment, though, some people decided like, wait, whit whoa
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  Speaker 2: whoa whoa whoa whoa wha whoah. I don't like that.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, wait a minute, no God, Okay, okay, okaykay,
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  Speaker 2: remember when you were young, Like do you see children
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  Speaker 2: today when they hear what the outcome is the judgment
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  Speaker 2: is going to be. Then all of a sudden, now
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  Speaker 2: they or we want to correct or amend our ways.
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  Speaker 2: But we are now running out ahead of the process,
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  Speaker 2: like hold on, God has to go. We got to
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  Speaker 2: go through this process with God first. You don't just
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  Speaker 2: run out there by yourself and so and so. After
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  Speaker 2: hearing God's judgment, some of the people decided to change
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  Speaker 2: course and go up to fight the Canaanites. Anyway, but
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  Speaker 2: here is the caveat without the presence of God, and
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, do not do that, despite the fact
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  Speaker 2: that through Moses God God, God warned them not to
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  Speaker 2: do that. No, no, no, no, no, submit to this process.
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  Speaker 2: Don't run out ahead of this thing and try to
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  Speaker 2: figure it out and fix it yourself. They presumed to
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  Speaker 2: go out in their own strength, as according to Numbers,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen and verse forty four, and the result was disastrous.
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  Speaker 2: The Amalekites and the Canaanites made a mess of the
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  Speaker 2: people of God who are acting presumptuously. So in short,
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  Speaker 2: the Numbers passage highlights God's people's disobedience and presumption trying
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  Speaker 2: to move forward without the presence of God. And in
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  Speaker 2: Joshua three we see that we surrender ourselves to God. First,
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  Speaker 2: let him lead us, and then we'll have victory.
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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,