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09 19 2024 Laid to Rest · 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, September nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. 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 through the Bible Book of Mark, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Laid to Rest, Laid to Rest.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just the 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 please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion book,
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  Speaker 2: and let us know where you are in the world.
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  Speaker 2: At your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then get under weigh. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day and for getting us
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  Speaker 2: just one more step closer to Sabbath, one more step
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  Speaker 2: closer to the coming of the Son of Man. Father.
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  Speaker 2: I just pray that you will find lodgment in our hearts,
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  Speaker 2: that you will be welcomed in our lives. That we
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  Speaker 2: will learn today to appreciate all that you have done
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  Speaker 2: for us, even if we don't understand all of it.
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  Speaker 2: I just pray now, God, that you will make us holy.
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  Speaker 2: That's really what I'm after, Father, holiness and transformation in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again laid to rent.
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  Speaker 2: I think about that song and I want you to
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  Speaker 2: look it up and maybe listen to it as well.
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  Speaker 2: Were you there when they crucified my Lord? And the
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  Speaker 2: writer of that song said, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.
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  Speaker 2: Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you
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  Speaker 2: there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you
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  Speaker 2: there when they nailed him to the tree? Sometimes sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it causes me to tremble tremble, tremble. Were you there
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  Speaker 2: when they crucified my Lord? You see, it's easy to
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  Speaker 2: look at these stories as some historic event. It's easy
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  Speaker 2: for us to look for some cues and markers for
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  Speaker 2: understanding an intellectual discussion. Sometimes, those of you who are
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  Speaker 2: God's people, sometimes you can get caught up. We can
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  Speaker 2: get caught up into the details and miss the worship opportunities, opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we can get caught up in the details and
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  Speaker 2: miss the close encounters that God has orchestrated in the
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  Speaker 2: stories for us to see how much He loves us,
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  Speaker 2: to experience Him in a new and a real way.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we get to the point where we can become
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  Speaker 2: so intellectually stimulated that we miss the opportunity to truly
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  Speaker 2: connect with God. And so I'm asking you, I'm asking me,
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  Speaker 2: were you there when they crucified my Lord? Lord? Help us? Lord,
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  Speaker 2: help us. The Bible says that if we don't yield
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  Speaker 2: ourselves to God, if we knowing good and well how
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  Speaker 2: we should live, we turn away from God in anything,
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  Speaker 2: then we are crucifying unto ourselves Jesus Christ afresh and
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  Speaker 2: putting him to an open shame. This is what the
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  Speaker 2: Bible writer said, were you there? Was I there? So
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  Speaker 2: we continue the discussion from the Bible, Book of Mark,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifteen, beginning at verse forty two, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and now when even was come, because it was the preparation,
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  Speaker 2: that is, the day before the Sabbath. So tomorrow for
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  Speaker 2: us will be the preparation, the day before the Sabbaths.
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  Speaker 2: We call it Friday. In this part of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Joseph of Arimathea an honorable counselor. See, this man was honorable,
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  Speaker 2: which also waited for the Kingdom of God. You see,
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  Speaker 2: he was looking for the Kingdom of God. He wasn't
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  Speaker 2: looking for Jesus to overthrow the government. He wasn't looking
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  Speaker 2: for an opportunity to just be close to Jesus and
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  Speaker 2: take selfies with Jesus and say that Jesus is his friend,
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  Speaker 2: so that people in social media can say, oh, my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: you know Jesus. And then he walk away. The say no,
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  Speaker 2: this dude was honorable, and he was waiting for the
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom of God. He was not satisfied with the kingdom
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  Speaker 2: of this world, even though he was of means, And
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, the Bible continues and he came and
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  Speaker 2: went in boldly unto Pilot, so we know that this
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  Speaker 2: dude had influence, and craved the body of Jesus, and
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  Speaker 2: Pilot marveled if he were already dead, and calling unto
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  Speaker 2: him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been
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  Speaker 2: any while dead, because it's like, what, how is he dead?
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  Speaker 2: So quickly? I wish I had the time to deal
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  Speaker 2: with the prophecies that said that they would not be
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  Speaker 2: breaking Jesus's bones. He was already dead. Breaking the bones
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  Speaker 2: of a person on the cross was to speed up
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  Speaker 2: the death because the pain was so agonizing and so
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  Speaker 2: many things were going wrong in the body systems at
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  Speaker 2: this point, at a certain point of crucifixion, that they
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  Speaker 2: would just end it. But Jesus was already dead because
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  Speaker 2: he gave his life willingly Verse forty five. And when
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  Speaker 2: he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body
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  Speaker 2: to Joseph, and he brought fine linen, took him down,
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  Speaker 2: wrapped him. See this man, Joseph was honorable, wrapped him
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  Speaker 2: in the linen, and laid him in the sepulcher, which
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  Speaker 2: was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone
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  Speaker 2: onto onto the door of the sepulcher Mary Magdalene and
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  Speaker 2: the mother of Joseph's beheld where he was laid. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: I want to say more about that, but I think
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  Speaker 2: I should just pause because we'll get more into the
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  Speaker 2: story in the coming days. But let me just say this,
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  Speaker 2: When you have influence, do you honor God with your influence?
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  Speaker 2: I need to ask myself that because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people watch me on a daily basis, I'm also aligned.
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  Speaker 2: I'm aligned with with with with powerful people in my
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  Speaker 2: in my work. And I'm asking myself, as you should
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  Speaker 2: be asking yourself when you have any influence at all, Really,
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  Speaker 2: does it have to be as as vast as Joseph
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  Speaker 2: of Arimathea, or could it be influence over the two
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  Speaker 2: or three people that you encounter on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever the influence is, but certainly, if you have massive influence,
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  Speaker 2: are you willing to go on the line? Are you
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  Speaker 2: willing to be accounted with God? Yes? Are you aligned
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  Speaker 2: with God to the degree that you use that influence
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  Speaker 2: to glorify him? This is something with which we need
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  Speaker 2: to contend. I'm around successful people on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 2: This is something with which we need to contend and
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  Speaker 2: so Joseph of course showed who he was with, and
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  Speaker 2: I thank God, I thank God that we get to
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  Speaker 2: see this story. And the lesson writer says, after all
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  Speaker 2: that drama, the more mundane quote things happen next. For starters,
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  Speaker 2: dead people always have to be buried. But several factors
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  Speaker 2: in what follows are quite touching spiritually, spiritually, and others
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  Speaker 2: are extremely important historically. In this passage, Joseph of Arimathea
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  Speaker 2: appears for the first and last time in the Gospel
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  Speaker 2: of Mark, and he was a respected member of the Sanhedrin.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know, whoe huh? One of God's people, right,
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  Speaker 2: one of the so called urban elites. As a wealthy
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  Speaker 2: and respected man, he had standing with the governor, which
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  Speaker 2: explains how he could dare approach Pilot and ask for
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  Speaker 2: the body of Jesus. It was a touching detail that
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  Speaker 2: the member of the council took such interest in Jesus's burial. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: where were Jesus's trusted disciples in all of this? One
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  Speaker 2: historical detail of extreme importance here is the verification of
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  Speaker 2: the death of Jesus m This tells us of the
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  Speaker 2: death of Joseph's request for the body of Jesus, but
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  Speaker 2: Pilot was surprised to hear that he was already dead.
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  Speaker 2: He therefore summoned the centurion in charge of the crucifixion
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  Speaker 2: and acts if Jesus was already dead, and of course
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  Speaker 2: the guy he confirmed it. The reason is that it
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  Speaker 2: is because of the later claim by some that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: did not die on the cross but only fainted. The
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  Speaker 2: testimony of the centurion to the Roman government directly counters
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  Speaker 2: that assertion. The Romans did, after all, know how to
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  Speaker 2: execute criminals, and so Joseph brought a linen shroud and
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  Speaker 2: raped Jesus, I will say, honorably, and laid his body
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  Speaker 2: in the tune hewn from a rock. And the Bible continues,
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  Speaker 2: See Jesus gave his life for us. He was laid
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  Speaker 2: to rest. But are you using your influence for good
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  Speaker 2: while you rest?
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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,