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08 24 2024 Jerusalem Controversies · 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's Sabbath, August twenty four,
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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 Book of Mark, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Jerusalem Controversies. Jerusalem Controversies. Before before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to say welcome to you
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  Speaker 2: and ask you to please go over to your Daily
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  Speaker 2: you are in the world. At your Daily Portion dot Com.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that you have entrusted to us to open up your word.
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  Speaker 2: And I say this every day because every day it's
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  Speaker 2: a new mercy. Great is thy faithfulness. Father, Please help
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  Speaker 2: us not to just see sort of an intellectual or
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  Speaker 2: academic argument or discussion here, but help us to be
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  Speaker 2: transformed by the renewing of our minds today. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and a men Again.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say a great, big, happy Sabbath
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  Speaker 2: to anyone who's first time worshiping and experiencing God in
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  Speaker 2: this way on the sabbath. It's your first time, it's
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  Speaker 2: your first time with the people of God on a sabbath.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say a great, big welcome and
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  Speaker 2: happy Sabbath to you, especially all right, so so much
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  Speaker 2: going on in the life of Christ and the people
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  Speaker 2: who hated him, and these people just had a habit
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  Speaker 2: of making up stuff to argue about. And I've said
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  Speaker 2: this to you before, right, and so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: begin with a passage of scripture that will likely look
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  Speaker 2: at again in a couple of days. But here it
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  Speaker 2: reads in Mark, chapter eleven and verse twenty five. And
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  Speaker 2: whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone,
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  Speaker 2: forgive him that your father in heaven may also forgive
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  Speaker 2: your trespasses. Now, for those of you who have been
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  Speaker 2: with me for years, you may have heard me tell
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  Speaker 2: this story over and over again, but it bears repeating.
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  Speaker 2: When I first became a believer, now, I grew up
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  Speaker 2: going to church, and then after I went away to
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  Speaker 2: school at age fifteen, I never went back home. I
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  Speaker 2: never lived at home again. So from age fifteen straight
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  Speaker 2: through I'm with me right, I would visit home, but
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  Speaker 2: I never lived at home again. And so like that
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  Speaker 2: whole covering of okay, mommy says, go to church, that's gone.
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  Speaker 2: And so I never was a believer anyway, And so
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  Speaker 2: without Mommy being that covering, then now I don't even
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  Speaker 2: go to church much less the fact that I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a believer anyway. You see where this is going, and
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  Speaker 2: so it's the wrong path. I'm down the wrong path.
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  Speaker 2: But now I'm about twenty three years of age, and
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  Speaker 2: I get baptized, and immediately God is transforming my life
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  Speaker 2: and I'm actually a believer, like an actual believer. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember reading what we call the Lord's Prayer. I
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  Speaker 2: wish I had the time to deal with that one,
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  Speaker 2: but I remember it. And when Jesus said, and forgive
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  Speaker 2: us our debts as we forgive our debtors, I intentionally
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  Speaker 2: and actively skipped over that. I read it and said, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not praying this God, because there's there's somebody that
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  Speaker 2: I just really I'm not too much interested in forgiving.
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I don't, so I don't want you to
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  Speaker 2: forgive me like that because I know that that would
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  Speaker 2: be bad. So I'm going to skip over that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I was a babe in Christ, so give
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  Speaker 2: me cut me a little slack here. I'm a babe
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  Speaker 2: in Christ. I thought that's what it was. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: if I just don't ask for that, then I won't
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  Speaker 2: get that I wanted. I wanted like the forgiveness that
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  Speaker 2: I don't deserve. But I didn't want to give my
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  Speaker 2: father in this case. I didn't want to forgive him.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to forgive him. And so yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: now I know that's not how it works. Jesus is saying,
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  Speaker 2: this is the way that I forgive you in the
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  Speaker 2: same way that you forgive. That's how I forgive you.
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  Speaker 2: You can skip over it all you want, but this
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  Speaker 2: is how it works. And now I know you know
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  Speaker 2: that that makes all the difference in the world. And
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  Speaker 2: so what we need to do is bring this into
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  Speaker 2: our practical lives. I just told you some personal stuff
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  Speaker 2: like way back then, I was struggling with and trying
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  Speaker 2: to outsmart the reality of scripture. And now let me
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  Speaker 2: read it again in that context. And whenever you stand praying,
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  Speaker 2: since you're praying, you're praying people. If you have anything
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  Speaker 2: against anyone, forgive that person. So if you're praying Lord,
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  Speaker 2: please I need some rent money. And you remember that
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  Speaker 2: you have anything against anyone, forgive the person. And when
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  Speaker 2: you stand praying, Lord, please protect me as I go
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  Speaker 2: out on the roads and the highways and the byways.
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  Speaker 2: If you have anything against anyone, forgive him. Oh wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, and you're praying God, I'm having this pain
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  Speaker 2: that I don't know what it is, and I need
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  Speaker 2: your help. Can you help me send me to the
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  Speaker 2: right way of dealing with this Doctor naturopathic person, somebody
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  Speaker 2: in some other science that can help me to the
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  Speaker 2: right pastor preacher, or sister or brother in the church
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  Speaker 2: that can anoint me. Father, can you help me? If
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  Speaker 2: you remember that you have anything against anyone, forgive him.
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  Speaker 2: You have a problem with your husband, Ladies, you have
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  Speaker 2: a problem with your with your with your wife. Gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: your children seem to be driving you crazy, and you've
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  Speaker 2: not forgiven them because they seem not to be following
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  Speaker 2: your guidelines, and now you're upset and you and you
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  Speaker 2: are still holding it against Oh, if you have anything
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  Speaker 2: against anyone, forgive that person one that owes you money,
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  Speaker 2: the one that's always coming up with excuses. I think
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  Speaker 2: we're touching a chord here. Yeah, the person who who
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  Speaker 2: abused you when you were a child. I have stories
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  Speaker 2: I was abused when I was a child, and unmentionable,
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  Speaker 2: unspeakable ways, and not just by one person. If that's
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  Speaker 2: not bad enough. So I'm telling you my business. If
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  Speaker 2: you have anything against anyone, forgive that person that your
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  Speaker 2: father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. This
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  Speaker 2: is how it works. So many things to talk about
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  Speaker 2: over the next several days, but let's just touch a few.
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  Speaker 2: I think that one struck the court. I think you
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  Speaker 2: understand now it's clear in your mind. And so number one.
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  Speaker 2: As we think about what we'll be discussing throughout the
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  Speaker 2: next several days, I want to challenge prejudices with compassion
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  Speaker 2: and truth. In the Book of Mark, chapter two, verse seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, when Jesus heard it, he saith unto
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  Speaker 2: them that they that are whole have no need of
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  Speaker 2: a physician, but they that are sick. I came not
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  Speaker 2: to call the righteous, but sinners to repentant. You see,
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  Speaker 2: religious bigots, people who were prejudiced among the so called
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  Speaker 2: people of God could not figure out why Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: so interested in being around the modern day gunman, Like
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  Speaker 2: why was Jesus so interested in being around the modern
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  Speaker 2: day street walkers? Like why would Jesus be so interested
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  Speaker 2: in being around with drug addicts and drug dealers? Like
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  Speaker 2: why would he be around gangsters? Well, because those who
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  Speaker 2: are sick need the physician. So hanging out with people
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  Speaker 2: inside church all the time, having meetings all the time
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  Speaker 2: about the work that we need to do when there's
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  Speaker 2: work out there to actually do. Jesus was like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not about that life, so change of prejudices, like the
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  Speaker 2: people who are not like your chorra. Friends, like think
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  Speaker 2: about the number of people that are out there that
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  Speaker 2: need the truth that you have in your bosom, and
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  Speaker 2: ask God to teach you to be in the presence
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  Speaker 2: of people who need God the most so that we
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  Speaker 2: can help and call them to repentance. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: say one or two more, one or two more, probably
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  Speaker 2: one good one more. Let's read in Mark chapter three
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  Speaker 2: and verse five. And when he had looked around about
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  Speaker 2: them with anger, being greed for the hardness of their hearts,
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  Speaker 2: he said, unto the child, stretch out thine hand. And
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  Speaker 2: he stretched it out, and he was restored whole as
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  Speaker 2: the other, whole, as the other. Spiritual blindness will cause
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  Speaker 2: us to set up all kinds of walls and boundaries
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  Speaker 2: about who deserves to have God and who deserves to
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  Speaker 2: be healed by God, all kinds of controversies. But we're
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  Speaker 2: going to resolve them over the next couple of days. 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,