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12 15 2024 What Is Truth · 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, December fifteen,
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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 themes in the Gospel of John, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. Please join our online community. Make sure you
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  Speaker 2: get that Companion guide, the Life Application Guide. It is
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  Speaker 2: still useful even though we're coming to a close in
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  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series. And yeah, let's go ahead and pray.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about what is truth? What is truth?
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for this Sunday morning, for
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  Speaker 2: the new day that you have entrusted to us, and
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  Speaker 2: the new week for working, working, working, working for the
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  Speaker 2: night comes when no one can work. So Father, please
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  Speaker 2: help us to connect with you and to live truth,
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  Speaker 2: not just talk about it, not just be able to
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  Speaker 2: identify it, but to live the truth in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and a man again, what is truth?
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm going to read from John chapter eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: I am still like if you look into you look
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  Speaker 2: into our Companion Guide, like I said at your Daily
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  Speaker 2: dot Com, I am still like, really kind of in
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  Speaker 2: my mind about Pilot, like Pilot did not own his responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: When he had the privilege to do the right thing,
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  Speaker 2: he didn't. And I want you to see in the
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  Speaker 2: Companion Guide the impact that that can have on our
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  Speaker 2: personal lives, our spiritual lives, relationship lives, and of course
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  Speaker 2: in our professions. So let me just read from the
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  Speaker 2: Bible here in John chapter eighteen, beginning of verse thirty three,
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  Speaker 2: Then Pilot entered into the judgment hall again and called
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  Speaker 2: Jesus and said unto him, art thou the king of
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  Speaker 2: the Jews. Jesus answered him, saying, thou hast saying thou wait,
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  Speaker 2: sayest thou this thyself? Or did others tell you this
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  Speaker 2: of me? Pilot answered, am I a Jew thine own nation?
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  Speaker 2: And the chief priests have delivered thee unto me? And
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  Speaker 2: what hast thou done? Jesus answered, My kingdom is not
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  Speaker 2: of this world. If my kingdom were of this world,
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  Speaker 2: then would my servants fight that I should not be
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  Speaker 2: delivered to these your God's people. But now is my
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  Speaker 2: kingdom not from this world. Pilot therefore said to him,
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  Speaker 2: art thou the king. Then Jesus answered, thou sayest I'm
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  Speaker 2: a king? To this end was I born? And for
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  Speaker 2: this cause came I into the world, that I should
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  Speaker 2: bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the
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  Speaker 2: truth heareth my voice. Pilots said, unto him, well, what
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  Speaker 2: is truth? And when he said this, he went out
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  Speaker 2: again to the people of God and said, unto them,
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  Speaker 2: I find in him no fault at all. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: this is a whole big mess. Can I just say that?
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  Speaker 2: Like so now Jesus is had having this one on
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  Speaker 2: one discussion with Pilot in one of these mock trials, right,
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  Speaker 2: and Pilot is trying to get himself out of a mess,
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  Speaker 2: but at the same time trying to say and do
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  Speaker 2: the right thing, and he gets confused because he really
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  Speaker 2: didn't stand ten toes down and do the right thing.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time to deal with this.
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  Speaker 2: But this question about Jesus, is he a king? Is
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  Speaker 2: he a king? You see the people of God while
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  Speaker 2: they were messing up, Can I say that that's understating it.
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  Speaker 2: While they were messing up and missing the truth because
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  Speaker 2: they decided not to connect with God in the deepest way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the ones that are bringing Jesus here
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  Speaker 2: and carting him, the ones to whom Judas betrayed Jesus
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  Speaker 2: and carting him from mock trial to mock trial. Now
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  Speaker 2: he's here and Pilot is listening to what those people
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  Speaker 2: are saying because they are trying to get the state
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  Speaker 2: or the government to be against Jesus. Well, how do
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  Speaker 2: you do that will make it seem like he's an insurrectionist,
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  Speaker 2: Make it seem as if Jesus is trying to take
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  Speaker 2: over the world through the government, like he's setting himself
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  Speaker 2: up as a king right And so now Pilot is
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  Speaker 2: having this philosophical discussion. But after all is said and done,
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  Speaker 2: he says, I find no fault in him. But in
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  Speaker 2: the meantime, he's like, well, what is truth? And that
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  Speaker 2: is the question that we need to answer. That's the
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  Speaker 2: one with which we must contend. What is the truth?
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, I use English and sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: use broken English, sometimes I use slang, and I stop
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  Speaker 2: and pause in the middle of sentences and don't complete
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  Speaker 2: my thought. I need you to be very clear this time, however,
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  Speaker 2: that I said, what is the truth? The truth, definite article,
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  Speaker 2: the truth, not your truth, my truth, not a truth,
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  Speaker 2: not truth in a vacuum, the truth, the truth. And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible does teach us, like Jesus was very
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  Speaker 2: very clear about what truth is, and we need to
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  Speaker 2: be seeking God's face through his word the truth. When
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was praying, he was praying to his father what
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  Speaker 2: we call the high priestly prayer, the mediatorial prayer. I
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  Speaker 2: referenced a little while back. He said, sanctify them, meaning
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  Speaker 2: God's people, his disciples, in the case of the ones
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  Speaker 2: right in front of him and all who would believe,
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  Speaker 2: sanctify them through thy truth. He's praying to God, our father,
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  Speaker 2: through thy truth. Well, what is truth, Jesus? Thy word
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  Speaker 2: is truth. God's word is truth. Do you live, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, as if God's word is truth in your life?
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  Speaker 2: What I'm saying is, when you open the Bible and
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  Speaker 2: then you read what God has to say, does your
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  Speaker 2: life look like what God has to say? I have
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  Speaker 2: to ask myself the same question, and so seeking truth
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  Speaker 2: in God's word is key to answering and living. The
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  Speaker 2: question that Pilot answered now number two comes from verse fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: I have given them thy word. Jesus is speaking some
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  Speaker 2: more in John seventeen to his father. I have given
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  Speaker 2: them thy word, and the world hath hated them because
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  Speaker 2: they are not of the world, even as I am
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  Speaker 2: not of the world. And so yeah, we have to
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  Speaker 2: embrace Jesus's example of truth, just as he was in
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  Speaker 2: front of Pilot. And Pilot is asking these philosophical questions
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  Speaker 2: that do kind of creep into the realm of spirituality,
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  Speaker 2: and he is not willing to receive and accept the
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  Speaker 2: truth even though his mind and conscience are pricked. His
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  Speaker 2: wife gave him mourning. He in this moment said, I
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  Speaker 2: find no fault in him and so and so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but now we need to actually actively deliberately live out
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  Speaker 2: the truth of God's words. So we ask ourselves when
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  Speaker 2: we look into the scriptures, thy word is truth? Does
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  Speaker 2: my life look like thy word? And then if the
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  Speaker 2: answer is yes, and praise the Lord, we live more
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  Speaker 2: like that. But if not in those key areas that
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  Speaker 2: we're not living the truth living them out in our actions,
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  Speaker 2: then we say, God, I noticed that there is a
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  Speaker 2: disconnect here. I'm seeing because you gave me the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost to see in my moment of despair, like I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at the Bible and my life is different than
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  Speaker 2: what the Bible teaches. Can you please teach me how
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  Speaker 2: to live your truth, the truth God? And then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we want to follow, We want to follow the truth. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned the word of God, the Bible. But let's
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  Speaker 2: go back to John chapter fourteen and verse six. Some
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  Speaker 2: of you were waiting for me to say this, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, unto them, I am the Way, the Truth,
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  Speaker 2: and the life. No one comes to the Father except
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  Speaker 2: by me. And so Jesus is showing his people the pathway,
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  Speaker 2: or anybody really the pathway into a right relationship with God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father. And he's saying, I am the pathway, I
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  Speaker 2: am the truth. I'm the one that is the manifestation
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  Speaker 2: of all that the scriptures teach, and more, I manifest
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  Speaker 2: the full character of all that God represents. And I
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  Speaker 2: am giving you an opportunity to follow me. Follow the
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  Speaker 2: way into the paths of righteousness, follow the way to
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  Speaker 2: be victorious in all key areas of our life, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will know the truth. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,