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08 26 2024 A Cursed Tree and a Cleansed Temple · 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.
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  Speaker 2: 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 Monday, August
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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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 through the Bible Book of Mark, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is a cursed tree and a
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  Speaker 2: cleansed temple. So much to say a cursed tree and
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  Speaker 2: a cleansed temple. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: the way, we will continue to spread the gospel. So
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  Speaker 2: Jesus will come like he's coming in our day, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters. That is the blessed hope. And so we
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  Speaker 2: just ask God to give us the strength to continue
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  Speaker 2: to do his work until Jesus comes. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray and then get underway. Father, Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day, Thank you for all that you have entrusted
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  Speaker 2: to us. Thank you. I just pray that you will
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  Speaker 2: cleanse our hearts, that you will come into our hearts
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  Speaker 2: and lives, and you will cleanse our hearts in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray amen and aamen again. Okay, so I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to set this story up. We're going to just
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  Speaker 2: continue reading in the Book of Mark chapter eleven where
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  Speaker 2: we left off. I was tempted to go into the
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  Speaker 2: story yesterday, but I should not jump the gun. So
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  Speaker 2: let's continue now at verse twelve of Mark chapter eleven,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bible reads and on the morrow, so we
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  Speaker 2: now know the triumphal entry has happened. There's some controversy
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  Speaker 2: related to that, because the one that Jesus raised, Lazarus,
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  Speaker 2: he's leading that procession. It's a long story we didn't
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  Speaker 2: talk about yesterday. But the question for us was really like,
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  Speaker 2: are we willing to let Jesus into our lives? Are
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  Speaker 2: we willing to let him come in as the king
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  Speaker 2: and ascend and sit down on the throne of our lives?
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  Speaker 2: And then we raise him up in our mindset as
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  Speaker 2: king of kings and lord of lords, so that when
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  Speaker 2: he does come back to planet Earth as the one
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  Speaker 2: that we had been looking for to ascend the throne
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  Speaker 2: of David his father in air quotes, will we say,
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  Speaker 2: blessed is he that cometh upon in the name of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. Will we say, lo, this is our God.
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  Speaker 2: We have waited for him and he will save us.
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  Speaker 2: Or will we run and ask the rocks and beg
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  Speaker 2: the rocks to fall on us and hide us from
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  Speaker 2: the face of him that is seated upon the throne.
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  Speaker 2: That is the question. And we need to be discerning
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  Speaker 2: and ask and answer that question in our lives today.
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  Speaker 2: And I hope it was the latter. That you will
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  Speaker 2: welcome Jesus into your life today and everything you say
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  Speaker 2: and do, all of your relationships, your business deal and otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: like I am making a decision as well, and so
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  Speaker 2: on the Morrow, verse twelve, when they were come to Bethany,
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  Speaker 2: he was hungry. Jesus was hungry, and seeing a fig
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  Speaker 2: tree afar off having leaves, he came if happily he
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  Speaker 2: might find anything there on. And he came to it,
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  Speaker 2: and he found nothing but leaves. For the time of
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  Speaker 2: figs was not yet. But let me just say to you,
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  Speaker 2: based on what we will see in a moment, and
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  Speaker 2: so you don't think it was extreme, Jesus saw signs that,
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  Speaker 2: even though it was not time for figs, he saw
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  Speaker 2: signs that this fig tree was supposed to bear figs,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus verse fourteen answered and said, unto it, no
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  Speaker 2: man eat fruit of the hereafter or ever. And his
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  Speaker 2: disciples heard it, and they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus
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  Speaker 2: went into the temple and to began and began to
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  Speaker 2: cast out them that sold and bought in the temple,
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  Speaker 2: and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the
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  Speaker 2: seats of them that's sold doves, and would not suffer
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  Speaker 2: that any man should carry any vessels through the temple.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much to say, Lord, give us strength here,
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  Speaker 2: so much to say. And he taught them saying, is
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  Speaker 2: it not written that my house shall be called a
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  Speaker 2: house of prayer in all nations? But ye have made
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  Speaker 2: it a den of thieves. The scribes and the chief
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  Speaker 2: priest heard it and sought how they might destroy him.
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  Speaker 2: Why were the chief priests trying to destroy Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate high priest, the great high priest that stands
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  Speaker 2: and understands the feelings of our infirmities, like why would
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  Speaker 2: they want to destroy Jesus? Well, for they feared him
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  Speaker 2: because all the people and was astonished about his doctrine.
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  Speaker 2: And when even was come, he went out of the city.
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  Speaker 2: And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the
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  Speaker 2: fig tree, which fig tree, the one that he had cursed,
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  Speaker 2: and dried up from the roots. And Peter, calling to remembrance,
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  Speaker 2: seth unto him, Master, behold the fig tree which thou cursest.
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  Speaker 2: It's withered away. And Jesus answered said, unto them, have
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  Speaker 2: faith in God. Verily, I say unto you that whosoever
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  Speaker 2: shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be
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  Speaker 2: thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in
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  Speaker 2: his heart, but shall believe that those things which he
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  Speaker 2: seeth shall come to pass. He shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: I say unto you, what thingsoever ye desire, when ye pray, believe,
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  Speaker 2: and ye shall receive them, and ye shall have them
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  Speaker 2: almost there, almost there, And when he and when ye
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  Speaker 2: stand praying forgive, if ye have aught against any that
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  Speaker 2: your Father also, which is in heaven, may forgive you
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  Speaker 2: your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will
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  Speaker 2: your Father, which is in Heaven, forgive your trespasses. Let's
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  Speaker 2: do this now partially in reverse. Now Jesus understand the
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  Speaker 2: hearts of the people around him. He came to his
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  Speaker 2: own and his own received him. Not they look like
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  Speaker 2: they were fruit bearers. The people who even led the
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  Speaker 2: people of God looked like they had all of the
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  Speaker 2: fanciful ways of looking like they were fruit bearers. But
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  Speaker 2: really they were his enemies, you know, Jesus said when
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  Speaker 2: he was being crucified, Father, forgive them, for they know
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  Speaker 2: not what they do. Even though, even though, even though
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  Speaker 2: when he saw the lifestyle of the people, think of
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  Speaker 2: the fig tree, he saw the lifestyle of the people
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  Speaker 2: who claimed to be his people, that they were unfruitful.
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  Speaker 2: They were not actually leading people to the kingdom. They
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  Speaker 2: were not actually kind and helpful to those who needed
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  Speaker 2: the lame, the main, the blind, the widows, the orphaned,
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  Speaker 2: a the people who needed God the most. They were
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  Speaker 2: not kind toward them and did not deliver them out
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  Speaker 2: of their sicknesses and infirmities and difficulties. All they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do was stand up and have people to honor them.
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  Speaker 2: All they wanted was church position. All they wanted was
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  Speaker 2: to overthrow the government of Rome. They had no interest
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  Speaker 2: really in the things of God. They just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: look like they had interest. And so Jesus in the
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  Speaker 2: symbol now he did it in reality, but symbolically now
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  Speaker 2: he's showing his disciples that when people look like when
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  Speaker 2: they talk about it, but they're not really about it,
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  Speaker 2: when people are just looking like they are God's children,
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  Speaker 2: at some point the reality will be manifest And if
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  Speaker 2: we don't repent, if God's people don't repent, if people
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  Speaker 2: around the world don't repent, then they will no longer
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  Speaker 2: have the opportunity. And so the question for me today
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  Speaker 2: is when Jesus comes to cleanse my heart talk about
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  Speaker 2: the cleansing of the temple, When Jesus comes to cleanse
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  Speaker 2: my heart? Am I willing to allow him to? When
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  Speaker 2: he comes in and says, listen, I see that you're
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  Speaker 2: not doing things the way that we agreed that I
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  Speaker 2: said that you should. Will you yield your heart to me?
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  Speaker 2: Or will you be mad and try to kill Jesus
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  Speaker 2: out of your life, kill him out of all of
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  Speaker 2: your experiences, kill him out of all of your relationships,
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  Speaker 2: out of your business dealings. You're going to withhold the
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  Speaker 2: tithe and offering that he said bring into the storehouse.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to withhold from him the opportunity to help
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  Speaker 2: you choose a spouse and show you how to relate
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  Speaker 2: to that individual or will Jesus have to turn over
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  Speaker 2: the tables. Well, you have to expose the reality that
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  Speaker 2: really you just want to talk about it. God is
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  Speaker 2: saying that we can actually have a right relationship with
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  Speaker 2: Him and that he can bless our spiritual tree, he
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  Speaker 2: can bless the temple of our lives and say that
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  Speaker 2: you now are among the people who can be like
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  Speaker 2: a house of prayer for all people. You make the
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  Speaker 2: decision today.
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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,