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09 22 2025 Offerings and the Spirit · 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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: September twenty two, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series for this final week through
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: Offerings and the Spirit, who the This is gonna be
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  Speaker 2: good offerings and the Spirit. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for giving us the Spirit of
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  Speaker 2: Christ as our model. Please help us to receive the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, so that we can live
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  Speaker 2: that model in real time. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Oh my, I remember many years ago,
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  Speaker 2: many many many years ago, when somebody wanted something from
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  Speaker 2: me that I wasn't willing to give because there are
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  Speaker 2: some things that must not leave my possession, you understand.
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  Speaker 2: So it doesn't matter what it is. It's just the
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  Speaker 2: principle I want to share today. And someone came and said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to have that thing that's in your possession.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, nah, I don't give that out because
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  Speaker 2: I needed to stay with me at all times, okay,
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  Speaker 2: And the person said, look how I did X for you?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I didn't request whatever X was. Look
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  Speaker 2: how I did X for you, And you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to give me that to borrow to use whatever. And
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  Speaker 2: I went and got X and put that thing into
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  Speaker 2: the person's hand and said I don't need your X. Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Point in this case it sounds almost retributive. But what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying to you is the reason why I did
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  Speaker 2: not want the thing from the person was because now
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  Speaker 2: it seems transactional. I didn't even request the thing from
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  Speaker 2: the person and they gave it, saying now you owe me. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if we had a contract or something like that, then
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  Speaker 2: that would be perfectly fine. But I never made such
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  Speaker 2: an agreement. You see where I'm coming from. And so
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  Speaker 2: there are times that people have transactional relationships with God,
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  Speaker 2: even if the example I gave you was a poor one.
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  Speaker 2: I think you get the point. Yeah, sometimes people live
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  Speaker 2: transactionally with God. If I do this, God owes me that.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like no, no, no, no, no, it has
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  Speaker 2: never been that way. It has never been that way.
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  Speaker 2: And so we begin with that thought from Exodus, chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirty five, in verse five, it reads, take ye from
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  Speaker 2: among you offering. This is what God is telling to Moses.
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  Speaker 2: Unto the Lord who's soever is of a willing heart,
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  Speaker 2: let him bring it an offering of the Lord gold
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  Speaker 2: and silver and brass. Yeah. So compelling people to give.
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  Speaker 2: That is not biblical. Inviting people to give and showing
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  Speaker 2: them how God has blessed them, and this is what
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  Speaker 2: he says about it. That's a different thing. But God
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  Speaker 2: is saying in this instance that he values offerings given
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  Speaker 2: only voluntarily and not under compulsion, not under coercion, not
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  Speaker 2: under duress. The people of God gave freely out of
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  Speaker 2: gratitude for his deliverance. And then it got to the
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  Speaker 2: point that the people of God had given so much,
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  Speaker 2: they had sown so much into the ministry of building
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  Speaker 2: the Tabernacle, that God went back to Moses and said, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: tell him to stop. Tell him to stop. It's too much.
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  Speaker 2: We got enough. Just tell him to stop. Wouldn't it
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  Speaker 2: be wonderful if, in twenty twenty five and beyond, if
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  Speaker 2: the Lord delays his coming, that God's people would be
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  Speaker 2: so freely giving and generous in their relationships with people
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  Speaker 2: into the ministry and call of God, that he said,
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  Speaker 2: it's enough, you can just stop here, we have enough.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be wonderful that the poor that we have
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  Speaker 2: among us, that they would no longer be a test
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  Speaker 2: for us, but it will be a testimony that now
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  Speaker 2: We've resolved this issue among God's people, wouldn't it be wonderful?
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  Speaker 2: But God has given us the privilege of giving freely,
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  Speaker 2: not coerce, not under compulsion, not under due rest, not
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  Speaker 2: from some guilty plea or guilt writing plea. Give from
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  Speaker 2: a thankful heart, brothers and sisters, and not out of obligation,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that generosity reflects trust in God's provision. Yeah, my
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  Speaker 2: son said the other day. I don't remember if I
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  Speaker 2: told you this, but my son said the other day
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  Speaker 2: when we were discussing money. I've been teaching him about
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  Speaker 2: money in a way that maybe is different than other people.
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  Speaker 2: But I remember him saying when we were we were
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about what he owed me based on
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  Speaker 2: an experience, based on something that we shared about school, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And now he gets some money, and he said, and
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  Speaker 2: I asked him, like, how do you want to how
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  Speaker 2: do you want to settle this score with me? Like
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  Speaker 2: how you want to deal with that? And he was like,
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  Speaker 2: take it all, deal with it this way? And I
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  Speaker 2: said all of it right now. He was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: take it all. And I said okay. He said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you can get more. We can always get more. We
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  Speaker 2: can always get more. You see, the young man already
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  Speaker 2: understands that God is the God of abundance. So how
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  Speaker 2: can we be stingy? How can we hold on to
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  Speaker 2: how can we have our our grasp closed? When it
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  Speaker 2: comes to returning to God? What is his He's the
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  Speaker 2: one that gives us the power to get well, That's
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  Speaker 2: what the Bible says in Deuteronomy chapter eighteen. So if
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  Speaker 2: that is the case, then generosity should be the only
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  Speaker 2: outcome from the people of God, full stop. And so
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  Speaker 2: from genis from Exodus chapter thirty five and verse thirty one,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, and he filled him with the Spirit
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  Speaker 2: of God in wisdom and in understanding, and in knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: and in all manner of workmanship. Now we see that
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  Speaker 2: God used some human beings to build the sanctuary, and
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  Speaker 2: he's speaking of a certain set of people. And he
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  Speaker 2: did this more than once, by the way, and in
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  Speaker 2: this case the brother that he gave power and wisdom to.
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  Speaker 2: It was to give that work to the work of God.
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  Speaker 2: You see. So when he filled those people with the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost and with skill, and with understanding and knowledge
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  Speaker 2: of all kinds of work, it was for the work
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  Speaker 2: of God. It was for the glory of God, I
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  Speaker 2: think you know where we're going here. So the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost empowers God's people with skills and creativity. What are
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  Speaker 2: you doing with yours? What are you doing with your
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  Speaker 2: skills and creativity? Are you using it for the glory
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  Speaker 2: of God hmm and excellence for the building of His kingdom?
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  Speaker 2: No matter what else you do out there in the workforce,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what you do as a professional, whatever you
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  Speaker 2: do as a business owner, whether it's s corpse corporate
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  Speaker 2: in your countries, whatever it means. Are you a big
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  Speaker 2: corporate structure, are your small business? Are you just a freelancer?
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  Speaker 2: Whatever it is, I said, just a freelancer, like not
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  Speaker 2: a fortune five hundred company. That's what I mean by that.
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  Speaker 2: If that is your reality, whichever of those categories that
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  Speaker 2: devolve upon you, it is for the Kingdom of God.
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  Speaker 2: If you are unemployed, under employed, overemployed, whatever the reality is,
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  Speaker 2: the power that God has given you through His spirit
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  Speaker 2: and skill and understanding and workmanship craftsmanship is for the
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  Speaker 2: glory of God and the Kingdom of God. And then, finally,
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  Speaker 2: in verse seven of Exodus, chapter thirty six, for the
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  Speaker 2: stuff they had was sufficient, I said that to you
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  Speaker 2: earlier they had given to the point that it was
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  Speaker 2: sufficient and for all the work to make it and
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  Speaker 2: too much. I love to see this over abundance. I
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  Speaker 2: love to see where God's people give so much into
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  Speaker 2: his work that there is an overflow. So we ask
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  Speaker 2: God today that he will give us the kind of
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  Speaker 2: heart that is the spirit of giving, and we will
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  Speaker 2: have even generosity wars among ourselves, so that we know
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  Speaker 2: that God can't be outgiven, no.
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  Speaker 3: Matter how were joining us in true friends peace always
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  Speaker 3: remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
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  Speaker 3: word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  Speaker 3: been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it
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  Speaker 3: a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah,