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09 12 2025 The Danger of Idolatry · 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 Friday, September twelve,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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 Exodus, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Danger of idolatry. The danger of idolatry.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that this preparation day morning, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to everyone joining us and just
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  Speaker 2: say a great big thank you. Thank you to all
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  Speaker 2: of the people who listen and watch every single day
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  Speaker 2: and you are sharing You are sharing this with people.
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  Speaker 2: Tens of thousands of you are sharing, and almost a
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  Speaker 2: million people every day have the privilege of experiencing God's
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  Speaker 2: word through this little program that we started many years ago,
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  Speaker 2: before there was a pandemic, before people could see the
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  Speaker 2: value of something like this. God gave the vision and
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  Speaker 2: we've been running this ball for the entire time, Thank God.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just asking you to continue to do that
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  Speaker 2: because Jesus said it, This Gospel of the Kingdom shall
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  Speaker 2: be preached into all the world for a witness. Then
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  Speaker 2: and only then shall the income. Everybody's looking for signs
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  Speaker 2: for things to blow up and burn down, that is
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  Speaker 2: not it. He said that the Gospel of the Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: will be preached. So take up the man to do
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  Speaker 2: your part. I'll do mine by God's grace, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: look forward to the coming of the Lord. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day. Please prepare our hearts
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  Speaker 2: to experience you and to live with you eternally. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if I really need to say what the dangers
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  Speaker 2: of idolatry are, because I think you know that already,
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  Speaker 2: like you know you're in danger of separating yourself God
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  Speaker 2: forbid you, but separating yourself from God forever? Like why
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  Speaker 2: would anybody want to separate ourselves from God forever? Why
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  Speaker 2: would we want to replace God with the little things
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  Speaker 2: that we worship? Humans worship the silliest things. Why would
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  Speaker 2: I worship my own image on the internet? But the
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  Speaker 2: little you know? Every time I turn around, somebody's got
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  Speaker 2: a phone up, Like every minute you're recording every moment
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  Speaker 2: of every day, always with a ring light, like always
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  Speaker 2: what your filters are? Always posing with people, places, and
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  Speaker 2: things constantly all day long. What if we put more
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  Speaker 2: effort into posing with God. I don't mean just posing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about connecting with him, having our arms around
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  Speaker 2: him in a spiritual sense, and saying, yes, I'm with God,
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  Speaker 2: instead of posting every little movement, every little thought. You
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  Speaker 2: see the enemy what he has done. And I use
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  Speaker 2: social media, I get it, like I use YouTube and
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  Speaker 2: other media outlets, traditional media included. I get it like
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  Speaker 2: we we have a message to share, we have content
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  Speaker 2: to put out. We want to add value. But there
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  Speaker 2: comes a point when the enemy is really just taking
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  Speaker 2: all of the thoughts that used to be secrets in
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  Speaker 2: your brain and in mind and causing us, giving us
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  Speaker 2: a facility to just leak it all out with no filter.
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  Speaker 2: So put God first, and let him be the one
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  Speaker 2: to be your God. And not the other stuff. Not
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  Speaker 2: our cars, not our relationships with people, not how we
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  Speaker 2: see ourselves, not our things, not our bank accounts, not
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  Speaker 2: our pursuits. Don't put anything or anyone above God and
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  Speaker 2: will be safe. In fact, in Romans Chapter Romans, chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: beginning of verse eighteen, straight through to the end, we
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  Speaker 2: see the danger. The danger is that God will allow
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  Speaker 2: us to have the thing that we run after, and
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  Speaker 2: we don't want that. And in the meantime, He will
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  Speaker 2: turn over the people who just refuse to love love,
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  Speaker 2: who refuse to put him first. He will allow those individuals.
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  Speaker 2: He will give them the reprobate mind that they have
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  Speaker 2: developed by putting other things first. They're calling evil good
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  Speaker 2: and good evil. Whoe unto those who call evil good
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  Speaker 2: and good evil, the prophets said in Isaiah chapter five.
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  Speaker 2: And so that is not the direction we want to take.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm reading now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets,
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  Speaker 2: page three hundred and twenty five. Love no less than
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  Speaker 2: justice demanded that for this sin, judgment should be inflicted.
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  Speaker 2: God is the guardian as well as the sovereign of
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  Speaker 2: his people. He cuts off those who are determined upon rebellion.
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  Speaker 2: Determined is the operative term that they may not lead
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  Speaker 2: others to ruin. Do you understand now what's happening. God
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  Speaker 2: has to cut off the channel of bad influence, the
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  Speaker 2: channel of the evil virus of sin, so that that
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  Speaker 2: behavior does not go viral. This is why there has
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  Speaker 2: to be a process, if God forbid. Like when I
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  Speaker 2: was twenty three, I was a manager. I was a
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  Speaker 2: middle manager in the psych field, in the psych field,
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  Speaker 2: in the same organization that I worked for three and
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  Speaker 2: a half years until that point, and there were nine
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  Speaker 2: of my eleven staff that should have been fired, I
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  Speaker 2: promise you. But I was a young guy who I
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  Speaker 2: understood the Bible, and I called me keeping them merciful.
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  Speaker 2: But one woman used to walk around the actual organization
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  Speaker 2: and decry like and speak and say some things that
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  Speaker 2: I just won't repeat. And I did not see that
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  Speaker 2: as the time that she needed to be corrected. And
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  Speaker 2: I have more stories. It wasn't just her, it was others.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, okay. So there was a time
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  Speaker 2: that we think that mercy is mercy when it's really
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  Speaker 2: just an emboldening people in sin and also spreading the
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  Speaker 2: virus of evil into your organization, into your company, into
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  Speaker 2: your church fellowship, into your family. If you don't check
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  Speaker 2: sin the way that God says, I said, the way
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  Speaker 2: God says, then it will spread as a virus. And
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  Speaker 2: so God was showing this in sparing the life of Cain.
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  Speaker 2: God demonstrated to the universe that what would be the
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  Speaker 2: result of permitting sin to go unpunished. The influence exerted
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  Speaker 2: upon his descendants by his life and teaching led to
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  Speaker 2: the state of corruption that demanded the destruction of the
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  Speaker 2: entire world by a flood. Did you hear what I
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  Speaker 2: just said? The entire world needed to be destroyed because
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  Speaker 2: because the people followed so many of the people followed
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  Speaker 2: the pathway of king. Do you see where this is going.
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  Speaker 2: We are seeing that even some governments, sometimes in church organizations,
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  Speaker 2: people are just completely disconnecting themselves from God and they
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  Speaker 2: are now spreading a virus to the point that God
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  Speaker 2: is going to have to act. Continuing the quote, the
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  Speaker 2: longer men lived, the more corrupt they became. So with
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  Speaker 2: the apostasy at Sinai talking about the Golden Calf incident,
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  Speaker 2: the thing that Aaron wanted people to believe with some
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  Speaker 2: kind of mystical, magical things that happened, when really he
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  Speaker 2: was the one responsible for dragging the people who required
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  Speaker 2: it of him into sin an apostasy. Yeah, unless punishment
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  Speaker 2: had been speedily visited upon transgression, the same results would
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  Speaker 2: again have been seen. Can I just say it another way,
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  Speaker 2: Like we've seen this movie before, God destroyed the Earth
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  Speaker 2: by water by flood. He did that. That was in
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  Speaker 2: the whole Genesis account the first few thousand years of
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  Speaker 2: the world's history. He had to destroy everything un planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: and almost everybody was destroyed. The people who were alive,
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  Speaker 2: almost everybody except except eight people at the point of
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  Speaker 2: the flood. The people who were alive at the point
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  Speaker 2: of the flood, only eight of them were saved. Some
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  Speaker 2: of God's people went to sleep before the flood, but
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  Speaker 2: that's a different discussion. So we do not want to
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  Speaker 2: see this happen again. So God, instead of allowing this
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  Speaker 2: insidious virus to spread, he had to deal with the
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  Speaker 2: sin in his people. Thank God, he was merciful and
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  Speaker 2: did not destroy the entire lot of them, at least
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  Speaker 2: not at that point. I mean, there came a point
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  Speaker 2: when all besides besides Joshua and Caleb that were above
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  Speaker 2: twenty years of age, they did get destroyed, but not
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  Speaker 2: in this moment. God gave them everything they needed to
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  Speaker 2: be successful. So what God is telling us today is
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  Speaker 2: that it is so much of a blessing for us
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  Speaker 2: to love Him and to do what He says, so
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  Speaker 2: that we don't even have to worry about being destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: That is such a cloudy judgment situation that we can
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  Speaker 2: be holy and be with Him forever.
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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,