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11 13 2024 The Witness of Thomas · 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: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, November thirteen,
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 3: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 3: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 3: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 3: study series themes in the Gospel of John, and our
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  Speaker 3: caption for today is the Witness of Thomas. Oh, the
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  Speaker 3: witness of Thomas. Some people call him doubting Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Let's see.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 3: clicking that number seven. And this is one of the
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  Speaker 3: ways we will continue to grow and live in our
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  Speaker 3: spiritual development. Okay, let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 3: we will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you for
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  Speaker 3: giving us this new Wednesday. Thank you for getting us
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  Speaker 3: to this day when we can drive over the speed
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  Speaker 3: bump down going toward preparation and down to the Sabbath time,
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  Speaker 3: so that we can be elevated and be in your
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  Speaker 3: presence in a special way and get recharged and rejuvenated.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, God, please please help us to choose
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  Speaker 3: not to doubt. Please help us to choose not to
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  Speaker 3: doubt you. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just say that doubt is a choice. Doubt
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  Speaker 3: is a choice. Doubt is a decision that people make.
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  Speaker 3: People choose to doubt when God gives evidence to the
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  Speaker 3: contrary that we can actually live according to God's principle.
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  Speaker 3: People choose to doubt when God has promised and they say, well,
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  Speaker 3: what if God doesn't come through, like he's taking too long.
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  Speaker 3: People choose to doubt when God promises the land of Canaan,
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  Speaker 3: the promised land, and when they spy out the land.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the soul called children of God choose to
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  Speaker 3: doubt God and believe that the soul called Aans that
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  Speaker 3: are in the land are powerful, more powerful than God.
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  Speaker 3: But there are people like Joshua, people like Caleb. There
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  Speaker 3: are people like Abigail and Deborah, people like Anna, people
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  Speaker 3: like Holda the Prophetess, like people in the scriptures like Elisha,
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  Speaker 3: who believed God in all things. They chose to surrender
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  Speaker 3: their wills to God that was their witness. Now, Thomas
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  Speaker 3: was having some difficulty when Jesus was living on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 3: And so you can doubt God if you choose, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't recommend it. I don't recommend it. And so
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  Speaker 3: the Bible reads here in the Book of John chapter
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  Speaker 3: nineteen beginning I mean John chapter twenty, beginning at verse nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: Then the same day at evening being the first day
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  Speaker 3: of the week, when the doors were shut where the
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  Speaker 3: disciples were assembled for fear of the so called people
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  Speaker 3: of God.
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  Speaker 2: What why were they fearful? Why were they shut?
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  Speaker 3: Jesus said that he was going to take his life
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  Speaker 3: back up again on that on that Sunday morning, he
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  Speaker 3: told them. He prepared them that he was going to
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  Speaker 3: give his life and then he was going to take
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  Speaker 3: it back up on the third day, like the prophecies
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  Speaker 3: were clear. And Jesus in his own voice told them,
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  Speaker 3: but they're hiding, just like Elijah was hiding from Jezebel.
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  Speaker 3: Are you serious? And they came, and so they were
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  Speaker 3: there in like hiding. And then Jesus came and stood
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  Speaker 3: in the midst and said unto them, peace be unto you.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine you're hiding for fear of the so
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  Speaker 3: called people of God? And and and Jesus is now
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  Speaker 3: raised and he comes into the midst of them. Did
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  Speaker 3: you notice that the doors were shut? How did Jesus
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  Speaker 3: get in there? Jesus just decided to pass into through
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  Speaker 3: the door. He pops up in their room and says,
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  Speaker 3: peace be unto you. And when he had said so,
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  Speaker 3: he showed unto them his hands and his side. Then
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  Speaker 3: were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord Verse
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  Speaker 3: twenty one. Then said Jesus unto them again, peace be
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  Speaker 3: unto you, as my father hath sent me, even so
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  Speaker 3: send I you. Now they should be in full faith,
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  Speaker 3: like they should be encouraged. They should be joyful and
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  Speaker 3: happy and ready to run through walls and jump over mountains.
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  Speaker 3: And that the mountain is in the way, then kick
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  Speaker 3: over the mountain, or or say to the mountain, be
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  Speaker 3: thou removed and cast into the sea, and it shall
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  Speaker 3: be done unto them like this is the kind of
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  Speaker 3: faith that they should have. Because Jesus raised, he took
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  Speaker 3: up his life again, just like he said he would,
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm gonna send you. And when he had
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  Speaker 3: said this, he breathed on them. He inspired them. He
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  Speaker 3: did what he did with Adam when he breathed into
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  Speaker 3: Adam's nostrils the breath of life, and he came a
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  Speaker 3: living soul. He made them spiritual, living souls. He breathed
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  Speaker 3: the power of God into their lives. When last have
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  Speaker 3: you been in the presence of Jesus? When last did
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  Speaker 3: he pass through the door into your room? And then
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  Speaker 3: breathe on you. When last did you welcome Jesus into
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  Speaker 3: your space so you could have him breathe on me,
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  Speaker 3: breath of God. Remember that song, Breathe on me, breath
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  Speaker 3: of God. He breathed on them and said, unto them
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  Speaker 3: verse twenty two, receive the Holy Ghost. And whosoever sinds
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  Speaker 3: ye remit they are remitted unto them, And whosoever sends
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  Speaker 3: ye retain that they are retained. And so the Bible
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  Speaker 3: is saying that Jesus is going to agree with people
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  Speaker 3: who agree with him. Jesus is going to agree with
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  Speaker 3: people who agree with him verse twenty four. But Thomas,
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  Speaker 3: oh boy, here we go. There's the conjunction. But it's
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  Speaker 3: almost like it's negating now. But Thomas, one of the
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  Speaker 3: twelve called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.
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  Speaker 3: The other disciples therefore said to him, we have seen
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  Speaker 3: the Lord. But he said, unto them. Here we go again.
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  Speaker 3: They just said that they had seen the Lord. They
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  Speaker 3: just experienced him ah saying peace and not just singing peace,
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  Speaker 3: but now breathing his life into them spiritually speaking. And uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this dude, this dude, this dude, Thomas has chosen doubt.
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  Speaker 2: He chose doubt.
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  Speaker 3: They all said that they just saw him, but he said,
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  Speaker 3: unto them, except I see in his hands the print
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  Speaker 3: of the nails, and put my finger into the print
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  Speaker 3: of the nails and thrust my hand into his side.
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  Speaker 3: I will not believe this dude is saying, come down
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  Speaker 3: now from the cross and then I'll follow you.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't this the one? Who?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you think it's not that? Was that too harsh?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Well, I'm not really sorry. I'm not sorry
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  Speaker 3: because because all of the indicators were there for him
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  Speaker 3: to believe, and he's telling us that he refuses to
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  Speaker 3: believe unless I'll thank God, thank God, Jesus is patient.
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  Speaker 3: Thank God that God is kind, thank God that the
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  Speaker 3: Holy Ghost will continue to woo his people. I'm grateful.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not gonna go far too far with Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: And the Bible reads here in verse twenty six, and
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  Speaker 3: after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas
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  Speaker 3: with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and
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  Speaker 3: stood in the midst again peace unto you. So Jesus
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  Speaker 3: has a habit of just coming into the room, Thank God.
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  Speaker 3: Verse twenty seven. Then seth he to Thomas, reach hither
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  Speaker 3: thy finger. So he already knew what Thomas desired. He
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  Speaker 3: already knew that Thomas was choosing to be doubtful, but
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  Speaker 3: he didn't destroy him. He said, Okay, reach forth thy
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  Speaker 3: finger and behold my hands, and reach hither thy hand
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  Speaker 3: and thrust into my side. And don't be faithless but believing.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Thomas, Come on, Thomas, don't be fearful, don't
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  Speaker 3: be faith less. But I need you to believe. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you what you need to believe.
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  Speaker 3: And then and then Thomas answered and said, unto him,
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  Speaker 3: my Lord and my God, he chose to believe. He
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  Speaker 3: chose to doubt, but now he's choosing to believe. Is
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  Speaker 3: there something that you have chosen to doubt about God?
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  Speaker 2: Today's your day to start to believe.
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  Speaker 3: The witness of Thomas is that you don't have to
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  Speaker 3: continue to doubt.
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  Speaker 2: You can choose to believe.
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  Speaker 3: Like today is the day that you stop doubting and
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  Speaker 3: believe today, I.
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  Speaker 2: Said, now, thanks for joining us listening. 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: it a great day. Yeah,