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11 14 2024 Our Witness of Jesus · 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 Thursday, November fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name Iselle David Harris. I
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  Speaker 2: am your host, and this is your Daily Portion where
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  Speaker 2: we give you God's Word every single day, and today
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  Speaker 2: is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study
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  Speaker 2: series themes in the Gospel of John and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is our witness of Jesus. May I emphasize
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  Speaker 2: it this way. Our witness of Jesus. We had a
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  Speaker 2: witness of other people. Now we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: our witness today. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. You are on more
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  Speaker 2: than two hundred radio stations. You're on satellite radio, shortwave radio,
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  Speaker 2: all those little devices that you call out to and
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  Speaker 2: say play X. Yes, you are on thirty online platforms
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  Speaker 2: and count well, I shouldn't say countless, and several podcasting
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  Speaker 2: aggregator sites. And that means that God has shown his
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  Speaker 2: favor for his word to get out, because this gospel
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  Speaker 2: of the Kingdom has to be preached into all the
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  Speaker 2: world for a witness, and then and then only shall
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  Speaker 2: the end come. Please go to your Daily Portion dot com,
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  Speaker 2: join our online community, click that number seven and be
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  Speaker 2: one of the thousand or ten thousand of individuals who
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  Speaker 2: will subscribe there. And this is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build fit and fellowship. Let's pray, Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you. Please help us to live in such
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  Speaker 2: a way that our lives are a testimony in your favor.
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  Speaker 2: That's You're good in Jesus' name. I pray Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again, our witness of Jesus. So the question is,
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  Speaker 2: let me change my screen behind me the metamorphosis, transform
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  Speaker 2: your mind, transform your life. The question is are you
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  Speaker 2: being transformed by God? Every day? That's the question. Are
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  Speaker 2: you being transformed by God every day. It's a choice,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a decision that we have to make.
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to yield to God? Are we going
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  Speaker 2: to throw away our doubt?
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  Speaker 1: Not?
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  Speaker 2: Peter Thomas threw away his doubt. He was. He's known
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  Speaker 2: as Doubting Thomas. I wish he weren't, because the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that he finally did believe, like he gave up
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  Speaker 2: his unbelieving spirit. He said, I believe. I believe he trusts,
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  Speaker 2: and he called him my God. He called Jesus my God.
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  Speaker 2: He yielded insert and worshiped the one he loved. And
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  Speaker 2: so am I choosing every day to be witness for
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  Speaker 2: God to be transformed by him. The Bible reads here
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  Speaker 2: in the Book of Matthew, chapter twenty four and verse two.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus said, unto them, see see ye not all
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  Speaker 2: these things. Verily, I say unto you. There shall not
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  Speaker 2: be left one stone upon another that shall not be
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  Speaker 2: thrown down. You know, there are times that human beings
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  Speaker 2: when we are let me call us Christians. I'm a Christian,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll talk about me. I'll talk about us like
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  Speaker 2: sometimes there were things in our Christian traditions, things in
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  Speaker 2: our Christian architecture, things in our Christian archaeology, things in
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  Speaker 2: our ch Christian past that we revealed more than Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Can I say that again, like there are some things
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  Speaker 2: in our Christian architecture are past, are our Christian traditions,
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  Speaker 2: our Christian archaeology, the things that we say in Christianese language.
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  Speaker 2: Some of those things we revere above Jesus the Christ.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one who is the basis of our faith.
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  Speaker 2: He's the author and finisher of our faith. He's the
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  Speaker 2: only one we're called, only reason why we're called Christian.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes we prefer the things the trappings of Christianity
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  Speaker 2: more than we prefer Jesus. In fact, Jesus in that
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  Speaker 2: vein would have said in John chapter five, I believe
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  Speaker 2: it is in verse twenty two, ye search the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: for in them ye think ye have eternal life. But
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  Speaker 2: they are they that testify of me. And so the
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  Speaker 2: transformative thought process here is that Jesus is the fulfillment
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  Speaker 2: of all things that matter in our Christian journey. He
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  Speaker 2: is the fulfillment of all things that the Old Testament
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  Speaker 2: sacrificial system pointed to. And by the way, when Jesus spoke.
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  Speaker 2: He spoke of things that would happen, and among the
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  Speaker 2: people of God, especially the destruction of the Temple and
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  Speaker 2: Jerusalem in a D. Seventy and the people, some of
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  Speaker 2: them chose not to believe. But I promise you those
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  Speaker 2: who did believe in Jesus and believed in his warning
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  Speaker 2: messages and believed in his power to transform their lives,
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  Speaker 2: those individuals were safe even during that terrible time of
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  Speaker 2: seventy a D. I wish I had the time. I
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  Speaker 2: know I dropped a lot on you right there, but
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  Speaker 2: let's move on. Let's move on. Also, also, our witness
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  Speaker 2: can be developed, our witness can be transformed into holiness
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  Speaker 2: when we spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When we
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  Speaker 2: spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we are showing that
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  Speaker 2: we are being transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: We can't spread the Gospel and not be transformed by
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  Speaker 2: the gospel. And I know there are some technical minded
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  Speaker 2: people who are saying, of course you can. But what
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  Speaker 2: I am saying is that when the Bible says here
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  Speaker 2: in Matthew chapter twenty four and verse fourteen, and this
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  Speaker 2: Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached into all the
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  Speaker 2: world for a witness. Wait a minute, a witness. That
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  Speaker 2: means that when I'm spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: it should be a part of my life as a
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  Speaker 2: witness unto all nations, the witness that God is good,
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  Speaker 2: God is powerful, he is kind, Blessed be his name.
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  Speaker 2: It is the power of God. Salvation is the power
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  Speaker 2: of God. The Gospel is the power of God. Unto
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  Speaker 2: salvation to everyone who believes it, says here for a witness,
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  Speaker 2: unto all nations. And then shall the end come? And
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  Speaker 2: then shall the end come? Yes, there will be wars
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  Speaker 2: and rumors of wars. In Matthew chapter twenty four and
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  Speaker 2: verse six, the Bible reads, beginning at verse six, and
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  Speaker 2: ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, and
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  Speaker 2: needs you all to listen to the scriptures today. Do
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  Speaker 2: not run out ahead of me, because sometimes people get
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  Speaker 2: this thing mixed up. It's unfortunate that we are not
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  Speaker 2: reading anymore. The Bible says, and ye shall hear of
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  Speaker 2: wars and rumors of wars, See that she be not troubled.
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  Speaker 2: Why because these things must come to past. But the
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  Speaker 2: end is not yet. People keep talking about this like
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  Speaker 2: it's the end. It's not yet. The Bible says, don't
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  Speaker 2: be troubled. The end is not yet. For nations shall
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  Speaker 2: rise up against nation, the kingdoms shall rise up against kingdom,
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  Speaker 2: and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in
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  Speaker 2: diverse places. But the Bible says that these are the
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  Speaker 2: beginnings of sorrows. Why do we teach that these are
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  Speaker 2: the endings of sorrows? Why do we teach that these
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  Speaker 2: are the end when Jesus said that those are indications
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  Speaker 2: of the beginnings of sorrow and the end is not yet.
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  Speaker 2: So we continue to press, We continue to yield our
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  Speaker 2: will to God. We continue to serve God with all
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  Speaker 2: of our hearts, minds, and soul and strength, and so
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  Speaker 2: that we can push forward what we read just a
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  Speaker 2: while ago in verse fourteen. Yes, there will be deceptions,
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  Speaker 2: there will be false Christs, there will be false prophets,
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  Speaker 2: there will be pestilences, there will be see and ray
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  Speaker 2: waves roaring. We know this, But don't be troubled, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters. When the Gospel of Jesus Christ is preached
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  Speaker 2: into all the world for a witness, then shall the
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  Speaker 2: income you're looking for a sign. You want to be
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  Speaker 2: a witness to something great. Continue to spread the gospel.
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  Speaker 2: You want to hasten the coming of Jesus Christ. Continue
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  Speaker 2: to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ, so that the
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  Speaker 2: power of God unto salvation can transform the lives and
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  Speaker 2: hearts of people who used to turn away from the
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  Speaker 2: coming a mandments of God, who used to gossip, who
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  Speaker 2: used to be proud, who used to find solace in
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  Speaker 2: the rum bottle, who used to find solace in the
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  Speaker 2: pipe or the split or some other drug injected into
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  Speaker 2: the body or swallowed somehow. Now people are saying, but
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  Speaker 2: God is so good? How good is he? I once
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  Speaker 2: was blind, but now I see. I once had no
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  Speaker 2: control over myself, my intellect, my emotions. But now I
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  Speaker 2: can yield myself to God, and I find that, ye,
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  Speaker 2: He is more than able to keep me from falling
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  Speaker 2: and to present me faultless before the presence with exceeding joy.
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  Speaker 2: You see, our witness of Jesus has to be a
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  Speaker 2: transformational witness, and then others too.
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  Speaker 1: Will be saying thanks for joining us listening. Friends, always
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  Speaker 1: remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
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  Speaker 1: word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  Speaker 1: been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  Speaker 1: a great day. Yeah,