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08 17 2024 Teaching Disciples, Part II · 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 Sabbath, August seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. 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 with Lesson number eight through the Book of Mark
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  Speaker 2: under the caption Teaching Disciples Part two. Teaching Disciples Part two.
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  Speaker 2: Get into that in just a moment, But first I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: join our online community and let us know where you
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  Speaker 2: are in the world. Again at your Daily Portion dot Com.
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  Speaker 2: This is a way that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: new day and for the privilege that we have to
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  Speaker 2: open up your word, and for this Sabbath time that
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  Speaker 2: is sacred. Thank you for making us holy. Please help
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  Speaker 2: us to cooperate with you and become your disciples. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was focused. May I just start right there, like, we
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  Speaker 2: don't need to get you know, tap tiptoe around them.
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  Speaker 2: The issue. Jesus was focused, hyper focused on one thing.
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that he came to he seeks to save
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  Speaker 2: that which was lost. That was his mission as he
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  Speaker 2: came to planet Earth. Bible says that God so loved
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  Speaker 2: the world that he gave his only begotten son, that
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  Speaker 2: whosoever believeth in him would not perish but have everlasting life.
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  Speaker 2: God did not send his son into the world to
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  Speaker 2: condemn the world, but that the world through him might
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  Speaker 2: be saved, might be saved. Okay, and so in this
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  Speaker 2: plan of salvation, Jesus's focus was highlighted here in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Mark, chapter ten and verse forty five. Mark
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  Speaker 2: chapter ten and verse forty five, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: for even the son of Man did not come to
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  Speaker 2: be served, but to serve, and to give his life
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  Speaker 2: a ransom for many you've heard that song. Jesus paid
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  Speaker 2: it all all to him. I owe sin has left
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  Speaker 2: a crimson stain. He washed it why to snow? And
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  Speaker 2: so when Jesus came to serve, he was serving in
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  Speaker 2: order to save us. He's serving in order to save us,
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  Speaker 2: save us from what, save us from the condemnation that
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  Speaker 2: comes from us sinning? Well, what does that mean? He
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  Speaker 2: came to give us eternal life. He never created us
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  Speaker 2: to be separated from our loved ones. You can identify
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  Speaker 2: many people in your family and your friendship core who
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  Speaker 2: have passed away over your lifetime, and you maybe cried
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  Speaker 2: or you were sad or even angry, as the case
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  Speaker 2: may be, and you want to know, like, why is
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  Speaker 2: there so much death? Why is there so much pain
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  Speaker 2: and suffering? Jesus came to resolve all of that. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: even as he lived on planet Earth, his friends came
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  Speaker 2: to him from Bethany, or they sent word to him
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  Speaker 2: to say, your friend, your friend, the one whom you
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  Speaker 2: love is very sick, like he's about to die, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: And of course that friend was Lazarus. And we know
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  Speaker 2: the story. Jesus. He went into where Lazarus was after
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  Speaker 2: three days had passed. Now on the fourth day, huh,
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  Speaker 2: when everything seemed to be hopeless, the body of Lazarus
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  Speaker 2: was decomposing. Jesus, the one who is the resurrection and
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  Speaker 2: the Life, went and delivered a message of hope to
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  Speaker 2: the people who were there, a message of peace to
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  Speaker 2: those who were there who would receive it. And he
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  Speaker 2: also woke Lazarus up. He woke Lazarus up, showing that
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  Speaker 2: if this Lazarus was dead and decomposing and he, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: could raise him from the dead, he could also raise
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  Speaker 2: spiritually dead people from the dead. Yes, he could provide
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  Speaker 2: the kind of power that is necessary for us to repent.
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  Speaker 2: He can give us the gift of repentance. He can
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  Speaker 2: put it in our minds by transfer forming our hearts
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  Speaker 2: from a heart of stone into a heart of flesh.
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  Speaker 2: He could write his laws on our hearts and in
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  Speaker 2: our minds, so that we can know that he's the
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  Speaker 2: one who sanctifies us. And I'm thankful. I'm thankful that
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  Speaker 2: he never lost his focus. Now, what can I learn
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  Speaker 2: or what should I do in light of this? What
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  Speaker 2: should you do? In light of Jesus's focus seeking to
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  Speaker 2: save that which was lost, coming to serve and not
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  Speaker 2: be served? Well? The first thing is to prioritize service
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  Speaker 2: over status. May I say that just one more time?
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  Speaker 2: Prioritize service over status or people who are seeking status.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says here in Matthew, chapter twenty and verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven, whosoever will be chief among you, let him
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  Speaker 2: be your servant. You didn't say let him be the
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  Speaker 2: one that flesh is the most money in social media
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  Speaker 2: in images. It's not the one who is able to
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  Speaker 2: show a big mansion of a home on social media
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  Speaker 2: so people will follow you. I'm not saying there's anything
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  Speaker 2: wrong with being wealthy. I'm not saying there's anything wrong
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  Speaker 2: with having a large home. But what I am saying
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  Speaker 2: is that in this generation, it seems that the ones
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  Speaker 2: who who are looking for the most followers are often
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  Speaker 2: the ones who are flashing the most. You see, But
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, whoever will be the chief among you, let
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  Speaker 2: him be your servant. How about we have a servant competition,
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  Speaker 2: like who can be the most humble, who can serve
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  Speaker 2: people more than other people? And of course I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: that tongue in cheek because that's not a principle from scripture.
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  Speaker 2: But you get where I'm going with this. We need
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  Speaker 2: to have like a generosity war. How about that? How
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  Speaker 2: about that number to embody humility in leadership. Now, everybody
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  Speaker 2: is not called to be a leader. But for those
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  Speaker 2: of you who are leaders, God wants you to be
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  Speaker 2: the humblest. In fact, in Matthew chapter twenty three and
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  Speaker 2: verse eleven, the Bible reads, but he that is the
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  Speaker 2: greatest among you will be your servant. Oh, I think
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  Speaker 2: there's an echo in here. Jesus has this repetitive theme
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  Speaker 2: as he continues to teach people how to be like God.
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  Speaker 2: So he says, serve and then you'll be the greatest.
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  Speaker 2: Also in Mark chapter ten and verse forty four, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says, whosoever of you will be the chiefest shall
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  Speaker 2: be the servant of all. Again. Yep, again that is
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  Speaker 2: repeated sacrifice for the greater good. Be the best servant
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  Speaker 2: that you can be under God, and you will be
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  Speaker 2: great in the kingdom. Now this is a big one.
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  Speaker 2: This is a big one, and I had a challenge
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  Speaker 2: with this when I became a Christian in nineteen ninety six.
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  Speaker 2: And it comes from Matthew, chapter eighteen and verse twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: It says, then Peter came to him and said, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: how oft shall my brother sin against me? And I
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  Speaker 2: forgive him till seven times? Of course, Jesus's response was
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  Speaker 2: an exaggeration to make the point. He said, no until
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  Speaker 2: seventy times seven. Yeah, we're supposed to continually forgive people. Why,
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  Speaker 2: because God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven us. And I
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  Speaker 2: remember when I first got baptized, I was looking at
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  Speaker 2: what people call the Lord's prayer, and he said, forgive
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  Speaker 2: us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. I knew
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  Speaker 2: what that meant, and I was like, oh God, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want that, because I'm not willing to forgive this
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  Speaker 2: certain person this certain way. So please don't forgive me
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  Speaker 2: according to the way that I forgive that person, because
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  Speaker 2: I know I I'm up short. Well now, I know
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  Speaker 2: that we don't get to negotiate ourselves through that. He said,
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  Speaker 2: in the way that you forgive, that is how you
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  Speaker 2: will be forgiven of course, now I understand and I
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  Speaker 2: embrace this truth. But then as a new believer, I
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  Speaker 2: could not I couldn't process it. But Jesus, as he
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  Speaker 2: is making his disciples, as he is teaching all of us,
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  Speaker 2: he is saying, do exactly what I did. Under the
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  Speaker 2: power of the Holy Ghost. Jesus is saying we can
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  Speaker 2: do what he did. Stay focused, come to serve, not
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  Speaker 2: to be served, and follow Jesus's example. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: great Sabbath. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: 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: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,