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08 12 2024 The Cost of Discipleship · 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, August twelve,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 Mark, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Cost of Discipleship, The cost of
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  Speaker 2: disciples Before we get into that, I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot Com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us the opportunity to open your
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  Speaker 2: word today. And I pray that we will count the
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  Speaker 2: cost that we will invest ourselves fully in living for
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  Speaker 2: you and helping others to do the same. Please in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray, Amen, and amen again the cost
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  Speaker 2: of discipleship. All right, So what we're going to do
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  Speaker 2: is read from the Book of Mark chapter eight and
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  Speaker 2: see what God has to say to us there. And
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, and he began to teach them that
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  Speaker 2: the son of Man must suffer many things, and be
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  Speaker 2: rejected of the elders and of the chief priests and
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  Speaker 2: the scribes, and be killed after three days, then rise again.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus is giving his disciples a heads up.
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  Speaker 2: I know that this text doesn't necessarily apply, but there
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  Speaker 2: is a passage in the Prophets right where it says
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  Speaker 2: God doesn't do anything. He doesn't do anything, and we
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  Speaker 2: will say important unless he first reveals it, or reveals
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  Speaker 2: those secrets to his prophets. That was then, but even still,
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  Speaker 2: he's speaking to his people not necessarily that they are
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  Speaker 2: prophets or whatever, but he's speaking to his people in
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  Speaker 2: this moment and saying, I am going to do something
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  Speaker 2: very important. Now, the prophecies already foretold what he was
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  Speaker 2: going to do. Daniel was very clear that three and
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  Speaker 2: a half years after Jesus appears as Messiah, the Prince,
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  Speaker 2: or the anointed one, then he would be cut off.
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  Speaker 2: He would be cut off not for himself but for
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  Speaker 2: his people, so he would give his life and become
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  Speaker 2: a ransom for many. Now, with all of this in
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  Speaker 2: the discussion, I'm wondering, how in the world did chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirty two even happen. And he spake that saying openly,
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  Speaker 2: and Peter took him and began to rebuke him. What Now,
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  Speaker 2: I understand Peter was in his feelings, like I understand,
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  Speaker 2: Peter may not have wanted this to happen. Peter may
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  Speaker 2: have been thinking, oh, wait a minute, well, if Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is gone, what's going to happen to us? But Peter,
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  Speaker 2: you're supposed to be, first of all, listening to what
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is saying. He's in living color, like he's right
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  Speaker 2: in front of you telling you how things will be right.
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  Speaker 2: But besides that, everything else that I just said is true.
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  Speaker 2: The prophecies foretold exactly what would happen to Jesus. And
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  Speaker 2: when it's interesting and well, Peter took him and rebuked him.
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  Speaker 2: But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples,
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  Speaker 2: he rebuked Peter, saying, and then he starts firing on
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  Speaker 2: the real enemy. He looks at Peter, he rebukes him,
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  Speaker 2: and then he says, get thee behind me, Satan. He's
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  Speaker 2: not calling Peter satan, but he knows that we don't
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  Speaker 2: wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers
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  Speaker 2: and rulers, of the darkness of this world, and spiritual
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  Speaker 2: wickedness and high places. So he knew what was driving
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  Speaker 2: Peter's ungodly, unfaithful response to Jesus. And so he now
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  Speaker 2: fires on the devil and says, get thee behind me, Satan,
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  Speaker 2: For thou savorest not the things that be of God,
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  Speaker 2: but the things that be of men. You see, if
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  Speaker 2: Jesus didn't do exactly what he said he would do,
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  Speaker 2: if he wasn't going to suffer many things, if he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to be rejected of the elders and of
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  Speaker 2: the chief priests and scribes and be killed. Then all
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  Speaker 2: of us would have been lost. It's to be killed,
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  Speaker 2: part like if Jesus didn't give his life on the
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  Speaker 2: cross at Calvary, then we all would have lost our souls.
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  Speaker 2: But Peter needs to be looking at the rest of
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus said. And he said, now, after all of
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  Speaker 2: that has happened, then I will I will I wake
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  Speaker 2: back up like I'm going to be resurrected after three days.
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  Speaker 2: So what was Peter's issue in that moment? Peter's eyesight
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  Speaker 2: was limited, his vision was was crushed. He couldn't see
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  Speaker 2: as God sees, and he chose not to follow where
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was leading. You see, so we need to get
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  Speaker 2: out of our feelings. We need to listen to what
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  Speaker 2: God says. And then when the rewards the benefits, even
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  Speaker 2: though they come with trials, but when they do come,
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  Speaker 2: then we can say, well, we thank God, why because
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  Speaker 2: great peace have they that love Thy law? And nothing
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  Speaker 2: shall cause him or her to offend or to go
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  Speaker 2: away from God. And so we thank God that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: dealt with this thing clearly, so that Peter would know
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  Speaker 2: and with the other disciples know exactly what was going
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  Speaker 2: on Verse thirty four, Verse thirty four. And when he
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  Speaker 2: called the people unto him with his disciples, also he said,
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  Speaker 2: unto them, whosoever will come after me, let him deny
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  Speaker 2: himself and take up his cross and follow me. Or
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  Speaker 2: whosoever shall save his life shall lose it. So if
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  Speaker 2: you love this world, Peter, as it is, if you
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  Speaker 2: love this predictable thing as things are predictable on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: and then you won't go through trials or tribulation, then Peter,
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  Speaker 2: you need to be thinking. Whoever shall lose his life,
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  Speaker 2: whoever shall lose his life will save it. Whoever shall
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  Speaker 2: lose his life for my sake, and the Gospels the
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  Speaker 2: same shall save it. Right, So, if you protect your
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  Speaker 2: life as it is today, then you're going to lose eternity.
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  Speaker 2: If you yield yourself fully, yield your life to God,
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  Speaker 2: then in eternity you will have life everlasting. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible continues verse thirty six four. What shall it profit
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  Speaker 2: a man if he shall gain the whole world and
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  Speaker 2: lose his own soul? Listen, I'm a coach, and I
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  Speaker 2: coach sixty seven and eight figure US income earners and
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  Speaker 2: one of the principles that we keep very close as
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  Speaker 2: we develop in certain key areas is that you can
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  Speaker 2: have all the one the money that you want. But
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  Speaker 2: if your relationship with God is off is off, then
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't make sense. If your relationships are unhealthy on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth, then it doesn't make sense. Love for God,
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  Speaker 2: love for humanity. If your personal development is not on
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  Speaker 2: par with what God would have it to be, then
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  Speaker 2: what does it profit me to make six figures, seven figures,
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  Speaker 2: eight figures. I haven't coached anyone who's making nine figures,
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  Speaker 2: but I've seen them in the news. What profit would
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  Speaker 2: it be for you to have nine figures? I've never
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  Speaker 2: coached anybody that's making ten figures? But what would it
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  Speaker 2: profit a person who is a billionaire that if they
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  Speaker 2: lose their soul, or their earthly relationships are in shambles,
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  Speaker 2: or if they are not clear on what God has
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  Speaker 2: called them to do, what would it be? What good
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  Speaker 2: would it be? Or what does it profit a man
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  Speaker 2: if he should gain the entire world and lose his
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  Speaker 2: own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange
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  Speaker 2: for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me
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  Speaker 2: and of my words in this adulterous generation and sinful
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  Speaker 2: generation of him. Also shall the son of Man be
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  Speaker 2: ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his father
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  Speaker 2: and with holy aangel. You see, God has given us
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  Speaker 2: the blueprint. He has given us what it takes to
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  Speaker 2: yield our will to God and what is at stake.
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  Speaker 2: The question is are we willing? Are you willing, brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters to heed Jesus's guidance? And from the book
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  Speaker 2: Desire of Ages, page four hundred and fifteen, Peter's words
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  Speaker 2: were not such as would be a help and solace
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus in the great trial before him. They were
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  Speaker 2: not in harmony with God's purpose of grace toward the
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  Speaker 2: lost world, nor with the self lesson of self sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus had come to teach by his own example.
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  Speaker 2: And so we thank God that Jesus rebuked the situation,
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  Speaker 2: so that we can see that the cost of discipleship
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  Speaker 2: is high, but Jesus paid it all.
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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,