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08 15 2024 The Healthy Man in Hell · 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, August fifteen,
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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 Healthy Man in Hell, The Healthy
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  Speaker 2: Man in Hell. Before we get in to that, I
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  Speaker 2: would like to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. Please go over to
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  Speaker 2: pick up the Your Daily Portion book at your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue
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  Speaker 2: to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new day and for the
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  Speaker 2: privilege that we have to see your word and understand you.
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  Speaker 2: Please transform our lives today in Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again the healthy man in hell. Well,
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  Speaker 2: let's see what God has to say here. That's an
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  Speaker 2: interesting caption. Beginning at verse forty two of the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of Mark, chapter nine, we read, and whosoever shall
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  Speaker 2: offend one of these little ones that believe in me,
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  Speaker 2: it is better for him to have a millstone hanged
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  Speaker 2: about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
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  Speaker 2: So we're continuing the discussion from yesterday about receiving children
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  Speaker 2: as if we are receiving Jesus, as if we are
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  Speaker 2: receiving God, our Father. And he's telling us, now, well,
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  Speaker 2: what if we cause somebody one of these little ones,
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  Speaker 2: the dejected, they often overlooked, the unheard individuals of this world.
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  Speaker 2: What if we cause them to walk away from God?
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  Speaker 2: What if what we do causes hurt in them and
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  Speaker 2: they see it as if God is hurting them. What
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  Speaker 2: is it like if we cause somebody to lose faith
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  Speaker 2: in God by the way that we behave. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says that it is better that you have a millstone
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  Speaker 2: hanged about your neck and be thrown in the sea.
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  Speaker 2: And if any hand offend thee cut it off. It
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  Speaker 2: is better for thee to enter into life maimed than
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  Speaker 2: having two hands to go into hell into the fire
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  Speaker 2: that never shall be quenched, where the worm dieth not
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  Speaker 2: and the fire is not quenched. If thy foot offend
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  Speaker 2: THEE cut it off, it is better for thee to
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  Speaker 2: enter into life halt than having two feet to be
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  Speaker 2: cast into hell the fire that never shall be quenched,
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  Speaker 2: where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched.
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  Speaker 2: And then he goes on in this exaggerated speech. He
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  Speaker 2: goes on to make this point. And if thine eye
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  Speaker 2: offend thee pluck it out. It is better for thee
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  Speaker 2: to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye
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  Speaker 2: than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire
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  Speaker 2: where worm dieth not and fire is not quenched. For
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  Speaker 2: everyone that shall be salted with fire, every sacrifice shall
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  Speaker 2: be salted with salt. Salt is good, But if the
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  Speaker 2: salt hath lost its saltiness, wherewith shall ye season it?
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  Speaker 1: He?
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  Speaker 2: Have salt in yourselves and have peace one with another.
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  Speaker 2: So much to say, so little time. Remember our caption
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  Speaker 2: healthy man in Hell. Of course, this is symbolic, hyperbolic language,
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  Speaker 2: exaggerated language to make the point. There are people who
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  Speaker 2: are okay with offending God. There are people who are
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  Speaker 2: quite fine with turning against God and ignoring his will.
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  Speaker 2: So let's just say we use our right hand to
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  Speaker 2: ignore God's will. We do things with our hands that
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  Speaker 2: are sacrificing our relationship with God. God is saying that
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  Speaker 2: it is better to stop doing any of those things.
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  Speaker 2: It is better that we humble ourselves like we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about yes yesterday. Then to go in and not
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  Speaker 2: even think about that, not think about God, not even
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  Speaker 2: be concerned about what He thinks about a thing, and
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  Speaker 2: hold on to things as we see them as normal,
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  Speaker 2: and go to hell. It is better that we would
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  Speaker 2: yield our will. And even if it is painful to
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  Speaker 2: us to humble ourselves, if it is painful for us
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of that relationship we shouldn't be in,
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  Speaker 2: if it's painful for us to come off of social media,
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  Speaker 2: if it is painful for us to come off of
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  Speaker 2: that job that we are so proud that we have it.
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  Speaker 2: It is let me bring it closer to the church.
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  Speaker 2: It is better for us to walk away from church
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  Speaker 2: position if we are puffed up in our minds, then
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  Speaker 2: to happily keep these positions and lose our focus on
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  Speaker 2: God and lose eternal life. Is that starting to make
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  Speaker 2: sense to you. We don't want to continue to hold
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  Speaker 2: on to those things that are dear to us, those
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  Speaker 2: things that are easily besetting us, those thoughts that we
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  Speaker 2: have about ourselves, and go to hell. It is not
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  Speaker 2: good for us to hold on to these things that
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  Speaker 2: cannot get us any closer to God. God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: humble yourself. It is better to lose something and gain
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  Speaker 2: the kingdom and eternity with God than to hold on
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  Speaker 2: to the things that make us feel proud and bolsing
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  Speaker 2: big up our chests and cause people to look at
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  Speaker 2: us and to esteem us. And as we sit in
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  Speaker 2: high places, people will say great things about us, so
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  Speaker 2: the crowds will say ooh and ah. God is saying,
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  Speaker 2: it is better for us to get away from all
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  Speaker 2: of those things and gain our soul than to hold
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  Speaker 2: on to those things that are dear and lose our soul.
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  Speaker 2: I think that is as clear as crystal. So what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do is learn some lessons as usual.
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  Speaker 2: Learn some lessons as usual. The first one is that
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  Speaker 2: there is something very serious about leading others astray. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is serious about us not leading others astray. He's very
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  Speaker 2: clear that anybody who is willing to lead a child
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  Speaker 2: astray or anyone else, it's better if you be dead.
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  Speaker 1: What.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what it means. To offend. To offend means
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  Speaker 2: for us to walk away from God. So if we
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  Speaker 2: cause others to walk away from God, it is better
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  Speaker 2: that we are drowned in the sea. I'll just let
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  Speaker 2: that be where. That is Number two, Radical repentance. Radical repentance.
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  Speaker 2: As I said before, this was exaggerated or hyperbolic language
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus was teaching us from, and the Bible teaches
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  Speaker 2: us that it takes radical moves. Sometimes, it takes extreme moves,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes the unexpected moves, sometimes in order for us to
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  Speaker 2: connect with God. There are things that we hold dear
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  Speaker 2: that God is saying it's better that we throw those
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  Speaker 2: away immediately than to lose our soul. And of course
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  Speaker 2: there are eternal consequences. In verse forty seven we see
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  Speaker 2: this over and over again. But in verse forty seven
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  Speaker 2: we'll read it again. And if thine I offend thee,
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  Speaker 2: pluck it out. It is better for thee to enter
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  Speaker 2: into the Kingdom of God with one eye than having
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  Speaker 2: two eyes and cast into hell fire. See, going to
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  Speaker 2: hell is an eternal consequence. We will never be with God.
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  Speaker 2: We will be burned up. God forbid. People who separate
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  Speaker 2: themselves from God will be burned up. And that is
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  Speaker 2: not to live in holiness with God. The consequence of
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  Speaker 2: walking away from God is eternal condemnation. Where where the where?
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that those individuals will be burned up,
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  Speaker 2: root and branch and will never live again. Yeah, purity
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  Speaker 2: of life our fourth lesson purity of life. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says here in verse fifty salt is good. But if
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  Speaker 2: the salt have lost its saltiness, wherewith will we ye
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  Speaker 2: season it? Have salt in yourselves and have peace with
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  Speaker 2: one another. God is teaching us that we are the
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  Speaker 2: salt of the earth. We are here spread out throughout
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  Speaker 2: all the earth in order to help to preserve people's
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  Speaker 2: lives through eternity. But If we choose to go another
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  Speaker 2: route and we lose our ability to help to preserve
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  Speaker 2: people by Jesus' grace, then what good are we? What
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  Speaker 2: good are we? Bible teaches us to be holy because
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is holy. 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,