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06 27 2025 The Heart of Faith · 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: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
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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 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: the twenty seventh day of June in twenty twenty five. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our lesson study series. Well, actually
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  Speaker 2: this is the end of our lesson study series, how
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  Speaker 2: to study Bible Prophecy. I've been saying that over over
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  Speaker 2: every day for thirteen weeks. Yes, so this is our
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  Speaker 2: final day in this lesson study series and we begin
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  Speaker 2: a new one tomorrow. If the Lord spaar's life. But
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  Speaker 2: today's caption is the heart of faith the heart of faith.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have the heart of faith? Do you have
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  Speaker 2: God's heart of faith? Because the Bible says that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is the author and finisher of our faith. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you and ask you to go
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  Speaker 2: over to your Daily Portion dot com, join our online community,
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  Speaker 2: pick up the Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'll leave it up for just a couple of more days,
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  Speaker 2: the one for the quarter that we are ending now.
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  Speaker 2: But the other one, as you can see, that begins tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: is already available for you to download it. You can
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  Speaker 2: listen to it. You can do hardcover, you can do paperback,
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  Speaker 2: you can you know what I mean. Like, every possible
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  Speaker 2: way that you can have this book is there, and
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  Speaker 2: it's available at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: why the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, Father, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us faith. Please help us to act upon it,
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  Speaker 2: to live the kind of faith that Jesus gave us.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and Amen again. The
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  Speaker 2: heart of faith. Now, I asked you really quickly as
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  Speaker 2: I was introducing the program. Right, do you have the
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  Speaker 2: heart of faith? Do you have Jesus's heart of faith? Now,
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  Speaker 2: while you're thinking about it, I want you to hear
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  Speaker 2: that we all have a decision to make. We have
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  Speaker 2: a choice, all of us. Do we all have a choice.
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  Speaker 2: I could go down through many different prophecies in the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: or several different prophecies in the scriptures that are what
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  Speaker 2: we would consider to be conditional. If this, then this
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  Speaker 2: is the outcome. If then that is a conditional prophecy.
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  Speaker 2: But I won't go through too much. I will use
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  Speaker 2: what the lesson writer highlights here In Jeremiah chapter eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah observes a potter doing what a potter does. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what is that molding and shaping whatever he is working on? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense, That makes sense. It is this imagery
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  Speaker 2: that of a potter molding his clay that God uses
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  Speaker 2: to explain something very important. What is that thing that
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  Speaker 2: he's explaining that is very important? It is the principle
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  Speaker 2: of conditionality in Bible prophecy. Well, why does that matter?
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  Speaker 2: Just just hold on for a moment, and just to
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  Speaker 2: make sure we understand. The Lord speaks through Jeremiah saying, Now,
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  Speaker 2: listen for what God says the instant I speak concerning
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  Speaker 2: a nation by show of hands, how many of you
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  Speaker 2: live in a nation by show of hands? And concerning
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  Speaker 2: a kingdom? So if you don't live in a nation,
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  Speaker 2: and you live in a kingdom, then you raise your
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  Speaker 2: hand right, no matter which of the two, to pluck up,
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  Speaker 2: to pull down and to destroy it. Well, that's not
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  Speaker 2: a message we want to hear, do we If that
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  Speaker 2: nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil?
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, So God is giving us the option.
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  Speaker 2: He's giving us the choice. He's giving us a decision
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  Speaker 2: to make that even though, as in the case of Nineveh,
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  Speaker 2: they were going in the wrong direction. Huh, even though
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  Speaker 2: fill in the blank nation in history where we've seen
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  Speaker 2: where they were going and it was not a good place.
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  Speaker 2: Even though God has said I'm going to destroy it.
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  Speaker 2: If that nation, the Bible says, against whom I have spoken,
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  Speaker 2: turns from its evil, what will you do, God? What
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  Speaker 2: will you do? God? I will relent of the disaster
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  Speaker 2: that I thought to bring upon it. You see, God
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  Speaker 2: gives us a decision to make. Yes, we get to
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  Speaker 2: live according to God's principles. And if God forbid we're
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  Speaker 2: going against God's principles. He shares with us what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: But he also gives us the privilege of if you
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  Speaker 2: confess your sin. Huh. He is faithful and just to
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  Speaker 2: forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us. Or
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  Speaker 2: should I say you, I should say me, We should
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  Speaker 2: personalize it, cleanse me from all on righteousness. Let's hear
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  Speaker 2: the converse now and the instant I speak concerning a
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  Speaker 2: nation and concerning a kingdom to build and to plant it. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's positive. We want to hear that God is gonna
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  Speaker 2: build up your life. He's gonna plant you like a
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  Speaker 2: tree beside the still waters right or by the rivers
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  Speaker 2: of waters. We want that that is what we desire.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be planted in the Kingdom of God, like
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  Speaker 2: this is what we desire. And if that is what
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  Speaker 2: God says of you or a nation or a kingdom,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, if it does evil in my sight
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  Speaker 2: so that it does not obey my voice, then I
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  Speaker 2: will relent concerning the good which I said, I would
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  Speaker 2: benefit it. As I said a little bit earlier, we
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  Speaker 2: all have a decision to make. We have a decision
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  Speaker 2: to make. Are we receiving and living by the heart
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  Speaker 2: of faith that God has given to all of us?
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  Speaker 2: You see, it's very simple. We decide on whose team
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  Speaker 2: we will be. Are we on the team of God
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  Speaker 2: or are we on the team of the enemy. Will
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  Speaker 2: we choose to live according to God's principles and love
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  Speaker 2: the one who loves us? Or will we reject his love?
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  Speaker 2: Will we consistently say, as he entreats us and begs
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  Speaker 2: us even why would you die?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Fill in the blank? Is it your name? Is it
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  Speaker 2: your nation? Is it the kingdom in which you live?
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  Speaker 2: Why would you die? God takes no pleasure in the
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  Speaker 2: death of him that dieth. Therefore turn yourselves and live.
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  Speaker 2: This is what God has given us the option to choose.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm very grateful that He made himself clear here
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  Speaker 2: because literally the condition is based on our response to God.
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  Speaker 2: Which way you want to run this one? Okay? And
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  Speaker 2: so what I want you to do is go into
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  Speaker 2: our life application guide for this quarter one more time
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  Speaker 2: to page two hundred and thirty eight, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: for the relationship's application again. We're spelling out when as
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  Speaker 2: a framework w what is important now? Many people don't
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  Speaker 2: reject God because they don't understand him. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: say that again. There are people who reject God, not
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  Speaker 2: because we don't understand him. I'm one of those people.
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  Speaker 2: If God forbid I commit a sin, it's not of ignorance.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have In twenty twenty five, the exit of ignorance,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about me. I'm not talking about you. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about me. I know entirely too much. I've been
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  Speaker 2: teaching this word for long enough. I've been studying the
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  Speaker 2: word long enough. I know when I'm going the wrong way.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not about in my case that I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: And these people, some of them reject him because of
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  Speaker 2: that deep heart wound or fear, fear of what surrender
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  Speaker 2: to God, blaming people for the things that they have
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  Speaker 2: done to them. And really and truly, there are times
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  Speaker 2: that people do all kinds of stuff like and even
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  Speaker 2: in relationships, even times sometimes inside of the household of
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  Speaker 2: faith they call it church heard. That's the reality. There
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  Speaker 2: are wounds, there are fears. True, But when we lead
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  Speaker 2: with logic and not choose to use emotion to determine
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  Speaker 2: what we're gonna do, we miss the real let me
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  Speaker 2: just say that we need to internalize the insight here.
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  Speaker 2: God's method is always relational. Jonah didn't want to go
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  Speaker 2: to Nineveh, but when he did, hearts, not just minds,
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  Speaker 2: were changed. And then the next best move this week.
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  Speaker 2: I know the week is almost done. It is preparation
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  Speaker 2: day after all, in conversation with a loved one, listen
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  Speaker 2: more deeply for what is going on beneath the surface.
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  Speaker 2: Pray for wisdom to speak to the heart and not
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  Speaker 2: just the intellect. Ah, this is a good way to
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  Speaker 2: conclude this quarter's lesson, and if the Lord Spair's life
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  Speaker 2: will begin studying Exodus tomorrow. Peace.
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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,