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03 07 2025 Christ Within · 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, 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, March seven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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 rounding off Lesson number
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  Speaker 2: ten in our Lesson study series, God's Love and Justice,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Christ within. I love
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  Speaker 2: it qwicst Christ, not Christ. That's not a word christ within.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, if you remember the scripture, he's the hope
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  Speaker 2: of glory. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first i'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community. Please pick up the Your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion application Guide here. It is the application guide.
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  Speaker 2: We apply these scriptures to our lives and four key areas.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we study and don't know how to actually put
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  Speaker 2: it into our lives. So that's what this is for.
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  Speaker 2: And also please let us know where you are in
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  Speaker 2: the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways 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 giving
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  Speaker 2: us this new day and for the opportunity to open
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  Speaker 2: up your word, and I'm asking you to please fill
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  Speaker 2: us with your holy spirit. Please give us the hope
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  Speaker 2: of glory Christ within. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Okay. So I'm going to read right
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  Speaker 2: from the Lesson Study because there's so much to say
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  Speaker 2: from that, and then I'm going to give you some tips. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: This is coming from the book Testimonies for the Church,
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  Speaker 2: Volume one, page three hundred and forty one, and I
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  Speaker 2: want you to listen carefully, and it reads fallen man
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  Speaker 2: is Satan's lawful captive. You see, the Bible teaches us
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  Speaker 2: in Romans chapter seven, that there is this guy, and
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  Speaker 2: people are confused about whether it's somebody who is is
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  Speaker 2: already a believer or not. I will tell you straight
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  Speaker 2: away that the person in Romans seven most of the
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  Speaker 2: chapter is not yet a believer, someone who may want
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  Speaker 2: to be one, but is not one because that person
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  Speaker 2: is bound by the law of sin and death. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: cannot please God, the Bible says, okay, And so fallen
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  Speaker 2: man is Satan's lawful captive. This is why at the
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  Speaker 2: end of Romans chapter seven, the Bible writer is crying out,
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  Speaker 2: like on behalf of that mindset? Who shall rescue me
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  Speaker 2: from this body of death? And then Romans eight opens
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  Speaker 2: up with the antidote, which we may get into a
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  Speaker 2: little later. The mission of Christ was to rescue him
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  Speaker 2: from the power of his great adversary. Man is naturally
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  Speaker 2: inclined to follow Satan's suggestions, and he cannot sect successfully
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  Speaker 2: resist so terrible a foe unless Christ, the mighty conqueror,
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  Speaker 2: dwells in him. Remember I said, Christ in you, Christ
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  Speaker 2: within Christ in you, Christ in me, the hope of glory.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go, Here we go, dwells in him, guiding
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  Speaker 2: his desires and giving him strength. God alone can and
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  Speaker 2: limit the power of Satan. He is going to and
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  Speaker 2: fro in the earth. We read about that in Job,
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  Speaker 2: or talked about it when we were talking about Job
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  Speaker 2: and walking up and down in it. He is not
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  Speaker 2: off his watch for a single moment through fear of
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  Speaker 2: losing an opportunity to destroy souls. It is important that
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  Speaker 2: God's people understand this, that they may escape his snares.
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  Speaker 2: Satan is preparing his deceptions that in his last campaign
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  Speaker 2: against the people of God, they may not understand that
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  Speaker 2: it is he and the Bible reads and no marvel,
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  Speaker 2: no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into an angel
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  Speaker 2: of light. And while some deceived souls are advocating that
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  Speaker 2: he does not exist, he is taking them captive in
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  Speaker 2: his working through them. To a great extent, Satan knows
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  Speaker 2: better than God God's people the power that they can
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  Speaker 2: have to overcome him when their strength is in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get that the enemy knows better than even
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  Speaker 2: God's people that he can be overcome in the strength
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  Speaker 2: of Christ. Now I find it tragic that the Angel
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  Speaker 2: of light, this Angel of light concept that Satan is
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  Speaker 2: transforming himself into the Angel of light you know, he
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  Speaker 2: used to actually be the Angel of light. That's why
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  Speaker 2: his name was Lucifer, Son of the Morning. And so
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  Speaker 2: now he has replaced being the angel of light or
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  Speaker 2: an angel of light, with counterfeiting being an angel of
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  Speaker 2: light because he wanted to be God. He wasn't satisfied
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  Speaker 2: with being an angel of light. And now all he
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  Speaker 2: can do is masquerade as one. All he can do
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  Speaker 2: is masquerade as a false God. He can only masquerade
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  Speaker 2: when before God had already esteemed him him and given
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  Speaker 2: him the blessing of being the Sun of the morning,
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  Speaker 2: the cherub that covered. He was as close to God
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  Speaker 2: as any being could be who was not equal with God.
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  Speaker 2: But he was not satisfied. So now all he can
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  Speaker 2: do is play dress up. He can only play dress up.
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  Speaker 2: Now let me continue. When they humbly meaning God's people
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  Speaker 2: and treat the mighty conqueror for help the weakest believer,
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  Speaker 2: the what kind of believer? The weakest believer, okay, can do?
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  Speaker 2: What the weakest believer in the truth, relying firmly upon
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  Speaker 2: Christ can successfully repulse Satan and all his host Did
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  Speaker 2: you get that? When they humbly entreat So what are
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  Speaker 2: we going to do? We're gonna ask God humbly, Please God, Please, God,
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  Speaker 2: you're the mighty conqueror, Please help me, the weakest believer,
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  Speaker 2: so you don't have to go to that prayer warrior,
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  Speaker 2: as you say, right, and those people that you feel
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  Speaker 2: have stronger faith. The Bible is the inspiration. Part of
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  Speaker 2: me is teaching us here that even the weakest believer
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  Speaker 2: in the truth, if we rely firmly upon Christ, can
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  Speaker 2: successfully repulse Satan in all of his hosts. Let me continue,
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  Speaker 2: He is too cunning to come openly and boldly with
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  Speaker 2: his temptations, where then the drowsy energies of the Christian
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  Speaker 2: would arouse and he would rely on the strong and
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  Speaker 2: mighty deliverer. This is why the devil comes by sleight
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  Speaker 2: of hand. This is why he really isn't that one
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  Speaker 2: in those creepy scary costumes. He's not the one in
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  Speaker 2: those creepy sounding movies. He's there, he's active, but he's
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  Speaker 2: there trying to get you to believe that that's how
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  Speaker 2: he comes, when in fact he comes as an angel
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  Speaker 2: of light. When in fact he comes as a dazzling,
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  Speaker 2: beautiful serpent in a tree where God said, don't eat
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  Speaker 2: of the fruit of that tree in the garden of
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  Speaker 2: Eden like he comes in beautiful Garb, because he knows
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  Speaker 2: that humans naturally do not expect to see him there.
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  Speaker 2: He is the ultimate trojan horse. So as long as humankind,
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  Speaker 2: especially God's people, do not see him for what he
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  Speaker 2: really is, that he is already halfway there. So what
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  Speaker 2: God wants us to do, and he's welcomed us to do,
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  Speaker 2: is to rely on him fully and don't trust anything
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  Speaker 2: that the devil does. So let me give you a
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  Speaker 2: few steps. I want it to be seven, but maybe
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  Speaker 2: you'll have to go into the community at your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com and ask me to put it in
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  Speaker 2: there if I forget to put it in there. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: seven steps from Romans seven and eight that will help
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  Speaker 2: us to have Christ within. Number one, Acknowledge the sin struggle.
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  Speaker 2: Acknowledge the sin struggle from verse fifteen and nineteen of
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  Speaker 2: of Romans chapter seven, So don't close your eyes to
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  Speaker 2: it and say it's not a big deal. Number two,
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  Speaker 2: recognize your need for deliverance. Even in the twelve steps program,
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  Speaker 2: we have to realize, like we have to be in
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  Speaker 2: a position that we need a power greater than ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: So we need deliverance number three. Accept Christ as the
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  Speaker 2: one who is the deliverer, like he is the answer,
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  Speaker 2: Verse twenty five. Live by the spirit, Romans Chapter eight
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  Speaker 2: and verse one. Set your mind on spiritual things Verses
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  Speaker 2: five and six of Romans Chapter eight. Trust in the
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  Speaker 2: adoption that you have in Christ, and then rest in
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  Speaker 2: God's love. Please please ask in the community for this
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  Speaker 2: with the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Pease, thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,