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10 15 2024 Hearing or Not Hearing the Word · 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 Tuesday, October fifteen,
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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 guns 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 themes in the Gospel of John and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is hearing or not hearing the word?
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  Speaker 2: Hearing or not hearing the Word. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. I
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  Speaker 2: am asking you for a personal favor. Favor almost said favor.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a word favor, it's my birthday. It is
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  Speaker 2: my fifty first birthday, and I'm so grateful that God
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  Speaker 2: has extended my life. We get to still build together,
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  Speaker 2: we still get to reach the world for Christ together.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to ask you to do me a
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  Speaker 2: fifty one people to click that number seven at your
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  Speaker 2: at that number seven. And by the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: I need a thousand people. And that's very easy because
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of thousands of you are watching me online, television,
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  Speaker 2: listening on radio, more on radio, and so it's an
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  Speaker 2: easy feat that by the end of October fifteen, like
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  Speaker 2: the end of this birthday for me, that I will
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  Speaker 2: have one thousand people who have clicked that number seven
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  Speaker 2: and subscribed, where we can continue to build and be
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  Speaker 2: transformed by God. It's a special space of transformation. This
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  Speaker 2: ten minutes together is a great start, but we want
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  Speaker 2: to do something even more. So please do that for me.
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  Speaker 2: Please do that for me, and we give God thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray Father, thank you for this day. Help us
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  Speaker 2: to live your word in Jesus name. I pray Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Okay, so some people are hard of hearing,
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  Speaker 2: and some people are hard of doing. I just made
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  Speaker 2: that last phrase up. Heart of doing, heart of hearing.
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  Speaker 2: People actually don't do what we're supposed to do. You see,
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  Speaker 2: when God gives us his word, when God gives us
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  Speaker 2: his guidance to say this is the way, walk ye
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  Speaker 2: in it, and then we don't do it. That means
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  Speaker 2: we're hard of hearing and doing. That's our problem, that's
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  Speaker 2: human's problem. Now. In the Book of John chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: it was really even worse because the Bible teaches us
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus king among his own people, the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: like the people who should have understood and been expecting
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  Speaker 2: the prophecies to come true in Christ, and those same people,
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  Speaker 2: his own people, the people of God, rejected him, many
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  Speaker 2: of them, not everybody, but enough of them for it
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  Speaker 2: to make a big deal in the Bible to highlight it.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we want to make certain that in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, on October fifteen, we are making our
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  Speaker 2: final decision to hear and to actually do God's word,
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  Speaker 2: to hear and to do to God's ancient people. According
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  Speaker 2: to the Shamah, that is a terminology for what Deuteronomy
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  Speaker 2: chapter six, and verse four says and teaches us four
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  Speaker 2: and five teaches us the Lord. The Lord, our God
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  Speaker 2: is one Lord, and you shall worship him with everything
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  Speaker 2: you have and everything that you are. You see to
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  Speaker 2: God's people, hearing and doing were synonymous. But sometimes people
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  Speaker 2: are ever learning and failing to come to a knowledge
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  Speaker 2: of the truth, ever saying that they're hearing, but never doing.
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  Speaker 2: And so what God wants us to do is to
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  Speaker 2: hear and to do according to his word. Who is
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  Speaker 2: his word Jesus Christ, according to the power of his
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  Speaker 2: word through Christ. Okay, And so we read now in
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  Speaker 2: John chapter one, beginning of verse nine, that was the
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  Speaker 2: true light which lighteth every man. Speaking of Christ that
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  Speaker 2: cometh into the world. He was in the world, and
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  Speaker 2: the world was made by him, and the world knew him.
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  Speaker 2: Not even the people who were created by him didn't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily know him. So few people actually embraced Jesus. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine the creator of the universe, this is coming
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  Speaker 2: in to human flesh to save us in so few
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  Speaker 2: of us receive him. Continuing, and by the way, he
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  Speaker 2: came to his own also, and his own received him not.
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  Speaker 2: But I like this butt here because now it shows us,
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  Speaker 2: there is hope. But as many as did receive him. See,
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  Speaker 2: some people received him. Hopefully you're one of those people,
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  Speaker 2: to as many as receive him, to them gave he
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  Speaker 2: the power to become the children of God, even to
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  Speaker 2: them that believe on his name, which were not born
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  Speaker 2: of blood, nor of the will of flesh, but nor
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  Speaker 2: of the will of man, but of God. And so
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  Speaker 2: the people who receive Jesus are the ones who live.
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  Speaker 2: The people who hear Jesus reality, not just say that
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  Speaker 2: we hear him, actually have the power to live. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now that I've said that, slowly, let's walk through a
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  Speaker 2: few steps or a few ways that we can look
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  Speaker 2: at this, so that we can be among the people
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  Speaker 2: who actually are transformed, not just intellectually acknowledging that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is who he said he is, not just intellectually memorizing
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  Speaker 2: Bible texts, not just being able to speak Christianese. I
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  Speaker 2: just made that up like a language that makes us
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  Speaker 2: sound sanctimonious and holy, but to actually be transformed. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So the first one is to acknowledge the true light.
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  Speaker 2: When I say acknowledge the true light, I'm saying we
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  Speaker 2: need to confess with our mouths, like believe in our
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  Speaker 2: hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus Christ is
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  Speaker 2: actually who the Bible says that he is. He was
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  Speaker 2: no ordinary man, he was not a mere prophet. He's
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  Speaker 2: the one who created us. He's the one who redeems us.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one who is empowering human beings who received
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  Speaker 2: eve him to live holy lives. Jesus is equal to
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  Speaker 2: our father. This is critical because the only way that
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  Speaker 2: we could be saved is the one who was equal
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  Speaker 2: to or greater than the law of God, who is
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  Speaker 2: indeed divine himself, could save us from our sins. Number Two,
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  Speaker 2: we want to believe on his name. Remember in verse twelve,
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  Speaker 2: it says to as many as believe in him or
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  Speaker 2: receive him, he gave those individuals power to become his children.
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  Speaker 2: You see, God's children have power over the rum bottle.
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  Speaker 2: God's children have power now over pornography, addiction, God's people,
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  Speaker 2: God's children have power over those evil mindsets that defeat
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  Speaker 2: us every single day that says we're less than, we're
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  Speaker 2: not able to that iconize people and say, well, that
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  Speaker 2: person is super special, this man is special, this woman
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  Speaker 2: is special. I can't be like that because fill in
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  Speaker 2: the negative blank, and God is saying no, I give
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  Speaker 2: you power to be victorious in every single way in
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  Speaker 2: your relationships. I give you power. This is God speaking
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  Speaker 2: to us. In your finances and in your way of
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  Speaker 2: doing business or earning an honest income. I give you
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  Speaker 2: power to overcome. I give you power to be the
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  Speaker 2: lender and not the borrower. Like I give you the power.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of being able to get connected
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  Speaker 2: with God and trusting Him every single day for all
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  Speaker 2: of our needs. Of course, understanding the power of new
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  Speaker 2: birth is key, not just intellectually, but beginning to live
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  Speaker 2: that power of the new birth. We are spiritually born
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  Speaker 2: of the Holy Ghost. When we were born to our
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  Speaker 2: human parents, we were born with all kinds of deficiencies,
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of tendencies toward evil, all kinds of things
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  Speaker 2: that seem to defeat us. But when Jesus Christ comes
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  Speaker 2: into our lives and opens up the endtation that we
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  Speaker 2: can actually live for him, he empowers us by the
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  Speaker 2: new birth. Because now we have a new Daddy, HM.
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  Speaker 2: We have new power to live according to God's power
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  Speaker 2: and principles. We don't have to be bound by the past.
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  Speaker 2: We need to experience and give God thanks for the
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  Speaker 2: new birth. And as we are born anew, then daily
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  Speaker 2: we accept his lordship over our lives. We speak to
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  Speaker 2: him daily, we listen for his voice daily, and we
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  Speaker 2: give him thanks and say, Okay, God, whatever you say,
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  Speaker 2: that's what I'm going to do as you give me strength.
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  Speaker 2: So remember you can be transformed today by the word
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  Speaker 2: of God, and He is expecting you to be. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a great day. 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,