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09 08 2024 Unforgettable · 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 Sunday, September eight,
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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 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 Unforgettable. Unforgettable. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to please go over to
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  Speaker 2: pick up your Daily Portion book, and let us know
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  Speaker 2: where you are in the world. At your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: dot Com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: pray and then get under way. Father, Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: your Holy Spirit, Thank you for drawing us into your presence.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to live according to your principles and
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  Speaker 2: do your will. Please make yourself unforgettable to us, and
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  Speaker 2: then we live according to your love. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again, unforgettable. It reminds me
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  Speaker 2: of a song. It reminds me of a song. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking that is not what we're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about today. We're going into the Bible Book of Mark,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible Book of Mark, chapter fourteen, and I will read.
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  Speaker 2: I will read beginning at verse one the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Mark, and I will read beginning at verse one
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  Speaker 2: in chapter fourteen, and the Bible reads, after two days
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  Speaker 2: was the feast of Passover and of unleavened bread. And
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  Speaker 2: so when God gives us these details, it's for a reason,
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  Speaker 2: not only just to tell the story, but there are
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  Speaker 2: times that we can we can actually mark down and
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  Speaker 2: pin down the time that things were happening. We can
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  Speaker 2: also know what God was thinking about in a certain situation.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was passover time and of unlovened bread,
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  Speaker 2: and the chief priests and scribes, they sought how they
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  Speaker 2: might take him by craft and put him to death.
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  Speaker 2: These are what these are what God would say to
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  Speaker 2: us in these situations the chief priests, the chief priests
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  Speaker 2: have a problem. But their problem is that they are
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  Speaker 2: against God. They're supposed to be the priests of the
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  Speaker 2: most High God, blessed be his name, But they have
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  Speaker 2: a problem with God. They have a problem with his son.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, it says they sought that they would how
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  Speaker 2: to put him to death verse two, But they said
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  Speaker 2: not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar
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  Speaker 2: of the people. And being in Bethany, in the house
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  Speaker 2: of Simon the Leper, as he sat at meat, there
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  Speaker 2: came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we are starting to see something, okay, very precious
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  Speaker 2: of spikenard. And she break the box and poured it
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  Speaker 2: on his head. And there were some that had indignation
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  Speaker 2: with themselves, and said, why is this waste of the
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  Speaker 2: ointment made? For it might have been sold for more
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  Speaker 2: than three hundred pence and have been given to the poor.
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  Speaker 2: And they murmured against her, And Jesus said, let her alone.
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  Speaker 2: Why trouble ye her? She hath brought a good work
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  Speaker 2: on me. For ye have the poor with you always,
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  Speaker 2: and whensoever ye will, ye may do good to them.
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  Speaker 2: But me you have not always. And she hath done
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  Speaker 2: what she could. She is come a forehand to anoint
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  Speaker 2: my body to the burying. Verily, I say unto you,
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  Speaker 2: wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world.
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  Speaker 2: This also that she hath done, shall be spoken of
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  Speaker 2: for a memorial unto her, and Judas is carryout. One
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  Speaker 2: of the twelve went unto the chief priests to betray him,
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  Speaker 2: and unto them, And this is the final verse. And
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  Speaker 2: when they heard it, they were glad and promised to
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  Speaker 2: give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently
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  Speaker 2: betray him. So much going on here, So much going
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  Speaker 2: on here. But there is a woman who is in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's presence, whose one purpose is to worship him. Her
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  Speaker 2: one purpose is to give thanks and praise to God
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  Speaker 2: for his goodness to her. And she's there to worship him.
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  Speaker 2: And you have other people who are supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: chief priests. You have other people like Judas, who's supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be one of his disciples, and the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that Judas is trying to find a way to steal
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  Speaker 2: the money. Basically, if you read more about the story,
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  Speaker 2: the chief priests are looking for a way to kill
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  Speaker 2: Jesus and these people are supposed to be God's people.
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  Speaker 2: But this one woman is there to worship Jesus and
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  Speaker 2: she is giving her all. It was very precious that
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  Speaker 2: ointment that she had there. It was very precious how
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  Speaker 2: much she had to invest in order to do this
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  Speaker 2: one act of worship. I think we were talking about
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  Speaker 2: a widow who had two mites, which is fewer than
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  Speaker 2: two US pennies or less than two Jamaican dollars, and
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  Speaker 2: she gave all of it. That's all she had. She
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  Speaker 2: gave all to God, and she gave out of her need,
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  Speaker 2: not out of her abundance. This woman here at Jesus's
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  Speaker 2: feet is giving out of her need, not out of
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  Speaker 2: her abundance. She's giving her all to Jesus. And God's
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  Speaker 2: people have a problem with it. Have you ever been
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  Speaker 2: in a scenario where God's people had a problem with worship?
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  Speaker 2: With your worship? People trying to decide whether your worship
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  Speaker 2: is valid. Well, God is saying here like my friend
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  Speaker 2: and brother, my friend and big brother, Pastor Selvin Stuart.
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  Speaker 2: And every time this story comes up, I think about him.
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  Speaker 2: Many years ago we were at trench Town Church and
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  Speaker 2: he preached, before he was a pastor, he preached let
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  Speaker 2: her alone, or he said that he was going to preach.
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  Speaker 2: He was teaching Sabbath School I think it was, and
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  Speaker 2: he said leave Mary Alone. I think that was the
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  Speaker 2: title that he was going to use. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to steal it one day. I still haven't
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  Speaker 2: done so, but he said, leave leave Mary alone. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what I say today, in this unforgettable experience where
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is now present, his power is present to heal
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  Speaker 2: at all times if people are receptive to him, and
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  Speaker 2: certainly to transform their lives. Leave Mary alone. All of
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  Speaker 2: the Marys of this world who are there to live
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  Speaker 2: in humble submission to God, leave her alone. And so,
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  Speaker 2: of course, there are some lessons that we can learn
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  Speaker 2: from this experience, so many, so many. Number one, we
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  Speaker 2: learned the lesson of sacrificial giving, the value of sacrificial giving.
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  Speaker 2: You see, God loves when we sacrificially give faith, and
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  Speaker 2: he heals people when he saw their faith. In Mark
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  Speaker 2: chapter two, he healed and forgave the man who was
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  Speaker 2: sick of the palsy. In this case, we see that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus valued and told the people who were so selfish.
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  Speaker 2: He told them that you have these others with you,
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  Speaker 2: judas you have these others with you. But she is
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  Speaker 2: preparing me for the burial. I am here to give
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  Speaker 2: my life for you. She is showing worship in a
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  Speaker 2: way that you all should be showing. And so there
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  Speaker 2: is high value in sacrificial giving. And then of course
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  Speaker 2: recognizing the significance or importance of the moment. In Mark
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen and verse eight, she hath done what she could.
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  Speaker 2: She comes beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus sees and assigns the importance to the situation.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that we need to ask God, is
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  Speaker 2: this an opportunity or, as my big brother and friend
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  Speaker 2: Eric Thomas says, is it a golden opportunity? Is it
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity? Or is a golden opportunity? How do we
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  Speaker 2: see it? Recognize the importance of the moment, And of
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  Speaker 2: course misunderstandings come based on people trying to read other
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  Speaker 2: people's minds and seeing their intentions. So we leave that
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  Speaker 2: to God. We don't try to read minds. We don't
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  Speaker 2: try to read minds. And so let's go with this
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  Speaker 2: final one from Mark chapter fourteen and verse seven. The
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  Speaker 2: poor you always have with you, and soever ye may
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  Speaker 2: you can do good to them, But me you don't have.
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  Speaker 2: Always prioritize Jesus over material situations. God knows all things,
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  Speaker 2: and he will give us the wisdom how to serve others.
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  Speaker 2: Make 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,