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08 16 2025 Covenant at Sinai · 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 Sabbath, the
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  Speaker 2: sixteenth day of August in twenty twenty five. Hello, my
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  Speaker 2: name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and
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  Speaker 2: this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's
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  Speaker 2: word every single day, and today is no exception. We
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  Speaker 2: are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
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  Speaker 2: of Exodus, and our caption for today is Covenant at Sinai.
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  Speaker 2: Covenant at Sinai. God is making a covenant with you,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. He promised that he would write his
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  Speaker 2: laws in our hearts and in our minds, and then
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  Speaker 2: we would be his people. Yeah. Yeah, Before I get
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  Speaker 2: too far into that, I'd like to just say welcome
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for making a covenant with us
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  Speaker 2: and through Christ keeping that covenant so we can keep it.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to actually keep it. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. God is so good
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  Speaker 2: and you want to say, well, how good is he?
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  Speaker 2: How good is he? I know I'm jumping ahead by
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  Speaker 2: thousands of years, but the truth is that in our day,
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  Speaker 2: the only reason we can covenant with God is because
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  Speaker 2: number one, as God, he is the one that came
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  Speaker 2: our way. We'll talk about that in a second. And
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  Speaker 2: He made the covenant with us, and then through Christ
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  Speaker 2: coming and living as a human being who was faithful
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  Speaker 2: to God. Through Christ as a human being who was
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  Speaker 2: obedient to God, he also kept the covenant on our behalf,
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  Speaker 2: so that by faith we can do the same. You see.
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  Speaker 2: And so not only as God he gave us this covenant,
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  Speaker 2: he comes to us as the superior but again in
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  Speaker 2: the person and work of Jesus Christ, when he lived
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  Speaker 2: as a human being on planet Earth, he was the
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  Speaker 2: covenant keeper as a human being, so that now we
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  Speaker 2: are empowered to do the same thing through the new
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  Speaker 2: birth experience. And then the lesson writer actually says something
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  Speaker 2: very interesting in the form of a question, where did
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  Speaker 2: God lead his people after he had liberated them from Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to think with me, to the Promised Land?
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  Speaker 2: Where else? However, geographically correct, that answer is theologically wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Well what does that mean? God himself answers it. You
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  Speaker 2: yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how
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  Speaker 2: I carried you on eagles wings and brought you where
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  Speaker 2: I want you to read it. It's in Exodus, chapter
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  Speaker 2: nineteen and verse four. And I carried you on eagles
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  Speaker 2: wings and brought you to myself. God's goal was not
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  Speaker 2: to take them to a geographical location. He was not
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  Speaker 2: trying to simply take them to Canaan. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: say that the Canaan that the second generation of freed
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  Speaker 2: slaves and the first generation. Those only two humans that
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  Speaker 2: were faithful in that first generation, fully Joshua and Caleb.
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  Speaker 2: That place is gonna burn one day. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, the elements will melt with fervent heat,
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  Speaker 2: and then at the appropriate time, the entire earth and
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  Speaker 2: all of the works in it will be burned up.
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  Speaker 2: So that Canaan land that Moses did not get to
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  Speaker 2: go into he was only able to see that will
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  Speaker 2: be burnt up. So the goal wasn't that God would
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  Speaker 2: simply keep the covenant he made with Abraham to take
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  Speaker 2: the people into that land flowing with milk and honey,
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  Speaker 2: and that be the end of the story. What would
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  Speaker 2: be the purpose of all of that? Like you could
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  Speaker 2: have just really literally just picked them up and stuck
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  Speaker 2: them in Canaan. What it would be the purpose of
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  Speaker 2: all of that? It was the spiritual growth that the
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  Speaker 2: people of God had the privilege to experience, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: to be transformed in their characters if they would obey
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  Speaker 2: God and surrender to the process. So we're under to
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  Speaker 2: God through the process, I should say. And in that case,
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  Speaker 2: now he is bringing them to himself. Is God bringing
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  Speaker 2: you to himself? Right now? Brothers and sisters, huh? In
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  Speaker 2: those trials that you're going through, as He is delivering
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  Speaker 2: you from that job that you thought you loved, and
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  Speaker 2: then something really weird happened and you're no longer there
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  Speaker 2: is He carrying you by eagles wings to himself. And
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  Speaker 2: the answer, if you're honest when you're going through those
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  Speaker 2: trials and tribulations, if God forbid, you did the wrong
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  Speaker 2: thing and now you're being penalized for it, if you
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  Speaker 2: broke the covenant in your marriage, and you're having to
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  Speaker 2: live under the scrutiny and boundaries that are necessary to
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  Speaker 2: re earn trust, God is bringing you to himself. If
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  Speaker 2: you are in some other situation, that is something you
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  Speaker 2: just can't mention it. You just can't mention it. We
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  Speaker 2: see some of that stuff on the news, and I
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  Speaker 2: wish we didn't hear about the transcripts from those particular
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  Speaker 2: court proceedings. And you're in the same situation. It's unmentionable.
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  Speaker 2: And now you hear God's calling. He's not calling you
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  Speaker 2: to anything except to himself. And that's what we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about today. We're talking about that kind of covenant that
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  Speaker 2: guides human beings into a relationship with God himself. In Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter nineteen and verse four, the Bible reads, ye have
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  Speaker 2: seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I
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  Speaker 2: bear you on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself.
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  Speaker 2: I'm repeating it. God wasn't rescuing them from a place.
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  Speaker 2: He was delivering them to an experience with himself. Remember
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  Speaker 2: remember with Adam and Eve, he was bringing them to himself. Adam,
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  Speaker 2: where are you not? Because he didn't know where Adam was.
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  Speaker 2: But Adam didn't know where he was. I was naked,
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  Speaker 2: I was trembling and hiding. I was ashamed, and I
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  Speaker 2: hid myself. Who told thee that thou wast naked? Adam?
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  Speaker 2: Did you eat from the fruit of the tree that
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  Speaker 2: I commanded that thou shouldest not eat? My wife made
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  Speaker 2: me do it? Eve? What's good? Like what happened Eve?
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  Speaker 2: The devil made me do it. See, the humans needed
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  Speaker 2: to be brought to the self of God like they
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  Speaker 2: needed to be brought to the self of God because
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  Speaker 2: they were protecting themselves as humans with some broken construct,
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  Speaker 2: some faulty covering of the fig leaves. And as God
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  Speaker 2: brought them to himself, he covered them in the righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: the symbol of the righteousness of Christ and actually the
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  Speaker 2: only reason that they continued to live until they repented fully,
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  Speaker 2: and then you know, etc. Et cetera, is because He
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  Speaker 2: brought them to himself. So instead of only asking what
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  Speaker 2: has God set me free from? That's the abstemious part,
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  Speaker 2: that's the going away from part. Ask daily, what is
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  Speaker 2: he calling me to come closer to him?
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  Speaker 1: For?
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  Speaker 2: What is he calling me to come closer to him?
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  Speaker 2: In him? What is he calling me? Two? Yeah? Verse five. Now, therefore,
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  Speaker 2: if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant,
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  Speaker 2: then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above
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  Speaker 2: all the people, for all the earth is mine. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Being God's treasure isn't about being favorited like Joseph was
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  Speaker 2: in his family. That didn't work out. That wasn't that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the goal. That's not the goal of God. But
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  Speaker 2: it's about his faithfulness. Covenant blessings are tied to obedience.
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  Speaker 2: So write down one specific command of God you have
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  Speaker 2: been ignoring, Remember and delayed. Obedience is disobedience that you've
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  Speaker 2: been ignoring. Choos today to obey it out of love
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  Speaker 2: and loyalty. And then finally in verse six, and ye
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  Speaker 2: shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a
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  Speaker 2: holy nation, ask God where He is calling you to
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  Speaker 2: be a spiritual representative. Is it in your home where
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  Speaker 2: you're not already, Is it in your workplace, Is it
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  Speaker 2: in your community? And then step lively, I said, step
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  Speaker 2: lively into that place. God's purpose in giving the law
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  Speaker 2: to his people was to make them his own peculiar
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  Speaker 2: people and to preserve them as a holy nation. See
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  Speaker 2: the covenant in our hearts makes us a holy people.
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  Speaker 2: Make it a great sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. 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,