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09 20 2025 The Tabernacle · 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, September twenty,
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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 continuing in the final
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  Speaker 2: week of our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus.
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  Speaker 2: We were journeying from Exodus straight through to the Promised
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  Speaker 2: Land under the caption the Tabernacle. The Tabernacle. 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 everyone joining us, especially those joining
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  Speaker 2: us for the very first time. Please go over to
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  Speaker 2: and also let us know where you are in the
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  Speaker 2: world at your daily Portion dot com. This is one
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  Speaker 2: of 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: this Sabbath day and thank you for giving us the
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  Speaker 2: privilege that you will tabernacle with us. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to get the fullness of this experience and live like
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  Speaker 2: people who are in your presence. In Jesus name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again the tabernacle, the tabernacle, So the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads here in Exodus chapter forty Exodus chapter forty,
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  Speaker 2: Versus thirty four and thirty eight, the cloud covered the
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  Speaker 2: tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled
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  Speaker 2: the tabernacle. Do you want the glory of God to
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  Speaker 2: fill you? Do you want God's brightness and his character
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  Speaker 2: to fill your life to the point that it overflows
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  Speaker 2: and leaks from and radiates from your life into the
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  Speaker 2: lives of others, so that others are transformed because you
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  Speaker 2: are now something that like it's a hopeful situation when
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  Speaker 2: they see you, because they're like, Okay, if God can
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  Speaker 2: do that for him, if God can do that for her,
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  Speaker 2: then God can do it for me. Is that what
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  Speaker 2: you want? That's what I desire every day. For the
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  Speaker 2: cloud of the Lord was above the tabernacle by day,
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  Speaker 2: and fire was over it by night. Is God leading
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  Speaker 2: you in the daytime? Is He leading you by night? In?
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  Speaker 2: And the site of the house of all of Israel
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  Speaker 2: throughout all their journeys, and so the presence of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is here. I think you can hear the song
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  Speaker 2: as I am saying it. The presence of the Lord
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  Speaker 2: is here. And are you submitting to God's will so
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  Speaker 2: that this presence is a welcome scene, a welcome sight,
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  Speaker 2: something that you're saying, God, live your life within me, please? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The principal task, according to the lesson writer, of God's
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  Speaker 2: people in the Old Testament, as well as for us today,
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  Speaker 2: was to live in close relationship with the Lord, to
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  Speaker 2: worship and serve him, and also to present the right
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  Speaker 2: picture of God to others, as according to Deuteronomy, chapter four,
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  Speaker 2: verses five through eight. It's our privilege today. So we've
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  Speaker 2: already read, we've already read from Exodus forty verse thirty four.
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  Speaker 2: So what do we get there? God's presence dwells among
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  Speaker 2: his people no, the feed did not break. The broadcast
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  Speaker 2: is still going on. I'm asking you to let that
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  Speaker 2: settle in God's presence dwells among his people. So God
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  Speaker 2: chooses to be near to his people, I said, chooses
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  Speaker 2: to be near to his people and not distant. You
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  Speaker 2: see the one who is fully holy one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: of the time, in an absolute sense, throughout all eternity,
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  Speaker 2: in the past and in the future, Blessed be, his
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  Speaker 2: name has condescended so that we could even visually see
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  Speaker 2: his presence, a presence, an aspect of his presence that
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  Speaker 2: still was still transformative or transformational, as the case may be.
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  Speaker 2: And so every single day it is our privilege to
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  Speaker 2: go into the space where God has designed for us
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  Speaker 2: through prayer, speaking to God as to a friend, through
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  Speaker 2: his whole li word those sixty six blessed books, where
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  Speaker 2: He speaks to us his thoughts and his hopes for us,
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  Speaker 2: and his commands to us. And when we are in
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  Speaker 2: his presence now also going out into the world to
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  Speaker 2: shine his lights, to be his hands and feet. When
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  Speaker 2: they were hungry, he said, he wants you to feed them.
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  Speaker 2: When they were thirsty, he wanted you to give them
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  Speaker 2: drink and talking to me obviously as well, when people
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  Speaker 2: needed a hand up or a hand out. I know
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  Speaker 2: what I just said. Sometimes you don't want to give
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  Speaker 2: people handouts. Well, sometimes people need handouts. Sometimes if somebody's hungry,
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  Speaker 2: you have to hand it out to them, hand out
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  Speaker 2: the food that they need. They need a hand up, Well,
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  Speaker 2: you want to teach them how to fish, rather than
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  Speaker 2: giving them to fish. I get it. As God gives
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  Speaker 2: you grace and understanding for the particular situations, become that, yes,
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  Speaker 2: become all things to all people, that you may save one.
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  Speaker 2: This is what Paul said. This is what Paul said.
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  Speaker 2: So he wants to be near to his people. He's
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  Speaker 2: chosen to be near to his people, not distant, showing
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  Speaker 2: that his presence is central to their journey and identity.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going into the Promised Land without his presence.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to do that. And who's the day anyway?
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  Speaker 2: The only people that are going into the Promised Land
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  Speaker 2: are God's people, the surrendered people of God are the
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  Speaker 2: only ones going into the Promised Land. Well, we know
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  Speaker 2: the end of the story now, so we realize that
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  Speaker 2: Aaron didn't go in, Moses didn't go in, and the
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  Speaker 2: people of God that I don't know how many millions,
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  Speaker 2: was it two million, was it three million, three million adults?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, But it was a whole lot of
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  Speaker 2: people that were of the age above twenty that came
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  Speaker 2: out of Egypt. All of them died in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 2: except Joshua and Caleb. So God gave them his presence.
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  Speaker 2: He showed them that he was with them, and he
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  Speaker 2: manifests his character and so such a way that they
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  Speaker 2: could become like him. And yet so few of them
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  Speaker 2: got in two out of millions of that first generation.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you stand? Where do you stand?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Make the space in your daily life to be aware
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  Speaker 2: of God's presence and not just be aware of his presence.
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  Speaker 2: We've already talked about prayer, We've already spoken of God's Word, etc.
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  Speaker 2: And worship and obedience so His glory can be seen
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  Speaker 2: in you. Ask God, really, Lord, will you just be
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  Speaker 2: be yourself through my life? Can I become a prism
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  Speaker 2: of yours? And we already know that He is saying yes,
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  Speaker 2: But please, God, give me the strength to surrender now.
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  Speaker 2: In Deuteronomy chapter four, verses seven and eight, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: for what nation is there? So great God is speaking
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  Speaker 2: about you. Come on, if you're surrendering your will to him,
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  Speaker 2: who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord
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  Speaker 2: our God in all things that we call upon Him for.
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  Speaker 2: And what nation is there so great that hath statutes
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  Speaker 2: and judgments so righteous as all this law which I
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  Speaker 2: set before you this day? Now there are people who
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  Speaker 2: want to declare that there are a nation, a Christian nation,
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  Speaker 2: or a nation of godly people, but don't adhere to
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  Speaker 2: the true nature of the law of God, love for
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  Speaker 2: God and love for humanity. Sometimes people just constantly trumpet
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  Speaker 2: and announce that we are a nation of holy people,
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  Speaker 2: of believers, or whatever term people will use, and don't demonstrate.
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  Speaker 2: Don't demonstrate the brightness of the law that God has
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  Speaker 2: entrusted to us and the compassion that God has shown
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  Speaker 2: us through his dear son. And somehow we can still
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  Speaker 2: feel like we can trumpet that. Well. Well. The actions
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  Speaker 2: is to live so that your actions, your words, and
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  Speaker 2: your priorities reveal God's kindness, fairness and love to everyone
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  Speaker 2: you encounter. Don't talk about it, just be about it.
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  Speaker 2: Be about it. And then finally, God takes the first
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  Speaker 2: step to restore broken relationships. I just said something really loud.
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  Speaker 2: I trumpeted it to you because we trumpet the concept
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  Speaker 2: of being a holy people sometimes and we're not in reality. Well,
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  Speaker 2: God doesn't leave us that way, though. He doesn't leave
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  Speaker 2: us that way. And the same way that He went
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  Speaker 2: in search of Adam and Eve and he said to Adam,
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  Speaker 2: where are you? He really wanted Adam to know where
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  Speaker 2: God was so that Adam could come out of hiding
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  Speaker 2: and be covered by God.
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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,