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09 16 2024 Hail, King of the Jews · 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 Monday, September sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 Hail, King of the Jews. Hale, King
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  Speaker 2: of the Jews. 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 please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. I hope you are having a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful day, and I just want to give a great
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  Speaker 2: big shout out to the people who are there listening
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  Speaker 2: on the radio, you're in your cars, who knows you're
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  Speaker 2: on the move. Maybe you're in the kitchen this morning,
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  Speaker 2: or in the gym exercising, wherever you happen to be.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very grateful that you have invested this time with us.
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  Speaker 2: And let's go ahead and pray. In Jesus' name, Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for giving us so much, all of
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  Speaker 2: heaven and one gift. It is very difficult to read
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  Speaker 2: the account of the mock trials of Jesus Christ at
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  Speaker 2: the hands of his of the hands of your own people. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I just pray that your people in these last days
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  Speaker 2: will be holy, that we will embrace the Messiah that
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  Speaker 2: you've entrusted into our care. Like in our minds we
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  Speaker 2: can lift up Jesus, we can give him to other people,
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  Speaker 2: meaning we can share the great news about Jesus to
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  Speaker 2: other people. Help us to be responsible with that charge.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray amen and Amen again. I
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  Speaker 2: will admit that reading through Mark chapter fifteen, and also
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  Speaker 2: the book Desira of Ages beginning at page seven hundred
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  Speaker 2: and fourteen has made a profound impact. I was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to share that with you yesterday. God opened up my
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  Speaker 2: mind and and my emotions, my intellect and my emotions
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  Speaker 2: both and at the same time in a way that
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  Speaker 2: I had never experienced it, seeing what Jesus was willing
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  Speaker 2: to do in order to save us in the face
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  Speaker 2: of an angry mob at the time that they were
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  Speaker 2: at their darkest. Jesus owned looked upon them with compassion
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  Speaker 2: and care. He did not look upon them as the
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  Speaker 2: judge of the world who would condemn them. And it's
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  Speaker 2: amazing to me because I just don't understand it. Intellectually
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  Speaker 2: I get it, but I don't understand how Jesus whose
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  Speaker 2: right it would have been to destroy these people, because
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  Speaker 2: in my mind he had given them enough grace. That's
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  Speaker 2: what my little human mind sees. But knowing that God's
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  Speaker 2: thoughts are higher than our thoughts, his thoughts are not
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  Speaker 2: my thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The way he does things is not the way I
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  Speaker 2: do things. I'm thankful because how many times could he
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  Speaker 2: have destroyed me? How many times could he have said
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  Speaker 2: no I've given you enough forgiveness. I've given you enough grace.
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  Speaker 2: I've given you enough opportunities to get this thing right,
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  Speaker 2: and he chose to give more grace. I thank God
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus, at the time that must have been among
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  Speaker 2: the most difficult of time for him, he still kept
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  Speaker 2: his goal at the forefront, to seek and to save
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  Speaker 2: that which was lost. And how much more lost can
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  Speaker 2: you get than to want to destroy the one who
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  Speaker 2: created you. That was just an aside. But I just
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  Speaker 2: thank God that he opens our eyes to see what
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  Speaker 2: he is doing. So we read now continuing in Mark
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  Speaker 2: chapter fifteen, beginning at verse fifteen, and so Pilot willing
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  Speaker 2: to content the people, release Barabas to them. And then
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  Speaker 2: he delivered Jesus when he had scourged him to be crucified.
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  Speaker 2: I know we talked about this yesterday. And the soldiers
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  Speaker 2: led him away into the hall called the Praetorium, and
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  Speaker 2: they called together the whole band. And so now we
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  Speaker 2: see the foreign soldiers, the Roman soldiers. These are not
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  Speaker 2: God's people. These are men who are there to serve
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  Speaker 2: at the behest of the government. And if there's order
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  Speaker 2: to be restored, if there is some punishment to be
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  Speaker 2: meeted out. These soldiers were there, and they were all
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  Speaker 2: about their work. And so now they are doing this.
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  Speaker 2: And they led him away into the hall and called
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  Speaker 2: the praetorium, and they called together the whole band, and
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  Speaker 2: they clothed him with purple and platted a crown of thorns.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, this is not their job. They platted
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  Speaker 2: a crown of thorns and put it about his head.
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  Speaker 2: And now they are mocking him. They say, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: since you say you're a king, and it's like what
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  Speaker 2: And now they're mocking him, the actual king of the universe,
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  Speaker 2: not just the king of the Jews, not just the king,
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  Speaker 2: not a king just of a gentile nations. The King
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  Speaker 2: of the universe, who created all things, is now humbling
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  Speaker 2: himself to this ridiculous false worship. People are doing the
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  Speaker 2: most here. The Bible says that they platted a crown
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  Speaker 2: of thorns and put it on his head, and they
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  Speaker 2: began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews. Wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, what mockery. How is it that Jesus contained himself?
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  Speaker 2: How is it that he kept his composure when he
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  Speaker 2: could have at that moment called and summoned as the
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  Speaker 2: commander of the heavenly Host. He could have summoned twelve
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  Speaker 2: legions of angels and completely neutralized in the most painful way,
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  Speaker 2: all of those mocking soldiers with their little with their
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  Speaker 2: little swords and their little their little tools that they
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  Speaker 2: have on planet Earth. Jesus could have completely decimated them.
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  Speaker 2: But instead, because he has love and compassion for the people. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: because he was keeping his eyes on the prize of
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  Speaker 2: saving us from our sins, and this would have interrupted
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  Speaker 2: the process. You can't save yourself in that way. So
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  Speaker 2: Jesus chose not to save himself in that way. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at this saying, but God, how are you
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  Speaker 2: so good to us? You're so worthy of worship. You
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  Speaker 2: are good to us. When you could have destroyed us,
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  Speaker 2: you chose to give us more grace. And so they
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  Speaker 2: smote him on the head, oh my God, with a reed,
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  Speaker 2: and did spit on him. You're spitting on the creator
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  Speaker 2: of the universe. They're hitting the creator of the universe
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  Speaker 2: and bowing their knees and worshiped him. That wasn't real worship.
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  Speaker 2: They were just mocking him. And when they had mocked him,
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  Speaker 2: as we see now, very clearly in the text. They
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  Speaker 2: took off the purple from him and put on his
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  Speaker 2: own clothes and led him out to crucify him. We
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  Speaker 2: don't use the word crucify a lot these days. They
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  Speaker 2: were going to murder him. He was guilty of any
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  Speaker 2: charge religious or civil. And yet these soldiers, who were
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  Speaker 2: carrying out their duties faithfully, were carrying out duties of evil.
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  Speaker 2: They were carrying out the duties that the state had
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  Speaker 2: enjoined upon him upon them because weak leaders did not
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  Speaker 2: release him Pilot when he could have released him, Herod
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  Speaker 2: when he could have released him. Weak spiritual leaders lied
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  Speaker 2: and did not take the opportunity to stop lying against him.
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  Speaker 2: None of them chose to worship God. In reality, they
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  Speaker 2: continued their lying, their lying plot. And now you have
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  Speaker 2: all of these hundreds of soldiers ready to deal with
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  Speaker 2: people who get in the way of the crucifixion. Now,
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  Speaker 2: according to the lesson writer, the Romans utilized and served
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  Speaker 2: a severe form of beating to prepare prisoners for execution.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to kill this dude. They're going to kill
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  Speaker 2: not this dude, They're going to kill Jesus. I apologize.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to kill Jesus and they're preparing to kill
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  Speaker 2: him by beating him. The victim is stripped of his clothes,
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  Speaker 2: tied to a poe, and lashed with leather whips to
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  Speaker 2: which pieces of bone, glass, stones, and nails are tied.
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  Speaker 2: And this and more, Jesus accepted that the hands of
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  Speaker 2: broken humans in order to save you, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: and to save and to save me so much I
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  Speaker 2: could say, But let me just ask you, as the
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  Speaker 2: songwriter had penned, is he the king of my life?
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  Speaker 2: I crowned thee. Now thine shall the glory be? Lest
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  Speaker 2: I forget thy thorn crowned brow Lead me to Calvary. Please,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, talk to God about this experience and
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  Speaker 2: ask him to make you holy 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,