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10 29 2024 Sir, Give Me This Water · 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 Tuesday, October
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is Sir, give me this water. Sir,
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  Speaker 2: give me this water. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: and subscribe. There also also, please let us know where
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  Speaker 2: you are in the world. There's a little form that
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  Speaker 2: says where are you in the world. I'm still building
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  Speaker 2: my map. Those of you who've been with me for years,
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  Speaker 2: you know that I am obsessed somehow by where you
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  Speaker 2: are in the world. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith in fellowship. We're spreading
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  Speaker 2: the Gospel into all the world. You're the ones spreading
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  Speaker 2: it for a witness, so that the end will come.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm looking forward to the day that we can
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  Speaker 2: be done with this crazy world as it is. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this day
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  Speaker 2: our daily bread. Father. I thank you for the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to drink from the well which is Christ. I pray
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  Speaker 2: now that we'll be transfer, that our minds will be transformed,
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  Speaker 2: our lives will be transformed in Jesus' name. I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again, Sir, give me this water. And
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  Speaker 2: so Jesus, as he is orchestrating this encounter with the
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  Speaker 2: woman at the well. Now we know that they come
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  Speaker 2: from a related body of people. But one is rejected
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  Speaker 2: by the other, and then there is some hatred between
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  Speaker 2: the two, and it's ridiculous as far as I am concerned.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus said, as he is breaking down the wall
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  Speaker 2: and he is starting to build a bridge to her,
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  Speaker 2: he said, if you knew who I really was, if
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  Speaker 2: you really knew who I am, you would ask me
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  Speaker 2: for water. And guess what. As he began to as
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  Speaker 2: he continued to build the bridge between them, and he
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  Speaker 2: started to show compassion and love and awareness, she asked
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  Speaker 2: him just like he said she would. That means that
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  Speaker 2: she is starting to get it in her mind that
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  Speaker 2: this is no ordinary man. He said that I can
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  Speaker 2: give you water that's greater than the water that Jacob
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  Speaker 2: gave you. I can give you manna. He didn't say
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  Speaker 2: these words, but in another place he's teaching the same principle.
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  Speaker 2: I can give you. I can give you living bread.
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  Speaker 2: I am the bread of life, not just the bread
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  Speaker 2: that came from heaven, which was a miracle. We gave
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  Speaker 2: you that the people who ate that bread, they're dead now.
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  Speaker 2: The people who drink from this well will thirst again
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  Speaker 2: and ultimately will die. But I'm giving you because I
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  Speaker 2: am the bread of life. I am giving you because
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  Speaker 2: I am the water of life. I am giving you
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  Speaker 2: because I am life itself. I am giving you an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to drink freely from me and live forever and
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  Speaker 2: ever and ever. It does not matter who your mama was,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter that your father told
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  Speaker 2: you that you were a mistake. It doesn't matter that
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  Speaker 2: they tried to cover up their activity. Mammy and dad
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  Speaker 2: weren't supposed to be together, and they now you were
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  Speaker 2: born a crime. Huh. I think there's a man named Noah.
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  Speaker 2: Noah who was a commentator and also a comedian from
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  Speaker 2: South Africa that his birth was a crime because two
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  Speaker 2: sets of people shouldn't have been together and apartheid was
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  Speaker 2: a thing. But God is saying that no matter what
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  Speaker 2: the circumstances are or were, I am here to give
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  Speaker 2: everyone water of life freely. I think John told us
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  Speaker 2: this in the Book of Revelation. Yes, okay, So let
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  Speaker 2: me read a quote first from the Lesson, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will we will continue the discussion. Okay. And so
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  Speaker 2: abruptly Jesus changes the topic of discussion. Right. Remember, she
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  Speaker 2: is speaking in a in a societal way. She's speaking
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  Speaker 2: from a historical perspective, She's speaking from a religious perspective,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus is speaking from a purely eternal perspective. Do so,
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  Speaker 2: he changes the topic of discussion, calling on the woman
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  Speaker 2: to go call her husband. Wait a minute, to do what?
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  Speaker 2: Call her husband and then come back. So she's like,
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  Speaker 2: give me that water, and he's like, call your husband.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, wait a minute, wait, wait what The woman's
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  Speaker 2: actions bespoke avoidance. There were some things in her life
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  Speaker 2: that she may not have wanted to talk about. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about that one tomorrow in more detail. Ah avoidance,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus could read her heart. She must face her situation
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  Speaker 2: to find healing. You see, there are some times that
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  Speaker 2: people say, Dave, what would you say if if person
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  Speaker 2: X asks this certain question we're talking about Bible stuff,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't know what I would say.
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  Speaker 2: They're like what, and I'm like, listen. The problem with
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  Speaker 2: you people is that you you're always planning ahead. You're
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  Speaker 2: studying in order to win an argument. And so when
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  Speaker 2: I am and when i am faced with a question
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  Speaker 2: that has eternal importance, when I'm faced with a question
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  Speaker 2: that's related to God and the Bible. I ask God
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  Speaker 2: what he wants me to say. See, this woman wanted
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  Speaker 2: to have a theological and societal and cultural and historical discussion,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus is saying, you have a different need. And
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  Speaker 2: what we're gonna do is we're gonna drag this thing
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  Speaker 2: out into the open, and you're gonna have to face it.
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  Speaker 2: And if you do face it as you should, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to pour into you this water that will so
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  Speaker 2: transform your life that you will never thirst again. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about that again tomorrow if the Lord spaars life
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  Speaker 2: and now from the book Desire of Ages, page one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty seven, Before this soul could receive the gift,
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  Speaker 2: meaning this this woman that Jesus is ready to pour into,
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  Speaker 2: before this soul could receive the gift he longed to bestow,
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  Speaker 2: she must be brought to recognize her sin and her savior.
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  Speaker 2: That can be said and is said of us too.
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  Speaker 2: Before we can receive that which we need from God,
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  Speaker 2: we have to face the reality of our sin. We
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  Speaker 2: cannot continue to tell ourselves we're all right even in
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  Speaker 2: substance abuse transformations. People who are giving that up, one
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  Speaker 2: of the first things they have to do is recognize
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  Speaker 2: that they need a higher power. They need a higher
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  Speaker 2: power to help them. And this higher power is God himself.
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  Speaker 2: And we see this in the experience of Jesus and
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  Speaker 2: this woman at the well. I wish I knew her name.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to call her by name, But to last
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  Speaker 2: God didn't see fit to tell us. But we read
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  Speaker 2: now in the Old Testament Bible, Book of Ezekiel, chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirty six, something very interesting. Beginning at verse twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, then I will sprinkle clean water upon you,
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  Speaker 2: and ye shall be clean. You see, Jesus want to
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  Speaker 2: transform us. He wants to clean us, and then you'll
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  Speaker 2: be clean from all your filthiness, thank God. All of
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  Speaker 2: the things, the skeletons that were in her closet, the
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  Speaker 2: skeletons that are in your closet, dear brother, and you,
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  Speaker 2: dear sister, the things that you hope that nobody will
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  Speaker 2: ever see, the things you've looked at on the internet,
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  Speaker 2: the things you have experienced with people. You should never
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  Speaker 2: have been that close to the crimes that you have
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  Speaker 2: committed in you know right now, as far as you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's an unsolved mystery. All of those things. When we
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  Speaker 2: face the reality of those things and then yield them
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  Speaker 2: to God and allow him to transform us. He will
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  Speaker 2: wash you from all of your filthiness. Give it up today, brother,
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  Speaker 2: give it up today. Sister, you can do it today.
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  Speaker 2: I know that somebody is hearing this message from God.
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  Speaker 2: From all of your idols. I will cleanse you Verse
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  Speaker 2: twenty six. A new heart also will I give you you. See,
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  Speaker 2: we don't have to wait for God to try to
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  Speaker 2: renovate us. This is not how this works. He muws
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  Speaker 2: the house down, he bulldozes the whole situation, and then
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  Speaker 2: he creates us anew. The Bible says, I will put
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  Speaker 2: a new heart within you. A new spirit will I
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  Speaker 2: put within you. I will take away the stony heart
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  Speaker 2: out of your flesh, and I will give you a
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  Speaker 2: heart of flesh. I will put my spirit, my Holy spirit,
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  Speaker 2: within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.
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  Speaker 2: Ye shall keep my judgments and do them. You see,
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  Speaker 2: when you thought that you could not become holy, God
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  Speaker 2: taught you that if you will drink of the water
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  Speaker 2: of life freely, he can transform you to the degree
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  Speaker 2: that people will be amazed and ask how can they
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  Speaker 2: be transformed?
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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,