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06 29 2026 From Athens to Corinth · 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 Martning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Monday, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty ninth day of June in twenty twenty six. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our new lesson study series on
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  Speaker 2: the books of First and that Second Corinthians under the
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  Speaker 2: caption from Athens to Corinth, From Athens to Corinth. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: ministries is a listener and viewer supported ministry. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us this new day. Help us
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  Speaker 2: to follow along on this journey that Paul experienced with you,
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  Speaker 2: and not just to be voyeurs into his life, but
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  Speaker 2: to be transformed in the same way that he was transformed.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again from
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  Speaker 2: Athens to Corinth. Well, what is the most important thing
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  Speaker 2: in my mind on this particular lesson? Jesus Christ must
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  Speaker 2: be lifted up no matter where you are. I have
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  Speaker 2: lived in multiple places in the United States of America,
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  Speaker 2: and I've lived in Jamaica. Land we love, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible teaches us what they taught us as children. Brighten
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  Speaker 2: the corner where you are, no matter where you are.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus promised that I will be with you. I will
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  Speaker 2: be with you. So he must be lifted up wherever
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  Speaker 2: I am, wherever you are, because people in every place
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  Speaker 2: need the same savior. I don't care if you're at
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  Speaker 2: work at the gym, it doesn't matter if you're on
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  Speaker 2: the road at a stoplight. You're in a taxi on
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  Speaker 2: your way to work or to play. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: if you're in a restaurant, if you are swimming in
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  Speaker 2: the sea, wherever you are. If there are other humans
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  Speaker 2: in those places, they need the Savior. And so the
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  Speaker 2: Gospel is still God's power in difficult cities, in public places,
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  Speaker 2: and even in resistant hearts. Jesus is still the saying, yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: today and forever more. And so we go now into
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  Speaker 2: the Bible Book of Acts, chapter seventeen, and I will
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  Speaker 2: read verse sixteen, Acts, chapter seventeen, and I will read
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  Speaker 2: verse sixteen. Now, while Paul waited for them at Athens,
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  Speaker 2: his spirit was stirred in him. Well, why was it
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  Speaker 2: stirred in him? When he saw the city wholly given
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  Speaker 2: to idolatry. Remember we set brighten the corner wherever you are.
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  Speaker 2: And so when Paul saw that people were completely buried
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  Speaker 2: in their mindset against God. They had all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: false gods there worshiping. When the one true and living
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  Speaker 2: God that many would have called the unknown God was
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  Speaker 2: not being worshiped by them. It troubled his heart. It
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  Speaker 2: troubled his heart, And that means that means that it
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  Speaker 2: provoked and stirred him. It deeply distressed him. It means
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  Speaker 2: that Paul's heart was deeply troubled in a city filled
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  Speaker 2: with false worship. Are there people in your house that
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  Speaker 2: are worshiping other gods? Are there people at your job
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  Speaker 2: that are worshiping their own images in social media? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what the false gods of the day in
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  Speaker 2: the region where you live are. Maybe you live in
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  Speaker 2: a culture where there are still idols that are visible
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  Speaker 2: that people are still bowing to. Some are worshiping the sun,
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  Speaker 2: the rising sun. Some are worshiping the moon and stars.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who are worshiping our own images. When
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  Speaker 2: we look in the mirror, people are narcissistic to the
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  Speaker 2: extreme and are worshiping their own visions of grandeur for
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  Speaker 2: their own lives. And God is saying that we need
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  Speaker 2: to be troubled in our minds, not because we are helpless,
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  Speaker 2: not because we need to try to try transform anyone
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  Speaker 2: based on our own power. What we are saying, in
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  Speaker 2: fact from the Bible is that God is there. And Paul,
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  Speaker 2: in this case, when he went to Athens, he did
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  Speaker 2: not look on what those people were dealing with with indifference.
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  Speaker 2: He saw people that were far from God, and his
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  Speaker 2: heart was moved. The Gospel begins with a burden for souls,
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  Speaker 2: and so the action step is to ask God to
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  Speaker 2: give you a heart that feels the spiritual need of
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  Speaker 2: the people around you. We should not be able to
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  Speaker 2: move in and out in those daily experiences that we
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  Speaker 2: have with human beings. We should not be able to
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  Speaker 2: get in and out of places and not feel the burden.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that I'm on the road with Simona
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  Speaker 2: and Josiah and I see something going on the road
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  Speaker 2: while we are praying aloud on the way to school
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  Speaker 2: and to the gym. And sometimes what I see on
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  Speaker 2: the road because I'm driving, I have to be looking around.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it leaks into my prayers because I'm like, God,
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  Speaker 2: would you please protect this person? Will you please save
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  Speaker 2: that other human being? When I'm moving around in airports
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  Speaker 2: and other places, when I'm in the gym speaking to
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  Speaker 2: particular individuals, I'm like, God, these people need you. Will
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  Speaker 2: you manifest your power in their lives? So ask God
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  Speaker 2: to give you a heart that feels that, yes, and
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  Speaker 2: then move toward them with compassion. Our lesson number two
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  Speaker 2: comes in from Acts chapter seventeen and verse seventeen. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, therefore disputed. He in the synagogue with the
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  Speaker 2: people of God and the devouted persons, devout persons, and
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  Speaker 2: in the market daily with them that met him. So
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  Speaker 2: the people of God had been losing their minds. And
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  Speaker 2: then there were God fearing gentiles in the synagogue and
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  Speaker 2: in the marketplace. There were people who just did not
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  Speaker 2: really give all to God. And of course they are
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  Speaker 2: among those same set of people, people who did want
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  Speaker 2: to serve God. But the fact is that he would reason.
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  Speaker 2: Paul would reason with them. Do you reason with people
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  Speaker 2: who need guidance, who need comfort, who need peace? Do
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  Speaker 2: you reason with people who have separated themselves from God
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  Speaker 2: and you want them to come into right relationship with
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  Speaker 2: Him to be transformed? He spoke back and forth, and
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  Speaker 2: that means that Paul entered real conversation with people wherever
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  Speaker 2: he found them. So I need to speak to the
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  Speaker 2: introverts of the world. I am an introvert, even the
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  Speaker 2: ambiverts of the world, the people who kind of like
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  Speaker 2: certain people but then really kind of stay away from
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  Speaker 2: people as a big group. I'm really oversimplifying, But the
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  Speaker 2: Bible is teaching us that we cannot be to ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: If we are to be true believers in the last days,
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  Speaker 2: we have a message and a mission that God is
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  Speaker 2: given to us. And so that means we have to
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  Speaker 2: mingle with people. We have to experience what are their needs.
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  Speaker 2: We have to be able to speak for God and
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  Speaker 2: act on His behalf so people can be transformed. And
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  Speaker 2: Paul didn't wait for the perfect setting. He didn't wait
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  Speaker 2: for a stage or a platform. He didn't wait for
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  Speaker 2: a microphone, on YouTube or on social media. He spoke
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  Speaker 2: about Jesus in the synagogue, like wherever he was, in
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  Speaker 2: the marketplace, and every place where people had ears to hear.
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  Speaker 2: I added that to ears to hear, let those who
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  Speaker 2: have ears to hear, let them hear. This is what
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  Speaker 2: the spirit of God says to the people in the
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  Speaker 2: Last Days. God's truth is meant to meet people in
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  Speaker 2: real life. So what do I need to do. I
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  Speaker 2: need to be on the lookout. Brothers and sisters. You
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  Speaker 2: need to be on the lookout for any ordinary place
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  Speaker 2: where you can naturally speak a word for Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Is it at your workplace, is it in the taxi?
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  Speaker 2: You know where it is. If God is leading our
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  Speaker 2: third lesson in Final comes in from Acts chapter eighteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse eleven, where we read and he continued there
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  Speaker 2: for a year and six months. He was there for
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  Speaker 2: eighteen months, brothers and sisters, teaching the word of God
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  Speaker 2: among them. He was instructing and he was imparting truth.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it meant to teach. D Dosco. D Dosco.
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  Speaker 2: That means that he stayed in Corinth and fully and
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  Speaker 2: faithfully gave the people the word of God. Well, what
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  Speaker 2: does the action step in that regard? Stay faithful wherever
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  Speaker 2: God takes you, wherever He has placed you for the moment,
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  Speaker 2: and keep sharing His word even when growth seems slow.
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  Speaker 2: You all 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 l David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,