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09 24 2024 The Women at the Tomb · 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, September
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, 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. This is the final week through the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Mark and our caption for today is the
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  Speaker 2: Women at the Tomb. The Women at the Tomb. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: that community as well. And I'm asking you also to
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  Speaker 2: pick up your daily portion book. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's 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 new day,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you for loving us so much that you
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  Speaker 2: have given us the opportunity to open your word again.
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you now to give us the fullness of
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  Speaker 2: your holy spirit. Help us to have the spirit of listening,
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  Speaker 2: like to be able to hear what you have taught
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  Speaker 2: and then apply it. Please in Jesus name, I pray
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again the women at the tomb. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I have already shared with you my criticism of God's people,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to use that word in a positive sense,
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  Speaker 2: because there are times that we miss what Jesus said
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  Speaker 2: very clearly. Can I say that again? There are times
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  Speaker 2: that we miss what God has said clearly. Like I criticize,
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  Speaker 2: I'm criticizing Eve because he gave God gave clear guidance
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  Speaker 2: about what should happen and what should not happen at
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  Speaker 2: the tree. I have criticism of Adam because God gave
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  Speaker 2: clear guidance about what should and should not happen at
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  Speaker 2: the tree, and he could see Adam could see what
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  Speaker 2: went wrong with Eve, and he jumped into sin. And
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  Speaker 2: so I can criticize myself in the same way. There
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  Speaker 2: are times that God has given great and precious promises.
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  Speaker 2: He's given spiritual principles that are easy to apply, and
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  Speaker 2: I missed it, and so have you. There have been
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  Speaker 2: times that God's people throughout the ages, way back to
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  Speaker 2: Adam and Eve, have missed what God said very clearly.
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  Speaker 2: And the devil has been using the same old trick
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  Speaker 2: ever since. Yay have God said? And then he mixes
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  Speaker 2: it up. What has God told you to do? I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about as of today or yesterday, or what was
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  Speaker 2: the last thing that He told you to do and
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  Speaker 2: you didn't do it? You see, sometimes people don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We're walking around aimlessly, and we wonder what we should
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  Speaker 2: be doing, what we should be doing. And my brother
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  Speaker 2: and friend and the one that I work with most
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  Speaker 2: every single day except for Sabbaths, Eric Thomas, he said
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  Speaker 2: to do do what God said to do. Last you
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  Speaker 2: want to know what we're supposed to be doing. Do
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  Speaker 2: what God commanded you to do the last time, and
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  Speaker 2: that you left undone. Okay. And so the women at
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  Speaker 2: the tomb, they are going there looking for the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 2: They are looking for love in all the wrong places.
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  Speaker 2: And I know, I know, I know. Just give me
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  Speaker 2: a second here, okay. And so let me read now
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  Speaker 2: from the book of the book titled The Desire of Ageus,
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  Speaker 2: page seven hundred and eighty eight, and it reads, the
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  Speaker 2: women who had stood by the cross of Christ waited
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  Speaker 2: and watched for the hours of the sabbath to pass.
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  Speaker 2: Now this is good. So far, so good, so far,
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  Speaker 2: so good. On the first day of the week, very early,
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  Speaker 2: they made their way to the tomb. I like how
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  Speaker 2: this is going. I like how this is going, taking
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  Speaker 2: with them precious Wait a minute, taking with them precious
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  Speaker 2: spices to anoint the Savior's body. This is where everything
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  Speaker 2: goes south. This is where everything goes south. Why are
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  Speaker 2: they going to the tomb to with precious spices to
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  Speaker 2: anoint his body? Like that would mean he'd be dead.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus promised that he'd be risen. He would wake up
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  Speaker 2: on the first day. So they're going to the tomb.
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  Speaker 2: Good thing. If anything, they should have organized a welcome session,
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  Speaker 2: like they should have organized a worship session to say,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be the first ones to see him
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  Speaker 2: wake up. If anything, they should have organized hundreds and
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  Speaker 2: thousands of people, the people who he has healed in
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  Speaker 2: the past, the disciples, all of the people that the
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  Speaker 2: Disciples had touched and healed. Yes, those individuals, everybody who
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  Speaker 2: had any hope at all in them, should have been
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  Speaker 2: at the tomb, standing there waiting for the moment that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus woke up. But instead they're looking to embalm his body.
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  Speaker 2: Let me continue reading. They did not think about his
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  Speaker 2: rising from the dead. The sun of their hope had
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  Speaker 2: set and night had settled down on their hearts. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine, God help us? As they walked, they recounted
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's works of mercy and his works of comfort, but
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  Speaker 2: they remembered not his words, I will see you again,
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  Speaker 2: as in John chapter sixteen and verse twenty two. And
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  Speaker 2: So what we want to do is, for the few
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  Speaker 2: moments that we have left today, talk about how we
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  Speaker 2: can remember remember God's promises when we are facing the
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  Speaker 2: temptation to lose hope. Remembering God's promises when we are
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  Speaker 2: facing the temptation to lose hope. Okay, And so now
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  Speaker 2: we go to Joshua chapter one and verse eight, where
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, this Book of the Law shall not
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  Speaker 2: depart from my mouth? Are you hearing what Joshua is saying?
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  Speaker 2: But thou shalt meditate therein day and night, and thou
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  Speaker 2: mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein.
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  Speaker 2: For then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and thou
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  Speaker 2: shalt have good success. And so what Joshua did was
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  Speaker 2: he kept the word of God in front of him.
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  Speaker 2: Of course he's speaking of the Book of the Law,
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  Speaker 2: but he would keep it right in front of him.
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  Speaker 2: The things that matter most to us should be placed
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  Speaker 2: prominently in front of us on a daily basis all day.
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  Speaker 2: What is prominent, what is top of mind for us?
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  Speaker 2: And for Joshua it was the Book of the Law.
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  Speaker 2: It shall not depart out of my mouth, But thou shalt.
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  Speaker 2: Thou shalt meditate therein day and night, day and night,
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  Speaker 2: meditate on God's word. And besides that, besides that, I'm
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  Speaker 2: reading now from Psalm chapter one hundred nineteen and verse eleven,
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  Speaker 2: Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I
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  Speaker 2: might not sin against thee. So we're talking about now
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  Speaker 2: memorizing the word, so we have it before us. We
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  Speaker 2: meditate on God's word. But Thy word have I hid
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  Speaker 2: in my heart. So now I am seeking to apply
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  Speaker 2: the word of God the promises that God has given us,
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  Speaker 2: the great and precious promises that those women would have received,
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  Speaker 2: those decide viples would have received from God. If they
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  Speaker 2: were keeping them before them, before their faces, and then
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  Speaker 2: hiding them in their hearts, memorizing and drawing upon the
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  Speaker 2: power that is embedded in them, then they would not
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  Speaker 2: have doubted. And if doubt would have come as a temptation,
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  Speaker 2: and it does often, they would have been bolstered. They
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  Speaker 2: would have been able to overcome that doubt. Why because
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  Speaker 2: the word is hidden in their heart. Okay. And so
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  Speaker 2: the final one is from Hebrews chapter ten. They were together.
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  Speaker 2: They were together. So Hebrews chapter ten, verses twenty four
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  Speaker 2: and twenty five makes a lot of sense. And it says,
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  Speaker 2: and let us consider one another to provoke unto love
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  Speaker 2: and to good works. You see, they're together if they're
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  Speaker 2: keeping God's word before them, the precious promises. If they
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  Speaker 2: are hiding those words in their heart those promises right,
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  Speaker 2: so they won't sin against him. Then now they are
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  Speaker 2: provoking one another to love and unto good works, not
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  Speaker 2: forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of
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  Speaker 2: some is, but exhorting one another. And so much more
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  Speaker 2: as we see the day approaching. And so when we
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  Speaker 2: are in the community, the fellowship of believers, the fellowship
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  Speaker 2: of faith, of people who are keeping God's word before
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  Speaker 2: us and are hiding his word in our hearts, that
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  Speaker 2: we might not sin against him, and then coming together
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  Speaker 2: rinse and repeat, provoking one another unto love and unto
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  Speaker 2: good works, then we will have the power that we
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  Speaker 2: need not to be hopeless, but to be full of hope,
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  Speaker 2: and to remember God's word at the most critical times
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  Speaker 2: in our faith journey. 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 el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,