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08 12 2025 Water From the Rock · 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, August twelve,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. 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 Exodus under the caption
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  Speaker 2: Watcher from the Rock, Water from the Rock. 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 you and ask you to go
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  Speaker 2: and let us know where you are in the world.
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  Speaker 2: At your Daily Portion dot Com. 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. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you, thank you for giving us the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to open up your word. And I pray that we
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  Speaker 2: will listen for your voice, that we will accept your
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  Speaker 2: provision as indeed what it is, your provision, and stop
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  Speaker 2: making up other stuff that we would rather have than you.
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  Speaker 2: And I pray that today we will be watered well watered.
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  Speaker 2: As a person in the wilderness who needs your watering
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus' name, I pray, amen and amen again. Well,
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  Speaker 2: in the wilderness, you need plenty of water. That's what
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer said, and I agree totally. I wake
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  Speaker 2: up in the morning and I drink within the first hour.
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  Speaker 2: I drink at least forty some ounces as soon as
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  Speaker 2: I wake up, within the first hour, and then I
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  Speaker 2: may drink another twenty before what time for me six am,
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  Speaker 2: before six am, and then I drink multiple times throughout
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  Speaker 2: the day, large portions of water. Because even if I'm
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  Speaker 2: not in the wilderness, I need plenty of water. And
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  Speaker 2: so do you.
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  Speaker 1: So do you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. In fact, in Jamaica, we say that water is life.
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  Speaker 2: Water is life. So God took care of this problem.
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  Speaker 2: Even though the people were quarrelsome they did not trust him,
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  Speaker 2: and they even tested his ability and willingness to give
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  Speaker 2: them water. In their unbelief, they look back to Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: So we begin now by reading from the Bible Book
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  Speaker 2: of Exodus, Exodus, chapter seventeen, and I'll read verse seven.
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  Speaker 2: And he called the name of the place Masa and
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  Speaker 2: Maraba because of the chiding of the children of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and because they tempted the Lord, saying is the Lord
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  Speaker 2: among us or not? Let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a habit? Really, it doesn't even need
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  Speaker 2: to be a habit, But do you say is the
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  Speaker 2: Lord among us? When you don't get things the way
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  Speaker 2: that you expect, when you are wondering and worrying, do
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  Speaker 2: you wonder and worry about whether God is among you
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  Speaker 2: and your people, your family, the people you work with,
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  Speaker 2: wherever you live, whatever country you're in. Are you questioning
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  Speaker 2: God because you're being tested? Let me read this again
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  Speaker 2: from the amplified version of the Bible. He called the
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  Speaker 2: place Masa test and Maraba contention because of the quarreling
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  Speaker 2: of the sons of the people of God because they
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  Speaker 2: tested the patience of God saying is the Lord among
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  Speaker 2: us or not? And so I've already shown you based
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  Speaker 2: on the amplified version of the Bible, that massa actually
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  Speaker 2: means testing or trial, marabah, marabah, marrabah actually means quarreling
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  Speaker 2: or contention. But now comes the word rock. The word rock,
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  Speaker 2: and we're talking about Hebrew here often symbolizes God's strength, stability,
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  Speaker 2: and provision. So Jesus provides water in the wilderness from
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  Speaker 2: the rock, Jesus being the water of life that he
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  Speaker 2: gives freely, Jesus being the rock. Ha the stone that
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  Speaker 2: the builders rejected, has now become the head of the corner. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so God has been the stabilizing foundation of the the
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  Speaker 2: Church of God, the people of God throughout the history
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  Speaker 2: of the People of God from Adam and Eve straightforward.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I just said. In fact, there are
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  Speaker 2: some people who believe that Jesus was saying upon this rock,
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  Speaker 2: meaning Peter, he will build his church. That would not
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  Speaker 2: make any sense at all, because if you build your
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  Speaker 2: church on a human, your church is going to fail.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, that same human that people think the Church
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  Speaker 2: of God was built upon had crumbled and failed almost
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  Speaker 2: after right after this discussion about the rock. But it
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  Speaker 2: was the belief that Peter had that he was still
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  Speaker 2: growing and maturing in the belief that you are You are,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, Jesus, son of the Living God, and that
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  Speaker 2: is the rock, Jesus Christ. He is the rock upon
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  Speaker 2: whom the people of God and the institutions of God's
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  Speaker 2: people have been built. He was the rock in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 2: and he is still the rock in our day. And
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  Speaker 2: so in the context, Israel had experienced miraculous manna and quail.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, even though God didn't want them to have
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  Speaker 2: the quail, he needed to teach them a lesson, and
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  Speaker 2: therefore they got the quail, and to the point that
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  Speaker 2: it ran out of it like they had so much
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  Speaker 2: quail that it made them sick. But it was still miraculous.
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  Speaker 2: Their journey brought them to refer them where no water
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  Speaker 2: was found. Instead of remembering God's recent provision they didn't
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  Speaker 2: even have to look back too far. Instead of remembering
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  Speaker 2: that and commemorating that, they complained. So that's the question,
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  Speaker 2: do you complain things don't go your way? Are you
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  Speaker 2: complaining things don't go as you anticipated? Are you complaining
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  Speaker 2: or worse? If you gave God a prescription, he go
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  Speaker 2: to the good doctor who is God, and you write
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  Speaker 2: him a prescription about how your healing must go, healing
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  Speaker 2: of your finances, healing of your relationships, healing of your
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  Speaker 2: physical health, your mental or emotional health. Like, are you
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  Speaker 2: writing prescriptions for God and when He does not fill
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  Speaker 2: them in the way that you anticipated or prescribed, are
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  Speaker 2: you upset with God? Asking is the Lord among us
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  Speaker 2: or not? That is a terrible dangerous situation. And I
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  Speaker 2: really don't care if anybody thinks that's a judgmental mindset
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  Speaker 2: from my perspective, because the truth is, the people of
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  Speaker 2: God were reprimanded for that. They were checked and corrected
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  Speaker 2: for that. God only said that was a lack of faith.
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  Speaker 2: So what am I supposed to say something different than God? No, sir,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do that, because God has already shown
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  Speaker 2: his perspective on this. And so from the book Patriarchs
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  Speaker 2: and Prophets, page two hundred and ninety eight, it reads,
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  Speaker 2: Moses smote the rock, but it was the Son of
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  Speaker 2: God who veiled in the cloudy pillar, stood beside Moses
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  Speaker 2: and caused the life getting giving water to flow. So
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the one who was the provider in that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Moses simply did what God asks him to do. We're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the first go around, you see. So when
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was was smitten, oh my, when you read in
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter fifty three, when he was smitten, he was smitten.
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  Speaker 2: He was wilful in that case, was wilful. He gave.
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  Speaker 2: He gave his life so that we can have eternal life.
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  Speaker 2: He submitted himself to that process. And so on the
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  Speaker 2: first go around, when Moses strikes the rock, it was
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  Speaker 2: a symbol of that God's provision. Now the second go
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  Speaker 2: around was a different thing altogether. I won't fast forward
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  Speaker 2: to that. We're not dealing with it today. But the rock,
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  Speaker 2: according to Paul in First Corinthians, chapter ten and verse four,
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  Speaker 2: was Christ Jesus was Christ Jesus. And then I guess
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  Speaker 2: we can apply now for ourselves. Don't test God's love
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  Speaker 2: when the circumstances get hard. Remember what He has done
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  Speaker 2: before for your for our fathers, for people that you know,
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  Speaker 2: for people in the Bible, for you. In fact, he
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  Speaker 2: has done some things that you can remember. So even
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  Speaker 2: when sometimes God's people Murmur. God provides, but his goal
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  Speaker 2: for me if I do God forbid Murmur, is growth,
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  Speaker 2: not indulgence. God isn't just. He's not enabling me by
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  Speaker 2: giving me quail God forbid, but he's saying, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna give it to you, but you need to see
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  Speaker 2: what's gonna happen when I go this way. You want
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  Speaker 2: a king, Okay, I'll give it to you, but you
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  Speaker 2: have to see what's going to happen because you didn't
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  Speaker 2: trust me. So Christ is still our rock, struck once
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  Speaker 2: for all, He provides living water. 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,