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08 28 2024 Earthly Duties and Heavenly Outcomes · 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 Wednesday, August
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
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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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We continue to study
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  Speaker 2: in the Book of Mark and our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is Earthly Duties and Heavenly Outcomes. Earthly duties and Heavenly Outcome.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to welcome you
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  Speaker 2: from wherever you happen to be in the world. I'm
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  Speaker 2: thankful that you are here. It may be early in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, it may be mid morning or even into
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  Speaker 2: the evening. Because you are on almost every continent of
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  Speaker 2: this world, this planet, and I'm thankful two hundred radio stations,
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of different apps definitely, thirty online platforms, etc. Etc.
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  Speaker 2: And that simply means that you have the capacity to
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  Speaker 2: hasten the coming of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: by sharing the good news, the great news of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that his judgment is come. He's welcoming
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  Speaker 2: us into his judgment so he can see us as
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  Speaker 2: holy covered in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. So welcome
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  Speaker 2: somebody into that fellowship, that relationship today and we can
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underweigh. Father, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: the privilege we have to be in league with you,
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  Speaker 2: to be on your team in your community. But not
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  Speaker 2: just to say that we're with you and take pictures
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  Speaker 2: and take pictures and share everybody we're friends with Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: but to go ahead and actually welcome other people into
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  Speaker 2: right relationship with you, welcome them into the life rather
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  Speaker 2: than death that they are now experiencing. Please give us
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  Speaker 2: your holy spirit today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. Well, we're running. We're running. We're running
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  Speaker 2: through the Book of Mark. Now we're in chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 2: I took you into chapter twelve without reading it yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: but now we are at verse thirteen. So much to say,
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  Speaker 2: so many controversies, unnecessarily so. And these controversies were with
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  Speaker 2: the people that God, that God wanted to use to
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  Speaker 2: save others. Can you imagine Jesus is having so much
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  Speaker 2: trouble inside the fellowship in twenty twenty four? Is it
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  Speaker 2: true still that God's people still have problems with God's
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  Speaker 2: peaple people, that we still want to just talk about
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  Speaker 2: the work and not do it according to the principles
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  Speaker 2: God has given to us. Are we still having the
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  Speaker 2: same challenges? Well, of course that's a rhetorical question. The
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  Speaker 2: obvious answer is yes. Sometimes we don't humble ourselves before
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  Speaker 2: God and do things in the way that He has
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  Speaker 2: prescribed and given us the blueprint to do because we're
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  Speaker 2: just too proud, some of us, not all. There are
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  Speaker 2: people who are choosing to do things just like Jesus did,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thankful so hopefully everybody listening, everybody who's watching
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  Speaker 2: me right now are among those who do it just
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  Speaker 2: like Jesus did. Earthly duties and heavenly outcomes. Now we
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  Speaker 2: are in chapter twelve of Mark, and I will read
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse thirteen, and the Bible reads, and they
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  Speaker 2: send unto him certain of the Pharisees. Here we go again.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go again, searchain of the Pharisees and Herodians
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  Speaker 2: to catch him in his words when you are sending
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  Speaker 2: a message, a messenger to God, like if you're sending
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  Speaker 2: someone to God for any purpose, are you sending them
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  Speaker 2: in order to get transformed by God or for some
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  Speaker 2: other reason? When you're sending people to God, when you're preaching,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a preacher, if you're teaching something, if you
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  Speaker 2: are sharing a link to something on the internet, when
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  Speaker 2: you're writing, when you're sharing yourself in a video a
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  Speaker 2: quick video on Instagram, TikTok or some other platform, and
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  Speaker 2: you are invoking the name, invoking the name of God,
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  Speaker 2: and you are giving people to go and be attentive
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  Speaker 2: like to hear about Jesus, Like what are you giving
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  Speaker 2: them when they get there? It is it to trap
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  Speaker 2: him in his words or attempt to him trap him
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  Speaker 2: in his words, to say gotcha? Like some of these
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  Speaker 2: people out here, dissident minded people who are out here
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  Speaker 2: putting up pictures of God's people and all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: stuff to show that they, in these people's minds, have
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  Speaker 2: done things against God's word, when really that's not the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Like what is your purpose? Like what are you doing
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  Speaker 2: when you use Jesus's name? Well, well, these people wanted
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  Speaker 2: to catch Jesus in his words verse fourteen. And when
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  Speaker 2: they were come, they say, unto him, Master, we know
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  Speaker 2: that thou art true and cares for no man. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, they're lying. They're not telling the truth about
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  Speaker 2: what they think about him. For thou regardest not the
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  Speaker 2: person of men, but thou teachest the way of God
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  Speaker 2: in truth? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar?
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  Speaker 1: Or not?
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  Speaker 2: What to pay taxes? Is that what they're asking? Of course,
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  Speaker 2: you're supposed to pay your taxes. But anyway shall we
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  Speaker 2: give or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy,
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  Speaker 2: said unto them, why tim gimi bring me a penny
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  Speaker 2: and that I may see it? And they brought it,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, unto them, whose image is on this
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  Speaker 2: and superscription? And they said, unto him Caesar's Jesus answering
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  Speaker 2: said unto them, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
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  Speaker 2: and to God the things that are God's. They marveled,
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  Speaker 2: and they marveled at him, and then come unto him
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  Speaker 2: the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection. And they
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  Speaker 2: asked him, saying, Master Moses wrote unto us, if a
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  Speaker 2: man's brother die and leave his wife behind and leave
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  Speaker 2: no children, that his brother should take his wife and
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  Speaker 2: raise up seed unto his brother. And there were seven brethren,
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  Speaker 2: And the first took a wife, and dying, left no seed,
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  Speaker 2: and the second took her and died, and neither left
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  Speaker 2: he any seed, and the third likewise, and the seven
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  Speaker 2: had her and left no seed. Last of all the
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  Speaker 2: woman died also in the resurrection. Therefore they want to know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't really want to know. They're really saying, we
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  Speaker 2: don't believe in the resurrection. Look at this complicated thing,
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  Speaker 2: because your law, like the law of Moses, actually says
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  Speaker 2: that this is how it's supposed to work. And now
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  Speaker 2: it looks like like if you're saying that there's a resurrection, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be as the world turns in like
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be the guiding light in eternity. If you
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  Speaker 2: don't know what that is, those are old soap operas.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a mess conflict. Huh, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: Housewives of Whomever a show again, it's gonna be a mess,
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  Speaker 2: a reality show. And Jesus is like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I see what you're doing. No, no, no, Let me
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  Speaker 2: just say something to you that in the Resurrection. In
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  Speaker 2: the Resurrection, you're deceived by the way and you don't
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  Speaker 2: know the power of God. In the Resurrection, there shall
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  Speaker 2: neither be marrying or giving in marriage. There will be
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  Speaker 2: neither marrying nor giving in marriage. You see, you will
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  Speaker 2: be like the angels. And then in verse twenty six Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, now, as for the dead being raised, have
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  Speaker 2: you not read in the Book of Moses, in the
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  Speaker 2: passage about the bush, how God said to him, I
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  Speaker 2: am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
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  Speaker 2: the God of Jacob. You see, these men had already
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  Speaker 2: passed away. Can I just say that He's resolving the
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  Speaker 2: conflict right here, the controversy right here. These men had
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  Speaker 2: already passed away. They were resting in their tombs and
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  Speaker 2: So if God is the God of Isaac and the
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  Speaker 2: God of Abraham and the God of Jacob verse twenty seven,
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  Speaker 2: he is not the god of the dead, but of
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  Speaker 2: the living. So Jesus resolves these arguments with the same
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  Speaker 2: word that they were trying to use against him. Remember, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the living Word of God. In him was life,
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  Speaker 2: and the life was the light of men. Hah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And so the question really is, when we are on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth and we are moving and breathing and living
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  Speaker 2: among other humans, are we guiding them to the paths
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness? Or are we looking for controversy? Are we
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  Speaker 2: teaching people that while we live on planet Earth? Just
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  Speaker 2: as the children of Israel when they were in Babylonian captivity,
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  Speaker 2: God had told them that even though you're in captivity,
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  Speaker 2: to cause Babylon to prosper while you're there. When Joseph
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  Speaker 2: was in captivity, he caused everything in Potterphar's house, in
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh's house to prosper. When you are living on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: are you making the place a better place while you're
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  Speaker 2: here influencing people for the purpose of bringing them closer
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  Speaker 2: to God? Are you controversial? You controversial? Speaking against the government,
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  Speaker 2: Are you controversial speaking against the church? Are you controversial
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  Speaker 2: or are you looking for ways to lead people into
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  Speaker 2: right relationship with God, earthly duties with eternal, heavenly outcomes.
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  Speaker 2: 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.