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09 02 2026 Call to Holiness · 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, L.
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  Speaker 1: David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is L. 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 lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: books of 1 and 2 Corinthians, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is, Call to Holiness. God has called all of
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  Speaker 2: us to holiness. Call to holiness. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to go over to yourdailyportion.com. Will you please go ahead
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  Speaker 2: There's a yellow arrow on my screen pointing to the button.
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  Speaker 2: Stop guessing what to do with your life. Discover God's
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  Speaker 2: design for your life. You know God has called all
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  Speaker 2: of us to a specific calling or a set of
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  Speaker 2: of things that he wants us to be in this world,
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  Speaker 2: to lead people closer to him. And this assessment that
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  Speaker 2: I've been working on for years has now been released,
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  Speaker 2: and it will get you on the right track under God.
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  Speaker 2: and viewer supported ministry. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: getting us right into the middle of this week. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for loving us enough to listen to us. Now,
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  Speaker 2: will you help us to be holy? Because you're holy.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name I pray.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And amen again. A call to holiness. I can't help
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  Speaker 2: but to recall that the high priest had a mitre
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  Speaker 2: on his head in the Old Testament system of sacrifices.
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  Speaker 2: And that high priest said, What was written on that,
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  Speaker 2: if you will, was holiness to God. So right in
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  Speaker 2: his forehead, we could see his connection. That was the
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  Speaker 2: reality of his life and ministry, that he was to
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  Speaker 2: be holy unto God. I think somebody's getting this. And
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  Speaker 2: so for me, the most important thing is that God's
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  Speaker 2: promises come before his commandment. I won't say commandments, same thing.
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  Speaker 2: His promises come before his commands. I wish I could
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  Speaker 2: go down through this long list that I have already
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  Speaker 2: thought through and studied over these years. But when he
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  Speaker 2: calls us to love, well, we can only love him
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  Speaker 2: because he first loved us. That's one example. So he's
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  Speaker 2: the cause of our ability to love him. So God's
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  Speaker 2: promises come before his commands. He says, I will dwell
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  Speaker 2: in you. I will be your God. I will be
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  Speaker 2: your father. I will come from the foundation, which is holiness.
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  Speaker 2: And that is how it becomes possible. So I am
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  Speaker 2: your holiness. Therefore, I am commanding you to be holy
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  Speaker 2: because I am holy. Do you see where we're going
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  Speaker 2: with this? Everything that God requires, he first gives. supplies
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  Speaker 2: or provides to us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, let's go into 2 Corinthians chapter 6. 2 Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: chapter 6, and we will read verse 16. 2 Corinthians
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  Speaker 2: chapter 6, and we will read verse 16. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
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  Speaker 2: For ye are the temple of the living God. If
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  Speaker 2: you're the temple of the living God, just go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and type yes in the chat. Brothers and sisters, are
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  Speaker 2: you the temple of the living God where God can dwell?
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  Speaker 2: The Bible continues, and God hath said, I will dwell
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  Speaker 2: in them and walk in them. Imagine God calling you
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  Speaker 2: to walk as Jesus walked. And you're like, God, where?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know the way. And he said to his disciples,
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  Speaker 2: I am the way, the truth and the life.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And so and so if Jesus is walking in you,
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  Speaker 2: that means that wherever Jesus goes, wherever that lamb goes,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus goes, you will go. You won't make up your
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  Speaker 2: own path because he leads you, as the Old Testament
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  Speaker 2: Bible writer said, along the paths of righteousness. And so
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  Speaker 2: you're the temple of the living God. He has said,
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  Speaker 2: I will dwell in them, thank God, and walk in them,
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  Speaker 2: thank God, and I will be their God and they
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  Speaker 2: shall be my people. That sounds like the end of
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  Speaker 2: the story, quite frankly, when we see in the Revelation
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  Speaker 2: after the thousand years are finished and we are in
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  Speaker 2: that temple with God. Well, there's no temple there because
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is the temple. He is the light. But the
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  Speaker 2: bottom line is he said he would be with his people.
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  Speaker 2: He shall be their God and be with them forever
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  Speaker 2: and ever and ever.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's a foretaste. What we're talking about at
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  Speaker 2: this moment is a foretaste of that reality. And so
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  Speaker 2: what does it mean to dwell in? That text gives
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  Speaker 2: us a Greek word. I won't pronounce it. To dwell in,
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  Speaker 2: it means to take up permanent residence inside. See, God
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  Speaker 2: is moving into the lives of the people who will
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  Speaker 2: submit to him permanently. Please don't evict God permanently. Please
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  Speaker 2: don't kick him out of your space. God is saying
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  Speaker 2: he will be with you if you will allow him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a gentleman. Yes. Permanent residence. God does not merely
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  Speaker 2: visit the leader. Did I say leader?
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  Speaker 1: Believer.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why I said leader. He takes up residence.
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  Speaker 2: The indwelling of God in his people is the foundation
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  Speaker 2: of holiness. Now you know what the pathway to holiness is,
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  Speaker 2: welcoming God into your life in every detail, all day,
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  Speaker 2: every day, allowing him to do what only God can
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  Speaker 2: do in your life, okay? The indwelling of God in
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  Speaker 2: his people is the foundation of holiness, not the reward
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  Speaker 2: for achieving it. Let's get that perspective right. Holiness from
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  Speaker 2: God being in your life is your only way to
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  Speaker 2: be able to do what he said, your only way
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  Speaker 2: to love him and keep his commandments, the only way
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  Speaker 2: for you to have this hope of the second coming
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  Speaker 2: and being able to purify yourselves, even as he is pure.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that does that in your life, okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson really for me is, Holiness begins
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  Speaker 2: with the presence of God. Before Paul gives a single
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  Speaker 2: command about separation, he establishes seven promises. I will dwell,
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  Speaker 2: that's one. I will walk, two. I will be your God, three.
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  Speaker 2: I will receive you, four. I will be a father
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  Speaker 2: unto you, and it continues. The command of flows from
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  Speaker 2: the promises and not the other way around. So what
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  Speaker 2: do we do with this? This may be a revelation
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  Speaker 2: to somebody right now. Well, begin your pursuit, like run
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  Speaker 2: after God. Follow hard, as some of the old believers
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  Speaker 2: used to say. Follow hard. Run after God hard. Do that.
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  Speaker 2: But I want you to do it without thinking, I
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  Speaker 2: have to accomplish this thing. It's a checklist that some
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  Speaker 2: people have in our minds, and God is saying, don't
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  Speaker 2: do that. Declare with God that he dwells in you.
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  Speaker 2: Let his presence be the starting point and the source
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  Speaker 2: of power. Now, the Bible reads in 2 Corinthians 6,
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  Speaker 2: verses 17 and 18, Therefore come out of their midst,
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  Speaker 2: or from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you,
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  Speaker 2: and will be a father unto you, and ye shall
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  Speaker 2: be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord God Almighty. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is not as much a tall order. He's not
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  Speaker 2: saying that you have to make that action happen before
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  Speaker 2: he comes. begins the process within you. It is Christ
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  Speaker 2: in you, the hope of glory. He can do within
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  Speaker 2: you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: You understand? So every action that he is commanding here,
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  Speaker 2: he will have first equipped us for with his presence.
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  Speaker 2: And so to separate or to come apart means to
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  Speaker 2: mark a boundary. Some of y'all ain't got no boundaries.
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  Speaker 2: That's the problem. That stuff that comes in on your DMs,
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  Speaker 2: Those things that you're scrolling and watching and seeing and
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  Speaker 2: listening to and experiencing. Some of the phone calls that
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  Speaker 2: you're getting. You need to put up boundaries. Put up
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  Speaker 2: a hard boundary between. The call to be separate is
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  Speaker 2: not a call for isolation. God is saying he just
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  Speaker 2: wants you to be like him. Be like him. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: is like him, then be with that.
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Whatever is not like him, draw a solid line. So
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  Speaker 2: the believer lives in the world, but is shaped by God.
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  Speaker 2: God's values and all the things that matter to him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: be lights in this world, in this wicked and perverse generation.
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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.