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07 13 2025 Who Is the Lord · 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 Sunday, July thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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, and of course
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  Speaker 2: we're taking our journey from Exodus into the Promised Land.
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  Speaker 2: And our caption for today is a question who is
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  Speaker 2: the Lord? And I think we've talked about that recently,
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  Speaker 2: of course we have. And before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,
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  Speaker 2: especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. 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: giving us the opportunity to consider who you are. Please
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  Speaker 2: help us to worship you in Jesus' name. I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Let me ask you the question, really,
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  Speaker 2: who is the Lord to you? Who is the Lord
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  Speaker 2: to you? The Bible reads here Jesus speaking in what
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  Speaker 2: we call the high priestly prayer or his mediatorial prayer.
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  Speaker 2: He is coming very close to the moment that he's
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  Speaker 2: going to lay down his life, and his people are
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  Speaker 2: not too sure that he's going to take it up
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  Speaker 2: again because he's doing his father's will. But the reality
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  Speaker 2: is Jesus speaking, and this is life eternal. Do you
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  Speaker 2: want to have eternal life?
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  Speaker 1: Ah?
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  Speaker 2: Or should I be asking do you have eternal life?
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about today, on this Sunday in July and
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, do you have eternal life? Notice? I
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  Speaker 2: did not say immortality. That's its cousin, but not its twin.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the quality of relationship that says you
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  Speaker 2: have moved from darkness into light, from death to life,
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  Speaker 2: and now you can go to God for anything and
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  Speaker 2: you know that because it's in His name, you will
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  Speaker 2: have it. That's what I'm talking about. Do you have
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  Speaker 2: eternal life? Jesus said this is eternal life that they
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  Speaker 2: might know thee Do you know God, the only true God?
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent? So knowing and
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  Speaker 2: obeying the Lord is supposed to be a blessing. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: I should I said it wrong. Knowing the Lord is.
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  Speaker 2: Knowing the Lord is supposed to be a blessing. And
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  Speaker 2: I think we need to do like a nuanced definition here,
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  Speaker 2: Like to know God is to have a relationship with him.
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  Speaker 2: To know who God is is a whole different discussion.
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  Speaker 2: To know God is to have an intimate, close relationship,
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  Speaker 2: a loving relationship with him, and to obey him. That's
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  Speaker 2: to know God. To know him is to love him.
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  Speaker 2: But to know who he is, that's a different discussion
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  Speaker 2: just to know who he is. But knowing and obeying
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  Speaker 2: God is a blessing. It's a worship experience. And the
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  Speaker 2: pharaoh of that time, the pharaoh of that time did
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  Speaker 2: not know the Lord, which is why he said, who
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  Speaker 2: is the Lord? And he was puffing his chest at
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  Speaker 2: the moment because this man who was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: the heir of heir to the throne, is saying that
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  Speaker 2: the Lord is saying, let my people go. And Pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: was like, hold on there, buddy, you've been gone for
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  Speaker 2: forty years and you're coming back talking about the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Some listen, who is the Lord. He's like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: God is gonna have to introduce himself, So who is
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. Don't wait until it's too late to find out.
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  Speaker 2: You gonna learn today, Pharaoh. Don't wait until it's too
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  Speaker 2: late to find out. And now we have to apply
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  Speaker 2: that to ourselves. Don't wait until it is too late
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  Speaker 2: to find out. When Moses stood before Pharaoh with God's command,
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  Speaker 2: let my people go, Pharaoh's response exposed more than just ignorance.
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  Speaker 2: His response was most related to his pride. His response
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  Speaker 2: was most related to the fact that he thought that
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  Speaker 2: he was God. He thought that he was the one
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  Speaker 2: who controlled everything, which is why he oppressed the people
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  Speaker 2: of God, you see. And so again let me go
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  Speaker 2: to verse two. And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord
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  Speaker 2: that I should obey his voice?
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  Speaker 1: Ah?
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  Speaker 2: And let God's people go, I know not the Lord?
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  Speaker 2: He says, Okay, you can proclaim that. Okay, neither will
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  Speaker 2: I let Israel go. Listen, if you knew the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: you would have never said that. Bro, are you? Are
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  Speaker 2: you serious? You're gonna tell the one who created the
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  Speaker 2: heavens and the earth, the one who created even your kingdom,
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  Speaker 2: like the one who sets up kings and brings them down,
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  Speaker 2: that you're not gonna do something? All right? All right,
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  Speaker 2: there's an easy way, and there's a difficulty. This king
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  Speaker 2: at that moment chose the hard way. And so the
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  Speaker 2: lesson really for us is rebellion begins with ignoring God's identity.
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  Speaker 2: Verse twenty one of Romans, Chapter one. God's people had
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  Speaker 2: that same problem at different points in history, it says,
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  Speaker 2: when they knew God, like even God's people had this problem.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they glorified him, not as God, as God introduced himself.
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  Speaker 2: He manifest his power, he showed his love, his willingness
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  Speaker 2: to say, And those individuals, for periods of time throughout history,
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  Speaker 2: they glorified him, not as God. Neither were they thankful.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they erected their own gods. And then they
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  Speaker 2: did all kind of wicked things in their lives. And
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  Speaker 2: in the same chapter of Romans, the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: when they had had their freak offs like that you've
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  Speaker 2: seen in the news, I know what I just said.
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  Speaker 2: When they had had all of these kinds of lifestyle
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  Speaker 2: and worship things other than God, the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: He handed them over to a reprobate mind. That means
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  Speaker 2: the mindset that you have embraced the God in lower
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  Speaker 2: case letters and air quotes, that you have chosen to worship.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you're gonna get and all of what comes
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  Speaker 2: with it, Rather than to be able to learn how
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  Speaker 2: to love the Lord, our God that brought us out
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  Speaker 2: of all kinds of sinful situations, the one who is
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  Speaker 2: the creator of all things, and yet he still hears
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  Speaker 2: our groanings. He hears when we are going through our difficulties.
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  Speaker 2: So the action is to ask God to reveal where
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  Speaker 2: your heart might be resisting. Who God really is, not
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  Speaker 2: the God of your assumptions, the God of scripture. And
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  Speaker 2: then we go back to his evil declaration Pharaoh's evil
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  Speaker 2: declaration in verse two, again, I will not let Israel
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  Speaker 2: go see pride says I will not to God God's will.
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  Speaker 2: Listen carefully. If you are not doing what God said
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  Speaker 2: to you, then you're just like that Pharaoh. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I won't. It doesn't really matter what the next thing is.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever God said, he said, I'm not doing that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Has God called you to sing? Has he called you
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  Speaker 2: to speak? Has he called you to sew? Did he
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  Speaker 2: call you to knit? Did he call you to coach people?
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  Speaker 2: Mentor did he call you to clean? Did he call
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  Speaker 2: you to fill in the blank? And you're saying no,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to hm hmm. It is the same
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  Speaker 2: kind of pride. And so we need to realize that
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  Speaker 2: pride goeth before destruction and a hearty hot tea spirit
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  Speaker 2: before a fall, according to Proverbs sixteen and verse eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: And so what we need to do, thank God is
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  Speaker 2: ask where in my life am I saying I will
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  Speaker 2: not when God says to do? And then now we
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  Speaker 2: go from from Roman chapter two. That's said is that
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  Speaker 2: God is long suffering. Do you despise the fact that
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  Speaker 2: He's long suffering? Do you despise the riches of his grace.
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  Speaker 2: You see, So every every time God gave Pharaoh an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to repent, Pharaoh chose to defy God. That's mercy,
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  Speaker 2: though God gave him mercy. But Pharaoh saw God's patience
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  Speaker 2: as weakness. And so if you've been delaying obedience, remember
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  Speaker 2: that is disobedience. But if you've been delaying, ask God
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  Speaker 2: for the courage to act right now. And then, finally,
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  Speaker 2: God's name is an invitation to surrender, not simply a
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  Speaker 2: trivia question. Who's God that I should serve him? That's
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  Speaker 2: not a trivia question, Bruh.
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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,