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08 04 2024 Human Traditions versus God’s Commands · 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 Sunday, August fourth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. 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 Mark, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is human traditions versus God's commands. Human traditions
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  Speaker 2: versus God's commands. Get into that in just a moment,
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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 and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: that you've given us to pray. Please teach us to
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  Speaker 2: listen to your voice, and your voice only in Jesus name.
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Yeah, sometimes humans have
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  Speaker 2: a problem, and our problem besides, you know, the really
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  Speaker 2: big stuff is a really big one here. I know
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  Speaker 2: what I just said. We don't listen to God's voice enough.
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  Speaker 2: Some of us don't listen to God's voice at all.
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  Speaker 2: And this is why we have this big contrast, like
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  Speaker 2: this challenge between what God says and what humans say,
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  Speaker 2: what God says and what the devil says. You see,
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  Speaker 2: at the Garden of Eden, the devil tried this plan
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  Speaker 2: out and it worked. You know, God had already made
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  Speaker 2: himself very clear about the knowledge, the tree of the
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of good and evil. And when he goes to Eve,
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  Speaker 2: he said, yeay hath God said, and then he starts
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  Speaker 2: to mess around a little bit with what God says.
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  Speaker 2: And then he goes in complete, diametrically opposed language from
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  Speaker 2: what God said. He said, you shall not surely die,
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  Speaker 2: when God said you shall surely die. And it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we need to listen for God's voice, and when we
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  Speaker 2: hear or listen, we actually do what he says. That
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  Speaker 2: is the antidote. Like if we stopped right here, if
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  Speaker 2: the current cut off and the broadcast stopped right here,
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  Speaker 2: we will have gotten what we need for today. Whatever
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  Speaker 2: God says, we listen to it and then just do it.
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  Speaker 2: Everything else has to go okay. And so the discussion
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  Speaker 2: is taken up here in the Bible Book of Mark,
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  Speaker 2: chapter seven, beginning at verse one, and the Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: then came together unto him, the Pharisees and searching of
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  Speaker 2: the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. Oh, they're coming from
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  Speaker 2: they're coming from home. Base hold on. And when they
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  Speaker 2: saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled that
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  Speaker 2: is to say, with unwashing hands, they found fault for
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  Speaker 2: the Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash their
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  Speaker 2: hands oft eat not holding the tradition of the elders.
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  Speaker 2: The what tradition of the elders? Okay? Verse four. And
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  Speaker 2: when they come from the market, except they wash, they
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  Speaker 2: eat not, And many other things there be which they
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  Speaker 2: have received to hold, as the washing of cups and pots,
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  Speaker 2: brazen vessels, and tables. I went to a actually went
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  Speaker 2: to a kosher pizza shop one time in Maryland, and
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  Speaker 2: I saw the ritual washings even there. Very interesting. Verse five.
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  Speaker 2: Then the pharisees and scribes asked him, why walk not
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  Speaker 2: the disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but
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  Speaker 2: eat bread with unwashing hands. He answered, and said, unto them,
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  Speaker 2: Well has said essays prophesied of you hypocrites, as it
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  Speaker 2: is written this people honor with me with their lips.
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  Speaker 2: You see, there are a lot of people who talk
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  Speaker 2: a good talk, like like I say, like you ask
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  Speaker 2: somebody how they're doing. And I'm not talking about everybody
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  Speaker 2: who does this. I'm talking about the people who are
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  Speaker 2: actual hypocrites. How you doing? And then they use his
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  Speaker 2: name he is good, and it's like, Okay, I got you.
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  Speaker 2: I agree that God is good, but how are you right?
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  Speaker 2: And then you find that this person is abusive to
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  Speaker 2: his or her spouse, like then you find that this
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  Speaker 2: person has been stealing from the treasury, And then you
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  Speaker 2: find out that the sanctimonious language and outward or external
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  Speaker 2: behavior of interesting long term fast and these kinds things
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  Speaker 2: are in opposition to the lifestyle that they live at home.
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  Speaker 2: Like I grew up in a situation like this, where
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  Speaker 2: it was like, Wow, I wish I could see the
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  Speaker 2: person that I hear about from that pulpit. I wish
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  Speaker 2: that person lived in my house. But alas it was
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  Speaker 2: not the case. And so I just want to say,
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  Speaker 2: thank God that he is giving us the privilege, the
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  Speaker 2: privilege to open up his word and see what God
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  Speaker 2: is saying here. He said that they honor me with
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  Speaker 2: their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Verse seven,
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  Speaker 2: How be it in vain do they worship me teaching
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  Speaker 2: for doctrines, the commandments of men, for laying aside the
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  Speaker 2: commandment of God, Ye hold many other traditions of men,
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  Speaker 2: as washing of pots and cups and so forth. And
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  Speaker 2: verse nine, he said, unto them, full well, ye reject
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  Speaker 2: the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
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  Speaker 2: For Moses said, honor thy father and thy mother. And
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  Speaker 2: whosoever curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
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  Speaker 2: But ye say, if a man say to his father
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  Speaker 2: or mother. It is corbon, that is to say, a
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  Speaker 2: gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, he
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  Speaker 2: shall be free. And he suffered them no more to
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  Speaker 2: do aught for his father or mother, making the word
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  Speaker 2: of God of none effect through your tradition which ye
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  Speaker 2: have delivered, and so many such things. So I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to go into the details of that particular tradition
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  Speaker 2: because it's not likely that wherever you happen to be
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  Speaker 2: living in the world, that you're dealing with this particular one.
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  Speaker 2: What Jesus was dealing with in this moment, he was
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  Speaker 2: dealing with hypocrisy. That's what he was dealing with. He
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  Speaker 2: was dealing with hypocrisy. He was dealing with people switching
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  Speaker 2: things up in order to serve themselves, even though they
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  Speaker 2: want to have people think that they're holy. So let's
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  Speaker 2: deal with hypocrisy. You can study exactly what Jesus was
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  Speaker 2: talking about in those details, but again, it's not something
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  Speaker 2: that we can necessarily apply to ourselves, most of us.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get to the root of the matter. What
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  Speaker 2: is he really talking about? And so let's look at
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  Speaker 2: hypocrisy and how we can avoid it. Can we agree
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  Speaker 2: that we all need to agree. We need to avoid hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing that we need to do is examine
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  Speaker 2: ourselves and be honest. We need to yield ourselves to
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost and have self examination. And according to
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  Speaker 2: the Bible Book of Tewod Corinthians, chapter thirteen and verse five,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith,
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  Speaker 2: and prove your own selves. Let me say it again,
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  Speaker 2: examine yourselves. I need to add my name here, David.
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  Speaker 2: Examine yourself, David. Examine yourself whether I be in the faith,
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  Speaker 2: and prove your own selves. Hm. Oh, so I need
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  Speaker 2: to actually look in the mirror. I think the Bible
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  Speaker 2: teaches us that the Law of God is a mirror,
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  Speaker 2: and we need to determine whether we're going to look
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  Speaker 2: into that mirror and see what it is and see
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  Speaker 2: the contrast between what the law says and is and
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  Speaker 2: who I am, and then ask God to actually deliver
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  Speaker 2: me from the contrast. Deliver me from the hypocrisy, deliver
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  Speaker 2: me from the shortcomings and shortfall here, deliver me from myself. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Self examination regularly assess your actions and your belief systems
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  Speaker 2: and see that they align with the scriptures. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: about what you believe, and now what you do. What
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  Speaker 2: is in your forehead and what is in your hand?
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  Speaker 2: What is in your forehead, That is what you think,
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  Speaker 2: and then what you actually do. And I'm doing the
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  Speaker 2: same thing Deuteronomy chapter six and in Exodus chapter thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: We see that God wants us to think and to
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  Speaker 2: do and have these as our reality check on a
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  Speaker 2: regular basis. And then I've already said that we need
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  Speaker 2: to be honest. But let me say it one more time,
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  Speaker 2: transparency and honesty. In Colossians chapter three and verse nine,
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  Speaker 2: lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put
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  Speaker 2: off the old man with his deeds. You see in
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  Speaker 2: the Shakespearean play Hamlet, we see Polonius saying to his son,
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  Speaker 2: to thine own self be true, and then you won't
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  Speaker 2: be able to lie to anybody else. So we need
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  Speaker 2: self examination, and then we need to be honest with ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: with God and with others. We need to flee hypocrisy
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  Speaker 2: because God wants us to be holy. Make it a
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  Speaker 2: 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,