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01 12 2025 More Valuable Than You Can Imagine · 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, January 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, God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is more valuable than you can imagine, more valuable
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  Speaker 2: then you can imagine. Of course, he's talking about us,
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  Speaker 2: He's talking about you, brothers and sisters. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into that, I'd like to just say welcome to everyone
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  Speaker 2: joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm asking you to go over to your Daily portion
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  Speaker 2: the Your Daily Portion Companion guide that is related to
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  Speaker 2: this lesson, yes, where we apply everything that we study.
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  Speaker 2: And also please let us know where you are in
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  Speaker 2: the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the ways that we continue to build faith
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this value that you have placed on us by
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  Speaker 2: giving us your son. Thank you for loving us and
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  Speaker 2: putting us into this new work week. I pray that
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  Speaker 2: we will listen to you as you guide us in
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  Speaker 2: the paths of righteousness. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. More valuable than you can imagine. And
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  Speaker 2: God is talking about us. And so God loves sinners.
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  Speaker 2: Can I say it this way? God loves sinners, but
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  Speaker 2: he despises the sin. I'm gonna say it one more time.
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  Speaker 2: God loves sinners, but he despises the sin. Why does
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  Speaker 2: God despise the sin? Because it disrupts the relationship that
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  Speaker 2: he wants to have with us. Sin gets in the way.
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  Speaker 2: He sees that it is destructive, He sees that it
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  Speaker 2: is in the way, he sees that he has to
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  Speaker 2: hide himself from us if we are still sinful and
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  Speaker 2: don't yield ourselves to him, huh, or else we will
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  Speaker 2: be destroyed just because he's holy and we are not.
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  Speaker 2: And therefore he despised sin. He despises sin. That's not
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  Speaker 2: the only reason, but that is in this context. But
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  Speaker 2: what did Jesus do about it? What did God, our
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  Speaker 2: father do about it? What is the Holy Ghost doing
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  Speaker 2: about it? And so our story today is set in
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  Speaker 2: Luke chapter fifteen. That's the book of Luke, chapter fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: And really it's about the prodigal son's story, at least
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  Speaker 2: that's what some people call it. It's the parable in
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  Speaker 2: Luke chapter fifteen. And let me just summarize. There are
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  Speaker 2: two sets of people here listening to Jesus, two sets
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  Speaker 2: of people. Both sets are sinners, okay. And so there
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  Speaker 2: are sinners who are willing to yield themselves to God,
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  Speaker 2: willing to surrender to God. And then there are sinners
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  Speaker 2: who feel like they got all they have it all together.
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  Speaker 2: These are sinners who who feel like because they know
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  Speaker 2: the scriptures, they have them even on their bodies, you understand.
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  Speaker 2: And they are leaders of God's people. Those sinners feel
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  Speaker 2: like everything is just fine with them. But two sets
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  Speaker 2: both are sinners. Now the son. There is a son
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  Speaker 2: who goes to his daddy. He's the younger of two sons.
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  Speaker 2: He goes to his daddy and says, give me what
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  Speaker 2: is mine. And so he's asking for an inheritance, and
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  Speaker 2: by virtue of him asking for an inheritance, he's really saying, Father,
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  Speaker 2: I wish you were dead. I can't stand your rules.
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  Speaker 2: I need the money. Give it to me and I
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  Speaker 2: can get out of here. And to make a long
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  Speaker 2: story short, the father and the story, he gives unto them.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, unto them. He divideth unto them his living,
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  Speaker 2: and so that which he would have had and given
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  Speaker 2: to them as an inheritance, he now gives it to them.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it would normally have been divided already in
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  Speaker 2: the Jewish economy, but was not to be given out
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  Speaker 2: until God forbid the dead. He dies, but he gives
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  Speaker 2: them what he is to give them. The younger son
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  Speaker 2: goes out and he burns the money on Harlot's. He
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  Speaker 2: burns the money on partying. He burns the money on
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  Speaker 2: what the Bible calls riotous living. He goes out. He
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  Speaker 2: is a lost sheep that goes out from the house.
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  Speaker 2: He gets lost. But there is another brother. The second
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  Speaker 2: brother is at home. He's the one that looks tidy
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  Speaker 2: and nice. He's the one who would be considered maybe
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  Speaker 2: a leader. I don't know. He is the one that
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  Speaker 2: seems to be behaving. But low Kei, he's not. He's not.
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  Speaker 2: He is the lost sheep. I just don't have the
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  Speaker 2: time to parse out the story, to drill it in
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  Speaker 2: the way that we need to. Let's just say that
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  Speaker 2: this son is lost at home. He is the lost
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  Speaker 2: sheep that is at home. He is like the coin
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  Speaker 2: that is lost at home. But this young man, the
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  Speaker 2: prodigals prodigal son is lost away from home. And so
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  Speaker 2: the story is told that the son who is away
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  Speaker 2: from home, who burns all of the money on riotous living.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that, yeah, he realizes that he's in
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  Speaker 2: a pickle. And he says, you know what, my servants,
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  Speaker 2: my father's servants have everything they need, and I'm out
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  Speaker 2: here getting food, adjoining myself to a man, a stranger
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  Speaker 2: in a foreign land, and wanting the things that he
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  Speaker 2: is feeding. The pigs in order for me to just
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  Speaker 2: get a meal. But my father's servants have everything that
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  Speaker 2: they need. So I'm going to go. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: arise and go to my father, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: say I have sinned, Father, i have sinned. Please accept
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  Speaker 2: me as one of your servants. And the Bible teaches,
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  Speaker 2: in a long story short that as this young man
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  Speaker 2: has come to himself, how many know that the only
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  Speaker 2: way that we can become aware of ourselves, and that
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  Speaker 2: scenario is if the Holy Spirit comes to us. Ah.
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  Speaker 2: The Holy Spirit teaches us all truth about God, that
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  Speaker 2: he is holy, he's just, he's good, he loves us Ah,
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  Speaker 2: and then he teaches us how foul and sinful that
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  Speaker 2: we are, and how much we are in need of
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  Speaker 2: a savior. He does not leave us there. And so
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says, as he has this awareness, he says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna arise, I'm going to confess and say, let
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  Speaker 2: me be one of your servants. And the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that as this young man now he goes home and
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  Speaker 2: he's approaching home, he's approaching home, and the father sees
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  Speaker 2: him on his approach. I said, the father sees him
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  Speaker 2: on his approach. That means that the father is looking
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  Speaker 2: for him. The father's looking for you, brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: If you are lost, the father is looking for you.
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  Speaker 2: And so he sees the son a great way off,
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible says that the father runs out to him.
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  Speaker 2: He runs out to him, the son who went away
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  Speaker 2: bosie and proud, who went away with his money bag
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  Speaker 2: full of money. Now he's coming back dejected, feeling rejected.
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  Speaker 2: He is broken down, and the father sees him, and
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  Speaker 2: he runs out to him. Ah, he runs out to him,
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  Speaker 2: and he falls upon his son's neck, and he continues
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  Speaker 2: to kiss him. And immediately he not only restores him,
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  Speaker 2: but he makes him better than when he was living
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  Speaker 2: in his home. He did not let that son come
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  Speaker 2: into the house in shame. He covered him with a
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  Speaker 2: with a robe of righteousness. Huh. He put on him
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  Speaker 2: the feet shod with the prepar the shoes shod with
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  Speaker 2: the preparation of the Gospel of Peace. He puts on
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  Speaker 2: his finger the signet that says, not only are you
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  Speaker 2: my son, but you now represent me. And he tells
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  Speaker 2: his servants to throw a party, because my son who
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  Speaker 2: was lost, you come and rejoice with me. That he
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  Speaker 2: is found. And now the brother is not rejoicing. The
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  Speaker 2: other brother he's not rejoicing, and he's asking the serve
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. And the Bible says that they said,
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  Speaker 2: your brother who was lost, he is found. He was dead,
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  Speaker 2: but now he's alive. He's back. Come and party with us. Well.
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  Speaker 2: He remonstrates with his father, who goes out to him
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  Speaker 2: because he realizes his son is not coming in to
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  Speaker 2: the party, the celebration of the life of his brother,
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  Speaker 2: and he says, but I've been with you all this time.
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  Speaker 2: You never thrown me a party andan not going in basically,
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  Speaker 2: and the father says, all that I have has been yours.
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  Speaker 2: Will you come in and rejoice? Everything that I have
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  Speaker 2: is yours. Can you imagine the kind of love? You
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  Speaker 2: are more valuable Whether you are the first or the
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  Speaker 2: second brother, you are more valuable than you can imagine.
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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,