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04 24 2025 A Light to the Gentiles · 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 Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: April twenty four, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is a Light to the Gentiles.
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  Speaker 2: I like it a light to the gentiles. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you this morning for the blessing that
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  Speaker 2: you have been to us, so we can be a
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  Speaker 2: blessing to others. Please help us to do that, Help
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  Speaker 2: us to be that be a blessing to others, and
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  Speaker 2: that people will be transformed by your spirit. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and amen again. Okay, a light to
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  Speaker 2: the gentiles. This is something that the people of God
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  Speaker 2: customarily got mixed up from the Old Testament era straight
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  Speaker 2: into the New Testament era. You see, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that God chose his people. He chose his people not
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  Speaker 2: because they were greater in number, not because they were
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  Speaker 2: more special in the sense of like they are a
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  Speaker 2: superhuman some kind of way, and the others are just human. No.
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  Speaker 2: But God chose his people because of his great love,
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  Speaker 2: and he intended for his people to be a light
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  Speaker 2: to the world, to reflect his image, to reflect the
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  Speaker 2: light of Christ. That is the goal, that is the purpose.
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  Speaker 2: Of God calling his people. Of course, I'm leaving some
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  Speaker 2: things out, but he wanted to show that in if
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  Speaker 2: he could transform his people who are now closest to him,
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  Speaker 2: who are now what we would call repositories of light,
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  Speaker 2: like we hold the oracles of God, then we could
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  Speaker 2: share with other people so they could see that. Oh
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute. If I was fill in the blank
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  Speaker 2: kind of sinner or I am, and these people were,
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  Speaker 2: then that means that God can transform me too. See,
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  Speaker 2: that's the goal. Let your light so shine before men,
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  Speaker 2: so that when they see your good works, they will
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  Speaker 2: glorify your father, which is in heaven. You see. Not
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  Speaker 2: that you can create an exclusive club or clique. Not
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  Speaker 2: for you to be able to lord power over somebody
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  Speaker 2: and say that I am better than you. And once
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  Speaker 2: you get to my stature, then you'll be qualified as
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  Speaker 2: a person of God.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: And in Isaiah chapter fifty six, the Bible gives us
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  Speaker 2: actually a great standard. Thus set the Lord, beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse one, keep ye judgment and do justice, for my
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  Speaker 2: salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed is the person that doeth this, and the son
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  Speaker 2: of man that layeth hold on it, that keepeth the
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  Speaker 2: sabbath from polluting it. Of course, there's the standard. The
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  Speaker 2: sabbath is a sog between God and his people, and
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  Speaker 2: that he is the one that sanctifies us. He is
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  Speaker 2: demonstrating that he is able to set us aside for
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  Speaker 2: a holy use and keepeth his hand from doing evil.
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  Speaker 2: Neither let the son of the stranger. So let's call
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  Speaker 2: those gentiles people who are not the people of God
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  Speaker 2: as yet, or who are learning to become the people
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  Speaker 2: of God. I'm oversimplifying here, that have joined himself to
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  Speaker 2: the Lord speak saying the Lord hath utterly separated me
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  Speaker 2: from his people. Wait a minute, no, no, don't say that.
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  Speaker 2: Neither let the eunuchs say, behold, I am a dry tree.
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  Speaker 2: That was another set of people for a reason, they
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  Speaker 2: were ceremonially unclean. I just don't have the time to
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  Speaker 2: drill that here. But understand same category. For thus set
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  Speaker 2: the Lord unto the eunuchs, that keep my sabbath. So
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  Speaker 2: people who would normally be seen as unclean, people who
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  Speaker 2: would have normally been seen as separated from God's people.
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  Speaker 2: If you are keeping the Sabbath, and you choose the
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  Speaker 2: things that please me and take hold of my covenant.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're starting to see what qualifies a person to
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  Speaker 2: become a person or a child of God in humility,
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  Speaker 2: take hold of my covenant. Even unto them, will I
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  Speaker 2: give in mine house and within my walls. Jesus is
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  Speaker 2: welcoming everybody who surrenders our will to him. He's welcoming
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  Speaker 2: everybody who keeps covenant with him, who are keeping his
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath as a sign that he is the one that
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  Speaker 2: sanctifies us. Even unto them, will I give in mine
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  Speaker 2: house and within my walls a place and a name
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  Speaker 2: that is better than of sons and of daughters. It
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  Speaker 2: is a name that will not be cut off, that
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  Speaker 2: will remain forever. And so God's people, we're supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be welcoming people, God's people to in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: are to be welcoming other people into the fellowship of God,
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  Speaker 2: to be surrendered to his will. And so the lesson
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  Speaker 2: writer begins in the Bible Book of Numbers, chapter fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse seventeen, and it reads, and now I
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  Speaker 2: beseech thee let the power of my Lord be great,
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  Speaker 2: according as thou hast spoken, saying, the Lord is long suffering.
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  Speaker 2: Yes he is, and of great mercy. Has He been
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  Speaker 2: merciful to you, brothers and sisters when you go to work?
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  Speaker 2: Is he merciful to you if God forbid you make
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  Speaker 2: a mistake? Huh? Has He been merciful to you when
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  Speaker 2: you in your home and your household relationships, and you're
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  Speaker 2: with your children, with your spouses, with your parents, when
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  Speaker 2: you have done something that is not right and you
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  Speaker 2: had to go back and say, please forgive me. Has
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  Speaker 2: He been merciful to you forgiving iniquity and transgression visiting
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  Speaker 2: the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
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  Speaker 2: third and fourth generations. Pardon, and I beseech thee the
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  Speaker 2: iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy.
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  Speaker 2: And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
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  Speaker 2: But as truly as I live, all the earth shall
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  Speaker 2: be filled with the glory of God. That is the
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  Speaker 2: goal of God's people to be among the people who
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  Speaker 2: are reflecting the glory, the brightness of God in his character,
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  Speaker 2: the brightness of God's love, the brightness of God as
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  Speaker 2: he teaches the truth in love, so that others who
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  Speaker 2: are not yet the children of God can become so two.
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  Speaker 2: In Isaiah chapter fourty two and verse six, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: I the Lord have called THEE God's people. I added
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  Speaker 2: that word in righteousness, and give THEE for a covenant
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  Speaker 2: of people, for the light of the gentiles. And so
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  Speaker 2: we see that Jesus Christ is the light of the gentiles.
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  Speaker 2: We see that Jesus Christ in his people. The hope
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  Speaker 2: of glory is to be a light to every one
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  Speaker 2: that we come into contact with. Are you going to
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  Speaker 2: the gym this morning to exercise? There are people who
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  Speaker 2: don't know God today. They may say his name sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't really know him. They have not surrendered
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  Speaker 2: their will to him. He wants you to be a
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  Speaker 2: light to those people. Ah, are you going to work?
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  Speaker 2: Are you going to be in public transportation? Will you
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  Speaker 2: be in traffic where there might be a road rage incident?
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  Speaker 2: And God is saying to you, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: be a light in that situation, so that when they
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  Speaker 2: see you, and how you react in that situation or
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  Speaker 2: proact if the as the case may be, He wants you.
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  Speaker 2: He wants me to be a representative of Him. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: be a light wherever we go. And in Isaiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: sixty and verse three, the Bible says, and the gentiles
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  Speaker 2: shall come to thy light, people of God. Hah, I said,
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  Speaker 2: people of God. The gentile shall come to thy light
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  Speaker 2: and kings to the brightness of Thy rising. So when
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  Speaker 2: we represent God aright, then God will draw people to us,
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  Speaker 2: so we can draw them to Christ. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: in Revelation chapter eighteen, verses one through four, the Bible
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  Speaker 2: teaches that we who have unfortunately aligned ourselves with confusion
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  Speaker 2: with Babylon, with the false worship systems, that we are
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  Speaker 2: to come out and be separate. We are to come
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  Speaker 2: out of her and not partake of her sins. Why
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  Speaker 2: because Christ is the light to us people. God's people
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  Speaker 2: are a light to the world, and God is drawing
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  Speaker 2: all people to himself, starting with us. 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,