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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, September eleven,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series through the Book of Exodus, and our caption

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for today is Intercession. Intercession. Yesterday we scratched the surface

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of the cop but we're going to talk about it

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in a little bit more detail in just the moment here.

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But before we do, I'd like to say welcome to

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everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very

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first time. I'm asking you to please go over to

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your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the

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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's

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go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, thank you

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for giving us Jesus to intercede for us and make

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us holy. Teach us how to intercede for others so

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you can make them holy. In Jesus' name, I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Intersession intercession, Well, let's go with

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a quick dictionary definition. We're not even going to go

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into the theological definition, but just a dictionary definition right

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here on my iPad. It says it's a noun for intercession.

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It's a noun the action of intervening on behalf of

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another the action of saying a prayer on behalf of

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another person. Okay, so we know that Moses stepped in

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and he was intervening on behalf of God's people, whom

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he already knew, God loved, and he's like God, Now

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let's talk about this like you just said that you're

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gonna block them out and make a new nation from

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from my seed. But God, let please, can let's talk

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about this. Please, he's interceeding. Now, let me just read

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from Exodus, chapter thirty two, verses thirty through thirty two.

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Now it came to pass on the next day that

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Moses said to the people, you have committed a great sin.

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So now I will go up to the Lord. Perhaps

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I can make atonement for you. Because Moses knew that

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this this behavior could not go unrewarded. There has to

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be an equal and opposite reaction, even in holiness. Right,

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they say, they taught us that in science class, for

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every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction.

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God said it that it should be eye for an eye,

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and so what these people had done required a commensurate response,

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except if God shows mercy. And now it says, you've

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committed this, and I'm going to go up and see

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if I can atone for your sin. Then Moses returned

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to the people and said, oh, these people, to the

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Lord excuse me, and said, oh, these people have committed

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a great sin and have made for themselves a god

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of gold. Yet, now if you will forgive their sin,

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But if not, I pray, Oh my, it's even hard

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to say this blot me out of your book which

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you have written. Moses is putting it all under line.

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Now we know that he's passionate. Right now, we know

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that this is a spiritually emotion based response because he

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must know that it's impossible for his little life to

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be enough to atone for anybody's sin. But he's grasping

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at straws here, and he's like, God, I hear what

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you're saying. I know that you're right and just and holy,

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But if there's another way, God, could you please save

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my son from wrath, save my daughter from wrath. I

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know they're guilty, God, I know that you have trained

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them through us and through the Church that they should

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live a certain way. I know that you have sent

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friends and other people along the way to show them

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the right path, and they have gone the wrong way.

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But would you please just spare them, Spare my husband,

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spare my wife, God from the wrath that they deserve. See,

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Moses isn't trying to make an excuse for them. He's

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not saying that they don't deserve the wrath that God

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is intending in this moment, or communicating I should say

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in this moment. But he's just like God, if there's

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any other way, can you just let it happen that

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if my life is worth enough in this case, like

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if you could save these millions of people, instead of

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making a great nation of me and my descendants, would

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you just destroy me, Like get me out of here,

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so that the people that you have brought out of

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the land of Egypt in the house of bondage, and

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so that the people that saw you take them out

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won't think that you're an impotent God. For your name's sake,

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so people will know that you are able in fact

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and indeed to keep your people holy, keep your people safe.

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Just destroy me, God, do you understand the conversation now?

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And so true intercession is willing to stand in the

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place of the guilty. Moses was so committed to God's people,

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even though they were murmurers, even though they complained all

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the time, even though those people sometimes seemed like they

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couldn't have cared less about Moses, even his own brother.

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Look at what his brother was doing at the base

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of the mountain. These men went to war, going into

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the presence of Pharaoh, who could have destroyed them at

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least from a human perspective, And this goofy dude does

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all of that wickedness at the base of the mountain

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and then wants Moses and God to believe that something

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mystical and magical happened. He threw this stuff in. First

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of all, you threw it in, dummy, pardoned me, and

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then it magically becomes a golden calf. Come on, brother,

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what are we really talking about here? And yet Moses

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was still committed to the people, and he was willing

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to bear ultimate loss for the sake of people who

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were guilty. And so the action stepped for us is

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to pray for us with the same selfless spirit we're

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looking for the Holy Ghost here, the same kind of

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spirit asking God to place their needs above our own needs,

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our own comfort, our own recognition. The next lesson comes

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in from the Book of Isaiah, chapter fifty three and

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verse four, where it reads surely He, meaning Christ, hath

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borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did

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esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. So the word,

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the Hebrew term for forgive in this case is the

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same as bear, forgive and bear, revealing that forgiveness is

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possible only because God through Christ bears or carries our guilt.

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I read that Jesus Christ took our sins to the cross,

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and in his humanity, he died with the weight of

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our guilt all on his shoulders. And he did not

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even open his mouth. He didn't say, I'm not the

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one that's guilty. I'm not the one that deserves this.

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I punch out. I'm tapping out. I changed my mind.

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He did not come down off the cross as the

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men said. The wicked men said, come down now, off

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the cross, and then we will worship you. He said, no,

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I will not accept worship. I will not destroy these people.

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I will bear their sins all the way to death,

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even the death of the cross. And I'm like, okay, God,

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So when confessing sin, acknowledge that the cost of forgiveness

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was born by Christ alone, not by any personal merit.

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I understand, Moses, I get it. But really, only Jesus

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could do that which you were asking for. Only Jesus

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could do that. Finally, in John chapter fifteen and verse thirteen,

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the Bible reads, Greater love hath no man than this,

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Then a man laid down his life for his friends.

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Moses's prayer mirrors Christ's own sacrifice for humanity, showing that

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godly leadership is inseparable from sacrificial love. Make the time,

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that's what we need to do today. Make the time

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to pray, specifically for those who are far from God,

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modeling Christ's patience and mercy in your prayers. So much

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going on here, but I'm glad that we have seen

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how a human could model the behavior and heart of

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God interceding for the guilty. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,