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

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

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

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to

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

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

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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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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July thirty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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El David Harris. I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus,

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and our caption for today is the Divine Judgment, The

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Divine Judgment. Before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us

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Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that

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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead

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and pray and get underway. Father, thank you for this day.

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Please teach us not to have not to be afraid

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of you. Teach us not to be afraid of you,

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but simply surrender ourselves to your will. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Yeah. There are many

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times that the people of God when we discuss judgment,

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either go to one extreme and just we burn down everything,

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like everything is to be burnt down, you know what

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I mean, Like that's what judgment means to some people.

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And then and then others. Others are feeling condemned just

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because it says judgment, you see. And so John actually

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knew about this because the Holy Ghost showed it to

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him that there is no fear in love because love

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casts out fear. Fear hath torment, and those who are

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perfected in love now have boldness in the day of judgment.

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I'm saying it slowly so we can get it. So

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if we are covered in the blood. God is our past,

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Jesus is our passover. He gave his life for us

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so that we can be saved. Yes, then that means

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we have no need to be afraid of condemnation. Paul said,

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there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ

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Jesus who walk according to the flesh. That's the behavior

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of people who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not

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according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. And

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so I read now as that being our backdrop, from

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the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred and eighty,

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and it reads, throughout the vast realm of Egypt, the

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pride of every household had been laid low. The shrieks

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and whales of the mourners filled the air. You see,

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that didn't need to happen, That experience need not to

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have happened, but those that it occurred. For where it occurred,

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to those people, it was because they rejected the blood.

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They rejected the entreaties of God, the warnings of God,

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they rejected the commands of God. So we don't need

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to go back thousands of years and look to that

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night and see that. Wait a minute, there are people

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today that are rejecting the love of God. There are

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people today, God forbid, there are people today who are

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who are forgetting about the warnings of God. There are

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people today that are refusing to be covered by the

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blood of the Lamb. Those individuals will have the same outcome.

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The quote continues. The shrieks and whales of the mourners

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filled the air. Kings and courtiers, let me just say,

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it didn't matter if you were If you're a president,

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if you're a prime minister, if you're a queen, if

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you're a king. It doesn't matter whatever the governmental calling

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is on your life. You're a governor general, if you

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are a leader of a company or an organization, you're

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a pastor, you're a president of a religious institution. It

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doesn't matter if I'm the person who is sweeping the

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floors in any of those halls of power. It doesn't matter.

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All of those individuals have an opportunity, have an opportunity

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to a serve God and be covered by the blood

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of the Lamb, or reject him. It's our choice. But

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in this case, the kings and courtiers, with blanched faces

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and trembling limbs, stood a gas at the overmastering horror.

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That is, brothers and sisters, the definition of condemnation. It

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is horrifying at the second coming of Christ, there will

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be people who say, lo, this is our God. We

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have waited for him, and he will save us. But

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they were also people. There will also be people, unfortunately,

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and God forbid, there will also be people that see

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Jesus coming, and they say, hide us from the face

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of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the

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wrath of the lamb. Can you imagine a lamb having wrath?

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Why is that necessary? Only because individuals choose that for themselves.

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I can't say ourselves, because that ain't my testimony, by

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the grace of God, okay. And so that divine judgment

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did not need to be It was the choice of

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only the hard hearted people. So our first lesson comes

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in from Exodus, chapter twelve and verse twenty nine. And

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it came to pass at midnight. At midnight, the Lord

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smoked all of the first born in the land of Egypt,

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that is, those who were not covered. And so God's

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judgment is precise and purposeful. Do you remember when Abraham

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was having that remonstrance with God where he was like, God,

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are you going to destroy Sodom and gomor if there

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are your people there, like You're going to just destroy everybody.

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Can we talk about this God? What if there are fifty?

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What if there are forty? And he goes down this

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number trail. I don't know exactly what numbers he said,

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but we know what was recorded in scripture. And I

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don't know why he stopped at the number that we

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see recorded in scripture. Why didn't he say, if there

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be one God that salt and light. I always wondered, like,

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why didn't he go to God and say, if there's

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one in the land, will you please spare the land

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for the sake of the one? But as we understand

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the story, God by hand through the angels had to

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pull Lot and his family out of there, and they

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all got out of there, and then the place was destroyed.

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But the people who were covered by God were not. Yeah,

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why choose to be destroyed? God said, I don't take

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pleasure in the death of those who die. Therefore turn

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yourselves and live. I think that's in Ezekiel chapter eighteen

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and Ezekiel chapter thirty two. I'm if my memory served,

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So examine the areas of your personal life, your personal influence,

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where you've delayed obedience today, choose one thing that God

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has already shown you, and act upon it. That is today,

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right now, that one thing He's already been clear to

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you about, Now act upon it. Lesson number two, Faith

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obeys God's way before condemnation comes. In Hebrews eleven twenty eight,

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through faith, he kept the passover and the sprinkling of

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the blood, lest he that destroyed the first born should

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touch them. And so the action step is not to

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wait for clarity. Come on, man, don't wait for clarity

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when obedience has already been made clear. There's nothing else

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to discuss like. Just ask God for the strength that

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you need to do His will, create a physical reminder

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of God's past faithfulness to encourage trust in future instructions.

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And then this one should cause all of us to tremble.

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Sin impacts others beyond ourselves. Think about your children, Think

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about the people who look up to you. Think about

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the people you influence online. Think of the people at

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your job, in workplace, the people in the taxis that

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you ride on your way to your workplace. Think about

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the people in the pews next to you, you in

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those worship centers and churches. The Bible reads here in Exodus,

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chapter twelve and verse thirty. There was not one house,

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not a house where there was not one dead. So

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confess the hidden sins between you and God, just you

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and God, and reconcile with anyone who may have suffered

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because of your delay, your disobedience, or your pride or

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your pride. Remember, perfect love cast out fear. We don't

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need to fear condemnation unless we have separated ourselves from God.

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Make it a great day. It's a solemn warning. Peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,