Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, September seven,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, part of me. This is your
Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our
caption for today is failed Leadership, Failed Lead. Before we
get into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
then we will get underway. Father, we thank you for
this day, thank you for loving us, thank you for
showing us what real leadership is. Thank you, and I
pray that we will follow the Lamb wherever he leads.
In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and Amn again. I'm
just going to begin here with what a mess? What
a mess did Aaron make as he was supposed to
be leading the people of God. And I want you
to keep the context. Aaron was supposed to be the
mouthpiece right well, he in fact was when Moses would
go in before the Pharaoh and say, God said, let
my people go, and everything that happened during that time,
That's what Aaron's purpose was. And the priesthood come from Aaron.
And so he, Aaron is selected to be the progenitor
of connecting God and the people, people and God speaking
on behalf of God to the people. And in this
moment now, in this failure of his leadership, he is
causing the people to worship a false God, causing I said, causing. Now,
let me read very quickly from the Bible Book of Exodus,
chapter thirty two. I will read from the amplified Bible. Now,
when the people saw Moses delayed to come down from
the mount, they gathered together before Aaron and said to him, come,
make us a god, a false god, a god the
kind of God that God said, don't make period, make
us a god who will go before us. As for
this Moses, the man who brought us up from the
land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.
So first of all, these folks got it all twisted,
like Moses is not God. So why in the world
would they say make us a god because Moses is
not here. That's the first mistake, besides the fact that
they are making another god before them, before God. Right,
But now they even have the ministry of Moses all
mixed up in their head. But anyway, and they think
that Moses is the one that really brought them out
of the land of Egypt. Even Moses got that twisted
when he struck the rock the second time. But I
just really don't have the time for that right now.
Verse two, and Aaron replied to them. If Aaron is
to reply to them, He's supposed to take them back
to what God said. And the people said, whatever the
Lord said, that shall we do they but he says,
I just really literally can't believe this. Aaron replied to them,
take off the gold ear rings that are in your
ears or in the ears of your wives, your sons,
and your daughters, and bring them to me.
Speaker 1: What like.
Speaker 2: Later on in the story, we're gonna see where that
happens again. But that is when they are bringing offerings
of those kinds of things so that the sanctuary can
be built. So in worship now they are exchanging those relics,
they're exchanging the jewels, they're exchanging those ornaments, and they
are putting them into worship. But this time is false worship.
Somebody just heard what I just said. Take them off
verse three. So all the people took off the gold
rings that were in the the ears and brought them
to Aaron. And he took the gold from their hands
and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it
into a molten calf. And they say, this is our God,
oh Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
What in the world is going on here? Yeah, you
could say that that's what they saw in Egypt. And
because that's what they saw in Egypt, they backslid into
that mindset. I get it. That is an excuse. It's
an excuse any of us who worship our own images.
That's an excuse any of us who worship our income
or lack thereof, and talk about it's a it's a
it's a it's a constant discussion about this cost too
much or that cost too much. And so I put
my problem in priority above God. Huh, when your relationships
with people take the place of God, it's an excuse
for any of us to do this. It's an excuse,
and it's a horrible one at that. And then verse five. Now,
when Aaron saw the molten calf, he built an altar
before it like it gets worse. What and Aaron made
a proclamation and said, tomorrow shall be a feast to
the Lord. What in the world is happening God? Verse six,
protect us God from this mindset. So the next day
they got up early and offered burnt offerings and brought
peace offerings. Then the people sat down to eat and
drink and got up to play. Now, this playing that
they were doing so called playing this actually, this actually
is the same kind of playing that is of a
sexual nature. Right, that kind of playing is the kind
that is of a sexual nature. It was an immoral
kind of playing, and it was shameful. And so from
the book Patriarchs Profits, page three hundred and sixteen, it reads,
such a crisis demanded a man of firmness. Are you
a man or a woman of firmness, decision and unflinching courage,
one who held the honor of God above popular favor,
personal safety hmm, or life itself? Can you imagine? Can
you imagine the judges having this experience? Somebody comes before Deborah,
somebody comes before oh my goodness, all of the judges
of the Old Testament, and they say, just let us
worship something else. And the judge says, yeah, yeah, let's
do that, like Aaron did. Come on, man, okay. But
the present leader of God's people was not of this character.
So Aaron, I don't know. I'm wondering, did he fear
for his life? His in decisiveness gave the people permission
to sin? He participated in that sin. Matter of fact,
he led them into that sin, and then try to
make it holy with a feast in the name of
the Lord. How many things that have we had had
in our lives that we tried to sanctify? Have we
tried to sanctify time that is not holy? Have we
tried to sanctify relationships that are not holy? You can't
tell me who to love, You can't tell me how
to love. And God has told us that he does
not want us to be connected with people who are
connected with idols. Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers. And
you choose to marry somebody who hates God, who couldn't
care less about what matters to God, but they think
they like you, and you say, oh, well, that makes sense,
so let's just get together. I don't have to tell him,
I don't have to tell her how to worship. Well,
that's true, but you don't need to be in a
relationship with him or her that way. And so leadership
without conviction is dangerous because conviction toward the things of
God is dangerous because leaders can lead people away from God.
And so this sin was wrapped in worship, but it
was still rebellion. Pressure reveals what presence was hiding. So
Aaron looked strong beside Moses. But once Moses disappeared, Aaron's
real foundation was exposed. Your private integrity must be stronger
than your public position. Just switch on the news and
we can see that that's true. Make it a great day, peace.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah,