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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 seventeen, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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

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

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day and today is no exception. We are continuing in

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our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and

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our caption for today is like God to Pharaoh, Like

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God to Pharaoh. Before we get into that, I'd like

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to just say welcome to you and ask you to

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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the world. At your Daily Portion dot com This is

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we

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will get underway. Father, we thank you. Thank you for

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waking us up this morning and giving us the privilege

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of being called by your name. Thank you for giving

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us the mind to serve You. Help us to do

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this with all of our hearts today in Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again, like God to Pharaoh.

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Interesting concept. Interesting concept. And so with that we begin

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in the Bible book of Exodush. Let's go with Exodus,

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chapter seven and verse one, and the Bible reads and

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the Lord said, unto Moses, see I have made thee

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a god to Pharaoh. Did I just jump in with

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two feet? Normally I warm y'all up, But we now

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have we don't have that kind of time today. I

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have made thee a god to Pharaoh. And Aaron, thy brother,

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shall be thy prophet, oh my. And so, of course,

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of course, what we are not saying from the text,

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we must not be confused or attempt to derive from

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the text. It doesn't mean that Moses became divine. It

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does not mean that Moses became the creator. You can't

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become the creator. You feel what I'm saying, Like, the

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God who created us is self existent and eternal. His

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power is unborrowed underived. So unless you were here eternally,

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and please, none of that creative stuff about you know,

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pre existing our bodies that did not happen, That is

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not biblical. God knew who he would create and in

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his mind he understood exactly what he would do when

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he created you. But in reality, we only existed once

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we were born in our mother's womb. You feel me.

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So Moses didn't become somehow the preexistent or eternal one.

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Blessed be his name, but he would function as God's

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visible authority to Pharaoh, which is why he would have

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a prophet who was the prophet in this case Aaron okay,

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the mouthpiece. So God was appointing Moses to stand in

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his place before Pharaoh. Has God ever sent you to

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be in his place to someone who needed to hear

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a word from him? Huh? Has he ever sent you

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in his place for somebody who know a hand up,

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maybe even a handout. Listen, some people say I don't

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need no handout. I don't know a hand up, A

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handout whatever a hug has God ever sent you to

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be in his place, and of course the resounding answer

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is yes. So Moses in this case was to speak

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with an authority that comes from God, and Aaron would

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relay those messages just like a prophet speaks on behalf

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of God. So to Pharaoh, Moses was as God and

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he was hearing the messages from God through Aaron. So Pharaoh,

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who viewed himself as divine. Now remember Pharaoh, based on

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the culture, based on the history of the Egyptians, like

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Pharaoh viewed himself as actually divine, he would now be

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confronted by a human being who is now endowed with

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heaven authority. So Moses in this case equals God's representative

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or God's authority. Aaron in this case represents a spokesman

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or spokesman or mouthpiece or prophet for God. So this

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structure mirrored how God communicates truth to the world through

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appointed I said appointed human agents. They're people who have

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appointed themselves. They're profilying all over the internet. I know

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what I just said. People are profilying all over the

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Internet and on television, on the radio, ways, walking up

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and down in your streets, sometimes depending on where you live,

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on your public transportation, profilying saying that they are prophets

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of the Most High God, Blessed be his name. But

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Jesus said, when his disciples were asking about the last days,

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when shall these things be? What shall be the sign

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of Thy coming and of the end of the age

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or the end of the world. Jesus began with be deceived.

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There will be false christs and false prophets. And in

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the Greek language of that day, pseudo profe taste. That

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was the word pseudo. You know what pseudo means? Will

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you get them handbags you that some people paid thousands

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and thousands of dollars for, and you paid, you know,

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twenty five dollars. It looks exactly the same. It's a

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pseudo version of whatever it is that these people paid

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too much for. I wish I had the time. In

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the book Patriarchs and Prophets Paige two hundred and sixty three,

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it reads to Moses, the work of God had been committed.

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He stood as a living representative of the Most High,

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Blessed be his name. In Signs of the Times, it

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was a periodical from February twenty six in eighteen eighty.

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It reads Moses, in the execution of his commission, was

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to be invested with the authority and power of God.

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His words were to be not merely his own, but

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God's words, God's words. You know, the Bible says about

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you and Second Corinthians, chapter five and verse twenty that

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you are ambassadors for Christ. Huh did you know that?

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In Luke chapter ten it says the same thing in

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verse sixteen, that he he that heareth you. If you're

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one of God's children, heareth me. And so these texts

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support the pattern that God has shown us throughout human history,

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at least after the fall of or the jump of

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Adam and the fall of Eve. I wish I had

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the time. Ah, these are the patterns God through the

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human agent to the audience or the people who are

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to listen. Okay, so the human messenger carries divine weight,

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but sometimes humans take glory. That's not what this is.

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So we're to have the divine weight, the authority, right,

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the impress of God, but not to take our own

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glory or glory to ourselves. And so let's apply it

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right here and right now, so we know that we're

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not God to anyone in air quotes. But when you

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speak God's word faithfully, you stand in his authority, like

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don't take the name of the Lord by God in vain.

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So when God is saying speak, you must speak. Just

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like Eli said to young Samuel, you better tell me

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what God said, huh. And when he says be quiet,

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be quiet, like don't stand up like Balem attempted to do,

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and speak on behalf of God and curse God's people

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or anything else. Only speak as God has given you

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his authority. So every time you share truth from the scriptures,

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you are functioning like Aaron or Moses, not speaking your

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own words, but representing God him self. You don't need

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to be eloquent, that's not the goal. Unfortunately, some of

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us have believed the hype about ourselves of eloquence, our abilities,

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our some of us have more degrees than a thermometer.

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But God is saying that's not it. God equips you, Yes,

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he equips you ah with authority and clarity when you

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surrender to Him. And just like Pharaoh, the world will

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be impressed to listen even if the world resists, because

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the message comes from God. Make it a great day.

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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,