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 Thursday. It's
July seventeen, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
David Harris. I am your host, and 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 like God to Pharaoh, Like
God to Pharaoh. Before we get into that, I'd like
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father, we thank you. Thank you for
waking us up this morning and giving us the privilege
of being called by your name. Thank you for giving
us the mind to serve You. Help us to do
this with all of our hearts today in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again, like God to Pharaoh.
Interesting concept. Interesting concept. And so with that we begin
in the Bible book of Exodush. Let's go with Exodus,
chapter seven and verse one, and the Bible reads and
the Lord said, unto Moses, see I have made thee
a god to Pharaoh. Did I just jump in with
two feet? Normally I warm y'all up, But we now
have we don't have that kind of time today. I
have made thee a god to Pharaoh. And Aaron, thy brother,
shall be thy prophet, oh my. And so, of course,
of course, what we are not saying from the text,
we must not be confused or attempt to derive from
the text. It doesn't mean that Moses became divine. It
does not mean that Moses became the creator. You can't
become the creator. You feel what I'm saying, Like, the
God who created us is self existent and eternal. His
power is unborrowed underived. So unless you were here eternally,
and please, none of that creative stuff about you know,
pre existing our bodies that did not happen, That is
not biblical. God knew who he would create and in
his mind he understood exactly what he would do when
he created you. But in reality, we only existed once
we were born in our mother's womb. You feel me.
So Moses didn't become somehow the preexistent or eternal one.
Blessed be his name, but he would function as God's
visible authority to Pharaoh, which is why he would have
a prophet who was the prophet in this case Aaron okay,
the mouthpiece. So God was appointing Moses to stand in
his place before Pharaoh. Has God ever sent you to
be in his place to someone who needed to hear
a word from him? Huh? Has he ever sent you
in his place for somebody who know a hand up,
maybe even a handout. Listen, some people say I don't
need no handout. I don't know a hand up, A
handout whatever a hug has God ever sent you to
be in his place, and of course the resounding answer
is yes. So Moses in this case was to speak
with an authority that comes from God, and Aaron would
relay those messages just like a prophet speaks on behalf
of God. So to Pharaoh, Moses was as God and
he was hearing the messages from God through Aaron. So Pharaoh,
who viewed himself as divine. Now remember Pharaoh, based on
the culture, based on the history of the Egyptians, like
Pharaoh viewed himself as actually divine, he would now be
confronted by a human being who is now endowed with
heaven authority. So Moses in this case equals God's representative
or God's authority. Aaron in this case represents a spokesman
or spokesman or mouthpiece or prophet for God. So this
structure mirrored how God communicates truth to the world through
appointed I said appointed human agents. They're people who have
appointed themselves. They're profilying all over the internet. I know
what I just said. People are profilying all over the
Internet and on television, on the radio, ways, walking up
and down in your streets, sometimes depending on where you live,
on your public transportation, profilying saying that they are prophets
of the Most High God, Blessed be his name. But
Jesus said, when his disciples were asking about the last days,
when shall these things be? What shall be the sign
of Thy coming and of the end of the age
or the end of the world. Jesus began with be deceived.
There will be false christs and false prophets. And in
the Greek language of that day, pseudo profe taste. That
was the word pseudo. You know what pseudo means? Will
you get them handbags you that some people paid thousands
and thousands of dollars for, and you paid, you know,
twenty five dollars. It looks exactly the same. It's a
pseudo version of whatever it is that these people paid
too much for. I wish I had the time. In
the book Patriarchs and Prophets Paige two hundred and sixty three,
it reads to Moses, the work of God had been committed.
He stood as a living representative of the Most High,
Blessed be his name. In Signs of the Times, it
was a periodical from February twenty six in eighteen eighty.
It reads Moses, in the execution of his commission, was
to be invested with the authority and power of God.
His words were to be not merely his own, but
God's words, God's words. You know, the Bible says about
you and Second Corinthians, chapter five and verse twenty that
you are ambassadors for Christ. Huh did you know that?
In Luke chapter ten it says the same thing in
verse sixteen, that he he that heareth you. If you're
one of God's children, heareth me. And so these texts
support the pattern that God has shown us throughout human history,
at least after the fall of or the jump of
Adam and the fall of Eve. I wish I had
the time. Ah, these are the patterns God through the
human agent to the audience or the people who are
to listen. Okay, so the human messenger carries divine weight,
but sometimes humans take glory. That's not what this is.
So we're to have the divine weight, the authority, right,
the impress of God, but not to take our own
glory or glory to ourselves. And so let's apply it
right here and right now, so we know that we're
not God to anyone in air quotes. But when you
speak God's word faithfully, you stand in his authority, like
don't take the name of the Lord by God in vain.
So when God is saying speak, you must speak. Just
like Eli said to young Samuel, you better tell me
what God said, huh. And when he says be quiet,
be quiet, like don't stand up like Balem attempted to do,
and speak on behalf of God and curse God's people
or anything else. Only speak as God has given you
his authority. So every time you share truth from the scriptures,
you are functioning like Aaron or Moses, not speaking your
own words, but representing God him self. You don't need
to be eloquent, that's not the goal. Unfortunately, some of
us have believed the hype about ourselves of eloquence, our abilities,
our some of us have more degrees than a thermometer.
But God is saying that's not it. God equips you, Yes,
he equips you ah with authority and clarity when you
surrender to Him. And just like Pharaoh, the world will
be impressed to listen even if the world resists, because
the message comes from God. Make it a great day.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Listening. Friends, 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,