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 Wednesday. It's
September ten, 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 God's Righteous Wrath, God's Righteous Wrath.
Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity
to come together again this morning. You have given us
the blueprint for relationship with you. Please help us to
live in right relationship with you. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again God's righteous wrath. So much to say,
so much to say. Have you ever had someone who
really loves you angry with you? Talking about someone who
has your best interest at heart? Think about maybe your parents, Like,
There've only been a couple of times that I was
actually angry with my son Josiah. You know, there were
times that I just literally and I don't want to
tell his business here because now he's old enough to care.
But they're just a couple of times. But guess what
I always meant for his good. I always meant his good,
and so I gave him everything that he needed to
be successful. And in those situations where he chose another path,
sometimes I was disappointed. Sometimes I wish he had gone
another way. But they are just a couple of times
that it was it required wrath. That's what I'm saying
to you. I'm not going to tell you what the
wrath meant, because that's really none of anybody's business.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: But there are times when God is disappointed, even though
he knows what we're going to do before we do it,
he knows what we won't do before we don't do it. Right,
But there are times that warrant action. And so now
God is about to take action with his people. But
there's just one thing. One of his people actually understood
what we would learn about Messiah eventually, about interceding, intervening
with God in order to get a result that is
of mercy for the people God loves. And so from
the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page one hundred and forty,
we read the true leader forget self in his care
of the flock. Committed to his charge. He loses sight
of himself in his interest for those whom God has
appointed him to feed and to shepherd. Can I just
say that a little bit slower? Yeah, True shepherds aren't
thinking about ourselves. We're thinking about how we can feed,
how we can protect, how we can nurture the people
that God has entrusted to us, and Moses was a
good shepherd. I know what I just said. And so
from Exodus, chapter thirty two and verse eleven, on the
heels of the people of God creating a new idol,
and Aaron being more than just complicit. Now he's leading
them down the wrong path. Moses' is back, and the
Bible reads, and Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord,
why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people? Notice
he is identifying that these are your people, God, which
thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt
with great power? Like God, why would you deliver your
people from captivity where in the same captivity they could
have been destroyed. Why would you deliver them from that
destruction only to destroy them? God? God, why would you
do that? You brought them out of Egypt with power
and a mighty hand. Why would you do that? God? So,
when offered the chance to become the father of a
new nation, think about it. God said, I'm gonna blot
them people out, those people that you brought out of Egypt.
I'm about to blot those guys out. I'm blotting them
people out, and I will create a new nation, like,
we can do this all over again. I don't need
these people. That's what it sounds like if we're not
really thinking or listening with God. But that's the word
that he gave. Moses chose to plead instead of taking
God up on that offer. Moses chose to plead for
God's people, instead of pursuing his personal legacy. How many
of you, I'm not asking you to actually type it
in the chat. How many of you when God says
we can do this all over again, we can do
it right, we can do it with you forget these people.
How many of you would have said, all right, God, well,
if that's the way you want it, we can do that.
Build them off for me. I'm good. But that is
not what our brother did. So we can learn now
to pray. We pray daily for others, asking God to
fulfill his promises in their lives, even when it costs
you recognition or advantage. I'm talking about the people of
God in this case. There are times that I encounter
men standing outside of the church of God's people and
God standing outside with all kinds of pamphlets and tracks
and little books and trying to pull people away from God.
Away from God's church with all kinds of really dark things.
Instead of being helpful and interceding for the people of God,
they're trying to pick out the details of the people
of God's mistakes between them and God, if in fact
those are true reality, like sometimes people make up stuff.
Instead of being on the team with God and his people,
these people are pulling them away. Well, Moses stayed on
the team. He said, God, let's work together. These are
your people, Please do not block them out. And then
comes from verse nineteen of Exodus, chapter thirty two, and
the Bible reads, and it came to pass as soon
as he came nigh unto the camp and saw the
calf and the dancing, and Moses's anger waxed hot. He
cast the tables out of his hands and break them
beneath the mountain. Let me just say that we can
intellectually and maybe even emotionally understand why Moses reacted in
the way he did, even though God had shown him,
he told him what they were doing down there. He
knew it wasn't war like. He knew what was going on,
and he goes down there, but when he sees it,
his emotions got the better of him, and he physically
breaks the commandment stones that God emblazing the ten words
with his own fingers. He breaks them as a symbol
of the people breaking the covenant. But God dealt with him.
He should never have done that. God's wrath is God's wrath,
he said, vengeance's mind. Don't do that, Moses. And so
Moses is breaking of the tablets, as I said, symbolize
the people breaking God's law. Rebellion demands a firm and
decisive response. But of course we need to have the
right one when sin appears in your influence or responsibility,
confronted with truth and commitment to restore God's order. One
thing that et Eric Thomas has been teaching the community
that we help people in He's always talking about the
difference between between in a motion based response and a
principle based response or decision making process. In this case,
Moses could have chosen the principle. But we understand what
went wrong. We understand now finally, finally, from Exodus, chapter
thirty two and verse twenty four, and he said, unto them,
whosoever hath any gold, let him break it off. So
they gave it to me. This is Aaron's excuse. Then
I cast it into the fire and there came out
this calf. So Aaron is trying to say that some
kind of magical, mystical thing happened instead of taking responsibility. Listen,
if you are guilty of something with God, the safest
place to be is honest. Be honest with God and
let him make your joining us peace.
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,