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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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Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Monday at

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September one, 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 day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our

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caption for today is seeing God Oo Seeing God. That's serious.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to just say

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welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining for the

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very first time. I'm asking you to go over to

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pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and

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at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,

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Thank you, Thank you for giving us the privilege of

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being here with you. Please teach us, teach us to

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see You in all that we say and do. Help

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us to practice the visible presence of God. In Jesus name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again. Seeing God, Oh, have

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you seen God in your life? I'm not trying to

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be melodramatic. I'm not saying has He appeared before you

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in a form that you recognize? I'm saying in the

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things that you do, like in your family experience, do

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you see the handiwork of God? Do you see Him

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in your professional life? In how you're able to relate

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to the people and also get to the success that

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you require as a person who is a professional at

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whatever you do. It doesn't matter what you do. Huh.

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Are you seeing God in your personal understanding of self?

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When you reflect on you? Are you being honest with

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you and then learning how to relate to you and

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to other people? Are you seeing God in your life?

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That's what I'm asking you, because one day those who

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see God in all that we experience on a day

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to day basis, even in the mundane things, we will

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actually see Him face to face. You see, when Jesus comes,

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we're finally going to see him face to face without sin.

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The Bible says, unto salvation. Finally we'll be able to say, Lo,

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this is our God. We have waited for him, and

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he is finally here, like he's about to save us

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in the realist possible sense. And so the lesson writer

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gives us an experience that the Bible identifies after the

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first or the firm excuse me, re establishment of the

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covenant with God. Moses again climbed Sinai, the Mount Sinai.

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In the beginning of this climb, Moses was not alone.

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So I want you to see the stations that I

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mentioned to you yesterday at the base of the mountain.

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We see in the Bible that Moses was to set

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bounds at the base of the mount. So nobody who's

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not supposed to come up the mount will come up

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the mount, not beast, not human. Only the people that

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God welcome into the space beyond the boundary is supposed

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to are supposed to come. So at the base of

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the mount you have those who are doing what giving sacrifice.

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They are worshiping. And now we see that there is

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a track up the mount. And the Bible says in

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the beginning of I mean and the lesson writer says,

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in the beginning of the climb, Moses was not alone.

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He had an excellent company of seventy three Israelite leaders. Okay,

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so people at the base of the mount, they're not

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passing the boundary. Now seventy three leaders from among the

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people of God has started the journey. So we have

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the outer court beyond the bounds, backward where the sacrifices

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are happening. You cross that line and you go into

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the mount. Seventy three leaders for the leaders, this was

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the pinnacle experience. The Bible actually teaches us that they

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saw in air quotes God. This is a theophany, and

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twice in the text it underlines this amazing reality. And

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let me just say, the Bible, when you read the experience,

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says that God basically allowed them to see whatever he

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revealed of himself and they lived. You see what I'm saying, Like,

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they saw whatever He revealed of himself, and they lived.

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So you have the people at the base of the

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mount somebody's visualizing, you're seeing it beyond the boundary going backward.

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That is what I would consider to be like the

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outer court where the sacrifice is happening. Seventy three people

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go in with Moses to a certain point in the mountain,

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and they experienced God at a whole new level and twice.

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The text underlines this amazing reality. This was also a

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time for the leaders by eating together. The Bible actually

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says they were eating and drinking. What happened in the

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Holy place, among other things? Was there a table of

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show bread? Mm where there that had? Oh wait a minute,

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so God is giving us a view of the sanctuary already.

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And so they were eating together to seal the covenant

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with God. This was a banquet, and the God of

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Israel was their host. These leaders were deeply honored by God.

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Eating together was a privilege in the customs that they

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were were with. Yes. In fact, I think the Bible

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says in Revelation chapter three, Behold, I stand at the

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door and knock, And if any man hears my voice

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and opens the door, I will come in to him,

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and I will sup with him. And he with me.

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So in the text, if you understand it properly, God

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is the one that brings dinner. Once we open the

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door and allow him into our homes, into our lives,

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every detail of our lives, every crooked crevice of our lives,

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then he's the one that brings dinner. He brings dinner,

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which means that He is there for us to eat

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and drink of Christ. As in John chapter six, those

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who eat my flesh and drink my blood, those individuals

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will be saved. And of course he's not talking about cannibalism.

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He's talking about imbibing, imbibing Christ as a way of life.

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And so now we go into our first lesson for today.

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I said a lot, but let's see what we can

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get here. In Exodus, chapter twenty four and verse ten,

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the Bible reads, and they saw the God of Israel,

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and there was under his feet, as it were, a

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paved work of a sapphire stone. Look up, sapphire stone,

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that's blue. And as it were the body of Heaven

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and his clearness. So the paved work, I'm gonna have

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to fast forward. The throne it's and the ten commandments

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law were sapphire I wish I had the time. Now

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with AI, you can actually look this up. I haven't

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done it before. I did it with Google just a

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normal way when I was studying many years ago. I'm

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going to go and do the thing with AI too,

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because I know what the reality is in history. See

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what color the Ten Commandments stones were or tablets, and

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then see why or from where the tablets were cut.

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And you're going to see some stuff that maybe you

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haven't considered before, and ask the machine to tell you,

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like to prove it from history, from the Bible as well. Okay,

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and so now they're seeing this. The leaders saw God

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and shared a covenant meal with him. It was relationship,

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and then later some fell into rebellion. What Yeah, Divine

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presence never replaces daily surrender. So just like just because

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you had an experience with God yesterday or five minutes ago,

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it doesn't mean that that's going to carry you. It's

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time to have the kind of relationship that is instantaneous.

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Like at all times we are trusting in God and

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not thinking about, oh, what has happened in the past,

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But in this present moment, am I connected with God? Okay?

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And so in Exodus twenty four and verse twelve. We

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need to learn that God's call to worship always involves

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us coming near to Him. And then, finally, sacred rituals

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like the Covenant meal are meant to remind us of

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grace and responsibility to God. Make it a great day.

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Thanks for joining us listening. 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,