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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 Sunday. It

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is the twenty seventh day of July in twenty twenty five. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris. I am your host,

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and this is your Daily Portion where we give you

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God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the

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Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is one

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more Plague, One more Plague and sound exciting to me,

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but we'll get into that in just a moment. Before

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we do, i'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community. Pick up the Your Daily

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Portion Life Application Guide you hurt us Friday. Use the

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Life Application Guide for those who've never read it or

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used it before, and so you can see how that's

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beneficial to you. And also please let us know where

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father, thank you for this

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new work week and for giving us the opportunity to

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come together in this fashion. We had our own personal worship,

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and now we can we can corporately come together and

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observe what you have taught us in your word, so

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we can live according to the principles. Please help us

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to do that. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. I like where the lesson writer begins this

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study today. In the Book of Amos, chapter three and

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verse seven, the prophet Amos declares that the Lord God

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does nothing, and I will add, like Pastor Henry Wright

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taught us when I was a new believer many years ago.

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He taught us the Lord doesn't do anything important, nothing pivotal,

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nothing critical, nothing of vital importance without revealing his secret

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to his servants, the prophets. Let me read it another way.

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The Lord God does nothing important without first revealing his

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secret to his servants, the prophets, and the lesson writer

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continues and through the prophet Moses in this case, he

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revealed to Pharaoh what was coming next. The solemn warning

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was given to Pharaoh. This will be a just judgment

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upon pride exploitation. Wherever this is, we don't need to

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just look back look back at the time of that

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particular Pharaoh. I need to go back and look at

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which pharaoh it was. My history is slipping me now,

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but that particular king. It's not just then. In twenty

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twenty five, this can apply to God forbid. Any leader

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around the world that has chosen pride, has chosen to

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be puffed up instead of being humble, has chosen his

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or her own pathway rather than to submit themselves to God.

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God revealed through that prophet that this will be the

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judgment upon pride. Are you proud exploitation? Are you exploiting

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people for your own and aggrandizement? Violence? Are using violence

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and maybe coercion or any thing else to oppress people

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or suppress their voices? God forbid and idolatry. Do we

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really need to go into that how we puff up

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ourselves sometimes as human beings. But leaders, I'm speaking to

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you directly because this had a particular context, all of

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which have triggered these calamities upon the Egyptian people that

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were not covered. Now we talk about the people who

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were covered under the passover. Now we know that it

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wasn't everybody, but it was most of them, because most

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of them chose their leader, Pharaoh, rather than God, the

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creator of heaven and earth. And so we're back to

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the one more plague concept, and we're gonna look here

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into Let's see Exodus, chapter eleven and verse forty six,

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where the Bible reads about midnight, will I go out

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into the midst of Egypt, and all the first born

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in the land of Egypt shall die, and there shall

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be a great great cry throughout all the land of Egypt.

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And then in verse chapter twelve, loosely in verses twenty

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nine and thirty, at midnight, the Lord struck down the

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first born, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt

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because there was no house with someone without someone who

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was dead. So God judges. Now, when I say judge,

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I don't mean this term loosely where he's just weighing.

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I mean condemnation, now, condemnation God's people. There is therefore

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now no condemnation to those who are in Christ. Jesus,

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you see not that I'm talking about condemnation. God judged

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Pharaoh himself, that particular Pharaoh himself. He considered himself to

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be divine and the living son of raw Well his

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heir died. Isis false. God didn't even live nowhere. This

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is God was in the people's minds. The Goddess of

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protection and magic judged Mean, God of fertility and procreation

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judged Heket, goddess of childbirth judged. God's final act decimated

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Egypt's confidence in its gods and rulers. Where you live,

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I don't know where you live in the world. I

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won't call nations. Wherever you live. Are you worshiping money,

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your ability to create wealth or what is perceived to

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be wealth? Is it something else? Are you trusting in

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that stuff? If, against God's guidance, we are trusting in

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something else, then he will do what he needs to

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do to separate us from those things. And then when

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we are worshipers of God, if those things can work

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under his guidance. Life means God loves to give people

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wealth because we know what to do with it. God's

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people know what to do with it. Job knew what

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to do with his wealth. God doesn't have a problem

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with wealth, you see. Yeah, maybe he will return that

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when people have yielded our will to him. But again,

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this final act decimated Egypt's confidence in their gods and rulers.

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It made very clear that only Yahweh Blessed be his

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name is sovereign over life and death. The final plague

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was the climax of God's confrontation with Egypt its system

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of idolatry and oppression. It was not a random destruction.

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God gave ample warning, warning after warning, warning after warning.

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Is God giving you a warning about anything in your life?

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Right now? Brother? Is God giving you a warning about

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anything in your life, dear sister, and provision for escape

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through the blood of the over Lamb. We'll talk about

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that in the day or two if the Lord spaars life.

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So the plague fell only on those who rejected the

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offer of protection. God did not use this kind of

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judgment broad stroke. He only judged those who decided that's

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what they wanted. Yeah, when we decide against God, that

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is what we've chosen. God forbid. But God had given

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them the way out. And let me read very quickly

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from the page two seventy three out of the book

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Patriarchs and Prophets, it was the Lord who delivered judgment

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on the Egypt's gods, not merely her people. The death

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of the firstborn was God's final appeal. And then in

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Desire of Age's page seventy seven, Christ was the real passover.

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His blood alone can shield us from the destroyer. And

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so an application for me today is that judgment is real,

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but so is mercy. I said, condemnation is real, but

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so is mercy. God always warns before he acts. Did

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I not say that? From Amus chapter three and verse seven,

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the blood still speaks Jesus, our passover lamb is the

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only covering in the final condemnation or judgment in this case, Ah,

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teach your household, you have children, you have people in

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your household that are with you. Teach your household to

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trust in Christ, the one whose blood was shed for us.

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Because no house in Egypt was untouched, but some were protected.

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The final PLG shows us that we must choose plague

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or pass over, judgment or Jesus.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, listening to friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,