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 Sunday. It
is the twenty seventh day of July in 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 one
more Plague, One more Plague and sound exciting to me,
but we'll get into that in just a moment. Before
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father, thank you for this
new work week and for giving us the opportunity to
come together in this fashion. We had our own personal worship,
and now we can we can corporately come together and
observe what you have taught us in your word, so
we can live according to the principles. Please help us
to do that. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
Amen again. I like where the lesson writer begins this
study today. In the Book of Amos, chapter three and
verse seven, the prophet Amos declares that the Lord God
does nothing, and I will add, like Pastor Henry Wright
taught us when I was a new believer many years ago.
He taught us the Lord doesn't do anything important, nothing pivotal,
nothing critical, nothing of vital importance without revealing his secret
to his servants, the prophets. Let me read it another way.
The Lord God does nothing important without first revealing his
secret to his servants, the prophets, and the lesson writer
continues and through the prophet Moses in this case, he
revealed to Pharaoh what was coming next. The solemn warning
was given to Pharaoh. This will be a just judgment
upon pride exploitation. Wherever this is, we don't need to
just look back look back at the time of that
particular Pharaoh. I need to go back and look at
which pharaoh it was. My history is slipping me now,
but that particular king. It's not just then. In twenty
twenty five, this can apply to God forbid. Any leader
around the world that has chosen pride, has chosen to
be puffed up instead of being humble, has chosen his
or her own pathway rather than to submit themselves to God.
God revealed through that prophet that this will be the
judgment upon pride. Are you proud exploitation? Are you exploiting
people for your own and aggrandizement? Violence? Are using violence
and maybe coercion or any thing else to oppress people
or suppress their voices? God forbid and idolatry. Do we
really need to go into that how we puff up
ourselves sometimes as human beings. But leaders, I'm speaking to
you directly because this had a particular context, all of
which have triggered these calamities upon the Egyptian people that
were not covered. Now we talk about the people who
were covered under the passover. Now we know that it
wasn't everybody, but it was most of them, because most
of them chose their leader, Pharaoh, rather than God, the
creator of heaven and earth. And so we're back to
the one more plague concept, and we're gonna look here
into Let's see Exodus, chapter eleven and verse forty six,
where the Bible reads about midnight, will I go out
into the midst of Egypt, and all the first born
in the land of Egypt shall die, and there shall
be a great great cry throughout all the land of Egypt.
And then in verse chapter twelve, loosely in verses twenty
nine and thirty, at midnight, the Lord struck down the
first born, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt
because there was no house with someone without someone who
was dead. So God judges. Now, when I say judge,
I don't mean this term loosely where he's just weighing.
I mean condemnation, now, condemnation God's people. There is therefore
now no condemnation to those who are in Christ. Jesus,
you see not that I'm talking about condemnation. God judged
Pharaoh himself, that particular Pharaoh himself. He considered himself to
be divine and the living son of raw Well his
heir died. Isis false. God didn't even live nowhere. This
is God was in the people's minds. The Goddess of
protection and magic judged Mean, God of fertility and procreation
judged Heket, goddess of childbirth judged. God's final act decimated
Egypt's confidence in its gods and rulers. Where you live,
I don't know where you live in the world. I
won't call nations. Wherever you live. Are you worshiping money,
your ability to create wealth or what is perceived to
be wealth? Is it something else? Are you trusting in
that stuff? If, against God's guidance, we are trusting in
something else, then he will do what he needs to
do to separate us from those things. And then when
we are worshipers of God, if those things can work
under his guidance. Life means God loves to give people
wealth because we know what to do with it. God's
people know what to do with it. Job knew what
to do with his wealth. God doesn't have a problem
with wealth, you see. Yeah, maybe he will return that
when people have yielded our will to him. But again,
this final act decimated Egypt's confidence in their gods and rulers.
It made very clear that only Yahweh Blessed be his
name is sovereign over life and death. The final plague
was the climax of God's confrontation with Egypt its system
of idolatry and oppression. It was not a random destruction.
God gave ample warning, warning after warning, warning after warning.
Is God giving you a warning about anything in your life?
Right now? Brother? Is God giving you a warning about
anything in your life, dear sister, and provision for escape
through the blood of the over Lamb. We'll talk about
that in the day or two if the Lord spaars life.
So the plague fell only on those who rejected the
offer of protection. God did not use this kind of
judgment broad stroke. He only judged those who decided that's
what they wanted. Yeah, when we decide against God, that
is what we've chosen. God forbid. But God had given
them the way out. And let me read very quickly
from the page two seventy three out of the book
Patriarchs and Prophets, it was the Lord who delivered judgment
on the Egypt's gods, not merely her people. The death
of the firstborn was God's final appeal. And then in
Desire of Age's page seventy seven, Christ was the real passover.
His blood alone can shield us from the destroyer. And
so an application for me today is that judgment is real,
but so is mercy. I said, condemnation is real, but
so is mercy. God always warns before he acts. Did
I not say that? From Amus chapter three and verse seven,
the blood still speaks Jesus, our passover lamb is the
only covering in the final condemnation or judgment in this case, Ah,
teach your household, you have children, you have people in
your household that are with you. Teach your household to
trust in Christ, the one whose blood was shed for us.
Because no house in Egypt was untouched, but some were protected.
The final PLG shows us that we must choose plague
or pass over, judgment or Jesus.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, listening to 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,