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 Monday. It's
September eighth, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
David Harris. I am your host in 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 Idolatry and Evil. Idolatry and Evil.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray and then get underway. Father, we thank
you for this new day, and thank you for giving
us guidance about how good you are, what a blessing
it is to serve you. Please insulate us against putting
anything before you, against any one before you. In Jesus name,
I pray a men and a men again, idolatry and evil.
There is so much that we need to say, and
I did say to you yesterday that there was a
word that had to do with the word play actually
means something, and I'll show it to you in just
a moment. But for a refresher, let's read here in Exodus,
chapter thirty two and verse six. Because God's people were
playing when they should have been worshiping God. They were
playing with God, playing with the devil. Maybe I should
say it that way. They were playing with the devil
and they should have been worshiping God. Do I play
God forbid with the enemy when I should be worshiping God?
Do I play in the life that God has given me?
When we're living in the last days, the moments right
before Jesus Christ will come and I should be actually
doing what God says do Like, why would I play
with the enemy when God has given me the privilege
to work with him with God, okay? And so the
Bible reads, and they rose up early on the morrow,
like this is after that golden calf incident, right, that
Aaron built a molten calf for them to worship and
replace God with. They rose up early on tomorrow and
offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people
sat down to eat and to drink. I think the
Bible says that as it was in the days of Noah,
we will see that people are eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage until the day of the destruction
when the people, when the people who were not saved
got destroyed in the flood. Well, it says here that
they ate and they drank and rose up to play.
And you're like, okay, okay, okay, play. So what what
does that mean? Well, if you research the word play
in Hebrew right there, I'm not going to pronounce it
because you don't speak Hebrew. Right, It's the same word
used in Genesis chapter twenty six, in verse eight to
describe Isaac and Rebeccah's intimate behavior. Isaac and Rebeccah's intimate
behavior in that same chapter in Exodus. We just read
that verse. It cannoes sexual In more reality, pagan revelry
and out of control feasting. Some of the parties that
people go to that are not just basically we're celebrating
our son who graduated from whatever. We're celebrating our daughter
who graduated from wherever, and we're coming together to thank God. Yeah,
but when people are getting together to party and feast
is always out of control feasting and drinking. It doesn't matter,
like drinking and eating whatever in the world we can
get into our mouths, no big deal, to the point
of gluttony. Some people even have eating and drinking contests
to show how far we go when we are out
of control with our appetites. And then the pagan revelry
likes all kinds of things that I can't even mention.
In fact, if I did go down the list, i'd
probably get like an infraction on YouTube. We're on YouTube
and social media, we're on the radio. We might even
get an infraction if I went there to the detail
that these people in their wickedness were doing when God
was so good to them, and sexual immorality. Listen, the
sexual immorality is some next level stuff. And again I'm
not going to go into the detail, but it is
so despicable. When they should have been worshiping God, they
were playing with the enemy. It wasn't lighthearted fun. It
wasn't It was an idolatrous celebration that included fornication, dancing
in a bad way lude behavior common in that Canaanite
and Egyptian religious ritual culture at the time, at the time,
at the time, my god.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: So let me read from the book Patriarch and Profits,
page three hundred and seventeen, and just ask yourself, by
the way, what was what is your plan for this evening? Like,
what is your plan for Saturday evening? What is your
plan for Friday evening? What is your plan when you
and your friends get together? Is it this the kind
of thing that happened at the at the Golden Calf
incident or something else. That's something we all need to
think about, no matter the age group. It's not just
young people. And so it reads it was a scene
of heathen riot with singing, dancing, in the most shameful licentiousness. Aaron,
fearing for his own safety, had permitted this, and then
from page three hundred and eighteen, they had ventured upon
the forbidden ground and Satan had taken complete control of them.
Back to three hundred and seventeen. A religion that permits men,
while observing the rights of worship, to devote themselves to
selfish or sensual gratification is as pleasing to the multitudes
now as it was back then. So there are some
times that people get together supposedly in the name of God,
and we go down this slippery slope and sometimes don't
even realize it, because not only have some of us
creepingly compromised, but some of us have overtly jumped in
to compromise. And so what do we need to do though?
What do we need to do for ourselves in these
final moments?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 2: Examine what gets your early mornings? Think about what they did?
What did you do when you woke up this morning early?
What was the first thing on your mind? What was
your first activity? Did you connect with God? Did you
ask him for his grace? Ask him for forgiveness? If
there are some sins that you've not yet confessed. Have
you asked him for his presence and told him how
much you appreciate him for the great things he's done
in your life and your family and your finances, hi
and your personal development? Have you done that? Just like
the people of old in that moment they rose early
to worship in that wicked way that I mentioned. The
Bible mentions the golden calf. What you rush to may
reveal what you worship. What I rush to do or
experience may be a revelation of what I actually worship.
And then look at your celebrations. Do your celebrations center
on God? Or or feed your flesh? The way we
play reveals who we believe gave us freedom Because they
did that, they were delivered from Egyptian captivity. And at
the same time, their playing demonstrated that they believe false
gods delivered them or something worse. And then, finally, test
your theology with silence. When Moses was delayed and God
was silence, their theology, their belief of God, how they
saw God collapsed. What you do when God delays reveals
who your God really is. Lord help us. These are
solemn messages. I do not apologize all of us need
to reconcile with God and say in what ways.
Speaker 1: Do we worsh for joining us people and 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,