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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 Monday. It's

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September eighth, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host in 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 Idolatry and Evil. Idolatry and Evil.

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

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Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways

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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray and then get underway. Father, we thank

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you for this new day, and thank you for giving

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us guidance about how good you are, what a blessing

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it is to serve you. Please insulate us against putting

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anything before you, against any one before you. In Jesus name,

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I pray a men and a men again, idolatry and evil.

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There is so much that we need to say, and

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I did say to you yesterday that there was a

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word that had to do with the word play actually

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means something, and I'll show it to you in just

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a moment. But for a refresher, let's read here in Exodus,

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chapter thirty two and verse six. Because God's people were

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playing when they should have been worshiping God. They were

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playing with God, playing with the devil. Maybe I should

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say it that way. They were playing with the devil

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and they should have been worshiping God. Do I play

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God forbid with the enemy when I should be worshiping God?

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Do I play in the life that God has given me?

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When we're living in the last days, the moments right

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before Jesus Christ will come and I should be actually

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doing what God says do Like, why would I play

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with the enemy when God has given me the privilege

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to work with him with God, okay? And so the

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Bible reads, and they rose up early on the morrow,

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like this is after that golden calf incident, right, that

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Aaron built a molten calf for them to worship and

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replace God with. They rose up early on tomorrow and

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offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people

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sat down to eat and to drink. I think the

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Bible says that as it was in the days of Noah,

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we will see that people are eating and drinking, marrying

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and giving in marriage until the day of the destruction

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when the people, when the people who were not saved

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got destroyed in the flood. Well, it says here that

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they ate and they drank and rose up to play.

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And you're like, okay, okay, okay, play. So what what

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does that mean? Well, if you research the word play

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in Hebrew right there, I'm not going to pronounce it

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because you don't speak Hebrew. Right, It's the same word

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used in Genesis chapter twenty six, in verse eight to

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describe Isaac and Rebeccah's intimate behavior. Isaac and Rebeccah's intimate

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behavior in that same chapter in Exodus. We just read

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that verse. It cannoes sexual In more reality, pagan revelry

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and out of control feasting. Some of the parties that

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people go to that are not just basically we're celebrating

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our son who graduated from whatever. We're celebrating our daughter

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who graduated from wherever, and we're coming together to thank God. Yeah,

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but when people are getting together to party and feast

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is always out of control feasting and drinking. It doesn't matter,

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like drinking and eating whatever in the world we can

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get into our mouths, no big deal, to the point

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of gluttony. Some people even have eating and drinking contests

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to show how far we go when we are out

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of control with our appetites. And then the pagan revelry

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likes all kinds of things that I can't even mention.

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In fact, if I did go down the list, i'd

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probably get like an infraction on YouTube. We're on YouTube

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and social media, we're on the radio. We might even

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get an infraction if I went there to the detail

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that these people in their wickedness were doing when God

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was so good to them, and sexual immorality. Listen, the

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sexual immorality is some next level stuff. And again I'm

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not going to go into the detail, but it is

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so despicable. When they should have been worshiping God, they

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were playing with the enemy. It wasn't lighthearted fun. It

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wasn't It was an idolatrous celebration that included fornication, dancing

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in a bad way lude behavior common in that Canaanite

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and Egyptian religious ritual culture at the time, at the time,

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at the time, my god.

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Speaker 1: Hmm.

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Speaker 2: So let me read from the book Patriarch and Profits,

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page three hundred and seventeen, and just ask yourself, by

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the way, what was what is your plan for this evening? Like,

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what is your plan for Saturday evening? What is your

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plan for Friday evening? What is your plan when you

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and your friends get together? Is it this the kind

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of thing that happened at the at the Golden Calf

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incident or something else. That's something we all need to

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think about, no matter the age group. It's not just

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young people. And so it reads it was a scene

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of heathen riot with singing, dancing, in the most shameful licentiousness. Aaron,

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fearing for his own safety, had permitted this, and then

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from page three hundred and eighteen, they had ventured upon

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the forbidden ground and Satan had taken complete control of them.

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Back to three hundred and seventeen. A religion that permits men,

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while observing the rights of worship, to devote themselves to

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selfish or sensual gratification is as pleasing to the multitudes

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now as it was back then. So there are some

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times that people get together supposedly in the name of God,

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and we go down this slippery slope and sometimes don't

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even realize it, because not only have some of us

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creepingly compromised, but some of us have overtly jumped in

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to compromise. And so what do we need to do though?

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What do we need to do for ourselves in these

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final moments?

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Speaker 1: Here?

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Speaker 2: Examine what gets your early mornings? Think about what they did?

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What did you do when you woke up this morning early?

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What was the first thing on your mind? What was

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your first activity? Did you connect with God? Did you

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ask him for his grace? Ask him for forgiveness? If

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there are some sins that you've not yet confessed. Have

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you asked him for his presence and told him how

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much you appreciate him for the great things he's done

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in your life and your family and your finances, hi

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and your personal development? Have you done that? Just like

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the people of old in that moment they rose early

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to worship in that wicked way that I mentioned. The

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Bible mentions the golden calf. What you rush to may

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reveal what you worship. What I rush to do or

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experience may be a revelation of what I actually worship.

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And then look at your celebrations. Do your celebrations center

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on God? Or or feed your flesh? The way we

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play reveals who we believe gave us freedom Because they

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did that, they were delivered from Egyptian captivity. And at

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the same time, their playing demonstrated that they believe false

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gods delivered them or something worse. And then, finally, test

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your theology with silence. When Moses was delayed and God

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was silence, their theology, their belief of God, how they

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saw God collapsed. What you do when God delays reveals

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who your God really is. Lord help us. These are

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solemn messages. I do not apologize all of us need

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to reconcile with God and say in what ways.

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Speaker 1: Do we worsh for joining us people and friends. Always

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remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every

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word that comes from the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it

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a great day. Yeah,