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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 July,

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almost said May July twenty one, 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 who

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hardened Pharaoh's Heart? Did it? Who hardened Pharaoh's Heart? We'll

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get into that in just a moment, but first I'd

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like to say welcome to you and ask you to

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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our online community. Please pick up your Daily Portion Life

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application guide and also let us know where you are

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in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let me just say a great big

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shout out to those who are listening on the radio.

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You are on almost two hundred radio stations around the world,

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and I'm thankful that God has given us the privilege

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of connecting in this way. Let's go ahead and pray,

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and then we will get underway. Father, we do thank you.

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We thank you for this day and for the privilege

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that you've given us to see you, see your characters,

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see your love for us, and your patience and your

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judgment in your word. Please help us to live on

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the side of love. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen

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and Amen again. All right, Who done it? Who done it?

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Who hardened Pharaoh's heart? Now that is an overarching question

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in a lot of people's minds because they get caught

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up in language in the Bible. But let's just go

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ahead and begin with Signs of the Times article from

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March four, eighteen eighty, and it reads God gave Pharaoh

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opportunity after opportunity to reveal whether he would receive the light.

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It was Pharaoh's own pride and stubbornness that caused him

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to resist the evidence. Now let me just say this

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is just, this is in alignment with the character of God.

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Everywhere you see in scripture, you see where people are

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given the opportunity. All of us, one hundred percent of

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us listening or watching, or who will ever listen or watch,

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have been given opportunity to either say yes to God

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or to continue down the pathway of sin toward eternal

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separation from God. Like that is an opportunity. It's a

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choice for all of us. And this is no different

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In the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred and

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sixty eight, God did not compel Pharaoh to be stubborn,

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but the monarch resisted every appeal, thus placed himself where

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God could no longer influence him without destroying his freedom

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of choice. That's the end of the quote. All of us,

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I'm gonna say it just one more time. All of

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us have the privilege to make the right decision. It

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is God that worketh in us both to will, that is,

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to have the desire to do God's will and to

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do and to actually accomplish it of his good pleasure.

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All of us have this privilege, and so we can't

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blame God when when humans decide to press against that

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and never do his will. In the end, the Bible

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reads and it talks about it. In Romans chapter nine,

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verses seventeen through eighteen, Paul says God raised Pharaoh to

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show his power, but his but this follows Pharaoh's rebellion.

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So God used him as a case study. This is

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the way not to go. It wasn't that God forced

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him to do the wrong thing. That would be ungodlike.

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And there's so much more, so much more. From Proverbs

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chapter twenty nine and verse one, he that being often reproved,

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hardeneth his neck shall stubbornly be destroyed. So God is

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going to accept the choices that we make. And that's it.

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That's it, okay. And so the context for this is

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Pharaoh lived in a world where he was worshiped as

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a god. We talked about that in the God versus

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God's Lesson. God sent clear signs through Moses, each giving

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Pharaoh a chance to surrender, but each refusal deepened Pharaoh's resistance.

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So who done it? Eventually God's mercy reached a point

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where it could it would violate his own character to

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override Pharaoh's free will. At that point, God confirmed Pharaoh's

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hardened state as judgment. Okay, that's the way you want

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to go. That's the way it's going to be. I

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wish I could give you some examples of when when

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you know, our son Josiah was little and he made decisions,

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and I just allowed him as he decided. Nope, he's

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not listening to the correction. He's not deciding to go

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the way that mommy and Daddy were teaching him. In

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those moments, I just said, Okay, that's the way you

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want to go. I don't recommend it. Here are the

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options to go in the right direction. Here is the

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power to do the right thing. Until we get to

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the point where it's like, Okay, that's the path you're going.

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You're going to go all the way that way. That's you.

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You've made the decision. And he learned very early in

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life that that was not it. He didn't like the

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hard way, you see, all right? And so for our

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everyday application, though God speaks again and again, I'm talking

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about now on this day in July in twenty twenty five,

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while you're listening to me, and while I'm speaking to you,

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God is still speaking. He's speaking again and again, and

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you can either I can either surrender or resist. It's

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my decision. It's your decision. If you keep pushing back,

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eventually you'll lose your ability to respond at all. Your

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heart does not just reject, it also becomes unable to hear.

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So God doesn't force people to be stubborn. That would

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be ungodly. He simply allows our choices to stand. That's

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why when God forbid, people will be destroyed in the

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end of all of these discussions, at the end of

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what we call time, but at the end of probation,

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and then Jesus eventually comes, and then after the thousand

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years are finished and people are ultimately destroyed. This is

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why it's a strange act for God. Because God did

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not come into the world through Christ to condemn the world,

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but that the world through him might be saved. God

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didn't send the prophets in the Old Testament to condemn

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the world, but that through the guidance that God was

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giving through each era of time, that they would be saved.

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And so it's a strange act for God to have

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to do this because humans have decided to harden themselves

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against God. So don't play with conviction. The Bible says

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God is not mocked. Whatever we sew, that's what we

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ultimately will reap. So don't play with conviction. The same

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sun that melts wax, I'm talking about the heavenly body

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called the sun, it melts wax, it also hardens clay. Oh,

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I think somebody finally got it. Who done it? The

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same sun that melts wax also hardens clay. So the

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difference is in our decision making process. So let me

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run through a few a few action steps in this

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regard the danger of repeated refusal. Here is an action

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step based on Exodus chapter nine and verse thirty five.

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Take immediate inventory of areas that you are resisting God's will.

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I'm talking about right now. Get a pen and pad,

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get your two thumbs out with your device, and take

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an inventory where am I resisting God's will? And then

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respond with humility. God, I can't do this without you.

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I realize that I have been doing something that does

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not please you, which is show me how to live

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according to your will? Will you show me how to

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amend my ways? Respond with humility before resistance becomes rebellion.

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Number two, when God allows your will to lead, we're

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going to use based on Romans chapter one and verse

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twenty eight. Ask God to interrupt you. Ask him to

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interrupt you if you are headed towards self destruction, even

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if it is uncomfortable. And then finally, based on Proverbs

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twenty nine and verse one, except correction early. The longer

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you resist, the harder it will become to return to God.

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Make it a great day, peace.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 2: Yeah,