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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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the fourth day of August 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 Consecration

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of the Firstborn. Consecration of the first Born. We'll get

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into that in just a moment, but first i'd like

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to say welcome to you and ask you to please

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go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join

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Life application guide that last part is very important because

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many times we don't know how to apply everything that

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we're reading here. We super over spiritualize it and forget

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how to apply the things in our everyday life. So

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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, We thank you, We

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thank you for consecrating us, setting us aside for a

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holy use. Please help us to be satisfied only in

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your presence everything else help us to run away from it.

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In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Consecration

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of the Firstborn. There's so much to say, so little time.

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Let's just go ahead and begin by reading from the

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Book of Exodus, the Bible Book of Exodus, chapter thirteen

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and verse two and verse two. I'll read it from

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the amplified version of the Bible, and it reads consecrate

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to me. That means to set aside for a holy use.

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God is saying, pull this aside and dedicate this only

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to me. We should be consecrating some of our time

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to God. We are consecrated beings. We're set aside for

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a holy use. But there's a moment that we don't

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use social media because we need to be with God.

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There are some of our brothers and sisters really around

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the world that at least five times of their day

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they are consecrating to what they are experiencing as God.

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From their perspective, I wish I had the time to

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deal with that three times a day he consecrated specifically

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to God. Minimally, I'm saying, minimally, I wish I had

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the time. Let me keep going, So consecrate to me

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all the first born, whatever opens the womb among the

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children of Israel. So now we know specifically in this

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context what is to be consecrated the very first are

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you consecrating the first part of your day? Are you

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consecrating or setting aside for a holy use? The first

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part of your money, the first part of your energy,

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the first part of your mindset, Like, are you setting

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apart the first of all that you have and all

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that you are to God? But here, specifically, whatever opens

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the womb among the children of Israel, both of humans

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and of animals. Why God, it is mine? It is mine?

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And So the word, the Hebrew word kadash means to

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for set aside or sanctify, means to set apart, to dedicate,

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to make holy, and for divine use. So now you

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know I didn't make that up. And then if the

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first born becare the first male to open the womb

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represents strength. It represents strength inheritance and leadership. I wish

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I had the time for us to apply all of this.

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And of course it belongs to me Lee mine in

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Hebrew Lee, and it's an emphatic possession. It belongs to me.

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God is pointing at us right in our faces and

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saying that belongs to me. Okay. So the firstborn symbolize

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the deliverance through the Final plague where the first born

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of Egypt died. You see the contrast there. But God's

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people were spared through the blood of the lamb. The

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symbol of their faith was manifest and God spared them.

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While those who decided that they did not want to

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be connected with God, the ones who still decided with

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a dog it's sort of digging in of their heels.

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They decided they didn't want God, they wanted their false gods,

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whom God already showed were powerless. Well, those individuals were

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in contrast to the people of God who were covered.

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So God claimed the first born. It was a symbol,

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a symbolic reminder that everything that the people have belongs

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to him. I said it to you the other day.

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All what is that song? Again? We give thee, but

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Thine own whatever it shall be, whatever it may be,

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All that we have is Thine alone, a trust o

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Lord from thee. So God's claim as a symbol that

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all belongs to him. This also prefigured the coming of Christ,

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the true first born, that means the pre eminent one.

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In the case that Jesus took on human flesh, he

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came in order to save us right in the fullness

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of time, God sent forth his son, made of a woman,

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made under the law, so that we could be redeemed,

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who are under the law, so we could be the

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adoption of son. So in that context, the first born

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of all creation in Colossians one in verse fifteen, and

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the first born from the dead according to Revelation chapter

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one and verse five was Jesus. The first two come

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back from the dead. Absolutely not was the pre eminent

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one that did in his humanity come back from the

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dead because we know Divinity can't die. Well, yes, absolutely,

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but there is still one more thing. It's a bonus

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for us to really get this. He is the only

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one who came back from the second death. The first

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born from the dead is the only one who came

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back from the second death. Literally, no other person who

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will experience, God forbid but experience the second death will

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recover from that. It's final. But Jesus came back from that.

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That means that when you are dying in sin, because

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you're shapen in iniquity, because you have entertained all kinds

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of wickedness, because you hardened your heart even like that

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particular pharaoh had done. But God has given you away.

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He's giving you an opportunity like he did for him.

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But he refused. But you don't have to refuse. He's

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giving you the opportunity to be to have a softened heart,

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and then God give you a clean heart and renew

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a right spirit within you so that you don't need

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to die the second death. That's what I'm trying to say.

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Here's so much, so much, so much. From two seventy four,

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page two seventy four from the book patriarchs and prophets.

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The first born of both man and beast were to

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be the lords, to be bought with a price or

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a dedicated to sacred service. This was to keep constantly

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before the minds of the people of God the wonderful

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delay deliverance wrought for them. So much to say, so

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little time. Let me just apply this. Well, let's we

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can go into the context really quickly, and then we'll

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apply it to today. I'm looking at my time. This

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command was not only a cultural reality, it was not optional.

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God had just passed over the firstborn of the people

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of God and judged Egypt's false gods. The consecration of

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the first born was threefold at least a perpetual reminder

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of salvation through the blood of lamb only, a call

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to stewardship God owns the people he redeems, and a

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nationwide act of worship rooted in personal obedience. It reminded

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every family in among the people of God that their strength,

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that is, the first born, belongs to the Redeemer and

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not to themselves. Now let's apply it. God still claims

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the first place in our lives. I started with that

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your first and income, your time your decisions, your family.

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It belongs to him. Redemption is not free. Okay, okay,

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I know somebody just said, wait a minute, of course

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it's free. Yeah, but God paid a lot. It costs

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God a lot. Redemption costs something. The first born had

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to be redeemed with a substitute, pointing forward to Christ

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who would redeem us, not with silver or gold, but

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with his blood. Yeah, redemption is invaluable because the price

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that was paid was the blood of Christ.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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from the mouth of God. This has been your daily

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