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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good Marning, Good morning. It is Sunday. It's
July twenty, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
David Harris. I am your host. Den 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. Under the
caption God versus God's God. We're talking about the Creator
versus all of the other Gods. Yeah, that's our discussion today.
And before we get into that, I'd like to say
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
we will get underway. Father, We thank you. Thank you
for giving us the privilege of being called by your name.
I say that often because it is a privilege. You
said you would write your name in our foreheads. Thank
you for being our God. Please teach us how to
serve you today. Teach us how to not look to
the left or to the right, but to just focus
on you and whatever you desire in Jesus name. I pray,
Amen and Amen again God versus Gods. So, yeah, I
wanted to deal with this yesterday, but really it's for
today's lesson. Yeah. So, when Pharaoh said that he didn't
know this God that Moses said told him to let
him let the people go, Really he's messing up his
economy and really actually turning away from what he had
been trained to believe all of his days. He believed
now that he was indeed and in fact God, and
likely he believed he was the supreme god of the
gods in air quotes. And so now you're coming with
a message from someone who says that they're God. I
don't know who that is. And by the way, go
tell whoever told you that, I'm not letting nobody go,
and really probably deep in his corey saying make me like,
if you're gonna, if you're a god, then make me well,
how did that work for him? So we're going to
run quickly through through the gods. I almost said pas
of gods, but would that would give you the wrong
impression because it's not a pantheon in Egypt. But you
get the point. And so when God turned the water
to blood in the plagues, we're talking about the plgs
very quickly. When he did that, he was targeting false
gods in Egypt. First one Happy, the other one Osyrus,
the other one. Canum see all of them? I won't
tell you all of the details. Maybe you can ask
in the community, like type in the community, give me
the list of the gods and you can get the
details there. But the message was the nile you worship
as life now has become death to you. So God
fires on those gods, the false gods, and then the plagues,
the plague related to the frogs. In Exodus, chapter eight,
verses one through fifteen, targeted the goddesses Hekket the goddess
Heket the message, the goddess of life multiplies death and
uncleanness because Hekat was the goddess of fertility in the
minds of the people. Then comes lice and gnats. In
Chapter eight sixteen through nineteen. The gods that are targeted
are Geb, Geb the message from your sacred dust comes defilement.
Your gods can't stop it. Then come the flies Kepri
Kepri god fires on Kepri, your god of renewal, releases
swarms of filth and chaos, the god of or the
death of livestock. In Exodus nine, verses one through seven,
targeted gods appeas hethor Menevius, the message, your gods of
power and provision are struck down in the fields. Then
comes bul in verses eight through twelve, targeted gods Imhotep
segment the message you trust them to heal you, but
now you're covered in pain. Then comes hel God is
firing on noot, He's firing on shoe, He's firing on
tough nout, he is firing on. Isis the message your
heavens tremble and burn at my word? Then locusts in
Exodus chapter ten, verses one through twenty We're going somewhere
net pri again set therapists the message your food supply
and harvest gods are defenseless. Then comes the darkness in
chapter ten, verses twenty one through twenty nine. The gods
that are targeted raw Horus. Even your greatest God can't
break my silence or light the sky. And then, of
course the death of the first born God is firing
on Pharaoh himself, Pharaoh himself. And then of course mean
isis best tet. No god, not even your divine in
air quotes King can stand before the judgment of the Lord.
So I know we ran through that, but that is
the reality. You want an introduction to the God of heaven.
Let me start by breaking down all of your gods
and letting you know that the God of the universe
has spoken. I told you in the beginning, let my
people go, let my son go, but you chose not to. Okay,
So now, yeah, now that we got all of that out,
how did that work for Pharaoh? It didn't It didn't.
And so when Pharaoh shall speak unto you spoke. This
is coming from Exodus chapter seven, verses eight through fifteen.
I'm leaving some of the parts of the text out.
But when Pharaoh sh I'll speak unto you, show a
miracle for you, Then thou shalt say unto Aaron, take
thy rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall
become a serpent. But Pharaoh shall also called his wise men,
and they did like manner with their enchantments, for they
cast down every man his rod, and it became serpents,
and Aaron's rods swallowed up their rods and hardened Pharaoh's heart.
There is so much that I need to say, but
so little time. So when we look at the serpents,
the serpents. Of course, when God did it, it was
true serpents, and when and when the people from Pharaoh
did it it was false. It was just sleight of hand.
But it's significant. It's significant because the rod was a
symbol of authority, a symbol of judgment, a symbol of
divine appointment. And then the serpent in this case, tanin
the Hebrew term is not a casual word for just snake.
Tanin can refer to a dragon, a sea monster, a
powerful creature. It is significant. It suggests a cosmic power clash,
not just like a cheap trick like pulling a rabbit
out of a hat. Not that, not that. And so
when Aaron's rod swallowed the magician's rod or serpents, that
was God's warning shot, a visual prophecy of Egypt's complete defeat.
In this case, this is what was happening. The swallowing
of the magicians rods by Aaron's rod was a sign
of ultimate triumph. But Pharaoh saw only what he desired,
and so from the book Patriarchs and Prophets two hundred
and sixty four, the magician's work was not accomplished by
their own skill alone, but through the power of their
god Satan. Yet the work of An was superior. His
rod swallowed their rods. Had Pharaoh accepted the first miracle,
all others would have been unnecessary. But his resistance gave
Satan permission to darken Pharaoh's mind further. There was just
so much more to say, But sometimes God shows you
something undeniable. It's a message, it's a miracle, it's a warning,
it's a conviction. In your spirit, and so when we
respond favorably, then we are transformed. But when we decide
to resist over time without repentance, then we're hardened.
Speaker 1: Don't be high for joining us listening 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,