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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, July nineteen,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's Word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series through the Book of Exodus. We're taking the

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journey from Egypt into the Promised Land, and I would

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say even beyond the actual ultimate par But before we

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get into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone

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joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.

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If this is your first time, please go ahead and

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type in the chat first time or type a number one.

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And of course everybody who's watching or listening around the world.

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Just go ahead and congratulate the people for saying yes

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to God and coming here, because God is the one

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who gave us this assignment to be here, and it's

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because we need to have an encounter with Him. And

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for those on the radio, just go over to one

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of those one of those different platforms at your Daily

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Portion dot com and you can come back and put

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it in the comments. Put it in the comments and

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say this is my first time. In any case, you're welcome.

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This is your home now, and we'll see you every

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single day because we'll be here by God's grace. Let's

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go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,

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we thank you for this Sabbath morning and for the

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blessing of being called by your name. Please please help

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us to learn the lessons of our forebearers so that

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we don't have to repeat their errors. Teach us how

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to be faithful like some of our forebearers like Joshua

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and Caleb and others. Please make us holy today in

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Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. The caption

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for today is the Plagues. The plagues now tomorrow. If

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the Lord spaars life under God versus gods. I will

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really start showing how God strategically took shots at the

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false gods of the Egyptians to introduce himself, to introduce

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himself to the Pharaoh and also to the other people

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who were not convinced that they had the privilege of

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worshiping God. And so the Bible reads here in Exodus

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chapter nine, before we go too far Afield, verse thirty five.

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So the heart of Pharaoh was hard. Neither would he

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let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had

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spoken by Moses. So God had given a direct command.

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This is the God of heaven, the one who created

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all things, the one that has no equal. He will

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share his glory with no one else. He is saying

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to you, Pharaoh, King of Egypt, you were gonna let

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my people go so they can go into the wilderness

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and sacrifice to me, so they can worship and not

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be bound. And of course we read a couple of

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times last week that really the Pharaoh's like, oh, okay,

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I see what you're saying, and he increased the burden.

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When God's people were scheduled to rest, the pharaoh increased

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the burdens so they would not rest. And so now

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it's a showdown. Now it's a showdown. But yeah, I

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think you know which way this is going. But at

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this moment, Pharaoh is digging like he's not feeling it yet,

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he's digging in. He's digging in. Okay, And so let's

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get to a few lessons here, a few lessons related

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to just this passage, right, So we're gonna begin with

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the reality that God did not override Pharaoh's free will.

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He did not override Pharaoh's free will. You see, so

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he hardened his heart. He hardened his heart. He said no, no,

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I'm not doing what God says, and his heart got

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harder and harder. Every time he made a decision not

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to do what God said, his heart got harder. And

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God didn't override that. And God's repeated appeals through Moses

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gave Pharaoh multiple chances to yield. And so we need

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to just run straight to where we are, like, does

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God give us opportunities to do what he says? And

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sometimes we say no. And the more we say no,

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even chemically, the reality is we're wearing away a path

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in our minds literally that is storing up data to

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resist God until until through the Holy Ghost and some

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neurochemicals like gamma, amino buttric acid and some other things. Yes,

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this does come into play when we're making decisions. Yes,

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until those things come into play, and God gives us

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both to will and to do of his good pleasure,

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and we take another pathway and begin to do God's

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will and wear away another pathway that leads to continued obedience. Yeah,

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the heart gets harder. So the more Pharaoh resisted, the

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more his heart became fixed in rebellion. By withdrawing the

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convicting power of the Holy Ghost, God allowed Pharaoh's choice

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to solidify. So that's what it means by God hardening

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his heart, he allowed his choice to solidify. The longer

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he resisted, the longer he became more rebellious. Okay, and

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let me read now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets,

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page two hundred and sixty eight to give a little

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bit more context. Here, God gave him light, but the

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king refused to accept it. Whose fault was that, by

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the way, whose fault was that? Was that God's fault

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or was it the Pharaoh's fault? Every display of power

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made to save him so now we have the intent

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of God's heart to save Pharaoh, made to save him,

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only confirmed him in his rebellion. The seed of resistance

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sown when the first appeal was made, grew into harvest.

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So basically, in the end, Pharaoh and his people they

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got what they planted. Let me go to the Testimonies

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for the Church, Volume five, page one hundred and twenty.

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Each refusal hardened the heart more the man, I would add,

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or woman who resists the spirit of God once will

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do it more readily the second time. And so this

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principle applies to all of us, not just Pharaoh. Everybody

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who rejects the call of God on our lives, a

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call to obedience, a call to take another pathway, a

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call to adjust how we think or how we live,

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just hardens us. Every time you say this is difficult,

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it causes you to continue to think it's difficult. Every

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time you say no to God or later, or I'm

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not comfortable with that, or I would rather do it

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this way, it just hardens us in the reality of

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that particular thought. There are so many things I could

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say here, but let's just go ahead and make an application.

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Make an application, right, So every time the word of

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God comes to you, either softens your heart or hardens.

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It softens when we receive God's words humbly, in humility.

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When we receive God's word in humility, then we are softened,

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and we become more pliable, and we become more receptive

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to the Holy Ghost by show of hands, by show

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of virtual hands, like are you are you desiring to

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listen to God more than you were five minutes ago,

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ten minutes ago, yesterday? Or the converse, which is which

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is hardens when resisted over and over again. Okay, so,

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just like Pharaoh, we are tempted. Humans are all tempted

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to dig in when we don't like God's terms. The

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warning is clear, and I know I use the word warning.

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Some people don't like warning. We don't like that word.

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But the warning is clear. Don't delay surrender. I said

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it to you before that. Delayed obedience is disobedience. Hardened

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hearts are not caused by God's cruelty. They are the

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result of rejecting the light that God so graciously gives

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us repeatedly. Yeah, so we have a decision to make, y'all.

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Can I just leave it like that? We have a

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decision to make. We have the privilege to say yes, Lord,

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Yes to your will and to your way. We have

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the privilege of accepting the love of God that he

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has toward us, Yes and become his children. Or we

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can say, you know what, I don't really want to

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be in a relationship with God. I want to do

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things my own way. I want to live in rebellion.

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Those who live by rebellion will die as a repelt.

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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,