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,
vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, all
gets five, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
David Harris. I am your host, and 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, and our
caption for today is Crossing the Red Sea. I said,
crossing the Red Sea. Now, if I am extra excited
or happy, or even clearer in thought today than normal,
maybe maybe it's because twenty four years on this date
in Alexandria, Virginia, Simone and I said, I do, and
guess what we still do. I just want to say
that it's our twenty fourth anniversary, and I just want
you to say thank God for us, like talk to
God about us today, because marriage is God's idea and
phenomenal only happens under God. So I'm just so grateful
that Simone accepted my hand in marriage and we are
still going strong. Thank God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Let's go ahead and pray before I get too far
afield and get underway. Father, I do thank you for
this day because you have made it and you have
made us. Thank you for giving us so many markers
in the past that show us how you will lead
us in the field future. Help us to remember you
in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Crossing
the Red Sea, I told you the other day that
I would come back to this and look at it
a little bit more closely, a little bit more closely,
and we indeed will. But let's go ahead here to
verse twenty one of Exodus chapter fourteen, and the Bible reads,
and Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. We
read this, but now it bears repeating, and the Lord
caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind.
I talked to you about that and the details of that.
At night I talked to you about that and preached
to you about that, and made the sea dry land.
We talked about that in a good amount of detail,
and the waters were divided, very good, very good. And
so of course the sea there's nothing to see here,
like it's the land. The body of water, nothing to
see here. The wind, we've already spoken about that. God
divided it h bakha to split, to tear apart, to
break open. If there is something that is separating you
from freedom to worship God, then God, if you yield
to him, will split. He will tear apart, and he
will break open a pathway so that you will be free.
Can I say it one more time? God will split,
tear apart, and break open a path before you so
that you can be free. So this moment was God's
decisive action for deliverance. Yes, the east wind shows natural
elements under divine control. Yes, God removed human escape routes
to demonstrate that only he could save. There's no other way.
Mountains everywhere, big old c in front of you. They
not about those millions of people, not about to swim
through there. There's not enough boats to take through there.
You understand, like, there's no way out, only a way through,
and God had to make that path for them. The
sea became both salvation for the people of God and
get this, and condemnation unfortunately for them, unfortunately because it
was their choice, unfortunately, and condemnation for those marauding Egyptians
who had not yielded to God. Now there were some
who had, and they were with the people of God,
but the rest of them. And from the book Patriarchs
and Prophets, actually, let's go to the one from Christ's
object Lessons, page one seventy seven. The path where God leads,
the way may lie through the desert or the sea.
I said that to you the other day, But it
is a safe path. And then Patriarchs and Prophets, page
two hundred and eighty four. The cloud that was a
wall of darkness to the Egyptians was to the people
of God a great flood of light. Can you imagine
the difference, illuminating the whole camp and shedding brightness upon
the path before them? Are you now being covered by
the light? I said covered? I know what I just said,
Covered by the light of God's love and righteousness. Are
you covered by the light of God's righteousness. Adam and
Eve when they were in the garden of Eden, when
they were still in their innocence, they were covered in light.
Are you covered in light right now? In the righteousness
of Christ? And so now we're going to talk about
it from the perspective of that time. This wasn't only freedom,
which I always trumpet like that is the chief thing
that I like to talk about, the deliverance from oppression, etc.
It was the judgment of those false gods that these
guys worshiped. It was it was judgment on the ultimate
false deity, in this case, Pharaoh, his false divinity. It
was God taking direct shots at that. Egypt had hundreds
of gods, maybe even more, but I'm gonna stick with
hundreds of gods, and Pharaoh was considered to be divined.
By parting the Red Sea, God crushed the power. This
is one that I had missed all of these years.
I've been talking about the gods and goddesses, false gods,
false goddesses that were represented when God was firing on
them through the plagues. But I had never even thought
about this until I studied further. By parting the Red Sea,
God crushed the power of their Goddess of the sea
and mocked their crocodile god. Sobek and guess what that
so called god was the protector of the nile. How
did that work for you? This act made the people
of God not just former slaves, but God's redeemed people.
I don't want you to constantly identify as as what
you used to be. You understand what I'm saying to you.
In the in the age of people identifying ass fill
in the blank, I'm saying, we don't always have to
identify with our problems. We don't always need to identify
with our past. We don't identify by saying I don't
look like I what I've been through all the time.
Like there is a time when we just stop talking
about the don'ts and the nots, not talking about what
used to be, but only talking about the reality right now.
I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Remember
that song, I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
The Bible says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, like,
stand up as what you are presently, not what you
used to be. I get it. We have to go
through that sort of continuum that pathway. But God is
so good, How good is he? He is so good
that he has redeemed his people with his blood, and
we now can have God's name written in our foreheads.
We don't have to be former slaves anymore. We can
be currently redeemed, currently powerful, currently victorious. You understand where
this is going. And so this was also about God
placing his identity in us and God's people trusting him.
They had to walk on the path that God opened
before they could see how it would end. I said,
they walked on the path. I'm talking about the priests
who went in first. They got wet and sandy. They
didn't step in on bedrock. These dudes need to really
be tested, like like what's about to happen here? And
then God separated the waters from the ground and he
continued that miracle. So they had to walk into the
path that God opened before they could see how God
would end this. And so in our everyday lives, we
need to know that God doesn't always remove the obstacles.
Sometimes he does, but not always. He transformed them into pathways.
He transformed the sea into a pathway. The red sea
did not vanish, it split open God waits until the
enemy is close enough for you to see your miracle,
for your enemy to see your miracle. God's people didn't
cross until Pharaoh's armies were almost there. When you cross
the Red Sea, it's a miracle of God.
Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks 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,