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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 Tuesday, all

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gets five, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our

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caption for today is Crossing the Red Sea. I said,

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crossing the Red Sea. Now, if I am extra excited

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or happy, or even clearer in thought today than normal,

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maybe maybe it's because twenty four years on this date

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in Alexandria, Virginia, Simone and I said, I do, and

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guess what we still do. I just want to say

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that it's our twenty fourth anniversary, and I just want

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you to say thank God for us, like talk to

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God about us today, because marriage is God's idea and

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phenomenal only happens under God. So I'm just so grateful

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that Simone accepted my hand in marriage and we are

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still going strong. Thank God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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Let's go ahead and pray before I get too far

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afield and get underway. Father, I do thank you for

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this day because you have made it and you have

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made us. Thank you for giving us so many markers

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in the past that show us how you will lead

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us in the field future. Help us to remember you

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in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Crossing

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the Red Sea, I told you the other day that

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I would come back to this and look at it

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a little bit more closely, a little bit more closely,

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and we indeed will. But let's go ahead here to

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verse twenty one of Exodus chapter fourteen, and the Bible reads,

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and Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. We

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read this, but now it bears repeating, and the Lord

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caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind.

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I talked to you about that and the details of that.

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At night I talked to you about that and preached

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to you about that, and made the sea dry land.

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We talked about that in a good amount of detail,

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and the waters were divided, very good, very good. And

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so of course the sea there's nothing to see here,

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like it's the land. The body of water, nothing to

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see here. The wind, we've already spoken about that. God

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divided it h bakha to split, to tear apart, to

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break open. If there is something that is separating you

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from freedom to worship God, then God, if you yield

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to him, will split. He will tear apart, and he

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will break open a pathway so that you will be free.

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Can I say it one more time? God will split,

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tear apart, and break open a path before you so

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that you can be free. So this moment was God's

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decisive action for deliverance. Yes, the east wind shows natural

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elements under divine control. Yes, God removed human escape routes

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to demonstrate that only he could save. There's no other way.

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Mountains everywhere, big old c in front of you. They

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not about those millions of people, not about to swim

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through there. There's not enough boats to take through there.

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You understand, like, there's no way out, only a way through,

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and God had to make that path for them. The

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sea became both salvation for the people of God and

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get this, and condemnation unfortunately for them, unfortunately because it

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was their choice, unfortunately, and condemnation for those marauding Egyptians

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who had not yielded to God. Now there were some

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who had, and they were with the people of God,

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but the rest of them. And from the book Patriarchs

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and Prophets, actually, let's go to the one from Christ's

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object Lessons, page one seventy seven. The path where God leads,

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the way may lie through the desert or the sea.

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I said that to you the other day, But it

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is a safe path. And then Patriarchs and Prophets, page

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two hundred and eighty four. The cloud that was a

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wall of darkness to the Egyptians was to the people

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of God a great flood of light. Can you imagine

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the difference, illuminating the whole camp and shedding brightness upon

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the path before them? Are you now being covered by

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the light? I said covered? I know what I just said,

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Covered by the light of God's love and righteousness. Are

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you covered by the light of God's righteousness. Adam and

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Eve when they were in the garden of Eden, when

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they were still in their innocence, they were covered in light.

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Are you covered in light right now? In the righteousness

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of Christ? And so now we're going to talk about

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it from the perspective of that time. This wasn't only freedom,

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which I always trumpet like that is the chief thing

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that I like to talk about, the deliverance from oppression, etc.

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It was the judgment of those false gods that these

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guys worshiped. It was it was judgment on the ultimate

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false deity, in this case, Pharaoh, his false divinity. It

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was God taking direct shots at that. Egypt had hundreds

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of gods, maybe even more, but I'm gonna stick with

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hundreds of gods, and Pharaoh was considered to be divined.

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By parting the Red Sea, God crushed the power. This

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is one that I had missed all of these years.

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I've been talking about the gods and goddesses, false gods,

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false goddesses that were represented when God was firing on

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them through the plagues. But I had never even thought

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about this until I studied further. By parting the Red Sea,

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God crushed the power of their Goddess of the sea

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and mocked their crocodile god. Sobek and guess what that

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so called god was the protector of the nile. How

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did that work for you? This act made the people

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of God not just former slaves, but God's redeemed people.

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I don't want you to constantly identify as as what

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you used to be. You understand what I'm saying to you.

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In the in the age of people identifying ass fill

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in the blank, I'm saying, we don't always have to

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identify with our problems. We don't always need to identify

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with our past. We don't identify by saying I don't

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look like I what I've been through all the time.

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Like there is a time when we just stop talking

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about the don'ts and the nots, not talking about what

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used to be, but only talking about the reality right now.

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I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Remember

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that song, I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

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The Bible says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, like,

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stand up as what you are presently, not what you

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used to be. I get it. We have to go

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through that sort of continuum that pathway. But God is

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so good, How good is he? He is so good

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that he has redeemed his people with his blood, and

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we now can have God's name written in our foreheads.

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We don't have to be former slaves anymore. We can

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be currently redeemed, currently powerful, currently victorious. You understand where

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this is going. And so this was also about God

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placing his identity in us and God's people trusting him.

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They had to walk on the path that God opened

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before they could see how it would end. I said,

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they walked on the path. I'm talking about the priests

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who went in first. They got wet and sandy. They

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didn't step in on bedrock. These dudes need to really

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be tested, like like what's about to happen here? And

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then God separated the waters from the ground and he

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continued that miracle. So they had to walk into the

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path that God opened before they could see how God

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would end this. And so in our everyday lives, we

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need to know that God doesn't always remove the obstacles.

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Sometimes he does, but not always. He transformed them into pathways.

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He transformed the sea into a pathway. The red sea

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did not vanish, it split open God waits until the

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enemy is close enough for you to see your miracle,

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for your enemy to see your miracle. God's people didn't

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cross until Pharaoh's armies were almost there. When you cross

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the Red Sea, it's a miracle of God.

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Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we

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cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that

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comes from the mouth of God. This has been your

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