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, September nine,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 corrupting themselves, corrupting themselves. Before we get
into this, I'd like to just say welcome to everyone
joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
giving us this new day and for giving us the
Clarion call to holiness, Clarion call to relationship with You,
and I'm asking you to please fill us with your
Holy spirit. Teach us how to serve you with everything
we have and everything we are. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again corrupting themselves. Okay, so how is
your connection with God? I just need you to be
honest with yourself. I'm not asking you to type it
in the chat. I'm not asking you to touch three
people and say anything fancy. I'm saying, between you and God, like,
how is your connection with him? How is your relationship
with Him? And that is a good starting point when
you think about when God has led his people in
the past, they have historically had to make a decision.
They've had a decision to make. Will they serve Him
or will they drift into the way that things used
to be. I remember reading in the Book of Revelation
where the church at Ephesus lost their first love, that
point when they when they were really connected with God
and they were thriving, and then somehow something went wrong.
Some of your marriages are like that, where you know,
the first year and a half was wonderful and then
something shifted, or the first twenty years was wonderful, even
with the trials, but something shifted. Now you're empty nesters
and you're trying to figure out how do we reconnect
with each other now that the children are gone. Okay,
so let's go ahead into the Bible Book of Exodus,
chapter thirty two. We'll read verses seven and eight, but
we're gonna get lessons. Lessons from them. In just a moment,
I made a mistake. Let's first go to the book
Testimonies for the Church, Volume five, and then we'll go
to the passage in the Scriptures, page four hundred and
seventy two. Whatever attracts the mind from God? Did you
hear that whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws
the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.
And let me just say, these things don't have to
be like something evil innately inherently I should have said
it doesn't have to be inherently evil. It could be
your cell phone and you're checking the news or your
stock reports, where you could be obsessed with the weather
because where you live there's often like weird weather patterns.
It could be anything. It could be that you are
overwhelmed with your responsibilities at work, or how you feel
about how you should be taking care of your children
because you feel alone. Whatever draws you away. See, these
things should draw us to Christ and say, God, we
have needs, like we literally can't serve you unless unless
you give us the strength. But if it leads us
away from Him, it's an enemy to the soul. When
self is the supreme object of affection. Oh, we're talking
about pride. Now, we're talking about satisfying ourselves. Only life
is perverted and the soul is ruined. Now we can
go into Exodus, chapter thirty two and verse seven, and
the Bible reads and the Lord said, unto Moses, go
get thee down, for my people, which thou brought us
out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. Well
what was the indicator that they corrupted themselves? Well, they
pressed Aaron into building a golden calf or something that
they could worship because they didn't know where Moses was.
And then they said, you know what, we need to
worship something, so yeah, create something for us to worship.
And then they actually began to do what I shared
with you the other day called play, which was which
was licentiousness on the next level. Right, So they corrupted themselves.
So before the calf was shaped from gold, it was
shaped in their hearts. You see what I'm saying, Like,
who was in the camp that stood up and said, no, oh,
this is not right, Like what in the world we
can't do this. We can't do this, absolutely not. Sin
begins inwardly before it appears outwardly, so it doesn't need
to be a golden calf. What is the golden calf
in your life? If anything, I'm not suggesting that you
have a golden calf, like sometimes preachers and teachers go
overboard and say we all have our golden calf. Well,
I don't know that there are some of you who don't.
But if you do, at this stage of your development,
identify it. Honestly. What is that thing that takes more
of your mind space than whatever God would have you
to do. What is it that you worry about so
much that it has become your God. So the action
step is to ask God daily to search your heart
for hidden idols and remove them before they take root.
All right, now we go to the next verse. They
have turned aside quickly out of the way which I
commanded them. See, God had just given them the ten words,
the Covenant of his character, the ten Commandments law written
by his finger on Sapphire's stone, pulled from the actual
throne of God and the pavement under his feet. And
they quickly corrupted themselves. They took themselves out of the
way which I commanded them. And they have made a
molten calf, and have said, these be thy gods, oh Israel,
which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt,
How disrespectful, pardon me? How can you have something that
you created with your hands be what took you out
of the bondage that you were in for all of
those many, many, many many years. How could this thing
that you just created here from heaven. Huh, hear your
groanings and deliver you with a mighty hand. So you
are thrust out of Egypt and given all of these
treasures that the Egyptians gave you on the way out.
How could they have been the ones when they can't
even think, they don't even really actually exist. Well, that's
what the people did. And so giving God his glory
or giving God's glory to anything or anyone else is
idolatry and robs him of the honor do his name.
So regularly testify. It's a privilege to testify and tell
what great things God has done in your life as
a way to give other people the mindset to say
that every good and perfect gift comes from God. Every
time you have a good idea and are able to
act upon it, that came from God. Every time you're
able to eat food, or drink water, or experience the
sunshine or the rain, it was because of God. And
that helps our minds stay fixed on Him. And then finally,
from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and fifteen
and verse eight, they that make them are like unto them,
So is everyone that trusteth in them. What we behold
is who we become. We're talking about these false gods.
So idolatry transforms people into the image of the thing
that they worship. So why not worship God like forget idolatry.
Worship God and we become like him. Fill your mind
with God's words and his presence, and that will shape
you into His likeness instead of being in the image
of the thing that you created. Make it a great day, Peace.
Speaker 1: 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.