1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:03,839 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too 2 00:00:03,919 --> 00:00:07,759 much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy 3 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:11,560 for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:15,039 yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,000 keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,879 going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words 7 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,920 today and receive the power we need to live healthy, 8 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,839 vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, 9 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:33,079 author speaker, Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,119 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Tuesday, September nine, 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,640 twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle David Harris. 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,600 I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion 13 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,439 where we give you God's word every single day, and 14 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,359 today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson 15 00:00:50,399 --> 00:00:54,079 study series through the Book of Exodus, and our caption 16 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:02,520 for today is corrupting themselves, corrupting themselves. Before we get 17 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,879 into this, I'd like to just say welcome to everyone 18 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,760 joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time. 19 00:01:08,159 --> 00:01:11,319 Please go over to your Daily Portion dot com, please 20 00:01:11,599 --> 00:01:15,920 join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion Life 21 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,280 application guide, and also let us know where you are 22 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,079 in the world. At your Daily Portion dot com. This 23 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:25,519 is one of the ways that we continue to build 24 00:01:25,599 --> 00:01:29,439 faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then 25 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,560 we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for 26 00:01:33,599 --> 00:01:37,280 giving us this new day and for giving us the 27 00:01:37,359 --> 00:01:41,799 Clarion call to holiness, Clarion call to relationship with You, 28 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,519 and I'm asking you to please fill us with your 29 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:48,040 Holy spirit. Teach us how to serve you with everything 30 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,560 we have and everything we are. In Jesus' name, I pray, 31 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:59,920 Amen and Amen again corrupting themselves. Okay, so how is 32 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:03,159 your connection with God? I just need you to be 33 00:02:03,239 --> 00:02:05,560 honest with yourself. I'm not asking you to type it 34 00:02:05,599 --> 00:02:08,120 in the chat. I'm not asking you to touch three 35 00:02:08,159 --> 00:02:13,000 people and say anything fancy. I'm saying, between you and God, like, 36 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:17,960 how is your connection with him? How is your relationship 37 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:22,919 with Him? And that is a good starting point when 38 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,199 you think about when God has led his people in 39 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,159 the past, they have historically had to make a decision. 40 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:33,599 They've had a decision to make. Will they serve Him 41 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:38,439 or will they drift into the way that things used 42 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:42,680 to be. I remember reading in the Book of Revelation 43 00:02:42,879 --> 00:02:48,759 where the church at Ephesus lost their first love, that 44 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,080 point when they when they were really connected with God 45 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:56,159 and they were thriving, and then somehow something went wrong. 46 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,960 Some of your marriages are like that, where you know, 47 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,280 the first year and a half was wonderful and then 48 00:03:02,439 --> 00:03:07,960 something shifted, or the first twenty years was wonderful, even 49 00:03:08,159 --> 00:03:11,879 with the trials, but something shifted. Now you're empty nesters 50 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,919 and you're trying to figure out how do we reconnect 51 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,479 with each other now that the children are gone. Okay, 52 00:03:19,599 --> 00:03:24,360 so let's go ahead into the Bible Book of Exodus, 53 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:27,520 chapter thirty two. We'll read verses seven and eight, but 54 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,759 we're gonna get lessons. Lessons from them. In just a moment, 55 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:34,479 I made a mistake. Let's first go to the book 56 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,759 Testimonies for the Church, Volume five, and then we'll go 57 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:41,039 to the passage in the Scriptures, page four hundred and 58 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:47,479 seventy two. Whatever attracts the mind from God? Did you 59 00:03:47,520 --> 00:03:54,479 hear that whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws 60 00:03:54,560 --> 00:04:01,120 the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul. 61 00:04:01,879 --> 00:04:04,039 And let me just say, these things don't have to 62 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,919 be like something evil innately inherently I should have said 63 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:11,840 it doesn't have to be inherently evil. It could be 64 00:04:11,919 --> 00:04:14,159 your cell phone and you're checking the news or your 65 00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:17,639 stock reports, where you could be obsessed with the weather 66 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,000 because where you live there's often like weird weather patterns. 67 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:25,920 It could be anything. It could be that you are 68 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,240 overwhelmed with your responsibilities at work, or how you feel 69 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:32,560 about how you should be taking care of your children 70 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,879 because you feel alone. Whatever draws you away. See, these 71 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:39,759 things should draw us to Christ and say, God, we 72 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:44,120 have needs, like we literally can't serve you unless unless 73 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,759 you give us the strength. But if it leads us 74 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:51,040 away from Him, it's an enemy to the soul. When 75 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,800 self is the supreme object of affection. Oh, we're talking 76 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:03,240 about pride. Now, we're talking about satisfying ourselves. Only life 77 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,920 is perverted and the soul is ruined. Now we can 78 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:11,560 go into Exodus, chapter thirty two and verse seven, and 79 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,959 the Bible reads and the Lord said, unto Moses, go 80 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,680 get thee down, for my people, which thou brought us 81 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,000 out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. Well 82 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,639 what was the indicator that they corrupted themselves? Well, they 83 00:05:24,519 --> 00:05:28,639 pressed Aaron into building a golden calf or something that 84 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,240 they could worship because they didn't know where Moses was. 85 00:05:31,519 --> 00:05:33,199 And then they said, you know what, we need to 86 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,639 worship something, so yeah, create something for us to worship. 87 00:05:37,319 --> 00:05:40,480 And then they actually began to do what I shared 88 00:05:40,519 --> 00:05:43,560 with you the other day called play, which was which 89 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:51,040 was licentiousness on the next level. Right, So they corrupted themselves. 90 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,120 So before the calf was shaped from gold, it was 91 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,800 shaped in their hearts. You see what I'm saying, Like, 92 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,240 who was in the camp that stood up and said, no, oh, 93 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,519 this is not right, Like what in the world we 94 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:07,360 can't do this. We can't do this, absolutely not. Sin 95 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:13,480 begins inwardly before it appears outwardly, so it doesn't need 96 00:06:13,519 --> 00:06:15,639 to be a golden calf. What is the golden calf 97 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,680 in your life? If anything, I'm not suggesting that you 98 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,959 have a golden calf, like sometimes preachers and teachers go 99 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,399 overboard and say we all have our golden calf. Well, 100 00:06:24,439 --> 00:06:27,319 I don't know that there are some of you who don't. 101 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,720 But if you do, at this stage of your development, 102 00:06:31,439 --> 00:06:35,800 identify it. Honestly. What is that thing that takes more 103 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,120 of your mind space than whatever God would have you 104 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:41,879 to do. What is it that you worry about so 105 00:06:42,079 --> 00:06:45,959 much that it has become your God. So the action 106 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,959 step is to ask God daily to search your heart 107 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:54,160 for hidden idols and remove them before they take root. 108 00:06:55,519 --> 00:06:58,199 All right, now we go to the next verse. They 109 00:06:58,319 --> 00:07:02,360 have turned aside quickly out of the way which I 110 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,600 commanded them. See, God had just given them the ten words, 111 00:07:06,639 --> 00:07:11,600 the Covenant of his character, the ten Commandments law written 112 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,480 by his finger on Sapphire's stone, pulled from the actual 113 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:20,959 throne of God and the pavement under his feet. And 114 00:07:21,079 --> 00:07:26,399 they quickly corrupted themselves. They took themselves out of the 115 00:07:26,439 --> 00:07:30,360 way which I commanded them. And they have made a 116 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:35,879 molten calf, and have said, these be thy gods, oh Israel, 117 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:40,079 which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, 118 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:44,920 How disrespectful, pardon me? How can you have something that 119 00:07:44,959 --> 00:07:48,120 you created with your hands be what took you out 120 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:51,439 of the bondage that you were in for all of 121 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:54,720 those many, many, many many years. How could this thing 122 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,720 that you just created here from heaven. Huh, hear your 123 00:07:58,759 --> 00:08:02,279 groanings and deliver you with a mighty hand. So you 124 00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:06,600 are thrust out of Egypt and given all of these 125 00:08:06,759 --> 00:08:09,920 treasures that the Egyptians gave you on the way out. 126 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,439 How could they have been the ones when they can't 127 00:08:13,519 --> 00:08:19,120 even think, they don't even really actually exist. Well, that's 128 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:23,439 what the people did. And so giving God his glory 129 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,600 or giving God's glory to anything or anyone else is 130 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:31,800 idolatry and robs him of the honor do his name. 131 00:08:32,399 --> 00:08:36,480 So regularly testify. It's a privilege to testify and tell 132 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,360 what great things God has done in your life as 133 00:08:39,399 --> 00:08:43,240 a way to give other people the mindset to say 134 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:47,200 that every good and perfect gift comes from God. Every 135 00:08:47,279 --> 00:08:50,159 time you have a good idea and are able to 136 00:08:50,279 --> 00:08:53,320 act upon it, that came from God. Every time you're 137 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:56,519 able to eat food, or drink water, or experience the 138 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,759 sunshine or the rain, it was because of God. And 139 00:08:59,799 --> 00:09:04,440 that helps our minds stay fixed on Him. And then finally, 140 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,240 from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and fifteen 141 00:09:07,279 --> 00:09:13,039 and verse eight, they that make them are like unto them, 142 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:18,799 So is everyone that trusteth in them. What we behold 143 00:09:19,039 --> 00:09:22,840 is who we become. We're talking about these false gods. 144 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,440 So idolatry transforms people into the image of the thing 145 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:31,480 that they worship. So why not worship God like forget idolatry. 146 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:34,440 Worship God and we become like him. Fill your mind 147 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:38,000 with God's words and his presence, and that will shape 148 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:41,799 you into His likeness instead of being in the image 149 00:09:41,799 --> 00:09:45,080 of the thing that you created. Make it a great day, Peace. 150 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,519 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot 151 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,639 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes 152 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:54,720 from the mouth of God. This has been your daily 153 00:09:54,759 --> 00:10:00,279 portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.