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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 Friday. It's

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August fifteen, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle

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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 learning from the Amalekites. And it's like, really,

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how are we going to learn from the Amalekites. Well,

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we'll get in to that in just a moment. Before

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we do, I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community. Pick up the Your Daily

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Portion life application guide and then let us know where

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and

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then we will get underway. Father, thank you for this

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day of preparation. Please prepare our hearts and minds to

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serve you unreservedly. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. Okay, So in the lesson. In the lesson,

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we see in the book Patriarchs and Profits, page page

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three hundred that there was something really really going on

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here with the people of God and the Amalekites, and

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it reads the Amalekites were not ignorant of God's character

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or of his sovereignty, but instead of fearing before him,

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they had set themselves to defy his power. You see,

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you have some people who don't love God, but they

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are aware of him, they know his power. Some of

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the people may have been in relationship with Him at

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some point and turned their backs on him, saying that

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they're free in air quotes, they're free from the rules

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of being among the people of God, you see, but

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they see and they know about his sovereignty. They know

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about his character, they know about his power, but somehow

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they say, you know what, I'm not about that God life.

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That's who the Amalekites were. They just they defied God. Well,

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the wonders wrought by Moses, continuing the quote, before the

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Egyptians were made a subject of mockery, can you imagine

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all of those plagues, the parting of the Red Sea.

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The Amalekites said, if that ain't us, we not like them,

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like okay, okay, uh huh, all right, they not like us.

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Somebody heard what I just said, the wonders wrought by Moses.

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Before the Egyptians were made a subject of mockery by

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the people of Amlek, the fears of surrounding nations were ridiculed.

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They had taken an oath by their gods. Careful, careful

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with those oaths, careful with those oaths. They had taken

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an oath by their gods that they would destroy the

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people of God, and that not one should escape. And

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they boasted that Israel's God would be powerless to resist them.

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They had not been injured or threatened by the people

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of God. Their assault was wholly unprovoked. It was to

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manifest their hatred and defiance of God that they sought

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to destroy his people. The Amalekites had long been high

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handed sinners, and their times had cried to God for vengeance.

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So God is like, it's time, it's time, it's time

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to deal with this. They've gone too far and their

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crimes have cried out to God for vengeance. Yet His

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mercy had still called them to repentance. If you're living

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somewhere right now, and you're and you're hearing it now,

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and you're and you're like, there are some people that

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you see who are defying God, whether actively and intentionally

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with their words or by by doing things in the

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in the quote name of God that you know is

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against God, and and they still act like it doesn't matter.

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They change laws, they do all kinds of things that

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are that are, that are weird, that are, and they

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say that they're doing it because God would have them

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to do that. Mm hmmm. Well, anyway, his mercy still

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called them to repentance. But when the men of Amelek

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fell upon the wearied and defenseless ranks of God's people,

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watch out. When you think you can oppress those who

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are weak, watch out, when you think that you can

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hold a heavy hand on those who are helpless and needy,

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watch out when you go and assault the defenseless. I'm

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taking my time here. When they fell upon the defenseless

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ranks of God's people, they sealed their nation's doom. Somebody

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just heard me. Somebody heard me in the pause. So

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we go into the Bible now for a few lessons

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with the time that we have left to invest again

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unprovoked attacks against God's people or attacks against God himself. Exodus,

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chapter seventeen and verse eight reads the then came Amelek

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and fought with god people and refidem The Amalakites weren't

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responding to a threat. I just read that to you.

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They were resisting God's authority and daring him to defend

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his people. Their ignorance was a spiritual rebellion. And so

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when somebody wrongs you for doing right, the Bible writer

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talks about that in a New Testament. He said that

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that is acceptable your being. Not because you did something

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wrong and you become oppressed or somehow threatened because of it,

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that's unacceptable. But if this happens to you unprovoked, Ah,

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then yeah, don't respond. In your own strength. I want

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you to remember and then pray, Lord, fight for me.

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You promised that you would fight my battles. It's not

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just a gospel song where people shake up the church

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and say fight my battles every day. Fight not that,

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but actually go into the the audience chamber of God

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and say, God, you promised that you would never leave me.

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You wouldn't forsake me. You promised that great is my

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reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which

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were before me. You said you would fight. You said

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that the Angel of the Lord would encamp round about

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those who trust you. I'm trusting you now. And then

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I wait for him to move, Wait for him to move.

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Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord in Exodus,

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chapter seventeen and verse eleven. And it came to pass.

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When Moses held up his hand, the people of God prevailed.

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And when he let this down his hand down, Amelek prevailed.

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So God could have wiped Amlek out all by himself

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without any of this. I almost said theatrics, but it's

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not theatrics. But he chose to involve Moses, He involved Joshua,

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He involved Aaron. He involved her victory record wired unity

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and partnership with divine strength. Somebody is going to begin

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to study this as a pathway to victory in your

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spiritual experiences. Somebody's gonna use this as a as a

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pathway and a marker for your churches and worship experiences

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in your worship centers, on your church boards, on your

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conference boards. If you are among those who are in

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conferences like you were, going to see this and say, oh,

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wait a minute, there was a kind of victory that

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only came because the people were unified. So action. It's

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time for action. Now ask yourself, what role has God

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given me to play in the battle that I'm in?

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Then show up for your part, even if it's only

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holding up someone else's arms. Number three and final, let's

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see if we can get to it. In verse fourteen,

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Right this for a memorial in a book and rehearse

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it in the ears of Joshua. For I will utterly

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put out the remembrance of Amelek from under heaven. This

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is the action keep a spiritual record. Jesus said to

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do that. He said, write this for a memorial record,

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not just in your prayers, but for your victories. God's

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acts of justice deserve to be remembered. Some battles leave

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a legacy we must never forget who actually fought and

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won for us. Well, the lesson from the Amalekites is

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don't play around with God's people that ain't gonna work

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out for you. Make it a great day.

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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,