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 Thursday. It's
July twenty four, 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.
We're moving from the Exodus or God delivering us people
from Egyptian captivity from Egypt, straight through to the left
and of Promise, And of course that means we have
our hope, our hope as God delivers us from our
captivity to whatever it is, any besetting sin, so that
one day we will experience the land of promise, thank God.
And so before we get into that, I'd like to
say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those who are
coming in for the very first time. Type of one
in the chat. If this is your first time, if
this is your first time, and if somebody invited you
here and it's your first time, type of three in
the chat. If somebody invited you here and this is
your first time, type of three in the chat. And
I just want to give a great big thank God
to those who have been inviting people here. You've been sharing,
and you've been calling your friends on the telephone, texting them.
Hopefully you're not spamming them. We don't condone that don't
spam anybody. But if you are inviting people who are
accustomed to you, asking them to enjoy things that you enjoy,
then praise God for you. And I'm so glad that
you are all here. I want you to go to
your Daily Portion dot com pick up the Your Daily
Portion Life Application Guide that will help us apply these
things to our everyday lives. And that's the way we
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, Father,
Thank you, Please teach us to love you, teach us
to live under your protection. In Jesus's name, I pray
amen and Amen again hal locusts and darkness. And so
I'm going to begin by brushing up on some ancient Hebrew.
I don't really normally go into that kind of thing
because I believe that God has given us understanding in
the languages that we are currently speaking, our own native tongue.
But there's something telling here, something telling here, the hel
that we're going to talk about in just a second,
from bah rad or bahraid. I have to get that
pronunciation right, but that's the term that is used. That's
for hale that we are saying in English. But this
is not like the hailstorms that I saw growing up
in New York City. Not that it's a rare and
violent hailstorm, likely mixed with fire or lightning. This is
what we're talking about, not a bunch of ice stones.
And even though that would be destructive enough if it's intense,
but that's the fact, okay. And so we see in
Exodus chapter nine, verses eighteen through thirty five that God
was firing hail from heaven and the gods, the false
gods that are judged are nut sky Goddess shoe, god
of the air, tiff Nut goddess of moisture, and Seth,
the god of storms and chaos. This plague struck down
crops and livestock in the field and was the first
to kill people. Unfortunately, they were under judgment directly. It
was the judgment on Egypt's climate gods, showing the Creator
controls creation. Did somebody get that? And then now the
plague of locusts coming in from Exodus chapter ten, verses
one through twenty. This is taking shots at Neper, the
god of grain. Erm Utet goddess of harvest isis protector
of crops. This plague consumed what little remained after the hail.
The economic backbone of Egypt was shattered, a direct strike
against the God's false gods of fertility and sustenance. Remember
when the people of Egypt were cooperating with God, and
Joseph was being used as an instrument under the pharaoh
of that time, who learned to rea respect of the
God of heaven. Because of the favor that God had
given through his servant Joseph, they were protected from all
of these years seven years of famine. They were protected
because they were they were in cooperation with God. So
it wasn't that God had a thing about destroying the
Egyptian people. That had nothing to do with it. It
had everything to do with people under that pharaoh not
choosing to surrender their will. And when we get to
pass Over, we'll see that there are some people who decided, yeah,
I want to serve God. I'm not really interested in
being his enemy. And they were protected as well. Okay.
And then comes the plague of darkness from Exodus chapter ten,
verses twenty one through twenty nine. And this one took
shots at Ra, the sun god, chief deity of Egypt, Horus,
the sky god, and son of Ra, and then Pharaoh himself,
considered to be the embodiment of raw. Remember, light and
darkness cannot agree. And so when the light of righteousness,
the sun of righteousness, whom Christ is according to the
Bible book of Malachi and the one who said let
there be light, is manifest even in the Holy City.
In Revelation chapter twenty one and verse twenty three, we
see this, and Jesus is the light of the world.
When we see that God is ultimate light and in
him is no darkness at all, and then there are
false gods who are claimed to be in control of
the light. Then God has to go deal with that.
So this plague humiliated God's highest god, ra the sun
central to their theology and calendar. And by the way,
God was very clear when his people were shown how
to connect with him, how to worship, and even as
he had them to build them a build him a
sanctuary that he might dwell among them. When God's people
turned their backs on the sanctuary, meaning they turned their
faces to the rising sun, God had to deal with
them because he was making a distinction between him and
the false gods, and they were to turn their backs
to the rising sun and worship toward the Shakhana or
the very presence, the palpable presence of God in the
most holy place, hovering between the cherubim above the mercy seat,
you see. And so now God is dealing with that.
The sun was central to their theology and calendar vanished
at God's command. It wasn't any eclipse. It was a
spiritual and physical judgment, That's what it was. So let's
go ahead and get a couple of lessons as we
continue here. Just a couple of lessons, A couple of
lessons lesson number one here. Part of me lesson number
one here is coming in from Exodus chapter nine and
verse twenty that true faith acts before the storm and
not after. True faith acts before the storm and not after.
Don't wait for things to get worse. That doesn't even
make sense. When God warns us, then all we need
to do is move quickly, Move quickly in obedience and humility.
Because when he is bidding us to do a thing,
you may have heard this before. His biddings are enabling.
So if he's warning us, he's showing us the pathway
to success. Number two, Confession without surrender is still rebellion
from Exodus chapter nine and verse twenty seven. Of course,
the Pharaoh was in the river on the bank. In
the river, okay, ask your God to stop in the
river on the bank. Okay. No, I'm not going to
follow him in the river on the bank. Ask your
God to stop. Yeah, Confession without surrender is still rebellion.
So so for me, when I confess sin, I should
be following it with surrender to God. I don't just
say the words, but I yield my heart. And finally,
pride blinds even the most powerful people. In Exodus chapter
ten and verse seven. This is what we see. This
is what we see, and we have the privilege now
to listen. That's our action. Listen. When God uses others
to confront our pride, that's because He loves us. Take
their words because they are coming in from God. Seriously,
before it costs you everything. I'm so thankful that God
is able to get through to our mind. Now just surrender.
Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 1: 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,