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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 Thursday. It's

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July twenty four, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is

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

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your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every

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single day and today is no exception. We are continuing

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in our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus.

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We're moving from the Exodus or God delivering us people

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from Egyptian captivity from Egypt, straight through to the left

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and of Promise, And of course that means we have

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our hope, our hope as God delivers us from our

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captivity to whatever it is, any besetting sin, so that

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one day we will experience the land of promise, thank God.

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And so before we get into that, I'd like to

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say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those who are

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coming in for the very first time. Type of one

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in the chat. If this is your first time, if

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this is your first time, and if somebody invited you

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here and it's your first time, type of three in

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the chat. If somebody invited you here and this is

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your first time, type of three in the chat. And

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I just want to give a great big thank God

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to those who have been inviting people here. You've been sharing,

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and you've been calling your friends on the telephone, texting them.

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Hopefully you're not spamming them. We don't condone that don't

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spam anybody. But if you are inviting people who are

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accustomed to you, asking them to enjoy things that you enjoy,

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then praise God for you. And I'm so glad that

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you are all here. I want you to go to

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your Daily Portion dot com pick up the Your Daily

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Portion Life Application Guide that will help us apply these

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things to our everyday lives. And that's the way we

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

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Thank you, Please teach us to love you, teach us

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to live under your protection. In Jesus's name, I pray

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amen and Amen again hal locusts and darkness. And so

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I'm going to begin by brushing up on some ancient Hebrew.

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I don't really normally go into that kind of thing

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because I believe that God has given us understanding in

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the languages that we are currently speaking, our own native tongue.

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But there's something telling here, something telling here, the hel

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that we're going to talk about in just a second,

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from bah rad or bahraid. I have to get that

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pronunciation right, but that's the term that is used. That's

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for hale that we are saying in English. But this

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is not like the hailstorms that I saw growing up

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in New York City. Not that it's a rare and

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violent hailstorm, likely mixed with fire or lightning. This is

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what we're talking about, not a bunch of ice stones.

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And even though that would be destructive enough if it's intense,

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but that's the fact, okay. And so we see in

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Exodus chapter nine, verses eighteen through thirty five that God

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was firing hail from heaven and the gods, the false

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gods that are judged are nut sky Goddess shoe, god

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of the air, tiff Nut goddess of moisture, and Seth,

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the god of storms and chaos. This plague struck down

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crops and livestock in the field and was the first

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to kill people. Unfortunately, they were under judgment directly. It

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was the judgment on Egypt's climate gods, showing the Creator

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controls creation. Did somebody get that? And then now the

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plague of locusts coming in from Exodus chapter ten, verses

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one through twenty. This is taking shots at Neper, the

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god of grain. Erm Utet goddess of harvest isis protector

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of crops. This plague consumed what little remained after the hail.

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The economic backbone of Egypt was shattered, a direct strike

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against the God's false gods of fertility and sustenance. Remember

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when the people of Egypt were cooperating with God, and

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Joseph was being used as an instrument under the pharaoh

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of that time, who learned to rea respect of the

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God of heaven. Because of the favor that God had

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given through his servant Joseph, they were protected from all

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of these years seven years of famine. They were protected

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because they were they were in cooperation with God. So

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it wasn't that God had a thing about destroying the

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Egyptian people. That had nothing to do with it. It

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had everything to do with people under that pharaoh not

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choosing to surrender their will. And when we get to

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pass Over, we'll see that there are some people who decided, yeah,

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I want to serve God. I'm not really interested in

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being his enemy. And they were protected as well. Okay.

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And then comes the plague of darkness from Exodus chapter ten,

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verses twenty one through twenty nine. And this one took

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shots at Ra, the sun god, chief deity of Egypt, Horus,

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the sky god, and son of Ra, and then Pharaoh himself,

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considered to be the embodiment of raw. Remember, light and

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darkness cannot agree. And so when the light of righteousness,

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the sun of righteousness, whom Christ is according to the

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Bible book of Malachi and the one who said let

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there be light, is manifest even in the Holy City.

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In Revelation chapter twenty one and verse twenty three, we

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see this, and Jesus is the light of the world.

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When we see that God is ultimate light and in

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him is no darkness at all, and then there are

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false gods who are claimed to be in control of

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the light. Then God has to go deal with that.

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So this plague humiliated God's highest god, ra the sun

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central to their theology and calendar. And by the way,

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God was very clear when his people were shown how

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to connect with him, how to worship, and even as

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he had them to build them a build him a

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sanctuary that he might dwell among them. When God's people

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turned their backs on the sanctuary, meaning they turned their

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faces to the rising sun, God had to deal with

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them because he was making a distinction between him and

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the false gods, and they were to turn their backs

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to the rising sun and worship toward the Shakhana or

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the very presence, the palpable presence of God in the

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most holy place, hovering between the cherubim above the mercy seat,

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you see. And so now God is dealing with that.

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The sun was central to their theology and calendar vanished

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at God's command. It wasn't any eclipse. It was a

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spiritual and physical judgment, That's what it was. So let's

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go ahead and get a couple of lessons as we

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continue here. Just a couple of lessons, A couple of

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lessons lesson number one here. Part of me lesson number

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one here is coming in from Exodus chapter nine and

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verse twenty that true faith acts before the storm and

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not after. True faith acts before the storm and not after.

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Don't wait for things to get worse. That doesn't even

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make sense. When God warns us, then all we need

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to do is move quickly, Move quickly in obedience and humility.

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Because when he is bidding us to do a thing,

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you may have heard this before. His biddings are enabling.

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So if he's warning us, he's showing us the pathway

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to success. Number two, Confession without surrender is still rebellion

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from Exodus chapter nine and verse twenty seven. Of course,

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the Pharaoh was in the river on the bank. In

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the river, okay, ask your God to stop in the

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river on the bank. Okay. No, I'm not going to

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follow him in the river on the bank. Ask your

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God to stop. Yeah, Confession without surrender is still rebellion.

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So so for me, when I confess sin, I should

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be following it with surrender to God. I don't just

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say the words, but I yield my heart. And finally,

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pride blinds even the most powerful people. In Exodus chapter

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ten and verse seven. This is what we see. This

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is what we see, and we have the privilege now

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to listen. That's our action. Listen. When God uses others

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to confront our pride, that's because He loves us. Take

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their words because they are coming in from God. Seriously,

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before it costs you everything. I'm so thankful that God

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is able to get through to our mind. Now just surrender.

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Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 1: Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but

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by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,