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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,

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because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for

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today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's

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portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going

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to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today

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and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.

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Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker

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Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, July thirteen,

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twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's Word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series through the Book of Exodus, and of course

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we're taking our journey from Exodus into the Promised Land.

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And our caption for today is a question who is

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the Lord? And I think we've talked about that recently,

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of course we have. And before we get into that,

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I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us,

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especially those joining us for the very first time. I'm

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asking 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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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, we thank you for

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giving us the opportunity to consider who you are. Please

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help us to worship you in Jesus' name. I pray,

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Amen and Amen again. Let me ask you the question, really,

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who is the Lord to you? Who is the Lord

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to you? The Bible reads here Jesus speaking in what

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we call the high priestly prayer or his mediatorial prayer.

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He is coming very close to the moment that he's

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going to lay down his life, and his people are

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not too sure that he's going to take it up

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again because he's doing his father's will. But the reality

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is Jesus speaking, and this is life eternal. Do you

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want to have eternal life?

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Speaker 1: Ah?

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Speaker 2: Or should I be asking do you have eternal life?

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I'm talking about today, on this Sunday in July and

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twenty twenty five, do you have eternal life? Notice? I

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did not say immortality. That's its cousin, but not its twin.

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I'm talking about the quality of relationship that says you

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have moved from darkness into light, from death to life,

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and now you can go to God for anything and

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you know that because it's in His name, you will

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have it. That's what I'm talking about. Do you have

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eternal life? Jesus said this is eternal life that they

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might know thee Do you know God, the only true God?

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And Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent? So knowing and

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obeying the Lord is supposed to be a blessing. Well, no,

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I should I said it wrong. Knowing the Lord is.

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Knowing the Lord is supposed to be a blessing. And

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I think we need to do like a nuanced definition here,

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Like to know God is to have a relationship with him.

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To know who God is is a whole different discussion.

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To know God is to have an intimate, close relationship,

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a loving relationship with him, and to obey him. That's

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to know God. To know him is to love him.

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But to know who he is, that's a different discussion

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just to know who he is. But knowing and obeying

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God is a blessing. It's a worship experience. And the

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pharaoh of that time, the pharaoh of that time did

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not know the Lord, which is why he said, who

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is the Lord? And he was puffing his chest at

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the moment because this man who was supposed to be

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the heir of heir to the throne, is saying that

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the Lord is saying, let my people go. And Pharaoh

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was like, hold on there, buddy, you've been gone for

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forty years and you're coming back talking about the Lord.

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Some listen, who is the Lord. He's like, okay, well,

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God is gonna have to introduce himself, So who is

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the Lord. Don't wait until it's too late to find out.

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You gonna learn today, Pharaoh. Don't wait until it's too

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late to find out. And now we have to apply

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that to ourselves. Don't wait until it is too late

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to find out. When Moses stood before Pharaoh with God's command,

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let my people go, Pharaoh's response exposed more than just ignorance.

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His response was most related to his pride. His response

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was most related to the fact that he thought that

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he was God. He thought that he was the one

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who controlled everything, which is why he oppressed the people

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of God, you see. And so again let me go

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to verse two. And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord

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that I should obey his voice?

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Speaker 1: Ah?

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Speaker 2: And let God's people go, I know not the Lord?

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He says, Okay, you can proclaim that. Okay, neither will

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I let Israel go. Listen, if you knew the Lord,

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you would have never said that. Bro, are you? Are

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you serious? You're gonna tell the one who created the

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heavens and the earth, the one who created even your kingdom,

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like the one who sets up kings and brings them down,

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that you're not gonna do something? All right? All right,

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there's an easy way, and there's a difficulty. This king

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at that moment chose the hard way. And so the

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lesson really for us is rebellion begins with ignoring God's identity.

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Verse twenty one of Romans, Chapter one. God's people had

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that same problem at different points in history, it says,

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when they knew God, like even God's people had this problem.

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Sometimes they glorified him, not as God, as God introduced himself.

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He manifest his power, he showed his love, his willingness

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to say, And those individuals, for periods of time throughout history,

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they glorified him, not as God. Neither were they thankful.

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In fact, they erected their own gods. And then they

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did all kind of wicked things in their lives. And

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in the same chapter of Romans, the Bible says that

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when they had had their freak offs like that you've

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seen in the news, I know what I just said.

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When they had had all of these kinds of lifestyle

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and worship things other than God, the Bible says that

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He handed them over to a reprobate mind. That means

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the mindset that you have embraced the God in lower

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case letters and air quotes, that you have chosen to worship.

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That's what you're gonna get and all of what comes

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with it, Rather than to be able to learn how

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to love the Lord, our God that brought us out

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of all kinds of sinful situations, the one who is

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the creator of all things, and yet he still hears

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our groanings. He hears when we are going through our difficulties.

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So the action is to ask God to reveal where

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your heart might be resisting. Who God really is, not

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the God of your assumptions, the God of scripture. And

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then we go back to his evil declaration Pharaoh's evil

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declaration in verse two, again, I will not let Israel

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go see pride says I will not to God God's will.

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Listen carefully. If you are not doing what God said

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to you, then you're just like that Pharaoh. He said,

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I won't. It doesn't really matter what the next thing is.

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Whatever God said, he said, I'm not doing that. Yeah.

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Has God called you to sing? Has he called you

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to speak? Has he called you to sew? Did he

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call you to knit? Did he call you to coach people?

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Mentor did he call you to clean? Did he call

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you to fill in the blank? And you're saying no,

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I'm not going to hm hmm. It is the same

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kind of pride. And so we need to realize that

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pride goeth before destruction and a hearty hot tea spirit

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before a fall, according to Proverbs sixteen and verse eighteen.

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And so what we need to do, thank God is

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ask where in my life am I saying I will

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not when God says to do? And then now we

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go from from Roman chapter two. That's said is that

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God is long suffering. Do you despise the fact that

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He's long suffering? Do you despise the riches of his grace.

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You see, So every every time God gave Pharaoh an

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opportunity to repent, Pharaoh chose to defy God. That's mercy,

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though God gave him mercy. But Pharaoh saw God's patience

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as weakness. And so if you've been delaying obedience, remember

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that is disobedience. But if you've been delaying, ask God

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for the courage to act right now. And then, finally,

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God's name is an invitation to surrender, not simply a

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trivia question. Who's God that I should serve him? That's

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not a trivia question, Bruh.

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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,