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 Sunday, July thirteen,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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, and of course
we're taking our journey from Exodus into the Promised Land.
And our caption for today is a question who is
the Lord? And I think we've talked about that recently,
of course we have. And before we get into that,
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
then we will get underway. Father, we thank you for
giving us the opportunity to consider who you are. Please
help us to worship you in Jesus' name. I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Let me ask you the question, really,
who is the Lord to you? Who is the Lord
to you? The Bible reads here Jesus speaking in what
we call the high priestly prayer or his mediatorial prayer.
He is coming very close to the moment that he's
going to lay down his life, and his people are
not too sure that he's going to take it up
again because he's doing his father's will. But the reality
is Jesus speaking, and this is life eternal. Do you
want to have eternal life?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: Or should I be asking do you have eternal life?
I'm talking about today, on this Sunday in July and
twenty twenty five, do you have eternal life? Notice? I
did not say immortality. That's its cousin, but not its twin.
I'm talking about the quality of relationship that says you
have moved from darkness into light, from death to life,
and now you can go to God for anything and
you know that because it's in His name, you will
have it. That's what I'm talking about. Do you have
eternal life? Jesus said this is eternal life that they
might know thee Do you know God, the only true God?
And Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent? So knowing and
obeying the Lord is supposed to be a blessing. Well, no,
I should I said it wrong. Knowing the Lord is.
Knowing the Lord is supposed to be a blessing. And
I think we need to do like a nuanced definition here,
Like to know God is to have a relationship with him.
To know who God is is a whole different discussion.
To know God is to have an intimate, close relationship,
a loving relationship with him, and to obey him. That's
to know God. To know him is to love him.
But to know who he is, that's a different discussion
just to know who he is. But knowing and obeying
God is a blessing. It's a worship experience. And the
pharaoh of that time, the pharaoh of that time did
not know the Lord, which is why he said, who
is the Lord? And he was puffing his chest at
the moment because this man who was supposed to be
the heir of heir to the throne, is saying that
the Lord is saying, let my people go. And Pharaoh
was like, hold on there, buddy, you've been gone for
forty years and you're coming back talking about the Lord.
Some listen, who is the Lord. He's like, okay, well,
God is gonna have to introduce himself, So who is
the Lord. Don't wait until it's too late to find out.
You gonna learn today, Pharaoh. Don't wait until it's too
late to find out. And now we have to apply
that to ourselves. Don't wait until it is too late
to find out. When Moses stood before Pharaoh with God's command,
let my people go, Pharaoh's response exposed more than just ignorance.
His response was most related to his pride. His response
was most related to the fact that he thought that
he was God. He thought that he was the one
who controlled everything, which is why he oppressed the people
of God, you see. And so again let me go
to verse two. And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord
that I should obey his voice?
Speaker 1: Ah?
Speaker 2: And let God's people go, I know not the Lord?
He says, Okay, you can proclaim that. Okay, neither will
I let Israel go. Listen, if you knew the Lord,
you would have never said that. Bro, are you? Are
you serious? You're gonna tell the one who created the
heavens and the earth, the one who created even your kingdom,
like the one who sets up kings and brings them down,
that you're not gonna do something? All right? All right,
there's an easy way, and there's a difficulty. This king
at that moment chose the hard way. And so the
lesson really for us is rebellion begins with ignoring God's identity.
Verse twenty one of Romans, Chapter one. God's people had
that same problem at different points in history, it says,
when they knew God, like even God's people had this problem.
Sometimes they glorified him, not as God, as God introduced himself.
He manifest his power, he showed his love, his willingness
to say, And those individuals, for periods of time throughout history,
they glorified him, not as God. Neither were they thankful.
In fact, they erected their own gods. And then they
did all kind of wicked things in their lives. And
in the same chapter of Romans, the Bible says that
when they had had their freak offs like that you've
seen in the news, I know what I just said.
When they had had all of these kinds of lifestyle
and worship things other than God, the Bible says that
He handed them over to a reprobate mind. That means
the mindset that you have embraced the God in lower
case letters and air quotes, that you have chosen to worship.
That's what you're gonna get and all of what comes
with it, Rather than to be able to learn how
to love the Lord, our God that brought us out
of all kinds of sinful situations, the one who is
the creator of all things, and yet he still hears
our groanings. He hears when we are going through our difficulties.
So the action is to ask God to reveal where
your heart might be resisting. Who God really is, not
the God of your assumptions, the God of scripture. And
then we go back to his evil declaration Pharaoh's evil
declaration in verse two, again, I will not let Israel
go see pride says I will not to God God's will.
Listen carefully. If you are not doing what God said
to you, then you're just like that Pharaoh. He said,
I won't. It doesn't really matter what the next thing is.
Whatever God said, he said, I'm not doing that. Yeah.
Has God called you to sing? Has he called you
to speak? Has he called you to sew? Did he
call you to knit? Did he call you to coach people?
Mentor did he call you to clean? Did he call
you to fill in the blank? And you're saying no,
I'm not going to hm hmm. It is the same
kind of pride. And so we need to realize that
pride goeth before destruction and a hearty hot tea spirit
before a fall, according to Proverbs sixteen and verse eighteen.
And so what we need to do, thank God is
ask where in my life am I saying I will
not when God says to do? And then now we
go from from Roman chapter two. That's said is that
God is long suffering. Do you despise the fact that
He's long suffering? Do you despise the riches of his grace.
You see, So every every time God gave Pharaoh an
opportunity to repent, Pharaoh chose to defy God. That's mercy,
though God gave him mercy. But Pharaoh saw God's patience
as weakness. And so if you've been delaying obedience, remember
that is disobedience. But if you've been delaying, ask God
for the courage to act right now. And then, finally,
God's name is an invitation to surrender, not simply a
trivia question. Who's God that I should serve him? That's
not a trivia question, Bruh.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. 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,