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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, September twelve,

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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 our caption

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for today is the Danger of idolatry. The danger of idolatry.

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Before we get into that this preparation day morning, I'd

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like to say welcome to everyone joining us and just

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say a great big thank you. Thank you to all

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of the people who listen and watch every single day

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and you are sharing You are sharing this with people.

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Tens of thousands of you are sharing, and almost a

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million people every day have the privilege of experiencing God's

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word through this little program that we started many years ago,

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before there was a pandemic, before people could see the

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value of something like this. God gave the vision and

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we've been running this ball for the entire time, Thank God.

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And I'm just asking you to continue to do that

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because Jesus said it, This Gospel of the Kingdom shall

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be preached into all the world for a witness. Then

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and only then shall the income. Everybody's looking for signs

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for things to blow up and burn down, that is

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not it. He said that the Gospel of the Kingdom

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will be preached. So take up the man to do

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your part. I'll do mine by God's grace, and we'll

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look forward to the coming of the Lord. Let's pray, Father,

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we thank you for this day. Please prepare our hearts

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to experience you and to live with you eternally. In

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Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. I'm not

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sure if I really need to say what the dangers

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of idolatry are, because I think you know that already,

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like you know you're in danger of separating yourself God

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forbid you, but separating yourself from God forever? Like why

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would anybody want to separate ourselves from God forever? Why

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would we want to replace God with the little things

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that we worship? Humans worship the silliest things. Why would

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I worship my own image on the internet? But the

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little you know? Every time I turn around, somebody's got

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a phone up, Like every minute you're recording every moment

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of every day, always with a ring light, like always

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what your filters are? Always posing with people, places, and

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things constantly all day long. What if we put more

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effort into posing with God. I don't mean just posing.

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I'm talking about connecting with him, having our arms around

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him in a spiritual sense, and saying, yes, I'm with God,

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instead of posting every little movement, every little thought. You

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see the enemy what he has done. And I use

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social media, I get it, like I use YouTube and

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other media outlets, traditional media included. I get it like

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we we have a message to share, we have content

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to put out. We want to add value. But there

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comes a point when the enemy is really just taking

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all of the thoughts that used to be secrets in

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your brain and in mind and causing us, giving us

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a facility to just leak it all out with no filter.

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So put God first, and let him be the one

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to be your God. And not the other stuff. Not

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our cars, not our relationships with people, not how we

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see ourselves, not our things, not our bank accounts, not

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our pursuits. Don't put anything or anyone above God and

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will be safe. In fact, in Romans Chapter Romans, chapter one,

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beginning of verse eighteen, straight through to the end, we

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see the danger. The danger is that God will allow

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us to have the thing that we run after, and

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we don't want that. And in the meantime, He will

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turn over the people who just refuse to love love,

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who refuse to put him first. He will allow those individuals.

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He will give them the reprobate mind that they have

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developed by putting other things first. They're calling evil good

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and good evil. Whoe unto those who call evil good

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and good evil, the prophets said in Isaiah chapter five.

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And so that is not the direction we want to take.

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And so I'm reading now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets,

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page three hundred and twenty five. Love no less than

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justice demanded that for this sin, judgment should be inflicted.

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God is the guardian as well as the sovereign of

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his people. He cuts off those who are determined upon rebellion.

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Determined is the operative term that they may not lead

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others to ruin. Do you understand now what's happening. God

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has to cut off the channel of bad influence, the

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channel of the evil virus of sin, so that that

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behavior does not go viral. This is why there has

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to be a process, if God forbid. Like when I

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was twenty three, I was a manager. I was a

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middle manager in the psych field, in the psych field,

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in the same organization that I worked for three and

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a half years until that point, and there were nine

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of my eleven staff that should have been fired, I

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promise you. But I was a young guy who I

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understood the Bible, and I called me keeping them merciful.

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But one woman used to walk around the actual organization

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and decry like and speak and say some things that

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I just won't repeat. And I did not see that

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as the time that she needed to be corrected. And

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I have more stories. It wasn't just her, it was others.

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And I'm like, okay, okay. So there was a time

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that we think that mercy is mercy when it's really

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just an emboldening people in sin and also spreading the

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virus of evil into your organization, into your company, into

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your church fellowship, into your family. If you don't check

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sin the way that God says, I said, the way

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God says, then it will spread as a virus. And

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so God was showing this in sparing the life of Cain.

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God demonstrated to the universe that what would be the

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result of permitting sin to go unpunished. The influence exerted

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upon his descendants by his life and teaching led to

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the state of corruption that demanded the destruction of the

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entire world by a flood. Did you hear what I

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just said? The entire world needed to be destroyed because

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because the people followed so many of the people followed

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the pathway of king. Do you see where this is going.

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We are seeing that even some governments, sometimes in church organizations,

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people are just completely disconnecting themselves from God and they

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are now spreading a virus to the point that God

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is going to have to act. Continuing the quote, the

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longer men lived, the more corrupt they became. So with

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the apostasy at Sinai talking about the Golden Calf incident,

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the thing that Aaron wanted people to believe with some

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kind of mystical, magical things that happened, when really he

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was the one responsible for dragging the people who required

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it of him into sin an apostasy. Yeah, unless punishment

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had been speedily visited upon transgression, the same results would

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again have been seen. Can I just say it another way,

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Like we've seen this movie before, God destroyed the Earth

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by water by flood. He did that. That was in

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the whole Genesis account the first few thousand years of

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the world's history. He had to destroy everything un planet Earth,

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and almost everybody was destroyed. The people who were alive,

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almost everybody except except eight people at the point of

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the flood. The people who were alive at the point

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of the flood, only eight of them were saved. Some

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of God's people went to sleep before the flood, but

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that's a different discussion. So we do not want to

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see this happen again. So God, instead of allowing this

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insidious virus to spread, he had to deal with the

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sin in his people. Thank God, he was merciful and

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did not destroy the entire lot of them, at least

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not at that point. I mean, there came a point

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when all besides besides Joshua and Caleb that were above

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twenty years of age, they did get destroyed, but not

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in this moment. God gave them everything they needed to

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be successful. So what God is telling us today is

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that it is so much of a blessing for us

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to love Him and to do what He says, so

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that we don't even have to worry about being destroyed.

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That is such a cloudy judgment situation that we can

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be holy and be with Him forever.

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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,