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07 08 2025 The Name of the Lord · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Go Marning, Good Marning. It is Tuesday, July eighth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our new
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is the Name of the Lord. The
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  Speaker 2: Name of the Lord. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you. Thank you for giving us the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to pray and to come into your presence this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to serve You, help us to live
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  Speaker 2: in Your presence. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. You know, the Bible says not to take
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  Speaker 2: the name of the Lord, our God in vain. And
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  Speaker 2: it's not only when we say words that bring his
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  Speaker 2: name in in an unworshipful manner or disrespectful or unholy manner.
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  Speaker 2: It's that, but it's also when I call all myself
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  Speaker 2: a believer in Christ, I say I'm a Christian. A Christian?
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  Speaker 2: Am I taking the name of the Lord in vain?
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  Speaker 2: Meaning do I live the way that his name prescribes
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  Speaker 2: is my lifestyle in agreement with the name of God.
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  Speaker 2: That was a bonus. I had no intention of saying
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  Speaker 2: that this morning. But when you hear or you want
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  Speaker 2: to be near the name or the Lord, let me
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  Speaker 2: say it this way. When you want to be near
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  Speaker 2: to God, what do you call him? When you want
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  Speaker 2: to be near to God, what do you call him?
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  Speaker 2: What do you call him when your child is wanting
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  Speaker 2: something from you? Daddy? When your child needs something from you, Mommy?
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  Speaker 2: What does your child call you? Those of you who
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  Speaker 2: are married, what do you call your spouses? Don't type
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  Speaker 2: that in the chat. That might get a little funny. Ha ha, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: please don't type it in the chat. But what do
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  Speaker 2: you call your spouse when you want to be near
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  Speaker 2: to him or her? I know what Simone calls me.
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  Speaker 2: I know what I call her. The name of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is a strong tower. Those who flee into him,
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  Speaker 2: those individuals are safe. That's the reality of the thing
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  Speaker 2: where the name of God is concerned. And so the
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  Speaker 2: lesson writer says his name, Yes, Yahweh, blessed be. His
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  Speaker 2: name points to the fact that he is the personal God,
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  Speaker 2: the God of his people, the God of the Covenant.
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  Speaker 2: He is the close, intimate God who intervenes in human affairs.
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  Speaker 2: The almighty God is the God who miraculously intervened by
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  Speaker 2: his power. Let me just say, I've only heard somebody
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  Speaker 2: teach like this one time besides me, So I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: to read this here in the lesson. But Yahweh is
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  Speaker 2: a god who demonstrates his moral power by love and care.
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  Speaker 2: You see, some people back in the eighteen hundreds used
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  Speaker 2: to believe in an ism called deism. If I have
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  Speaker 2: it correct, I think it's deism where they believe that
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  Speaker 2: God created everything. Of course he's the all powerful God,
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name, but that he did not have
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  Speaker 2: his hit himself involved in the affairs of the people,
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  Speaker 2: so he was way out in heaven doing what heavenly
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  Speaker 2: beings do. If you're the transcendent one, blessed be his name,
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  Speaker 2: but in your day to day like you're on your own.
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  Speaker 2: That's how they believed. But the name Yahweh, besides the
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  Speaker 2: fact that it means self existent and eternal, besides all
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  Speaker 2: of the other things, it means that he is near
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  Speaker 2: enough to you to hear your groanings. He's near enough
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  Speaker 2: to you to see your tears falling from your face
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  Speaker 2: as they well up in your eyes and capture them
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  Speaker 2: in a bottle. He's near enough to you to number
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  Speaker 2: the hairs of your head. He's near enough to you
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  Speaker 2: to know that when you are you are seated in
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  Speaker 2: this one space Hagar, that he's going to send a
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  Speaker 2: message to you that God sees you. This is Yahweh,
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name. That is actually the name of God,
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  Speaker 2: like God g o D in English, is not his name.
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  Speaker 2: This is how we designate the being, the transcendent one
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  Speaker 2: who created us. But Yahweh is one of the names
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  Speaker 2: by which he has revealed himself. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time, and so the lesson writer continues. He is
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  Speaker 2: the same God as Elohim. That's the Hebrew term. In
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  Speaker 2: the beginning, God created the heavens in the earth Elohem.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a term used in this case for the
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  Speaker 2: God of heaven. But you know, false gods have the
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  Speaker 2: name Elohim as well. But in this case, the God
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  Speaker 2: of Heaven, he's mighty, he's strong, he is transcendent, the
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  Speaker 2: God of all people, the ruler of the universe, the
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  Speaker 2: creator of everything. But different aspects of his relationship to
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  Speaker 2: humanity are revealed by the name Yahweh, blessed Be. His
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  Speaker 2: name itself, the name the name of God. What do
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  Speaker 2: you call God when you want to be near to him?
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  Speaker 2: And so we can read. Let's see, we have a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of time here. We will read some of
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter three, verses thirteen through twenty two. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if I'll get through all of it, but some
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  Speaker 2: of it and then get into a few lessons here.
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  Speaker 2: So beginning at verse thirteen, then Moses said to God, Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: when I come to the children your children and say
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  Speaker 2: unto them, I am part of me. The God of
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  Speaker 2: your fathers has sent me to you. And they say
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  Speaker 2: to me, what is his name? What shall I say
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  Speaker 2: to them? And God said to Moses, I am that
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  Speaker 2: I am, And he said, thus, shalt thou say to
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  Speaker 2: the children of my children, I am have sent me
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  Speaker 2: unto you. Moreover, God said to Moses, thus shall you
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  Speaker 2: say to my children, the Lord, God of your fathers,
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  Speaker 2: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God
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  Speaker 2: of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my
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  Speaker 2: name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
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  Speaker 2: Because when the people of God wanted to be near
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  Speaker 2: to God, they called him by his name. And Moses said,
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  Speaker 2: I got it, I got it. I got it. Now
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  Speaker 2: I understand that they will get it and they will
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  Speaker 2: respect the mission. So let's get a few lessons out
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  Speaker 2: of this. There's so much here, but we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be narrowly focused. The first one from verse fourteen, God
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  Speaker 2: said to Moses, I am that I am God's name.
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  Speaker 2: I am means that he's always present, He's always active,
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  Speaker 2: he's always faithful. He is not becoming, he is not evolving.
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  Speaker 2: He is I wish I had the time. But today
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  Speaker 2: I want you to be focused here and anchor your
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  Speaker 2: faith in who God is, not in what you think
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  Speaker 2: you see. Pray, Lord, help me trust your name and
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  Speaker 2: not my circumstances. Number two, verse fifteen. This is my
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  Speaker 2: name forever, and this is my memorial unto all. This
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  Speaker 2: is my memorial unto all. He's not a distant deity.
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  Speaker 2: He's not one of a pantheon of gods. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time. He's not one of many. There
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  Speaker 2: are false gods, and then there's the God of Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: He's that and more, okay, And so he reveals his
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  Speaker 2: name to people so that we can no remember and
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  Speaker 2: trust him. Yahweh, blessed be. His name is personal. He's present,
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  Speaker 2: and he's faithful to his promises. And so the action
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  Speaker 2: in this case is to invest and make time today
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  Speaker 2: to call on the name of God with intention. Yahweh,
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  Speaker 2: the one who is and then write down how he
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  Speaker 2: has already shown up for you, how he's already shown
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  Speaker 2: up for you, because that will teach you how he
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  Speaker 2: will show up in the future. And then we'll just
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  Speaker 2: say very quickly our time is gone. That God's name
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  Speaker 2: carries authority for the mission. His name carries authority for
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  Speaker 2: the mission. And then finally, God's name assures his people
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  Speaker 2: of redemption. He's going to get you through all that
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  Speaker 2: you need to get through because the name of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord is a strong tower.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day in peace. Thanks for joining
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  Speaker 1: us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,