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08 04 2025 Consecration of the Firstborn · 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: 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, good morning, good morning. It is Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: the fourth day of August in twenty twenty five. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is Consecration
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  Speaker 2: of the Firstborn. Consecration of the first Born. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first i'd like
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father, We thank you, We
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  Speaker 2: thank you for consecrating us, setting us aside for a
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  Speaker 2: holy use. Please help us to be satisfied only in
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  Speaker 2: your presence everything else help us to run away from it.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Consecration
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  Speaker 2: of the Firstborn. There's so much to say, so little time.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just go ahead and begin by reading from the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Exodus, the Bible Book of Exodus, chapter thirteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse two and verse two. I'll read it from
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  Speaker 2: the amplified version of the Bible, and it reads consecrate
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  Speaker 2: to me. That means to set aside for a holy use.
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, pull this aside and dedicate this only
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  Speaker 2: to me. We should be consecrating some of our time
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  Speaker 2: to God. We are consecrated beings. We're set aside for
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  Speaker 2: a holy use. But there's a moment that we don't
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  Speaker 2: use social media because we need to be with God.
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  Speaker 2: There are some of our brothers and sisters really around
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  Speaker 2: the world that at least five times of their day
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  Speaker 2: they are consecrating to what they are experiencing as God.
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  Speaker 2: From their perspective, I wish I had the time to
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  Speaker 2: deal with that three times a day he consecrated specifically
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  Speaker 2: to God. Minimally, I'm saying, minimally, I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. Let me keep going, So consecrate to me
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  Speaker 2: all the first born, whatever opens the womb among the
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  Speaker 2: children of Israel. So now we know specifically in this
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  Speaker 2: context what is to be consecrated the very first are
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  Speaker 2: you consecrating the first part of your day? Are you
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  Speaker 2: consecrating or setting aside for a holy use? The first
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  Speaker 2: part of your money, the first part of your energy,
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  Speaker 2: the first part of your mindset, Like, are you setting
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  Speaker 2: apart the first of all that you have and all
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  Speaker 2: that you are to God? But here, specifically, whatever opens
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  Speaker 2: the womb among the children of Israel, both of humans
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  Speaker 2: and of animals. Why God, it is mine? It is mine?
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  Speaker 2: And So the word, the Hebrew word kadash means to
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  Speaker 2: for set aside or sanctify, means to set apart, to dedicate,
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  Speaker 2: to make holy, and for divine use. So now you
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  Speaker 2: know I didn't make that up. And then if the
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  Speaker 2: first born becare the first male to open the womb
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  Speaker 2: represents strength. It represents strength inheritance and leadership. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I had the time for us to apply all of this.
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  Speaker 2: And of course it belongs to me Lee mine in
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  Speaker 2: Hebrew Lee, and it's an emphatic possession. It belongs to me.
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  Speaker 2: God is pointing at us right in our faces and
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  Speaker 2: saying that belongs to me. Okay. So the firstborn symbolize
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  Speaker 2: the deliverance through the Final plague where the first born
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  Speaker 2: of Egypt died. You see the contrast there. But God's
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  Speaker 2: people were spared through the blood of the lamb. The
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  Speaker 2: symbol of their faith was manifest and God spared them.
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  Speaker 2: While those who decided that they did not want to
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  Speaker 2: be connected with God, the ones who still decided with
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  Speaker 2: a dog it's sort of digging in of their heels.
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  Speaker 2: They decided they didn't want God, they wanted their false gods,
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  Speaker 2: whom God already showed were powerless. Well, those individuals were
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  Speaker 2: in contrast to the people of God who were covered.
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  Speaker 2: So God claimed the first born. It was a symbol,
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  Speaker 2: a symbolic reminder that everything that the people have belongs
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  Speaker 2: to him. I said it to you the other day.
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  Speaker 2: All what is that song? Again? We give thee, but
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  Speaker 2: Thine own whatever it shall be, whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 2: All that we have is Thine alone, a trust o
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  Speaker 2: Lord from thee. So God's claim as a symbol that
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  Speaker 2: all belongs to him. This also prefigured the coming of Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the true first born, that means the pre eminent one.
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  Speaker 2: In the case that Jesus took on human flesh, he
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  Speaker 2: came in order to save us right in the fullness
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  Speaker 2: of time, God sent forth his son, made of a woman,
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  Speaker 2: made under the law, so that we could be redeemed,
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  Speaker 2: who are under the law, so we could be the
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  Speaker 2: adoption of son. So in that context, the first born
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  Speaker 2: of all creation in Colossians one in verse fifteen, and
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  Speaker 2: the first born from the dead according to Revelation chapter
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  Speaker 2: one and verse five was Jesus. The first two come
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  Speaker 2: back from the dead. Absolutely not was the pre eminent
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  Speaker 2: one that did in his humanity come back from the
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  Speaker 2: dead because we know Divinity can't die. Well, yes, absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: but there is still one more thing. It's a bonus
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  Speaker 2: for us to really get this. He is the only
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  Speaker 2: one who came back from the second death. The first
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  Speaker 2: born from the dead is the only one who came
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  Speaker 2: back from the second death. Literally, no other person who
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  Speaker 2: will experience, God forbid but experience the second death will
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  Speaker 2: recover from that. It's final. But Jesus came back from that.
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  Speaker 2: That means that when you are dying in sin, because
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  Speaker 2: you're shapen in iniquity, because you have entertained all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of wickedness, because you hardened your heart even like that
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  Speaker 2: particular pharaoh had done. But God has given you away.
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  Speaker 2: He's giving you an opportunity like he did for him.
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  Speaker 2: But he refused. But you don't have to refuse. He's
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  Speaker 2: giving you the opportunity to be to have a softened heart,
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  Speaker 2: and then God give you a clean heart and renew
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  Speaker 2: a right spirit within you so that you don't need
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  Speaker 2: to die the second death. That's what I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 2: Here's so much, so much, so much. From two seventy four,
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  Speaker 2: page two seventy four from the book patriarchs and prophets.
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  Speaker 2: The first born of both man and beast were to
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  Speaker 2: be the lords, to be bought with a price or
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  Speaker 2: a dedicated to sacred service. This was to keep constantly
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  Speaker 2: before the minds of the people of God the wonderful
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  Speaker 2: delay deliverance wrought for them. So much to say, so
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  Speaker 2: little time. Let me just apply this. Well, let's we
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  Speaker 2: can go into the context really quickly, and then we'll
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  Speaker 2: apply it to today. I'm looking at my time. This
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  Speaker 2: command was not only a cultural reality, it was not optional.
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  Speaker 2: God had just passed over the firstborn of the people
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  Speaker 2: of God and judged Egypt's false gods. The consecration of
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  Speaker 2: the first born was threefold at least a perpetual reminder
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  Speaker 2: of salvation through the blood of lamb only, a call
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  Speaker 2: to stewardship God owns the people he redeems, and a
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  Speaker 2: nationwide act of worship rooted in personal obedience. It reminded
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  Speaker 2: every family in among the people of God that their strength,
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  Speaker 2: that is, the first born, belongs to the Redeemer and
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  Speaker 2: not to themselves. Now let's apply it. God still claims
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  Speaker 2: the first place in our lives. I started with that
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  Speaker 2: your first and income, your time your decisions, your family.
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  Speaker 2: It belongs to him. Redemption is not free. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I know somebody just said, wait a minute, of course
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  Speaker 2: it's free. Yeah, but God paid a lot. It costs
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  Speaker 2: God a lot. Redemption costs something. The first born had
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  Speaker 2: to be redeemed with a substitute, pointing forward to Christ
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  Speaker 2: who would redeem us, not with silver or gold, but
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  Speaker 2: with his blood. Yeah, redemption is invaluable because the price
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  Speaker 2: that was paid was the blood of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,