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08 15 2025 Learning from the Amalekites · 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: 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 Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: August fifteen, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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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 learning from the Amalekites. And it's like, really,
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  Speaker 2: how are we going to learn from the Amalekites. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get in to that in just a moment. Before
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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, thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: day of preparation. Please prepare our hearts and minds to
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  Speaker 2: serve you unreservedly. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. Okay, So in the lesson. In the lesson,
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  Speaker 2: we see in the book Patriarchs and Profits, page page
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  Speaker 2: three hundred that there was something really really going on
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  Speaker 2: here with the people of God and the Amalekites, and
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  Speaker 2: it reads the Amalekites were not ignorant of God's character
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  Speaker 2: or of his sovereignty, but instead of fearing before him,
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  Speaker 2: they had set themselves to defy his power. You see,
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  Speaker 2: you have some people who don't love God, but they
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  Speaker 2: are aware of him, they know his power. Some of
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  Speaker 2: the people may have been in relationship with Him at
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  Speaker 2: some point and turned their backs on him, saying that
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  Speaker 2: they're free in air quotes, they're free from the rules
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  Speaker 2: of being among the people of God, you see, but
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  Speaker 2: they see and they know about his sovereignty. They know
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  Speaker 2: about his character, they know about his power, but somehow
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  Speaker 2: they say, you know what, I'm not about that God life.
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  Speaker 2: That's who the Amalekites were. They just they defied God. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the wonders wrought by Moses, continuing the quote, before the
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  Speaker 2: Egyptians were made a subject of mockery, can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: all of those plagues, the parting of the Red Sea.
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  Speaker 2: The Amalekites said, if that ain't us, we not like them,
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  Speaker 2: like okay, okay, uh huh, all right, they not like us.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody heard what I just said, the wonders wrought by Moses.
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  Speaker 2: Before the Egyptians were made a subject of mockery by
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  Speaker 2: the people of Amlek, the fears of surrounding nations were ridiculed.
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  Speaker 2: They had taken an oath by their gods. Careful, careful
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  Speaker 2: with those oaths, careful with those oaths. They had taken
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  Speaker 2: an oath by their gods that they would destroy the
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  Speaker 2: people of God, and that not one should escape. And
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  Speaker 2: they boasted that Israel's God would be powerless to resist them.
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  Speaker 2: They had not been injured or threatened by the people
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  Speaker 2: of God. Their assault was wholly unprovoked. It was to
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  Speaker 2: manifest their hatred and defiance of God that they sought
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  Speaker 2: to destroy his people. The Amalekites had long been high
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  Speaker 2: handed sinners, and their times had cried to God for vengeance.
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  Speaker 2: So God is like, it's time, it's time, it's time
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  Speaker 2: to deal with this. They've gone too far and their
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  Speaker 2: crimes have cried out to God for vengeance. Yet His
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  Speaker 2: mercy had still called them to repentance. If you're living
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  Speaker 2: somewhere right now, and you're and you're hearing it now,
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  Speaker 2: and you're and you're like, there are some people that
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  Speaker 2: you see who are defying God, whether actively and intentionally
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  Speaker 2: with their words or by by doing things in the
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  Speaker 2: in the quote name of God that you know is
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  Speaker 2: against God, and and they still act like it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: They change laws, they do all kinds of things that
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  Speaker 2: are that are, that are weird, that are, and they
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  Speaker 2: say that they're doing it because God would have them
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  Speaker 2: to do that. Mm hmmm. Well, anyway, his mercy still
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  Speaker 2: called them to repentance. But when the men of Amelek
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  Speaker 2: fell upon the wearied and defenseless ranks of God's people,
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  Speaker 2: watch out. When you think you can oppress those who
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  Speaker 2: are weak, watch out, when you think that you can
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  Speaker 2: hold a heavy hand on those who are helpless and needy,
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  Speaker 2: watch out when you go and assault the defenseless. I'm
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  Speaker 2: taking my time here. When they fell upon the defenseless
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  Speaker 2: ranks of God's people, they sealed their nation's doom. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: just heard me. Somebody heard me in the pause. So
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  Speaker 2: we go into the Bible now for a few lessons
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  Speaker 2: with the time that we have left to invest again
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  Speaker 2: unprovoked attacks against God's people or attacks against God himself. Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter seventeen and verse eight reads the then came Amelek
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  Speaker 2: and fought with god people and refidem The Amalakites weren't
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  Speaker 2: responding to a threat. I just read that to you.
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  Speaker 2: They were resisting God's authority and daring him to defend
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  Speaker 2: his people. Their ignorance was a spiritual rebellion. And so
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  Speaker 2: when somebody wrongs you for doing right, the Bible writer
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  Speaker 2: talks about that in a New Testament. He said that
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  Speaker 2: that is acceptable your being. Not because you did something
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  Speaker 2: wrong and you become oppressed or somehow threatened because of it,
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  Speaker 2: that's unacceptable. But if this happens to you unprovoked, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: then yeah, don't respond. In your own strength. I want
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  Speaker 2: you to remember and then pray, Lord, fight for me.
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  Speaker 2: You promised that you would fight my battles. It's not
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  Speaker 2: just a gospel song where people shake up the church
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  Speaker 2: and say fight my battles every day. Fight not that,
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  Speaker 2: but actually go into the the audience chamber of God
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  Speaker 2: and say, God, you promised that you would never leave me.
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't forsake me. You promised that great is my
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  Speaker 2: reward in heaven for so persecuted they the prophets which
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  Speaker 2: were before me. You said you would fight. You said
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  Speaker 2: that the Angel of the Lord would encamp round about
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  Speaker 2: those who trust you. I'm trusting you now. And then
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  Speaker 2: I wait for him to move, Wait for him to move.
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  Speaker 2: Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord in Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter seventeen and verse eleven. And it came to pass.
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  Speaker 2: When Moses held up his hand, the people of God prevailed.
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  Speaker 2: And when he let this down his hand down, Amelek prevailed.
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  Speaker 2: So God could have wiped Amlek out all by himself
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  Speaker 2: without any of this. I almost said theatrics, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not theatrics. But he chose to involve Moses, He involved Joshua,
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  Speaker 2: He involved Aaron. He involved her victory record wired unity
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  Speaker 2: and partnership with divine strength. Somebody is going to begin
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  Speaker 2: to study this as a pathway to victory in your
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  Speaker 2: spiritual experiences. Somebody's gonna use this as a as a
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  Speaker 2: pathway and a marker for your churches and worship experiences
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  Speaker 2: in your worship centers, on your church boards, on your
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  Speaker 2: conference boards. If you are among those who are in
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  Speaker 2: conferences like you were, going to see this and say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, there was a kind of victory that
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  Speaker 2: only came because the people were unified. So action. It's
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  Speaker 2: time for action. Now ask yourself, what role has God
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  Speaker 2: given me to play in the battle that I'm in?
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  Speaker 2: Then show up for your part, even if it's only
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  Speaker 2: holding up someone else's arms. Number three and final, let's
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  Speaker 2: see if we can get to it. In verse fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: Right this for a memorial in a book and rehearse
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  Speaker 2: it in the ears of Joshua. For I will utterly
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  Speaker 2: put out the remembrance of Amelek from under heaven. This
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  Speaker 2: is the action keep a spiritual record. Jesus said to
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  Speaker 2: do that. He said, write this for a memorial record,
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  Speaker 2: not just in your prayers, but for your victories. God's
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  Speaker 2: acts of justice deserve to be remembered. Some battles leave
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  Speaker 2: a legacy we must never forget who actually fought and
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  Speaker 2: won for us. Well, the lesson from the Amalekites is
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  Speaker 2: don't play around with God's people that ain't gonna work
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  Speaker 2: out for you. Make it a great day.
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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,