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06 28 2025 Oppression- The Background and the Birth of Moses · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath. It
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  Speaker 2: is June twenty eight, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
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  Speaker 2: is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  Speaker 2: is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  Speaker 2: every single day, and today is no exception. We are
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  Speaker 2: continuing now in our I should even say continuing. We
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  Speaker 2: are beginning now our new lesson study series, the Exodus
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  Speaker 2: or Exodus, and our caption for today is Oppression, the
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  Speaker 2: background and Birth of Moses. The background and the birth
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  Speaker 2: of Moses. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community, and let me just let
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  Speaker 2: you know that if you've never been with us or
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  Speaker 2: you're not familiar with this program, generally this is thirteen
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  Speaker 2: weeks of study, every single day for just about ten minutes,
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  Speaker 2: and we are on lesson number one. Once in a
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  Speaker 2: while it's fourteen weeks, but this is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a thirteen week study. So please again go to your
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this Sabbath morning and giving us the new
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  Speaker 2: lesson studies. I'm thankful that Exodus represents our deliverance from sin. Father,
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  Speaker 2: please help us to be delivered from sin. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so we're journeying
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  Speaker 2: to the Promised Land, but there are some things that
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  Speaker 2: we really need to understand and to do before we
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  Speaker 2: get there. So let's just start at the beginning with
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  Speaker 2: the life of Moses and from the memory text. In
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter two, verses twenty three to twenty five, we
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  Speaker 2: read the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage,
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  Speaker 2: and they cried out, have you ever cried out to God?
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  Speaker 2: But can I just start right there? I know I
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  Speaker 2: just interrupted myself, But have you ever cried out to God? God?
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  Speaker 2: Are you listening to me? Do you see the oppression
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  Speaker 2: of your people? Do you see the unjust laws? Do
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  Speaker 2: you see all of the things that are calamities you
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  Speaker 2: promised that you would deliver us. Have you ever cried
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  Speaker 2: out to God? And have you listened for his voice?
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  Speaker 2: Because we don't just cry out to complain. We cry
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  Speaker 2: out and tell him everything. Tell him all of our sorrows,
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  Speaker 2: tell him all of our tribulations, our temptations, our desires,
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  Speaker 2: our needs. But then we are on the lookout as
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  Speaker 2: we praise God for what he has already promised to do.
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  Speaker 2: But they were speaking, they were crying out to God.
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  Speaker 2: They were groaning under the oppression and bondage of the
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh of the time and God, the Bible says, and
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  Speaker 2: God remembered, go ahead and type it in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: And God remembered. What did God remember? He remembered his covenant.
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  Speaker 2: He remembered his covenant with Abraham. You see, when you
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  Speaker 2: cry out to God, I want you to remind him,
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  Speaker 2: not that he forgets, but remind him of what he
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  Speaker 2: has already promised. God, you said you would never leave me.
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  Speaker 2: You said you would never forsake me. You said, when
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  Speaker 2: I cry out to you, you will answer. And while
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  Speaker 2: I am yet speaking, you will hear. You said that
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  Speaker 2: your angel in campus round about those who fear you,
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  Speaker 2: and you will deliver us. So, God, please remember the
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  Speaker 2: covenant that you have made with our ancestors. And in
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  Speaker 2: this case, it says the covenant with Abraham, with Isaac
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  Speaker 2: and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of
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  Speaker 2: Israeel and God acknowledged them. I'm not trying to be
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  Speaker 2: controversial here, but unfortunately there are times that parents don't
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  Speaker 2: They see children that came from their bloodline. They are
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  Speaker 2: their children, but they don't acknowledge them. They don't acknowledge them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my own mother, who has passed away, he had that
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  Speaker 2: same experience where her daddy did not acknowledge her. As
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  Speaker 2: you see what I'm saying. So this happens in real life.
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  Speaker 2: It happens in real life. But God acknowledged them. You
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  Speaker 2: are my children. I acknowledge that I have made a
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  Speaker 2: covenant with your ancestors, and you will benefit from the covenant.
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  Speaker 2: And so the Bible teaches us that God revealed himself.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to read about it today, But he
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  Speaker 2: revealed himself by the name Yahweh or Jehovah when Moses
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  Speaker 2: had an encounter with him, and he said, I had
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  Speaker 2: not revealed myself by this name to Abraham, to Isaac,
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  Speaker 2: or to Jacob. But in this moment, as I am
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  Speaker 2: hearing the groanings of my people, I am hearing the
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  Speaker 2: groanings of those who are bound in captivity, I am
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  Speaker 2: going to reveal now to you my name. And what
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  Speaker 2: I love about that particular story that comes just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of chapters later, is that this name is not
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  Speaker 2: only revealing that He's self existent and eternal, which would
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  Speaker 2: be amazing, but it's also a revelation of his nearness
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  Speaker 2: to us. I wish I had the time to really
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  Speaker 2: drill what happened in the Garden of Eden when Eve
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  Speaker 2: rejected for the moment the name, the same name of
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  Speaker 2: God that was near to her, when the enemy had
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  Speaker 2: in her consciousness pressed God out way into outer space,
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  Speaker 2: the God who is the creator of all things right,
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  Speaker 2: and pressed in her psyche, God way far away, instead
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  Speaker 2: of the one who breathed his breath into her nostrils
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  Speaker 2: and made her a living soul. It was at that moment,
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  Speaker 2: and it's right in the text. I wish I could
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  Speaker 2: explain it to you, but we just literally don't have
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  Speaker 2: the time. But if you look at the name changes
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  Speaker 2: from God, God who was creating, to the Lord your God,
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  Speaker 2: or the Lord God as in the text, and you
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  Speaker 2: see that God was revealing something about his character. And
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  Speaker 2: when the enemy switched back the discussion to the God
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  Speaker 2: who is Almighty, Blessed be his name, the one who
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  Speaker 2: is in her psyche at the moment far away, was
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  Speaker 2: at that moment that she that she turned her back
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  Speaker 2: on him. You see, when you don't see God as
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  Speaker 2: the one who is near to you, that here's your suffering,
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  Speaker 2: here's your groaning, that is near enough to you to
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  Speaker 2: lay hands on you, for you to hear that voice
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  Speaker 2: behind you saying this is the way walk ye in
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  Speaker 2: it the voice like as of many waters that John
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  Speaker 2: saw as he was receiving the revelation of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 2: walking among the seven Golden candlesticks. When we forget how
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  Speaker 2: near God is to us, and we accept that he's
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  Speaker 2: far way beyond Nebula or Orion's neta. Well, then it's
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  Speaker 2: easy to offend him. It's easier to offend someone that's
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  Speaker 2: not near to us, you see. And so God identified
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  Speaker 2: himself as the one who was near enough to call
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  Speaker 2: them his children, near enough to acknowledge them and embrace them,
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  Speaker 2: near enough to remember the covenant that he made with Abraham,
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  Speaker 2: Isaac and Jacob, near enough to hear their groanings. And
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  Speaker 2: it was in this moment that he began the Exodus
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  Speaker 2: experience to set those people of God free. And in
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  Speaker 2: these moments that I have left, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: know lesson number one, that God hears even your groans.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need perfect words. I think it was Peter,
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  Speaker 2: as he was drowning, he said, Lord, save me, I perish.
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  Speaker 2: He was drowning. You don't need perfect words. Your pain
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  Speaker 2: has a voice, and God listens. This is from Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter two and verse twenty four. Yes, so set aside time,
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  Speaker 2: invest time this week for honest prayer the coming week.
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  Speaker 2: Honest prayer. Don't polish your words, just pour your heart
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  Speaker 2: out to God. None of that public prayer stuff where
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  Speaker 2: people are performing sometimes big words not that grown. If
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  Speaker 2: you have to and let your inner most needs speak
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  Speaker 2: to God. Here are a couple more lessons. God remembers
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  Speaker 2: his promises, not just our performance. He acts because of
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  Speaker 2: His covenant of love, not because we got everything just right.
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  Speaker 2: And of course God sees the pain that is invisible
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  Speaker 2: to others. Make it a great Sabbath, Peace.
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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,