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09 11 2025 Intercession · 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: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Tuesday, September eleven,
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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 Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the Book of Exodus, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Intercession. Intercession. Yesterday we scratched the surface
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  Speaker 2: of the cop but we're going to talk about it
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit more detail in just the moment here.
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  Speaker 2: But before we do, I'd like to say welcome to
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  Speaker 2: everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us Jesus to intercede for us and make
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  Speaker 2: us holy. Teach us how to intercede for others so
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  Speaker 2: you can make them holy. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again. Intersession intercession, Well, let's go with
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  Speaker 2: a quick dictionary definition. We're not even going to go
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  Speaker 2: into the theological definition, but just a dictionary definition right
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  Speaker 2: here on my iPad. It says it's a noun for intercession.
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  Speaker 2: It's a noun the action of intervening on behalf of
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  Speaker 2: another the action of saying a prayer on behalf of
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  Speaker 2: another person. Okay, so we know that Moses stepped in
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  Speaker 2: and he was intervening on behalf of God's people, whom
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  Speaker 2: he already knew, God loved, and he's like God, Now
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about this like you just said that you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna block them out and make a new nation from
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  Speaker 2: from my seed. But God, let please, can let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about this. Please, he's interceeding. Now, let me just read
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  Speaker 2: from Exodus, chapter thirty two, verses thirty through thirty two.
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  Speaker 2: Now it came to pass on the next day that
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  Speaker 2: Moses said to the people, you have committed a great sin.
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  Speaker 2: So now I will go up to the Lord. Perhaps
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  Speaker 2: I can make atonement for you. Because Moses knew that
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  Speaker 2: this this behavior could not go unrewarded. There has to
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  Speaker 2: be an equal and opposite reaction, even in holiness. Right,
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  Speaker 2: they say, they taught us that in science class, for
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  Speaker 2: every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction.
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  Speaker 2: God said it that it should be eye for an eye,
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  Speaker 2: and so what these people had done required a commensurate response,
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  Speaker 2: except if God shows mercy. And now it says, you've
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  Speaker 2: committed this, and I'm going to go up and see
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  Speaker 2: if I can atone for your sin. Then Moses returned
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  Speaker 2: to the people and said, oh, these people, to the
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  Speaker 2: Lord excuse me, and said, oh, these people have committed
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  Speaker 2: a great sin and have made for themselves a god
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  Speaker 2: of gold. Yet, now if you will forgive their sin,
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  Speaker 2: But if not, I pray, Oh my, it's even hard
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  Speaker 2: to say this blot me out of your book which
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  Speaker 2: you have written. Moses is putting it all under line.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know that he's passionate. Right now, we know
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  Speaker 2: that this is a spiritually emotion based response because he
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  Speaker 2: must know that it's impossible for his little life to
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  Speaker 2: be enough to atone for anybody's sin. But he's grasping
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  Speaker 2: at straws here, and he's like, God, I hear what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying. I know that you're right and just and holy,
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  Speaker 2: But if there's another way, God, could you please save
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  Speaker 2: my son from wrath, save my daughter from wrath. I
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  Speaker 2: know they're guilty, God, I know that you have trained
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  Speaker 2: them through us and through the Church that they should
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  Speaker 2: live a certain way. I know that you have sent
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  Speaker 2: friends and other people along the way to show them
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  Speaker 2: the right path, and they have gone the wrong way.
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  Speaker 2: But would you please just spare them, Spare my husband,
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  Speaker 2: spare my wife, God from the wrath that they deserve. See,
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  Speaker 2: Moses isn't trying to make an excuse for them. He's
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  Speaker 2: not saying that they don't deserve the wrath that God
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  Speaker 2: is intending in this moment, or communicating I should say
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  Speaker 2: in this moment. But he's just like God, if there's
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  Speaker 2: any other way, can you just let it happen that
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  Speaker 2: if my life is worth enough in this case, like
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  Speaker 2: if you could save these millions of people, instead of
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  Speaker 2: making a great nation of me and my descendants, would
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  Speaker 2: you just destroy me, Like get me out of here,
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  Speaker 2: so that the people that you have brought out of
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  Speaker 2: the land of Egypt in the house of bondage, and
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  Speaker 2: so that the people that saw you take them out
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  Speaker 2: won't think that you're an impotent God. For your name's sake,
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  Speaker 2: so people will know that you are able in fact
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  Speaker 2: and indeed to keep your people holy, keep your people safe.
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  Speaker 2: Just destroy me, God, do you understand the conversation now?
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  Speaker 2: And so true intercession is willing to stand in the
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  Speaker 2: place of the guilty. Moses was so committed to God's people,
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  Speaker 2: even though they were murmurers, even though they complained all
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  Speaker 2: the time, even though those people sometimes seemed like they
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  Speaker 2: couldn't have cared less about Moses, even his own brother.
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  Speaker 2: Look at what his brother was doing at the base
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  Speaker 2: of the mountain. These men went to war, going into
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  Speaker 2: the presence of Pharaoh, who could have destroyed them at
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  Speaker 2: least from a human perspective, And this goofy dude does
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  Speaker 2: all of that wickedness at the base of the mountain
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  Speaker 2: and then wants Moses and God to believe that something
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  Speaker 2: mystical and magical happened. He threw this stuff in. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, you threw it in, dummy, pardoned me, and
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  Speaker 2: then it magically becomes a golden calf. Come on, brother,
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  Speaker 2: what are we really talking about here? And yet Moses
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  Speaker 2: was still committed to the people, and he was willing
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  Speaker 2: to bear ultimate loss for the sake of people who
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  Speaker 2: were guilty. And so the action stepped for us is
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  Speaker 2: to pray for us with the same selfless spirit we're
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  Speaker 2: looking for the Holy Ghost here, the same kind of
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  Speaker 2: spirit asking God to place their needs above our own needs,
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  Speaker 2: our own comfort, our own recognition. The next lesson comes
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  Speaker 2: in from the Book of Isaiah, chapter fifty three and
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  Speaker 2: verse four, where it reads surely He, meaning Christ, hath
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  Speaker 2: borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did
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  Speaker 2: esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. So the word,
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  Speaker 2: the Hebrew term for forgive in this case is the
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  Speaker 2: same as bear, forgive and bear, revealing that forgiveness is
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  Speaker 2: possible only because God through Christ bears or carries our guilt.
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  Speaker 2: I read that Jesus Christ took our sins to the cross,
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  Speaker 2: and in his humanity, he died with the weight of
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  Speaker 2: our guilt all on his shoulders. And he did not
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  Speaker 2: even open his mouth. He didn't say, I'm not the
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  Speaker 2: one that's guilty. I'm not the one that deserves this.
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  Speaker 2: I punch out. I'm tapping out. I changed my mind.
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  Speaker 2: He did not come down off the cross as the
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  Speaker 2: men said. The wicked men said, come down now, off
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  Speaker 2: the cross, and then we will worship you. He said, no,
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  Speaker 2: I will not accept worship. I will not destroy these people.
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  Speaker 2: I will bear their sins all the way to death,
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  Speaker 2: even the death of the cross. And I'm like, okay, God,
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  Speaker 2: So when confessing sin, acknowledge that the cost of forgiveness
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  Speaker 2: was born by Christ alone, not by any personal merit.
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  Speaker 2: I understand, Moses, I get it. But really, only Jesus
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  Speaker 2: could do that which you were asking for. Only Jesus
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  Speaker 2: could do that. Finally, in John chapter fifteen and verse thirteen,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, Greater love hath no man than this,
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  Speaker 2: Then a man laid down his life for his friends.
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  Speaker 2: Moses's prayer mirrors Christ's own sacrifice for humanity, showing that
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  Speaker 2: godly leadership is inseparable from sacrificial love. Make the time,
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  Speaker 2: that's what we need to do today. Make the time
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  Speaker 2: to pray, specifically for those who are far from God,
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  Speaker 2: modeling Christ's patience and mercy in your prayers. So much
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  Speaker 2: going on here, but I'm glad that we have seen
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  Speaker 2: how a human could model the behavior and heart of
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  Speaker 2: God interceding for the guilty. 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,