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07 17 2025 Like God to Pharaoh · 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 Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: July seventeen, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is like God to Pharaoh, Like
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  Speaker 2: God to Pharaoh. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Father, we thank you. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: waking us up this morning and giving us the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of being called by your name. Thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us the mind to serve You. Help us to do
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  Speaker 2: this with all of our hearts today in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again, like God to Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting concept. Interesting concept. And so with that we begin
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible book of Exodush. Let's go with Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter seven and verse one, and the Bible reads and
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  Speaker 2: the Lord said, unto Moses, see I have made thee
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  Speaker 2: a god to Pharaoh. Did I just jump in with
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  Speaker 2: two feet? Normally I warm y'all up, But we now
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  Speaker 2: have we don't have that kind of time today. I
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  Speaker 2: have made thee a god to Pharaoh. And Aaron, thy brother,
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  Speaker 2: shall be thy prophet, oh my. And so, of course,
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  Speaker 2: of course, what we are not saying from the text,
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  Speaker 2: we must not be confused or attempt to derive from
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  Speaker 2: the text. It doesn't mean that Moses became divine. It
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  Speaker 2: does not mean that Moses became the creator. You can't
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  Speaker 2: become the creator. You feel what I'm saying, Like, the
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  Speaker 2: God who created us is self existent and eternal. His
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  Speaker 2: power is unborrowed underived. So unless you were here eternally,
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  Speaker 2: and please, none of that creative stuff about you know,
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  Speaker 2: pre existing our bodies that did not happen, That is
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  Speaker 2: not biblical. God knew who he would create and in
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  Speaker 2: his mind he understood exactly what he would do when
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  Speaker 2: he created you. But in reality, we only existed once
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  Speaker 2: we were born in our mother's womb. You feel me.
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  Speaker 2: So Moses didn't become somehow the preexistent or eternal one.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name, but he would function as God's
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  Speaker 2: visible authority to Pharaoh, which is why he would have
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  Speaker 2: a prophet who was the prophet in this case Aaron okay,
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  Speaker 2: the mouthpiece. So God was appointing Moses to stand in
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  Speaker 2: his place before Pharaoh. Has God ever sent you to
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  Speaker 2: be in his place to someone who needed to hear
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  Speaker 2: a word from him? Huh? Has he ever sent you
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  Speaker 2: in his place for somebody who know a hand up,
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  Speaker 2: maybe even a handout. Listen, some people say I don't
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  Speaker 2: need no handout. I don't know a hand up, A
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  Speaker 2: handout whatever a hug has God ever sent you to
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  Speaker 2: be in his place, and of course the resounding answer
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  Speaker 2: is yes. So Moses in this case was to speak
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  Speaker 2: with an authority that comes from God, and Aaron would
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  Speaker 2: relay those messages just like a prophet speaks on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of God. So to Pharaoh, Moses was as God and
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  Speaker 2: he was hearing the messages from God through Aaron. So Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 2: who viewed himself as divine. Now remember Pharaoh, based on
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  Speaker 2: the culture, based on the history of the Egyptians, like
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh viewed himself as actually divine, he would now be
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  Speaker 2: confronted by a human being who is now endowed with
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  Speaker 2: heaven authority. So Moses in this case equals God's representative
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  Speaker 2: or God's authority. Aaron in this case represents a spokesman
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  Speaker 2: or spokesman or mouthpiece or prophet for God. So this
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  Speaker 2: structure mirrored how God communicates truth to the world through
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  Speaker 2: appointed I said appointed human agents. They're people who have
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  Speaker 2: appointed themselves. They're profilying all over the internet. I know
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  Speaker 2: what I just said. People are profilying all over the
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  Speaker 2: Internet and on television, on the radio, ways, walking up
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  Speaker 2: and down in your streets, sometimes depending on where you live,
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  Speaker 2: on your public transportation, profilying saying that they are prophets
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  Speaker 2: of the Most High God, Blessed be his name. But
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said, when his disciples were asking about the last days,
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  Speaker 2: when shall these things be? What shall be the sign
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  Speaker 2: of Thy coming and of the end of the age
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  Speaker 2: or the end of the world. Jesus began with be deceived.
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  Speaker 2: There will be false christs and false prophets. And in
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  Speaker 2: the Greek language of that day, pseudo profe taste. That
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  Speaker 2: was the word pseudo. You know what pseudo means? Will
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  Speaker 2: you get them handbags you that some people paid thousands
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  Speaker 2: and thousands of dollars for, and you paid, you know,
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  Speaker 2: twenty five dollars. It looks exactly the same. It's a
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  Speaker 2: pseudo version of whatever it is that these people paid
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  Speaker 2: too much for. I wish I had the time. In
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  Speaker 2: the book Patriarchs and Prophets Paige two hundred and sixty three,
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  Speaker 2: it reads to Moses, the work of God had been committed.
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  Speaker 2: He stood as a living representative of the Most High,
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be his name. In Signs of the Times, it
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  Speaker 2: was a periodical from February twenty six in eighteen eighty.
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  Speaker 2: It reads Moses, in the execution of his commission, was
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  Speaker 2: to be invested with the authority and power of God.
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  Speaker 2: His words were to be not merely his own, but
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  Speaker 2: God's words, God's words. You know, the Bible says about
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  Speaker 2: you and Second Corinthians, chapter five and verse twenty that
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  Speaker 2: you are ambassadors for Christ. Huh did you know that?
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  Speaker 2: In Luke chapter ten it says the same thing in
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  Speaker 2: verse sixteen, that he he that heareth you. If you're
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  Speaker 2: one of God's children, heareth me. And so these texts
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  Speaker 2: support the pattern that God has shown us throughout human history,
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  Speaker 2: at least after the fall of or the jump of
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  Speaker 2: Adam and the fall of Eve. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time. Ah, these are the patterns God through the
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  Speaker 2: human agent to the audience or the people who are
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  Speaker 2: to listen. Okay, so the human messenger carries divine weight,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes humans take glory. That's not what this is.
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  Speaker 2: So we're to have the divine weight, the authority, right,
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  Speaker 2: the impress of God, but not to take our own
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  Speaker 2: glory or glory to ourselves. And so let's apply it
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  Speaker 2: right here and right now, so we know that we're
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  Speaker 2: not God to anyone in air quotes. But when you
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  Speaker 2: speak God's word faithfully, you stand in his authority, like
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  Speaker 2: don't take the name of the Lord by God in vain.
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  Speaker 2: So when God is saying speak, you must speak. Just
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  Speaker 2: like Eli said to young Samuel, you better tell me
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  Speaker 2: what God said, huh. And when he says be quiet,
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  Speaker 2: be quiet, like don't stand up like Balem attempted to do,
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  Speaker 2: and speak on behalf of God and curse God's people
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  Speaker 2: or anything else. Only speak as God has given you
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  Speaker 2: his authority. So every time you share truth from the scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: you are functioning like Aaron or Moses, not speaking your
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  Speaker 2: own words, but representing God him self. You don't need
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  Speaker 2: to be eloquent, that's not the goal. Unfortunately, some of
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  Speaker 2: us have believed the hype about ourselves of eloquence, our abilities,
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  Speaker 2: our some of us have more degrees than a thermometer.
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  Speaker 2: But God is saying that's not it. God equips you, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he equips you ah with authority and clarity when you
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  Speaker 2: surrender to Him. And just like Pharaoh, the world will
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  Speaker 2: be impressed to listen even if the world resists, because
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  Speaker 2: the message comes from God. 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,