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08 09 2025 The Bread and Water of Life · 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: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Sabbath, August nine,
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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. This is lesson
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  Speaker 2: number seven of thirteen, and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: the Bread and Water of Life, The Bread and Water
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  Speaker 2: of Life. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: just say welcome to you and ask you to go
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  Speaker 2: over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our
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  Speaker 2: online community. Please please let us know where you are
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  Speaker 2: in the world at your Daily Portion dot com this
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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 get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this Sabbath morning and the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: for us to worship together, to consider your word together,
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  Speaker 2: to be transformed by you together. Please please help us
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  Speaker 2: to walk into the promised Land together. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. The Bread and Water
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  Speaker 2: of life. I remember when Jesus said in John chapter
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  Speaker 2: seven that the manna that came from heaven, that bread
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  Speaker 2: that came to the people in the wilderness, that bread,
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  Speaker 2: the people did eat, and then eventually they all died.
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  Speaker 2: They ate the bread, but eventually they all perished. But
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ himself the bread of life, that that manna
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  Speaker 2: from heaven actually prefigured. When we eat of Christ, and
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  Speaker 2: we drink of Christ, then we will either never we
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  Speaker 2: will never hunger, and we will never thirst again. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful. I'm grateful. So we go back into the
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  Speaker 2: Bible for the story, the story from Exodus chapter sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse twenty eight, and the Bible reads, and
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  Speaker 2: the Lord said to Moses, how long do you refuse
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  Speaker 2: to keep my commandments? And my laws. So God is
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  Speaker 2: sending a message to his people through Moses. See, for
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  Speaker 2: the Lord has given you the Sabbath. You see, God
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  Speaker 2: has given us a way to reconnect with Him. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, if we had kept the Sabbath from the
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  Speaker 2: time that God showed us the Sabbath, nobody would ever
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  Speaker 2: have have worshiped false gods. Nobody would have ever worshiped
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  Speaker 2: false gods if we had actually kept the Sabbath from
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  Speaker 2: the time that He revealed the Sabbath to us. But
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  Speaker 2: let me continue. Therefore, He gives you on the sixth
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  Speaker 2: day bread for two days. Let every person, every man
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  Speaker 2: remain in his place, Let no man go out of
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  Speaker 2: his place on the seventh day. So the people rested
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  Speaker 2: on the seventh day. You see, even though we have
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  Speaker 2: to eat, the Bible teaches us that our food is necessary.
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  Speaker 2: We think about Job what he talked about in Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's Job chapter chapter twelve or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: But in any case, he even God showed us that
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  Speaker 2: food is one hundred percent necessary. We can't go but
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  Speaker 2: so long in fasting true fasting. I'm not talking about
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  Speaker 2: that kind of fasting people've made up today. I'm fasting
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  Speaker 2: from television. I'm fasting from sweets. I'm talking about real fasting,
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  Speaker 2: no food and in some cases no water. And still
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  Speaker 2: God said, okay, just so you know, I'm the one
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  Speaker 2: that is taking care of you. I'm the one who
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  Speaker 2: is your provider. I'm giving you a cycle one, two, three, four, five, six,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to gather your food that I
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  Speaker 2: give you miraculously from heaven six days. But there's another day, God, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: but on that day there will be none for the
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  Speaker 2: millions of you who are so journeying toward the Promised Land.
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  Speaker 2: There will be no food. Well why not, God, Because
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  Speaker 2: on the seventh day is the day that I have
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  Speaker 2: manifest to you, so that you will know that I'm
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  Speaker 2: the Lord which doth sanctify you. I'm the one who
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  Speaker 2: provides for you. I'm the one that makes you holy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you enough on Friday, the day of preparation,
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  Speaker 2: to carry you through the Sabbath, so you can focus
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  Speaker 2: only on Me on the Sabbath. So on Monday, there
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  Speaker 2: will not be two servings for your family. Tuesday, no
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  Speaker 2: two servings on two on Tuesday. On Sunday there will
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  Speaker 2: be only one serving. On Friday, there will be two servings. Why,
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  Speaker 2: so you can rest and connect with me. Do you
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  Speaker 2: see what's going on here? And so God is showing
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  Speaker 2: himself as the ultimate provider. Now, now let's go a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more slowly. Let's go slowly, Go slowly. And
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  Speaker 2: so the passage shows that the Sabbath was understood and
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  Speaker 2: expected before Sinai, you know, when God gave the Ten
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  Speaker 2: Commandments on Mount Sinai, proving its place in God's eternal
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  Speaker 2: moral law as a principle, not merely a ceremonial observance.
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  Speaker 2: And so from the book Testimonies for the Church, Volume six,
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  Speaker 2: page three hundred and forty nine, it reads, had the
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  Speaker 2: people of God kept the Sabbath as God commanded, there
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  Speaker 2: would have been no idolatry. Am I idolizing my paycheck?
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  Speaker 2: I have to ask me right in front of you.
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  Speaker 2: Am I idolizing where I live? Am I idolizing relationships?
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  Speaker 2: Am I idolizing something that's unholy? Altogether? I'm really just
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  Speaker 2: saying that out loud so you can ask yourself that
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  Speaker 2: same question. Is there some reason why people are idolizing
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  Speaker 2: things of it than God idolizing other humans? Other than
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  Speaker 2: God idolizing false gods that actually don't even exist, statues
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  Speaker 2: and relics instead of worshiping God well, because God has
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  Speaker 2: given us the Sabbath as a reconnection. On Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
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  Speaker 2: we have the privilege of worshiping God. We have the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of connecting with God. But we also have the
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  Speaker 2: privilege of working. We also have the privilege of working
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  Speaker 2: through certain difficulties that are secular in nature. We have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to choose whether we're going to be distracted
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  Speaker 2: or not because so much is going on in the
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  Speaker 2: world vying for our attention. But on Sabbath, somebody type
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  Speaker 2: in the Chat on Sabbath, see on Sabbath. We have
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  Speaker 2: the privilege of worshiping God. But it is the only
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  Speaker 2: day that is holy, the only day that is set
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  Speaker 2: aside for a holy use. It's the only day that
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  Speaker 2: God has sanctified. The Bible says he blessed it, on it,
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  Speaker 2: he rested, and then he sanctified it. That is, set
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  Speaker 2: it aside for a holy youth. So that means on
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  Speaker 2: that divine appointment, that time that cannot be replaced by
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  Speaker 2: some other time. We can't just pick a time out
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  Speaker 2: of the sky and say, well, because we worship God
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  Speaker 2: every day, then you know Tuesday is good too. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's not holy. Tuesday's not holy. Thursday's not holy, Sunday
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  Speaker 2: is not holy. No matter what your grandparents told you.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that the only day that God created
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  Speaker 2: as holy was the seventh Day, which we now call
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  Speaker 2: in English in our day Saturday. Okay. And so the
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath from Patriarchs and Prophets page two hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 2: six was not for Israel only, but for the world.
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  Speaker 2: It had been made known to humanity in Eden. It
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  Speaker 2: was to be a sign of their loyalty, to separate them,
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  Speaker 2: separate them from the surrounding nations. And so let me
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  Speaker 2: just apply it very quickly for you. The Sabbath is
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  Speaker 2: a gift and not a burden. It reminds us of
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  Speaker 2: God's provision. I said that earlier his lordship and our
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  Speaker 2: dependence upon him. God often trains us in discipline, community,
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  Speaker 2: and obedience before giving us greater revelation. Jesus, he is
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  Speaker 2: the bread of life. He is our provider, and he's
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  Speaker 2: also the one who gave us the Sabbath, so we
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  Speaker 2: can connect to him in a unique way on his
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  Speaker 2: storty day.
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  Speaker 1: P friends, always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day, yeah,