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09 06 2025 Apostasy and 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 Sabbath, September six,
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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 Apostasy and Intercession. Apostasy and Intercession. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into that, I'd like to just say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time. Please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: know where you are in the world at your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. And let me
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  Speaker 2: just say to those who are here on the island
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  Speaker 2: with me. I'll be at Trench Town, SDA this morning
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  Speaker 2: sharing the word of God. So if you're in the area,
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  Speaker 2: come through, come through and enjoy God and the brethren
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  Speaker 2: with me today. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father, thank you for this new Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: for the opportunity to experience You. And I'm praying that
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  Speaker 2: you will give us the antidote today against apostasy, against
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  Speaker 2: turning our backs on You. Please, in Jesus name, I pray, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and a man again, so we get to see in
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  Speaker 2: the life of Moses what it looks like to really
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  Speaker 2: get into the heart of God. Because think about it,
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  Speaker 2: human beings have sinned, all have sinned and come short
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  Speaker 2: of the glory of God. This is what we know
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  Speaker 2: right all of us. All of us have sinned and
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  Speaker 2: come short of the glory of God. And Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that God gave him so that we
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  Speaker 2: can be saved. So Jesus Christ is the ultimate intercessor,
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate mediator, the ultimate go between. I think job.
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  Speaker 2: When he was going through his trials, he said, I
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  Speaker 2: need a days man. I need somebody who will speak
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  Speaker 2: to God for me. This burden is too heavy God.
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  Speaker 2: I need somebody to go and speak to God for me.
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  Speaker 2: And so in this case, even though God's people were
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  Speaker 2: stiff necked and stubb even though they murmured and all
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  Speaker 2: of these things, Moses knew that he really wanted them
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  Speaker 2: to be saved. Okay, And so the Bible reads here
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  Speaker 2: in Exodus chapter thirty two, verses thirty one and thirty two.
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  Speaker 2: Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, oh, these
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  Speaker 2: people have committed a great sin. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about that in the next two days. If the Lord
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  Speaker 2: spaars life, they have a great sin and have made
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  Speaker 2: for themselves a god out of gold. What yet, now,
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  Speaker 2: if you will forgive their sin? But if not, I pray.
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  Speaker 2: Now comes like some of the most incredible words you'll
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  Speaker 2: ever read that a human said in scripture, He said,
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  Speaker 2: I pray blot me out of your book which you
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  Speaker 2: have written holding. What kind of love is this? Where
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  Speaker 2: the man of God, knowing how foul the people of
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  Speaker 2: God can be, knowing all that it means that they struggle,
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  Speaker 2: and he's saying, God, if you won't forgive them, then
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  Speaker 2: please let me be the one that has to pay
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  Speaker 2: the penalty. Yes, this is deliberate. For those listening on
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  Speaker 2: the air, it is not. The broadcast has not cut off.
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  Speaker 2: I can't even imagine what was going through Moses's mind
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  Speaker 2: when he said, blot me out and save these people,
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  Speaker 2: especially when the people did not love God in the
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  Speaker 2: way that they should, especially when God gave them clearly
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  Speaker 2: the ten commandments, especially when he said, have no other
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  Speaker 2: gods before me, and God heard their groanings and delivered
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  Speaker 2: them by a mighty hand out of bondage. And they
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  Speaker 2: do this fall God. What Yeah, let that settle in.
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  Speaker 2: So let's learn some lessons. Now, let's learn some lessons.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we have to slow down before we speed up.
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  Speaker 2: And so in verse eight of chapter thirty two, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads that they have turned aside quickly out of
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  Speaker 2: the way which I commanded them. This is what God
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  Speaker 2: is saying. They have made them a molten calf guard
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  Speaker 2: your walk daily. I'm talking about even this Sabbath morning,
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  Speaker 2: because look at it, this temptation and the fall into
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  Speaker 2: sin was related to worship. So even today this Sabbath morning.
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  Speaker 2: Guard your walk with God, even after spiritual victories, even
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  Speaker 2: after God takes you through your red seat experience on
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  Speaker 2: dry ground and he destroys the marauders who have been
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  Speaker 2: destroying your life. Even when you have these mountaintop experiences
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  Speaker 2: like Elijah had on Mount Carmel, You've had these experiences
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  Speaker 2: where you just knew that God was speaking, you did
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  Speaker 2: what he said, and wonderful and miraculous things happened in
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  Speaker 2: your life. Be anchored through consistent time in the Word
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  Speaker 2: of God and prayer. And when we're praying, we're not
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  Speaker 2: just spouting things out to God. We are saying God,
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  Speaker 2: there are things in my life that I know that
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  Speaker 2: if you don't keep me, you don't save me, you
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  Speaker 2: don't transform me, I will go off base. Will you
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  Speaker 2: please keep me on base, Keep me in relationship with you.
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  Speaker 2: Teach me to treat people the way that you treat people.
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  Speaker 2: Teach me to love you like you love me. Teach
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  Speaker 2: me how to serve you in such a way that others,
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  Speaker 2: when they see my life, they will want to have
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  Speaker 2: a relationship with you. Show me how to steward the
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  Speaker 2: money and other means that you have given me. All
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  Speaker 2: of us have time. All of us have a level
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  Speaker 2: of health, even if we're not as healthy as we
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  Speaker 2: should be. All of us have the ability to experience. God,
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  Speaker 2: help me to steward all of that, God, and bring
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  Speaker 2: you glory in my life. From verse thirty two of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty two, we read, yet not now, if thou
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  Speaker 2: wilt forgive their sin, blot me. I pray thee out
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  Speaker 2: of the book which thou hast written. This is it
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  Speaker 2: intercede for those who've failed. You have a child right
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  Speaker 2: now who is failing. You know that he or she
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  Speaker 2: or God forbid all of your children have turned their
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  Speaker 2: backs on you. On God. Now it's time to intercede.
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  Speaker 2: You see in the story of Job, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that he offered sacrifice back when sacrifices were what God
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  Speaker 2: would accept. He offered sacrifices for all of his children
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  Speaker 2: if peradventure, they would do something foolish. I promise you,
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  Speaker 2: my mom, my late mother, if she were not praying
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  Speaker 2: the way she was, and she had some friends, some
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  Speaker 2: sisters who are praying in the same way she was,
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  Speaker 2: I would not be here today. The millions of people
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  Speaker 2: who get this word because God has laid his hand
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  Speaker 2: on me. Would not have gotten it in this way
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  Speaker 2: if my mom had not done exactly this. She knew
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  Speaker 2: that my life was a mess. She knew that I
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed being in the world. She knew I had no
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  Speaker 2: intention of following the Lord. And she prayed, and she prayed,
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  Speaker 2: and she woke up in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 2: and she continued to pray. I think there's a song
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  Speaker 2: that says, somebody prayed for me, they had me on
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  Speaker 2: their mind. I am so glad that they prayed for me.
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  Speaker 2: So do that for somebody else, especially when you want
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  Speaker 2: to give up on them. Pray from the heart like
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  Speaker 2: Moses did. And now we come in from the book
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  Speaker 2: of Psalms, chapter one hundred and six and verse twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not
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  Speaker 2: Moses his chosen and stood before him in the breach?
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  Speaker 2: Are you God's chosen? The many are called, according to
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  Speaker 2: Matthew chapter twenty two, but few are chosen. The chosen
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  Speaker 2: are people who accept the covering of righteousness that comes
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  Speaker 2: from Christ. Those who are chosen are the ones who
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  Speaker 2: surrender our will to God. And they're not just invited,
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  Speaker 2: but now surrender their will to God. So if you
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  Speaker 2: are one of those when judgment was due, like God
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  Speaker 2: responded to intercession with mercy. So thank God for the
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  Speaker 2: grace that has spread you before more many times more
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  Speaker 2: than you know. Live like someone who is forgiven by
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  Speaker 2: interceding that others may be forgiven.
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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.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah,