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07 20 2025 God vs. gods · 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: 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 Marning, Good morning. It is Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: July twenty, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host. Den This is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus. Under the
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  Speaker 2: caption God versus God's God. We're talking about the Creator
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  Speaker 2: versus all of the other Gods. Yeah, that's our discussion today.
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  Speaker 2: And before we get into that, I'd like to say
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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, We thank you. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us the privilege of being called by your name.
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  Speaker 2: I say that often because it is a privilege. You
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  Speaker 2: said you would write your name in our foreheads. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for being our God. Please teach us how to
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  Speaker 2: serve you today. Teach us how to not look to
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  Speaker 2: the left or to the right, but to just focus
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  Speaker 2: on you and whatever you desire in Jesus name. I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again God versus Gods. So, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to deal with this yesterday, but really it's for
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  Speaker 2: today's lesson. Yeah. So, when Pharaoh said that he didn't
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  Speaker 2: know this God that Moses said told him to let
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  Speaker 2: him let the people go, Really he's messing up his
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  Speaker 2: economy and really actually turning away from what he had
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  Speaker 2: been trained to believe all of his days. He believed
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  Speaker 2: now that he was indeed and in fact God, and
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  Speaker 2: likely he believed he was the supreme god of the
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  Speaker 2: gods in air quotes. And so now you're coming with
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  Speaker 2: a message from someone who says that they're God. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know who that is. And by the way, go
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  Speaker 2: tell whoever told you that, I'm not letting nobody go,
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  Speaker 2: and really probably deep in his corey saying make me like,
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  Speaker 2: if you're gonna, if you're a god, then make me well,
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  Speaker 2: how did that work for him? So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: run quickly through through the gods. I almost said pas
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  Speaker 2: of gods, but would that would give you the wrong
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  Speaker 2: impression because it's not a pantheon in Egypt. But you
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  Speaker 2: get the point. And so when God turned the water
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  Speaker 2: to blood in the plagues, we're talking about the plgs
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  Speaker 2: very quickly. When he did that, he was targeting false
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  Speaker 2: gods in Egypt. First one Happy, the other one Osyrus,
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  Speaker 2: the other one. Canum see all of them? I won't
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  Speaker 2: tell you all of the details. Maybe you can ask
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  Speaker 2: in the community, like type in the community, give me
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  Speaker 2: the list of the gods and you can get the
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  Speaker 2: details there. But the message was the nile you worship
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  Speaker 2: as life now has become death to you. So God
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  Speaker 2: fires on those gods, the false gods, and then the plagues,
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  Speaker 2: the plague related to the frogs. In Exodus, chapter eight,
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  Speaker 2: verses one through fifteen, targeted the goddesses Hekket the goddess
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  Speaker 2: Heket the message, the goddess of life multiplies death and
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  Speaker 2: uncleanness because Hekat was the goddess of fertility in the
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  Speaker 2: minds of the people. Then comes lice and gnats. In
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  Speaker 2: Chapter eight sixteen through nineteen. The gods that are targeted
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  Speaker 2: are Geb, Geb the message from your sacred dust comes defilement.
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  Speaker 2: Your gods can't stop it. Then come the flies Kepri
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  Speaker 2: Kepri god fires on Kepri, your god of renewal, releases
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  Speaker 2: swarms of filth and chaos, the god of or the
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  Speaker 2: death of livestock. In Exodus nine, verses one through seven,
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  Speaker 2: targeted gods appeas hethor Menevius, the message, your gods of
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  Speaker 2: power and provision are struck down in the fields. Then
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  Speaker 2: comes bul in verses eight through twelve, targeted gods Imhotep
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  Speaker 2: segment the message you trust them to heal you, but
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  Speaker 2: now you're covered in pain. Then comes hel God is
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  Speaker 2: firing on noot, He's firing on shoe, He's firing on
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  Speaker 2: tough nout, he is firing on. Isis the message your
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  Speaker 2: heavens tremble and burn at my word? Then locusts in
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter ten, verses one through twenty We're going somewhere
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  Speaker 2: net pri again set therapists the message your food supply
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  Speaker 2: and harvest gods are defenseless. Then comes the darkness in
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  Speaker 2: chapter ten, verses twenty one through twenty nine. The gods
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  Speaker 2: that are targeted raw Horus. Even your greatest God can't
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  Speaker 2: break my silence or light the sky. And then, of
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  Speaker 2: course the death of the first born God is firing
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  Speaker 2: on Pharaoh himself, Pharaoh himself. And then of course mean
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  Speaker 2: isis best tet. No god, not even your divine in
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  Speaker 2: air quotes King can stand before the judgment of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: So I know we ran through that, but that is
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  Speaker 2: the reality. You want an introduction to the God of heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Let me start by breaking down all of your gods
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  Speaker 2: and letting you know that the God of the universe
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  Speaker 2: has spoken. I told you in the beginning, let my
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  Speaker 2: people go, let my son go, but you chose not to. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So now, yeah, now that we got all of that out,
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  Speaker 2: how did that work for Pharaoh? It didn't It didn't.
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  Speaker 2: And so when Pharaoh shall speak unto you spoke. This
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  Speaker 2: is coming from Exodus chapter seven, verses eight through fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: I'm leaving some of the parts of the text out.
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  Speaker 2: But when Pharaoh sh I'll speak unto you, show a
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  Speaker 2: miracle for you, Then thou shalt say unto Aaron, take
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  Speaker 2: thy rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall
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  Speaker 2: become a serpent. But Pharaoh shall also called his wise men,
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  Speaker 2: and they did like manner with their enchantments, for they
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  Speaker 2: cast down every man his rod, and it became serpents,
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  Speaker 2: and Aaron's rods swallowed up their rods and hardened Pharaoh's heart.
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  Speaker 2: There is so much that I need to say, but
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  Speaker 2: so little time. So when we look at the serpents,
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  Speaker 2: the serpents. Of course, when God did it, it was
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  Speaker 2: true serpents, and when and when the people from Pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: did it it was false. It was just sleight of hand.
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  Speaker 2: But it's significant. It's significant because the rod was a
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  Speaker 2: symbol of authority, a symbol of judgment, a symbol of
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  Speaker 2: divine appointment. And then the serpent in this case, tanin
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  Speaker 2: the Hebrew term is not a casual word for just snake.
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  Speaker 2: Tanin can refer to a dragon, a sea monster, a
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  Speaker 2: powerful creature. It is significant. It suggests a cosmic power clash,
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  Speaker 2: not just like a cheap trick like pulling a rabbit
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  Speaker 2: out of a hat. Not that, not that. And so
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  Speaker 2: when Aaron's rod swallowed the magician's rod or serpents, that
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  Speaker 2: was God's warning shot, a visual prophecy of Egypt's complete defeat.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, this is what was happening. The swallowing
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  Speaker 2: of the magicians rods by Aaron's rod was a sign
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  Speaker 2: of ultimate triumph. But Pharaoh saw only what he desired,
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  Speaker 2: and so from the book Patriarchs and Prophets two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty four, the magician's work was not accomplished by
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  Speaker 2: their own skill alone, but through the power of their
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  Speaker 2: god Satan. Yet the work of An was superior. His
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  Speaker 2: rod swallowed their rods. Had Pharaoh accepted the first miracle,
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  Speaker 2: all others would have been unnecessary. But his resistance gave
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  Speaker 2: Satan permission to darken Pharaoh's mind further. There was just
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  Speaker 2: so much more to say, But sometimes God shows you
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  Speaker 2: something undeniable. It's a message, it's a miracle, it's a warning,
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  Speaker 2: it's a conviction. In your spirit, and so when we
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  Speaker 2: respond favorably, then we are transformed. But when we decide
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  Speaker 2: to resist over time without repentance, then we're hardened.
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  Speaker 1: we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  Speaker 1: that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  Speaker 1: great day. Yeah,