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07 27 2025 One More Plague · 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 Sunday. It
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  Speaker 2: is the twenty seventh day of July in twenty twenty five. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: my name is El David Harris. I am your host,
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  Speaker 2: and this is your Daily Portion where we give you
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  Speaker 2: God's Word every single day, and today is no exception.
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  Speaker 2: We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is one
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  Speaker 2: more Plague, One more Plague and sound exciting to me,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll get into that in just a moment. Before
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father, thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: new work week and for giving us the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: come together in this fashion. We had our own personal worship,
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  Speaker 2: and now we can we can corporately come together and
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  Speaker 2: observe what you have taught us in your word, so
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  Speaker 2: we can live according to the principles. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to do that. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. I like where the lesson writer begins this
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  Speaker 2: study today. In the Book of Amos, chapter three and
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  Speaker 2: verse seven, the prophet Amos declares that the Lord God
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  Speaker 2: does nothing, and I will add, like Pastor Henry Wright
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  Speaker 2: taught us when I was a new believer many years ago.
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  Speaker 2: He taught us the Lord doesn't do anything important, nothing pivotal,
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  Speaker 2: nothing critical, nothing of vital importance without revealing his secret
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  Speaker 2: to his servants, the prophets. Let me read it another way.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord God does nothing important without first revealing his
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  Speaker 2: secret to his servants, the prophets, and the lesson writer
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  Speaker 2: continues and through the prophet Moses in this case, he
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  Speaker 2: revealed to Pharaoh what was coming next. The solemn warning
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  Speaker 2: was given to Pharaoh. This will be a just judgment
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  Speaker 2: upon pride exploitation. Wherever this is, we don't need to
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  Speaker 2: just look back look back at the time of that
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  Speaker 2: particular Pharaoh. I need to go back and look at
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  Speaker 2: which pharaoh it was. My history is slipping me now,
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  Speaker 2: but that particular king. It's not just then. In twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, this can apply to God forbid. Any leader
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  Speaker 2: around the world that has chosen pride, has chosen to
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  Speaker 2: be puffed up instead of being humble, has chosen his
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  Speaker 2: or her own pathway rather than to submit themselves to God.
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  Speaker 2: God revealed through that prophet that this will be the
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  Speaker 2: judgment upon pride. Are you proud exploitation? Are you exploiting
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  Speaker 2: people for your own and aggrandizement? Violence? Are using violence
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  Speaker 2: and maybe coercion or any thing else to oppress people
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  Speaker 2: or suppress their voices? God forbid and idolatry. Do we
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  Speaker 2: really need to go into that how we puff up
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  Speaker 2: ourselves sometimes as human beings. But leaders, I'm speaking to
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  Speaker 2: you directly because this had a particular context, all of
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  Speaker 2: which have triggered these calamities upon the Egyptian people that
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  Speaker 2: were not covered. Now we talk about the people who
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  Speaker 2: were covered under the passover. Now we know that it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't everybody, but it was most of them, because most
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  Speaker 2: of them chose their leader, Pharaoh, rather than God, the
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  Speaker 2: creator of heaven and earth. And so we're back to
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  Speaker 2: the one more plague concept, and we're gonna look here
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  Speaker 2: into Let's see Exodus, chapter eleven and verse forty six,
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  Speaker 2: where the Bible reads about midnight, will I go out
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  Speaker 2: into the midst of Egypt, and all the first born
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  Speaker 2: in the land of Egypt shall die, and there shall
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  Speaker 2: be a great great cry throughout all the land of Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: And then in verse chapter twelve, loosely in verses twenty
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  Speaker 2: nine and thirty, at midnight, the Lord struck down the
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  Speaker 2: first born, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt
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  Speaker 2: because there was no house with someone without someone who
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  Speaker 2: was dead. So God judges. Now, when I say judge,
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean this term loosely where he's just weighing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean condemnation, now, condemnation God's people. There is therefore
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  Speaker 2: now no condemnation to those who are in Christ. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: you see not that I'm talking about condemnation. God judged
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh himself, that particular Pharaoh himself. He considered himself to
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  Speaker 2: be divine and the living son of raw Well his
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  Speaker 2: heir died. Isis false. God didn't even live nowhere. This
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  Speaker 2: is God was in the people's minds. The Goddess of
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  Speaker 2: protection and magic judged Mean, God of fertility and procreation
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  Speaker 2: judged Heket, goddess of childbirth judged. God's final act decimated
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  Speaker 2: Egypt's confidence in its gods and rulers. Where you live,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where you live in the world. I
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  Speaker 2: won't call nations. Wherever you live. Are you worshiping money,
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  Speaker 2: your ability to create wealth or what is perceived to
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  Speaker 2: be wealth? Is it something else? Are you trusting in
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  Speaker 2: that stuff? If, against God's guidance, we are trusting in
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  Speaker 2: something else, then he will do what he needs to
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  Speaker 2: do to separate us from those things. And then when
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  Speaker 2: we are worshipers of God, if those things can work
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  Speaker 2: under his guidance. Life means God loves to give people
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  Speaker 2: wealth because we know what to do with it. God's
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  Speaker 2: people know what to do with it. Job knew what
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  Speaker 2: to do with his wealth. God doesn't have a problem
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  Speaker 2: with wealth, you see. Yeah, maybe he will return that
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  Speaker 2: when people have yielded our will to him. But again,
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  Speaker 2: this final act decimated Egypt's confidence in their gods and rulers.
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  Speaker 2: It made very clear that only Yahweh Blessed be his
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  Speaker 2: name is sovereign over life and death. The final plague
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  Speaker 2: was the climax of God's confrontation with Egypt its system
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  Speaker 2: of idolatry and oppression. It was not a random destruction.
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  Speaker 2: God gave ample warning, warning after warning, warning after warning.
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  Speaker 2: Is God giving you a warning about anything in your life?
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  Speaker 2: Right now? Brother? Is God giving you a warning about
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  Speaker 2: anything in your life, dear sister, and provision for escape
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  Speaker 2: through the blood of the over Lamb. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: that in the day or two if the Lord spaars life.
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  Speaker 2: So the plague fell only on those who rejected the
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  Speaker 2: offer of protection. God did not use this kind of
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  Speaker 2: judgment broad stroke. He only judged those who decided that's
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  Speaker 2: what they wanted. Yeah, when we decide against God, that
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  Speaker 2: is what we've chosen. God forbid. But God had given
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  Speaker 2: them the way out. And let me read very quickly
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  Speaker 2: from the page two seventy three out of the book
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  Speaker 2: Patriarchs and Prophets, it was the Lord who delivered judgment
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  Speaker 2: on the Egypt's gods, not merely her people. The death
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  Speaker 2: of the firstborn was God's final appeal. And then in
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  Speaker 2: Desire of Age's page seventy seven, Christ was the real passover.
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  Speaker 2: His blood alone can shield us from the destroyer. And
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  Speaker 2: so an application for me today is that judgment is real,
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  Speaker 2: but so is mercy. I said, condemnation is real, but
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  Speaker 2: so is mercy. God always warns before he acts. Did
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  Speaker 2: I not say that? From Amus chapter three and verse seven,
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  Speaker 2: the blood still speaks Jesus, our passover lamb is the
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  Speaker 2: only covering in the final condemnation or judgment in this case, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: teach your household, you have children, you have people in
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  Speaker 2: your household that are with you. Teach your household to
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  Speaker 2: trust in Christ, the one whose blood was shed for us.
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  Speaker 2: Because no house in Egypt was untouched, but some were protected.
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  Speaker 2: The final PLG shows us that we must choose plague
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  Speaker 2: or pass over, judgment or Jesus.
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