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08 05 2025 Crossing the Red Sea · 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 Tuesday, all
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  Speaker 2: gets five, 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 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, and our
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  Speaker 2: caption for today is Crossing the Red Sea. I said,
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  Speaker 2: crossing the Red Sea. Now, if I am extra excited
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  Speaker 2: or happy, or even clearer in thought today than normal,
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  Speaker 2: maybe maybe it's because twenty four years on this date
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  Speaker 2: in Alexandria, Virginia, Simone and I said, I do, and
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  Speaker 2: guess what we still do. I just want to say
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  Speaker 2: that it's our twenty fourth anniversary, and I just want
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  Speaker 2: you to say thank God for us, like talk to
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  Speaker 2: God about us today, because marriage is God's idea and
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal only happens under God. So I'm just so grateful
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  Speaker 2: that Simone accepted my hand in marriage and we are
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  Speaker 2: still going strong. Thank God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray before I get too far
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  Speaker 2: afield and get underway. Father, I do thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day because you have made it and you have
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  Speaker 2: made us. Thank you for giving us so many markers
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  Speaker 2: in the past that show us how you will lead
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  Speaker 2: us in the field future. Help us to remember you
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Crossing
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sea, I told you the other day that
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  Speaker 2: I would come back to this and look at it
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more closely, a little bit more closely,
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  Speaker 2: and we indeed will. But let's go ahead here to
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty one of Exodus chapter fourteen, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. We
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  Speaker 2: read this, but now it bears repeating, and the Lord
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  Speaker 2: caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to you about that and the details of that.
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  Speaker 2: At night I talked to you about that and preached
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  Speaker 2: to you about that, and made the sea dry land.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about that in a good amount of detail,
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  Speaker 2: and the waters were divided, very good, very good. And
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  Speaker 2: so of course the sea there's nothing to see here,
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  Speaker 2: like it's the land. The body of water, nothing to
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  Speaker 2: see here. The wind, we've already spoken about that. God
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  Speaker 2: divided it h bakha to split, to tear apart, to
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  Speaker 2: break open. If there is something that is separating you
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  Speaker 2: from freedom to worship God, then God, if you yield
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  Speaker 2: to him, will split. He will tear apart, and he
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  Speaker 2: will break open a pathway so that you will be free.
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  Speaker 2: Can I say it one more time? God will split,
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  Speaker 2: tear apart, and break open a path before you so
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  Speaker 2: that you can be free. So this moment was God's
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  Speaker 2: decisive action for deliverance. Yes, the east wind shows natural
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  Speaker 2: elements under divine control. Yes, God removed human escape routes
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  Speaker 2: to demonstrate that only he could save. There's no other way.
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  Speaker 2: Mountains everywhere, big old c in front of you. They
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  Speaker 2: not about those millions of people, not about to swim
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  Speaker 2: through there. There's not enough boats to take through there.
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  Speaker 2: You understand, like, there's no way out, only a way through,
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  Speaker 2: and God had to make that path for them. The
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  Speaker 2: sea became both salvation for the people of God and
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  Speaker 2: get this, and condemnation unfortunately for them, unfortunately because it
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  Speaker 2: was their choice, unfortunately, and condemnation for those marauding Egyptians
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  Speaker 2: who had not yielded to God. Now there were some
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  Speaker 2: who had, and they were with the people of God,
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  Speaker 2: but the rest of them. And from the book Patriarchs
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  Speaker 2: and Prophets, actually, let's go to the one from Christ's
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  Speaker 2: object Lessons, page one seventy seven. The path where God leads,
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  Speaker 2: the way may lie through the desert or the sea.
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  Speaker 2: I said that to you the other day, But it
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  Speaker 2: is a safe path. And then Patriarchs and Prophets, page
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and eighty four. The cloud that was a
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  Speaker 2: wall of darkness to the Egyptians was to the people
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  Speaker 2: of God a great flood of light. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: the difference, illuminating the whole camp and shedding brightness upon
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  Speaker 2: the path before them? Are you now being covered by
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  Speaker 2: the light? I said covered? I know what I just said,
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  Speaker 2: Covered by the light of God's love and righteousness. Are
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  Speaker 2: you covered by the light of God's righteousness. Adam and
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  Speaker 2: Eve when they were in the garden of Eden, when
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  Speaker 2: they were still in their innocence, they were covered in light.
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  Speaker 2: Are you covered in light right now? In the righteousness
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  Speaker 2: of Christ? And so now we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: it from the perspective of that time. This wasn't only freedom,
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  Speaker 2: which I always trumpet like that is the chief thing
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  Speaker 2: that I like to talk about, the deliverance from oppression, etc.
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  Speaker 2: It was the judgment of those false gods that these
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  Speaker 2: guys worshiped. It was it was judgment on the ultimate
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  Speaker 2: false deity, in this case, Pharaoh, his false divinity. It
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  Speaker 2: was God taking direct shots at that. Egypt had hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of gods, maybe even more, but I'm gonna stick with
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of gods, and Pharaoh was considered to be divined.
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  Speaker 2: By parting the Red Sea, God crushed the power. This
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  Speaker 2: is one that I had missed all of these years.
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  Speaker 2: I've been talking about the gods and goddesses, false gods,
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  Speaker 2: false goddesses that were represented when God was firing on
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  Speaker 2: them through the plagues. But I had never even thought
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  Speaker 2: about this until I studied further. By parting the Red Sea,
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  Speaker 2: God crushed the power of their Goddess of the sea
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  Speaker 2: and mocked their crocodile god. Sobek and guess what that
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  Speaker 2: so called god was the protector of the nile. How
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  Speaker 2: did that work for you? This act made the people
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  Speaker 2: of God not just former slaves, but God's redeemed people.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want you to constantly identify as as what
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  Speaker 2: you used to be. You understand what I'm saying to you.
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  Speaker 2: In the in the age of people identifying ass fill
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  Speaker 2: in the blank, I'm saying, we don't always have to
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  Speaker 2: identify with our problems. We don't always need to identify
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  Speaker 2: with our past. We don't identify by saying I don't
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  Speaker 2: look like I what I've been through all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Like there is a time when we just stop talking
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  Speaker 2: about the don'ts and the nots, not talking about what
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  Speaker 2: used to be, but only talking about the reality right now.
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  Speaker 2: I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Remember
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  Speaker 2: that song, I am redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, like,
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  Speaker 2: stand up as what you are presently, not what you
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  Speaker 2: used to be. I get it. We have to go
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  Speaker 2: through that sort of continuum that pathway. But God is
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  Speaker 2: so good, How good is he? He is so good
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  Speaker 2: that he has redeemed his people with his blood, and
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  Speaker 2: we now can have God's name written in our foreheads.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to be former slaves anymore. We can
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  Speaker 2: be currently redeemed, currently powerful, currently victorious. You understand where
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  Speaker 2: this is going. And so this was also about God
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  Speaker 2: placing his identity in us and God's people trusting him.
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  Speaker 2: They had to walk on the path that God opened
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  Speaker 2: before they could see how it would end. I said,
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  Speaker 2: they walked on the path. I'm talking about the priests
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  Speaker 2: who went in first. They got wet and sandy. They
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  Speaker 2: didn't step in on bedrock. These dudes need to really
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  Speaker 2: be tested, like like what's about to happen here? And
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  Speaker 2: then God separated the waters from the ground and he
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  Speaker 2: continued that miracle. So they had to walk into the
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  Speaker 2: path that God opened before they could see how God
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  Speaker 2: would end this. And so in our everyday lives, we
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  Speaker 2: need to know that God doesn't always remove the obstacles.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes he does, but not always. He transformed them into pathways.
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  Speaker 2: He transformed the sea into a pathway. The red sea
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  Speaker 2: did not vanish, it split open God waits until the
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  Speaker 2: enemy is close enough for you to see your miracle,
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  Speaker 2: for your enemy to see your miracle. God's people didn't
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  Speaker 2: cross until Pharaoh's armies were almost there. When you cross
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sea, it's a miracle of God.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,