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09 07 2025 Failed Leadership · 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, September seven,
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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, part of me. 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 failed Leadership, Failed Lead. Before we
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  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father, we thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this day, thank you for loving us, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: showing us what real leadership is. Thank you, and I
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  Speaker 2: pray that we will follow the Lamb wherever he leads.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and Amn again. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just going to begin here with what a mess? What
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  Speaker 2: a mess did Aaron make as he was supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be leading the people of God. And I want you
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  Speaker 2: to keep the context. Aaron was supposed to be the
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  Speaker 2: mouthpiece right well, he in fact was when Moses would
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  Speaker 2: go in before the Pharaoh and say, God said, let
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  Speaker 2: my people go, and everything that happened during that time,
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  Speaker 2: That's what Aaron's purpose was. And the priesthood come from Aaron.
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  Speaker 2: And so he, Aaron is selected to be the progenitor
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  Speaker 2: of connecting God and the people, people and God speaking
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  Speaker 2: on behalf of God to the people. And in this
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  Speaker 2: moment now, in this failure of his leadership, he is
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  Speaker 2: causing the people to worship a false God, causing I said, causing. Now,
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  Speaker 2: let me read very quickly from the Bible Book of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty two. I will read from the amplified Bible. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when the people saw Moses delayed to come down from
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  Speaker 2: the mount, they gathered together before Aaron and said to him, come,
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  Speaker 2: make us a god, a false god, a god the
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  Speaker 2: kind of God that God said, don't make period, make
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  Speaker 2: us a god who will go before us. As for
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  Speaker 2: this Moses, the man who brought us up from the
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  Speaker 2: land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.
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  Speaker 2: So first of all, these folks got it all twisted,
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  Speaker 2: like Moses is not God. So why in the world
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  Speaker 2: would they say make us a god because Moses is
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  Speaker 2: not here. That's the first mistake, besides the fact that
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  Speaker 2: they are making another god before them, before God. Right,
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  Speaker 2: But now they even have the ministry of Moses all
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  Speaker 2: mixed up in their head. But anyway, and they think
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  Speaker 2: that Moses is the one that really brought them out
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  Speaker 2: of the land of Egypt. Even Moses got that twisted
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  Speaker 2: when he struck the rock the second time. But I
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  Speaker 2: just really don't have the time for that right now.
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  Speaker 2: Verse two, and Aaron replied to them. If Aaron is
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  Speaker 2: to reply to them, He's supposed to take them back
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  Speaker 2: to what God said. And the people said, whatever the
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  Speaker 2: Lord said, that shall we do they but he says,
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  Speaker 2: I just really literally can't believe this. Aaron replied to them,
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  Speaker 2: take off the gold ear rings that are in your
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  Speaker 2: ears or in the ears of your wives, your sons,
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  Speaker 2: and your daughters, and bring them to me.
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  Speaker 1: What like.
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  Speaker 2: Later on in the story, we're gonna see where that
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  Speaker 2: happens again. But that is when they are bringing offerings
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  Speaker 2: of those kinds of things so that the sanctuary can
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  Speaker 2: be built. So in worship now they are exchanging those relics,
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  Speaker 2: they're exchanging the jewels, they're exchanging those ornaments, and they
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  Speaker 2: are putting them into worship. But this time is false worship.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody just heard what I just said. Take them off
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  Speaker 2: verse three. So all the people took off the gold
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  Speaker 2: rings that were in the the ears and brought them
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  Speaker 2: to Aaron. And he took the gold from their hands
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  Speaker 2: and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it
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  Speaker 2: into a molten calf. And they say, this is our God,
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  Speaker 2: oh Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: What in the world is going on here? Yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: could say that that's what they saw in Egypt. And
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  Speaker 2: because that's what they saw in Egypt, they backslid into
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  Speaker 2: that mindset. I get it. That is an excuse. It's
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  Speaker 2: an excuse any of us who worship our own images.
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  Speaker 2: That's an excuse any of us who worship our income
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  Speaker 2: or lack thereof, and talk about it's a it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a constant discussion about this cost too
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  Speaker 2: much or that cost too much. And so I put
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  Speaker 2: my problem in priority above God. Huh, when your relationships
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  Speaker 2: with people take the place of God, it's an excuse
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  Speaker 2: for any of us to do this. It's an excuse,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a horrible one at that. And then verse five. Now,
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  Speaker 2: when Aaron saw the molten calf, he built an altar
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  Speaker 2: before it like it gets worse. What and Aaron made
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  Speaker 2: a proclamation and said, tomorrow shall be a feast to
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. What in the world is happening God? Verse six,
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  Speaker 2: protect us God from this mindset. So the next day
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  Speaker 2: they got up early and offered burnt offerings and brought
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  Speaker 2: peace offerings. Then the people sat down to eat and
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  Speaker 2: drink and got up to play. Now, this playing that
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  Speaker 2: they were doing so called playing this actually, this actually
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  Speaker 2: is the same kind of playing that is of a
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  Speaker 2: sexual nature. Right, that kind of playing is the kind
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  Speaker 2: that is of a sexual nature. It was an immoral
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  Speaker 2: kind of playing, and it was shameful. And so from
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  Speaker 2: the book Patriarchs Profits, page three hundred and sixteen, it reads,
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  Speaker 2: such a crisis demanded a man of firmness. Are you
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  Speaker 2: a man or a woman of firmness, decision and unflinching courage,
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  Speaker 2: one who held the honor of God above popular favor,
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  Speaker 2: personal safety hmm, or life itself? Can you imagine? Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine the judges having this experience? Somebody comes before Deborah,
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  Speaker 2: somebody comes before oh my goodness, all of the judges
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  Speaker 2: of the Old Testament, and they say, just let us
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  Speaker 2: worship something else. And the judge says, yeah, yeah, let's
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  Speaker 2: do that, like Aaron did. Come on, man, okay. But
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  Speaker 2: the present leader of God's people was not of this character.
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  Speaker 2: So Aaron, I don't know. I'm wondering, did he fear
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  Speaker 2: for his life? His in decisiveness gave the people permission
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  Speaker 2: to sin? He participated in that sin. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: he led them into that sin, and then try to
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  Speaker 2: make it holy with a feast in the name of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. How many things that have we had had
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  Speaker 2: in our lives that we tried to sanctify? Have we
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  Speaker 2: tried to sanctify time that is not holy? Have we
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  Speaker 2: tried to sanctify relationships that are not holy? You can't
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  Speaker 2: tell me who to love, You can't tell me how
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  Speaker 2: to love. And God has told us that he does
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  Speaker 2: not want us to be connected with people who are
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  Speaker 2: connected with idols. Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers. And
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  Speaker 2: you choose to marry somebody who hates God, who couldn't
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  Speaker 2: care less about what matters to God, but they think
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  Speaker 2: they like you, and you say, oh, well, that makes sense,
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  Speaker 2: so let's just get together. I don't have to tell him,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to tell her how to worship. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's true, but you don't need to be in a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with him or her that way. And so leadership
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  Speaker 2: without conviction is dangerous because conviction toward the things of
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  Speaker 2: God is dangerous because leaders can lead people away from God.
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  Speaker 2: And so this sin was wrapped in worship, but it
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  Speaker 2: was still rebellion. Pressure reveals what presence was hiding. So
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  Speaker 2: Aaron looked strong beside Moses. But once Moses disappeared, Aaron's
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  Speaker 2: real foundation was exposed. Your private integrity must be stronger
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  Speaker 2: than your public position. Just switch on the news and
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  Speaker 2: we can see that that's true. Make it a great day, peace.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,