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07 25 2025 A Hardened Heart · 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 2: 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 Marning, Good morning. It is Friday. It's
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  Speaker 2: July twenty five, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is a hardened Heart, a
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  Speaker 2: hardened Heart. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: just say welcome to you and ask you to go
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  Speaker 2: We're going to use that one today, and also please
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  Speaker 2: let us know where you are in the world at
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray. Father, we thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: time of preparation, this day of preparation. Somebody once said,
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  Speaker 2: the way that we prepare for the Sabbath is likely
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  Speaker 2: the way we prepare to meet you when Jesus comes. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Please please teach us connection with you, help us to
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  Speaker 2: love you with everything we are, in everything we have.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus's name, I pray Amen and Amen again. A
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  Speaker 2: hardened heart, a hardened heart. So what I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do is read a quote from the book Patriarchs and Profits,
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  Speaker 2: page two hundred and sixty eight. It's right there in
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  Speaker 2: the less and right after that, we're going to apply
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  Speaker 2: this lesson to us professionally in the professional space for
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  Speaker 2: those who haven't already picked up the Life Application Guide.
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  Speaker 2: We are segmenting these applications in four different ways, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll tackle the professional way because we need to apply
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  Speaker 2: this stuff like we don't just read it and say
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  Speaker 2: this is what happened in history and overly spiritualize it.
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  Speaker 2: There are things that we need to be doing today
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  Speaker 2: based on these lessons, and so I read it reads
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  Speaker 2: thus his or God's people were permitted to experience the
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  Speaker 2: grinding cruelty of the Egyptians, that they might not be
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  Speaker 2: deceived concerning the debasing influence of idolatry. So really they're
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  Speaker 2: able to see now, like, if you're planning on going
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  Speaker 2: the direction of idolatry, not just the way those folks
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  Speaker 2: were doing it. But in any way, this is not
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  Speaker 2: the pathway for you. We're going to show you how
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  Speaker 2: this thing really works. Let me continue, Let me continue.
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  Speaker 2: In his dealing with the Pharaoh, the Lord manifested his
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  Speaker 2: hatred of idolatry and his determination to punish cruelty and oppression. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: even when God spoke to his people and he was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're out there fasting. You're fasting, but you're not delivering
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  Speaker 2: people from oppression. In captivity, you're still overreaching, like you're
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  Speaker 2: underpaying people that are giving you there all when you
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  Speaker 2: have the capacity to pay more. You're oppressing them and
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  Speaker 2: enslaving in some cases. That is not the kind of
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  Speaker 2: fast that I have taught you. I've taught you to
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  Speaker 2: set the captives free. I've taught you to remove the
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  Speaker 2: hand of oppression. I've taught you fairness and impartiality. And
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  Speaker 2: then he continues, but this is the reality here. There
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  Speaker 2: is no exercise of supernatural power to harden the heart
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  Speaker 2: of the king. Let me just say that again. Some
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  Speaker 2: people are mixed up about what we've studied multiple days. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I won't go back over it. But God did not
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  Speaker 2: impose some supernatural thing on the king so that he
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  Speaker 2: would be stubborn. That's not what happened. God gave to
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  Speaker 2: Pharaoh the most striking evidence of actual divine power in
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  Speaker 2: the same way that he did way in the future
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  Speaker 2: when Nebekadnezzar had a little problem with God. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just say, okay, and so and so, but the monarch
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  Speaker 2: stubbornly refused to heed the light. Let me just say,
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  Speaker 2: if you are a world leader, you are a leader
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  Speaker 2: of a country. If you're a president, you are a
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  Speaker 2: prime minister, you are a queen, you are a king,
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  Speaker 2: or some other designation that I'm not familiar with. I apologize.
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  Speaker 2: Just know this that God is ready, willing and available.
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  Speaker 2: Having set you up in your position, He's ready. He's
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  Speaker 2: willing and available for you to rule or to be
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  Speaker 2: a leader under a democratic system, whatever your system is
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  Speaker 2: in a way that is pleasing to him. We are
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  Speaker 2: not bound to make the mistakes of our ancestors. We
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  Speaker 2: are not bound to make the mistakes of people who
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  Speaker 2: are from other cultures in those ancestries. We are bound
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  Speaker 2: if we surrender our will to God to be successful,
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  Speaker 2: and God can show us how to be successful. So
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  Speaker 2: every display of infinite power was rejected by him and
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  Speaker 2: rendered him the more determined in his rebellion. That's what
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  Speaker 2: he chose. By the way, the seeds of rebellion, that
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  Speaker 2: sol that he sold when he rejected the first miracle
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  Speaker 2: produced their harvest. Yeah, God is not mocked. And it's
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  Speaker 2: not only for the leaders of countries. It's for the
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  Speaker 2: leaders of God's people in church or religious communities. It's
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  Speaker 2: the leaders in our families. Huh. It's the leaders in
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  Speaker 2: any thing. When you're at work, in your workplace, you're
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  Speaker 2: in an organization where it's a nonprofit, whatever the case.
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  Speaker 2: And not just leaders but people who also support and follow.
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  Speaker 2: All we need to do is say yes to God
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  Speaker 2: when he comes knocking, Yes to God when he starts
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  Speaker 2: to show us the right pathway, and we will be safe.
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  Speaker 2: But let's go back to our professional application in this reality.
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  Speaker 2: Here for today's lesson, we're using when as a framework,
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  Speaker 2: an acronym in this case W. What is important now?
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  Speaker 2: In leadership, temporary remorse without lasting correction damages trust and
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  Speaker 2: invites future disaster. I want you to see this in
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  Speaker 2: your workplace. In leadership temporary remorse. There are people who
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  Speaker 2: have got gotten caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who have overreached. There are people who've
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  Speaker 2: done insider trading. There are people who've gotten caught in
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  Speaker 2: some compromising positions. You understand, there are people who have
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  Speaker 2: been reprimanded in their leadership role for filling the blank
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  Speaker 2: and for a moment, for a moment, they had remorse.
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  Speaker 2: Or you if you're listening, If it's you, then just listen.
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  Speaker 2: God is giving you the blueprint here, please okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so temporary remorse without lasting correction damages trust and invites
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  Speaker 2: future disaster. I could go into the news cycle and
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  Speaker 2: give some really interesting commentary on some of the things
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  Speaker 2: we have seen, but I won't. Let's go to I
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  Speaker 2: internalize the insight. Pharaoh's public confessions never turned into lasting reform.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say that again. Pharaoh's public confessions never turned
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  Speaker 2: into lasting reform, sort of like Lucifer. As he began
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  Speaker 2: began to go down that slippery pathway to destruction, he
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  Speaker 2: becomes Satan, the accuser of the brethren. Lord, help us
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  Speaker 2: to see in our lives where we God forbid are
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  Speaker 2: going down that pathway. He could have he could have
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  Speaker 2: surrendered his will like he didn't have to continue down
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  Speaker 2: the pathway because he rebelled in heaven. He didn't have
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  Speaker 2: to get kicked out with his angel his evil angels.
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  Speaker 2: He could have, he could have repented, but he chose
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  Speaker 2: not to. Good leadership responds to correction with lasting, a
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  Speaker 2: lasting course adjustment. Shout to the HR professionals around the
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  Speaker 2: world that have put put individuals on remediate remediated remediation
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  Speaker 2: plans and given people the pathway to regain success. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what is the next best move? This is our action
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  Speaker 2: step review one leadership mistake that you have made. You
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  Speaker 2: may have if you've addressed it with words but not
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  Speaker 2: consistent change. This is for us to look in the mirror.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a leader too, I'm the backbone of leadership. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a number two style of leader, but I'm a leader. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: some of you are primary leaders. Look in the mirror,
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  Speaker 2: Look in the mirror. If you've addressed it with only
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  Speaker 2: words but not consistent change, take one concrete action this week,
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  Speaker 2: I would say, beginning today. Oh well it's Friday, but
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  Speaker 2: still to demonstrate true correction. Yeah, so much to say,
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  Speaker 2: so little time. But God has a way of getting through,
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  Speaker 2: even in our professional space. 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 E. L. David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,