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09 08 2025 Idolatry and Evil · 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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: September eighth, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host in 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 Idolatry and Evil. Idolatry and Evil.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then get underway. Father, we thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this new day, and thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us guidance about how good you are, what a blessing
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  Speaker 2: it is to serve you. Please insulate us against putting
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  Speaker 2: anything before you, against any one before you. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray a men and a men again, idolatry and evil.
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  Speaker 2: There is so much that we need to say, and
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  Speaker 2: I did say to you yesterday that there was a
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  Speaker 2: word that had to do with the word play actually
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  Speaker 2: means something, and I'll show it to you in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment. But for a refresher, let's read here in Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty two and verse six. Because God's people were
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  Speaker 2: playing when they should have been worshiping God. They were
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  Speaker 2: playing with God, playing with the devil. Maybe I should
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  Speaker 2: say it that way. They were playing with the devil
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  Speaker 2: and they should have been worshiping God. Do I play
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  Speaker 2: God forbid with the enemy when I should be worshiping God?
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  Speaker 2: Do I play in the life that God has given me?
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  Speaker 2: When we're living in the last days, the moments right
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  Speaker 2: before Jesus Christ will come and I should be actually
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  Speaker 2: doing what God says do Like, why would I play
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  Speaker 2: with the enemy when God has given me the privilege
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  Speaker 2: to work with him with God, okay? And so the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads, and they rose up early on the morrow,
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  Speaker 2: like this is after that golden calf incident, right, that
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  Speaker 2: Aaron built a molten calf for them to worship and
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  Speaker 2: replace God with. They rose up early on tomorrow and
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  Speaker 2: offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people
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  Speaker 2: sat down to eat and to drink. I think the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that as it was in the days of Noah,
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  Speaker 2: we will see that people are eating and drinking, marrying
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  Speaker 2: and giving in marriage until the day of the destruction
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  Speaker 2: when the people, when the people who were not saved
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  Speaker 2: got destroyed in the flood. Well, it says here that
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  Speaker 2: they ate and they drank and rose up to play.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, okay, okay, okay, play. So what what
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  Speaker 2: does that mean? Well, if you research the word play
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  Speaker 2: in Hebrew right there, I'm not going to pronounce it
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  Speaker 2: because you don't speak Hebrew. Right, It's the same word
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  Speaker 2: used in Genesis chapter twenty six, in verse eight to
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  Speaker 2: describe Isaac and Rebeccah's intimate behavior. Isaac and Rebeccah's intimate
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  Speaker 2: behavior in that same chapter in Exodus. We just read
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  Speaker 2: that verse. It cannoes sexual In more reality, pagan revelry
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  Speaker 2: and out of control feasting. Some of the parties that
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  Speaker 2: people go to that are not just basically we're celebrating
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  Speaker 2: our son who graduated from whatever. We're celebrating our daughter
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  Speaker 2: who graduated from wherever, and we're coming together to thank God. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but when people are getting together to party and feast
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  Speaker 2: is always out of control feasting and drinking. It doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 2: like drinking and eating whatever in the world we can
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  Speaker 2: get into our mouths, no big deal, to the point
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  Speaker 2: of gluttony. Some people even have eating and drinking contests
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  Speaker 2: to show how far we go when we are out
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  Speaker 2: of control with our appetites. And then the pagan revelry
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  Speaker 2: likes all kinds of things that I can't even mention.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, if I did go down the list, i'd
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  Speaker 2: probably get like an infraction on YouTube. We're on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: and social media, we're on the radio. We might even
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  Speaker 2: get an infraction if I went there to the detail
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  Speaker 2: that these people in their wickedness were doing when God
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  Speaker 2: was so good to them, and sexual immorality. Listen, the
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  Speaker 2: sexual immorality is some next level stuff. And again I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to go into the detail, but it is
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  Speaker 2: so despicable. When they should have been worshiping God, they
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  Speaker 2: were playing with the enemy. It wasn't lighthearted fun. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't It was an idolatrous celebration that included fornication, dancing
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  Speaker 2: in a bad way lude behavior common in that Canaanite
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  Speaker 2: and Egyptian religious ritual culture at the time, at the time,
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  Speaker 2: at the time, my god.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: So let me read from the book Patriarch and Profits,
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  Speaker 2: page three hundred and seventeen, and just ask yourself, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, what was what is your plan for this evening? Like,
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  Speaker 2: what is your plan for Saturday evening? What is your
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  Speaker 2: plan for Friday evening? What is your plan when you
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  Speaker 2: and your friends get together? Is it this the kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing that happened at the at the Golden Calf
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  Speaker 2: incident or something else. That's something we all need to
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  Speaker 2: think about, no matter the age group. It's not just
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  Speaker 2: young people. And so it reads it was a scene
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  Speaker 2: of heathen riot with singing, dancing, in the most shameful licentiousness. Aaron,
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  Speaker 2: fearing for his own safety, had permitted this, and then
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  Speaker 2: from page three hundred and eighteen, they had ventured upon
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  Speaker 2: the forbidden ground and Satan had taken complete control of them.
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  Speaker 2: Back to three hundred and seventeen. A religion that permits men,
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  Speaker 2: while observing the rights of worship, to devote themselves to
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  Speaker 2: selfish or sensual gratification is as pleasing to the multitudes
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  Speaker 2: now as it was back then. So there are some
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  Speaker 2: times that people get together supposedly in the name of God,
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  Speaker 2: and we go down this slippery slope and sometimes don't
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  Speaker 2: even realize it, because not only have some of us
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  Speaker 2: creepingly compromised, but some of us have overtly jumped in
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  Speaker 2: to compromise. And so what do we need to do though?
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  Speaker 2: What do we need to do for ourselves in these
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  Speaker 2: final moments?
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  Speaker 1: Here?
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  Speaker 2: Examine what gets your early mornings? Think about what they did?
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  Speaker 2: What did you do when you woke up this morning early?
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  Speaker 2: What was the first thing on your mind? What was
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  Speaker 2: your first activity? Did you connect with God? Did you
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  Speaker 2: ask him for his grace? Ask him for forgiveness? If
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  Speaker 2: there are some sins that you've not yet confessed. Have
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  Speaker 2: you asked him for his presence and told him how
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  Speaker 2: much you appreciate him for the great things he's done
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  Speaker 2: in your life and your family and your finances, hi
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  Speaker 2: and your personal development? Have you done that? Just like
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  Speaker 2: the people of old in that moment they rose early
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  Speaker 2: to worship in that wicked way that I mentioned. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible mentions the golden calf. What you rush to may
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  Speaker 2: reveal what you worship. What I rush to do or
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  Speaker 2: experience may be a revelation of what I actually worship.
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  Speaker 2: And then look at your celebrations. Do your celebrations center
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  Speaker 2: on God? Or or feed your flesh? The way we
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  Speaker 2: play reveals who we believe gave us freedom Because they
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  Speaker 2: did that, they were delivered from Egyptian captivity. And at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, their playing demonstrated that they believe false
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  Speaker 2: gods delivered them or something worse. And then, finally, test
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  Speaker 2: your theology with silence. When Moses was delayed and God
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  Speaker 2: was silence, their theology, their belief of God, how they
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  Speaker 2: saw God collapsed. What you do when God delays reveals
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  Speaker 2: who your God really is. Lord help us. These are
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  Speaker 2: solemn messages. I do not apologize all of us need
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  Speaker 2: to reconcile with God and say in what ways.
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  Speaker 1: Do we worsh for joining us people and friends. Always
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  Speaker 1: remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every
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  Speaker 1: word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
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  Speaker 1: been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it
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  Speaker 1: a great day. Yeah,