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07 16 2025 Uncircumcised Lips · 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: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday. It's
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  Speaker 2: the sixteenth 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 uncircumcised lips.
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  Speaker 2: Uncircumcised lips. And I'm not going to lie to you. Immediately,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what is Moses talking about. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  Speaker 2: Uncircumcised lips. Now for me that already carried it carried
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  Speaker 2: spiritual or religious, that's really the word I want to use.
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  Speaker 2: It carried religious connotations. And I was thrown off by
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  Speaker 2: it because I'm like, but Moses, why would he be
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  Speaker 2: saying he's going to speak to a man who don't
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  Speaker 2: know God. I know what I just said, and saying
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  Speaker 2: it in those terms, right, And so I had to
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  Speaker 2: do a little bit of digging, a little bit of digging,
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  Speaker 2: and let me just read it now from Exodus chapter
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  Speaker 2: six and verse twelve Exodus chapter six, and I will
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  Speaker 2: read beginning at verse twelve, and the Bible reads, and
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  Speaker 2: Moses spake before the Lord, saying, behold, the children of
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  Speaker 2: Israel have not hearkened unto me. How then shall Pharaoh
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  Speaker 2: hear me? Who am of uncircumcised lips? Now in the
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  Speaker 2: amplified version of the Bible, it reads, for I am
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  Speaker 2: unskilled and inept in speech, and so regardless of all
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  Speaker 2: of the spiritual connotations that I would naturally draw from this,
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  Speaker 2: it literally means the word uncircumcised our roh. It almost
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  Speaker 2: sounds like oral, but it's our roh means it literally
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  Speaker 2: means closed off, obstructed. Then you have unclean or restricted.
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  Speaker 2: But if you look at it metaphorically to it describes
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  Speaker 2: something unready, insensitive or not fit for use. So this
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  Speaker 2: is what Moses's description of himself actually is. And so
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  Speaker 2: Moses is expressing insecurity or inadequacy in speaking in this context.
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  Speaker 2: And God responds with reassurance instead of removing the call
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  Speaker 2: you see in my field of psychology, way back in
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  Speaker 2: the day, negative reinforcement would have been. God gives the command.
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  Speaker 2: Moses complains, God removes the responsibility of the command and
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  Speaker 2: now God is reinforcing through a negative pathway that if
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  Speaker 2: you kick up dust, if you complain, then you can
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  Speaker 2: get away from whatever that prescribed activity is. Okay, And
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  Speaker 2: so God is not about to do that. He said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you Aaron who will serve as
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  Speaker 2: your spokesperson. Now what now. In the book Patriarchs and Prophets,
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  Speaker 2: we read page two fifty four diffidence and self trust
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  Speaker 2: should not be a hindrance or self distrust should not
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  Speaker 2: be a hindrance to the service of God. The Lord
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  Speaker 2: will compensate for the deficiencies of his workers. So if
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  Speaker 2: you have deficiencies, so do I. If I have sufficient
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  Speaker 2: in if I have deficiencies, so do you. That is
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  Speaker 2: no excuse for not doing what God says. You think
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  Speaker 2: God didn't know when he called you brother, that you
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  Speaker 2: had these whatever it was, the way you speak, the
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  Speaker 2: way you look, the way you feel, where you came from,
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  Speaker 2: the perception of people when they hear from people who
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  Speaker 2: come from where you come from, or whatever other thing
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  Speaker 2: you can contrive in order to give God a way
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  Speaker 2: to say, Okay, you don't have to do it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: God knew that when he called you so Moses's feelings
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  Speaker 2: of unworthiness were real, okay in air quotes, but they
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  Speaker 2: did not disqualify him unless he became disobedient. That's a
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  Speaker 2: different discussion. They positioned him to depend upon divine power
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  Speaker 2: instead of human strength. You know, the Bible says in
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah chapter six, in verse ten, their ear is uncircumcised
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  Speaker 2: and they cannot hearken. So that was a spiritual implication.
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  Speaker 2: But then Jeremiah in chapter one and verse six says, ah, Lord, behold,
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  Speaker 2: I cannot speak, for I am a child. You see,
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  Speaker 2: God said to Jeremiah before you were formed, before I
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  Speaker 2: formed you in your mother's room, I knew you well
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  Speaker 2: and that you would be a prophet to the nations.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what God actually says, Even even when
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  Speaker 2: you confess that you have unclean lips, even when you
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  Speaker 2: confess that you may be inept, God sees it in
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  Speaker 2: its reality and it's recorded under inspiration. In Acts chapter
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  Speaker 2: seven and verse twenty two, Stephen says Moses was mighty
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  Speaker 2: in words and in deeds, showing that God was in control.
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  Speaker 2: God was in control. You can't say that you're unprepared
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  Speaker 2: when God says you're ready, okay, And So there's so
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  Speaker 2: much I could say in the context of the people
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  Speaker 2: of God in that day. But now let's apply it
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  Speaker 2: for us every day, not directly out of our life
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  Speaker 2: application guide in a different way. Have you ever felt
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  Speaker 2: like Moses type of one in the chat? Have you
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  Speaker 2: ever felt in unprepared, like you're not supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: the one to do exactly what God has impressed or
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  Speaker 2: directly commanded you to do. I can give you examples
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  Speaker 2: of when I thought that, But I ran forward even
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  Speaker 2: with all of that baggage in my mind and in
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  Speaker 2: my spirit. But have you been insecure about speaking up,
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  Speaker 2: or wounded by past failures or quote church hurt. Have
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  Speaker 2: you been tempted to believe that you are too broken
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  Speaker 2: or unqualified to do exactly what God said that you
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  Speaker 2: must do. God doesn't call the eloquent. I've said it
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  Speaker 2: to you another way. God does not call the equipped,
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  Speaker 2: He equips the call but called. But in this case,
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  Speaker 2: God is not calling the eloquent, even though Moses really
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  Speaker 2: was eloquent. How could you have been trained forty years
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  Speaker 2: under Pharaoh and to become the next Pharaoh, presumably and
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  Speaker 2: not be eloquent. Come on, Come on, Moses, Come on Moses,
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  Speaker 2: stop looking at yourself. He makes those he called effective.
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  Speaker 2: So you may have uncircumcised lips in your own eyes.
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  Speaker 2: But God sees the vessel ready to be filled. That
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  Speaker 2: means you're an empty cup. You are an empty vessel,
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  Speaker 2: and God is gonna pour everything he is in order
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  Speaker 2: into you in order for you to be what God
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  Speaker 2: has called you to be. So much more I could say,
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  Speaker 2: but let me just say this that God, actually you
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  Speaker 2: know what. I don't want to get into tomorrow's lesson.
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  Speaker 2: I think I was about to run forward into tomorrow's lesson.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to give you just a couple of lessons.
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  Speaker 2: Pardon me, a couple of lessons and let you go.
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  Speaker 2: Number one is coming in from chapter six and verse
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  Speaker 2: seven from Exodus. I will take you to me for
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  Speaker 2: a people, and I will be to you for a God. See,
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  Speaker 2: the covenant stands even when confidence is lacking. So remind
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  Speaker 2: yourself today and every other day. Huh. Remind yourself daily.
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  Speaker 2: I belong to God. Say that to yourself like I
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  Speaker 2: belong to God. When your emotions fail, Yes, when your
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  Speaker 2: confidence is waning, I want you to remember you belong
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  Speaker 2: to God and anchor yourself in covenantal truth. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: don't talk to yourself. Don't talk yourself out of what
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  Speaker 2: God already talked you into. Your weakness is not the issue,
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  Speaker 2: your disobedience is. Uh oh. Make it a great day.
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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,