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09 17 2025 The Self-Revelation of God · 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 Wednesday, September seventeen,
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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, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the Book of Exodus, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Self Revelation of God. I said,
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  Speaker 2: the Self Revelation of God. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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  Speaker 2: those joining us for the very first time. And let
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  Speaker 2: me just say to those who are with me day
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  Speaker 2: in and day out, great big thank you to you,
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  Speaker 2: because it's for it's because of you that this gospel
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  Speaker 2: is being preached into all the world for a witness
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  Speaker 2: like this is what we're here for. So the end
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  Speaker 2: will come. So we're looking forward to the day of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus's return. But if if you don't continue to share,
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  Speaker 2: if I don't continue to do my part, and people
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  Speaker 2: like us around the world doing the same thing, then
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  Speaker 2: of course that creates delay. Yeah, are you ready for
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  Speaker 2: Jesus to come? Like I want to sing the song,
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  Speaker 2: but I won't. Yeah, before we get into this, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to pray, and then we'll get underway. Father, We
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  Speaker 2: thank you for revealing yourself. Please now reveal yourself through us.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. So
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  Speaker 2: for the next several days we will continue to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the character of God being manifest and then also
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  Speaker 2: manifest through us, and for us to become students of
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  Speaker 2: his character and submissive to his will. So his character
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  Speaker 2: and our character completely link up. And so today we begin.
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  Speaker 2: We begin by reading from the Bible Book of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty four and verse six, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, God merciful, and gracious, long suffering, and abundant
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  Speaker 2: in goodness and truth. So God begins not only in
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  Speaker 2: the way that I said several days ago, announcing his
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  Speaker 2: character in a traditional sense, but even in his name,
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  Speaker 2: we see the character of God, that he is self
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  Speaker 2: existent and eternal. And yet he is willing to condescend,
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  Speaker 2: the one who is near enough to us to hear
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  Speaker 2: our groanings, as he said to Moses at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of this journey post Midian. Now he's in the journey
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  Speaker 2: and delivering the people of God, et cetera. And so
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  Speaker 2: through this God, who is powerful, all powerful, blessed be
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  Speaker 2: his name, he's self existent and eternal, meaning there was
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  Speaker 2: never a time in history that he didn't exist, and
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  Speaker 2: no one created him. He has always been here all
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  Speaker 2: on his own. That is Father's Son and holy ghosts.
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  Speaker 2: And on top of that, he's willing to come close
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  Speaker 2: to you and be merciful, and be gracious, and be
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  Speaker 2: patient and long suffering, and he is abundant in goodness
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  Speaker 2: and truth. At the same time, he loves you. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't clear the guilty, but he loves you. And when
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  Speaker 2: we say guilty, we're talking about people who hold on
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  Speaker 2: to our sins, because the Bible says, those who hold
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  Speaker 2: on to our sins don't prosper, But whoso confesseth and
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  Speaker 2: forsaketh shall have life. You see, But before I go
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  Speaker 2: too far into that, God's glory is revealed through his character.
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  Speaker 2: God revealed his glory not as the overwhelming power. There's
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  Speaker 2: thunder in there, there's lightning, and then there's this manifestation,
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  Speaker 2: but as the fullness of his love and mercy and faithfulness.
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  Speaker 2: You see, he reveals all of this, but he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: destroy anybody in the process. You understand, Like when you appear,
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  Speaker 2: when a human appears before God. In reality, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: God said it around the same time, there shall no
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  Speaker 2: one see me and live like there is a fire
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  Speaker 2: devouring before him. His character is so pure, his who
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  Speaker 2: he is, his essence, And I'm trying to describe it
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  Speaker 2: in a way that makes sense, Like his essence is
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  Speaker 2: such that when sin appears in his presence, accept God, condescend,
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  Speaker 2: accept God cover the sinner. Then that person bursts into flames.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not joking, Like this is not some kind of melodrama.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. The Bible says that there is a fire
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  Speaker 2: that devours before him that when Jesus comes, those who
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  Speaker 2: are not covered in his righteousness. The Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: they that they will be destroyed because of the brightness
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  Speaker 2: of his coming. That's before he does anything, you see.
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  Speaker 2: And so I'm thankful that this powerful God is willing
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  Speaker 2: to condescend and come to us and give us his
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  Speaker 2: mercy and love and graciousness and be patient with us.
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  Speaker 2: Vest time today meditating on God's attributes. I'm gonna say
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  Speaker 2: this over and over again. Letting His characters shape your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts and actions when you're interacting with people. Are you
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  Speaker 2: long suffering? Are you gracious? Are you extending patience to people?
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  Speaker 2: Are you demonstrating love? Are you in a new different
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  Speaker 2: kind of way of saying it? Like Jesus was meek
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  Speaker 2: and lowly in heart right, and you shall find rest
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  Speaker 2: unto your soul. So if you are meek, that means
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  Speaker 2: that you have power, and yet it's under control. So
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  Speaker 2: power under control? Are you demonstrating that character reality when
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  Speaker 2: you interact with people. Let's move on to verse ten
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  Speaker 2: of Exodus, chapter thirty four, and the Bible reads and
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  Speaker 2: he said, behold, I make a covenant before all thy people.
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  Speaker 2: I will do marvels such as have not been done
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  Speaker 2: in all the earth, nor in any nation, and all
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  Speaker 2: the people among which thou art shall see the work
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord, For it is a terrible thing that
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  Speaker 2: I will do with thee. So God renews his covenant
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  Speaker 2: with his people. But we're talking about with those who
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  Speaker 2: are obedient. Now, Yeah, he's not playing around with sin.
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  Speaker 2: He's not playing around when when humans decide that when
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  Speaker 2: he is merciful, and he is gracious, and he is
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  Speaker 2: an abundant and truth, et cetera, he still will in
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  Speaker 2: no wise clear the guilty. And so God is extending
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  Speaker 2: himself to say, listen, we can have a wonderful experience
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  Speaker 2: and relationship, but please please don't take don't take my
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  Speaker 2: love for granted, because at some point mercy will withdraw herself.
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  Speaker 2: So God's promise to do marvelous works is tied to
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  Speaker 2: God's people's commitment to actually do what he said to
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  Speaker 2: keep his commandments. So examine your life today. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: say try to have someone else do it. I did
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  Speaker 2: not say go to a confessional booth and speak to
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  Speaker 2: another human about it. I did not say call your aunties,
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  Speaker 2: your uncles, your friends, your pastor, your bishop, your priest.
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  Speaker 2: I did not say any of that. I said you
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  Speaker 2: and God through Christ, and for Christ's sake. Now examine
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  Speaker 2: your life through the Holy Ghost for areas of disobedience
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  Speaker 2: and surrender them so that you can walk fully in
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  Speaker 2: God's covenantal blessings, blessings come. If you read in Deuteronomy
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  Speaker 2: chapter twenty eight through the first fourteen verses, you can
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  Speaker 2: see how those who keep God's judgments and statutes and
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  Speaker 2: his commands, how they succeed and excel. In fact, next
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  Speaker 2: quarter we're going to talk about success. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: in the first week through the story of Joshua. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting ahead of myself. Okay. Now for number three,
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  Speaker 2: we see in Exodus chapter thirty four and verse eight,
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  Speaker 2: and Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the
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  Speaker 2: earth and worshiped. And I'm like, well, what do you
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  Speaker 2: think he would have done? When you have a close
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  Speaker 2: encounter with Almighty God, Blessed be his name, the only
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  Speaker 2: appropriate response is worship? Is worship? So true worship responds?
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  Speaker 2: Or is the response? I should say it that way
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  Speaker 2: to the revelation of God. Yeah, when God reveals his
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  Speaker 2: goodness to you, just pause and worship before you do
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  Speaker 2: anything else. Make it a great day. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,