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09 01 2025 Seeing 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 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 morning, Good morning. It is Monday at
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  Speaker 2: September one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and 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 seeing God Oo Seeing God. That's serious.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining for the
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  Speaker 2: very first time. I'm asking you to go over to
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  Speaker 2: pick up the Your Daily Portion Life application guide, and
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  Speaker 2: at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for giving us the privilege of
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  Speaker 2: being here with you. Please teach us, teach us to
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  Speaker 2: see You in all that we say and do. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to practice the visible presence of God. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. Seeing God, Oh, have
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  Speaker 2: you seen God in your life? I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 2: be melodramatic. I'm not saying has He appeared before you
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  Speaker 2: in a form that you recognize? I'm saying in the
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  Speaker 2: things that you do, like in your family experience, do
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  Speaker 2: you see the handiwork of God? Do you see Him
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  Speaker 2: in your professional life? In how you're able to relate
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  Speaker 2: to the people and also get to the success that
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  Speaker 2: you require as a person who is a professional at
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  Speaker 2: whatever you do. It doesn't matter what you do. Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Are you seeing God in your personal understanding of self?
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  Speaker 2: When you reflect on you? Are you being honest with
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  Speaker 2: you and then learning how to relate to you and
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  Speaker 2: to other people? Are you seeing God in your life?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm asking you, because one day those who
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  Speaker 2: see God in all that we experience on a day
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  Speaker 2: to day basis, even in the mundane things, we will
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  Speaker 2: actually see Him face to face. You see, when Jesus comes,
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  Speaker 2: we're finally going to see him face to face without sin.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, unto salvation. Finally we'll be able to say, Lo,
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  Speaker 2: this is our God. We have waited for him, and
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  Speaker 2: he is finally here, like he's about to save us
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  Speaker 2: in the realist possible sense. And so the lesson writer
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  Speaker 2: gives us an experience that the Bible identifies after the
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  Speaker 2: first or the firm excuse me, re establishment of the
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  Speaker 2: covenant with God. Moses again climbed Sinai, the Mount Sinai.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning of this climb, Moses was not alone.
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  Speaker 2: So I want you to see the stations that I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned to you yesterday at the base of the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: We see in the Bible that Moses was to set
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  Speaker 2: bounds at the base of the mount. So nobody who's
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  Speaker 2: not supposed to come up the mount will come up
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  Speaker 2: the mount, not beast, not human. Only the people that
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  Speaker 2: God welcome into the space beyond the boundary is supposed
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  Speaker 2: to are supposed to come. So at the base of
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  Speaker 2: the mount you have those who are doing what giving sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: They are worshiping. And now we see that there is
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  Speaker 2: a track up the mount. And the Bible says in
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of I mean and the lesson writer says,
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  Speaker 2: in the beginning of the climb, Moses was not alone.
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  Speaker 2: He had an excellent company of seventy three Israelite leaders. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so people at the base of the mount, they're not
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  Speaker 2: passing the boundary. Now seventy three leaders from among the
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  Speaker 2: people of God has started the journey. So we have
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  Speaker 2: the outer court beyond the bounds, backward where the sacrifices
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  Speaker 2: are happening. You cross that line and you go into
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  Speaker 2: the mount. Seventy three leaders for the leaders, this was
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  Speaker 2: the pinnacle experience. The Bible actually teaches us that they
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  Speaker 2: saw in air quotes God. This is a theophany, and
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  Speaker 2: twice in the text it underlines this amazing reality. And
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  Speaker 2: let me just say, the Bible, when you read the experience,
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  Speaker 2: says that God basically allowed them to see whatever he
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  Speaker 2: revealed of himself and they lived. You see what I'm saying, Like,
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  Speaker 2: they saw whatever He revealed of himself, and they lived.
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  Speaker 2: So you have the people at the base of the
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  Speaker 2: mount somebody's visualizing, you're seeing it beyond the boundary going backward.
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  Speaker 2: That is what I would consider to be like the
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  Speaker 2: outer court where the sacrifice is happening. Seventy three people
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  Speaker 2: go in with Moses to a certain point in the mountain,
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  Speaker 2: and they experienced God at a whole new level and twice.
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  Speaker 2: The text underlines this amazing reality. This was also a
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  Speaker 2: time for the leaders by eating together. The Bible actually
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  Speaker 2: says they were eating and drinking. What happened in the
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  Speaker 2: Holy place, among other things? Was there a table of
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  Speaker 2: show bread? Mm where there that had? Oh wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: so God is giving us a view of the sanctuary already.
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  Speaker 2: And so they were eating together to seal the covenant
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  Speaker 2: with God. This was a banquet, and the God of
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  Speaker 2: Israel was their host. These leaders were deeply honored by God.
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  Speaker 2: Eating together was a privilege in the customs that they
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  Speaker 2: were were with. Yes. In fact, I think the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says in Revelation chapter three, Behold, I stand at the
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  Speaker 2: door and knock, And if any man hears my voice
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  Speaker 2: and opens the door, I will come in to him,
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  Speaker 2: and I will sup with him. And he with me.
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  Speaker 2: So in the text, if you understand it properly, God
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  Speaker 2: is the one that brings dinner. Once we open the
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  Speaker 2: door and allow him into our homes, into our lives,
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  Speaker 2: every detail of our lives, every crooked crevice of our lives,
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  Speaker 2: then he's the one that brings dinner. He brings dinner,
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  Speaker 2: which means that He is there for us to eat
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  Speaker 2: and drink of Christ. As in John chapter six, those
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  Speaker 2: who eat my flesh and drink my blood, those individuals
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  Speaker 2: will be saved. And of course he's not talking about cannibalism.
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  Speaker 2: He's talking about imbibing, imbibing Christ as a way of life.
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  Speaker 2: And so now we go into our first lesson for today.
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  Speaker 2: I said a lot, but let's see what we can
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  Speaker 2: get here. In Exodus, chapter twenty four and verse ten,
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads, and they saw the God of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and there was under his feet, as it were, a
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  Speaker 2: paved work of a sapphire stone. Look up, sapphire stone,
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  Speaker 2: that's blue. And as it were the body of Heaven
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  Speaker 2: and his clearness. So the paved work, I'm gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to fast forward. The throne it's and the ten commandments
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  Speaker 2: law were sapphire I wish I had the time. Now
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  Speaker 2: with AI, you can actually look this up. I haven't
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  Speaker 2: done it before. I did it with Google just a
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  Speaker 2: normal way when I was studying many years ago. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to go and do the thing with AI too,
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  Speaker 2: because I know what the reality is in history. See
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  Speaker 2: what color the Ten Commandments stones were or tablets, and
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  Speaker 2: then see why or from where the tablets were cut.
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  Speaker 2: And you're going to see some stuff that maybe you
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  Speaker 2: haven't considered before, and ask the machine to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: like to prove it from history, from the Bible as well. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so now they're seeing this. The leaders saw God
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  Speaker 2: and shared a covenant meal with him. It was relationship,
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  Speaker 2: and then later some fell into rebellion. What Yeah, Divine
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  Speaker 2: presence never replaces daily surrender. So just like just because
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  Speaker 2: you had an experience with God yesterday or five minutes ago,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean that that's going to carry you. It's
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  Speaker 2: time to have the kind of relationship that is instantaneous.
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  Speaker 2: Like at all times we are trusting in God and
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  Speaker 2: not thinking about, oh, what has happened in the past,
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  Speaker 2: But in this present moment, am I connected with God? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And so in Exodus twenty four and verse twelve. We
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  Speaker 2: need to learn that God's call to worship always involves
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  Speaker 2: us coming near to Him. And then, finally, sacred rituals
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  Speaker 2: like the Covenant meal are meant to remind us of
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  Speaker 2: grace and responsibility to God. 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,