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09 09 2025 Corrupting Themselves · 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 Tuesday, September nine,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 corrupting themselves, corrupting themselves. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: into this, I'd like to just say welcome to everyone
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: Clarion call to holiness, Clarion call to relationship with You,
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  Speaker 2: we have and everything we are. In Jesus' name, I pray,
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  Speaker 2: Amen and Amen again corrupting themselves. Okay, so how is
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  Speaker 2: your connection with God? I just need you to be
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  Speaker 2: honest with yourself. I'm not asking you to type it
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  Speaker 2: in the chat. I'm not asking you to touch three
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  Speaker 2: people and say anything fancy. I'm saying, between you and God, like,
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  Speaker 2: how is your connection with him? How is your relationship
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  Speaker 2: with Him? And that is a good starting point when
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  Speaker 2: you think about when God has led his people in
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  Speaker 2: the past, they have historically had to make a decision.
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  Speaker 2: They've had a decision to make. Will they serve Him
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  Speaker 2: or will they drift into the way that things used
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  Speaker 2: to be. I remember reading in the Book of Revelation
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  Speaker 2: where the church at Ephesus lost their first love, that
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  Speaker 2: point when they when they were really connected with God
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  Speaker 2: and they were thriving, and then somehow something went wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Some of your marriages are like that, where you know,
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  Speaker 2: the first year and a half was wonderful and then
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  Speaker 2: something shifted, or the first twenty years was wonderful, even
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  Speaker 2: with the trials, but something shifted. Now you're empty nesters
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  Speaker 2: and you're trying to figure out how do we reconnect
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  Speaker 2: with each other now that the children are gone. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let's go ahead into the Bible Book of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty two. We'll read verses seven and eight, but
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna get lessons. Lessons from them. In just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: I made a mistake. Let's first go to the book
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  Speaker 2: Testimonies for the Church, Volume five, and then we'll go
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  Speaker 2: to the passage in the Scriptures, page four hundred and
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  Speaker 2: seventy two. Whatever attracts the mind from God? Did you
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  Speaker 2: hear that whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws
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  Speaker 2: the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.
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  Speaker 2: And let me just say, these things don't have to
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  Speaker 2: be like something evil innately inherently I should have said
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be inherently evil. It could be
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  Speaker 2: your cell phone and you're checking the news or your
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  Speaker 2: stock reports, where you could be obsessed with the weather
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  Speaker 2: because where you live there's often like weird weather patterns.
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  Speaker 2: It could be anything. It could be that you are
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  Speaker 2: overwhelmed with your responsibilities at work, or how you feel
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  Speaker 2: about how you should be taking care of your children
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  Speaker 2: because you feel alone. Whatever draws you away. See, these
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  Speaker 2: things should draw us to Christ and say, God, we
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  Speaker 2: have needs, like we literally can't serve you unless unless
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  Speaker 2: you give us the strength. But if it leads us
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  Speaker 2: away from Him, it's an enemy to the soul. When
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  Speaker 2: self is the supreme object of affection. Oh, we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about pride. Now, we're talking about satisfying ourselves. Only life
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  Speaker 2: is perverted and the soul is ruined. Now we can
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  Speaker 2: go into Exodus, chapter thirty two and verse seven, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads and the Lord said, unto Moses, go
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  Speaker 2: get thee down, for my people, which thou brought us
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  Speaker 2: out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. Well
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  Speaker 2: what was the indicator that they corrupted themselves? Well, they
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  Speaker 2: pressed Aaron into building a golden calf or something that
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  Speaker 2: they could worship because they didn't know where Moses was.
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  Speaker 2: And then they said, you know what, we need to
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  Speaker 2: worship something, so yeah, create something for us to worship.
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  Speaker 2: And then they actually began to do what I shared
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  Speaker 2: with you the other day called play, which was which
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  Speaker 2: was licentiousness on the next level. Right, So they corrupted themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So before the calf was shaped from gold, it was
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  Speaker 2: shaped in their hearts. You see what I'm saying, Like,
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  Speaker 2: who was in the camp that stood up and said, no, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is not right, Like what in the world we
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  Speaker 2: can't do this. We can't do this, absolutely not. Sin
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  Speaker 2: begins inwardly before it appears outwardly, so it doesn't need
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  Speaker 2: to be a golden calf. What is the golden calf
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  Speaker 2: in your life? If anything, I'm not suggesting that you
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  Speaker 2: have a golden calf, like sometimes preachers and teachers go
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  Speaker 2: overboard and say we all have our golden calf. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that there are some of you who don't.
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  Speaker 2: But if you do, at this stage of your development,
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  Speaker 2: identify it. Honestly. What is that thing that takes more
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  Speaker 2: of your mind space than whatever God would have you
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  Speaker 2: to do. What is it that you worry about so
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  Speaker 2: much that it has become your God. So the action
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  Speaker 2: step is to ask God daily to search your heart
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  Speaker 2: for hidden idols and remove them before they take root.
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  Speaker 2: All right, now we go to the next verse. They
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  Speaker 2: have turned aside quickly out of the way which I
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  Speaker 2: commanded them. See, God had just given them the ten words,
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  Speaker 2: the Covenant of his character, the ten Commandments law written
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  Speaker 2: by his finger on Sapphire's stone, pulled from the actual
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  Speaker 2: throne of God and the pavement under his feet. And
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  Speaker 2: they quickly corrupted themselves. They took themselves out of the
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  Speaker 2: way which I commanded them. And they have made a
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  Speaker 2: molten calf, and have said, these be thy gods, oh Israel,
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  Speaker 2: which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: How disrespectful, pardon me? How can you have something that
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  Speaker 2: you created with your hands be what took you out
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  Speaker 2: of the bondage that you were in for all of
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  Speaker 2: those many, many, many many years. How could this thing
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  Speaker 2: that you just created here from heaven. Huh, hear your
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  Speaker 2: groanings and deliver you with a mighty hand. So you
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  Speaker 2: are thrust out of Egypt and given all of these
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  Speaker 2: treasures that the Egyptians gave you on the way out.
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  Speaker 2: How could they have been the ones when they can't
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  Speaker 2: even think, they don't even really actually exist. Well, that's
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  Speaker 2: what the people did. And so giving God his glory
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  Speaker 2: or giving God's glory to anything or anyone else is
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  Speaker 2: idolatry and robs him of the honor do his name.
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  Speaker 2: So regularly testify. It's a privilege to testify and tell
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  Speaker 2: what great things God has done in your life as
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  Speaker 2: a way to give other people the mindset to say
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  Speaker 2: that every good and perfect gift comes from God. Every
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  Speaker 2: time you have a good idea and are able to
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  Speaker 2: act upon it, that came from God. Every time you're
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  Speaker 2: able to eat food, or drink water, or experience the
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  Speaker 2: sunshine or the rain, it was because of God. And
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  Speaker 2: that helps our minds stay fixed on Him. And then finally,
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  Speaker 2: from the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and fifteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse eight, they that make them are like unto them,
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  Speaker 2: So is everyone that trusteth in them. What we behold
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  Speaker 2: is who we become. We're talking about these false gods.
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  Speaker 2: So idolatry transforms people into the image of the thing
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  Speaker 2: that they worship. So why not worship God like forget idolatry.
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  Speaker 2: Worship God and we become like him. Fill your mind
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  Speaker 2: with God's words and his presence, and that will shape
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  Speaker 2: you into His likeness instead of being in the image
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  Speaker 2: of the thing that you created. 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.