Latest / Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris / 07 19 2025 The Plagues

Transcript

07 19 2025 The Plagues · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, July nineteen,
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: where we give you God's Word every single day, and
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: study series through the Book of Exodus. We're taking the
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: journey from Egypt into the Promised Land, and I would
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: say even beyond the actual ultimate par But before we
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: get into that, I'd like to say welcome to everyone
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: If this is your first time, please go ahead and
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: type in the chat first time or type a number one.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: And of course everybody who's watching or listening around the world.
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: Just go ahead and congratulate the people for saying yes
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: to God and coming here, because God is the one
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: who gave us this assignment to be here, and it's
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: because we need to have an encounter with Him. And
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: for those on the radio, just go over to one
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: of those one of those different platforms at your Daily
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: Portion dot com and you can come back and put
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: it in the comments. Put it in the comments and
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: say this is my first time. In any case, you're welcome.
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: This is your home now, and we'll see you every
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: single day because we'll be here by God's grace. Let's
• 1:52
  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: we thank you for this Sabbath morning and for the
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: blessing of being called by your name. Please please help
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: us to learn the lessons of our forebearers so that
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: we don't have to repeat their errors. Teach us how
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: to be faithful like some of our forebearers like Joshua
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: and Caleb and others. Please make us holy today in
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. The caption
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: for today is the Plagues. The plagues now tomorrow. If
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: the Lord spaars life under God versus gods. I will
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: really start showing how God strategically took shots at the
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: false gods of the Egyptians to introduce himself, to introduce
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: himself to the Pharaoh and also to the other people
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: who were not convinced that they had the privilege of
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: worshiping God. And so the Bible reads here in Exodus
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: chapter nine, before we go too far Afield, verse thirty five.
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: So the heart of Pharaoh was hard. Neither would he
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: let the children of Israel go, as the Lord had
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: spoken by Moses. So God had given a direct command.
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: This is the God of heaven, the one who created
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: all things, the one that has no equal. He will
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: share his glory with no one else. He is saying
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: to you, Pharaoh, King of Egypt, you were gonna let
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: my people go so they can go into the wilderness
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: and sacrifice to me, so they can worship and not
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: be bound. And of course we read a couple of
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: times last week that really the Pharaoh's like, oh, okay,
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: I see what you're saying, and he increased the burden.
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: When God's people were scheduled to rest, the pharaoh increased
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: the burdens so they would not rest. And so now
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: it's a showdown. Now it's a showdown. But yeah, I
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: think you know which way this is going. But at
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: this moment, Pharaoh is digging like he's not feeling it yet,
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: he's digging in. He's digging in. Okay, And so let's
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: get to a few lessons here, a few lessons related
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: to just this passage, right, So we're gonna begin with
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: the reality that God did not override Pharaoh's free will.
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: He did not override Pharaoh's free will. You see, so
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: he hardened his heart. He hardened his heart. He said no, no,
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not doing what God says, and his heart got
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: harder and harder. Every time he made a decision not
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: to do what God said, his heart got harder. And
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: God didn't override that. And God's repeated appeals through Moses
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: gave Pharaoh multiple chances to yield. And so we need
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: to just run straight to where we are, like, does
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: God give us opportunities to do what he says? And
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: sometimes we say no. And the more we say no,
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: even chemically, the reality is we're wearing away a path
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: in our minds literally that is storing up data to
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: resist God until until through the Holy Ghost and some
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: neurochemicals like gamma, amino buttric acid and some other things. Yes,
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: this does come into play when we're making decisions. Yes,
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: until those things come into play, and God gives us
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: both to will and to do of his good pleasure,
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: and we take another pathway and begin to do God's
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: will and wear away another pathway that leads to continued obedience. Yeah,
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: the heart gets harder. So the more Pharaoh resisted, the
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: more his heart became fixed in rebellion. By withdrawing the
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: convicting power of the Holy Ghost, God allowed Pharaoh's choice
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: to solidify. So that's what it means by God hardening
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: his heart, he allowed his choice to solidify. The longer
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: he resisted, the longer he became more rebellious. Okay, and
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: let me read now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets,
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: page two hundred and sixty eight to give a little
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: bit more context. Here, God gave him light, but the
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: king refused to accept it. Whose fault was that, by
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: the way, whose fault was that? Was that God's fault
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: or was it the Pharaoh's fault? Every display of power
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: made to save him so now we have the intent
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: of God's heart to save Pharaoh, made to save him,
• 6:37
  Speaker 2: only confirmed him in his rebellion. The seed of resistance
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: sown when the first appeal was made, grew into harvest.
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: So basically, in the end, Pharaoh and his people they
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: got what they planted. Let me go to the Testimonies
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: for the Church, Volume five, page one hundred and twenty.
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: Each refusal hardened the heart more the man, I would add,
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: or woman who resists the spirit of God once will
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: do it more readily the second time. And so this
• 7:17
  Speaker 2: principle applies to all of us, not just Pharaoh. Everybody
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: who rejects the call of God on our lives, a
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: call to obedience, a call to take another pathway, a
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: call to adjust how we think or how we live,
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: just hardens us. Every time you say this is difficult,
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: it causes you to continue to think it's difficult. Every
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: time you say no to God or later, or I'm
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: not comfortable with that, or I would rather do it
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: this way, it just hardens us in the reality of
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: that particular thought. There are so many things I could
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: say here, but let's just go ahead and make an application.
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: Make an application, right, So every time the word of
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: God comes to you, either softens your heart or hardens.
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: It softens when we receive God's words humbly, in humility.
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: When we receive God's word in humility, then we are softened,
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: and we become more pliable, and we become more receptive
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: to the Holy Ghost by show of hands, by show
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: of virtual hands, like are you are you desiring to
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: listen to God more than you were five minutes ago,
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: ten minutes ago, yesterday? Or the converse, which is which
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: is hardens when resisted over and over again. Okay, so,
• 8:42
  Speaker 2: just like Pharaoh, we are tempted. Humans are all tempted
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: to dig in when we don't like God's terms. The
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: warning is clear, and I know I use the word warning.
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: Some people don't like warning. We don't like that word.
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: But the warning is clear. Don't delay surrender. I said
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: it to you before that. Delayed obedience is disobedience. Hardened
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: hearts are not caused by God's cruelty. They are the
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: result of rejecting the light that God so graciously gives
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: us repeatedly. Yeah, so we have a decision to make, y'all.
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: Can I just leave it like that? We have a
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: decision to make. We have the privilege to say yes, Lord,
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: Yes to your will and to your way. We have
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: the privilege of accepting the love of God that he
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: has toward us, Yes and become his children. Or we
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: can say, you know what, I don't really want to
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: be in a relationship with God. I want to do
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: things my own way. I want to live in rebellion.
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: Those who live by rebellion will die as a repelt.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,