Prove inequality for infimum of expected values

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I'm trying to prove the following inequality, but don't have any idea on where to begin.

$$\inf_{k=0,1,2,\cdots} \frac{\mathbb{E}[|X|^k]}{\delta^k} \le \inf_{\lambda> 0} \frac{\mathbb{E}[e^{\lambda X}]}{e^{\lambda \delta}}$$

The RHS is the Chernoff bound on the tail probability distribution of $X$. The LHS is also another bound on the tail probability.