Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
It is Monday, February twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today
is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
of Psalms, and our caption for today is the Suffering Messiah, The Suffering
Messiah. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily
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Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we can continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to open
up your word again today. Thank you for giving us a glimpse into the
ministry of Jesus Christ. Please, Father, give us the appropriate reverential response
to the blessing that He is to us, that you are to us in
Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I think that sometimes
when we are discussing things related to our salvation, that we can become too
lack a daisical to pass as we discuss these things like it's a subject,
right, I say, the caption for today is the suffering Messiah. And
then if God forbid I have an immature approach, then I just spout some
fancy ways of discussing things from the Bible, and then I just say something
at the end, and then let you go and then off to the next
one tomorrow. But the fact is that the suffering of Jesus Christ should inspire
awe and reverence in us. You feel me like, the reason why this
is such a big deal is because Jesus did not have to do this.
Remember, Jesus is equal to his father. He's eternal. I understand like
it's confusing to our natural minds, but this is why we need faith and
to believe what God has said. And so before Jesus assumed a body,
before he came through miraculously came through the womb of Mary, Jesus existed throughout
the ceaseless ages of eternity past. He created the worlds. Jesus Christ is
the light when God said, let there be light, and there was light,
like Jesus was the light because the sun, moon, and stars had
not yet been created until the fourth Day. I wish I had the time.
And so when Jesus now accepts that he's going to lay down his life
in the fullness of time, he lays down his life and then he picks
it up again. There was an intervening period where he felt abandoned. May
I just ask you a question, have you ever felt abandoned? Have you
ever felt abandoned? And I don't mean just abandoned generally, I mean abandoned
by the most important people in your life. Well, I definitely have Jesus
felt abandoned by his father, even though his father was right there with him.
Why because he had on him all of the iniquity, transgressions, and
sins, the guilt of all of that for every human being from the time
of Adam until the last individual who will ever sin. He had all of
that guilt on him, all of that shame on him, the pressing darkness
that that brings. He had that on him. So that anyone who is
willing to repent, and then indeed does to turn away from our sins,
to yield our will to him. Whenever that happens, then these individuals can
be saved. You see where I'm going. I think words fail me.
I don't have a way of expressing this in a way that we can get
it, even me, Like, okay, let me just read from the
scriptures, from the Book of Psalms, chapter twenty two, What a privilege?
Can I just say that right there? What a privilege? And the
Bible reads, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Why art thou so far from helping me? And from the words of my
roaring Let me read it from another translation, My God, my God,
why have you abandoned me? I grown in prayer, but help seems far
away. He's on the cross, and he is saving his people from our
sins, just like the Bible writers said he would do, just like it's
recorded in Matthew, just like the prophecies would have said. He came to
his own, and his own received him nod. And yet he still went
onto the cross. And yet still he gave his life a ransom for many,
like he paid the price that we should have paid, except we didn't
have enough money in the bank. Spiritually speaking, he took the penalty that
we deserve so we can have the righteousness and the righteous reward that he deserved.
Okay, And so now he's feeling abandoned, and his help seems far
away, My God. Verse two, I cry out during the day,
Ah, but you do not answer. And during the night my prayers do
not let up. You are holy, You sit as king, receiving praises
of Israel in you. Our ancestors trusted, trusted in you, and you
rescued them. You rescued them to you. They cried out, and they
were saved in you. They trusted and they were not disappointed. But I
am a worm, not a man. People insult and despise me. All
who see me taunt me. They mock me, and they shake their heads.
They say, commit yourselves to yourself to the Lord. Let the Lord
rescue him, let the Lord deliver him, or he delights in him.
Yes, you are the one who brought me out of the womb and made
me feel secure in my mother's breasts. I have been dependent on you since
birth. From the time I came out of my mother's womb, you have
been my God. Do not remain far away from me. Where trouble is
near me and I have no one to help me, Let me just read
two more verses. Many bulls surround me, powerful bulls of bash on hem
me in. They open their mouths to devour me, like a roaring lion
that rips its prey. And then I said one but let me just get
one more verse fourteen. My strength drains away like water, and my bones
just located. My heart is like wax. It melts away inside me.
And then the suffering discussion continues. Have you ever felt abandoned? Brothers and
sisters, I ask you that question a ready. Have you ever felt abandoned
by the people that should be nearest to you the most important people in your
life. Now ten x that feeling, and now one hundred x that feeling,
one hundred times that feeling, and then do it until you just can't
do it anymore and your calculator breaks. Put that feeling somewhere in your mind,
and then realize that Jesus Christ, who is one with the Father,
volunteered to give his life for you, brothers and sisters, and for me.
And as a result, there was some time that he felt forsaken by
his father, although he was not. And the inspired writings in the book
Desire of Ages, page seven hundred and fifty three reads, upon Christ as
our substitute and surety was laid the iniquity of us all he was counted a
transgressor that he might redeem us from the condemnation of the law. The guilt
of every descendant of Adam was pressing upon his heart, the wrath of God
against sin. The terrible manifestation of his displeasure because of iniquity filled the soul
of his son with consternation. That's the end of the quote. Let that
settle in. And so today, really I'm asking you to please just pray.
This is the action item for today. Pray to God and ask him
to give you appreciation for what Jesus has done in giving himself so that you
and I can be saved with a wonderful day peace. Thanks for joining us
listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.