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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Monday, February twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello,

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my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is

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your Daily Portion where we give you
God's Word every single day, and today

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is no exception. We are continuing
in our Lesson study series through the Book

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of Psalms, and our caption for
today is the Suffering Messiah, The Suffering

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Messiah. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like

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to say welcome to you and ask
you to please go over to your Daily

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Portion dot com. Please join our
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Daily Portion dot com. This is
a way that we can continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray, and then we will get

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underway. Father and Heaven, thank
you for giving us the opportunity to open

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up your word again today. Thank
you for giving us a glimpse into the

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ministry of Jesus Christ. Please,
Father, give us the appropriate reverential response

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to the blessing that He is to
us, that you are to us in

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Jesus' name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. I think that sometimes

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when we are discussing things related to
our salvation, that we can become too

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lack a daisical to pass as we
discuss these things like it's a subject,

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right, I say, the caption
for today is the suffering Messiah. And

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then if God forbid I have an
immature approach, then I just spout some

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fancy ways of discussing things from the
Bible, and then I just say something

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at the end, and then let
you go and then off to the next

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one tomorrow. But the fact is
that the suffering of Jesus Christ should inspire

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awe and reverence in us. You
feel me like, the reason why this

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is such a big deal is because
Jesus did not have to do this.

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Remember, Jesus is equal to his
father. He's eternal. I understand like

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it's confusing to our natural minds,
but this is why we need faith and

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to believe what God has said.
And so before Jesus assumed a body,

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before he came through miraculously came through
the womb of Mary, Jesus existed throughout

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the ceaseless ages of eternity past.
He created the worlds. Jesus Christ is

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the light when God said, let
there be light, and there was light,

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like Jesus was the light because the
sun, moon, and stars had

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not yet been created until the fourth
Day. I wish I had the time.

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And so when Jesus now accepts that
he's going to lay down his life

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in the fullness of time, he
lays down his life and then he picks

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it up again. There was an
intervening period where he felt abandoned. May

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I just ask you a question,
have you ever felt abandoned? Have you

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ever felt abandoned? And I don't
mean just abandoned generally, I mean abandoned

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by the most important people in your
life. Well, I definitely have Jesus

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felt abandoned by his father, even
though his father was right there with him.

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Why because he had on him all
of the iniquity, transgressions, and

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sins, the guilt of all of
that for every human being from the time

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of Adam until the last individual who
will ever sin. He had all of

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that guilt on him, all of
that shame on him, the pressing darkness

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that that brings. He had that
on him. So that anyone who is

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willing to repent, and then indeed
does to turn away from our sins,

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to yield our will to him.
Whenever that happens, then these individuals can

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be saved. You see where I'm
going. I think words fail me.

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I don't have a way of expressing
this in a way that we can get

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it, even me, Like,
okay, let me just read from the

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scriptures, from the Book of Psalms, chapter twenty two, What a privilege?

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Can I just say that right there? What a privilege? And the

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Bible reads, my God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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Why art thou so far from helping
me? And from the words of my

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roaring Let me read it from another
translation, My God, my God,

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why have you abandoned me? I
grown in prayer, but help seems far

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away. He's on the cross,
and he is saving his people from our

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sins, just like the Bible writers
said he would do, just like it's

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recorded in Matthew, just like the
prophecies would have said. He came to

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his own, and his own received
him nod. And yet he still went

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onto the cross. And yet still
he gave his life a ransom for many,

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like he paid the price that we
should have paid, except we didn't

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have enough money in the bank.
Spiritually speaking, he took the penalty that

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we deserve so we can have the
righteousness and the righteous reward that he deserved.

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Okay, And so now he's feeling
abandoned, and his help seems far

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away, My God. Verse two, I cry out during the day,

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Ah, but you do not answer. And during the night my prayers do

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not let up. You are holy, You sit as king, receiving praises

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of Israel in you. Our ancestors
trusted, trusted in you, and you

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rescued them. You rescued them to
you. They cried out, and they

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were saved in you. They trusted
and they were not disappointed. But I

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am a worm, not a man. People insult and despise me. All

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who see me taunt me. They
mock me, and they shake their heads.

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They say, commit yourselves to yourself
to the Lord. Let the Lord

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rescue him, let the Lord deliver
him, or he delights in him.

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Yes, you are the one who
brought me out of the womb and made

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me feel secure in my mother's breasts. I have been dependent on you since

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birth. From the time I came
out of my mother's womb, you have

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been my God. Do not remain
far away from me. Where trouble is

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near me and I have no one
to help me, Let me just read

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two more verses. Many bulls surround
me, powerful bulls of bash on hem

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me in. They open their mouths
to devour me, like a roaring lion

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that rips its prey. And then
I said one but let me just get

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one more verse fourteen. My strength
drains away like water, and my bones

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just located. My heart is like
wax. It melts away inside me.

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And then the suffering discussion continues.
Have you ever felt abandoned? Brothers and

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sisters, I ask you that question
a ready. Have you ever felt abandoned

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by the people that should be nearest
to you the most important people in your

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life. Now ten x that feeling, and now one hundred x that feeling,

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one hundred times that feeling, and
then do it until you just can't

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do it anymore and your calculator breaks. Put that feeling somewhere in your mind,

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and then realize that Jesus Christ,
who is one with the Father,

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volunteered to give his life for you, brothers and sisters, and for me.

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And as a result, there was
some time that he felt forsaken by

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his father, although he was not. And the inspired writings in the book

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Desire of Ages, page seven hundred
and fifty three reads, upon Christ as

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our substitute and surety was laid the
iniquity of us all he was counted a

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transgressor that he might redeem us from
the condemnation of the law. The guilt

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of every descendant of Adam was pressing
upon his heart, the wrath of God

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against sin. The terrible manifestation of
his displeasure because of iniquity filled the soul

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of his son with consternation. That's
the end of the quote. Let that

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settle in. And so today,
really I'm asking you to please just pray.

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This is the action item for today. Pray to God and ask him

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to give you appreciation for what Jesus
has done in giving himself so that you

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and I can be saved with a
wonderful day peace. Thanks for joining us

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listening to friends. Always remember we
cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth
of God. This has been your daily

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portion with El David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah.