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 Sunday, August. It's two thousand, not August Epri
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 Studies series the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is a broken
hearted Savior. A broken hearted Savior. We'll get into that in just a
moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you too,
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way that we 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 this new day and for the privilege we have this Sunday morning to
open up your word again and to begin a new work week. I pray
God that you will give us your understanding, teach us how to love you,
and to make your heart glad. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen
and Amen again a brokenhearted savior. Now I know there is something very interesting
that happened when Jesus was baptized on planet Earth. Can I just talk about
this for a moment. When Jesus was he was in his thirties, right
in his thirties. He's he's coming into his thirties. Now he is about
to be baptized. And of course he goes into this Jordan river. John
the Baptist is going to baptize him. And then we hear a voice from
heaven saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
That is the voice of the Father, Us God, the Father. And
then we see that there is there is an image. There is something in
bodily form as a dove that is coming to light on him. And that
is the Holy Spirit now coming into his life in a special way at the
beginning of his public ministry. Okay. And so now the Father is in
heaven. The Holy Ghost, God, the Holy Ghost is is now descending
upon Jesus and filling his life in a new and special way. And Jesus,
God the Son and the Son of God, who I wish I had
the time, he is now in the Jordan River, and he is being
baptized, as the Bible says, Jesus said, to fulfill all righteousness.
Okay. And so now we see that God, our Father is pleased.
What pleases God the Father in this scenario, Bible says, my beloved son,
in whom I am well pleased. And so we see the pleasure,
absolute pleasure of God in Jesus. Because Jesus is he comes from God the
Father. Right in this context, he is holy. He is yielding his
will so that the will of the Father is revealed on planet Earth. He
is a representative, the representative of the character of God, you understand.
And so we see that he is satisfied. Now, let me ask you
a question, because remember the caption for today is a broken hearted savior.
Now let's go to Jesus Christ, who is one with the Father. He
has already accomplished all that he was supposed to in his earthly ministry. And
now, of course he's back in heaven, that is his throne. As
the Bible teaches us, what satisfies the heart of Jesus Christ? What satisfies
the heart of Jesus Christ. Okay, the satisfaction of Jesus Christ is when
people live like Jesus lived. When we surrender our will, just in the
same way that Jesus surrendered his will to the Father, we surrender our will
to God. This pleases Jesus. And by the way, in the Book
of Isaiah, chapter fifty three, it says, at a certain point in
time, the Savior, the Messiah, will see what the Bible calls travail
of his soul, and he will be satis. He will see all of
the trials that he went through, the tribulations, the pain of coming into
human flesh through Mary, yes, and living, having to eat, having
to sleep like other human beings, right, having to rest, having to
battle with his mind? Where is he going to be discouraged? Is he
going to be sad? What happens when things happen to him that are in
justice? What will he do? So he has to go through all of
those things, and he did so, Thank God, he did so successfully.
Yes, he won in that battle and the war over temptation to sin,
he won, so that you can win. Yes, okay. So
when he sees that he did all of that, and human beings surrender our
will to him and ultimately are saved, that is satisfying to him. When
we yield our will to him, and he sees that what he did for
us was not in vain, that satisfies the heart of God. And so
I have to ask the question, now, well, what breaks the heart
of God? I think you already know where I'm going. So whatever is
breaking the whatever breaks the heart of God, whatever breaks Ah the Savior's heart
is what we're looking at today. And we want to upside write this.
We want to about turn about face this situation in our lives when we are
dissatisfying God because of our our disdain sometimes for His blessings in our lives,
Ah, our disrespect for all that he did for us so that he could
save us. It breaks his heart. And so now we have an opportunity,
all of us, especially the people of God, the people of God
who are supposed to know better. This is our context today, the people
of God who are supposed to know better. Sometimes we break his heart.
And as the lesson writer now speaks, as Jesus sat on the mount of
Olives overlooking the city of Jerusalem, his heart is broken. John his Gospel
says he came to his own and his own didn't even receive him. The
people who were supposed to embrace him and become his voice in the earth,
so few of them actually received him. Jesus did everything, according to the
Lesson Writer, he could to save his people from the coming destruction of their
beloved city. Jesus's love for his people flowed from a heart of infinite love.
He repeatedly appealed to them in love to repent and accept his gracious invitation
of mercy. And so in the same way that Lucifer who became the devil,
and all of those angels, those that one third of the angels of
heaven, who also went his way on that evil political bus, that wicked
bus that Satan was driving toward destruction in the same way that those who should
have known, who did know better, who dwelt in the presence of God,
the people of God, some of the people of God in air quotes,
who lived on planet Earth when Jesus came, rejected Jesus in the same
way that the devil rejected him. They rejected Jesus in the same way that
the Devil's evil angels rejected Jesus. And so now Jesus is weeping. And
according to the Book of Luke, chapter nineteen, beginning at verse forty one,
the Bible reads, and when he was come near, he beheld the
city, and he wept over it, saying, if thou had known,
even thou, at least in this day, the things which belong unto thy
peace, But now they are hid from thine eyes. I had so much
for you, Jesus is saying, so much love in my heart. Yes,
so many plans for you to be one with me, and to change
the world and ultimately usher in the kingdom of glory. Yes, verse forty
three, for the days shall come upon thee, and thine enemy shall cast
a trench about thee and come past the round, and keep THEE on every
side, and shall lay THEE even to the ground, and thy children within
THEE, and they shall not leave in the one stone upon another, because
thou knewest not the time of thy visitation. And so really and truly I
don't want only to lament what happened there, but to correct. Like for
us, we don't have to cause God to weep, just surrender our will
to him and please the heart of God. Thanks for joining us listening.
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,