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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, September eighteen,

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twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series through the Book of Mark. Our caption for

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today is Forsaken by God. It's not a question, but

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I'm incredulous, like this is tough for me. Forsaken by God. Yes,

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we'll get into that in just a moment, but first

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I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you

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to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Portion book and let us know where you are in

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one of the ways that we continue to build faith

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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray now, Father, we

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thank you for your love. Thank you for giving us

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everything in one gift. Lord, Thank you for the gift

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of salvation through Christ. Help us to honor you and

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worship you in everything that we are, in everything that

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we have. Please don't let this just be another passion story.

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Please help this not just to be another thing that

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we assign to what some people call Easter, like some

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people call Christmas. Father, please help us to actually worship

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you and not see it as a children's story, but

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as a story of love toward us that is immeasurable,

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and that we will truly truly yield ourselves to you,

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beginning now in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.

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Forsaken by God, O Lord, this one is tough for me.

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It's tough for me because because God's people forsook Jesus.

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And when I say God's people, I mean the ones

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who are supposed to be leaders of the people, the scribes,

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some of them the Pharisee, some of them Sadducees, some

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of them the lawyers of or the people who are

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to be the purveyors of the law of God too,

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some of them, most of them. And when the Bible

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says that he came unto his own and his own

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received him, not that is amazing to me. It's terrible.

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Why in the world is God so good to us?

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Why is he so patient with us? When he was

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in the mount bringing ushering Moses into the mount, like

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inviting Moses into the mount with him, when Moses said,

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if you have found favor with me, show me your glory.

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And then and then God appears in the whatever way

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that Moses could could handle. He he and he begins

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to trumpet his character, the Lord, the Lord God, like

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when you when you get an opportunity read in Exodus

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chapters thirty three and forward. Ah. And he talks about

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how he gives mercy to generations. But he will in

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no wise clear the guilty. God is so merciful, even

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though he is the judge of the universe. He's so

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merciful and gives us as much as many opportunities as

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can be useful to us. Is it hundreds, is it thousands,

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is it millions of opportunities? I don't know, But we

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don't want to find out what the end of his

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mercy is. We want to capitalize and max capitalize upon

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and maximize in this moment the reality that God is

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merciful and not take it for granted, not take him

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for granted. And so the Bible reads in Mark chapter fifteen,

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beginning at verse thirty three, And when the sixth hour

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was come, it was darkness over the whole land until

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the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, you see

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Jesus is just about to give his life. He's about

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to die, He's about to breathe his last breath with

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all of those painful marks on his body now and

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he has been forsaken by the people who are supposed

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to be leaders. He's forsaken by his twelve disciples, and

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one of his disciples had a devil, and now he

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is having this feeling, this eerie feeling, and he cried

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with a loud voice, and all of that pain that

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he is suffering Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani is being interpreted,

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? You

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imagine Jesus, the one who created the heavens and the earth,

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the one who was with God the Father, when they said,

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let us make man in our own image and in

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our likeness, when they said let us go down and

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confuse their language at the Tower of babel Ah, the

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one who created all things animate and inanimate. Jesus Christ

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is now on the cross, having taken on human form,

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taken on now the guilt of every sin that has

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ever been committed, so that anybody who is actually confessing

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our sins, anybody who actually repents of our sins because

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of what Jesus did on the cross and beyond and beyond.

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I wish I had the time for the beyond. But

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the Bible is saying that he has provided everything that

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we need, so that we will now have to be

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judged as guilty. We can be free when the accuser

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of the brethren, who actually does know exactly what evil

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we've done, when he hurls insults and he charges us

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with crimes that we have committed, that they will be

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seen as false because Jesus stands. Jesus stands as our redeemer.

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Jesus stands in place of us in terms of our

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righteousness when the law is now judging me, the law

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is only seeing the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. But

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now he's feeling forsaken. And some of them that stood

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by when they heard it, said, behold, he calleth Elias.

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And then one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar.

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And I've already said what that was yesterday, and put

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it on a read and gave him to drink, saying,

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let him alone, let's see whether Elias will come to

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take him down. These people were dark, they were wicked,

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and Jesus cried with a loud voice in that moment.

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He cried with a loud voice when he, if he

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chose to, could have relieved his own suffering. He cried

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with a loud voice, feeling in the moment forsaken by God.

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When he could have called twelve legions or more of

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angels to his aid to do what they would have

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gladly done in destroying these wicked people, he cried with

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a loud voice, feeling forsaken by God. For you, the

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Bible says, he cried with a loud voice. And then

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he gave up the ghost that means he died. And

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then the veil of the temple was rent in Twain

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from the top of the to the bottom. This thick

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curtain that separated separated the people from justice. They separated

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the people not to go into the place where the

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presence of God was palpable. When Jesus gave up the

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ghost the Bible says that God ripped that separator from

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the top of the temple down to the bottom. And

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when the centurion stood over against him, he saw that

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he had cried out and gave up the ghosts. So

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you see, this centurion got it. This Roman soldier, he

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got it. He got it, He got it. He said, truly,

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this man was the son of God. As people, many

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of them did not get it because they chose to

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be willingly ignorant. They had seared their consciences as with

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a hot iron. Are you searing your conscience with as

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with a hot iron? In twenty twenty four h at

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eight minutes and some seconds, are you just waiting for

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me to be done? Like brother, you said that already?

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Why are you so passionate? We've heard it get to

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the point. Are you there? Or are you worshiping God

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in your heart? In the spirit of holiness? In this

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moment and seeing yourself at the foot of the cross

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and saying God, I thank you, I thank you for

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what you have done for me. I thank you for

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delivering me from my sins. I thank you for giving

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my children, my friends, my family, the opportunity strangers on

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the road that I may never meet, an opportunity to

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be your children and to live forever. This is between

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you and God. But this man, he realized what was

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going out. He knew what was going on, Verse forty.

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And also there were women looking afar off, among whom

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Mary Magdalene, the Mary the mother of James less end

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of Joseph, and Salomi, who also when he was in Galilee,

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followed him and ministered unto him, and many other women

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which came up with him unto Jerusalem. They all witnessed this.

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Who was transformed? You're witnessing this? Are you being transformed?

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Speaker 1: Peace? Thanks for joining us listening.

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Speaker 2: Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with el David Harris, make

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it a great day. Yeah,