Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, September eighteen,
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 Mark. Our caption for
today is Forsaken by God. It's not a question, but
I'm incredulous, like this is tough for me. Forsaken by God. Yes,
we'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray now, Father, we
thank you for your love. Thank you for giving us
everything in one gift. Lord, Thank you for the gift
of salvation through Christ. Help us to honor you and
worship you in everything that we are, in everything that
we have. Please don't let this just be another passion story.
Please help this not just to be another thing that
we assign to what some people call Easter, like some
people call Christmas. Father, please help us to actually worship
you and not see it as a children's story, but
as a story of love toward us that is immeasurable,
and that we will truly truly yield ourselves to you,
beginning now in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
Forsaken by God, O Lord, this one is tough for me.
It's tough for me because because God's people forsook Jesus.
And when I say God's people, I mean the ones
who are supposed to be leaders of the people, the scribes,
some of them the Pharisee, some of them Sadducees, some
of them the lawyers of or the people who are
to be the purveyors of the law of God too,
some of them, most of them. And when the Bible
says that he came unto his own and his own
received him, not that is amazing to me. It's terrible.
Why in the world is God so good to us?
Why is he so patient with us? When he was
in the mount bringing ushering Moses into the mount, like
inviting Moses into the mount with him, when Moses said,
if you have found favor with me, show me your glory.
And then and then God appears in the whatever way
that Moses could could handle. He he and he begins
to trumpet his character, the Lord, the Lord God, like
when you when you get an opportunity read in Exodus
chapters thirty three and forward. Ah. And he talks about
how he gives mercy to generations. But he will in
no wise clear the guilty. God is so merciful, even
though he is the judge of the universe. He's so
merciful and gives us as much as many opportunities as
can be useful to us. Is it hundreds, is it thousands,
is it millions of opportunities? I don't know, But we
don't want to find out what the end of his
mercy is. We want to capitalize and max capitalize upon
and maximize in this moment the reality that God is
merciful and not take it for granted, not take him
for granted. And so the Bible reads in Mark chapter fifteen,
beginning at verse thirty three, And when the sixth hour
was come, it was darkness over the whole land until
the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, you see
Jesus is just about to give his life. He's about
to die, He's about to breathe his last breath with
all of those painful marks on his body now and
he has been forsaken by the people who are supposed
to be leaders. He's forsaken by his twelve disciples, and
one of his disciples had a devil, and now he
is having this feeling, this eerie feeling, and he cried
with a loud voice, and all of that pain that
he is suffering Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani is being interpreted,
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? You
imagine Jesus, the one who created the heavens and the earth,
the one who was with God the Father, when they said,
let us make man in our own image and in
our likeness, when they said let us go down and
confuse their language at the Tower of babel Ah, the
one who created all things animate and inanimate. Jesus Christ
is now on the cross, having taken on human form,
taken on now the guilt of every sin that has
ever been committed, so that anybody who is actually confessing
our sins, anybody who actually repents of our sins because
of what Jesus did on the cross and beyond and beyond.
I wish I had the time for the beyond. But
the Bible is saying that he has provided everything that
we need, so that we will now have to be
judged as guilty. We can be free when the accuser
of the brethren, who actually does know exactly what evil
we've done, when he hurls insults and he charges us
with crimes that we have committed, that they will be
seen as false because Jesus stands. Jesus stands as our redeemer.
Jesus stands in place of us in terms of our
righteousness when the law is now judging me, the law
is only seeing the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. But
now he's feeling forsaken. And some of them that stood
by when they heard it, said, behold, he calleth Elias.
And then one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar.
And I've already said what that was yesterday, and put
it on a read and gave him to drink, saying,
let him alone, let's see whether Elias will come to
take him down. These people were dark, they were wicked,
and Jesus cried with a loud voice in that moment.
He cried with a loud voice when he, if he
chose to, could have relieved his own suffering. He cried
with a loud voice, feeling in the moment forsaken by God.
When he could have called twelve legions or more of
angels to his aid to do what they would have
gladly done in destroying these wicked people, he cried with
a loud voice, feeling forsaken by God. For you, the
Bible says, he cried with a loud voice. And then
he gave up the ghost that means he died. And
then the veil of the temple was rent in Twain
from the top of the to the bottom. This thick
curtain that separated separated the people from justice. They separated
the people not to go into the place where the
presence of God was palpable. When Jesus gave up the
ghost the Bible says that God ripped that separator from
the top of the temple down to the bottom. And
when the centurion stood over against him, he saw that
he had cried out and gave up the ghosts. So
you see, this centurion got it. This Roman soldier, he
got it. He got it, He got it. He said, truly,
this man was the son of God. As people, many
of them did not get it because they chose to
be willingly ignorant. They had seared their consciences as with
a hot iron. Are you searing your conscience with as
with a hot iron? In twenty twenty four h at
eight minutes and some seconds, are you just waiting for
me to be done? Like brother, you said that already?
Why are you so passionate? We've heard it get to
the point. Are you there? Or are you worshiping God
in your heart? In the spirit of holiness? In this
moment and seeing yourself at the foot of the cross
and saying God, I thank you, I thank you for
what you have done for me. I thank you for
delivering me from my sins. I thank you for giving
my children, my friends, my family, the opportunity strangers on
the road that I may never meet, an opportunity to
be your children and to live forever. This is between
you and God. But this man, he realized what was
going out. He knew what was going on, Verse forty.
And also there were women looking afar off, among whom
Mary Magdalene, the Mary the mother of James less end
of Joseph, and Salomi, who also when he was in Galilee,
followed him and ministered unto him, and many other women
which came up with him unto Jerusalem. They all witnessed this.
Who was transformed? You're witnessing this? Are you being transformed?
Speaker 1: Peace? Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,