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 Sabbath, September fourteen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle 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 lessons
study series through the Book of Mark and our caption
for today is Tried and Crucified, tried and for rufied.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving
us this Sabbath day, for your love toward us. Thank
you for loving us beyond our capacity to understand. Thank
you for giving us the principles of scripture and the
stories of people who have lived before us, and all
of the things that they did, the mistakes they made,
in the ways that they triumphed because they surrendered to you.
Help us to skip to the end and just triumph
because we trust in You. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again, tried and crucified. Now Jesus, Jesus
is right on the very edge where he is about
to go through with what the prophets said he would do.
In Daniel chapter nine, the Bible says that Jesus would
come up, he would appear, doesn't call him Jesus, but
the anointed One would come the fulfillment of that Messianic
prophecy that the Messiah would come up at a certain time,
and that is at that in the seventy weeks prophecy
and then the Bible says that that at in the
midst of the week, he would be cut off, he
would be crucified, he would be cut off. Who the
anointed one, the Messiah, who appeared three and a half
years prior, like as the Us, as the Messiah when
he was when he was anointed by the Holy ghost,
as he was being baptized by John and the Jordan River.
And so now three and a half years later the
Bible told us these these, the these inspired men of God,
spoke as they were moved by the holy ghosts. They
told us that Jesus was about to give his life,
not for himself, but for the people. He would not
be guilty of the charges that they would throw and
hurl toward him, But we are guilty. And Jesus decided
to take the guilt upon his shoulders. He was a volunteer,
the Holy volunteer, who would save his people from our sins.
And so he gets through that dark trial. In Gethsemane.
He allows himself to be betrayed into the hands of
the people who hated him, who were supposed to be
priests and followers of God, but they were really of
their father. The devil. And so now Jesus is on
the cross like he's giving his life. Literally, he's about
to breathe his last breath. We'll track back a little later,
not today, but in the coming days. But Jesus is
about to give his life. And according to Mark, chapter
fifteen and verse thirty four, the Bible reads and at
the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice saying,
Eli Eli lama sabaktanai, which is being in translation, My God,
My God, why have you forsaken me? It's incredulous. Why
would you forsake me? The one who was one with you,
who is one with you, the one whose hands you
cooperated with as I created the heavens and the earth
and these people, the one who is now here to
do your will. Oh, my God, on whose law I
do meditate, How could you be forsaking me? He's on
the cross and he feels forsaken by God. Have you
ever felt forsaken by God? Have you ever felt that
God left you in your pain and trial when God forbid?
You are abused in that relationship with that spouse who
did not respect God. Even though that spouse would go
through this cycle of sometimes acting as if they loved
you by giving you great surprises and cool gifts and
giving you all kinds of praise and accolades and social media,
and standing up sometimes even in church, before the people
of God and saying that this one is the best spouse,
the best husband, the best wife that I ever had.
But behind closed doors, he or she is abusing you.
Oh God Lord, have mercy on us. Have you ever
felt forsaken by God? Where it felt dark when you
were looking at your spouse and his or her last
moments of life ebbing from their bodies, and you wonder,
has God forsaken me? You still feel guilty for things
that you've already confessed to God, but it's not God's fault.
It's because you don't trust him enough to believe that
no matter what the sin is, if you confess your sins,
he's faithful and just to forgive you of your sins
and cleanse you from all unrighteousness, and not bring up
old stuff before you, because now there's no record that
he's going to hold against you. He said, blessed is
the person to whom God does not impute iniquity. So
God has forgiven you and He's going to cleanse your
sin record at the appropriate time. But you feel forsaken.
Jesus's feeling forsaken by God our Father, and he's there.
And some lessons now we need to learn is that
God understands your suffering. He understands your suffering because Jesus
suffered on the cross feeling even though it wasn't true,
he was feeling separated from his father. God, our Father
was there with him, even though the sun would not
shine in that moment. God our Father was with him.
He understands your suffering. And so we are to yield
ourselves to God and say, God, but Jesus, Jesus, Jesus
suffered while he was down here. Can you give me
that triumph that he experienced as he went through his
suffering and came out as the savior of the world.
And then, of course God is present in our loneliness.
We see recorded in Psalm chapter twenty one, Our twenty two,
Chapter twenty two and verse one. My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far
from helping me? And from the words of my roaring,
even in the moments of profound loneliness, or feelings of abandonment.
God is present. The Psalmist. He cried, he cried, and
he cried out, and it was really just a manifestation
of what Jesus would ultimately go through. And this teaches
us that expressing our deepest fears and feelings of abandonment
can lead to a greater awareness of God's presence if
we just continue to trust him. Because really, the night
did not continue, that feeling of darkness did not continue.
Jesus knew at the right time that his father was
in fact with him. And then in Isaiah chapter fifty five,
verses eight and nine, we read, for my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, said
the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts. So God's plans they transcend our understanding.
Jesus had to go through that suffering, He had to
go through that moment of trial. He had to feel
to his core exactly what he felt and experienced. He
had to carry all of our sins to the cross.
He had to do it in order to save us
and to be a manifestation of the love that our
father has toward us. Oh, I'll get into that another
day of the Lord Spear's life. God's plans transcend our understanding.
But you know what. Ultimately, God provides sacrifice. He's the
one who provided the ultimate sacrifice. He provided the sacrifice
so you brother, you sister, that we can be saved. Yeah.
Jesus was tried, he was crucified. He succeeded because he
did God's will. Will you succeed by doing God's will too?
Make it a great day.
Speaker 1: 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,