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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 Thursday, September nineteen,

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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 Bible Book of Mark, and our

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caption for today is Laid to Rest, Laid to Rest.

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We'll get into that in just the 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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Please join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion book,

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and let us know where you are in the world.

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At your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of

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the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and then get under weigh. Father,

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we thank you for this day and for getting us

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just one more step closer to Sabbath, one more step

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closer to the coming of the Son of Man. Father.

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I just pray that you will find lodgment in our hearts,

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that you will be welcomed in our lives. That we

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will learn today to appreciate all that you have done

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for us, even if we don't understand all of it.

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I just pray now, God, that you will make us holy.

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That's really what I'm after, Father, holiness and transformation in

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Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again laid to rent.

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I think about that song and I want you to

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look it up and maybe listen to it as well.

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Were you there when they crucified my Lord? And the

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writer of that song said, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble.

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Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you

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there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you

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there when they nailed him to the tree? Sometimes sometimes

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it causes me to tremble tremble, tremble. Were you there

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when they crucified my Lord? You see, it's easy to

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look at these stories as some historic event. It's easy

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for us to look for some cues and markers for

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understanding an intellectual discussion. Sometimes, those of you who are

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God's people, sometimes you can get caught up. We can

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get caught up into the details and miss the worship opportunities, opportunities.

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Sometimes we can get caught up in the details and

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miss the close encounters that God has orchestrated in the

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stories for us to see how much He loves us,

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to experience Him in a new and a real way.

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Sometimes we get to the point where we can become

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so intellectually stimulated that we miss the opportunity to truly

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connect with God. And so I'm asking you, I'm asking me,

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were you there when they crucified my Lord? Lord? Help us? Lord,

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help us. The Bible says that if we don't yield

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ourselves to God, if we knowing good and well how

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we should live, we turn away from God in anything,

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then we are crucifying unto ourselves Jesus Christ afresh and

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putting him to an open shame. This is what the

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Bible writer said, were you there? Was I there? So

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we continue the discussion from the Bible, Book of Mark,

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chapter fifteen, beginning at verse forty two, and the Bible reads,

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and now when even was come, because it was the preparation,

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that is, the day before the Sabbath. So tomorrow for

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us will be the preparation, the day before the Sabbaths.

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We call it Friday. In this part of the world.

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Joseph of Arimathea an honorable counselor. See, this man was honorable,

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which also waited for the Kingdom of God. You see,

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he was looking for the Kingdom of God. He wasn't

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looking for Jesus to overthrow the government. He wasn't looking

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for an opportunity to just be close to Jesus and

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take selfies with Jesus and say that Jesus is his friend,

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so that people in social media can say, oh, my goodness,

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you know Jesus. And then he walk away. The say no,

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this dude was honorable, and he was waiting for the

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Kingdom of God. He was not satisfied with the kingdom

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of this world, even though he was of means, And

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the Bible says, the Bible continues and he came and

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went in boldly unto Pilot, so we know that this

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dude had influence, and craved the body of Jesus, and

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Pilot marveled if he were already dead, and calling unto

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him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been

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any while dead, because it's like, what, how is he dead?

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So quickly? I wish I had the time to deal

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with the prophecies that said that they would not be

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breaking Jesus's bones. He was already dead. Breaking the bones

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of a person on the cross was to speed up

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the death because the pain was so agonizing and so

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many things were going wrong in the body systems at

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this point, at a certain point of crucifixion, that they

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would just end it. But Jesus was already dead because

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he gave his life willingly Verse forty five. And when

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he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body

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to Joseph, and he brought fine linen, took him down,

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wrapped him. See this man, Joseph was honorable, wrapped him

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in the linen, and laid him in the sepulcher, which

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was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone

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onto onto the door of the sepulcher Mary Magdalene and

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the mother of Joseph's beheld where he was laid. Of course,

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I want to say more about that, but I think

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I should just pause because we'll get more into the

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story in the coming days. But let me just say this,

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When you have influence, do you honor God with your influence?

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I need to ask myself that because a lot of

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people watch me on a daily basis, I'm also aligned.

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I'm aligned with with with with powerful people in my

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in my work. And I'm asking myself, as you should

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be asking yourself when you have any influence at all, Really,

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does it have to be as as vast as Joseph

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of Arimathea, or could it be influence over the two

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or three people that you encounter on a regular basis.

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Whatever the influence is, but certainly, if you have massive influence,

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are you willing to go on the line? Are you

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willing to be accounted with God? Yes? Are you aligned

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with God to the degree that you use that influence

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to glorify him? This is something with which we need

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to contend. I'm around successful people on a regular basis.

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This is something with which we need to contend and

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so Joseph of course showed who he was with, and

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I thank God, I thank God that we get to

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see this story. And the lesson writer says, after all

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that drama, the more mundane quote things happen next. For starters,

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dead people always have to be buried. But several factors

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in what follows are quite touching spiritually, spiritually, and others

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are extremely important historically. In this passage, Joseph of Arimathea

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appears for the first and last time in the Gospel

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of Mark, and he was a respected member of the Sanhedrin.

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Now we know, whoe huh? One of God's people, right,

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one of the so called urban elites. As a wealthy

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and respected man, he had standing with the governor, which

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explains how he could dare approach Pilot and ask for

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the body of Jesus. It was a touching detail that

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the member of the council took such interest in Jesus's burial. Meanwhile,

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where were Jesus's trusted disciples in all of this? One

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historical detail of extreme importance here is the verification of

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the death of Jesus m This tells us of the

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death of Joseph's request for the body of Jesus, but

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Pilot was surprised to hear that he was already dead.

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He therefore summoned the centurion in charge of the crucifixion

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and acts if Jesus was already dead, and of course

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the guy he confirmed it. The reason is that it

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is because of the later claim by some that Jesus

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did not die on the cross but only fainted. The

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testimony of the centurion to the Roman government directly counters

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that assertion. The Romans did, after all, know how to

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execute criminals, and so Joseph brought a linen shroud and

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raped Jesus, I will say, honorably, and laid his body

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in the tune hewn from a rock. And the Bible continues,

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See Jesus gave his life for us. He was laid

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to rest. But are you using your influence for good

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while you rest?

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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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,