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 Friday, September twenty,
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 and our caption
for today is the Power of Sacrifice. The Power of Sacrifice.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but before
we do, I'd like to say welcome to you and
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith in fellowship. Let me just say one good time,
happy preparation day. Let's go ahead and pray and then
we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for
this time of preparation on this Friday, and this time
of preparation looking forward to the coming of Jesus Christ. Father,
I pray now that you will give us the fullness
of your Holy spirit. Help us to see and experience
and appreciate the sacrifice that you went through, that Jesus
went through in order to save us from our sins. Father,
Please make us holy as a result in Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again the power of soccer.
I'm going to read some of this quote from page
seven hundred and fifty three from the Desire of Ages
and then and then we will get actually seven thirty
eight and seven fifty three, and then we will go
into the word okay, and so the quote goes this way,
Pilot longed to deliver Jesus. May I just say that
the that the road to destruction is paved with good intentions,
positive thoughts. Yeah, Pilot longed to deliver Jesus now comes this,
this conjunction, but that negates that negates the fact that
he longed or desired to deliver Jesus right, but he
saw that he could not do this and yet retain
his own position and honor. You see, this is where
things go very wrong, brothers and sisters. You see, Pilot
was not willing to sacrifice in this moment what he
thought would have been a good position and honor. What
he thought would have been a good position and honor.
He was not willing to sacrifice this in order to
deliver two things. One an innocent man from death like
they were murdering the Lord. That's what their intent was.
And he could have stopped it right number one. And
then he was not willing to sacrifice, to sacrifice for
his own salvation. Can you imagine, like Jesus was there
purchasing the pardon for every human being who has ever
lived on planet Earth, including Pilot, including if Pilot had children,
including Pilot's wife that said, I beg you please, do
not have anything to do with this. Just man, I
had a dream last night. Don't trouble him. He wasn't
willing to sacrifice. Rather continuing the quote than lose his
worldly power. He chose to sacrifice an innocent life. Oh God,
how many to escape loss or suffering in like manners.
Sacrifice principle, conscience and duty put one away. Oh and
duty put one way, and self interest points another. Let
me say it again, Conscience and duty points one way,
and self interest points another. The current sets strongly in
the wrong direction, and he who compromises with evil is
swept away into the thick darkness of guilt. And so
we can see the imagery of a stream, not even
a stream, a river, a river going out toward the sea,
rushing out toward the sea. And our human ingenuity, our
desires as human beings are putting us in a position
to go the wrong way with the current. But God
gives us the privilege. You want to know what the
privilege is. God gives us the privilege to call upon
his name and say, God, I am in above my head,
I feel like I am drowning. If it is you
bid me come out on the water, so I can
walk on the water. And spiritually speaking of course, in
this case, and God would give us the ability to
go against the current, to go above the current, to
live according to principle rather than our own human thoughts.
Let me continue now upon Christ as our substitute and
surety was laid the iniquity of us. All you see,
this is the blessing that God has given us. It's
painful to watch even the story of what Jesus went through.
He was counted a transgressor that he might redeem us
from the condemnation of the law. The guilt of every
discs sendant of Adam was pressing upon his heart. Are
you hearing this? So? Jesus was experiencing the guilt of
every sin, for every human who has ever lived or
ever will live. All at the same time, the wrath
of God against sin, the terrible manifestation of his displeasure
because of iniquity, filled the soul of his son with consternation.
And all his life Christ had been publishing to a
fallen world the good news of the Father's mercy and
pardoning love. Salvation for the chief of sinners was his theme.
But now I need you to type in the chat.
But now, with the terrible weight of gods of guilt,
excuse me, he bears, he cannot see the Father's reconciling face.
He's teaching everybody about the mercy of God. He's teaching
everybody about the life love of God. He's teaching everybody
about God's power and ability to save. But in this
very moment, Jesus is not able to see the brightness
of the face of God, his Father for the final
moment of Jesus's life, and all of our eternal salvation
is weighed in the balance at this very moment, and
Jesus is feeling separated, He's feeling forsaken. Let me continue
the withdrawal of the divine countenance from the Savior in
this hour of supreme anguish pierced his heart with sorrow
that can never be fully understood by man. So great
was this agony that his physical pain was hardly felt. Jesus,
and that's the end of the quote. Jesus could not
even hardly desern the pain of the beatings, all of
the blood on his back, with the many stripes of
bones and steel and whatever else they could put on
the end of that wit, that cat of nine tails.
He could barely feel it. He could barely feel the
times that they slapped him and ripped his beard. The
Old Testament Bible writer would have said, ripped his beard
right out of his face. Have you ever had hair
ripped out of your face? And I don't mean by waxing.
I'm talking about pulling on a man with a full
grown beard, pulling that out of his skin. Hm being
beaten in the head with a crown with thick thorns,
long thorns on the crown braided, and he keeps getting slapped,
he keeps being hit with that. And what we're reading
under inspiration is that none of that was even close
to the agony that he felt, because he could not
experience right then, at that moment, he could not discern
the pleasure of his father, who said, you are my
beloved son, the one in whom I'm well pleased, you see.
And so i'd like for us in these closing moments.
I'll give you the passages. I won't read them to
consider some principles. Number one, the power of God, the
power of Christ's sacrifice Isaiah chapter fifty three and verse five.
The weight of sin. I will read this one from
Second Corinthians, chapter five and verse twenty one. For he
hath made him to be sin for us who knew
no sin, that he might be made the righteousness of
God in him. Second Corinthians, Chapter five and verse twenty one.
The power of sacrifice. Jesus's sacrifice saves us from our sin.
Speaker 1: 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,