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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 Friday, September twenty,

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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 and our caption

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for today is the Power of Sacrifice. The Power of Sacrifice.

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We'll get into that in just a moment, but before

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we do, I'd like to say welcome to you and

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ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion

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dot com. Please join our online community, pick up the

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Your Daily Portion book and let us know where you

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are in the world. At your Daily Portion dot com.

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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build faith in fellowship. Let me just say one good time,

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happy preparation day. Let's go ahead and pray and then

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we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for

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this time of preparation on this Friday, and this time

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of preparation looking forward to the coming of Jesus Christ. Father,

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I pray now that you will give us the fullness

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of your Holy spirit. Help us to see and experience

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and appreciate the sacrifice that you went through, that Jesus

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went through in order to save us from our sins. Father,

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Please make us holy as a result in Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and Amen again the power of soccer.

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I'm going to read some of this quote from page

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seven hundred and fifty three from the Desire of Ages

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and then and then we will get actually seven thirty

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eight and seven fifty three, and then we will go

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into the word okay, and so the quote goes this way,

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Pilot longed to deliver Jesus. May I just say that

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the that the road to destruction is paved with good intentions,

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positive thoughts. Yeah, Pilot longed to deliver Jesus now comes this,

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this conjunction, but that negates that negates the fact that

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he longed or desired to deliver Jesus right, but he

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saw that he could not do this and yet retain

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his own position and honor. You see, this is where

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things go very wrong, brothers and sisters. You see, Pilot

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was not willing to sacrifice in this moment what he

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thought would have been a good position and honor. What

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he thought would have been a good position and honor.

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He was not willing to sacrifice this in order to

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deliver two things. One an innocent man from death like

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they were murdering the Lord. That's what their intent was.

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And he could have stopped it right number one. And

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then he was not willing to sacrifice, to sacrifice for

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his own salvation. Can you imagine, like Jesus was there

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purchasing the pardon for every human being who has ever

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lived on planet Earth, including Pilot, including if Pilot had children,

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including Pilot's wife that said, I beg you please, do

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not have anything to do with this. Just man, I

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had a dream last night. Don't trouble him. He wasn't

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willing to sacrifice. Rather continuing the quote than lose his

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worldly power. He chose to sacrifice an innocent life. Oh God,

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how many to escape loss or suffering in like manners.

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Sacrifice principle, conscience and duty put one away. Oh and

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duty put one way, and self interest points another. Let

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me say it again, Conscience and duty points one way,

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and self interest points another. The current sets strongly in

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the wrong direction, and he who compromises with evil is

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swept away into the thick darkness of guilt. And so

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we can see the imagery of a stream, not even

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a stream, a river, a river going out toward the sea,

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rushing out toward the sea. And our human ingenuity, our

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desires as human beings are putting us in a position

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to go the wrong way with the current. But God

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gives us the privilege. You want to know what the

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privilege is. God gives us the privilege to call upon

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his name and say, God, I am in above my head,

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I feel like I am drowning. If it is you

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bid me come out on the water, so I can

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walk on the water. And spiritually speaking of course, in

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this case, and God would give us the ability to

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go against the current, to go above the current, to

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live according to principle rather than our own human thoughts.

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Let me continue now upon Christ as our substitute and

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surety was laid the iniquity of us. All you see,

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this is the blessing that God has given us. It's

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painful to watch even the story of what Jesus went through.

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He was counted a transgressor that he might redeem us

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from the condemnation of the law. The guilt of every

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discs sendant of Adam was pressing upon his heart. Are

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you hearing this? So? Jesus was experiencing the guilt of

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every sin, for every human who has ever lived or

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ever will live. All at the same time, the wrath

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of God against sin, the terrible manifestation of his displeasure

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because of iniquity, filled the soul of his son with consternation.

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And all his life Christ had been publishing to a

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fallen world the good news of the Father's mercy and

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pardoning love. Salvation for the chief of sinners was his theme.

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But now I need you to type in the chat.

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But now, with the terrible weight of gods of guilt,

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excuse me, he bears, he cannot see the Father's reconciling face.

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He's teaching everybody about the mercy of God. He's teaching

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everybody about the life love of God. He's teaching everybody

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about God's power and ability to save. But in this

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very moment, Jesus is not able to see the brightness

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of the face of God, his Father for the final

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moment of Jesus's life, and all of our eternal salvation

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is weighed in the balance at this very moment, and

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Jesus is feeling separated, He's feeling forsaken. Let me continue

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the withdrawal of the divine countenance from the Savior in

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this hour of supreme anguish pierced his heart with sorrow

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that can never be fully understood by man. So great

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was this agony that his physical pain was hardly felt. Jesus,

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and that's the end of the quote. Jesus could not

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even hardly desern the pain of the beatings, all of

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the blood on his back, with the many stripes of

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bones and steel and whatever else they could put on

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the end of that wit, that cat of nine tails.

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He could barely feel it. He could barely feel the

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times that they slapped him and ripped his beard. The

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Old Testament Bible writer would have said, ripped his beard

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right out of his face. Have you ever had hair

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ripped out of your face? And I don't mean by waxing.

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I'm talking about pulling on a man with a full

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grown beard, pulling that out of his skin. Hm being

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beaten in the head with a crown with thick thorns,

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long thorns on the crown braided, and he keeps getting slapped,

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he keeps being hit with that. And what we're reading

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under inspiration is that none of that was even close

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to the agony that he felt, because he could not

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experience right then, at that moment, he could not discern

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the pleasure of his father, who said, you are my

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beloved son, the one in whom I'm well pleased, you see.

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And so i'd like for us in these closing moments.

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I'll give you the passages. I won't read them to

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consider some principles. Number one, the power of God, the

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power of Christ's sacrifice Isaiah chapter fifty three and verse five.

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The weight of sin. I will read this one from

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Second Corinthians, chapter five and verse twenty one. For he

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hath made him to be sin for us who knew

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no sin, that he might be made the righteousness of

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God in him. Second Corinthians, Chapter five and verse twenty one.

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The power of sacrifice. Jesus's sacrifice saves us from our sin.

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Speaker 1: 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,