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 Sunday, September eight,
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 Unforgettable. Unforgettable. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
pray and then get under way. Father, Thank you for
your Holy Spirit, Thank you for drawing us into your presence.
Please help us to live according to your principles and
do your will. Please make yourself unforgettable to us, and
then we live according to your love. In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again, unforgettable. It reminds me
of a song. It reminds me of a song. But
I'm thinking that is not what we're going to talk
about today. We're going into the Bible Book of Mark,
the Bible Book of Mark, chapter fourteen, and I will read.
I will read beginning at verse one the Bible Book
of Mark, and I will read beginning at verse one
in chapter fourteen, and the Bible reads, after two days
was the feast of Passover and of unleavened bread. And
so when God gives us these details, it's for a reason,
not only just to tell the story, but there are
times that we can we can actually mark down and
pin down the time that things were happening. We can
also know what God was thinking about in a certain situation.
And so it was passover time and of unlovened bread,
and the chief priests and scribes, they sought how they
might take him by craft and put him to death.
These are what these are what God would say to
us in these situations the chief priests, the chief priests
have a problem. But their problem is that they are
against God. They're supposed to be the priests of the
most High God, blessed be his name, But they have
a problem with God. They have a problem with his son.
But anyway, it says they sought that they would how
to put him to death verse two, But they said
not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar
of the people. And being in Bethany, in the house
of Simon the Leper, as he sat at meat, there
came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment. Okay,
so we are starting to see something, okay, very precious
of spikenard. And she break the box and poured it
on his head. And there were some that had indignation
with themselves, and said, why is this waste of the
ointment made? For it might have been sold for more
than three hundred pence and have been given to the poor.
And they murmured against her, And Jesus said, let her alone.
Why trouble ye her? She hath brought a good work
on me. For ye have the poor with you always,
and whensoever ye will, ye may do good to them.
But me you have not always. And she hath done
what she could. She is come a forehand to anoint
my body to the burying. Verily, I say unto you,
wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world.
This also that she hath done, shall be spoken of
for a memorial unto her, and Judas is carryout. One
of the twelve went unto the chief priests to betray him,
and unto them, And this is the final verse. And
when they heard it, they were glad and promised to
give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently
betray him. So much going on here, So much going
on here. But there is a woman who is in
Jesus's presence, whose one purpose is to worship him. Her
one purpose is to give thanks and praise to God
for his goodness to her. And she's there to worship him.
And you have other people who are supposed to be
chief priests. You have other people like Judas, who's supposed
to be one of his disciples, and the Bible says
that Judas is trying to find a way to steal
the money. Basically, if you read more about the story,
the chief priests are looking for a way to kill
Jesus and these people are supposed to be God's people.
But this one woman is there to worship Jesus and
she is giving her all. It was very precious that
ointment that she had there. It was very precious how
much she had to invest in order to do this
one act of worship. I think we were talking about
a widow who had two mites, which is fewer than
two US pennies or less than two Jamaican dollars, and
she gave all of it. That's all she had. She
gave all to God, and she gave out of her need,
not out of her abundance. This woman here at Jesus's
feet is giving out of her need, not out of
her abundance. She's giving her all to Jesus. And God's
people have a problem with it. Have you ever been
in a scenario where God's people had a problem with worship?
With your worship? People trying to decide whether your worship
is valid. Well, God is saying here like my friend
and brother, my friend and big brother, Pastor Selvin Stuart.
And every time this story comes up, I think about him.
Many years ago we were at trench Town Church and
he preached, before he was a pastor, he preached let
her alone, or he said that he was going to preach.
He was teaching Sabbath School I think it was, and
he said leave Mary Alone. I think that was the
title that he was going to use. And I said,
I'm going to steal it one day. I still haven't
done so, but he said, leave leave Mary alone. And
that's what I say today, in this unforgettable experience where
Jesus is now present, his power is present to heal
at all times if people are receptive to him, and
certainly to transform their lives. Leave Mary alone. All of
the Marys of this world who are there to live
in humble submission to God, leave her alone. And so,
of course, there are some lessons that we can learn
from this experience, so many, so many. Number one, we
learned the lesson of sacrificial giving, the value of sacrificial giving.
You see, God loves when we sacrificially give faith, and
he heals people when he saw their faith. In Mark
chapter two, he healed and forgave the man who was
sick of the palsy. In this case, we see that
Jesus valued and told the people who were so selfish.
He told them that you have these others with you,
judas you have these others with you. But she is
preparing me for the burial. I am here to give
my life for you. She is showing worship in a
way that you all should be showing. And so there
is high value in sacrificial giving. And then of course
recognizing the significance or importance of the moment. In Mark
chapter fourteen and verse eight, she hath done what she could.
She comes beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
So Jesus sees and assigns the importance to the situation.
There are times that we need to ask God, is
this an opportunity or, as my big brother and friend
Eric Thomas says, is it a golden opportunity? Is it
an opportunity? Or is a golden opportunity? How do we
see it? Recognize the importance of the moment, And of
course misunderstandings come based on people trying to read other
people's minds and seeing their intentions. So we leave that
to God. We don't try to read minds. We don't
try to read minds. And so let's go with this
final one from Mark chapter fourteen and verse seven. The
poor you always have with you, and soever ye may
you can do good to them, But me you don't have.
Always prioritize Jesus over material situations. God knows all things,
and he will give us the wisdom how to serve others.
Make it a great day, peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. 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,