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 Tuesday, August
twenty seven, 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 who said you could do that?
Who said you could do that? We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
welcome to you. You are all over the world. I'm thankful,
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and so many other platforms. And I'm thankful, like this
age is the best time that I can think of
in Earth's history. That's just me saying that we're so
close to the coming of the Lord, and technology has
gotten to a place where there is no way that
we can't spread the gospel. Like we have to be
able to spread the gospel. It doesn't matter what obstacles
are in front of us. There is a way to
get the gospel to every person on planet Earth. Maybe
you think I'm exaggerating, I don't know, but I'm just
saying this is the time. This is the time that
God has has put his supernatural blessing on everything that
we have so that we can hasten the coming of
our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And to that end,
let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank you. Thank
you for having the authority and power to transform our lives.
Help us to cooperate with you and not enter into
these silly controversies that your people went into when Jesus
was here. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
And so we are continuing a long discussion from the
Book of Mark chapter eleven still, and we may drip
into chapter twelve as well, but let's begin with verse
twenty seven verse twenty seven of Mark chapter eleven. Who
said you can do that? Well? The Bible continues here
and they come again to Jerusalem. So we're watching, we're
having days with Jesus and seeing what he's going through
to save his people from our sins. And they come
again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple,
there came to him the chief priests. Oh boy, here
we go, and the scribes and the elders. Now this
could be good, like they could be saying, Jesus, what
can we do? What can we do? Like? How would
you want us to serve you? There are some people
way over in the other part of the world that
we want to reach. We we heard that they needed you,
but we don't know how to reach them. Can you
show us how and then we'll do whatever? You say?
Oh no, that's not that's not what happened. And they
said verse twenty eight. Unfortunately, uh, they said, unto him,
by what authority doest thou these things? What things you
mean call his his father's house a house of prayer
for all people? What things come into Jerusalem triumphally as
a fulfillment of the prophecies that said he would he
would come into the place hah and and ascend the
throne of King David, his father. Like, what do you saying?
What are you saying here healing people of all of
the diseases, forgiving people of sins? By what authority doest
thou these things? I'm so glad that Jesus is not me.
I realize how much I need to repent. I need,
I need Jesus because I have I have some kind
of I got feelings over this one talking about who
Who's Who's authority? Like, by what authority doest thou these things? Well?
And who gave THEE this authority to do these things? Jesus?
Not like me, not like you? Unlike you, Jesus answered
and said, unto them, Well, let me ask you one
question and answer me, and then I'll tell you by
what authority I do these things. The Baptism of John
was it from heaven or of men? Now answer me.
You see, Jesus knew the heart of the people that
were coming to him with this foolishness. And they reasoned
with themselves, saying, well, if we, if we say from heaven,
then he will say, why then did you not believe him? See,
they knew that they knew they didn't believe him. They
knew that they didn't believe the forerunner that was also
the forerunner of Jesus, that was also prophesied of the
Elijah who was to come, that was to prepare the
way of the Lord, to make the path straight, to
call the people to repentance. They knew that they rejected him.
And so they're reasoning within themselves saying, well, if we
if we, if we say then from heaven, and then
then he will say, well, why then did you not
believe him? But if we say of men, then then
they feared the people. Come on, man, y'all bolzy enough
to talk to Jesus this way, the king of the universe,
the one who created you, the one who could call
right now twelve legions of angels now and completely destroyed
the entire planet. Right now, you feel proud enough and
powerful enough to speak to Jesus, slick out of your mouth,
but you fear the people. Come on, and what is
wrong here? The devil had these guys' minds crazy, and
really it was wilful ignorance that put them in this position.
But they said, well, well, yeah, we should probably if
we say of men, then they feared the people, for
all men counted John that he was a prophet. Indeed,
and they answered and said, unto Jesus, we cannot tell.
And Jesus, answering, said, unto them. See, he knew they
would be stubborn. He knew that they would harden their hearts.
He knew that they would not humble themselves and just
tell the truth and even just ask God to forgive
them in that moment and begin to live as royal
children of the Living God, blessed be his name. No, no, no, no,
So Jesus said, neither do I tell you by what
authority I do these things? Can I just say that
there are times that we talk to God. We may
not talk to God in the same voice that these
men did, but we still are not humble. Some humans
are not humble. And when we talk to God, we're
asking him for answers, and Jesus is not answering, and
we're wondering why is he not answering. It's because we've
not humbled ourselves. Ask King Saul, the late King Saul,
who didn't get answers from God, And so he went
to a whim, He went to the devil, He went
to the wizards that peeped and muttered. He went to
those who were not according to the law, who were
not according to the testimony, who did not speak according
to God's word. There was no truth in the witch
at Endoor. And King Saul the one God anointed and
made him a different man in an instant in time,
to the point that the people said, is not this
King Saul? We know where he came from? Is he
now from among the prophets? His life changed in a
good way in a moment, And now he no longer
has the Holy Ghost because he wouldn't humble himself. And
so now because he would not humble himself because of
his iniquities, he was separated from God. Is that which
you're in now you're wondering why your prayers are not
being answered and not saying that this is your situation.
I don't know you like that. What I am asking you, though,
is are you humbling yourself before God so that when
you do talk to him it is as a friend.
Prayers is opening the heart of ourselves. We're opening up
our hearts to God and speaking to him as a friend.
Are you are you humbling yourself before God so that
when He hears your prayer he will incline his ear
to you and grant you his peace. This is an
opportunity for all of us to tell the truth, to
tell the truth. And so now we go into chapter
twelve for just a moment, just a moment here, and really,
actually I can't get too deeply into that because I'm
not able to make a lot of sense of it,
so I don't want to rush through it. But the
bottom line here is the bottom line here is that
Jesus gave the message to the people when you read
into chapter twelve, that God has been sending messages of hope.
He has been sending messages of repentance, been sending opportunities
through the prophets, through his servants, his messengers. He's been
sending messages to people who have hardened their hearts against
God so many times. And you know what, people still refused,
and so God did one better. He said, you know
what I'm going to send Jesus. I'm going to send
the one who is exactly like me, the one who
represents me one hundred percent in every kind of way.
And the people still rejected him. They even rejected Jesus,
who was the epitome of who God is. Lord help us,
Lord help us. Yeah. The authority that God has he
can transform our lives, but we need to be humble
and willing.
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,