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, September seventeen,
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 Crucifixion. The Crucifixion. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
We thank you for this day. Thank you for giving
us Jesus. Thank you for not giving up on the
process of saving us. Thank You for doing what we
could not possibly do in order to deliver us from
ourselves and the enemy bother. I just pray now that
you will transform somebody's life today, beginning with me. Transform us, Father,
so that we will choose today for the last time,
for the final time, that we will serve you with
everything that we have and everything that we are. We're
living in the last Day's God, and so your power
is present in the way that we've never seen before,
to hear, heel, and to deliver and to make us holy.
Please help us to accept this power in Jesus name.
I pray, Amen and Amen again the Crucifixion. There is
so much to say, so little time, but I just
want to say, thank God, thank God for loving us.
I mean, if you believe that God loves you and
you are grateful, I need you to type in the
chat thank God. I need you to type in the
chat thank God, because listen to see what Jesus went
through just to save us. I'm thinking, couldn't there have
been another pathway? But then again, Jesus said the same
thing when he was in the garden of get seventy
and he was like, Father, please just reveal, like, reveal
the pathway to success in this regard? Could you find
another way?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Is there another way for this mission to save people
from their sins? Is there another way to do this?
Then he said, nevertheless, not as thy will, but as
thou willed. And so now we see that Jesus resigned
himself to go through right through to the bitter end,
to deliver people who many times didn't even love him.
In return, God, help us, help us to surrender to you.
We read now in the Book of Mark, chapter fifteen,
beginning at verse twenty one. This needs to be a
worship setting. Brothers and sisters. I'm not teaching you anything.
You're learning from the Holy Ghost how to yield your
will to God. In this very moment, he is bringing
before you the scenes of the crucifixion, the scenes of
Jesus giving himself so that you can live eternally, so
that you will no longer be bound to abuse. You
will never be bound again to the rum bottle. You
don't have to be bound again to substance abuse. You
don't have to be bound to a criminal mindset. You
don't have to be bound to looking at yourself as
less than you can. Know that you are King's kids, royalty,
a royal and holy priesthood in generation, that God has
called you out of the darkness into this marvelous light.
He's giving us the privilege to do this together in
real time four minutes after the beginning of this broadcast.
This is a place of holiness. This is Bethel. This
is the house of God in this moment, if you
are receiving him. In verse twenty one, the Bible says,
and they compel one Simon, a Sirenian who passed by
coming out of the country. See, they are actually taking
Jesus to Galgatha in order to actually crucify him. And
so they see this dude's Simon, And then it says,
the father of Alexander and rufus to bear the cross.
Are you willing to bear your cross? Brothers and sisters?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: Verse twenty two, And they bring him unto the place Galgatha,
which is being interpreted the place of the skull. And
they gave him to drink wine mingled with merr but
he received it not see. Jesus knew that even though
they gave people these kinds of things to benumb their sensibilities,
and for whatever weird reason, they're about to murder people
on or or meet out justice on people. It just
depends on who's up there. But they're about to crucify people,
and now they're trying to give them something to palliate them,
to ease the pain. That's weird. But Jesus said, no,
I'm not going to accept anything, especially not an inebriant.
I'm not going to accept anything to dull the pain.
I'm going to trust God, my father, and I'm going
to drink to the bitter dregs everything that I have
to drink in order. And when I say drink, I'm
saying proverbially symbolically, in order for you brothers and sisters,
for me to be saved. I thank God. And he
said no, no, I'm not receiving that. Verse twenty four.
And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments,
what casting lots upon them ah, what every man should take.
And it was the third hour, and they crucified him,
and the superscription of his accusation was written over him,
the King of the Jews. Of all things that they
could have accused Jesus of, of all things that could
have been he could have been guilty of. This is
all they could come up with. That was the accusation.
And for this you beat and scourged him. For this,
you hit him in the head with a stick for this,
You put a crown of thorns on his head on
for this, you stab him in the side for this,
you rip out his beard. For this, you mock him
and take him from mock trial to mock trial, and
make up false accusations for this, for this verse twenty seven.
And when they crucify two thieves, one was on his
right hand, and then the other on his left. And
the scripture was fulfilled, which said he was numbered with
the transgressors. And they that passed by railed him, wagging
their heads and saying, ah, thou that destroyest the temple.
See I don't even want to read this, brothers and sisters,
but this is the record. You destroyed the temple and
buildes did in three days, save thyself. Come down from
the cross. You see, if Jesus had saved himself, you
would have been lost, my dear brother. If Jesus had
saved himself, you would have been lost. My dear sister.
If Jesus would have saved himself, my son Josiah would
have been lost. My wife Simone would have been lost.
I would have been lost. Jesus chose to save us
rather than to save himself, and the Bible continues. The
Bible continues, yeah verse thirty one. Likewise, also the chief priests,
these are supposed to be God's people, leaders of God's people,
mocking and set among themselves with the scribes. He saved
others himself, he cannot save. Let Jesus, the King of Israel,
descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. See.
If Jesus's miracles, if Jesus's kind heartedness, if Jesus speaking
directly to their needs, Jesus relieving their oppression, Jesus coming
into their lives and transforming people all around them, was
not sufficient to convert these people. They were lying and
wicked at that moment when they said, if he just
does one more thing, then we will serve him. Brothers
and sisters, we need to be honest with ourselves and
honest with God. If God is good, then serve him now.
That's what I'm saying. I'm talking about at nine minutes
after the hour, eight minutes roughly after the hour, I
am saying that if God is good, then worship him now,
do not write him a prescription. If you will just
do this for me, then I'll worship you. If you'll
just do that for me, then I'll worship you. If
you'll relieve me this suffering, if you will deliver my
husband my wife of their disease, then I will worship you.
Putting conditions on the power and love of God. Worship
God because he's worthy right now in twenty twenty four,
on September seventeen, Jesus is worthy of our worship at minimum,
worship him today. And the Bible says that it was
the sixth hour. It was the sixth hour. They were
reviling him. It was the sixth hour, and their darkness
came over the whole land, and then until the ninth hour. Then,
of course Jesus cried out to his father, why have
you forsaken me? What a terrible thing, But Jesus he
did it for us. Worship him 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,