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07 08 2026 A Messiah Crucified · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, July eighth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series through the books of First and Second Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is a Messiah crucify. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: I should say the Messiah crucified. Before we get into that,
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: in Heaven, thank you for giving us this day and
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  Speaker 2: the blessing of getting us into the middle of the week.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm asking you now to fill us with your
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, help us to be prepared to receive Messiah
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  Speaker 2: into our lives today. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and a man again, a Messiah crucified, the Messiah crucified. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so the very most important thing? Is there a way
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  Speaker 2: to say very most? The most important thing on my
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  Speaker 2: mind this morning is that Jesus went all the way
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  Speaker 2: to the cross to save us. He didn't stop when
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  Speaker 2: things got difficult, when he was hungry and tired, not
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  Speaker 2: being accustomed to that. He didn't stop when he had
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  Speaker 2: to rely on his Father and pray and listen for
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  Speaker 2: the Father's voice and get the power from the Father
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  Speaker 2: through the Holy Spirit. He did not stop when he
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  Speaker 2: felt physical pain. He did not stop. You understand where
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  Speaker 2: we're going with this, when he had to experience thirst,
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  Speaker 2: he did not stop. You see, these things were beyond
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  Speaker 2: how he had ever experienced as the divine One, blessed
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  Speaker 2: be his name. And now in humanity he is having
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  Speaker 2: all of these experiences. And when people rejected him, he
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  Speaker 2: did not stop. The ones whom he loved did not
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  Speaker 2: love him in return, he did not stop. So Jesus
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  Speaker 2: went all the way to the cross to save you,
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  Speaker 2: and he did not stop. Do not turn away from
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  Speaker 2: the crucified Christ, because the very thing that offends human
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  Speaker 2: pride is the very thing God chose to bring you forgiveness.
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  Speaker 2: And when I say you, I'm always talking about me
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  Speaker 2: as well, and freedom and life. Jesus didn't stop, so
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  Speaker 2: we must not stop. Our first lesson comes in from
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  Speaker 2: First Corinthians, chapter one and verse twenty three. First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter one and verse twenty three, where the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: but we preach Christ crucified unto the ancient people of God,
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  Speaker 2: a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks its foolishness. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: we've read this before. It's an offense. It is something
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  Speaker 2: that causes people who do not accept him. It causes
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  Speaker 2: them to reject him. That's the stumbling block. So the
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  Speaker 2: crost did not fit human expectation. That is not the
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  Speaker 2: way that they thought or accepted that Jesus would save
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  Speaker 2: us or Messiah would save us, even though the prophecies
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  Speaker 2: were very clear. But they were like no, when they
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  Speaker 2: saw the ignominy of the cross, when they saw the
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  Speaker 2: common appearance of Jesus Christ, as he was an average
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  Speaker 2: man as far as they could see, hah, they rejected
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  Speaker 2: him when he did not take and grasp and usurp
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  Speaker 2: the power of Rome. He was rejected. And yet God
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  Speaker 2: chose the crucified Christ as the way of salvation. So
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  Speaker 2: what do we do with this? Receive Christ as he
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  Speaker 2: truly is today. No matter what you have written as
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  Speaker 2: a prescription for Christ, row that away and do not
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  Speaker 2: reject him because he does not fit human pride or expectation.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it was more than twenty years ago. My
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  Speaker 2: good friend Gil Chris sprou but it's spelled sprov Sprau,
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  Speaker 2: a musician and a musicologist, a music minister. He wrote
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  Speaker 2: a song titled will you worship Me? Now? Will you
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  Speaker 2: worship Jesus as he is appearing least godlike as he's
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  Speaker 2: on the cross. And he is dying between two thieves.
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  Speaker 2: Will you worship me now? When he does not fit
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  Speaker 2: the prescription you have written for him? Will you worship
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  Speaker 2: me now? I want you to look that up. Gil
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  Speaker 2: Chris Sprou Gil Chris is spelled g y l C
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  Speaker 2: Chris gil Chris sprou Look it up. Will you worship
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  Speaker 2: me now? And that is the question that we must
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  Speaker 2: ask ourselves and answer and answer. And so our next
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  Speaker 2: lesson comes in from Acts chapter thirteen and verse twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible reads, and men and brethren, children of
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  Speaker 2: the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God
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  Speaker 2: to do I mean to you is the word of
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  Speaker 2: this salvation sent. So God sent his message to the
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  Speaker 2: ancient people of God first so that they would receive
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  Speaker 2: the message in clarity to embrace it, so they could
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  Speaker 2: be the runners of the Gospel into all the world.
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  Speaker 2: Some accepted, but many did not. But the fact is
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  Speaker 2: that God went to his people just like he promised Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: He promised them that this would be the case. He
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  Speaker 2: promised salvation, deliverance, and rescue to come through that seed.
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  Speaker 2: And so Paul preached the Cross of Christ his saving
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  Speaker 2: message for real people. The death of Christ was not
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  Speaker 2: a tragic accident. You and I both have experienced friends
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  Speaker 2: being lost through tragic accidents. I've told you that my
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  Speaker 2: own mother passed away. She met her demise in May
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  Speaker 2: of twenty twenty through a tragic accident. The tractor trailer
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  Speaker 2: won and now she is resting. This is not what
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about. It is Heaven's answer for sinners who
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  Speaker 2: need rescue. It wasn't just an earthly event. This was
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  Speaker 2: where Jesus Christ laid down his life, with all of
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  Speaker 2: the burden, all of the guilt of sin on him,
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  Speaker 2: for every human who would ever live and ever had lived,
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  Speaker 2: all on him at one time, and the divine justice
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  Speaker 2: of God based on the law of God, the perfect
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  Speaker 2: law of God being offended. Now Jesus bears the punishment
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  Speaker 2: the innocent for the guilty, and so we need the rescue.
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  Speaker 2: What do we do, though, in response, take the message
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  Speaker 2: of salvation personally. Today God is writing the letter to you,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. The message is coming to you, just
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  Speaker 2: like it was coming to the offspring of Abraham in
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  Speaker 2: those days. He's writing to you in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: upon whom the end of the earth or the world
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  Speaker 2: has come so that you can be on the side
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  Speaker 2: of God, so that you can be the voice to
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  Speaker 2: give the loudest cry of this salvation that the earth
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  Speaker 2: has ever experienced for the last time, before mercy folds
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  Speaker 2: her wings for the last time. God is calling you,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. He's calling me so that we can
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  Speaker 2: be saved and we can help as many other people
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  Speaker 2: to be saved as well. And so take that message
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  Speaker 2: of salvation personally today and thank God that the cross
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  Speaker 2: was for you, not just for them, not just for us,
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  Speaker 2: but for you personally. Your name here for you. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: let me read a quote from Patriarchs and Prophets, page
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  Speaker 2: sixty eight, as we come to a swift clothes. The
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  Speaker 2: plan of salvation had yet broader and deeper purpose than
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  Speaker 2: the salvation of humankind. It was not for us alone
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus came to the earth. Oh my yes, So
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  Speaker 2: God was reconciling all of the heavenly agencies. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: the pulse of love, one pulse of love will reverberate
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  Speaker 2: through the universe to say that God is Love. Make
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  Speaker 2: it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,