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09 20 2024 The POWER of Sacrifice · 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 Friday, September twenty,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. 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 Book of Mark and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Power of Sacrifice. The Power of Sacrifice.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but before
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  Speaker 2: we do, I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith in fellowship. Let me just say one good time,
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  Speaker 2: happy preparation day. Let's go ahead and pray and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: this time of preparation on this Friday, and this time
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  Speaker 2: of preparation looking forward to the coming of Jesus Christ. Father,
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  Speaker 2: I pray now that you will give us the fullness
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  Speaker 2: of your Holy spirit. Help us to see and experience
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  Speaker 2: and appreciate the sacrifice that you went through, that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: went through in order to save us from our sins. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Please make us holy as a result in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again the power of soccer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read some of this quote from page
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty three from the Desire of Ages
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  Speaker 2: and then and then we will get actually seven thirty
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  Speaker 2: eight and seven fifty three, and then we will go
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  Speaker 2: into the word okay, and so the quote goes this way,
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  Speaker 2: Pilot longed to deliver Jesus. May I just say that
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  Speaker 2: the that the road to destruction is paved with good intentions,
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  Speaker 2: positive thoughts. Yeah, Pilot longed to deliver Jesus now comes this,
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  Speaker 2: this conjunction, but that negates that negates the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he longed or desired to deliver Jesus right, but he
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  Speaker 2: saw that he could not do this and yet retain
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  Speaker 2: his own position and honor. You see, this is where
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  Speaker 2: things go very wrong, brothers and sisters. You see, Pilot
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  Speaker 2: was not willing to sacrifice in this moment what he
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  Speaker 2: thought would have been a good position and honor. What
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  Speaker 2: he thought would have been a good position and honor.
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  Speaker 2: He was not willing to sacrifice this in order to
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  Speaker 2: deliver two things. One an innocent man from death like
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  Speaker 2: they were murdering the Lord. That's what their intent was.
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  Speaker 2: And he could have stopped it right number one. And
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  Speaker 2: then he was not willing to sacrifice, to sacrifice for
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  Speaker 2: his own salvation. Can you imagine, like Jesus was there
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  Speaker 2: purchasing the pardon for every human being who has ever
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  Speaker 2: lived on planet Earth, including Pilot, including if Pilot had children,
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  Speaker 2: including Pilot's wife that said, I beg you please, do
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  Speaker 2: not have anything to do with this. Just man, I
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  Speaker 2: had a dream last night. Don't trouble him. He wasn't
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  Speaker 2: willing to sacrifice. Rather continuing the quote than lose his
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  Speaker 2: worldly power. He chose to sacrifice an innocent life. Oh God,
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  Speaker 2: how many to escape loss or suffering in like manners.
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  Speaker 2: Sacrifice principle, conscience and duty put one away. Oh and
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  Speaker 2: duty put one way, and self interest points another. Let
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  Speaker 2: me say it again, Conscience and duty points one way,
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  Speaker 2: and self interest points another. The current sets strongly in
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  Speaker 2: the wrong direction, and he who compromises with evil is
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  Speaker 2: swept away into the thick darkness of guilt. And so
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  Speaker 2: we can see the imagery of a stream, not even
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  Speaker 2: a stream, a river, a river going out toward the sea,
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  Speaker 2: rushing out toward the sea. And our human ingenuity, our
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  Speaker 2: desires as human beings are putting us in a position
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  Speaker 2: to go the wrong way with the current. But God
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  Speaker 2: gives us the privilege. You want to know what the
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  Speaker 2: privilege is. God gives us the privilege to call upon
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  Speaker 2: his name and say, God, I am in above my head,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I am drowning. If it is you
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  Speaker 2: bid me come out on the water, so I can
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  Speaker 2: walk on the water. And spiritually speaking of course, in
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  Speaker 2: this case, and God would give us the ability to
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  Speaker 2: go against the current, to go above the current, to
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  Speaker 2: live according to principle rather than our own human thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Let me continue now upon Christ as our substitute and
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  Speaker 2: surety was laid the iniquity of us. All you see,
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  Speaker 2: this is the blessing that God has given us. It's
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  Speaker 2: painful to watch even the story of what Jesus went through.
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  Speaker 2: He was counted a transgressor that he might redeem us
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  Speaker 2: from the condemnation of the law. The guilt of every
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  Speaker 2: discs sendant of Adam was pressing upon his heart. Are
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  Speaker 2: you hearing this? So? Jesus was experiencing the guilt of
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  Speaker 2: every sin, for every human who has ever lived or
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  Speaker 2: ever will live. All at the same time, the wrath
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  Speaker 2: of God against sin, the terrible manifestation of his displeasure
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  Speaker 2: because of iniquity, filled the soul of his son with consternation.
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  Speaker 2: And all his life Christ had been publishing to a
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  Speaker 2: fallen world the good news of the Father's mercy and
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  Speaker 2: pardoning love. Salvation for the chief of sinners was his theme.
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  Speaker 2: But now I need you to type in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: But now, with the terrible weight of gods of guilt,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, he bears, he cannot see the Father's reconciling face.
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  Speaker 2: He's teaching everybody about the mercy of God. He's teaching
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  Speaker 2: everybody about the life love of God. He's teaching everybody
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  Speaker 2: about God's power and ability to save. But in this
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  Speaker 2: very moment, Jesus is not able to see the brightness
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  Speaker 2: of the face of God, his Father for the final
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  Speaker 2: moment of Jesus's life, and all of our eternal salvation
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  Speaker 2: is weighed in the balance at this very moment, and
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is feeling separated, He's feeling forsaken. Let me continue
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  Speaker 2: the withdrawal of the divine countenance from the Savior in
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  Speaker 2: this hour of supreme anguish pierced his heart with sorrow
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  Speaker 2: that can never be fully understood by man. So great
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  Speaker 2: was this agony that his physical pain was hardly felt. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the end of the quote. Jesus could not
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  Speaker 2: even hardly desern the pain of the beatings, all of
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  Speaker 2: the blood on his back, with the many stripes of
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  Speaker 2: bones and steel and whatever else they could put on
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  Speaker 2: the end of that wit, that cat of nine tails.
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  Speaker 2: He could barely feel it. He could barely feel the
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  Speaker 2: times that they slapped him and ripped his beard. The
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament Bible writer would have said, ripped his beard
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  Speaker 2: right out of his face. Have you ever had hair
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  Speaker 2: ripped out of your face? And I don't mean by waxing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about pulling on a man with a full
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  Speaker 2: grown beard, pulling that out of his skin. Hm being
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  Speaker 2: beaten in the head with a crown with thick thorns,
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  Speaker 2: long thorns on the crown braided, and he keeps getting slapped,
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  Speaker 2: he keeps being hit with that. And what we're reading
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  Speaker 2: under inspiration is that none of that was even close
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  Speaker 2: to the agony that he felt, because he could not
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  Speaker 2: experience right then, at that moment, he could not discern
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  Speaker 2: the pleasure of his father, who said, you are my
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  Speaker 2: beloved son, the one in whom I'm well pleased, you see.
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  Speaker 2: And so i'd like for us in these closing moments.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you the passages. I won't read them to
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  Speaker 2: consider some principles. Number one, the power of God, the
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  Speaker 2: power of Christ's sacrifice Isaiah chapter fifty three and verse five.
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  Speaker 2: The weight of sin. I will read this one from
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  Speaker 2: Second Corinthians, chapter five and verse twenty one. For he
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  Speaker 2: hath made him to be sin for us who knew
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  Speaker 2: no sin, that he might be made the righteousness of
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  Speaker 2: God in him. Second Corinthians, Chapter five and verse twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: 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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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,