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01 02 2025 Crucified for Us · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Thursday, January two,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 new
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series, God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is Crucified for us? Can I say it
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  Speaker 2: this way? Jesus was crucified for us. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you and ask you to please go
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  Speaker 2: as a companion to this lesson study and let us
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  Speaker 2: know where you are in the world at your Daily
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray and then we will get underway. Father in heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us this new day and for
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  Speaker 2: giving us the privilege of coming into your presence through
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  Speaker 2: your word. Please teach us, Father, how to serve you
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  Speaker 2: and to love you. Teach us to live for you
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So Jesus was crucified for us, and I want you
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  Speaker 2: to think, like, how can I apply that reality to
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  Speaker 2: my life. When we get to the Bible Book of Galatians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter two, it'll start to ring clear in our minds.
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  Speaker 2: But let me just say it one more time. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was crucified for us, and Jesus didn't stay dead. So
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  Speaker 2: he was crucified for us, but he did not stay dead.
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  Speaker 2: That means that Jesus kept his promise. He gave his
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  Speaker 2: life for us so that we can be safe, so
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  Speaker 2: we can have power over every single besetting sin, over
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  Speaker 2: every negative mindset style, like, we now have the power
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  Speaker 2: to be raised incorruptible spiritually speaking and then practically with
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  Speaker 2: Christ because he gave his life for us, but he
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  Speaker 2: did not stay dead. Okay, And so what makes the
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  Speaker 2: difference so we don't have to die? The lesson writer said,
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  Speaker 2: God invites everyone into a love relationship with him. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I think love makes the difference. But only those who
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  Speaker 2: freely accept. Now we're getting somewhere. But only those who
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  Speaker 2: freely accept, underscore, underscore, circled, emboldened, red type, highlighted, freely
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  Speaker 2: accept the invitation enjoy the eternal results. So the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus Christ gave himself for us, he died the
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  Speaker 2: death that we deserve, so we can live the life
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  Speaker 2: that he deserved. Right, Well, the invitation is there, many
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  Speaker 2: are called right, ah, His love is there, many are
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  Speaker 2: called ah. But those who freely accept those are the
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  Speaker 2: ones who enjoy the benefits. But few are chosen. So
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  Speaker 2: the ones who are chosen are the ones who freely
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  Speaker 2: eccepit accept the invitation. Okay, And so I ask myself
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  Speaker 2: a question, who would be unwilling to accept God's invitation
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  Speaker 2: into this celebration of his son? You see the celebration
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus's ability to save hopeless sinners and make us
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  Speaker 2: hopeful saints like this is the invitation. He's welcoming us
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  Speaker 2: from death into life. He's welcoming us into the experience
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  Speaker 2: of let your light so shine before people, so that
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  Speaker 2: when they see your good works of kindness, when they
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  Speaker 2: see your good works of I can actually assist you
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  Speaker 2: in getting over that addiction to alcoholism or substances, or pornography,
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  Speaker 2: or having itching ears waiting for someone else to gossip,
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  Speaker 2: or for you to bad mind someone and speak badly
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  Speaker 2: about people. I have the antidote, because God has given
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  Speaker 2: all of his children the antidote. So when God has
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  Speaker 2: welcomed you, he's welcomed me in the invitation, with an
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  Speaker 2: invitation into a relationship that is transformative in nature, where
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  Speaker 2: now we learn how to love where we were fearful before,
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  Speaker 2: We learn how to love where we were hateful before.
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  Speaker 2: We know how to invest our times in things that
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  Speaker 2: matter to God, rather than to be distracted by the
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  Speaker 2: things that the enemy would have us be distracted upon.
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  Speaker 1: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Being proud in church and religious circles where we somehow
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  Speaker 2: think we're better. God forbid than someone else, because we
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  Speaker 2: have learned something and begun to actually live it, and
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  Speaker 2: they are still struggling. Like, God is able by invitation
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  Speaker 2: bringing us into this celebration of his son, so we
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  Speaker 2: can have the righteousness of Christ. So when the judgment comes,
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  Speaker 2: we can have boldness in the day of judgment. Huh,
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  Speaker 2: we can be perfected in love. He's inviting us to
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  Speaker 2: a celebration. Who would be unwilling to accept such a celebration. Well,
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  Speaker 2: in Matthew chapter twenty t, we do see where people
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  Speaker 2: did reject the invitation, and then one poor soul accepted it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a parable, but one poor soul accepted
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  Speaker 2: the invitation, said yes, I want to be in relationship
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  Speaker 2: with you. Yes, I love you, Thank you for your righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: and then stripped it off and said, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I think I can get it from here.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on my own. I'm good now, I know how
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  Speaker 2: to overcome sin and temptation all by myself now. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like no, no, no, no. The invitation is ongoing
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  Speaker 2: and we freely accept, and therefore those who freely accept
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the eternal results. Which of quote God's people would
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  Speaker 2: reject this invitation? And so in the Book of John
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  Speaker 2: chapter ten, verse seventeen, the Bible reads, Therefore, doth my
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  Speaker 2: Father love me because I lay down my life that
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  Speaker 2: I might take it again? No man verse eighteen taketh
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  Speaker 2: it from me. But I laid down my life myself.
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  Speaker 2: I have power to lay it down, and I have
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  Speaker 2: power to take it again. This commandment have I received
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  Speaker 2: of my Father. The Bible says that Jesus became obedient
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  Speaker 2: unto death. We're to let our minds be like Christ's
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  Speaker 2: mind to adopt his mindset ha who had the power
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  Speaker 2: to be obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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  Speaker 2: There are some people right now who are not accepting
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  Speaker 2: the miracle in the text that I'm about to read, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to take yourself out of that
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  Speaker 2: category and put yourself into miracle territory. By God's grace.
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  Speaker 2: And Galatians chapter two and verse twenty, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: I am crucified with Christ. It was a miracle that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus allowed his humanity to die, because his divinity could
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  Speaker 2: have resisted the power of the death that came to
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  Speaker 2: his humanity. Can I say that one more time? It
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  Speaker 2: was a miracle for Jesus Christ coming into human flo
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  Speaker 2: with all of that divinity still in his bosom. He
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  Speaker 2: never ceased being God. But great is the mystery of
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  Speaker 2: godliness that he became God in the flesh. That's a miracle.
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  Speaker 2: And then Jesus Christ, with all of his divinity, allowed
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  Speaker 2: his humanity to go to sleep. And Jesus stayed in
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  Speaker 2: the tomb until the Sunday morning, and in his strength, unborrowed, underived,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus took up his life again. And I'm thankful. But
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  Speaker 2: there are some people who refuse that miracle, some people
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  Speaker 2: who will choose not to be crucified, who will no
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  Speaker 2: longer allow themselves to submit to God's will, who will
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  Speaker 2: not submit and surrender to the point that they allowed
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  Speaker 2: their evil flesh to die. I'm talking about spiritually, God
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  Speaker 2: is giving us the privilege to enjoy the miracle of
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  Speaker 2: dying to sin. And then the Bible says, ah, but
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  Speaker 2: h nevertheless, I live, but Christ is the one, not I,
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  Speaker 2: but Christ liveth in me the death or excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: the life which I now live in the flesh. I
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  Speaker 2: live by faith in the Son of God, who loved
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  Speaker 2: me and gave himself for me. And so the miracle
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  Speaker 2: is that now I can live a victorious life. The
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  Speaker 2: miracle is now I know how to be kind, when
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  Speaker 2: before I was not kind. I now miraculously can submit
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  Speaker 2: my will to God, and I can actually do God's
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  Speaker 2: will and be in right relationship with Him and allow
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  Speaker 2: others to do the same. So when Jesus gives us
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  Speaker 2: an invitation to be crucified with him and to be
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  Speaker 2: raised with him, accepted. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,