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02 26 2024 The Suffering Messiah · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
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  food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
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  some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Monday, February twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book
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  of Psalms, and our caption for today is the Suffering Messiah, The Suffering
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  Messiah. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily
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  Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion
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  book, and let us know where you are in the world. At your
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  Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we can continue to build
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  faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get
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  underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us the opportunity to open
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  up your word again today. Thank you for giving us a glimpse into the
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  ministry of Jesus Christ. Please, Father, give us the appropriate reverential response
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  to the blessing that He is to us, that you are to us in
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  Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I think that sometimes
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  when we are discussing things related to our salvation, that we can become too
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  lack a daisical to pass as we discuss these things like it's a subject,
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  right, I say, the caption for today is the suffering Messiah. And
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  then if God forbid I have an immature approach, then I just spout some
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  fancy ways of discussing things from the Bible, and then I just say something
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  at the end, and then let you go and then off to the next
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  one tomorrow. But the fact is that the suffering of Jesus Christ should inspire
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  awe and reverence in us. You feel me like, the reason why this
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  is such a big deal is because Jesus did not have to do this.
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  Remember, Jesus is equal to his father. He's eternal. I understand like
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  it's confusing to our natural minds, but this is why we need faith and
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  to believe what God has said. And so before Jesus assumed a body,
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  before he came through miraculously came through the womb of Mary, Jesus existed throughout
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  the ceaseless ages of eternity past. He created the worlds. Jesus Christ is
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  the light when God said, let there be light, and there was light,
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  like Jesus was the light because the sun, moon, and stars had
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  not yet been created until the fourth Day. I wish I had the time.
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  And so when Jesus now accepts that he's going to lay down his life
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  in the fullness of time, he lays down his life and then he picks
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  it up again. There was an intervening period where he felt abandoned. May
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  I just ask you a question, have you ever felt abandoned? Have you
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  ever felt abandoned? And I don't mean just abandoned generally, I mean abandoned
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  by the most important people in your life. Well, I definitely have Jesus
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  felt abandoned by his father, even though his father was right there with him.
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  Why because he had on him all of the iniquity, transgressions, and
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  sins, the guilt of all of that for every human being from the time
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  of Adam until the last individual who will ever sin. He had all of
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  that guilt on him, all of that shame on him, the pressing darkness
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  that that brings. He had that on him. So that anyone who is
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  willing to repent, and then indeed does to turn away from our sins,
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  to yield our will to him. Whenever that happens, then these individuals can
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  be saved. You see where I'm going. I think words fail me.
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  I don't have a way of expressing this in a way that we can get
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  it, even me, Like, okay, let me just read from the
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  scriptures, from the Book of Psalms, chapter twenty two, What a privilege?
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  Can I just say that right there? What a privilege? And the
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  Bible reads, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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  Why art thou so far from helping me? And from the words of my
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  roaring Let me read it from another translation, My God, my God,
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  why have you abandoned me? I grown in prayer, but help seems far
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  away. He's on the cross, and he is saving his people from our
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  sins, just like the Bible writers said he would do, just like it's
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  recorded in Matthew, just like the prophecies would have said. He came to
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  his own, and his own received him nod. And yet he still went
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  onto the cross. And yet still he gave his life a ransom for many,
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  like he paid the price that we should have paid, except we didn't
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  have enough money in the bank. Spiritually speaking, he took the penalty that
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  we deserve so we can have the righteousness and the righteous reward that he deserved.
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  Okay, And so now he's feeling abandoned, and his help seems far
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  away, My God. Verse two, I cry out during the day,
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  Ah, but you do not answer. And during the night my prayers do
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  not let up. You are holy, You sit as king, receiving praises
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  of Israel in you. Our ancestors trusted, trusted in you, and you
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  rescued them. You rescued them to you. They cried out, and they
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  were saved in you. They trusted and they were not disappointed. But I
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  am a worm, not a man. People insult and despise me. All
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  who see me taunt me. They mock me, and they shake their heads.
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  They say, commit yourselves to yourself to the Lord. Let the Lord
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  rescue him, let the Lord deliver him, or he delights in him.
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  Yes, you are the one who brought me out of the womb and made
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  me feel secure in my mother's breasts. I have been dependent on you since
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  birth. From the time I came out of my mother's womb, you have
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  been my God. Do not remain far away from me. Where trouble is
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  near me and I have no one to help me, Let me just read
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  two more verses. Many bulls surround me, powerful bulls of bash on hem
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  me in. They open their mouths to devour me, like a roaring lion
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  that rips its prey. And then I said one but let me just get
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  one more verse fourteen. My strength drains away like water, and my bones
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  just located. My heart is like wax. It melts away inside me.
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  And then the suffering discussion continues. Have you ever felt abandoned? Brothers and
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  sisters, I ask you that question a ready. Have you ever felt abandoned
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  by the people that should be nearest to you the most important people in your
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  life. Now ten x that feeling, and now one hundred x that feeling,
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  one hundred times that feeling, and then do it until you just can't
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  do it anymore and your calculator breaks. Put that feeling somewhere in your mind,
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  and then realize that Jesus Christ, who is one with the Father,
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  volunteered to give his life for you, brothers and sisters, and for me.
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  And as a result, there was some time that he felt forsaken by
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  his father, although he was not. And the inspired writings in the book
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  Desire of Ages, page seven hundred and fifty three reads, upon Christ as
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  our substitute and surety was laid the iniquity of us all he was counted a
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  transgressor that he might redeem us from the condemnation of the law. The guilt
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  of every descendant of Adam was pressing upon his heart, the wrath of God
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  against sin. The terrible manifestation of his displeasure because of iniquity filled the soul
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  of his son with consternation. That's the end of the quote. Let that
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  settle in. And so today, really I'm asking you to please just pray.
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  This is the action item for today. Pray to God and ask him
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  to give you appreciation for what Jesus has done in giving himself so that you
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  and I can be saved with a wonderful day peace. Thanks for joining us
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  listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.