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Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too

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much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy

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for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect

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yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to

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keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are

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going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words

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today and receive the power we need to live healthy,

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vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker, Elle David Harris.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, March five,

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twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.

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I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every single day, and

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today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson

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study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,

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and our caption for today is Commandments of Men. Oh my,

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there are a whole lot of those commandments of Men.

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Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome

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to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then

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we will get underway. Father, We do thank you for

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this new day, and I pray that we will listen.

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Simply listen to your voice and ignore any other voice

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that is not congruent with yours. In Jesus name, I

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pray Amen and Amen again, Amen again. All right. The

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commandments of men? Do we really need to go into

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the details here? I guess we do because the Bible

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talks about this like, okay, So on the one hand,

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you have the commandments of God, call them the ten Commandments.

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On the other hand, is everything else anything that is

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in conflict with the ten Commandments law, then it doesn't matter,

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like throw it out. If it's in conflict with the

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ten Commandments law, then throw it out. I remember somebody

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taught us in church. Somebody taught us in church. It

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was years ago when I was a new believer that

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the ten Commandments listen to the standard. The ten Commandments

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law was actually emblazoned on those sapphire stones, those blue stones.

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Not brown, not beige, not granite looking, but blue stones.

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I wish I had the time to deal with the

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fact that the stone that the tablet, the tables that

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came out of the throne of God. I wish I

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had the time, but I don't. But the blue stone

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God emblazoned on those stones, without ascribe, without somebody to inspire,

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He just himself. He inscribed the ten Commandments on those stones.

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And then anything else that came the Torah, the first

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five of the books of the Bible, those agreed with

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with the ten commandments, okay, And then you have the

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Psalms that agreed with the ten commandments. And then you

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have wisdom that agreed with the ten commandments, and every

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subsequent understanding that is in the scriptures comprising now the

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Old and New Testaments, the prophets that aligned with the

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ten Commandments, and everything subsequent. You understand, all the way

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into the New Testament, the Gospels all aligned, the epistles

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all aligned. You understand where I'm going with this. The

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revelation all aligned. And so since God is the one

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that started this thing by inscribing the Ten Commandments, then

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the people who were now under inspiration of God, whatever

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they would write on behalf of God. They were his

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pen men, not his pen Then that stuff was trustworthy,

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which is why now we accept these sixty six books

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of the Bible. Listen to the theologians. I'm not talking

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about canonization. Please don't hold me to this as a theologian.

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This is not what we're talking about. It is common

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sense that everything in the Bible agrees with everything else

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in the Bible, including the Holy Ten Commandments law. So

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whatever is in disagreement, and then people try to cause

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us to do those things, those would be called the

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commandments of men. I know I over simplified, but we

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only have a few minutes. So lessen number one in

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that regard is dying with Christ ends ceremonial obligation. Dying

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with Christ ends the ceremonial obligation. So we're going to Colossians,

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chapter two and verse twenty, and the Bible reads, wherefore,

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if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of

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the world, why as though living in the world are

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ye subject to ordinances. So Jesus came and gave his

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life for us. He is the perfect fulfillment of the

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ceremonial laws. They all pointed forward to Christ, including the priesthood.

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You understand. So why after Jesus gave his life for

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us would we try to keep those ceremonial ordinances and

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laws that really just pointed to him. Why would we

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uncrucify Jesus and say, no, thank you for your sacrifice. Sir,

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We'll take it from here and we'll put ourselves under

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the burden of something that you got rid of. God,

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you gave us the fulfillment. So why would we go

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back to the shadow? You see what I mean? This

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was going on in the church. Paul reminds believers that

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union with Christ includes death to the ceremonial system that

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belonged to the earthly sanctuary. These quote rudiments were temporary, preparatory,

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and symbolic. To return to them after the cross is

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to live as though Christ had not already completed his work.

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It's like putting your hand up and saying, God, I'm

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not interested in your plan of salvation. I want to

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do it my own way. Heavenly citizenship and when I

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say heavenly, I said it to you a couple of

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weeks ago. I'm not talking about a location. I'm talking

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about godliness. So if it's heaven above, or when God

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gives us the earth made new after the thousand years

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following Christ's christ return, that's heavenly. Heavenly citizenship requires living

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from Christ's work, his complete work, not from the shadows

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tied to the old order of things. And I know

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for the majority of us this does not apply. People

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are not trying to keep the Old Testament system of sacrifice,

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but that does come up sometimes. I remember I said

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I brushed a broad stroke earlier anything that does not

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align with God's words straight through to the ten commandments,

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and they're trying to get you to do it. Yeah,

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that stuff is man made. That is human commandments, and

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we're not about that life. And so the action step

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is to examine whether any religious practice you follow is

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rooted in Christ's work or in systems meant to prepare

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people for him. Lesson number two, human regulations cannot produce holiness.

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And so in Colossians Chapter two, Versus twenty one and

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twenty two, we see do not handle, do not taste.

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Do not touch things that are all destined to perish

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with use according to human commands and teachings. Paul exposes

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the flaw in the rule based spirituality. Regulations appear strict

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and spiritual, but they have no lasting power to transform

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the heart. When ceremonies fulfilled by Christ are enforced as

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spiritual requirements, and I will add in twenty twenty six,

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they no longer function as divine instruction but as human

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uh oh abusive, oh, authoritarian oh control. Religion without Christ

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becomes burdensome, pride forming, and powerless. Humans have erected altars

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to ourselves for so many years, all the way back

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to Caine. We just make up stuff. And then if

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we can make up the rules, I don't know, let's

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make six hundred and sixteen rules that sound really kind

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of holy, like like you know what I mean, like

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don't walk but so many steps on Saturday?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 2: That kind of stuff makes us feel proud and we

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can keep people under the thumb because we make up

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new rules when we feel like it. So here's the

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action step. Reject any system that measures spirituality by external

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restrictions rather than a transformed heart anchored in Christ. Make

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it a great day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.

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Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by

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every word that comes from the mouth of God. This

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has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make

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it a great day. Yeah,