Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Thursday, March five,
twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you God's word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
study series uniting Heaven and Earth, christ in Philippians and Colossians,
and our caption for today is Commandments of Men. Oh my,
there are a whole lot of those commandments of Men.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
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we will get underway. Father, We do thank you for
this new day, and I pray that we will listen.
Simply listen to your voice and ignore any other voice
that is not congruent with yours. In Jesus name, I
pray Amen and Amen again, Amen again. All right. The
commandments of men? Do we really need to go into
the details here? I guess we do because the Bible
talks about this like, okay, So on the one hand,
you have the commandments of God, call them the ten Commandments.
On the other hand, is everything else anything that is
in conflict with the ten Commandments law, then it doesn't matter,
like throw it out. If it's in conflict with the
ten Commandments law, then throw it out. I remember somebody
taught us in church. Somebody taught us in church. It
was years ago when I was a new believer that
the ten Commandments listen to the standard. The ten Commandments
law was actually emblazoned on those sapphire stones, those blue stones.
Not brown, not beige, not granite looking, but blue stones.
I wish I had the time to deal with the
fact that the stone that the tablet, the tables that
came out of the throne of God. I wish I
had the time, but I don't. But the blue stone
God emblazoned on those stones, without ascribe, without somebody to inspire,
He just himself. He inscribed the ten Commandments on those stones.
And then anything else that came the Torah, the first
five of the books of the Bible, those agreed with
with the ten commandments, okay, And then you have the
Psalms that agreed with the ten commandments. And then you
have wisdom that agreed with the ten commandments, and every
subsequent understanding that is in the scriptures comprising now the
Old and New Testaments, the prophets that aligned with the
ten Commandments, and everything subsequent. You understand, all the way
into the New Testament, the Gospels all aligned, the epistles
all aligned. You understand where I'm going with this. The
revelation all aligned. And so since God is the one
that started this thing by inscribing the Ten Commandments, then
the people who were now under inspiration of God, whatever
they would write on behalf of God. They were his
pen men, not his pen Then that stuff was trustworthy,
which is why now we accept these sixty six books
of the Bible. Listen to the theologians. I'm not talking
about canonization. Please don't hold me to this as a theologian.
This is not what we're talking about. It is common
sense that everything in the Bible agrees with everything else
in the Bible, including the Holy Ten Commandments law. So
whatever is in disagreement, and then people try to cause
us to do those things, those would be called the
commandments of men. I know I over simplified, but we
only have a few minutes. So lessen number one in
that regard is dying with Christ ends ceremonial obligation. Dying
with Christ ends the ceremonial obligation. So we're going to Colossians,
chapter two and verse twenty, and the Bible reads, wherefore,
if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of
the world, why as though living in the world are
ye subject to ordinances. So Jesus came and gave his
life for us. He is the perfect fulfillment of the
ceremonial laws. They all pointed forward to Christ, including the priesthood.
You understand. So why after Jesus gave his life for
us would we try to keep those ceremonial ordinances and
laws that really just pointed to him. Why would we
uncrucify Jesus and say, no, thank you for your sacrifice. Sir,
We'll take it from here and we'll put ourselves under
the burden of something that you got rid of. God,
you gave us the fulfillment. So why would we go
back to the shadow? You see what I mean? This
was going on in the church. Paul reminds believers that
union with Christ includes death to the ceremonial system that
belonged to the earthly sanctuary. These quote rudiments were temporary, preparatory,
and symbolic. To return to them after the cross is
to live as though Christ had not already completed his work.
It's like putting your hand up and saying, God, I'm
not interested in your plan of salvation. I want to
do it my own way. Heavenly citizenship and when I
say heavenly, I said it to you a couple of
weeks ago. I'm not talking about a location. I'm talking
about godliness. So if it's heaven above, or when God
gives us the earth made new after the thousand years
following Christ's christ return, that's heavenly. Heavenly citizenship requires living
from Christ's work, his complete work, not from the shadows
tied to the old order of things. And I know
for the majority of us this does not apply. People
are not trying to keep the Old Testament system of sacrifice,
but that does come up sometimes. I remember I said
I brushed a broad stroke earlier anything that does not
align with God's words straight through to the ten commandments,
and they're trying to get you to do it. Yeah,
that stuff is man made. That is human commandments, and
we're not about that life. And so the action step
is to examine whether any religious practice you follow is
rooted in Christ's work or in systems meant to prepare
people for him. Lesson number two, human regulations cannot produce holiness.
And so in Colossians Chapter two, Versus twenty one and
twenty two, we see do not handle, do not taste.
Do not touch things that are all destined to perish
with use according to human commands and teachings. Paul exposes
the flaw in the rule based spirituality. Regulations appear strict
and spiritual, but they have no lasting power to transform
the heart. When ceremonies fulfilled by Christ are enforced as
spiritual requirements, and I will add in twenty twenty six,
they no longer function as divine instruction but as human
uh oh abusive, oh, authoritarian oh control. Religion without Christ
becomes burdensome, pride forming, and powerless. Humans have erected altars
to ourselves for so many years, all the way back
to Caine. We just make up stuff. And then if
we can make up the rules, I don't know, let's
make six hundred and sixteen rules that sound really kind
of holy, like like you know what I mean, like
don't walk but so many steps on Saturday?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: That kind of stuff makes us feel proud and we
can keep people under the thumb because we make up
new rules when we feel like it. So here's the
action step. Reject any system that measures spirituality by external
restrictions rather than a transformed heart anchored in Christ. Make
it a great day. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah,