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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 Wednesday, March fourth,

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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 shadow or Substance. It's

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a question shadow or substance. We'll get into that in

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just a moment, but first I like to say welcome

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dot com. This is one of the ways that we

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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank

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you for this day and giving us yourself the genuine

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article and not leaving us with the shadows. In Jesus name,

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I pray Amen and a man again. So I think

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we have looked at these passages a few times in

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the last couple of weeks, or at least had a

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little bit of a look at them. And I have

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said some things to you already that I think we

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should already have clarity for. But in Colossians chapter two,

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verses sixteen through nineteen, unfortunately, among the faith communities of God,

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we have all of these arguments, and I'm like, wow,

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but the language is so clear to me. But let

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me just say, spiritual things are spiritually discerned I'm going

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to use you. I'm going to give you a word

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that maybe it's not necessary for me to give, but

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I just figured i'd give it to you as a bonus.

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This is what theologians use people who are going through,

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you know, theological programs, and it's called exegesis. It's not

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in my notes. It just clicked in my mind, though, exegesis.

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Look it up. Exitgesis ex e g ei ge g

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si s okay, exogesus. And basically that means when we

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go into the scriptures, we are looking for what is

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actually there, as opposed to isogesus, which is I want

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to impose what I'm thinking on the scriptures. So in

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this case we're going to exegete not really, but a

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little bit the text. Let's start with Colossians, chapter two

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and verse sixteen. Let's see what's actually there. Okay, let

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no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink,

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So you would have to read the context of the

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text and compare scripture with scripture. Okay, long story short,

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Let nobody judge you therefore in meat or in drinks.

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So immediately you should be asking yourself, well, what are

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we talking about here? Are we talking about, like not

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allowing anybody to judge me about what I'm eating or drinking. Well,

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you could ask that question and arrive at that destination

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if you didn't read the rest of the text. Or

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in respect of a holy day. Oh wait a minute,

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so the eating and drinking likely are related, or the meat,

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excuse me, and drink using the words that are in

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the text, the meat and drink must also be attached

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to holy days. Well, I'm not sure. Or new Moon.

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Oh wait a minute. Yeah, so the meat and drink

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Holy Day and New Moon must all be related. Or

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Sabbath days. Well, they're all related. And then the Bible

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says which are a shadow. So it's like, okay, so meat, drink,

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Holy Day, New Moon, Sabbath days plural shadow of things

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to come. That must mean that they're all related. Well,

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where do we get meat, drink, Holy Day, New Moon,

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Sabbaths as shadows all in one package? That's simple. Let

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the Bible explain itself. In the sacrificial system, there are

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meat offerings, drink offerings, Holy days plural, New moons plural,

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sabbath days, ceremonial days, ceremonial sabbaths plural. Well, how do

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we know what we're talking about because they're a shadow

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of things to come. And when you get the entire

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conversation very clearly, here we see that there were some judaizers,

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some people who were still trying to hold gentiles and others.

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If you want to say to account, to say you

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have to even though Jesus already gave his life for us,

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even though Jesus has come to fulfill the ceremonial laws,

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I need you to still offer meat offerings. I need

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you to still offer drink offerings. I need you to

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still celebrate and observe those holy days that are ceremonial

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in nature, and new moons and sabbath days that are

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ceremonial in nature. All through the book of Leviticus we

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see all of these details, and God is saying through Paul,

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ceremonial practices are not to be used as a measure

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for your connection with God, not after Jesus came, not

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after he fulfilled that. And so lesson number one is

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Paul is addressing ceremonial practices and not the moral law.

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So here's a little insight on this. I've already said it,

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but let me say it some more. Paul's use of

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therefore ties the instruction directly to his prior argument about

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what circumcision physical circumcision, You got it, physical circumcision. Ceremonial ordinances,

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ritual requirements that were pressing gentile believers to conform to

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those Old Testament practices. And so the categories listed follow

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the Old Testament ceremonial calendar pattern found in HOSEA, chapter

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two and verse eleven. These practices belonged to the sanctuary

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system that did what pointed forward to Christ. They were

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a shadow of things to come. What was the things

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to come? Jesus Christ coming to fulfill all of what that?

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What that had to do with? No more priests, no

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more priesthood, no more ceremonial days, no more sacrificial system.

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Because the true and genuine article is actually here? And

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so what is the action step? Study the scriptures carefully

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before exccepting claims that blur the distinction between ceremonial symbols

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and God's eternal moral law. I left out something because

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I was trying not to be too cerebral, but I

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think I already was, so I might as well say

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it to you. The Ten Commandments law are They're not

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a shadow. The Ten Commandments are not a shadow of anything.

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They're not a shadow or a type of anything. They

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are the genuine article. They are the transcript of the

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character of Christ. It's still we don't have a license

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to murder. We don't have a license to disrespect our parents.

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We don't have a license to sect somebody who's not

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our spouse. Did I just say that word commit adultery?

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That's the way I should have said it. We still

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don't have a license to be tail bearers and liars.

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We don't have a license to have other gods before God.

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I feel like I said this the other day, and

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it bears repeating. We don't have a license to covet

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our neighbors anything, or to break the seventh day Sabbath.

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We don't have a license. It's not a shadow. The

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law is not a shadow of things to come, the

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Ten Commandments law. Okay, okay. So the second lesson, as

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we come to a swift close, is to that shadows

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point forward. Christ is the reality. And we know from

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the next text in verse seventeen, these are only a

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shadow of things to come, not the reality, which is Christ.

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So here is the insight a shadow has no independent existence.

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It depends on the real object. The ceremonial laws, festivals,

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ritual sabbats for shadow Christ's work, his saving work. So

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once Jesus is here, and he is, we say bye

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bye shadows. And don't try to judge me, because I

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have the substance which.

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Speaker 1: Is thanks joins. Friends, always remember we cannot live by

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bread alone, but by every word that comes from the

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mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with

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El David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,