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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 Sabbath, February

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twenty eight, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians

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and Colossians. We're in Lesson number ten of thirteen and

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and our caption for today is Complete in Christ, Complete

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in Christ. I love it, I love it, I love it.

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Before we get into this, I'd like to just say

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welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for

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the very first time. I'm asking you did you come

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come out on the next one. Also, we have our

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Sunday School which is on Sunday mornings at eight am,

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so we're looking forward to that. That's the New Sunday

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School of Thought, which is based on the book Evangelism,

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pages two forty two to two forty four. And of

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course we have the Prayer School on Wednesday evening. So

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I'm just grateful for the opportunities to expand. Please go

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continue to expand and we continue to build faith and fellowship.

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Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, thank

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you for this Sabbath morning. Thank you for making us

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complete in Christ in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. When I used to work in higher ed

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as assistant registrar in a university setting. One of the

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quote grades that used to come up on people's grade

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reports was an I incomplete. To me, that's the worst

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possible grade, now I know, I said to me. That's

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the qualifier. I said to me, well, okay, next to

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x F, which is, you know, getting a failing mark

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due to this honesty, academic dishonesty. Incomplete, it's just like

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get it done, Like, at least get it done, get

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it done well. In our experience with Christ, there are

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people who are incomplete because those same people are trying

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to do things on our own. We're trying to rush

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to completion by grading our own paper and handing it

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into the cosmic professor and hoping that it's enough to

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get us into the Kingdom so we can graduate from

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planet Earth. And the Bible is teaching us that the

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only way to be complete is to be in Christ.

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I got it. I think I got it. The only

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way to be complete is to be in Christ. Well,

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what does it mean to be in Christ? To be

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in Christ is to submit our will to God. To

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be in Christ means to accept the righteousness or the

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righteous covering of Jesus Christ. That is what it means

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to be complete. And so the Bible reads in Colossians

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chapter two, verses sixteen and seventeen, somebody's gonna catch up here.

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So let no one judge you in food or in drink,

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or regarding a festival or a new moon, or sabbaths,

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which are a shadow of things to come. But the

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substance is of Christ. And so the believers of Paul's

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time at Colossie were struggling with people who came from

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the Old Guard, who were circumcised in their flesh, the

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people through whom Jesus actually came when he was born

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of a woman. They were stuck in what's called the

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sacerdotal system, or the system of sacrifices, where they thought

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that even though Christ came and died, you still had

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to what they were drink offerings, there were festivals, there

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were new moons and ceremonial sabbaths, And the Bible writer

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is saying, mm hmm, all of that stuff pointed forward

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to Christ. And since Jesus has come and he has

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fulfilled the sacrificial law system, then all of the sacrifices

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they pointed to him, all of those new Moon celebrations,

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they pointed to him, all of those ceremonial Sabbaths, they

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pointed to him. And so while Jesus has already come,

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why would you still be looking in the past at

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the shadow. And Okay, I know there are some of

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the people who are a part of my faith fellowship

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who want me to hurry up and get to the

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part where the sabbaths referenced here have nothing to do

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with the seventh day Sabbath. So there I said it.

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There I said it. This has nothing to do with

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the seventh day Sabbath, which is the Sabbath of the

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Lord that God. Now let's get to what we're really

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talking about. Like what we are talking about, though, is

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the is all of the stuff that Jesus is the

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actual substance of Stop going back to that. When Jesus

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Christ has given his life a ransom for many, he

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has been kind enough to make us holy, He has

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been kind enough to be the ultimate sacrifice. He has

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been kind enough to be the great high Priest. So

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we're not having a new high priest every time one dies.

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We're not having new priests every time the guard changes

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in air quotes like, none of that is necessary, because

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those really were the Kindergarten view of what the substance is,

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which is Christ. So we are complete in Christ. No

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need for the festivals, no need for the new moons,

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no need for those ceremonial sabbaths, no need for the

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drink or meat and drink offerings, because Jesus Christ has come.

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Do you really want to be complete? Brothers and sisters?

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If you do, it requires Christ. So number one lesson

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is Christ alone is the substance and not the shadow.

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So Paul was not attacking the ten Commandment's law for sure,

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he was confronting man made religious systems that replaced Christ

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with ritual performance. So they were trying to reinstill or

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reinstall some stuff after Jesus nullified in his flesh. What

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the Old Testament system of sacrifices was. The shadows pointed forward.

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Christ is present. When the substance is here, no system

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gets to sit in judgment over the believers. And so

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what we really need to do then is to examine

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our faith practices and ask one simple question. Are you

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ready for the question? Does this point to Christ or

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does it replace Him with performance? Does this point to

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Christ or does it replace him? With performance. Are you

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trying to earn your way in? Maybe sometimes we are

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trying to do it without even knowing. Hmm. People are

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celebrating all kinds of stuff and saying that you have

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to do that. Well, is that what God wants to know?

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Does it point me to Christ? Or does it replace

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him with performance? Our second lesson is human religion. I

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said human religion. There is a religion that is undefiled

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in the scriptures. But human religion adds burdens. Christ removes them.

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Christ's religion removes them. So the Bible reads in Colossians

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Chapter two and verse eight, beware lest any man spoil

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you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men,

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after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

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And so false tea were sincere. They were quote religious,

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they were wrong. Anything built on human tradition, ascetic control,

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angel fascination, or rule keeping subtracts from Christ. When it

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sounds spiritual, It even sounds spiritual. There were people who

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walked by folks who needed their help because they wanted

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to be ceremonially clean. And it's like, but there's a

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brother right there who has been beaten up in the story,

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beaten up and left for dead, and you're stepping over

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him so you can remain ceremonially clean. Are you serious?

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Speaker 1: So?

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Speaker 2: We being complete in Christ means that we have the

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mind of Christ and we live like he lived.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot

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live by bread alone, but by every word that comes

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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,