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03 05 2026 Commandments of Men · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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