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03 04 2026 Shadow or Substance · 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: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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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 Wednesday, March fourth,
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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 shadow or Substance. It's
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  Speaker 2: a question shadow or substance. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this day and giving us yourself the genuine
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  Speaker 2: article and not leaving us with the shadows. In Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and a man again. So I think
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  Speaker 2: we have looked at these passages a few times in
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, or at least had a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a look at them. And I have
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  Speaker 2: said some things to you already that I think we
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  Speaker 2: should already have clarity for. But in Colossians chapter two,
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  Speaker 2: verses sixteen through nineteen, unfortunately, among the faith communities of God,
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  Speaker 2: we have all of these arguments, and I'm like, wow,
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  Speaker 2: but the language is so clear to me. But let
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  Speaker 2: me just say, spiritual things are spiritually discerned I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to use you. I'm going to give you a word
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  Speaker 2: that maybe it's not necessary for me to give, but
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  Speaker 2: I just figured i'd give it to you as a bonus.
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  Speaker 2: This is what theologians use people who are going through,
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  Speaker 2: you know, theological programs, and it's called exegesis. It's not
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  Speaker 2: in my notes. It just clicked in my mind, though, exegesis.
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  Speaker 2: Look it up. Exitgesis ex e g ei ge g
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  Speaker 2: si s okay, exogesus. And basically that means when we
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  Speaker 2: go into the scriptures, we are looking for what is
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  Speaker 2: actually there, as opposed to isogesus, which is I want
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  Speaker 2: to impose what I'm thinking on the scriptures. So in
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  Speaker 2: this case we're going to exegete not really, but a
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  Speaker 2: little bit the text. Let's start with Colossians, chapter two
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  Speaker 2: and verse sixteen. Let's see what's actually there. Okay, let
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  Speaker 2: no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink,
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  Speaker 2: So you would have to read the context of the
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  Speaker 2: text and compare scripture with scripture. Okay, long story short,
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  Speaker 2: Let nobody judge you therefore in meat or in drinks.
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  Speaker 2: So immediately you should be asking yourself, well, what are
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  Speaker 2: we talking about here? Are we talking about, like not
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  Speaker 2: allowing anybody to judge me about what I'm eating or drinking. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you could ask that question and arrive at that destination
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  Speaker 2: if you didn't read the rest of the text. Or
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  Speaker 2: in respect of a holy day. Oh wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: so the eating and drinking likely are related, or the meat,
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, and drink using the words that are in
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  Speaker 2: the text, the meat and drink must also be attached
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  Speaker 2: to holy days. Well, I'm not sure. Or new Moon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute. Yeah, so the meat and drink
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  Speaker 2: Holy Day and New Moon must all be related. Or
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  Speaker 2: Sabbath days. Well, they're all related. And then the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says which are a shadow. So it's like, okay, so meat, drink,
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  Speaker 2: Holy Day, New Moon, Sabbath days plural shadow of things
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  Speaker 2: to come. That must mean that they're all related. Well,
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  Speaker 2: where do we get meat, drink, Holy Day, New Moon,
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  Speaker 2: Sabbaths as shadows all in one package? That's simple. Let
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  Speaker 2: the Bible explain itself. In the sacrificial system, there are
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  Speaker 2: meat offerings, drink offerings, Holy days plural, New moons plural,
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  Speaker 2: sabbath days, ceremonial days, ceremonial sabbaths plural. Well, how do
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  Speaker 2: we know what we're talking about because they're a shadow
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  Speaker 2: of things to come. And when you get the entire
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  Speaker 2: conversation very clearly, here we see that there were some judaizers,
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  Speaker 2: some people who were still trying to hold gentiles and others.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to say to account, to say you
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  Speaker 2: have to even though Jesus already gave his life for us,
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  Speaker 2: even though Jesus has come to fulfill the ceremonial laws,
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  Speaker 2: I need you to still offer meat offerings. I need
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  Speaker 2: you to still offer drink offerings. I need you to
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  Speaker 2: still celebrate and observe those holy days that are ceremonial
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  Speaker 2: in nature, and new moons and sabbath days that are
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  Speaker 2: ceremonial in nature. All through the book of Leviticus we
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  Speaker 2: see all of these details, and God is saying through Paul,
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  Speaker 2: ceremonial practices are not to be used as a measure
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  Speaker 2: for your connection with God, not after Jesus came, not
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  Speaker 2: after he fulfilled that. And so lesson number one is
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  Speaker 2: Paul is addressing ceremonial practices and not the moral law.
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  Speaker 2: So here's a little insight on this. I've already said it,
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  Speaker 2: but let me say it some more. Paul's use of
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  Speaker 2: therefore ties the instruction directly to his prior argument about
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  Speaker 2: what circumcision physical circumcision, You got it, physical circumcision. Ceremonial ordinances,
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  Speaker 2: ritual requirements that were pressing gentile believers to conform to
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  Speaker 2: those Old Testament practices. And so the categories listed follow
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament ceremonial calendar pattern found in HOSEA, chapter
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  Speaker 2: two and verse eleven. These practices belonged to the sanctuary
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  Speaker 2: system that did what pointed forward to Christ. They were
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  Speaker 2: a shadow of things to come. What was the things
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  Speaker 2: to come? Jesus Christ coming to fulfill all of what that?
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  Speaker 2: What that had to do with? No more priests, no
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  Speaker 2: more priesthood, no more ceremonial days, no more sacrificial system.
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  Speaker 2: Because the true and genuine article is actually here? And
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  Speaker 2: so what is the action step? Study the scriptures carefully
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  Speaker 2: before exccepting claims that blur the distinction between ceremonial symbols
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  Speaker 2: and God's eternal moral law. I left out something because
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  Speaker 2: I was trying not to be too cerebral, but I
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  Speaker 2: think I already was, so I might as well say
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  Speaker 2: it to you. The Ten Commandments law are They're not
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  Speaker 2: a shadow. The Ten Commandments are not a shadow of anything.
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  Speaker 2: They're not a shadow or a type of anything. They
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  Speaker 2: are the genuine article. They are the transcript of the
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  Speaker 2: character of Christ. It's still we don't have a license
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  Speaker 2: to murder. We don't have a license to disrespect our parents.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a license to sect somebody who's not
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  Speaker 2: our spouse. Did I just say that word commit adultery?
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  Speaker 2: That's the way I should have said it. We still
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  Speaker 2: don't have a license to be tail bearers and liars.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a license to have other gods before God.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I said this the other day, and
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  Speaker 2: it bears repeating. We don't have a license to covet
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  Speaker 2: our neighbors anything, or to break the seventh day Sabbath.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have a license. It's not a shadow. The
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  Speaker 2: law is not a shadow of things to come, the
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  Speaker 2: Ten Commandments law. Okay, okay. So the second lesson, as
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  Speaker 2: we come to a swift close, is to that shadows
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  Speaker 2: point forward. Christ is the reality. And we know from
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  Speaker 2: the next text in verse seventeen, these are only a
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  Speaker 2: shadow of things to come, not the reality, which is Christ.
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  Speaker 2: So here is the insight a shadow has no independent existence.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on the real object. The ceremonial laws, festivals,
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  Speaker 2: ritual sabbats for shadow Christ's work, his saving work. So
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  Speaker 2: once Jesus is here, and he is, we say bye
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  Speaker 2: bye shadows. And don't try to judge me, because I
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  Speaker 2: have the substance which.
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  Speaker 1: Is thanks joins. Friends, always remember we cannot live by
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  Speaker 1: bread alone, but by every word that comes from the
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  Speaker 1: mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with
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  Speaker 1: El David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,