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02 28 2026 Complete in Christ · 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 Sabbath, February
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, twenty twenty six. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: Lesson study series Uniting Heaven and Earth, Christ in Philippians
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  Speaker 2: and Colossians. We're in Lesson number ten of thirteen and
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is Complete in Christ, Complete
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  Speaker 2: in Christ. I love it, I love it, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into this, I'd like to just say
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  Speaker 2: welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for
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  Speaker 2: in the chat how exceptional the experience was. Please please
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  Speaker 2: come out on the next one. Also, we have our
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  Speaker 2: Sunday School which is on Sunday mornings at eight am,
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  Speaker 2: so we're looking forward to that. That's the New Sunday
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  Speaker 2: School of Thought, which is based on the book Evangelism,
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  Speaker 2: pages two forty two to two forty four. And of
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  Speaker 2: course we have the Prayer School on Wednesday evening. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm just grateful for the opportunities to expand. Please go
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  Speaker 2: button because that is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to expand and we continue to build faith and fellowship.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for this Sabbath morning. Thank you for making us
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  Speaker 2: complete in Christ in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. When I used to work in higher ed
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  Speaker 2: as assistant registrar in a university setting. One of the
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  Speaker 2: quote grades that used to come up on people's grade
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  Speaker 2: reports was an I incomplete. To me, that's the worst
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  Speaker 2: possible grade, now I know, I said to me. That's
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  Speaker 2: the qualifier. I said to me, well, okay, next to
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  Speaker 2: x F, which is, you know, getting a failing mark
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  Speaker 2: due to this honesty, academic dishonesty. Incomplete, it's just like
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  Speaker 2: get it done, Like, at least get it done, get
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  Speaker 2: it done well. In our experience with Christ, there are
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  Speaker 2: people who are incomplete because those same people are trying
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  Speaker 2: to do things on our own. We're trying to rush
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  Speaker 2: to completion by grading our own paper and handing it
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  Speaker 2: into the cosmic professor and hoping that it's enough to
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  Speaker 2: get us into the Kingdom so we can graduate from
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. And the Bible is teaching us that the
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  Speaker 2: only way to be complete is to be in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: I got it. I think I got it. The only
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  Speaker 2: way to be complete is to be in Christ. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what does it mean to be in Christ? To be
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  Speaker 2: in Christ is to submit our will to God. To
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  Speaker 2: be in Christ means to accept the righteousness or the
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  Speaker 2: righteous covering of Jesus Christ. That is what it means
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  Speaker 2: to be complete. And so the Bible reads in Colossians
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  Speaker 2: chapter two, verses sixteen and seventeen, somebody's gonna catch up here.
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  Speaker 2: So let no one judge you in food or in drink,
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  Speaker 2: or regarding a festival or a new moon, or sabbaths,
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  Speaker 2: which are a shadow of things to come. But the
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  Speaker 2: substance is of Christ. And so the believers of Paul's
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  Speaker 2: time at Colossie were struggling with people who came from
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  Speaker 2: the Old Guard, who were circumcised in their flesh, the
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  Speaker 2: people through whom Jesus actually came when he was born
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  Speaker 2: of a woman. They were stuck in what's called the
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  Speaker 2: sacerdotal system, or the system of sacrifices, where they thought
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  Speaker 2: that even though Christ came and died, you still had
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  Speaker 2: to what they were drink offerings, there were festivals, there
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  Speaker 2: were new moons and ceremonial sabbaths, And the Bible writer
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  Speaker 2: is saying, mm hmm, all of that stuff pointed forward
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  Speaker 2: to Christ. And since Jesus has come and he has
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  Speaker 2: fulfilled the sacrificial law system, then all of the sacrifices
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  Speaker 2: they pointed to him, all of those new Moon celebrations,
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  Speaker 2: they pointed to him, all of those ceremonial Sabbaths, they
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  Speaker 2: pointed to him. And so while Jesus has already come,
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  Speaker 2: why would you still be looking in the past at
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  Speaker 2: the shadow. And Okay, I know there are some of
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  Speaker 2: the people who are a part of my faith fellowship
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  Speaker 2: who want me to hurry up and get to the
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  Speaker 2: part where the sabbaths referenced here have nothing to do
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  Speaker 2: with the seventh day Sabbath. So there I said it.
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  Speaker 2: There I said it. This has nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: the seventh day Sabbath, which is the Sabbath of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord that God. Now let's get to what we're really
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  Speaker 2: talking about. Like what we are talking about, though, is
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  Speaker 2: the is all of the stuff that Jesus is the
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  Speaker 2: actual substance of Stop going back to that. When Jesus
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  Speaker 2: Christ has given his life a ransom for many, he
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  Speaker 2: has been kind enough to make us holy, He has
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  Speaker 2: been kind enough to be the ultimate sacrifice. He has
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  Speaker 2: been kind enough to be the great high Priest. So
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  Speaker 2: we're not having a new high priest every time one dies.
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  Speaker 2: We're not having new priests every time the guard changes
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  Speaker 2: in air quotes like, none of that is necessary, because
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  Speaker 2: those really were the Kindergarten view of what the substance is,
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  Speaker 2: which is Christ. So we are complete in Christ. No
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  Speaker 2: need for the festivals, no need for the new moons,
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  Speaker 2: no need for those ceremonial sabbaths, no need for the
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  Speaker 2: drink or meat and drink offerings, because Jesus Christ has come.
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  Speaker 2: Do you really want to be complete? Brothers and sisters?
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  Speaker 2: If you do, it requires Christ. So number one lesson
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  Speaker 2: is Christ alone is the substance and not the shadow.
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  Speaker 2: So Paul was not attacking the ten Commandment's law for sure,
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  Speaker 2: he was confronting man made religious systems that replaced Christ
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  Speaker 2: with ritual performance. So they were trying to reinstill or
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  Speaker 2: reinstall some stuff after Jesus nullified in his flesh. What
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament system of sacrifices was. The shadows pointed forward.
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  Speaker 2: Christ is present. When the substance is here, no system
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  Speaker 2: gets to sit in judgment over the believers. And so
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  Speaker 2: what we really need to do then is to examine
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  Speaker 2: our faith practices and ask one simple question. Are you
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  Speaker 2: ready for the question? Does this point to Christ or
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  Speaker 2: does it replace Him with performance? Does this point to
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  Speaker 2: Christ or does it replace him? With performance. Are you
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  Speaker 2: trying to earn your way in? Maybe sometimes we are
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  Speaker 2: trying to do it without even knowing. Hmm. People are
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  Speaker 2: celebrating all kinds of stuff and saying that you have
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  Speaker 2: to do that. Well, is that what God wants to know?
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  Speaker 2: Does it point me to Christ? Or does it replace
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  Speaker 2: him with performance? Our second lesson is human religion. I
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  Speaker 2: said human religion. There is a religion that is undefiled
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures. But human religion adds burdens. Christ removes them.
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  Speaker 2: Christ's religion removes them. So the Bible reads in Colossians
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two and verse eight, beware lest any man spoil
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  Speaker 2: you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men,
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  Speaker 2: after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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  Speaker 2: And so false tea were sincere. They were quote religious,
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  Speaker 2: they were wrong. Anything built on human tradition, ascetic control,
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  Speaker 2: angel fascination, or rule keeping subtracts from Christ. When it
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  Speaker 2: sounds spiritual, It even sounds spiritual. There were people who
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  Speaker 2: walked by folks who needed their help because they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be ceremonially clean. And it's like, but there's a
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  Speaker 2: brother right there who has been beaten up in the story,
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  Speaker 2: beaten up and left for dead, and you're stepping over
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  Speaker 2: 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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  Speaker 2: 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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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,