{"id":4582,"date":"2024-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/may-23\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:32:22","slug":"may-23","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/may-23\/","title":{"rendered":"May 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Exodus<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moses anticipated that Yahweh\u2019s people would \u201ckeep all his commandments\u201d once he empowered them to love him with all their heart and being (Deut. 30:6, 8). How should Christians, who enjoy Spirit-wrought circumcised hearts, keep the precepts of the law (Rom. 2:26\u201329)? The following three-step process will help believers faithfully assess, through Christ and for Christ, the lasting significance of Moses\u2019s law today. (1) Establish the law\u2019s original revealed meaning and application. This first step includes (a) categorizing the type of law (criminal [e.g., Exod 35:2], civil, family, cultic\/ceremonial [e.g., Exod 35:1\u20133], or compassion); (b) establishing the law\u2019s original meaning and significance; and (c) considering the law\u2019s original purpose. (2) Determine the law\u2019s theological importance. This second step includes (a) clarifying what the law tells us about God and his ways; (b) evaluating how Christ fulfills the law and considering its impact on application; and (c) stating in a single sentence the love principle behind the law. (3) Summarize the law\u2019s lasting significance. Here we preserve both the portrait of God and the love principle behind the law but change the context, all in view of Christ\u2019s new covenant work. God\u2019s nature is unchanging, but his purposes progress over time. Furthermore, a proper approach to Old Testament law must account for the pattern Christ set for believers and the power he supplied through his victory and Spirit. As similar as the old and new covenants are in many respects, the internalization of grace in all members marks the new covenant as a massive progression within salvation history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4582","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}