{"id":4608,"date":"2024-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/june-24\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:19:40","slug":"june-24","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/reading-plan\/june-24\/","title":{"rendered":"June 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Acts<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most theologians who hold to the threefold division of the law affirm the lasting value of all Scripture. However, the moral, civil, and ceremonial distinction has moved many laypeople to see Exodus\u2019s Book of the Covenant or Leviticus\u2019s instructions as having little lasting Christian relevance. Yet Jesus and Paul reaffirmed the prohibitions against reviling parents (Matt. 15:4; cf. Ex. 21:17) and leaders (Acts 23:5; cf. Ex. 22:28), Paul drew pastoral insight from the instructions on temple service (1 Cor. 9:13\u201314; cf. Lev. 6:16, 26; 7:6), and Peter called believers to holiness because God called for it in Leviticus (1 Pet. 1:15\u201317; cf. Lev. 19:2). \u201cAll Scripture is . . . profitable\u201d for Christians (2 Tim. 3:16), and we align most closely with the Bible\u2019s testimony when we emphasize how loving our neighbor fulfills every commandment of the law and how all the law still matters for Christians, though not all in the same way. The old covenant law is not the Christian\u2019s legal code, but it was still written for us by portraying God\u2019s character and values, by directing our eyes to Jesus, and by clarifying how deeply and widely love for God and neighbor should consume our lives. Every commandment counts.<\/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-4608","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4608","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=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}