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Insight from Leviticus 18:1\u20135:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLeviticus 11\u201326 clarifies how Israel was to pursue holiness as a means for living in light of Yahweh\u2019s holy presence. Chapters 11\u201315 address ritual purity, chapter 16 celebrates the Day of Atonement, chapters 17\u201324 address relational purity, and chapters 25\u201326 call the people to heed God\u2019s Sabbath establishing purposes. Leviticus 18:1\u20135 signals a minor shift in focus within the book away from proper worship at the tabernacle to interpersonal relationships and life within the promised land (chs. 18\u2013 24).\u2026 Leviticus 18:1\u20135 also portrays Israel on a journey between two realities: God had redeemed them from slavery in \u201cthe land of Egypt,\u201d and now he was leading them into \u201cthe land of Canaan\u201d (18:3). Such past and future grace supplies the context for pursuing holiness and fulfilling both prohibition and command. In light of their deliverance and future hopes, God urges them with a twice-repeated \u201cyou shall not do\u201d to not follow the pagan, corrupt practices of either the Egyptians or Canaanites (18:3), which the context identifies as sins like sexual immorality (18:6\u201320, 22\u201323) and idolatry through child sacrifice (18:21). He then immediately follows this by clarifying what they should do: \u201cYou shall follow my rules and keep my statutes\u201d (18:4). 18:5 then reads, \u201cYou shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.\u201d Jason S. DeRouchie, \u201cThe Use of Leviticus 18:5 in Galatians 3:12: A Redemptive-Historical Reassessment,\u201d Themelios 45.2 (2020): 246\u201347.<\/span><\/p>\n

Insight from Job 42:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is not anything in this world around us that was not spoken into existence by God. Indeed, God right now is speaking everything, upheld by the word of his power, such that if he stopped speaking, we would stop existing. He is able. I think of the Book of Job in the very final chapter. Job, after experiencing the vast greatness of God\u2014\u201cWere you there, Job, when I did this and when I created that? Are you out in the mountain peaks and down in the valleys upholding all things?\u201d Job says, \u201cI know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted\u201d (<\/span>Job 42:2<\/span><\/a>). Satan is real, but he cannot thwart God\u2019s purposes. God has an ultimate will that Satan is not running alongside of\u2014he is part of it. He is underneath the absolute sovereign God, and it is within that context that we live and move and have our being.\u201d Jason DeRouchie, GearTalk: Claiming Old Testament Promises, Part 2<\/span><\/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-4616","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4616","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=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}