Insight from Galatians<\/p>\n
\u201cWithin the old covenant, love was <\/span>what<\/span><\/i> Yahweh called Israel to do; all the other commandments clarified <\/span>how<\/span><\/i> to do it. This was part of Jesus\u2019s point when he stressed that all the Old Testament hangs on the call to love God and neighbor. Christ emphasized, \u2018Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets\u2019 (Matt. 7:12). Similarly, Paul notes, \u2018The whole law is fulfilled in one word: \u201cYou shall love your neighbor as yourself\u201d\u2019 (Gal. 5:14). As with Israel, the Lord calls Christians to lives characterized by love. However, he now gives all members of the new covenant the ability to do what he commands. As Moses himself asserts, the very reason God promised to circumcise hearts in the new covenant age was \u2018so that you will love the L<\/span>ORD<\/span> your God with all your heart and with all your soul\u2019 (Deut. 30:6). Moses\u2019s old covenant law called for life-encompassing love, and Christians today can gain clarity from the Old Testament on the wide-ranging impact of love in all of life.\u201d Adapted from DeRouchie, <\/span>\u1260\u1265\u1209\u12ed \u12aa\u12f3\u1295 \u1218\u12f0\u1230\u1275<\/span><\/i>, 7\u20138.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe \u2018law of Christ\u2019 that we live out is the law of love as fulfilled and taught by Jesus, which is the end-times realization of Moses\u2019s law in its original form. Jesus said that \u2018all the Law and the Prophets\u2019 depend on the dual commands to love God and love neighbor (Matt. 22:37\u201340). Stressing how love for neighbor really proves whether we love God, Jesus went further, saying, \u2018Whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets\u2019 (Matt. 7:12). Similarly, Paul stresses that \u2018the whole law is fulfilled in one word: \u201cYou shall love your neighbor as yourself\u201d\u2019 (Gal. 5:14). Significantly, not just a \u2018moral\u2019 subset of the law but all the law\u2014every commandment\u2014is fulfilled in the call to love.\u201d\u00a0<\/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-4664","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4664","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=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}