{"id":4618,"date":"2024-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/july-9\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:42:47","slug":"july-9","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/reading-plan\/july-9\/","title":{"rendered":"July 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Insight from Leviticus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDivine holiness is the embodiment of what it means to be God, and the Lord called his people to image his unique excellence and beauty to the world: \u201cYou shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine\u201d (Lev. 20:26).\u201d \u2014 Adapted from DeRouchie, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 454\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFinally, when Christ fulfills the Mosaic law associated with unclean food (e.g., Lev. 20:25\u201326), he annuls it, declaring all foods clean. Even though he rescinded the earlier diet restrictions, we can still benefit from these commands by considering what they tell us about God and how they magnify Jesus\u2019 work. Nevertheless, we do not keep these laws in any way.\u201d \u2014 Adapted from DeRouchie, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 430\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGod is forever holy, and his holiness continues to affect the ethical obligations of his people: \u201cBe holy in all your conduct, since it is written, \u2018You shall be holy, for I am holy\u2019\u202f\u201d (1 Peter 1:15\u201316). Peter here echoes the truth of Leviticus 20:26, and he later highlights that what the Lord commanded Israel is now being fulfilled in the church: \u201cBut you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light\u201d (1 Peter 2:9).\u201d \u2014 Adapted from DeRouchie, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Understand and Apply the Old Testament<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 430.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Insight from Proverbs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mining God\u2019s Word is the means to the most grounded, authentic, satisfied, and God-glorifying life. Through Scripture \u201cyou will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.\u201d [Adapted from \u201cThe Profit of Employing the Biblical Languages: Scriptural and Historical Reflections.\u201d Themelios 37.1 (2012): 43.] <\/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-4618","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}