{"id":4651,"date":"2024-08-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/august-17\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T07:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:09:22","slug":"august-17","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/reading-plan\/august-17\/","title":{"rendered":"August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hubannoo Korintos irraa<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor Paul and the other apostles, while the old covenant law and wisdom no longer bore direct authority in the Christian\u2019s life, they still bore indirect authority when read through the mediation of Christ\u2026. The Old Testament continues to matter for Christians, but we must approach it through the light and lens of Jesus. Only through him can we see, hope, and live as God intended. Jesus\u2019s coming unlocks the significance of the Old Testament text, and through him we now have access to a massive amount of Scripture that can clarify how to love God and love our neighbor\u2026. In Christ, God now empowers us to keep the \u2018precepts\u2019 of the law, as we live with circumcised hearts by the power of the Spirit. We fulfill the law as we love our neighbor. Christ is our teacher, and his own law fulfillment now clarifies for us what it means to follow God. In Christ we find a new pattern for surrender and service, and in Jesus we experience true pardon (2 Cor. 5:21), which in turn supplies both power to obey and promises that motivate this obedience (2 Cor. 1:20). When we use the Old Testament to instruct or guide others, calling them to love and thus fulfill the law, we can see and celebrate the sanctifying work of the divine Son.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><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-4651","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4651","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=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}