{"id":4692,"date":"2024-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/october-8\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:45:59","slug":"october-8","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/reading-plan\/october-8\/","title":{"rendered":"October 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insight from 1 Timothy 5<\/span><\/p>\n

Biblical authors actually do reappropriate Moses\u2019 law through Christ. In 1 Timothy 5:17\u201318, Paul simply says \u201cLet the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, \u2018You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,\u2019 and, \u2018The laborer deserves his wages.’\u201d He\u2019s calling on Deuteronomy and applying it to the church. But he\u2019s doing it in light of the progress of redemptive history secured by Jesus. He\u2019s taking a principle from the old covenant law and now applying it to the need to pay elders who are serving.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul is assessing the lasting validity of Moses only in light of the person and work of Christ. And in Christ\u2019s coming, he gives clarity for a new people living under a new covenant what God\u2019s lasting eternal law means. When he commanded Adam and Eve in the garden to not eat of the tree of the knowledge pertaining to good and evil, that was a specific law for a specific time that you and I are not called to keep. And yet it doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t lasting value that we can\u2019t benefit from assessing what was given to Adam and Eve. Similarly, God gave specific legislation through Moses for a people living at a specific time under a specific covenant, and I\u2019m proposing we\u2019re not under any of that legislation. The 10 Commandments do not govern us directly. They don\u2019t govern our country, nor should they govern the church. But all of the 10 Commandments, and indeed all 613 of the commands do relate to us, but only in light of what Christ has done and who he is. And we\u2019ve got to evaluate every single one of those commandments in light of who Jesus is and what he has done.\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-4692","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4692","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=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}