{"id":4728,"date":"2024-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/november-19\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T15:36:30","slug":"november-19","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/reading-plan\/november-19\/","title":{"rendered":"November 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Deuteronomy 16:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new covenant call to persevere in faith is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not like <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the old covenant\u2019s call to obey in order to live (Lev 18:5; cf. Rom 10:5; Gal 3:12. Speaking predominantly to the unregenerate, the old covenant charged Israel to pursue righteousness (Deut 16:20), and it declared that the people would be counted righteous and secure life only <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">if<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> they met <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the covenant\u2019s demands (6:25; 81: cf. 4:1). Yet for Paul, \u201cthe very commandment that promised life proved to be death\u201d (Rom 7:10). \u201cThe law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good\u201d (7:12). Yet the majority in \u201cIsrael who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law\u2026because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works\u201d (9:31\u201332). Paul can thus declare that \u201cChrist is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes\u201d (10:4), because by Christ\u2019s perfect obedience in life and death God frees those who believe from sin\u2019s condemning power (5:18\u201319; 8:1; Col 2:14) and declares us righteous and reconciled (Rom 5:9\u201310; 2 Cor 5:21). That is, in the new covenant, righteousness and life become the foundation and not just the goal.<\/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-4728","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4728","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=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}