{"id":18345,"date":"2021-11-02T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/leviticus_19_1-10-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-10-29T21:53:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T04:53:48","slug":"leviticus_19_11-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/leviticus_19_11-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Do All the Regulations in Leviticus Apply to Christians Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leviticus 19:11-22 \u00a0\u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 19:11-22.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 19:11-22 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Do not steal. “‘Do not lie. “‘Do not deceive one another.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the\u00a0LORD.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Do not defraud your neighbor or rob him. “‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the\u00a0LORD.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Do not go about spreading slander among your people. “‘Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor’s life. I am the\u00a0LORD.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the\u00a0LORD.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Keep my decrees. “‘Do not mate different kinds of animals. “‘Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed. “‘Do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘If a man sleeps with a woman who is a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for a guilt offering to the\u00a0LORD.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0With the ram of the guilt offering the priest is to make atonement for him before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0for the sin he has committed, and his sin will be forgiven.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 11-22:\u00a0\u00a0What do we do with a passage like Leviticus 19:11-22?\u00a0 On one hand, the first half (verses 11-18) lists commands that are easy for us to understand and that we can easily see applying just as much today as in Moses’ time: do not steal, do not lie, do not pervert justice, do not slander others, etc.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find that in verses 11-18, every other verse is punctuated with the statement \u201cI am the LORD\u201d, encouraging us to remember who it is who gives these commands and who it is we are accountable to \u2013 not just anyone, but God Himself<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But then in the second half (verses 19-22) we come across commands that may sound strange and foreign to us.\u00a0 For example, verse 19 says to not plant two kinds of seed in the same field.\u00a0 Is it wrong for you to plant tomatoes AND cucumbers in your backyard? \u00a0 And how about this: do not wear clothing woven with two kinds of material (verse 19)?\u00a0 Is God offended if I wear a shirt that is 50% cotton and 50% polyester?<\/p>\n

To what extent do the regulations in Leviticus apply to Christians today?\u00a0 This was something the early church had to come to terms with (see Acts 15).\u00a0 Based on the wise teaching of others,\u00a0here’s how I try to approach the regulations we find in Leviticus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. If a\u00a0regulation in Leviticus has been revoked in the New Testament, that regulation no longer applies to us.\u00a0 (For example, the restrictions on food in Leviticus are emphatically revoked in the Gospels and Acts.)<\/p>\n

2. If a\u00a0regulation in Leviticus is repeated and affirmed in the New Testament, that regulation applies to us today. \u00a0(For example, all of the commands in Leviticus 19:11-18 are re-affirmed in the New Testament and therefore apply to us still.)<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 If a regulation in Leviticus is neither revoked or repeated in the New Testament,\u00a0we should ask, \u201cWere these regulations primarily moral or civic\/ceremonial rules that were specific to Israelite culture and society at that time?\u201d\u00a0 If they are moral rules, then we should do our best to apply them (since God\u2019s morals do not change).\u00a0\u00a0 If they are civic, ceremonial, or cultural rules, then we must ask whether they are still in any way relevant in our current context.\u00a0 As part of this, we should ask, \u201cIs there a timeless principle or a spiritual lesson behind this regulation that we can still apply today?\u201d<\/p>\n

So, for example, the regulation not to plant two kinds of seed in a field or not to wear clothing made of two kinds of material is not specifically revoked or repeated in the New Testament.\u00a0 It’s also not an obvious moral law.\u00a0 So is there a spiritual lesson or a timeless principle we can glean from this regulation?\u00a0 Here are a couple thoughts:<\/p>\n

– When Leviticus 19:19 tells us not to wear clothing made of two kinds of material, perhaps the timeless principle here is that God wants us to live our lives simply, and not to complicate or crowd our lives with too many commitments<\/p>\n

– When Leviticus 19:19 tells us not to plant two kinds of seed, the spiritual lesson here may be that God’s Word, which is described as a seed (Luke 8:11-15), must not be mixed and combined with the seed (teachings) from other religions.<\/p>\n

Praise God!\u00a0 Just as Paul prayed for Timothy, I pray that you would be a lover of God’s Word and someone who correctly handles God\u2019s Word (2 Timothy 2:15), including those tough to understand passages you find in Leviticus.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You for the power of Your Word.\u00a0\u00a0May I have wisdom to know how to read, interpret and apply Your Word to my life.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 19:11-22.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 19:11-22 (NIV)
\n11\u00a0\u00a0“‘Do not steal. “‘Do not lie. “‘Do not deceive one another.
\n12\u00a0\u00a0“‘Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the\u00a0LORD.
\n13\u00a0\u00a0“‘Do not defraud your neighbor or rob him. “‘Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight.
\n14\u00a0\u00a0“‘Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the\u00a0LORD.
\n15\u00a0\u00a0“‘Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly…….<\/p>\n

On verses 11-22:\u00a0\u00a0What do we do with a passage like Leviticus 19:11-22?\u00a0 On one hand, the first half (verses 11-18) lists commands that are easy for us to understand and that we can easily see applying just as much today as in Moses’ time: do not steal, do not lie, do not pervert justice, do not slander others, etc.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find that in verses 11-18, every other verse is punctuated with the statement \u201cI am the LORD\u201d, encouraging us to remember who it is who gives these commands and who it is we are accountable to \u2013 not just anyone, but God Himself.<\/p>\n

But then in the second half (verses 19-22) we come across commands that may sound strange and foreign to us.\u00a0 For example, verse 19 says to not plant two kinds of seed in the same field.\u00a0 Is it wrong for you to plant tomatoes AND cucumbers in your backyard? \u00a0 And how about this: do not wear clothing woven with two kinds of material (verse 19)?\u00a0 Is God offended if I wear a shirt that is 50% cotton and 50% polyester?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18346,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18345\/revisions\/18346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}