Hey, Shelby and Paul here. We are working our way through the book of Deuteronomy. And today we're

talking about chapters 19 through 21. What's going on in these chapters, Paul? Yeah. So we're

getting some really specific instructions for some really specific scenarios.

And a lot of them have to do with death or other kind of thorny or challenging situations.

Yeah, and reading through, these might feel pretty removed from modern life.

I know you mentioned some like difficult or thorny, but one that was less thorny was a law

on not moving your neighbor's boundary lines. And I've never been tempted to move my neighbor's fence

over for them, you know. But what can we take away from these laws? Yeah. So, you know,

even though these laws are not binding for us as Christians, you know,

these aren't necessarily things that we feel, you know, we have to follow because of Jesus.

You know, there's still a lot that they can teach us about God and ourselves.

And I think whenever I get to sort of weird passages in the Bible, I just have to get back

to some simple questions, which are, what does this

say about God and what does this say about us? And so even though they're kind of peculiar laws

and might even seem a little unjust to us by our modern consciences, there's still a lot that

it can tell us. And so when I ask myself, okay, what does these laws say about

God? To me, they show that God values human dignity, right? We see that, you know, he wants

people to, innocent people that have accidentally killed someone to have safety, to not be taken

advantage of or killed for an action that was an accident.

You know, he wants people to pay attention to unsolved murders rather than being

apathetic about them. And, you know, he wants foreign wives to be treated as humans

instead of property to be bought or sold or as slaves. And so God values human life,

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