The Law … Again – Deuteronomy E4

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In the second movement of Deuteronomy, Moses gives Israel the law … again. But this time, he’s not talking to a nomadic group of people wandering the desert—he’s talking to the next generation preparing to settle in a permanent home for the first time. As they move into the land, their laws and their lives will need to look a little different. But in what way? In this episode, join Tim and Jon as they discuss how the law was always meant to form Israel (and modern readers) into people of wisdom, justice, and righteousness.

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0:00.0	We've been reading through the Torah, and we've come to many sections where we read ancient
0:09.6	law code.
0:10.9	More reading are snippets, a small selection of a larger ancient law code that Israel had
0:17.4	with Yahweh to establish their covenant with him.
0:20.7	And here, in Deuteronomy, Moses continues to give us even more law.
0:26.1	But it's now Moses' either restating laws that happened earlier in the collection,
0:31.4	or giving new laws that develop principles found in laws earlier in the collection.
0:37.4	Up till now, Israel has been wandering through the desert, but they're ready to settle into
0:42.5	the land God promised to them.
0:44.4	And so Moses is giving Israel guidelines for how to settle in the new land.
0:49.8	Now, it's easy to think of these laws as a list of do's and don'ts, but they're more
0:54.0	than that.
0:55.0	The laws are meant to form them into a people who know how to live with wisdom among the
1:00.6	nations as they enter the land.
1:02.7	A law forms a group of people to live and see the world a certain way, so that when
1:09.0	you encounter all kinds of other circumstances that may be a specific law doesn't address,
1:15.1	you will find yourself acting in certain ways because the laws have shaped you to see
1:20.2	the world.
1:21.4	Even by the law code is a way to declare their allegiance to Yahweh.
1:26.1	If they obey the commands, their way of living in this world will be markedly different
1:30.9	from the nations around them and in a beautiful way.
1:33.5	The word righteousness is a relational word in biblical Hebrew.
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