Welcome to Apostolic Life in the 21st Century, a podcast dedicated to helping modern-day believers live out the teachings of the First Century Church.

This podcast is part of the teaching ministry of Dr. David K. Bernard.

Dr. Bernard is dedicated his life to studying the Bible and helping believers apply its message to their daily lives.

In apostolic life in the 21st century, Dr. Bernard answers your questions about what the Bible

teaches and how those teachings apply to everyday life. Thank you for joining us for this episode.

The Old Testament includes various commands that most Bible teachers would say are not

applicable to Christians.

For example, Leviticus 1919 says, do not plant your field with two different kinds of seed.

Do not wear clothing woven from two different kinds of thread.

Most Christians would say that those commands

do not apply to New Testament believers. However, the same chapter of Leviticus also says,

do not steal, and do not deceive or cheat one another, and do not defraud or rob your neighbor.

Christians certainly believe that those teachings do apply to us. And there's many other examples that we could cite here.

That's just one example.

But how do Christians determine whether an Old Testament passage is applicable to us today

or whether it was only enforced for people that were living under the Old Testament law?

Let me begin by saying the whole Bible is given for us. So 1 Corinthians chapter 10 says

all the things that happen in the Old Testament are examples for us. So every teaching in the

Bible, including the teachings you mentioned in the Old Testament, have relevance, have significance.

They are the Word of God.

They have meaning for us. At the same time, we recognize that we're not living under the old

covenant, which we find in the Old Testament, but we're living under the New Covenant, which was

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