Why Christians Still Need Leviticus | Torah | Leviticus 11-15

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Why study the Torah or specifically Leviticus? Should the modern world care about all of the Old Testament's rules and rituals? In today's episode, Patrick uses Leviticus 11-15 to discuss why Leviticus is still important to modern Christians. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Leviticus 11-15

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Patrick Miller. Why in the world is 10 minute Bible Talks doing
0:16.4	Devotions on Leviticus? I'm sure more than a few of you have asked that
0:20.6	exact question, but in January of 2022, we set out to do the entire Torah.
0:26.1	That's the first five books of the Bible.
0:28.6	That was for a really simple reason.
0:30.8	The Torah was the central text of Jesus' own Bible.
0:35.1	To understand Jesus in the Gospels, we need to appreciate Jesus' Bible,
0:40.1	but it's also our Bible too.
0:42.0	That means there's something for modern people like you and me who were following Jesus today.
0:46.1	There's something for us in this book.
0:48.1	Now I know a lot of people who have set out to read the Bible in a year and they've
0:52.1	foundered on the book of Leviticus.
0:54.4	That's where the whole thing goes awry, especially when they get to today's section.
0:59.1	Leviticus, chapter 11 through 15, that's the section about clean and unclean things. You know, don't eat shellfish, don't eat pork, don't sit on the same spot as a menstruating woman, all of that. And we wonder why this matters. And we wonder rightfully because Jesus did declare all unclean foods and animals clean.
1:18.0	Later in the book of acts God reiterates this point to Peter by giving him a repeated vision of a feast of unclean food descending from heaven before him.
1:28.0	So maybe we should just skip Leviticus or at least skip these chapters about clean and unclean things. That was then, this is now. Well not so fast. This was Jesus's Bible and it's also your Bible. So there's something in here for your faith that you need to walk with him.
1:46.5	I'll circle back to unclean foods at the end, but I want to tackle the broader question of why Christians still need Leviticus in the modern era.
1:55.6	This really became apparent to me when I was in seminary.
1:58.5	My Torah professor, a guy named J. Squar, wrote a commentary on the book of Leviticus. People actually do that and he offered all of us an extra credit assignment.
2:07.4	He said that we could live Leviticly for a whole week and journal on our experience.
2:12.0	This meant we had to spend a week keeping Sabbath
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