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Intro
Have you ever wondered why your parents make certain rules?
Funny laws that are obsolete
Are rules randomly chosen, made at a whim, or unreasonable?
Law of Moses
Laws that seem irrelevant
What does this mean?
Chinese New Year next Friday night.
Cut some animals!
Anyone a slave here?
Describe Culture
Nomadic culture, spread out, cities were not dense.
Respect and trustworthiness shown by family and represented by Patriarch.
Society of strength -> women were defenseless, so protected.
Misogyny is not true.
OT records war over how one tribe treated a woman, in Judges.
All cultures had slaves, and even tortured people, but not the Jews.
Mild form of slavery, more like indebted servant who had rights and hope for freedom.
Nobody knew who God was, so worshipped many just in case.
Who God is!
Supreme being, knowable, change Israeli culture by rules, sent in the middle of pagan cultures.
Like Mexico, New Mex, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma all being Muslim.
All laws communicate who God is and how He wanted to make Himself known in an evil world.
Similar to commands to us, like: “Don’t go rant on social media about yourself all the time.”
Or, “Don’t destroy babies while they’re still in the womb.”
Nobody would have understood back then
Theocracy
We’re used to people ruling and deciding what’s good
God wanted to be the direct authority on earth
Covenant -> (Like Executive Order or Judicial-Federal law over U.S.) Way God would relate with people and bless them
God relates with Israel
God blesses Israel
Law of Christ
Some aren’t reiterated in NT
Sabbath, passes away in and
Dietary laws, pass away and other passages
Same God, different people and different times, same love
Many are
Adultery
Stealing
Lying
Slandering
Law of Christ emphasizes higher spiritual standard!
Sermon on Mt.
Covenant -> What way does God relate with us, and how are we blessed?
Our culture, every culture
Obsessions, sin, and need
God addresses these by His Spirit, not by a written Law
We NOW KNOW who God is!
Break out into groups
Small Group
Can anyone explain the passage about “You shall not boil a goat in its mother’s milk” ?
How do you think this might still apply today?
(Hint: It was a common pagan practice to boil a baby goat in its mother’s milk.
Jews were commanded not to be like them, or any of their pagan neighbors)
Should we follow the Old Testament Law today?
If yes, how?
And if no, why not?
If God were to make another set of Laws today for Americans, what do you think He would say?
What Laws do you think there should be for Facebook, for High School, for interacting with your parents, etc?
Should we follow the Old Testament Law today?
Why or why not?
What are some ways our culture accepts evil as good, and ways that our culture makes good things into evil things?
Are there any commands in the New Testament that you disagree with?
Or do any of you have friends that might disagree with commands in the New Testament?
If yes, why do you think they disagree?
You’ve only been alive for 15 years, give or take.
Are you sure you know better?
I’ve only been alive for 26 years.
Don’t trust me.
Don’t trust Brian, who’s been here for 30 something years.
Trust the Word, that’s from everlasting to everlasting.
Relevance Today
Boiling goat in its mother’s milk story
God wants us to be fundamentally different than other cultures.
God wants us to be like Him.
Slavery
God has always hated slavery, but He’s patient and wants to save people from hell before saving them from injustices here
Story of Philemon
OT kills “Stealers of persons”
Homosexuality
NT does reiterate more than the OT.
God does not hate homosexuals - Christopher Yuan
Not about being heterosexual -> holiness
If you were going to live on earth forever, what kind of person would you want to become?
What would you want your character to be like?
Who are you becoming?
Do you love God, or only what He gives?
When something bad happens, and you either distance yourself or get angry, that is the part of you that has been taking God for granted.
Enemy wants you separated from God and dead.
God wants you alive with Him.
You’ve only been alive for 15 years, give or take.
Are you sure you know better?
I’ve only been alive for 26 years.
I don’t know everything, and neither does Brian.
Trust the Word, that’s from everlasting to everlasting.
The voices.
What do they say?
Some voices say you’re not good enough.
Some voices say the desires you want know can be satisfied immediately instead of waiting
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