Today’s Hebrew Testament chronological reading is in Leviticus 20 and 21.
The Psalms/ Proverbs reading is in Psalm 76.
The Greek Testament reading is in 1 Corinthians 9.
Essential Studies.
Leviticus 20, The folly of flaunting God’s standards
Additional studies: Leviticus Index
God is smarter than we are, and He understands the long term effects, over the course of several generations, that allowing these behaviors to flourish in a society has. We are on the front end of a society which allows some of these. We do not know what the end result of our little societal experiment in flaunting God’s standards will be. Our great- great- grandchildren may very well, through the grief of experience, realize what merciful wisdom it would have been if we had paid heed to these statutes of YHVH.
Psalm 76, Unpacking the structure
Additional studies: Psalms Book Three (73-89) Index
He breaks into pieces all the agencies of war; and who wages war? The kings of the earth. Now the kings and princes have exalted their horn (their authority) in YHVH’s face, as per Psa 2. They have raised up, or made bigger, their own status. He diminishes, or makes smaller, that which they have made bigger. The verb is literally, to shorten by clipping, as a haircut, so the verb is sometimes translated, to cut off.
1 Corinthians 9, Under the Law
Additional studies: Corinthians Index
Those who seek to establish their own righteousness by obeying the law, are under the law, that is, they are under the requirement of the law for justification; which is perfect obedience in every point. To be under the requirement of the law for justification is to be under the dominion of sin and death. But those who have been born of the Seed of the woman, who is Jesus Christ, receive the righteousness which is imparted to us by God, by grace through faith, and are under grace, that is, they have been justified before God purely by His gracious designation. To be under grace is to be under the dominion of righteousness and life!
Three-year Bible.
The three-year plan is here.
Today’s reading is in Ezekiel 18.
Suggested study: Ezekiel 18, Bible for Beginners.
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