Lisa Harper

Even, I didn't think I could ever, I mean, I don't want to admit this with other Christians, but I never thought I could have a great fondness for Leviticus.

I'd always burn out in Leviticus when I did.

There's been more dead end reading the Bibles than Leviticus.

Oh my heavens, it's like it's scabs and blood and all this stuff.

But I mean, like last year, I found this story in Leviticus that made me fall in love with Leviticus.

So if I get to open this love letter called the Bible, I'm not saying I'm effective teaching anywhere, but to me, there's something redemptive on every page.

Well, we like to do it.

Anybody who's quoting from Aquinas.

I know.

Two minutes.

Mine are usually 20.

That's great wisdom.

And if you recognize every single story

hangs under the canopy of a good God.

Yeah.

So we may not understand the socio-historical context of the original author, original audience, but you go, it was redemptive for them.

When he set up the parameters in Deuteronomy around women not being able to be attacked by men in a culture where any woman over the age of 12 could be just... I mean, it's just horrible what happened.

And God said, no, if you're going to mess with one of my daughters, you marry her not to...

you know not to re injure her but because nobody else will marry her she's considered damaged goods so you're gonna you know begin to repay what you've stolen you give her daddy money that's not a bribe that she can't hold property so you're gonna make her financially independent and so he begins to erect this redemptive fence around women at a time when culture didn't

Well, if you begin to get context, you're like, oh, my heavens, it's always good.