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Hey Bible Readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. For most of this book, and in fact, for all of the rest of it, God is the only person who speaks. He's talking a lot about holiness, which includes but isn't limited to cleanliness.
He gives laws about how people should live in community together in a way that is both civil toward each other—horizontal laws or man-to-man laws— and laws about how to live honorably toward God, vertical laws or God-to-man laws. He starts out by restating a few of the Ten Commandments.
If you ever wonder why God repeats himself so frequently, just stop for a second and think about how quickly the Israelites forget. Or honestly, it's probably just blatant rebellion. Then God dives into application of the horizontal laws, loving your neighbor as yourself.
I'm just going to do a quick overview of some of the things he touches on because I think they really serve to reveal God's heart. In 19.9-10, we see that God provides for the poor via the surplus of the rich, ordering the rich not to fully harvest their fields. He'll reiterate this again tomorrow. And by the way, this law is one of the ways God brought Ruth and Boaz together.
We'll read that story in a few weeks. In 1914, God speaks specifically against injuring people in the area of their weakness. The deaf can't hear your curses, and the blind can't see your stumbling blocks, so don't use people's wounds or vulnerabilities to your own advantage. In 1917, God encourages His people not to be ruled by selfish emotions.
Instead, be reasonable and communicate openly to avoid a rift. On dGroup staff, the way we seek to operate by this principle is, if someone says something negative about another person, they have 24 hours to bring it to that person. It helps us honor each other while also honoring God and not let these things fester in our hearts. God also emphasizes the importance of heart here.
It's at the root of everything we do. Then God moves on to other specific laws about how to honor Him. If this whole section is confusing to you, I can commiserate. This is a really confusing section to know how to parse today. We can't throw it all out.
We can't assume that since Jesus came and fulfilled the law that God is okay with you making your daughter a prostitute now or to sacrifice your children to Molech. Even back then, this required a bit of discernment. For instance, could you make your son a prostitute? Could you sacrifice your children to a different false god besides Molech?
Even back then, they had to dig to the heart of these commands to see how to apply them. So how do we discern what still applies today? The easiest way I've heard it explained is there are three basic types of laws. Civil laws, which deal with society's behaviors and punishments. Ceremonial laws, which deal with being clean, making sacrifices, etc.
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