1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:06,620 Welcome to the love and context podcast engaging in unscripted conversations with your host Ben and Spencer 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:13,600 Whether you're tuning in from your car your office your home or anywhere in between we are so happy to have you join us today 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:20,160 Our mission is simple to explore the Bible through a powerful lens of love 4 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:28,620 Together we'll uncover fresh insights and gain deeper understandings of how we can love God and love the people in our everyday lives 5 00:00:28,620 --> 00:00:34,100 So buckle up and join us on the spiritual journey as we discover timeless wisdom 6 00:00:34,340 --> 00:00:41,480 That is just as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago without further ado. Let's dive right in 7 00:00:42,060 --> 00:00:46,720 Welcome back once again to the love and context podcast. Just a reminder. I am Ben 8 00:00:47,380 --> 00:00:54,340 And I am Spencer and this conversation is relatively unscripted actually it's completely unscripted, but sometimes we have notes 9 00:00:54,340 --> 00:00:59,060 Yeah, sometimes we have a rough outline today. We have our Bible apps open 10 00:00:59,060 --> 00:01:06,500 Yeah, so it is gonna be one of those days where the ADHD of Spencer is on high alert. Let's go. Yeah, let's go 11 00:01:07,820 --> 00:01:12,560 You're gonna be like we were talking about loving your neighbor and then Spencer's talking about his dog 12 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:18,220 And then next thing we know he's fishing and then he disappears for 20 minutes. Yeah, he's back 13 00:01:18,260 --> 00:01:21,100 Yep, it's gonna be just terribly on topic 14 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:26,420 So this is pretty much the episode where we we're actually gonna close out Leviticus because next week is our Q&A episode 15 00:01:27,540 --> 00:01:34,380 Correct. And so I thought it was really important one of the one of the most quoted verses from Leviticus actually comes from Leviticus 19 16 00:01:34,380 --> 00:01:38,140 Mm-hmm, and it's the one that everybody just thinks of right off the top of their head, right? 17 00:01:38,740 --> 00:01:42,700 Leviticus 19. Yeah, I've never thought Leviticus off the top of my head 18 00:01:43,700 --> 00:01:48,460 That's okay. You remember just like a few episodes ago. I was like, I'm really excited 19 00:01:48,460 --> 00:01:51,060 We're gonna get into Leviticus and you're like said no one ever 20 00:01:52,140 --> 00:01:54,300 Pretty much. I actually think at this point 21 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:59,780 especially because some of you have written us emails or talked to us and and I think people are actually coming around to like 22 00:01:59,780 --> 00:02:02,340 Leviticus is a way cooler book than they thought. Yeah, they are 23 00:02:02,340 --> 00:02:02,740 Yeah 24 00:02:02,740 --> 00:02:06,780 So the place that we're actually gonna be going to is in Leviticus 19 and believe it or not 25 00:02:06,780 --> 00:02:12,220 This is a place that's quoted by Jesus and it's one of his most famous quotes and it's something that's very important to the Christian existence 26 00:02:12,220 --> 00:02:18,000 Now in the book of Matthew Jesus having this conversation with a teacher of the law and he says what is the greatest command? 27 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:19,560 And he says what have you heard? 28 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,320 The guy says I love Lord God with all your heart soul mind and strength and love your neighbor as yourself 29 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:29,440 Now Jesus says all of the law and prophets hang on these commands. Yes, right now in rabbinic speak 30 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:35,360 What he's saying is everything else in the Torah is interpreted through loving God and loving your neighbor 31 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:41,540 Right. The first portion of that level or God with all your heart soul mind and strength is said in Torah in the book of Deuteronomy 32 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:45,000 Which we're gonna be talking about it's quite a few weeks away 33 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:51,260 But the other portion of it is what we're gonna talk about today the love your neighbor as yourself that actually shows up in Leviticus 19 34 00:02:51,260 --> 00:02:51,760 Yep 35 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:57,320 So Jesus says the way that you're gonna interpret all of Torah is gonna happen through something in Deuteronomy 36 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,440 and also something in Leviticus. Mm-hmm. I 37 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,360 I think that we need to specify that this book is important. Yes. Yes it is 38 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,640 And so with that in mind, I thought this is gonna be kind of fun 39 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:13,400 I'm actually gonna read all of Leviticus 19 because we're gonna we're gonna narrow in on love your neighbor as yourself 40 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,000 But I really want to talk about what's going on here 41 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,800 Now starting in verse 1 Leviticus 19 says the Lord said to Moses 42 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:25,520 Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them be holy because I the Lord your God am holy 43 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:27,520 Okay, what does be holy mean? 44 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:34,240 Set apart. Set apart. Different than everybody else. So right away the things that he's going to talk about 45 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,720 Are gonna be things that make you different than everybody else 46 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:40,880 side note in 47 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,160 Matthew 48 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,120 Sermon on the Mount when Jesus is talking about be perfect just as I am perfect. Mm-hmm 49 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:50,040 Here's where he's getting it from right. It's a reference back to this idea of Levitical priesthood 50 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,280 You're supposed to look different than everybody else. Yep. So with that in mind 51 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:58,160 Let's keep going in here each of you must respect your mother and father and you must have reserved my Sabbath 52 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:03,200 I am the Lord your God do not turn to the idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I'm the Lord your God 53 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:08,440 Okay, both of those things we should see as things that are not common in their cultures around them. Yeah 54 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:13,480 When you sacrifice a fellowship offering to the Lord sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf 55 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:18,720 It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or the next on the next day anything left over until the third day must 56 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:20,880 Be burned up if any of it is eaten on the third day 57 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:25,400 It is I'm pure and will not be accepted whoever eats it will be held responsible because they have desecrated 58 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:26,640 What is holy to the Lord? 59 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,120 They must be cut off from their people when you reap of a harvest your land 60 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,440 Do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest 61 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,240 Do not go over your vineyard aside from the field 62 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:41,840 Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick the grapes that have fallen leave them for the poor and the foreigner 63 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:47,720 I am the Lord your God. Okay two things right here. First is when you bring a fellowship offering meant to bring 64 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,360 fellowship 65 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,100 Make sure that you actually do it the right way. Yes 66 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:58,080 I remember when we had pastor Clint on we talked about inviting somebody to coffee table and then we don't have a chair for him 67 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,800 Yeah, if you invite someone to coffee and you're like, oh by the way, I'm gonna sit at this whole table 68 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:03,800 You can sit at the table across the room for me 69 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:10,960 Yeah, is that person gonna come to coffee with you again or invite somebody who's a vegetarian and I serve bacon and steak 70 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,760 Well, it's their fault. They're vegetarian 71 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:22,120 My I say that my wife was vegetarian you can actually write to Spencer at love and context at gmail.com 72 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:24,520 And tell him exactly what you think about that 73 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:31,480 But yeah, if you invite someone who you know has dietary restrictions and you serve something that they cannot have 74 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:36,400 Yeah, one lady that I work with she has some pretty strict dietary restrictions 75 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:41,160 And so whenever we take turns cooking meals for each other when we meet and stuff like that 76 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,880 So whenever we're cooking meals, I mindful right, right? 77 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,660 You're thinking about the other person you're thinking about the purpose of the meal is actually who you're actually sharing it with 78 00:05:49,660 --> 00:05:54,920 Yes, so when you come to have a fellowship offering with God, mm-hmm. Make sure you know why you're there. Yeah, that's 79 00:05:54,920 --> 00:06:01,040 Good reason. Mm-hmm. It's almost like he's saying don't just go through the motions because that's something you should do. Mm-hmm 80 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:05,440 And then the next one is about not cutting the ends of your fields 81 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,700 Yeah, because there's always going to be poor among you and so you need to have a generous heart 82 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:14,000 By the way, can we stop there and actually talk about that quote from Jesus? Mm-hmm 83 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,600 So he says you will always have them poor among you. It's when they're they're talking about 84 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:23,160 Oh, we could have sold that to feed the poor and all these different things and Jesus actually says 85 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:25,600 But you're always had the poor among me, which you won't always have me 86 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,920 Mm-hmm now people have taken that as you're always going to have the poor among you 87 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:36,680 So your focus shouldn't be taking care of the poor but rather to service Jesus now. Yeah on a broad level. Yes 88 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,160 But the heart of Jesus does it serve people? I 89 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:45,440 Don't think you can say you serve or follow Jesus if you're not serving the poor amongst you 90 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:49,600 The reason I say that is because it is all throughout 91 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,080 Scripture you have here in Leviticus where he's talking about the margins in the field 92 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,840 You can actually take that and this is might not be the direct application for it 93 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:00,880 But you could actually take that say, okay 94 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,520 Where are the margins in your life to where you can meet the needs of those around you? 95 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:12,420 Oh, so you saying my discretionary income maybe isn't just for me. Maybe right? Maybe it's not just for you 96 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,600 Maybe you need to I mean if we're gonna talk about a money standpoint 97 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,040 I have some friends like what they do is they're like, all right, they they do their tithe to church 98 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:26,880 But then they have an additional percent that they just set aside in their budget and they're like this is specifically for 99 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:32,700 Blessing and helping those in our community because they're being intentional about this desire to reach on the outside 100 00:07:32,700 --> 00:07:34,620 Yeah to not cut the ends of their field now 101 00:07:34,620 --> 00:07:40,520 We are not Jews and so obviously like some of these things don't necessarily apply but in a very philosophical way 102 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,180 They absolutely apply we should orient our lives in a way that we don't cut the outsides 103 00:07:44,180 --> 00:07:47,800 But we leave it to actually take care of those around us that are always among us now 104 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,640 I quoted that thing from Jesus right? Did you know he's actually quoting Deuteronomy when he says that? 105 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:57,620 Yeah, it's Deuteronomy 15 11. He says for the poor will never cease to be in the land 106 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,800 Therefore now Jesus assuming that they know this right there 107 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:10,120 Therefore I command you saying you shall freely open your hand to your brother to the needy and the poor in your land 108 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:18,000 Mm-hmm. So what Jesus is not saying is that in honoring him you suddenly lose your obligation to take care of those around you 109 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,160 Yeah, okay. This is all going to be important because this is all part of the same context 110 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:26,280 We're coming into love your neighbor as yourself. So let's continue on in verse 11 111 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,440 Do not steal do not lie do not deceive one another 112 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,520 Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God 113 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:41,180 I am the Lord do not defraud or rob your neighbor do not hold back the wages of a higher worker overnight 114 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,720 Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind but fear your God 115 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:50,120 I am the Lord do not pervert justice do not show partiality to the poor or 116 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,600 Favoritism to the great but judge your neighbor fairly 117 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:59,840 By the way, I love that sentence there do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great. Mm-hmm 118 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:07,560 Like you can't cut it either way. No, we need to have justice for our neighbors. Mm-hmm. Do not go about spreading slander among your people 119 00:09:07,560 --> 00:09:13,160 Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am the Lord do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart 120 00:09:13,160 --> 00:09:16,680 Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt 121 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:21,400 Do not seek revenge or bury grudge against anyone among your people 122 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,000 but 123 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,240 Love your neighbor as yourself 124 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:26,400 I am the Lord 125 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,440 So let's stop there because there's I actually want to continue on because it actually continues on another context 126 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:36,000 I think is really good. So there's a lot of instructions here about community living. Yeah 127 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:40,280 I think it's really interesting that this goes under a heading at least in the NIV of various laws 128 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:46,560 I think it's interesting like a lot of the translations and maybe send us an email or a comment about what your translation says at 129 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:51,440 the top of 19 mine says various laws and I just think that's very interesting 130 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,920 It's like we don't know how to classify this and the reality is this is like, how do you live in a community? 131 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:04,520 Yeah, how do you actually flourish among people both God's people and people that are not part of God's people? 132 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,820 Yeah, how do you actually look different than everybody else? Yeah 133 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,560 Some of these ships are very familiar from our ten words 134 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:18,300 Yeah, they do a lot of these things sound like common sense. Don't steal don't deceive don't cheat 135 00:10:18,300 --> 00:10:22,540 Don't swear falsely so on so forth a lot of these like okay 136 00:10:23,140 --> 00:10:29,140 This is sounds pretty common sense. You also need to understand the day and age that this was written in 137 00:10:29,260 --> 00:10:37,340 it was not written in a day and age where where the community of which they were a part of was vast and you could just kind of 138 00:10:37,780 --> 00:10:42,860 Shift friend groups or social groups, right if you needed to right it wasn't written in that day and age 139 00:10:42,860 --> 00:10:48,980 It was written in day and age where you are a part of a tribe of Israel some larger than others and so you 140 00:10:49,260 --> 00:10:55,020 Had to deal with the issues you had with other people and so it's saying how do you do this lovingly? 141 00:10:55,380 --> 00:10:58,460 And how do you do this in a way that builds each other up? 142 00:10:58,940 --> 00:11:01,700 Also, how do you do this in a way that you don't end up killing each other? 143 00:11:01,740 --> 00:11:02,220 Yeah 144 00:11:02,220 --> 00:11:07,300 And then the other portion of this is when we're talking about not cheating people making sure that you pay their wages all these different 145 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:11,940 Things don't only sympathize with the poor or show partiality to the rich, right? 146 00:11:11,940 --> 00:11:15,420 Yeah, these are things by the way, you should hear that from James the book of James 147 00:11:15,780 --> 00:11:18,660 What's what's the temptation when you come from Egypt? 148 00:11:18,660 --> 00:11:24,560 Like this is your culture where might makes right and if you're rich and powerful you can basically do whatever you want 149 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:26,560 Mm-hmm. This says no you can't 150 00:11:26,820 --> 00:11:32,220 But also just because you were a slave and you identify with that. It doesn't mean that the weaker party is always correct 151 00:11:32,380 --> 00:11:35,100 Yeah, it's a little bit of an ego check too 152 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:41,500 Yeah, because you follow Israel story out of Egypt that they were freed from the most powerful nation in the world 153 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:49,020 And then they went on with the help of God to defeat other tribes other nations going into the promised land 154 00:11:49,020 --> 00:11:51,620 Yeah, they've had a fight with the Amalekites at this point 155 00:11:51,620 --> 00:11:57,580 Yep, and they've had a few skirmishes, but they haven't had any real fights. Mm-hmm, but they're coming. Yeah, they are coming and 156 00:11:58,260 --> 00:12:02,900 It's gonna be really tempting when you're like, ah, man, we're awesome. We should just go and do this 157 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:05,460 In fact, I think in numbers there's a conversation 158 00:12:05,460 --> 00:12:10,100 We're gonna have about where they they accept a false report and then God says, okay 159 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:13,300 You're not going in the land and then they're like, oh no, we'll go now. He's like 160 00:12:14,060 --> 00:12:19,580 No, I already said you can't go now and they're like, oh no, we'll be fine. We'll go and we'll bear your name 161 00:12:19,740 --> 00:12:23,260 Well, you're bearing something you're just not bearing his name and we'll talk about that 162 00:12:23,260 --> 00:12:27,540 But yeah, who's whose banner you actually running with are you trusting in your might or in God's might? 163 00:12:27,540 --> 00:12:30,580 Do you trust in God's justice by the way going back to Genesis? 164 00:12:30,860 --> 00:12:35,260 Yeah, do you trust that God is not holding out on you or do you go out and try to take for yourself? 165 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:38,860 yeah, these laws revolve around these same concepts and 166 00:12:38,860 --> 00:12:43,860 and so all the way down to the point where it says that you as 167 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:50,420 Israelites need to make sure that you do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people 168 00:12:50,420 --> 00:12:52,580 But love your neighbor as yourself. Okay, I 169 00:12:53,420 --> 00:13:00,180 Know a lot of Christians who love to quote. I love your neighbor as yourself. Mm-hmm that bear a lot of grudges. Mm-hmm 170 00:13:00,940 --> 00:13:07,540 Well you back up a verse a little bit more it says do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives 171 00:13:07,540 --> 00:13:09,180 who 172 00:13:09,180 --> 00:13:10,260 Yeah, okay 173 00:13:10,260 --> 00:13:16,380 Then it says confront people directly so that you will not be held guilty in their sin, right? 174 00:13:16,820 --> 00:13:24,380 now I want to just pause here on this because I know a lot of believers who do nurse hatred 175 00:13:24,780 --> 00:13:32,620 towards fellow believers and what they'll do is they'll justify it as oh that person's not truly a follower of Jesus because 176 00:13:33,180 --> 00:13:35,740 They don't fully believe as I do or whatnot 177 00:13:35,740 --> 00:13:38,900 There's lots of different I've run into lots of different variations of this 178 00:13:39,460 --> 00:13:43,860 But they'll justify their hatred as oh, well, maybe they're not actually following Jesus 179 00:13:43,860 --> 00:13:48,160 We will have an episode where we talk about how we demonize each other. Yeah. Yeah 180 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,640 Yeah, and then the second part of this confront people directly 181 00:13:51,140 --> 00:13:56,460 It doesn't say be a jerk. It also doesn't say talk to other people about that person 182 00:13:56,620 --> 00:14:01,240 Yes, if you have an issue with somebody go to them confront them about it 183 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,940 You can be direct and loving at the same time one 184 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:11,120 We want to go back to like even yes ago. We talked about Ephesians speaking truth and love 185 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:15,520 Yeah, the idea is you have unity not uniformity 186 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,840 Mm-hmm, and you're honorably pursuing God and in that pursuit 187 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:24,880 When we have the best in mind for the person around us, then we can speak truth and love 188 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,880 When I understand you I'm in community. I'm in fellowship with you. I can speak truth and love 189 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:35,060 Yeah, you can't speak truth and love outside of that context. No, you can't. Yeah, that's good 190 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:39,620 So this is about the middle of the chapter 191 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:44,040 So let's just keep going on and it says love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord continuing on in 19 192 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,420 Keep my decrees do not mate different kinds of animals 193 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:52,560 Do not plant your field with two kinds of seed do not wear clothing woven of two kinds of material 194 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,280 If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man 195 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,160 But who has not been ransom or given her freedom there must be due punishment yet 196 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:02,160 They are not to be put to death because she has not been freed 197 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:06,680 The man however must bring a ram to the entrance to the tent of meeting for a guilt offering to the Lord 198 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:11,760 With the ram or guilt offering the priest is to make atona for him because of the sin Lord for the sin 199 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:13,760 He has committed and his sin will be forgiven 200 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:20,680 When you enter the land and plant any kind of tree regardless regard its fruit as forbidden for three years 201 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,200 You are to consider it forbidden for it 202 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:26,440 It must not be eaten in the fourth year all of its fruit would be holy and offering a praise to the Lord 203 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:32,000 But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit in this way your harvest will be increased. I am the Lord your God 204 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:39,120 Okay, let's take a stop step back really quick and I am NOT avoiding the one about the ransom and the end of slavery 205 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,720 I just think that that was going to require more context and we're gonna put in this episode 206 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:48,160 So we're gonna pin that bring that up for a Q&A if you want that in the future. Okay, but what's going on here? 207 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:52,960 He's saying there's don't make two different kinds of animals different kinds of field different kinds of fabrics 208 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:59,800 Different people groups, right? You're not mixing now. Why because you're supposed to be different 209 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:01,800 You're supposed to be set apart 210 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:06,000 You're not intermingling one of the things that gets Israel in trouble over and over again 211 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:11,280 Is they want to mingle a little bit of Phoenicia with a little bit of Egypt with a little bit of you know, and 212 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:16,840 Not shockingly it ends up looking nothing like what God actually has for you. Mm-hmm 213 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:21,520 You know eating a little bacon's not that bad. I'm a gentleman. Right? Yeah 214 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:28,680 Get good old cup of bacon call out to the Baymaw podcast for that. Uh-huh. There's a very practical one 215 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:31,400 But once again here is this whole thing with the fruit tree 216 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:37,120 Like anybody who actually does these types of things knows that you don't need the fruit for the first couple years 217 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:37,680 Yeah 218 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:42,840 You actually have to let it grow and produce fruit year after year before you actually try to read from it 219 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:48,680 Which by the way, if we judge a person as a tree and fruit sometimes in the first couple of years that fruit might not 220 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:49,960 quite be 221 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:57,160 Ready. Mm-hmm. Yeah, give it time. Mm-hmm continue to you know, prune that tree work with it all those different things 222 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:02,800 I think the tendency is we want to immediately diagnose a person rather than actually discipling them through a process. Yeah 223 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:08,240 All right. So looking ahead here do not eat any meat with the blood still in it 224 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:14,160 Okay, that should by the way make sense with our episode where we talked about the life being in the blood and you cast your 225 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:20,260 Identity onto the animal right like why do you not eat blood? So they're just trying to reinstate what's going on here plus. Yeah 226 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:22,240 health 227 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,280 Food with blood in it would make you real sick if you don't cook it, right? Mm-hmm 228 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:28,800 Do not practice divinations or seek omens 229 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,280 Do not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard 230 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,320 Do not cut your bodies for the dead or to put tattoo marks on yourself 231 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:40,200 I am the Lord do not grade your daughter by making her a prostitute or the land will turn to prostitution be a little 232 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,000 thick wickedness observe my Sabbath and have reverence for my sanctuary 233 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,640 I am the Lord do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists spiritist assists 234 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,360 That's a hard word for you will be defiled by them 235 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:56,960 I am the Lord your God stand in the presence of the aged show respect for the elderly and revere your God 236 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,280 I am the Lord when the foreigner resides among you in your land 237 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:06,760 Do not mistreat them the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native born love them as 238 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:08,800 yourself 239 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,040 For you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God 240 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,560 Do not use dishonest standards when measuring length weight or height or quality. Sorry. I 241 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:23,600 Can read I promise use honest scales and honest weights an honest ifah and an honest hin 242 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:28,560 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow them 243 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:34,200 I'm Lord. Mm-hmm. Okay once again here. Why are we going into these things again, right? 244 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,900 Because he wants them to be different than everything else around them, right? 245 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:45,400 So when you're mentioning specific practices, I've seen this this this quote from Leviticus where people talk about the reason you shouldn't get tattoos 246 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,100 The tattoos that they are getting our ritual worship 247 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,060 For their gods in the Middle Eastern culture 248 00:18:54,060 --> 00:18:59,700 They are meant for for blessing for whatever you want to place on it. They were they were ritualistic things 249 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:05,260 Yeah, it is not the same as when somebody wants to get a cross tattoo across their forearm to remind them of Christ saving their life 250 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:11,620 Okay. Now you can be against tattoos and I'm totally fine with that. I actually have no tattoos 251 00:19:12,420 --> 00:19:15,640 Yeah, my wife has plenty. Yeah, I don't have any tattoos either 252 00:19:16,060 --> 00:19:21,860 Mostly because I'm like it just doesn't appeal to me to go have a needle stuck in my arm or leg 253 00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:24,620 For thousands of times to make a picture. Yeah 254 00:19:24,620 --> 00:19:29,460 I don't like getting pinched and so like you think about getting pinched like a couple thousand times like that 255 00:19:29,460 --> 00:19:34,540 Just doesn't sound pleasant right like it just doesn't sound like a fun thing to me. I know other people who love tattoos 256 00:19:34,540 --> 00:19:37,500 Mm-hmm, and they're wonderful people who follow Jesus. I 257 00:19:38,740 --> 00:19:42,660 Want one of my encouragements to you though is regardless of how you feel about it 258 00:19:42,780 --> 00:19:47,720 This is not probably mean what you think it does if you're trying to use it as a reason people shouldn't get tattoos 259 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:48,540 Mm-hmm 260 00:19:48,540 --> 00:19:54,140 Yeah, also along with they talk about not clipping their hair on the sides of your head or clipping off the edges of your beard 261 00:19:54,340 --> 00:20:00,660 Okay, once again these have to do with ritualistic things. You've got to understand the cultures that they're speaking into 262 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:01,220 Yeah 263 00:20:01,220 --> 00:20:06,780 So a lot of these are don't do the things that they do for deity worship in the other areas 264 00:20:06,780 --> 00:20:10,480 Like even like placing your daughter as a prostitute. Mm-hmm, right? 265 00:20:11,380 --> 00:20:16,460 Like now, hopefully nobody listening to this is oh dang. I was gonna place my daughter as a prostitute 266 00:20:16,460 --> 00:20:23,060 Hopefully that's not the case. And if it is send us your your address, we're gonna call CPS on you because that is not okay 267 00:20:23,660 --> 00:20:29,180 These things that are going on here are regarding what is happening now outside of their culture 268 00:20:29,460 --> 00:20:32,220 Because they didn't necessarily have respect for the elderly 269 00:20:32,220 --> 00:20:37,700 They didn't care about the treat the foreigners among them really well, but God says you 270 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:40,620 You're gonna love your neighbor as you love yourself 271 00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:45,700 But now I need you to love the foreigner the people who are not part of your tribe 272 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:50,900 And people who are not part of your family the people who are not part of your faith dynamic 273 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:54,740 I need you to love them like they are. Mm-hmm for you 274 00:20:54,940 --> 00:20:59,940 Were once foreigners in Egypt and he is the Lord God who brought us out of the land of Egypt 275 00:21:00,580 --> 00:21:08,460 So we're going to love people even when they don't look the same talk the same come from the same place and definitely don't 276 00:21:08,460 --> 00:21:10,460 Do the same things as us? Yeah 277 00:21:10,460 --> 00:21:16,740 Absolutely, and when we are talking about loving people like putting that in a modern context 278 00:21:17,660 --> 00:21:20,740 Remember back to when you didn't know Jesus 279 00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:23,900 Who were you at that point in your life? 280 00:21:24,580 --> 00:21:31,100 Okay. Now, do you know people in your sphere who don't know Jesus who are acting the same way that you used to? 281 00:21:31,660 --> 00:21:37,340 Aren't you so thankful someone came alongside you and loved you for who you were at that time? 282 00:21:37,340 --> 00:21:42,660 Yeah, yeah doesn't mean that's who you are now, right? Let's be clear on that, but they loved you for who you were 283 00:21:43,460 --> 00:21:47,820 So now it's your turn to be like, okay. I'm gonna love those people for who they are and 284 00:21:48,740 --> 00:21:51,100 Watch Jesus do a transforming work in their lives 285 00:21:52,140 --> 00:21:56,580 So pastor Nick has this game that he plays where he takes a little portions of what we say 286 00:21:56,700 --> 00:22:00,160 Uh-huh, and he quotes it out of context because it's called love in context 287 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:05,580 So he calls it out of love and out of context. Mm-hmm. And so he'll text us these sound bites periodically 288 00:22:05,580 --> 00:22:12,660 So this is probably one that's gonna get clipped. I should be so great. Do you realize that people's sin isn't actually the issue? 289 00:22:14,340 --> 00:22:15,980 Mm-hmm 290 00:22:15,980 --> 00:22:21,900 Okay, is the problem for somebody in today's world that they are a practicing adulterer 291 00:22:22,980 --> 00:22:29,180 Now that has problems hundred percent and that that kind of behavior leads to certain ramifications in your life 292 00:22:29,420 --> 00:22:33,460 Right hundred percent like they don't actually bring life, but is that the issue? 293 00:22:33,460 --> 00:22:37,180 No, it seems like that is a symptom of the issue 294 00:22:37,180 --> 00:22:43,260 Yeah, which is that we have a broken nature that happened in Eden. Mm-hmm 295 00:22:43,260 --> 00:22:46,860 When we said we don't trust you God, we're gonna define good and evil on our own terms 296 00:22:46,860 --> 00:22:53,180 And then from that point forward we actually had a broken nature that was incapable of receiving the grace of God 297 00:22:53,180 --> 00:22:56,180 Yeah, at least on a permanent basis. Mm-hmm 298 00:22:56,740 --> 00:23:01,220 God is like speaking into this and he's like I want to restore relationship more so relationship on restore relationship 299 00:23:01,220 --> 00:23:04,220 I want to restore relationship on wants to relationship finally 300 00:23:04,340 --> 00:23:08,300 Jesus bridging the gap and coming and taking all sin and all death and 301 00:23:08,660 --> 00:23:12,980 Fundamentally changing our nature by conquering them in the grave and by rising again 302 00:23:12,980 --> 00:23:17,780 And don't mishear us forgiveness of sins is crucial crucial 303 00:23:17,780 --> 00:23:24,900 It's it's crucial but it is the first step into restoration with relationship with relationship to God 304 00:23:24,940 --> 00:23:28,100 Yeah, the sins are forgiven then as we draw closer to God 305 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:32,100 We become closer in relationship with him more tight knit with him 306 00:23:32,140 --> 00:23:38,740 Correct and the less those sin temptations those sin desires exist in our lives the more we lean into who God is 307 00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:40,700 but 308 00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:45,940 Just because you're forgiven doesn't mean you're not gonna be tempted and doesn't mean you're not gonna slip up, right? 309 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:53,900 Okay, so even if you look at narcotics anonymous or alcoholics anonymous or anything like that if someone slips up, it's not like oh 310 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:55,900 Hey, you're done. You're out of the program 311 00:23:55,900 --> 00:24:01,740 That's not what it is. They have a process they go through. Okay, I don't I've never been a part of it 312 00:24:01,740 --> 00:24:06,420 So I don't know too much about it. I know the last episode I talked about a a now you're talking about NA people 313 00:24:06,420 --> 00:24:10,100 I'm like, yeah, right these guys. Yeah, that's true regardless 314 00:24:10,700 --> 00:24:17,260 Sins are forgiven that's the most that's the starting point to us being drawn closer to God and being restored in relationship with God, right? 315 00:24:17,460 --> 00:24:21,580 So what you talked about earlier in Leviticus God has always been capable of forgiving sense 316 00:24:21,580 --> 00:24:21,940 Yes 317 00:24:21,940 --> 00:24:29,860 So that can't be the groundbreaking thing that Jesus actually comes to do Jesus actually comes to fundamentally change our nature to actually bring the kingdom 318 00:24:29,860 --> 00:24:33,380 Among us. Yeah, so that the kingdom of heaven is now something that we live into 319 00:24:34,220 --> 00:24:40,500 Now forgiveness of sins is a part of that our nature gets changed God forgives our sins and then he empowers us by the Holy Spirit 320 00:24:41,460 --> 00:24:47,060 To live differently. Yeah through the forgiveness of sins. We are redeemed empowered by the Holy Spirit 321 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:51,420 Exactly. Exactly. You were probably like, oh, why are we being very specific with this? 322 00:24:51,420 --> 00:24:54,820 Well, because we sometimes I think we get bogged down in theological 323 00:24:55,540 --> 00:24:58,940 Terminology and we're like, oh no, it's always since and sin. I was like, yeah 324 00:24:58,940 --> 00:25:00,940 But if you don't actually have a change in nature 325 00:25:01,380 --> 00:25:07,180 Nothing changes. Mm-hmm. Then you're just coming back over and over again for forgiveness of sin and you never actually have power over it 326 00:25:07,180 --> 00:25:12,460 But that's not what God actually teaches us. No says that I empower you to be different. Yeah, and 327 00:25:13,140 --> 00:25:18,780 That's the transformative work of Christ in your life. Yeah, that your life is not actually it was one way 328 00:25:18,780 --> 00:25:23,220 Mm-hmm to quote from the chosen it was one way. Mm-hmm. And 329 00:25:24,020 --> 00:25:28,380 Now it's different. Yeah, and the only thing in between is him. Yep. Amen 330 00:25:29,020 --> 00:25:33,180 By the way, I'm gonna throw it out here. I think I've talked about it before I love the chosen 331 00:25:33,180 --> 00:25:36,500 Mm-hmm. I have talked about it. I I think that they do a fantastic job 332 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:41,780 I know not everybody loves it because they're taking scripture and putting it on film and stuff. I love it 333 00:25:41,780 --> 00:25:46,580 I think that they've done it they're being trying to be as faithful as possible and encourage people in their faith 334 00:25:46,580 --> 00:25:50,500 Mm-hmm. So Dallas Jenkins if you're listening, we'd love to have you on the podcast 335 00:25:51,340 --> 00:25:55,580 So now coming back to this idea about the change in nature now 336 00:25:55,580 --> 00:26:00,060 So why is this important because loving other people doesn't mean condoning what they're doing 337 00:26:00,820 --> 00:26:04,180 Exactly. It also doesn't mean fixing what they're doing. Exactly 338 00:26:04,180 --> 00:26:10,700 It means actually introducing them the core them to the person of Jesus and allowing him to transform their life. Mm-hmm 339 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:18,460 Now I think it's important that the love of the foreigner comes in the midst of all these things where they tell he tells the Israelites 340 00:26:18,820 --> 00:26:22,300 Don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this. These are things that they do 341 00:26:23,020 --> 00:26:24,260 but 342 00:26:24,260 --> 00:26:29,260 When they come into your area, you need to love them like you love your brothers and sisters. Yeah 343 00:26:30,020 --> 00:26:35,620 Right. So you're going to have to sit among them and be different. Yep 344 00:26:36,180 --> 00:26:38,180 Don't retreat back to your 345 00:26:38,180 --> 00:26:44,340 Churches, uh-huh your houses and never engage the culture. You're gonna be out and among people 346 00:26:45,260 --> 00:26:51,660 Live differently. You put a story on display and love them like you love your brothers and sisters. Amen 347 00:26:52,260 --> 00:26:54,260 That's hard. That's very hard 348 00:26:54,740 --> 00:26:59,140 It's a much more difficult thing than saying. Oh, I just I theoretically just love you 349 00:26:59,140 --> 00:27:02,100 but I'm just gonna not interact with you because I don't want to deal with the 350 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:08,540 Yeah, and the reason that's hard is because this requires you to not hold grudges 351 00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:13,820 To not keep records of wrong Paul goes into this in 1st Corinthians 13 352 00:27:13,820 --> 00:27:22,100 Yeah, right. This patient loves patience kind no records of wrong so on so forth read it from the lens of like how incredibly difficult is this? 353 00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:28,220 It's almost like you would need divine help to do it. Yeah, right. There's things 354 00:27:28,220 --> 00:27:32,980 that people do that honestly just drive me nuts that I just am like 355 00:27:32,980 --> 00:27:36,700 Why would I want to be around that? He's talking about me. I am talking about Ben 356 00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:42,660 100% and and pastor Nick if he's listening, but there are things that people do that was just like man 357 00:27:43,180 --> 00:27:48,060 That is really hard to put up with anybody who is married knows what I'm talking about 358 00:27:48,060 --> 00:27:51,580 And if you are like and if you're married like oh, no, we don't have those issues 359 00:27:51,820 --> 00:27:54,300 You do there you just not admitting to him 360 00:27:54,300 --> 00:28:00,620 But anybody who's married knows what I'm talking about. Okay, there are things that my wife does that drives me nuts 361 00:28:00,940 --> 00:28:06,860 Okay, and there's things that I do that drive my wife nuts. There's things that we do that drive each other nuts 362 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:10,940 Well, we make sure we would do not do is when something drives us nuts 363 00:28:10,940 --> 00:28:14,540 We're like you remember five years ago when you said this thing 364 00:28:15,420 --> 00:28:16,300 Yeah 365 00:28:16,300 --> 00:28:20,220 Or you did this or you did that or asked for this and you said no 366 00:28:20,220 --> 00:28:25,100 What we don't do is we don't hold grudges on that we still drive each other nuts sometimes 367 00:28:25,420 --> 00:28:29,420 But we work that out move on and do not hold grudges 368 00:28:30,540 --> 00:28:33,500 Yeah, I wanted I want to talk about the other end of that too 369 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:38,860 Because I think if you have somebody where they're like, well, you said you forgave me and I was like 370 00:28:38,860 --> 00:28:42,220 Well, you also said you were gonna change your behavior and you're doing the exact same thing 371 00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:42,620 Yeah 372 00:28:42,620 --> 00:28:47,500 And so I'm not necessarily bringing up that the past because I was having this conversation 373 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:51,740 With my spouse once and I said I'm not necessarily bringing up the past because I haven't forgiven you for the event 374 00:28:51,740 --> 00:28:55,500 What I'm saying is what you are doing now is very similar to this 375 00:28:56,220 --> 00:28:58,220 Which is something I thought we got past 376 00:28:58,940 --> 00:29:03,180 So that's good communication. Yeah, and that obviously that always involves a two-way street 377 00:29:03,180 --> 00:29:09,260 I was like but the reason I'm bringing up the past is not to attack but to to have a real conversation about like hey 378 00:29:09,260 --> 00:29:11,260 What am I feeling today? 379 00:29:11,260 --> 00:29:14,220 Yeah, my heart's not to take off my spouse every day 380 00:29:14,220 --> 00:29:20,860 Yeah, my heart's not to take off my spouse every day. Yeah, some days some days it depends on the day 381 00:29:20,860 --> 00:29:22,860 There's days. I'm better at it than other days 382 00:29:24,060 --> 00:29:30,460 But that's not my heart right? Yeah, and there are some habits are so ingrained in my life that I've been changing but they take time 383 00:29:30,460 --> 00:29:32,540 Yeah, in other words guys marriage is hard 384 00:29:32,540 --> 00:29:33,020 Yeah 385 00:29:33,020 --> 00:29:38,700 the way that we love our spouse want not the exact way but the way that we have unending compassion and and 386 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:44,860 Will bear with people that we are married to or in our family. We need to have that kind of compassion for people who are outside 387 00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:51,420 Yeah, right now. I do think that it's it's important to know that just with your family like you set boundaries 388 00:29:51,500 --> 00:29:58,940 You set guidelines like you make sure that you're protecting your sanity protecting your your your ability to love God and love other people 389 00:29:58,940 --> 00:30:03,740 And so I think people will tend to want to violate those boundaries and it's okay to tell someone hey 390 00:30:03,740 --> 00:30:06,620 You violated some boundaries. So we need to take a step back. Mm-hmm 391 00:30:06,620 --> 00:30:11,660 Like clear communication like just taking a step back in a relationship with somebody is not necessarily 392 00:30:12,540 --> 00:30:15,340 Unloving yeah, it depends on why you do it. Mm-hmm 393 00:30:16,060 --> 00:30:21,260 Are you doing it because you want no relationship moving forward? Are you doing it so that you can reevaluate how to move forward? 394 00:30:22,060 --> 00:30:23,580 Yeah 395 00:30:23,580 --> 00:30:27,580 Um, yeah, that was so good. Yeah, I just think it's really important 396 00:30:27,660 --> 00:30:31,980 So my wife and I have been spending a lot of time like just with different 397 00:30:31,980 --> 00:30:36,460 Um books reading about boundaries and like how do you how do you interact with people? 398 00:30:36,780 --> 00:30:43,500 And one of the things that I realized is that um, I had a tendency to let people just run all run rampant all over my boundaries 399 00:30:44,940 --> 00:30:46,620 And I started 400 00:30:46,620 --> 00:30:50,860 Being very clear on what my boundaries are and when somebody ran up against it and they would say well 401 00:30:50,860 --> 00:30:52,860 I need you to do this. I said no 402 00:30:53,580 --> 00:30:56,540 And they're like, oh why not? I said it's a boundary 403 00:30:56,540 --> 00:31:01,340 And then they wanted further clarification if I have to explain to you why I have a boundary 404 00:31:01,580 --> 00:31:05,020 Then you're looking to argue with me about my boundary. Mm-hmm, right? 405 00:31:05,660 --> 00:31:07,660 It's okay to have boundaries that you just don't argue about 406 00:31:09,020 --> 00:31:13,500 It actually allowed me to have some really good conversations with people who tend to run right over boundaries 407 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:18,300 Yeah, and I think our relationship is better since then. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. Absolutely 408 00:31:19,020 --> 00:31:21,340 So tying this back when we're talking about marriage a lot 409 00:31:21,340 --> 00:31:29,820 Part of the reason for that is our marriages are supposed to be a image of the church's relationship with christ 410 00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:33,260 And so we need to understand some stuff there 411 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:40,380 We need to understand that we as a church are called to love the foreigners and the outsiders in our community 412 00:31:41,180 --> 00:31:45,820 And what I'm referring to is anybody who is not in relationship with jesus 413 00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:49,660 Like we need to be loving those people 414 00:31:49,660 --> 00:31:57,100 To be loving those people we need to be loving those people well, that doesn't mean we're sacrificing on certain beliefs, right? 415 00:31:57,580 --> 00:32:01,340 But we can actually we can hold firm on beliefs and still be loving 416 00:32:02,780 --> 00:32:03,820 Yeah, exactly 417 00:32:03,820 --> 00:32:08,060 And I think I think we often miss this where we're like, oh we're holding strong to the truth and I was like 418 00:32:08,380 --> 00:32:10,860 Yeah, but if you're not loving you're not holding strong to the truth 419 00:32:10,940 --> 00:32:16,220 Yeah, and if you need a refresher on that we just talked about first john. I think it was two episodes ago. Yeah 420 00:32:16,220 --> 00:32:19,900 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And so if you're not loving your neighbor as well 421 00:32:20,620 --> 00:32:23,020 You're not actually holding to the truth 422 00:32:23,820 --> 00:32:29,180 The other thing is loving doesn't mean you're tolerant of every behavior. We've talked we just talked about that a little bit 423 00:32:29,260 --> 00:32:32,140 Yeah, I love my children and I don't tolerate every behavior that they have 424 00:32:32,140 --> 00:32:36,060 Yeah, I don't tolerate my daughter throwing a massive fit right before bedtime 425 00:32:37,020 --> 00:32:39,020 I still love my daughter 426 00:32:39,180 --> 00:32:44,700 When we are loving people we are trying to encourage people into a place where they're encountering jesus where jesus is doing 427 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:48,960 Transformative work in our lives and they are becoming better people because of that 428 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:55,120 Do you think maybe part of what's going on is culture is conflating acceptance and tolerance is one word. Yeah 429 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,360 Where's not no I can accept you as a person 430 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,320 And as a person made in the image of god 431 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:07,840 And still not tolerate certain behaviors. Yeah, I wanted to recommend a couple of different resources 432 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,040 So not just our conversation, but just a couple of different people's conversations 433 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:16,960 So last week we recommended bob goff love does bob has a really good heart of how do you love people that are just completely? 434 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:18,960 out of your wheelhouse, right 435 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,200 john townsend is a 436 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,840 Believer who is also a psychologist, right? 437 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,360 And so he wrote a book called loving people how to love and be loved 438 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:33,440 Right, so that's gonna be a little bit more clinical approach and there's it's gonna be a little bit maybe different than you might be 439 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:39,200 Having encountered that before there's a book called keep your love on by a guy by the name of danny silk 440 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:45,360 And he also comes from a therapeutic background. Mm-hmm and just talking about how do you love people in the middle of? 441 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,800 Not necessarily always liking them. Mm-hmm. Like how do you keep your love on? 442 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:52,440 Regardless of what happens in a relationship 443 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:57,520 All great resources and they're gonna be very diverse backgrounds in their theological beliefs 444 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:02,160 So read all three and if you don't like one just move on to the next one. Yeah. Yeah, yeah 445 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:09,440 I guarantee you're not gonna agree with everyone. Yeah, especially everyone on this podcast. Mm-hmm. Yeah, this is 446 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,000 Leviticus 19 it kind of falls in the middle of the vitticus 447 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,520 So why do you end the look at Leviticus with something in the middle? 448 00:34:16,240 --> 00:34:17,680 Chiasm. Yep 449 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:23,280 Chiasm is once again like in the middle of this book and you can even hear it as it repeats itself 450 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,320 Love your neighbor as yourself and then love the foreigner as you love your neighbor 451 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,480 This whole book is about how do you interact with people? 452 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:36,560 And put the story of God on display because once again the book of Leviticus is about God instructing his people 453 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,960 His kingdom of priests how to be priests 454 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:45,740 Yeah, and put it on display for the entire world how to become a more healthy ethical functioning society 455 00:34:45,740 --> 00:34:48,380 That's gonna flourish in the desert. Yeah, so good 456 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:55,520 That is what you should be taking away from this book. Yeah, it's not where the nitpicky laws that were very hard to follow 457 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,240 It's actually how do we love our neighbors? Well, how do we love the foreigner? 458 00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:02,640 Well, yeah, how do we put God's story on display? 459 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,680 Because if it because if you read this story from any other context but that you're gonna come away with some really weird ideas 460 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:09,840 Yeah, very weird ideas 461 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:11,600 So I think that's probably gonna be good 462 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,720 I think that's a good short episode to kind of wrap us up here 463 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,720 Once again, if you want to reach us we have love and context at gmail.com 464 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:23,440 That's where you can write if you're a vegetarian you can write to spencer there and tell him about how offended you were 465 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:31,360 I'll send you a package of bacon. Yeah, you can also follow us on facebook at love and context instagram at love and context and 466 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:39,120 Tick-tock we are I think love and context podcast. Okay. Yeah, because we had issues with the username or something like that 467 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,760 Additionally, we also do have a youtube channel if you guys can subscribe to that that actually helps our 468 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:49,080 Viewership and they're getting pushed out to more people. Yeah, but you can listen to us on apple spotify amazon 469 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:56,080 On youtube and just about everywhere that you can imagine. Yep, pretty much everywhere. You can find us at this point 470 00:35:56,240 --> 00:36:01,600 Even though next week's episode is a q a we have found that we need to request q a questions well in advance 471 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,280 So probably at the end of torah, we're gonna do another q a episode 472 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,360 So that's gonna be probably in there 14 15 weeks away from now 473 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,920 But go ahead and just start launching those questions and let us know what you guys think 474 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,480 otherwise 475 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,120 until next time 476 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,480 That's a wrap for today's episode. 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I do want to point out though that you did wait until we started to record before you 485 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:07,720 Been into that spicy chicken 486 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:12,440 It's actually not a spicy chicken sandwich. He just has a spicy chicken here running around that he bought into his life 487 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,980 Leviticus 19 let's go. Let's go 488 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:28,200 Kiss our home and wait, that's the oh Canada never mind 489 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:34,580 Pidicases our home. Yeah, I guess apparently okay. Okay, it talks about how we should behave at home 490 00:37:34,580 --> 00:37:38,000 Love you neighbor as yourself end of episode. I'm sorry