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Understanding God's Law 0:28 Tonight on the deep dive, we talk about the number 10 because if you haven't heard, there are 10 big commandments, and we're gonna talk about what they mean to you and why that number0:40 10 is so important. Welcome to the deep dive on Tim Hatch Live.0:47 The Deep Dive season 7 presents The Law of Life.0:58 Okay, everybody. Welcome back into the channel tonight, the deep dive part 3 of Torah, our study of Torah. Like I said, last night on a deep end, I I am not in1:10 Israel. I'm here with you. Aren't you glad? Aren't you lucky? Aren't you blessed? As we continue this study, I was looking forward to producing a lot of Israel Israel content for the1:22 next 2 weeks not to be. We pray for Israel. If you haven't checked out the deep dive deep end from last night, please do so. It's got a lot of views already. Very important, information for all1:34 Christians on Hamas and the relationship to Israel and what we should do, in the meantime. Well, I'm in the home studio tonight as we do, Torah, the law of life1:46 part 3, and we're finally gonna cover some laws. We're gonna get through 4. I think we're gonna get through 4, but we're gonna do a little bit of review. Is that okay? A little bit of review on, where we've been so far1:56 on the deep dive. We talked about the difference between American law and God's law. God's law is about our responsibilities. American law is about our rights. God's law is about protection of the community.2:08 American law is about protection of the individual. We talked about 8 major covenants in part 2 last time we were together. The covenant works, grace, nature, Abraham, circumcision,2:20 law, land, king, and then the new covenant in Christ blood. We talked about the big ideas there that you can see the theme of each covenant, ruling, redeeming,2:33 god's restraining his wrath, god restoring creation, god return revealing his nature, which is where we are in this study mostly. God returning his people2:45 to the land to a place to dwell with him. God reigning among them as king Jesus, that king, and then regeneration the new birth through the king, through king Jesus. We talked about the fact that the2:57 Torah is the book of the covenant and we also discussed this, which I really hope that you caught last time that there were ancient covenantal agreements. There were,3:09 4 big parts of the come, elements of the ancient agreements. Some would say 6, prologue and preamble. That would be 2. I'm I'd tie them into 1. The preamble which we're gonna talk3:21 about again tonight, which is that it is the establishment of why we're here. What is the nature of our relationship? And God does that right there in Exodus chapter 20 and in Deuteronomy chapter 5. The3:32 stipulations, that's the laws that are actually given to the people of Israel. The rehearsal and witness, you gotta read this. You gotta read it again. You gotta have people hear it. It's gonna be constantly read and3:43 rehearsed and then the blessing and the curses. These are common to the ancient world and that's an important stipulation. It is not something that God, just kind of invented3:55 out of thin air. Right? Because what we learn by studying that content contextually is simply this, that God chose to speak to humans in a way they understood particularly4:07 in the ancient world. They that God said, okay. This is how humans relate to each other so I'm going I'm going to talk to them in a way that they hear. And4:18 ultimately, what you have to understand about these texts is God is speaking in a way they hear to where they are and not to where we are. And4:30 again, a common underlying principle of this entire study is simply this, that the bible wasn't written to you. It was written for you.4:42 Okay? I can't stress that enough because more bad theology comes from the idea that the Bible was written to you than I can unpack in an4:54 entire season of a deep dive. We could go over how many verses are lifted off the page out of the original context and slapped onto some modern context that has no5:05 relevance to the ancient context and this is where you get false teaching. This is where you get, bad theology. This is where you get hurt people. And so5:17 I wanna make absolutely clear that we understand the ancient context here. We also discussed that God was inviting Israel to a higher law. Leviticus 18 2 to 4, speak to the people of5:29 Israel saying to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you lived. You shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their5:37 statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statues and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You are to be different. You are to be different and that is the heart of God in the law.5:49 And so what we realized and what we discussed, last time, in Torah part 2 was God is speaking in a way we can hear him and we delved we6:01 delved deeply into commandment number 4 already. We will revisit it tonight. Commandment number 4, the law of the Sabbath because that is what God practiced in the first page of the Bible, Genesis chapter 1 and into6:13 Genesis chapter 2. And what you see there is an invitation in the fourth commandment to participate with God in achieving a goal. And so that brings me now6:25 tonight finally to Torah part 3, review over. Here's the question tonight. Are you ready for it? Because it's big. How are we to view God's law? Now6:37 I just want you to think about this for a moment in your own life. And I bet, if you're honest like me, there have been different seasons in which you6:49 have interpreted or listened to or received God's law in different ways. Amen? When you first come to God's law, you probably come to it7:01 well, in my case, if you're young enough as a child and, yeah, there's this God and he is great and he is awesome and he is to be feared and, you know, he's a God of judgment and he's a God of wrath and so obey7:13 and it's a great tool for parents to have a God of judgment in their back pocket, especially when, you know, you're you have that rambunctious child. You know, raise your hand if you've got a rambunctious child. I mean,7:24 I always say to people who have the calm firstborn child, I say, watch out for the second 1. So, you know, it's that perception is God's law is to be obeyed because God is to be feared. But then when you7:36 get a little bit older and you have friends and secular friends and non believing friends, you start to maybe pick up some skepticism or I would say maybe disregard for the7:48 law of God. How dare God take away my my life? How dare God limit me? Right? So so number 1 in how we do we view God law God's law, the question is do you see8:00 it restrictively? Like, this is a limitation on your happiness. That's why a lot of people avoid the bible or avoid church. They, assume wrongly that God is8:11 out to get them and restrict them and keep them miserable. And that if you obey God, you will have no fun. Life will be boring. And they even have the image of8:23 heaven as I'm going to go and die and sit on a cloud and play a harp forever and worship to God, and that's heaven. It's like, what are you thinking? And I think8:35 they think, well, at least I'm not in hell burning for all eternity. So it's better than that, but it's still boring. No. We have got to see through God's law that he is8:47 inviting us to something far more beautiful, wonderful and glorious than sitting on a cloud playing a harp for all eternity. But we've got to move beyond the elemental vision of8:59 the law which is it's restrictive. God is limiting my happiness. No. The psalmist says, at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. God is a god of pleasure. Paul says at first in Tim in first Timothy 69:10 that god give us gives us everything for our enjoyment. Okay. Enjoying life is not a sin. Okay. Go and read Ecclesiastes. I got a book about it9:22 coming out, ending emptiness coming out, shortly. What does Solomon say repeatedly in that book? He says, this is the whole will of God that you might do your work and enjoy the9:34 work of your hands. This is the whole purposes of God. And that's right. Of course, there's a problem with sin, which is why we're dealing with the law that restricts us from9:47 truly enjoying our work. And when you think about it, that is really the key distinction here. God's law doesn't restrict. Sin restricts. Sin,9:59 holds us back. How how many of you maybe came from families that were broken apart through adultery or divorce and it held you back? How many of you, you stole, you got in10:11 trouble, you disobeyed God's commandments, maybe you committed adultery. And rather than advancing in life, you realized that that pursuit of sin, that pursuit of pleasure became a restriction.10:23 It it became a a hook in your in your in your lips like a fish pulling you backwards. Right? The what does coveting do but pull you backwards focusing10:36 you on other people's lives instead of focusing on what God wants to give you? So restrictive a restrictive view, that's a I would call the teenage kind of view of the law. We gotta move beyond that. Number10:47 2, problematic. And this 1 I understand far more. I put captive women there in parentheses because I think about the laws of the captive woman which we will get to. And it looks on the on the surface of the page very10:59 problematic. What is God saying? Where is the justice? This is misogynistic. This is patriarchal. Right? All the things that the secularists throw at the Bible that we're talking about here. So11:11 this is would be I would call this beyond the teenage years. Now you're into the college age years, the adult years, the single adult years of your, you know, spiritual approach to the law of God. And some people are11:22 there. Many, many, many people are there where they just see so many problems with the law and they think there is no way that I can live or base my life on what some11:34 farmers wrote in the Middle East 2000 years ago. I mean, you know, you've heard that argument. I've heard that argument. And so, eventually, you have to grow past that, but some people will never grow past that.11:46 Then there's the idea of the old fashioned nature of the law. You know, how can I believe what Middle Eastern men a thousand years ago wrote or 2000 years ago wrote? So there's a couple of things that I have in11:58 mind here when it comes to understanding these ideas regarding restrictive. We think God's law is restrictive. No sin is restrictive. Problematic. The law was12:10 not written to us. It was written for us. It's not written to our context. It's written to an ancient context, a very barbaric context, and then old fashioned. To be to the people that say that I would just submit this,12:21 history is not on your side and you are not novel. There have been generations of world leaders, totalitarians, dictators, fascists who12:33 have said, we're not going with that book anymore, that old ancient outdated book. And the history has proven them wrong and the Bible, trustworthy. And it has stood the test of time. It is still the12:45 best selling book in the world, not even on the the best sellers list anymore because it's just always the highest on the list. The Bible stands the test of time. There's no other12:57 book like it. There's no other words like it and it still has the power of God in his proclamation to bring salvation. So we have to move13:09 beyond the secularist nature, the elemental nature, the outdated nature or approach to the bible. Which 1 was yours? I'm interested in your comments and13:21 feedback. Put it in the comments below or to the right. And by the way, if you haven't subscribed or clicked the like button, please do so. But I'm interested in your your, what did you wrestle with when you were13:33 growing up with the law? Was it was it restrictive? Did you see it as God was holding you back? Was it problematic? Did you see there was different issues that, there were there were texts that just seemed so outdated13:43 and so wrong and then, again, old fashioned. Where were you on that? Because I'm interested, again, in your feedback on the channel. Love to have the conversation. I do read all your comments even though I don't read13:53 them live while we're doing teaching or, deep end material. But we're gonna get into something that is so important for us now that I can't stress this enough. You're going to see the 10 Commandments in a14:05 new light. And I believe that is going to help you understand what God is really doing in the commandments. When we say 10 commandments, I want you to think about the 10 words because the text14:17 biblically in Hebrew doesn't say commandments. These are the 10 words that Moses gave to the, people of Israel. So commandments, again, speaks to that restrictive nature. Oh, yes. God just wants14:29 to command the things to to of me. He wants me to be commanded to do all these kind and so I understand even in our presentation of the 10 commandments, we can14:41 read beyond the text and apply an English word that's not in the Hebrew. And this is case in point here because the Hebrew doesn't say commands. The Hebrew says these are the 10 words. In fact, we can go over to the14:52 Logos Bible Camp right now and you can see right here what does it say in verse 1, and god spoke all these words saying, okay. And the word word15:04 in Hebrew is the word, the bar, and it means word. Sometimes sometimes we don't have to go very deep into15:16 our exegetical study there. It just means word. Now, why is that important? Why am I emphasizing emphasizing that? Because how many people15:28 think about this and maybe you come from a charismatic background in your own life to say people will come to you and say I have a word for you and and it's such a beautiful life giving thing. Well, you have a word for15:38 me, a word of encouragement, a word of wisdom, a word of, you know, empowerment. Parents, you should be empowering your children with your word. You should also be directing and confronting and correcting your children15:48 with your words. But words are personal. Words are communicative. They are how we establish relationship. You see someone, the first thing you're going to do is greet16:00 them. Put out your hand and say hello. That is a word. It is an invitation to relationship. Commandment is distant, isn't it? It really is. And if you think16:12 about this more more deeply, which is what this study is intended for, you will see that. God, oh, he just he's out he's up in heaven commanding. He's up in heaven just telling people what to16:23 do. No. No. No. Even in the text, it tells us that he comes down onto the mountain, invites the people to come close, not too close, but come close, and I will give you words. Now the people16:35 freak out and they say, no. Moses, you go up. That's in Exodus 19. You go up and you tell us the what God said. But what God is doing there is he's put out the handshake. He's welcomed them in, and now he's giving giving16:47 the people words. I want to communicate with you. I want you to know me. And then this number 10, and this is gonna really blow your mind. So stay with me16:59 as I do this very deep pro prolonged, discussion on the number 10 in scripture. Because and this is very important. You may not have17:11 realized this. The number 10 is involved in creation. God speaks and things are created into being. Genesis chapter 1 verse 3 to 217:23 verse 3 to chapter 2 verse 1, God speaks 10 times and God said right there in creation, there are 10 words of God. And God said, let there be light. And God said, let there be17:35 a firmament. And then God said, let there be lights. And then God said, let there be vegetation. 10 times. Now, this is really cool. This is how God operates regularly and17:46 repeatedly in the biblical text to invite us into personal relationship with him. Communal relationship with him, but communally personal. We, the community17:58 of the Lord, will know the Lord. Okay. And and I stress that because too many Christians are all about the individual personal relationship and not at all about the communal relationship. And I wanna let18:10 you know something. God never dealt individually in relationship. He has an individual relationship with his son that we don't get a part get to be a part of, but we now have a communal relationship through his son as18:22 the bride of Christ into a relationship with God as a family. Okay? So please understand that. Even all the words in the 10 Commandments, 10 words, are plural. You, plural. You shall have18:33 no other God, plural. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God. You is plural. But back to my original content here. God says 10 times, let there be. That's18:45 verses 3, verses 6, verses 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26, 28, 29. God says these things and things are created. Now, there's also another number, a couple numbers here, 7 and 3.18:57 Why is that important? Why is that important listener? Couple things that you have to see about the biblical text in Genesis chapter 1 is you have constant, a19:09 consistency of numbers, a a repetition of numbers. The first verse of the, of the Bible has 7 words. The second verse has 14 words. The last section concerning the seventh day19:21 is consists of 35 words. That's a multiple of 7, 7 times 5. And this the expression about the seventh day has the word seventh day 3 times in the expression.19:33 This is intentional. God is inviting us to do study of the number of words so that we are aware he's speaking to us about more than19:45 just him creating the world. Now the number 7 speaks of completion. The number 3 speaks of community. And, of course, God. God is 3 persons in 1.19:58 So you have 3 plus 7 equals 10. You have God, the 3, creating the 7, adding them together and you have this you have20:10 this wholeness, this fullness. The number of the number 10 refers to that. It refers to other things, but you have this invitation in the text even through the numbers, even through the times20:21 that God has has said. You have a repetition that's God extending that handshake to us. You have, 2 groups in the, opening words of God.20:33 You have the first 3 days. You have the second 3 days. And then you have 1 day that is separated. Now the first 3 days, God creates. The third the second 3 days, God fills20:45 what he creates. This is the Hebraic pattern unfolding before us in the biblical text. So you have those 2 groups of 3 and then you have this individual day that kind20:57 of stands alone. And it's kind of interesting. What is that about? God is inviting us into something that is distinct, that is different. And we are gonna get to we're gonna21:09 get to this later on. I hope I can remember to circle back to this content, but you see things standing apart. You see the way God speaks. And there is significance21:24 God's commandments to in God's words to create. Again, we're only dealing with Genesis 1 right now. You have him talking about limitation. He tells Job, I limited the waves. I limited the seas. I limited21:36 the expanse in the heavens. He separates. He separates the night from the day. He separates the land from the sea. He separates the beast from the fish. He separates the man from everything else.21:48 Only man is created in his image. He says the words, it is good 7 times. 7 times he says it is good. On the seventh time he says it is very good and that is when he creates man22:00 in on the sixth day. And then he enters into this seventh day that stands alone. This is a beautiful picture of of the number 10 in scripture speaking to the22:11 fact that god, here hear this, wants us involved in his creative work. So what if we22:23 stopped right there and said, this is what the 10 Commandments is about. It's not about God limiting my life. It's God empowering my life to22:35 flourish with him, to create with him, to build boundaries in my life, to create, separation in my life. How many people there was a book written about22:46 relationship boundaries. How many people write books about boundaries, setting boundaries? You gotta know when to say no. I mean, we know we need boundaries. We need boundaries about our time. We need boundaries around22:55 our relationships. We need boundaries around our family. Batteries around our kids. The the the moment you have a toddler running around the house, you will be very familiar with boundaries. You will run to the hardware23:03 store and you will go to the section of the hardware store that you've never gone to before. The section on, you know, cabinet locks so that the boundaries are established for your children. So you see these things23:14 naturally as a human being. God is inviting you into that process wherein create creativity exists in the boundary and in the separateness separateness23:26 of him. He is inviting us into something far bigger than we realize. Now let's fast forward to the book of Exodus because guess whatShow more In this video 0:28 Understanding God's Law23:36 The Significance of the Number 10
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