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Hey, it's Shelby and Paul here. We are approaching the end of the book of Deuteronomy today. We're Talking through chapters 25 through 28. Give us a high level view of what's happening in these chapters, Paul.
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Yeah, so we're getting a few more laws, as expected, but then we're also getting pretty extended description of kind of these blessings and curses that we've seen come up throughout Deuteronomy. And, you know, finishing at the end of chapter 28 can be a little bit heavy after a lot of talk about curses. But we're going to point you to some hope today.
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Okay, I'm excited to get to that hope. So let's dive in. We break these chapters down a little bit more for us.
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Yeah, so I'm actually going to start with a particular law that we see in chapter 25, verses 5 through 10. And it's the law that is related to levirate marriage, which is kind of a weird concept for us, for modern readers.
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Very different.
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Yeah. But basically it's, you know, giving women whose husbands pass away a chance to still have a son if they hadn't had a son before their husband passed. The husband's brother is supposed to give her a son, and that son will be considered from her deceased husband. And it's important to remember that in this context, women often didn't have a whole lot of ways to provide for themselves. And so marriage and then having sons who could provide for them was often the best way to guarantee their survival and provision. And so for their husband to die before they had a son was really problematic. So God is basically giving them away, providing for them in a way that is direct and is able to guarantee their lineage. And I bring this up because it has really big relevance in a later book of the Bible, which is Ruth. And in that book, Ruth's husband passes away as well as all of his brothers. And so she has to find someone who can give her a son so she can guarantee that she's provided for. And she eventually does find a next of kin who's able to give her a son. And the really cool part is that this son, his lineage leads to David, who's a pretty big figure later in the Bible in the Old Testament, and then his lineage leads to Jesus. And so levirate marriage is part of Jesus's genealogy, which is pretty cool.
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Yeah, that is really cool. That's super great context. I'm glad you explained that. I know there's also a lot of blessings and curses in this chapter I think a question on a lot of people's minds is, do the blessings and curses mentioned here have meaning or significance for us today?
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Yeah. So, you know, I said, you know, we're dealing with a lot of curses, but we're going to have some hope. And, you know, I think the important thing to remember, and this is the key thing, is that Jesus takes these curses upon himself on our behalf. And, you know, we actually get a scripture in Galatians that describes this. It says Galatians, it's Galatians 3:13, which says Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. So he, you know, hung on the cross and received all of the punishment that we deserved for our sin and these curses. And yet he resurrected. Right. He rose from the grave, which guarantees for us eternal life and the many blessings that the law also mentions. And so you see Also in Ephesians 1:3, it says that Jesus has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens in Christ. And so this is kind of the way that these blessings and curses it, you know, can feel really difficult because, you know, like we mentioned earlier a few days ago that God guaranteed that they were his people when he delivered them from the, from slavery in Egypt. But now there's consequences for their behavior. But now Jesus has taken those curses upon himself and now guaranteed that we can have eternal life with him. And so, no, to answer your question, no, they don't apply to us, but it's because of Jesus.
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Yeah. And I knew that's the answer you were going to give. And that does bring us so much hope. I think my takeaway from today is just beholding the mercy of God. We saw that in Lover at marriage, in him saying, hey, I'm going to make sure that women who might not be cared for are cared for by providing this law. And we see that most fully in Jesus because when we read those curses, they feel heavy because we know we're sinners. And yet Jesus has borne the weight of those curses. And I don't think that that is a truth that I'll ever get over. And I'm so thankful for God's mercy, and I'm so thankful that he's not just merciful in general, but he has been merciful toward me.
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Amen. Yeah.
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And so thank you, Lord, for that. That's my takeaway for today. All right, two more days of reading in the book of Deuteronomy. We'll be back tomorrow for the next one.
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