Title: Leviticus 11 Rules of Purity
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Leviticus 11 Purity Law
Today's chastity ordinance is a regulation that shows that God wants to intervene in our daily lives. They lived the Old Testament people keeping this rule in their lives, keeping in mind the requirements of God's holiness toward them (verse 45, be holy because I am holy).
1. Verse 3 / Clean beasts that can be eaten
① Animals with split hoofs: God’s heart that wants us to become people who live by distinguishing between God’s work and the world’s, and distinguishing between what is the path of blessing and what is the path of curse.
② Reminding animal: Are you a person who lives by embracing the Word of God in your heart and meditating on it? Or is it an unclean and detestable life of hearing and forgetting and hearing and forgetting?
2. Verse 9/ Clean fish that can be eaten
① Scale fish: Scales resist the pressure of water and have the ability to go against it. Are you a person who goes against the rules of this world and seeks heavenly things? Or are you a person who is swept away by the world and tossed around to and fro?
② Fins: Directionality. A life with a goal to heaven.
- On the other hand, scaleless fish such as loach and eel like to crawl into the ground. land culture. Live fish are separated from the ground and float.
3. Verse 13/ The edible bird
- No eagles. Why? Because they eat rotten meat. I must be a person who can discern what to take and take it. I shouldn't take a sip of anything that's good for me. Only the spiritual and pure should be taken.
* The rules of purification in the Old Testament from the New Testament's point of view
1. 1 Timothy 4:4 All creation of God is good
2. Matthew 15:11 It is not the food that goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth
3. Acts 10:28 God sanctified all these things. He opened the way for both Gentiles and Jews to be sanctified by the blood of Jesus. However, in order to live without losing our identity as children of God in our daily lives, he guided us to live by keeping these rules and maintaining the holiness of God's people in our lives.
Old Testament: Reveals the way of purification by symbolic or ceremonial things such as food or sacrifice
New Testament: The blood of Jesus revealed a new way of sanctification once and for all. I have this potion, but don't go back to the past and take something far out of date. Let's not stay in the elementary study of the law, but let's use the power of the gospel to enjoy the abundant life given to the saints.