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OLD TESTAMENT SURVEY SESSION 3: TORAH – PART 1 IN THIS SESSION We will begin observing the term torah and establish the varying meanings of that word from a biblical standpoint. Specifically, the two aspects of torah as “instruction” and “law” (or, “law of Moses”) will be unpacked. KEY PASSAGES
• Exodus 19:5-‐6 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
• Deuteronomy 11:18-‐19 18 You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
• Romans 7:8-‐12 8 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. 9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
DISCUSS
• When you hear the word law, what does it make you think or feel? What opinions or perceptions do you bring to the Bible when you read about law?
• As a good, loving parent why would you set up laws—or rules—for your children (i.e. “why did I discipline my son last night when he ran out into a parking lot at Chick-‐fil-‐a?”)? What is the purpose of establishing these rules
• This Session stated that the “law is not prohibitive; it’s protective.” Is this statement 100% true all the time? What is the difference between a law/rule that is protective and one that’s prohibitive? How does the heart of God the Lawgiver influence our answer to these questions when we think about why He gave the law to Israel?
PRAY
• Pray that God, by his grace, would help you understand the heart behind the law as you read those sections of Scripture. Ask that God would give you a fresh perspective that will result in praise to him for the instructions of life we witness in the Old Testament law.