Dr. Libby Backfish joins Mark and Rex to discuss another area of the Old Testament that we often misread: the Law. Dr. Backfish encourages us to look at the Law through a covanental lens.

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host Mark Moore and your co host Rex Gurney. And today on the show, we have friend of the show returning Dr. Libby backfish. This is third fourth time she has been here a third time I think Tommy's third time and she's going to be carrying on the conversation that we started with Cynthia, on how ways that we misread the Old Testament and particularly the law in our Yammer essentially, today, she's gonna she's gonna focus on I think an area that we wildly screen right. And that is the law, how the Israelites viewed it, and how it applies to us today. So hope you enjoy this. This episode and I just warn you have your dictionary ready, because we're gonna be using some multisyllabic word syllabic words so hope you enjoy the show.

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Well, I'm so excited for this episode. I woke up today, just full disclosure, before we start into the episode, I woke up just excited about life. Jazz ready to go live? He is a true friend of the show. She is Yeah, this is third time on the show. Very friendly. Very friendly. You. You definitely get the T shirt. Yes. After the show. If that ever happened to me, it's gonna happen. For a long time more I say it on air, the more it will happen. Are you somebody was just someone created? Yeah, that's right. Positive confinement. And it will happen. That's actually probably a good a good topic for a future pod. Yeah, that will be but today, I think the reason why I'm so excited is we're kind of continuing a conversation that we had. So we've had a first part of this conversation with Cynthia just just about ways that we misread the Old Testament. And I mean, there's so there's so many ways that we approach scripture, both Old and New Testament, that just maybe a subtle misreading can really move you in the wrong direction. Right. And, and there are a lot of things just I mean, the longer you spend with Scripture, that when you kind of take a closer reading, you're like, oh, that actually maybe doesn't say what I thought it did. And so we want to kind of, again, help our listeners and help Rex and I. And that's why we brought you in Libya as the expert to kind of help us understand what are some of the ways that we've been maybe misreading the Old Testament or the Old Testament experience. And one of the ways that we want to focus on today is the law. How the law is, is viewed by the Israelite people, and then we'll eventually get to maybe how that carries into the New Testament era. Right? And how,

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how long it's in. But I'm always excited about this, because that's, I think, a part of the Bible that for 21st century now Christians are always like, yeah, how do we approach the Old Testament off after nine years of every Sunday preaching a sermon, and doing buku sermon series? And, you know, I would dip into the Old Testament, you know, everybody has the Canon within the canon. My cameras in the Canon actually did not include a sermon series on the law just didn't forgive you. There's forgiveness in the law. Yeah. So I need some tutelage.

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So I think a good place to maybe start here is that is that initial understanding of and maybe a misunderstanding that we've had of how Israel viewed the law, to be kind of to begin with something sometimes from a New Testament perspective, and then especially a post reformation perspective, we can view the law and maybe their experience of the law as somehow they were using it to earn salvation, or using it to earn God's favor. And and the more I dip into it, and the more we've kind of talked, that doesn't seem to be Israel's view of the law. So would you want to kind of start there, let me

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Yeah, sure. So this topic is really interesting to me, because I find a lot of my students don