Bible Study With Jairus - Leviticus 18

Leviticus 18 talks about the 17 situations on the prohibition of fornication that God told Moses about. Have you ever wondered why there are a lot of details listed here? Some people say that God the Father is a man of few words in the New Testament. He didn’t say much but in the Old Testament, He spoke to Moses about the unlawful sexual relations in detail. Isn’t this a bit overboard in detail? For example, check out the following references: do not have sexual relations with your mother, your father's wife, sister, son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, father’s sister, mother’s sister, aunt, daughter-in-law, brother’s wife, both a woman and her daughter, with many women of different generations; you could not marry the older sister and younger sister at the same time; homosexuality is not allowed; do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during her monthly period, do not have sexual relations with an animal, do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molek. When we counted them, there were about 17 different references. Let me ask you a question. Don’t these verses seem somewhat repetitive, wordy or even unnecessary? We don’t often hear our Father speak in the New Testament. One preacher said that God had barely talked, yet here, God (our Father) and the Israelites (represented by Moses) engaged in a long-winded discussion about the unlawful cases of sexual relations. It’s a bit confusing isn’t it? I realized a few things after reading the Old Testament. If you don’t get anything spiritually beneficial from what you’ve read, then you might not understand what it’s saying. There are a lot of chapters in the Bible that you may think are very simple but often these are the easiest ones for Christians to ignore. What I mean is, you may take the words in their most basic sense but you don’t fully understand the deeper spiritual meaning. When you think about it, this is really the case. You know that the Bible is inspired by the revelation from the Holy Spirit, and John 21:25 NIV said, “Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them was written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written”. According to this principle, all that is written in the Bible whether the Old Testament or the New Testament can be said to have no-nonsense writing and everything written was on point. The second thing I realized is that if you’re done reading a chapter of the Bible and it did not give you any inspiration for your present life or give you answers to the problems that you are currently facing; it might be that you have’nt understood or fully grasped the spiritual meaning contained in this part of the Bible. Third, if you’re done reading a chapter of the Bible and you have not experienced God's love in a deeper way this is also an indicator that you have missed the deeper and spiritual meaning of this chapter. For example, after reading this chapter, what kind of inspiration will a person get in order to be counted as understanding the deeper meaning? The Bible is inexhaustible. Everywhere you go, the Holy Spirit gives spiritual illumination, so there is not just one conclusion. The key is that the Holy Spirit speaks to you through the Bible and illuminates scripture to you. In addition, the deeper we understand the passage, the more real God’s love will be to us.