Adulteration

Deuteronomy 5:18
Adulteration
The Seventh Word, Part Two
Sermon Notes for January 16, 2011 by Pastor Dennis Tuuri

Intro - Mules, Priests' Garments, GMOs and Enervation

1. Marital Sexuality and the Immediate Context of vv. 9-12 (See Attached)

2. Martial Sexuality and the Parallel Text in Leviticus 19
   II. Obedience – 2 Sets of 4 (You Shall Keep My Statutes) 19:19-37
   Corporate Integrity – “you” is plural.
   A. ABBA (Unit Identifiers "I am the Lord" "I am the Lord your God")
   1. Verses 19-25 – Forbidden Mixtures, Circumcised Trees
   Note movement from Sixth Word (v. 18) to Seventh

3. Continuity and Discontinuity - What's in Your Shirt?
   A. Creation Mandates
   B. Mosaic Covenant and Separation - Gal. 3:16-18
   C. Change of Priesthood, Change of Law - Heb. 7:11,12

4. The Four Laws (Proverbs)
   A. 9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds [two] of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled [holy].
   Israel is God's Vineyard - Ps. 80:8-18; Isa 5; Jer. 2:21; 6:9; Hos. 10:1
   Judah and Bath-Shua the Canaanite in False (Chezib)- Gen. 38 (39 Joseph); 48:9-12
   Dt. 25:5-10 - The Law of the Levirate and the Tenth Word
   Mixing the Vine and the Re-garmented Palm Tree; 2 Sets of Mixed Seed (Er, Onan; Perez, Zerah)
   B. 10 “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
   Israel (Ox - Dt. 33:17; Num. 22:4; Amos 6:12-13, etc.) and Canaanites (Ass)
   Gen. 34 - Dinah and Hamor (Ass); Hamstrung Israel/Ox 49:6
   C. 11 “You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.
   Garment - probably Egyptian cloth, only used here and in Lev. 19:19