Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

Rev. Dr. Christian Preus, pastor at Mount Hope Lutheran Church and School in Casper, WY, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Deuteronomy 21:18-22:12. Moses continues to provide a variety of instructions for Israel’s life in the Promised Land. The matter of parental authority in the 4th Commandment is God’s good gift, to be despised neither by the parents nor the children. The capital punishment prescribed for children who are stubbornly disobedient to their parents’ attempts to raise them in the Word of God shows the seriousness. The man who is put to death for his crime and then hanged on a tree is cursed; this points us to the way Christ became the curse for us sinners. God’s care and concern for all His creation comes through in laws that touch on animals and agriculture. Instructions concerning clothing remind the Israelites that God created humanity male and female as His gift. “The Law of God is Good and Wise” is a series on Sharper Iron that goes through the book of Deuteronomy. Though Moses