A TIME TO CELEBRATE WITH THE LORD
Leviticus 25:1-12
ANTICIPATE A WORD FROM THE LORD
V:1. The Lord then
spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai , saying,
A. Our Lord who is in heaven, comes down and visits us in
our minds.
1. He reminds us
of His Word.
2. We should
always have an open mind to communicate with the Lord.
B. The Bible is the living Word in which God communicates
with us.
1. Every time we
study the Word we are communicating with God.
2. God reveals to
us the meaning of His Word through the power of
the Holy
Spirit that indwells us.
C. Doing the early years of Israel Mount Sinai .
1. Moses in turn
spoke to the people the Word of God.
2. Today, God has
given us Pastors and teachers to bring the Word
to the Church.
3. Each of us has
an inside teacher, the Holy Spirit to help in understanding
God's Word.
ACT ON THE WORD OF GOD
V:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel
3 'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you
shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop."
A. God created the heavens and the earth and all it
inhabitants in six days.
1. On the seventh
day God rested.
2. God commanded
the Israelites to work six days and rest on the seventh day.
3. God does not
intend for us, His people to work seven days a week.
4. We commanded
to set aside a day to worship Him.
B. The Israelites were commanded to work the land that God
gave them for
six years, then
let it rest during the seventh year.
1.The seventh year
was to be devoted to the Lord.
2. It is easy to
get into a routine of work and forget about God.
3. It is easy to
plan our lives and leave God as an after thought.
C. God instruct us to plan for a day of rest devoted to Him.
1. We are to be
good stewards of that which God has given us for six days.
2. But on the
seventh day our stewardship is to be devoted to God in praise,
worship and
thanksgiving.
DEDICATE A TIME TO CELEBRATE WITH THE LORD
V:4-5. " but during the seventh year the land shall
have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your field nor
prune your vineyard.
5 'Your harvest's aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your
grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a
sabbatical year."
A. The Israelites were commanded to let the land rest during
the seventh year,
1. This allowed
the land to rejuvenate itself.
2. This gave all
the workers of the land a year of rest,
3. This seventh
year of rest gave the animals used in the harvest a year of rest.
B. The Israelites were to trust God for their provisions.
1. This year of
rest was a reminder to the Israelites
that the land belong to God
and that they
were temporary tenants.
2. God gives us use
of what we have until the day we die.
3. We came into
this world with nothing and we will leave with nothing.
4. We need to rest
and to reflect on the goodness of the Lord.
5. We need a
specific dedicated time study and to meditate on the Word of
God.
6. We need time to
remind ourselves how dependant we are on the goodness
of the Lord.
C. During the seventh year, there was to be no
organized labor to gather crops.
1. There was to
be no sale of produce from the land.
2. The land was
to be left to itself without any work.
3. Trees and
plants, don't need the hand of man to grow.
4. God provides
the rain, the sun and all the nutrients needed for their
natural
growth.
5. Before God
created man, everything in the garden of Eden survived by
God's
divine process.
PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THE POOR
V:6-7. "All of you shall have the sabbath products of
the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired
man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you.
7 'Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land
shall have all its crops to eat. "
A. The seventh year was a free for all year.
1. No work was to
be done in the fields.
2. God promised
that fields would produce everything that the Israelites needed
to survive
without human help.
B. The worker, animals, slaves would have enough to eat from
what fields produced
without being
worked.
1. In additions
any foreign residents and the poor who had no land was to
eat from the
fields without charge.
2. God reminds us
that those in need are our responsibility.
2. No commerce was
to take place during the seventh year.
3. Not only that,
the fields would produce enough for year after the sabbath year
until fields
could produced their normal harvest
4. God gave the Israelites a vacation year
every seven years.
MAKE IT YOUR BUSINESS TO GET RIGHT WITH GOD
V:8-9 "You are also to count off seven sabbaths of
years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the
seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.
9 'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day
of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all
through your land."
A. We are on God's time.
1. The success of
our lives are based on our obedience to His directives.
2. God demands
that we stay in tuned with Him.
3. The study of
God's Word is important to God's promise of abundant living.
B. The Israelites were to keep track of 49 years of
sabbaths.
1. In the forty
ninth year on the day of atonement a
horn was to be sounded.
2. The day of
Atonement was set aside as a day to
offer up a sacrificial lamb
for the sins
of the people.
3. God knows the
end from the beginning.
4. God knows in the
course of time, we will sin against Him.
5. God knows that
we will become selfish, gathering more than we need
for ourselves,
and forget the needs of the poor.
6. God's made plans
for our redemption.
7. Jesus, the
passover lamb is our scapegoat, the redeemer of our sins.
DEDICATE YOUR TIME AND RESOURCES TO GOD
V:10 "'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and
proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a
jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of
you shall return to his family."
A. God looks out for the future of His people and future
generations.
1. Every fiftieth
year was a year of jubilee.
2. All debts were
to be forgiven and all land was to be returned to the family
it was
originally given to by God.
3. Men who had
sold themselves into slavery or taken in slavery were to be
freed and debt
free.
B. God reminds us that all resources belong to Him.
1.We should
dedicate ourselves to the Lord.
2. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by
the mercies of God, that ye present your
bodies a
living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable
service." Rom 12:1
PREPARE FOR A FAMILY REUNION
WITH CHRIST
11 'You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall
not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.
12 'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall
eat its crops out of the field.
A. The year of jubilee was a time of celebration.
1. We are reminded
of the second coming of Christ when all be believers will
in the
presence of the Lord.
2. It will be the
start of a new life with Christ.
3. We will be
freed from all burdens
4. There will only
be rejoicing with the Lord
B. The number fifty is a divine number.
1. It was fifty
days after the resurrection of Christ that the
Church was
formed with the giving of the Holy Spirit.
2. It was a time
when all believers were on one accord.
3. The Holy Spirit
joins us together in one body.
4. We are reminded
that God is able to provide all we need
without any
help from us.
TAKE TIME TO REJOICE WITH
THE LORD.
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor of Greater Macedonia
Baptist Church
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