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Leviticus chapter 25 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Leviticus chapter 25. Let's pray.
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  Father God, we thank you for another day to come and to
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  worship you in spirit and truth. We thank you God for every
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  single word, every single chapter.
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  Lord, we thank you, God, that you woke us up and you've given
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  us a reason to live. Thank you, Lord, for one more
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  day to come and to get to know you, Father, to get to know a
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  different facet of who you are. Thank you God, for the
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  infallible, inerrant word. Thank you God, for the church.
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  Lord, help us to be your hands and feet.
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  Lord, highlight our gifts today. Show us, Lord, where it is in
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  the body that you want us to be. Help us, Father, to be faithful,
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  Lord, in sharing our testimony and sharing the good news.
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  Lord, thank you for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Thank you for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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  Thank you, God, for all the many things that you've already done
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  today. And Lord, I just pray that
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  somebody will get saved. Today is the day of salvation.
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  Lord, heal our bodies and heal our minds and bring the
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  prodigals home. Father, we love you, God.
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  Heal marriages, Lord, raise up righteous leaders unto yourself.
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  God. Well, we pray for the sanctity
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  of life. God, I pray for struggling
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  mothers to choose life. Father, we pray for the peace.
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  Jerusalem. It's in Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And the Lord spoke unto Moses in
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  Mount Sinai, saying to speak to the children of Israel, and say
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  unto them, When you come into the land which I gave you, then
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  shall the land keep a Sabbath unto the Lord.
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  So notice there that he tells them they are going to make it.
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  If they would hold on to these words, then they would know that
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  they do not need to fear, do not need to be afraid whenever there
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  are rival nations coming against them, whenever they are
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  seemingly lost out there in the wilderness.
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  They need to know the words of God, that God said when you come
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  into the land. And we have the same promise,
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  friends. We can know that we know that we
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  know that we know that we're going to make it home.
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  We're just pilgrims passing through a strange land, and when
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  this life throws everything that it has at us, all the troubles
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  and the cares of this life, we can know that we know that we
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  know that we know the greater is he who's living in US than he
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  who is in the world. We can know that we know that we
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  know that we know that no one can snatch us out of God's
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  hands. And we can know that we know
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  that we know that we know, friends, that in this life we
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  will have trouble but take harm because Jesus Christ overcame
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  the world. And if they hated him first,
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  they're going to hate us. Friends, we can know that we're
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  going to make it home and we do not need to fear or be afraid.
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  Verse three, six years shall you sow your field.
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  Six years shall you prune your vineyard and gather the fruit
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  thereof? We're going to get into this
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  long section here where God is being a great husbandman, God is
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  being a great vine dresser, God is being the great shepherd, God
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  is being the great gardener. God knows his land that he
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  created. He knows every molecule, He
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  knows every atom. He knows it at the very smallest
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  minute level. He knows the soil composition.
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  He knows what's good, and He's telling them what is good for
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  them. But they must trust him because
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  in our minds it's better to keep working day and night, night and
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  day. But we don't realize, friends,
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  that there is a supernatural spiritual application to
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  actually believe in God and actually doing what God asks us
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  to do. And then God comes in, He does
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  the Super after we do the natural.
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  When God says rest, it's for our own good.
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  When he says let the land rest, it's for its own good.
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  Friends, we need to know that it can produce more if we let it
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  rest. And it's counterintuitive and it
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  seems counterproductive. But when we go and we do not
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  rest and we do not stop, and we do not let the land rest,
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  friends, it will actually produce less and less and less
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  and less. And God knows what he's talking
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  about. God is the one who created our
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  bodies. God's the one who created the
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  soil. God's the one who created
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  everything to behave in the way that He wanted it to.
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  He had it in his mind before he ever spoke it into existence.
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  And all we do is we get out of our own intellect, out of our
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  own way, and we get centered in with where He wants us to be.
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  And you're going to see so much fruit in your life whenever you
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  do things God's way, you're going to see the the devourer
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  get rebuked, the windows thrown open, so much blessing that you
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  can't even contain it. Friends, 4 But in the 7th year
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  shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land, a Sabbath for the
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  Lord. You shall neither sow your field
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  nor prune your vineyard. Five, that which grows of its
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  own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, neither gather
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  the grapes, the vine undressed, for it is a year of rest unto
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  the land. So here he's saying Let it go.
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  Quit trying to be greedy. Actually, take a day of rest.
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  Do not let fear be your motivator, friends.
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  Let the word of God wash over you today.
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  Let the word of God be your meat and your water your drink.
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  Let the word of God be all that you need.
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  Six And the Sabbath of the land shall be meat for you, for you
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  and for your servant, for your maid, for your higher servant,
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  for the stranger that sojourns with you, 7 and for your cattle,
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  and for the beasts that are in your land.
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  All the increase thereof be meat.
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  So he's going to provide for them.
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  God's going to make sure that there is enough grown to provide
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  for them on the time of rest. 8 And you shall #7 Sabbaths of
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  years unto you, 7 * 7 years. And the space of the seven
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  sabbaths of years shall be unto you 49 years.
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  So here's the year of Jubilee, and we are going to get into
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  this section where God is going to talk about the forgiveness of
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  debts. He's going to talk about how
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  they are to be different than the lands all around them, that
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  gods called them to a higher order, a place of faith and
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  trust in Him and His provision, and a place of justice.
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  Friends, we need to understand that God cares for the poor.
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  God cares for the broken hearted and for the downtrodden.
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  God cares for every walk of life because we are all made in His
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  image and He wants us to always keep in mind that people are
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  His. They're not property.
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  They're not for us to usurp our authority over, to Lord over.
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  He is God and we are His creation.
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  He is the Creator, friends, and we bow in reverence unto Him.
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  No matter how mighty you are, man, no matter how wealthy you
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  are, man, you are always going to be dealt with, whether it is
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  through this life or in the life to come.
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  And death is the great equalizer, friends, the rich and
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  the poor must both die and meet their maker. 9 Then shall you
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  cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the 10th day of the
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  7th month, and the day of Atonement.
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  You shall make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 10 And
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  you shall hallow the 50th year, and proclaim liberty throughout
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  all the land unto the inhabitants thereof.
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  It shall be a jubilee unto you, and you shall return every man
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  to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.
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  So if they had hired themselves out to pay off a debt, then they
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  were to be released at this time because God actually cares.
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  God doesn't just want people to be in a perpetual state of
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  servitude. God desires for us to be free in
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  whom the sun sets. Free is free indeed.
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  Friends, just because you have an immense amount of debt does
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  not mean that you are not free. That is something you need to
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  realize. God has set you free, and even
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  though we keep putting these chains of bondage back on
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  ourselves, it does not take away from the fact that God has set
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  you free. And you are free, friends.
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  And he's going to tell us to owe no man nothing. 11 The jubilee
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  shall that 50th year be unto you.
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  You shall not sow neither reap that which grows of itself in
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  it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine undressed. 12 For
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  it is a jubilee. It shall be holy unto you, You
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  shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
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  So he's saying that they're going to have plenty enough
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  provision. They do not need to worry about
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  working during this year of the Jubilee.
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  Let the ground rest. 13 In the year of the Jubilee you shall
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  return every man to his possession.
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  So they were not to try to take possession of the land.
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  It all belonged to God. It belonged to the allotted
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  tribes that we're going to see in the book of Joshua.
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  You're going to need to know that God here is already telling
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  them that they're going to take the land and he's going to give
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  them a possession. 14 And if you sell ought unto your neighbor,
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  or buy anything of your neighbor's hand, you shall not
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  oppress one another. So there it is, friends.
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  They are to treat each other with dignity and respect. 15
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  According to the number of years after the jubilee, shall you buy
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  of your neighbor, and according to the number of years of the
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  fruit, shall he sell it to you? 16 According to the multitude of
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  years shall you increase the price thereof, and according to
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  the fewness of years shall you diminish the price of it, and
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  according to the number of the years of the fruits does he sell
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  unto you. So there it is, friends.
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  It was not just A1 size fits all.
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  This was to be actually calculated based upon how many
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  years it would be until Jubilee, and that would be the price,
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  because at Jubilee everything reset back to the way that it
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  should be. 17 You shall not therefore press one another, but
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  you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.
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  That's what we need, friends. We need the fear of the Lord.
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  We need holy reverence in this hour. 18 Wherefore you shall do
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  my judgments, and keep my judgments, and do them, and you
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  shall dwell in the land and safety.
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  Praise God for that. He's promising them safety if
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  they will do what he's asking them to do. 19 In the land shall
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  yield her fruit, and you shall eat your fill and dwell in its
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  safety. So you need to know that God's
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  telling them that if they will actually do the things that he's
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  telling them to do, it will go well with them. 20 And if you
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  shall say, What shall we eat the 7th year, behold, we shall not
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  sow nor gather in our increase. So they're worried on this sixth
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  year if they don't do what they've been doing, they're not
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  going to be able to eat the next year.
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  What does God say? 21 Then I will command my
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  blessing upon you the 6th year, and it will bring forth fruit
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  for three years. So God and his amazing knowledge
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  and wisdom, He has preprogrammed the soil on the 6th year to do a
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  triple increase. And that would be for that year,
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  that would be for the 7th year. That would be for the 8th year.
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  And then they would sow and be able to eat again.
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  God knows what he's doing. 22 And you shall sow the 8th year
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  and eat yet of old fruit until the 9th year, until their fruits
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  come in, you shall eat of the old store.
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  So that's what you need to know is that they would have plenty
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  put up because that sixth year was a super crop where it was a
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  triple amount. Because God is so incredibly
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  wise. He knows how to take care of us
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  if we'll trust Him. We don't need to just spin our
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  wheels all the time trying to be autonomous and live however we
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  want to live and then ask God to Co sign on our mess.
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  We must do things the way that He is prescribed, of how He has
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  written it into the fabric and the DNA of how this life works.
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  23 The land shall not be sold forever.
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  The land is mine, for you are the strangers and sojourners
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  with me. That still is applicable to
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  today. Friends, the land of Israel
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  belongs to the Jews. You need to know that that the
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  land that they're on right now is only a fraction of what has
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  been promised to them. And we will see it, friends.
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  We're going to see it with our own eyes in the Millennium that
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  the borders get re established to what God has said, and we're
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  going to get to see the Ezekiel temple there in that time.
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  What an amazing thought. 24 And in the land of your possession
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  you shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 And if your brother
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  be waxed poor and has sold away some of his possession, and if
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  any of his kin come to redeem it, then he shall redeem that
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  which is his brothers. So we're going to get into this
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  section about the kinsman Redeemer and how somebody next
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  to kin can come and pay the debt and to get the families land
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  back. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself
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  be able to redeem it, 27 then let him count the years of the
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  sale of it, and restore the over plus unto the man to whom he
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  sold it, that he may return unto his possession.
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  So God here is very clear. Then when he allots the land to
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  each of the tribes, that's who it belongs to forever, and there
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  will be a great reset to where in this, this time of Jubilee,
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  people get to go back to their land. 28 But if he is not able
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  to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in
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  the hand of him that bought it until the year of jubilee, and
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  in it the jubilee shall go out, and he shall return to his
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  possession. 29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled
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  city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is
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  sold within a full year may he redeem it.
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  So there was a difference between a city dwelling house
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  and farmland. The farmland, friends, was very
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  important for their sustainability, the farmland
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  they desperately needed, and this walled city had a different
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  idea behind it. This would have been inside of
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  the city. And he sang for a full year.
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  It can be redeemed. 31 But the houses of the villages which
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  have no wall rounding about them, shall be counted as the
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  fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they
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  shall go out in the jubilee. So there it is, friends, you
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  need to know that at the 50th year it went back to the right
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  tribe, back to the right family. 32 Notwithstanding the cities of
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  the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, may
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  the Levites redeem at any time. This was the Levitical priest,
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  the lineage, and they were allotted no land, and God was
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  their possession. And he's telling them that they
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  could always at any time redeem their dwelling. 33 And if a man
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  purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold in the
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  city of his possession shall go out in the year of jubilee.
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  For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession
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  among the children of Israel. So that's what God is telling
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  them, that they will always get to go back to their houses, no
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  matter if they sell them out. 34 But the fields of the suburbs of
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  the cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual
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  possession. So there God is telling the
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  people not to try to encroach on any of the limited amount of
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  space that they have. 35 And if your brother be grown poor and
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  have fallen in decay with you, then you shall relieve him,
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  yeah, though he be a stranger, a sojourner, that he may live with
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  you. So here this is the law of the
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  land with the poor brother. 36 Take you no interest in him or
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  increase, but fear your God that your brother may live with you.
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  So here, whenever you loan money, they were not to try to
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  charge any kind of interest on it. 37 You shall not give the
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  money upon usury, nor lend him your victuals for increase.
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  So here they were not to try to make merchandise out of their
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  fellow man. 38 I am the Lord your God, which brought you
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  forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan
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  and to be your God. So here God has a different
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  economy, and that's what you need to understand.
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  We operate in a different economy than the rest of the
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  world and so many Christians are so completely obsessive over
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  money. And Jesus tells us that you
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  cannot serve both God and mammon.
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  You will love 1 and you will hate the other.
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  That is that is period, end of story.
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  And then we read in Timothy that those who have increased think
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  that that means that they are more godly and it does not.
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  We need to be content. We need godliness with
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  contentment, which is great gain.
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  It is not great gain just because you have money.
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  And here God is telling us to operate within a different
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  economy than the rest of the world.
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  We should not look like the rest of the world, Friends, We put
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  our full faith, our full trust every single moment of every
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  single day. We rely on God to draw our next
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  breath for the next heartbeat. Friends, that's the reality that
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  we walk in. We do not operate like the rest
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  of the world with four O 1 KS and retirements.
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  We do not operate like the rest of the world.
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  And yes, we steward God's money and yes, we need to be open
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  handed and yes, there are some who are gifted at giving and
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  praise God. Hallelujah for those realities.
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  But by and large, on the grand scheme of things, money will
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  actually drag you away from faith and from loving God and a
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  full dependence upon Him. 40 But as a hired servant and as
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  a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you unto
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  the year of jubilee. 41 Then shall he depart from you, both
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  he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own
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  family, and unto the possessions of the fathers shall he return.
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  So God is telling them to release them and to not hold
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  them forever, not hold them for life.
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  They are to be released at Jubilee. 41 He's going to return
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  to his father. 42 For they are my servants, which I brought
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  forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bond
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  men. We're not to make merchandise of
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  our brothers. 43 You shall not rule over him with rigor.
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  You shall fear your God. It's what we need.
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  We need the fear of the Lord. We need holy reverence in this
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  hour. 44 both your bond men and your bond maids, which you shall
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  be of the heathen that are around about you of them shall
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  you by bond men and bond maids. So he's telling the Israelites
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  and the Jews that every single one of them are God's peculiar
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  chosen people. But if they are going to have
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  bond servants or bond maids to choose them out from the heathen
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  nations, 45 Moreover, of the children of the strangers that
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  do sojourn among you, of them shall you buy, and their
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  families that are with you, which they begat in your land,
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  of they shall be your possession. 46 And you shall
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  take them as an inheritance for your children after you to
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  inherit them for a possession. They shall be your bondsman
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  forever, but over your brothers, the children of Israel, you
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  shall not rule over one another with rigor.
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  So here he's saying that for the Israelites who were allotted the
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  land, they get to go back into their allotted land.
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  That's what God desires for them.
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  If they were to have indentured servants who were to come and to
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  willfully work with them or to pay off a debt, then that was OK
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  to go past the Jubilee. But for every single Jewish
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  person, they were to go back to their allotted land that God's
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  going to give them. 47 And if a soldier owner or a stranger grow
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  rich by you and your brother that dwells by him, grow poor
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  and sell himself to the stranger, the soldier owner by
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  you, or to the stock of the stranger's family. 48 After that
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  he is sold, he may be redeemed again.
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  One of his brothers may redeem him.
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  So here is talking about a Jew that would go and sell
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  themselves over to somebody who was rich, and he's going to talk
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  about this kinsman Redeemer who's able to buy them back out
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  of that situation. 49 Either his uncle or his uncle's son may
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  redeem him, or any that is near of kin unto him, and his family
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  may redeem him. For if he is able, he may redeem
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  himself. So that's what you need to know,
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  that if somebody found themselves in that situation,
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  they were to be redeemed and taken out of that situation. 50
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  And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year
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  that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee.
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  And the price of his sales shall be according to the number of
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  years, according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with
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  him. 51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto
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  them, he shall give again the price of his redemption out of
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  the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there be but a
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  few years unto the year of jubilee, and he shall count with
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  him, and according to his years shall he give him again the
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  price of his redemption. 53 And as a yearly hired servant shall
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  he be with him, and the other shall not rule with rigor over
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  him in your sight. 54 And if he be not redeemed in those years,
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  and he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he and his
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  children with him we'll end on. 55 For unto me the children of
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  Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I
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  brought forth after the land of Egypt.
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  I am the Lord your God. So God has a peculiar love
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  obsession with the Jews, and it's still going on today.
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  He could have eradicated and wiped them off the map many
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  times, but the ethnic Jews, friends, are going to be there
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  in the end. They're going to make it all the
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  way to the end because God is supernaturally protecting them.
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  Even in their disobedience. Our Messiah came through them
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  and also the Antichrist will come through them.
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  And you can see here that there is 2 completely opposite ends of
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  the spectrum, but ultimately, God is the one who is
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  supernaturally protecting them. And we're going to learn that in
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  the next chapter. You're going to get to see how
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  if they do what is right, God will supernaturally bless them.
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  But if they do what is wrong, He is going to bring them so low,
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  but He never turns his back on them.
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  And look how they're still around today and they're going
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  to be here and there's nothing you can do about it.
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  They're going to make it all the way to the end.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here to Morrow.
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  God bless you.