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Leviticus chapter 27 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Leviticus chapter 27. Let us pray.
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  We thank you, Father, for today. Lord, you are holy and righteous
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  and pure. We thank you for all the many
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  things that you've already done. Thank you for pouring out
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  blessings upon blessings upon blessings upon us today.
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  Thank you, Lord, for the breath and our lungs.
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  Thank you God, for the ability to see and to hear, to feel,
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  Lord, to taste, touch. God, you are the most amazing.
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  Lord, we fix our eyes upon you, the Maker of heaven and earth.
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  You are where our help comes from.
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  So Lord, help us today. Help us to love our neighbor as
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  ourself. Help us to understand these
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  words. Lord, help us to love and love
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  well. Lord, help us to take the whole
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  word to the whole world, to the ends of the earth, every
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  continent, every people group. Lord, we submit, we surrender.
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  God, we admit Father, that you are holy and worthy and lovely.
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  Jesus name I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, verse 2, Speak unto the
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  children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a
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  singular vow, the person shall be for the Lord, by thy
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  estimation. So we're going to get into this
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  discourse about how God planned on taking care of the Levitical
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  priests during this time. And he knew that all of the
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  tribes would have farmland and be able to sustain themselves.
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  But the Levitical priests, they were dependent upon the monetary
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  income of the vows that were being made.
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  And people would come to the priests and ask the priests to
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  pray to God for them for a good judgement or for something in
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  their favor. And when God did those things,
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  they were expected to come back and make good on their vow.
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  Verse 3 And I estimation shall be of the male of 20 years old
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  even unto 60 years old even I estimation shall be 50 shekels
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  of silver after the shekel of the sanctuary.
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  So someone between the ages of 20 and 60 could generate a lot
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  more wealth than someone who was younger or older than that time
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  for. And if it be a female, then the
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  estimation shall be 30 shekels 5 And if it be from five years old
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  even unto 20 years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male
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  20 shekels and for the female 20 or 10 shekels.
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  So you can see here that that for people that were younger or
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  for even the females in this Agricultural Society, they would
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  have not been able to do the amount of work necessary to
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  generate the amount of money that God told them to bring into
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  the sanctuary. What an amazing God that we
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  have. He sees our weaknesses.
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  He sees our feebleness. He sees our inability to even
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  feed ourselves. We are dependent upon Him and
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  God gives life and breath and we just get out of our own
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  understanding. We say yes and Amen to all of
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  these words. Six.
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  And if it be from a month old, even under five years old, then
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  thy estimation shall be of the male 5 shekels of silver.
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  And for the female thy estimation shall be 3 shekels of
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  silver. 7 even if it be from 60 years old and above.
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  If it be a male, then thy estimation shall be 15 shekels,
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  and for the female 10 shekels. God made them both man and
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  woman, and that is what we need to understand.
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  This whole blending of genders and trying to be gender neutral,
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  it is disgusting. It is deplorable.
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  Friends, we need to celebrate our differences.
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  We need to understand, friends, that God made us perfect.
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  He knows what He's doing and we don't need to try to be
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  something that we're not. That is the reality and that is
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  unapologetic, friends, that God knows what He's doing and He put
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  us on this earth and He expects for us to honor Him in all of
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  the words, the revealed will that He has given to us.
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  Even here in Leviticus chapter 27, we don't get to omit hard
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  passages. We don't get to gloss over and
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  just go to the books that we like.
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  We need the full context, friends, from Genesis all the
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  way to Revelation, and I'm glad for every single person who has
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  taken this faith journey with me to learn all of the syllables,
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  all of the jots, all of the titles, every single thing.
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  And here we are at the end of Leviticus, and I pray that you
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  have been blessed eternally by the teachings of Leviticus all
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  the way through. We have had a wonderful journey
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  through one of the hardest books in the entire Bible, and I am so
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  honored to stand here today and to speak to you these eternal
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  words of God. 8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then
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  he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall
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  value him according to his ability.
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  That vowed shall the priest value him.
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  So here is God's loving kindness, that he doesn't just
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  demand certain amounts, that the priest had the ability, based
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  upon the income level of a household, to be able to fix, to
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  change those fixed rates. 9 And if it be a beast whereof men
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  bring an offering unto the Lord, all that any man gives of such
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  unto the Lord shall be holy. 10 He shall not alter it, nor
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  change it good for bad or bad for good, He shall he, if he
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  shall at all change beasts for beasts, then it in the exchange
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  thereof shall be holy. So here we're going to get to
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  see this little section where God calls these things holy and
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  He wants them to know that every first born unto Him is His
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  already. And they do not need to try to
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  be deceptive and change what they had vowed and try to act as
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  if this was the one that I had vowed when it wasn't.
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  God sees all of it and He will not put up with us trying to be
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  duplicious. 11 If any unclean beast, of which they do not
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  offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then he shall present the beast
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  before the priest. So he could bring an unclean
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  beast that would have not been acceptable for sacrifice, but he
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  could bring it and devote it unto God. 12 And if the priest
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  shall value it, whether it be good or bad, as you value it,
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  who are the priests, so shall it be so.
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  The priest had the final say in what the value of it would have
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  been. 13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a
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  fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.
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  So a man could vow an animal and keep using it, as long as he
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  paid the price of the animal plus 20%. 14 And when a man
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  shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord, then the
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  priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad.
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  As the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
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  So a man could even vow his house. 15 And if he that
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  sanctify it will redeem his house, then he shall the 5th
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  part of the money of the estimation unto it, and it shall
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  be his, so he could continue using it as long as he paid the
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  price plus 20%. Sixteen.
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  And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of
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  his possession, then the estimation shall be according to
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  the seed thereof. A Homer of barley seed shall be
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  valued at 50 shekels of silver. 17 If he sanctifies field from
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  the year of Jubilee, according to thy estimation it shall
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  stand. So everything in the property
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  values was based upon the year Jubilee and God gave provisions
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  to make sure that the land always returned back to the
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  proper tribe. What an amazing God we serve. 17
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  If he sanctifies Field from the year of Jubilee, according to
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  the estimation, it shall stand. 18 But if he sanctifies Field
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  after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the
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  money according to the years that remain, even unto the year
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  of Jubilee, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
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  So it all went back to that reset of the 50 years. 19 And if
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  he that sanctified the field will in any ways redeem it, then
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  he shall add the 5th part of the money of thy estimation unto it,
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  and shall be assured to him. So if he had vowed his field and
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  he still wanted to use it, he could come and pay the price of
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  the field and add 20% to it. 20 And if he will not redeem the
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  field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall
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  not be redeemed anymore. 21 But the field when it goes out in
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  jubilee shall be wholly unto the Lord, as a field devoted.
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  The possession thereof shall be the priest.
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  So that's what you need to know, is that God had this amazing way
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  of making sure that all the land throughout all the time that the
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  Jews were in the land, would go back to the proper owner that He
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  is going to allot here as we get deeper into Scripture. 22 And if
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  a man sanctify unto the Lord of field which he has bought, which
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  is not of the fields of his possession, 23 then the priest
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  shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the
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  year of jubilee, and he shall give thine estimation in that
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  day as a holy thing unto the Lord. 24 In the year of jubilee
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  the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to
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  him to whom the possession of the land did belong. 25 And all
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  thy estimation shall be according to the shekel of the
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  sanctuary. 20 Gera shall be the shekel.
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  So here God knows how to make sure that everybody, including
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  the priests or including the original families, that
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  everybody is justly. Giving back all of the things
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  that God had promised to them, that there would be no greed in
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  the land, that there would not be anybody who got the better
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  end of the stick. That it was all equal.
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  And God knows that all of His ways are good.
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  If we'll just get in line with God's ways and quit trying to do
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  things our own way and our own understanding, we could avoid so
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  many pitfalls, Friends. 26 Only the first Ling of the beast,
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  which should be the Lord's first Ling.
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  No man shall sanctify it, whether it be ox or sheep, It is
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  the Lord's. There it is.
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  He's saying don't try to offer what's already God's.
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  Don't try to do that. It belongs to him. 27 And if it
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  be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to
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  your estimation, and it shall add a fifth part thereto.
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  And if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to
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  thy estimation. 28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing
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  that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he has, both of
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  man and beasts of the field, possession shall be sold or
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  redeemed. Every devoted thing is most holy
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  unto the Lord. 29 No devoted which shall be devoted of men
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  shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death.
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  So when God tells them to not hold back and to go in and to
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  completely wipe out every single thing, that's what he means.
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  And it's not for them to try and make bargains and deals.
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  It's not for them to try to plague God.
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  God told them what to do, and that is exactly what he expects
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  for them to do. And you're going to see Saul get
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  himself into trouble later because he did not fully enact
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  what God had told him to do. 30 And all the tithes of the land,
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  whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is
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  the Lord's. It is holy unto the Lord. 31 And
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  if a man will it all redeem out of his ties, he shall add
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  therefore a fifth part thereof. So here he's talking about the
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  seed that was to go into the field, and if a man wanted to
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  buy it back, then he could hold it back after he's vowed it, but
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  he needed to pay the value of it plus 20%. 32 The coronary.
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  And concerning the tithe of the herd, of the flock, even of
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  whatsoever passes under the rod, the tent shall be holy unto the
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  Lord. So the shepherds would wait for
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  the animals to pass under their rod, and every tent was marked.
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  33 And he shall not search whether it be good or bad,
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  neither shall he change it. And if he change it at all, then
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  both it and the change thereof shall be holy.
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  It shall not be redeemed. 34 These are the commandments of
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  the Lord commanded Moses of the children of Israel.
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  Mount Sinai. There went, friends, the whole
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  book of Leviticus, and I hope that you were blessed by it.
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  This is an amazing book, and we know that Jesus did not come to
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  abolish the law, but to fulfill it.
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  Every single thing that was outlined in the book of
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  Leviticus was fulfilled in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And you and I don't need to try to live up to all the standards.
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  We just need to know what the Word of God tells us in the New
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  Testament. And the Old Testament together
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  is perfect unity, and Jesus is the fulfillment of it all.
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  It all points to Him. And they were told to not eat
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  the blood of the animals sacrificed, and they were told
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  to abstain from sexual immorality.
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  And that is how we came into the fold, friends.
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  We admitted that Jesus Christ was Lord and we were not
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  required to keep all of the things of the Jewish people.
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  But the church at large would do well to understand the full
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  counsel of God's Word and not just what is appeasing to us,
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  what is pleasing to us. Not just all of the liberties
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  and luxuries that you and I get to have, but we need to know the
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  full context from Genesis to Revelation.
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  Nothing added and nothing subtracted.
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  And that is what we have done in this book of Leviticus is we
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  have dove deep down into one of the hardest books in the entire
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  Bible. And I'm so incredibly glad that
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  you're on this journey with me. I'm praying for you.
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  I love you, and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.