Leviticus 25

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You are listening to the Dope Daily Audio Bible, and I'm your guy, pastor Charlie Mitchell, and today we're looking at Leviticus Chapter 25. Let's roll the Lord. Spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. Speak to the Israelites and tell them. When you enter the land I'm giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the Lord. You may sow your field for six years and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years, but there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the Lord. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard. You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop Or harvest the grapes of your unintended vines. It is to be a year of complete rest for the land. Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you, For yourself, your male or female slave and the hired worker or alien who resides with you, all of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. You are to count seven sabbatical years. Seven times seven, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amount to 49, then you are to sound a rams horn loudly in the seventh month. On the 10th day of the month, you will sound it throughout your land. On the day of atonement, you are to consecrate the 50th year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. it will be your jubilee when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan. The 50th year will be your jubilee. You are not to sow, reap what grows by itself Or Harvest is unintended vines. It is be holy to you because it is the Jubilee. You may only eat his produce directly from the field. It is the year of Jubilee. Each of you will return to his property. If you make a sale to your neighbor or purchase from him, do not cheat one another. You are to make the purchase from your neighbor. Based on the number of years since the last Jubilee, he has to sell to you Based on the number of remaining harvest years You are to increase his price in proportion to a greater amount of years and decrease his price in proportion to a lesser amount of years. Because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests. You are not the cheap one another, but fear your God for I'm the Lord your God. You are to keep my statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them so that you may live securely in the land. Then the land will yield its fruit so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land. If you wonder. What will we eat in the seventh year? If we do not sow or don't gather our produce? I will appoint my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. When you grow in the eighth year, you'll be eating from the previous harvest. You'll be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest has come in. The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine And you are only aliens and temporary residents on my land. You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy. If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother is sold. If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land, he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to and return to his property. But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of his purchaser until the year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee so that he may return to his property. If a man sells a residence in a walled city, His right of redemption will last until a year has passed after its sale. His right of redemption will last a year. If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to a purchaser throughout his generation. It is not to be released on the Jubilee, but houses and settlements that have no walls around them are to be classified as open fields. The right to redeem such houses stays in effect, and they're to be released at the Jubilee concerning the Levitical cities. The Levites always have the right to redeem houses in the cities. They possess. Whatever property one of the Levites can redeem. A house sold in the city they possess is to be released at the Jubilee. Because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites. the open pasture land around their cities may not be sold for it is their permanent possession. If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among you, You are to support him as an alien or temporary resident so that he can continue to live among you. Do not profit or take interest from him, but fear your God and let your brother live among you. you are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit. I'm the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. If your brother among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, you must not force him to do slave labor. Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident. He may work for you until the year of Jubilee. Then he and his children are to be released from you and he may return to his clan In his ancestral property. They're not to be sold to slaves because they're my servants that I brought out of the land of Egypt. You are not to rule over them harshly, but fear your God, your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you. You may purchase male and female slaves. You may also purchase them from the aliens residing with you are from the families living among you, those born in your land. These may become your property. You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property. You can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly. If a alien or temporary resident living among you prosperous, but your brother living near him, becomes destitute and sells themselves to the alien, living among you, or to a member of the resident alien's clan, he has the right of redemption. After he has been sold, one of his brothers may redeem him. His uncle or cousin may redeem him or any of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him. If he prospers, he may redeem himself. The one who purchases him is to calculate the time from the year he sold himself to him until the year of Jubilee, the price of his sale will be determined. By the number of years It will be set for him. Like the daily wages of a hired worker. If many years are still left, he must pay his redemption price in proportion to them based on his purchase price. If only a few years remain until the year of Jubilee, he will calculate and pay the price of his redemption and proportion to his remaining years. He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A resident alien is not to rule over him harshly in your sight. If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children are to be released at the year of Jubilee For the Israelites or my servants, they're my servants that I brought out of the land of Egypt. I'm the Lord your God. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you that you are the God of Sabbath and the jubilee. You are the Lord of the land and the giver of every good gift you call your people in the rhythms of rest. Call them in the rhythms of trust to release, to restore, but also to remember that the earth is yours and that we are yours. We honor you as the God who commands rest, who builds justice into the soil, into the land, and teaches us that freedom is holy, that redemption is possible, and that no one should be enslaved or entrapped forever. So as you called Israel to, to rest in the land, to cancel debts, to return what was lost, I pray that you would teach us to live generously, to release control, to trust your provision, even in the silence of the seventh year. We pray all of this in Jesus name. Amen.