Lev. 25: 1-7, Enjoy the blessings of the year of Sabbath

Lev. 25: 1-7, Enjoy the blessings of the year of Sabbath

 25:1-7
 1.The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
 2."Speak to the Israelites and say to them: `When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the LORD.
 3.For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.
 4.But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.
 5.Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.
 6.Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you -- for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,
 7.as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

 * God makes us enjoy the blessings of God through seven Festivals (the Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits, the Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, the Festival of Tabernacles), and grow up the blessings of the Sabbath, the Sabbath Year, the Year of Jubilee.
 
  * Question/ Do you enjoy the blessings of the Feast of tabernacles?
  (Remember the suffering of tents in the wilderness, thank to God, enjoy and enjoy with your neighbors, and do the blessings of New Jerusalem(Rv. chs. 21-22),

1. Experience greater grace (Eph. 4:13-15; Our goal is to resemble Christ, Rom 8:29).  
 Resemble Christ through feasts and christian life (Eph. 4:13,15, Rom. 8:29).
  13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the
  fullness of Christ. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.

2. Enjoy the blessings of the Sabbath (Ex 20:8-10, Lev 23:3)

  Ex. 20:8-10,
  8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the
  LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals,
  nor the alien within your gates.
  1) Free from everyday work (Rest)
  2) Enjoy all that God gives (especially peace)
  3) Deliver grace (Ex 20:10, Lev 23:3) * Kim Ik-doo, 'I believe in Jesus and you are blessed!'

3. Enjoy the blessings of the year of Sabbath (Lev 25:2-7)

 1) Let the land rest. "a sabbath to the LORD" (2, 4), Refill your spiritual grace and recover it, Deep fellowship with God.
  * Miura Ayako, Japanese christian  writer, the miracle of <the Freezing Point>

 2) Experience the cancelling of debts(forgiveness of sins, Deut. 15:1-18).      In the sabbatical year, all debts are cancelled(2,3).
   Lord Prayer, Forgive our sins (debts). Get rid of your greed for wealth.

 3) Enjoy freedom from servants (Ex 21:1-11). In the sabbath year all servants enjoy liberty and freedom(2).
  * Question / Are you free to do everything in the world? Greed, TV(drama), I Phone, Game, Family, etc.) Rom 8:1-2

 4) Enjoy the blessings of sharing (Lev. 25:6-7) * Rockefeller's miracle.

Prayer/
   We thank God that we are like Jesus, God in the Lord. Thank you for the blessing of freedom, peace and grace on the Sabbath (Sunday). Thank you for blessing the Sabbath, for rest, for spiritual recharging, for clearing all debts (sin), for freeing all the world, for blessing of sharing. May the blessings of the Sabbath and the blessings of the sabbath enjoy life and become like Jesus. Amen.