{"id":36559,"date":"2025-07-08T22:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=36559"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:03:36","slug":"leviticus-25_8-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/leviticus-25_8-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Resting Takes Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leviticus\u00a0 25:8-22 \u00a0 (CLICK HERE FOR\u00a0BIBLE VERSES)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 25:8-22.\u00a0With a humble heart, see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 25:8-12 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Count off seven sabbaths of years–seven times seven years–so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 8-12:\u00a0\u00a0Starting at Leviticus\u00a025:8 we read about\u00a0how every 50th year the Israelites were to proclaim it a Year of Jubilee.\u00a0\u00a0The Year of Jubilee was meant to be:<\/p>\n

– a time of reunion when Israelites would return to their family clans and to the places where they grew up (v10, 13);<\/p>\n

– a time of rest when the people would not sow or reap (v11);<\/p>\n

– a time of reverence in that it was a \u201choly\u201d year, a year to remember and rely on God\u2019s provision (v12a).<\/p>\n

We will learn later in Leviticus 25 that the Year of Jubilee would also be a time when debts are forgiven, slaves are set free, and lands would be returned to the original tribes that first inherited them.<\/p>\n

Leviticus 25:13-17 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘If you sell land to one of your countrymen or buy any from him, do not take advantage of each other.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You are to buy from your countryman on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And he is to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what he is really selling you is the number of crops.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 13-17:\u00a0\u00a0God told the Israelites to have the Year of Jubilee in mind when conducting business with one another in the years leading up to the Year of Jubilee.\u00a0\u00a0Likewise,\u00a0may we have heaven in mind when we conduct business with others.\u00a0\u00a0May our goal not be to gouge people for as much money as possible, but to deal fairly with others, knowing that one day it all goes back to the Original Owner anyways, God Himself<\/strong>, and knowing that the Original Owner will hold us accountable for how we handled the riches He entrusted to us.<\/p>\n

Leviticus 25:18-22 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 18-22:\u00a0\u00a0If I was an Israelite back in Moses\u2019 time, in my weaker moments I would probably worry, wondering, \u201cWill God really provide for us if we don\u2019t sow or reap anything ourselves in that seventh year?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps the workaholic in me might think, \u201cI don\u2019t want to stop working in that seventh year.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0Resting from our work the way God designed is an act of faith and trust in God<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0The faithless part of us would want to keep on working and keep trusting in ourselves, whereas God commands us to rest from our work and trust that God will provide for us.\u00a0\u00a0We show our faith and trust in God by resting from our work when God commands us to.<\/p>\n

Likewise, when it comes to salvation, it takes faith and trust in God to say, \u201cInstead of trying to work my way to heaven, I\u2019m going to trust in what Jesus has done for me.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The best decision you can make in light of heaven is to stop thinking you can work your way there and instead to decide, \u201cI\u2019m going to rest in Jesus\u2019 finished work on the cross for me.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0In so doing we put our faith in God, not in ourselves.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, when it comes to business, since it all belongs to You anyway, may I deal with others and the riches You have given me fairly.\u00a0\u00a0When it comes to salvation, may I trust in the work You did for me, rather than thinking I can work myself up to You.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

copyright \u00a9 2022 Justin Lim. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 25:8-22.\u00a0With a humble heart, see what sticks out to you in this passage.\u00a0 Is there a verse, a phrase, or a lesson you think the Holy Spirit may be highlighting for you in this passage?\u00a0 After you\u2019ve thought about the passage yourself a bit, read the GAME sharing below.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 25:8-12 (NIV)
\n8\u00a0\u00a0“‘Count off seven sabbaths of years–seven times seven years–so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years.
\n9\u00a0\u00a0Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.<\/p>\n

On verses 8-12:\u00a0\u00a0Starting at Leviticus\u00a025:8 we read about\u00a0how every 50th year the Israelites were to proclaim it a Year of Jubilee.\u00a0\u00a0The Year of Jubilee was meant to be:<\/p>\n

– a time of reunion when Israelites would return to their family clans and to the places where they grew up (v10, 13);<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36563,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36559\/revisions\/36563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}