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Matthew 10:29 – Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. (NKJV)

Trust God’s will for your life, no matter what!

Proverbs 10:29 – The way of the Lord is strength for the upright, But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity. (NKJV)

God’s Way + Uprightness = Strength / Workers of Iniquity = Destruction

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Matthew 10:28 – And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (NKJV)

Of whom are you afraid?

Proverbs 10:28 – The hope of the righteous will be gladness, But the expectation of the wicked will perish. (NKJV)

Hope + Righteousness = Gladness / Expectation + Wickedness = Perishing

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2 Kings 10:27 – Then they broke down the sacred pillar of Baal, and tore down the temple of Baal and made it a refuse dump to this day. (NKJV)

Get rid of any and all false gods that may be in your life!

1 Samuel 10:27 – But some rebels said, “How can this man save us?” So they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace. (NKJV)

Can you hold your peace when you’re mistreated?

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Proverbs 10:26 – As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, So is the lazy man to those who send him. (NKJV)

Are you a lazy person?

1 Samuel 10:26 – And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and valiant men went with him, whose hearts God had touched. (NKJV)

Has God touched your heart to do something in particular?

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1 Samuel 10:25 – Then Samuel explained to the people the behavior of royalty, and wrote it in a book and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house. (NKJV)

Do you exemplify royalty in your behavior?

Joshua 10:25 – Then Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage, for thus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.” (NKJV)

Let the Lord handle your enemies!

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Scriptures for September 3rd – September 9th
September 3rd – What are you eating?
September 4th – Are you worthy to be in authority?
September 5th – God is true to His word.
September 6th – Life is very precious to God!
September 7th – Would you or could you resist such temptation?
September 8th – How much integrity do you have?
September 9th – Be careful not to sin against God!

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Leviticus 25:1-28 / The Year Of Jubilee
The Lord told Moses on Mt. Sinai to tell the children of Israel that when they came to the land that He was giving them, the land should keep a sabbath to the Lord. Six years they were allowed to sow their field and prune their vineyard and gather its fruit. In the seventh year there should be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord. They were not allowed to neither sow their field nor prune their vineyard. Whatever grew of its own accord of their harvest, they were not allowed to reap, nor gather the grapes of their untended vine because it was a year of rest for the land. The sabbath produce of the land should be food for them, their male and female servants, their hired man, the stranger who dwells with them, their livestock and the beasts that are in their land. All its produce should be for food.

The Israelites were to count seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years. The time of seven sabbaths of years should be forty-nine years to them. Then they were to cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement they were to make the trumpet to sound throughout all of their land.

The Israelites were to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all of its inhabitants. It was to be a Jubilee for them and each of them was to return his possession and to his family. This meant that slaves were freed and debts were forgiven. In the Jubilee fiftieth year, the Israelites were not to sow nor reap what grew of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of their untended vine. The Jubilee was to be holy to them and they were to eat its produce from the field. In the Year of Jubilee, each of them should return to his possession. If they sold anything to their neighbor or bought anything from their neighbor, they were not to oppress one another. According to the number of years after the Jubilee they could buy from their neighbor and according to the number of years of crops, he could sell to them. According to the multitude of years, they could increase its price and according to the fewer number of years, they were to diminish its price. He would be selling to the neighbor according to the number of the years of the crops. If the next Jubilee was a large number of years away, prices were higher. If the next Jubilee was close, then the prices were lower. So, they were selling based on the number of harvests until the next Jubilee. Therefore, they were not to oppress one another, but they were to fear their God. God said, “For I am the Lord your God.”
God said that the Israelites were to observe His statutes and keep His judgments, and perform them. If they did so, they would dwell in the land in safety. The land would yield its fruit, and they would eat their fill and dwell there in safety. If the people asked what they were going to eat in the seventh year since they couldn’t sow nor gather produce, the Lord said that He would command His blessing on them in the sixth year, and the land would bring forth produce enough for three years. They could sow in the eighth year, and eat old produce until the ninth year until its produce came. They were to eat of the old harvest. God always makes provisions for His people. Land was not to be sold permanently, because the land belongs to God. The people were strangers and sojourners with God.

In all the land of their possession, they were to grant redemption of the land. If an Israelite brother became poor and sold some of his possession and if a redeeming relative came to redeem it, he would be allowed to redeem what his brother had sold. If the man has no one to redeem it, but became able to redeem it himself, then he was to count the years since its sale and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession. For instance, if the poor man sold land and they were midway to the next Jubilee when he could afford to buy it back, then he would pay half the price it was sold for to the purchaser. If he is not able to buy the land back, then the purchasers would keep the land until the Year of Jubilee. In the Year of Jubilee it should be released and he should return it to the seller.

We continue in Leviticus 25 next week.

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Leviticus 24 – Watch Your Mouth!
The Lord told Moses to command the children of Israel to bring him pure oil of pressed olives for the light to make the lamps burn continually. Outside the veil of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of meeting, Aaron was to be in charge of it from evening until morning continually before the Lord. This should be a statute forever in their generations. Aaron was to be in charge of the lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord continually.

He was to take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. Each cake was to have two-tenths of an ephah in it. The cakes were to be set in two rows on the pure gold table with six in each row before the Lord. Pure frankincense was to be put on each row so that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord. Every Sabbath he should set it in order continually before the Lord, being taken from the Israelites by an everlasting covenant. This is for Aaron and his sons to eat in a holy place, because it is most holy to him from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.
There was the son of an Israelite woman named Shelomith. She was the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. His father was an Egyptian. This Israelite woman’s son went out among the children of Israel and got in a fight with a man of Israel in the camp. He (the son) blasphemed the name of the Lord (speak disrespectfully or show contempt for God’s name) and cursed. So he was taken to Moses. They put him in custody, until the will of the Lord might be shown to them. The Lord told Moses to take him outside the camp and let those who heard him lay their hands on his head and let all the congregation stone him. The Lord told Moses to tell the children of Israel that whoever curses his God shall bear his sin. Whoever blasphemed the name of the Lord should surely be put to death by being stoned by all of the congregation, including both the stranger and the ones born in the land. When he blasphemes the name of the Lord, he should be killed.

Whoever kills any man should surely be put to death. Whoever kills an animal should make it good, animal for animal. If a man causes disfigurement of his neighbor, as he has done, should be done to him – fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever the type of disfigurement he has caused, should be done to him. Whoever kills an animal should restore it, but whoever kills a man should be killed. The law should be the same for the stranger and for one from their own country. God said, “for I am the Lord your God.”

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they took the man who had cursed outside the camp and stoned him as the Lord commanded Moses.

Watch your mouth and don’t let it get you in trouble. James 3:5-10 speaks of the damage the tongue can cause. Also, be careful that your anger does not cause you to sin (Ephesians 4:26).

We’re off to Leviticus 25 next week.

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Leviticus 23:23-44 / Let’s Talk Feasts (Part Two)
The Feast of the Trumpets

The Lord told Moses to tell the children of Israel that in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, they were to have a sabbath-rest. It was to be a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. They were not to do any customary work on it and were to offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.
The Day of Atonement

The Lord told Moses that the tenth day of the seventh month was to be the Day of Atonement. It was to be a holy convocation for them. They should afflict their souls and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. According to Ministers of the New Covenant afflicting their souls has been translated as self denial, usually in a way of fasting (from food, sex, or personal grooming, etc). Or according to one of the answers on Biblical Hermeneutics Stack Exchange, it could also mean being humble and looking on your sin and regretting it. They were not allowed to do any work on that day because it was the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for themselves before the Lord their God. Any person who was not afflicted in soul on that same day should be cut off from his people. God said that any person who did any work on that day, He would destroy him from among his people. No manner of work was to be done on that day and that would be a statute forever throughout their generations in all their dwellings. It is to be a sabbath of solemn rest and they were to afflict their souls on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening they were to celebrate their sabbath.
The Feast of Tabernacles

The Lord told Moses to tell the children of Israel, that on the fifteenth day of this seventh month should be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord. There was to be a holy convocation and no customary work was to be done on it. For seven days they were to offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It was a sacred assembly and no customary work was to be done on it.
These, along with the feasts in Leviticus 23:1-22, are the feasts of the Lord that the Israelites were to proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering, a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day. These offerings were to be given to the Lord in addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, in addition to their gifts, all their vows, and all their freewill offerings.

Also, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month when they gathered in all the fruit of the land, they were to keep the feast of the Lord for seven days. There was to be a sabbath-rest on the first day and on the eighth day. On the first day, they were to take the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook and rejoice before the Lord their God for seven days. It was to be kept as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. This was to be a statute forever in their generations, celebrated in the seventh month. All who were native Israelites were to dwell in booths for seven days. This was to make known to their generations that God made the children of Israel dwell in booths when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. God stated, “I am the Lord your God.” What traditions and practices have been passed down through the generations in your family, with or without explanations?

So Moses declared to the children of Israel, the feasts of the Lord.

Next week, we will travel to Leviticus 24.

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