Episode 1

Heart of Jubilee: Reset (North OC)

In this sermon, Marcel Hall introduces the 'Heart of Jubilee' series, explaining the biblical concept of Jubilee and its significance for contemporary believers. Using Leviticus 25 as the main text, Marcel details how Jubilee was a time of rest, reset, and reflection for the Israelites. He underscores the importance of rest, faith in God's provision, and the need for spiritual recalibration. The sermon invites the congregation to reflect on their current state and prepare for their own Jubilee season, emphasizing collective and individual spiritual growth. Practical action steps include a reading plan and communal reflection exercises.

00:00 Introduction to Jubilee

01:37 Historical Context and Biblical Foundation

03:33 Understanding the Holiness Code

05:36 The Concept of Jubilee

08:14 The Importance of Rest and Reset

15:41 Practical Applications and Reflections

26:36 Action Steps and Communion

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Transcript
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well what is a Jubilee?

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Well, Jubilee is a celebration,

uh, but biblically speaking, it

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was a special year designated

to God for the Nation of Israel.

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And so we're actually going to go

ahead and because it was a season,

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we're gonna have a season leading

up to and experiencing the Jubilee.

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And so we're gonna actually have a

sermon series for the next three.

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We call the heart of Jubilee.

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And so what we're gonna be doing here

is really trying to capture what was the

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heart of, of, of God's intention when

he prescribed and designated the jubilee

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for God's chosen people at that time.

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And then how does it apply to us

today, especially as we are about

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to have our own Los Angeles Jubilee

and actually the, uh, Roman Catholic

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Church, they're actually having their

year of Jubilee as well this year, and

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they're having events at the same time.

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And so that's.

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Uh, you know, interesting and

cool that, uh, we're having

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this jubilee at the same time.

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And so let's go ahead and

let's get into the word of God.

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You guys with me here this morning.

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You know what?

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Can we pray again?

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Can we pray?

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Let's go ahead and let's pray here

before we dig into God's word.

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Father, I'm so grateful,

uh, for your word.

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I know I'm excited about what I've

been studying, excited here about, uh,

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the content and how it applies to us.

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And Father, I pray that your work.

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May be able to be spoken today that

you may move me to the side, and God

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that you may communicate your message.

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Please cast to the aside everything

that wants to distract, detract from

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our hearts from hearing your word today.

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And so Father, we praise

you in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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So I wanna give a little history

and some context so that we can

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fully appreciate and understand the

Jubilee and see how it applies to us.

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And so, uh, well shout out

to my boy Chad Hoffman.

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He told me to.

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It's, it's helpful to do a

little timeline sometimes.

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So when I remember I, I, I put a

little timeline in, so here we go.

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And so this is just looking at

God's chosen people from Abraham.

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And so right now we're gonna

go into the book of Leviticus.

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And this is where Moses, uh, was

chosen by God speaking of chosen.

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He was chosen by God to lead

God's people out of slavery of

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Egypt into the Promised Land.

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And so we just finished a

sermon series, uh, from Jude.

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We call it The Forgotten Letters.

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And now here we are in Leviticus,

and we're digging into the

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Bible here up in North oc.

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Amen.

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When's the last time you

heard a sermon, Leviticus?

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Stop lying.

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You didn't hear it recently.

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Okay.

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All right, so we're here.

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We are.

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So we're gonna be in the

book of Leviticus, all right?

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For the next two weeks.

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All right?

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And so, again, this is

important for us to understand.

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So God's people, they've

been freed from slavery.

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The Passover, Moses,

remember Prince of Egypt?

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All right, so we're,

we're, we're at past that.

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So now throughout the Mount of Sinai, and

so God has given instructions to Moses,

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and so they had yet to enter the Promised

land, but God is preparing his people.

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For what he wants them

to be like a holy nation.

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That would be a representation and that

would be a blessing to all the nations.

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And so he's preparing his people and

he's telling them, here's what it

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means to be a holy people who serve and

have a relationship with a holy God.

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And so he is gonna give them a number

of things, but he's establishing their

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culture and their judicial system.

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So as you read Leviticus, as you

read numbers and Exodus, you have to

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understand, again, God's establishing

a covenant people and he's establishing

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some very practical things.

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How is their judicial system?

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How's their culture gonna be?

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And so to set us up, we have to understand

that Leviticus chapter 25, that's where

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we're gonna be at today, is in this, what

many scholars call the Holiness Code.

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And so this is where God is establishing

again for his people to be holy.

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So I want us to quickly go over that.

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So in Leviticus chapter 17, again, this

is where it starts with many scholars

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called the Holiness Code, uh, code.

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And in Leviticus 17, it gives instructions

about sacrifices and how blood is sacred.

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It's our livelihood.

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And then at 18, uh, forbidden sexual

practices, how Israel must not

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imitate the sin of Egypt in the land

of Canaan in which they're going.

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Uh, then we get over to Leviticus 19

and it gets real practical holiness.

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And this is where we get the, uh, the

scripture that's prominent, not only

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in the Old Testament, new Testament.

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Be holy for the Lord.

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Your God is holy.

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And he includes justice.

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It includes love for your neighbor.

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Honesty, care for the poor.

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It's like a blueprint for the righteous.

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Congregation that he's establishing.

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And in Leviticus 20, the consequences

of sin, Leviticus 21 through

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22, the Holiness of the Priest.

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And what's included in that

is how the priests are to be.

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Separate in their lifestyle

and in their worship.

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And then Leviticus 23, we

have the appointed festival.

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So that's the, the weekly Sabbath,

that's the annual feast of like the

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Passover, uh, Yom Kippur and whatnot.

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And then you have God's sacred

rhythms for remembering and rejoicing.

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Now that's key because

we'll see that in 25.

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And then in Leviticus 24, uh, we have

the holy items and then also justice.

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And then we get to

Leviticus 25 where there's.

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Now the Sabbath year and the Jubilee.

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So are you, are you with me?

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Church.

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Okay.

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So this helps us to

understand what's going on.

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'cause sometimes you insert

yourself in the middle of a text.

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You can get good stuff, but you can

also miss the greater and bigger

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picture, which would bring home even

more the point that God wants to make.

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So here we are in Leviticus chapter 25.

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And so before we get actually

into the text here, you say,

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well, what is the jubilee?

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Let's keep it real simple.

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Well, here's the Jubilee.

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Every 50 years, God told his people

to stop working the land free.

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People who owe debts, return land to the

original families, and then trust them.

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Trust God to provide.

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So every 50 years, this is

what God's people were to do.

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And so if we, the way we'll look at it and

break it down here is this, it was really

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about a reset release and restoring.

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The God's Jubilee year was about

a reset for his people, was about

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releasing and it was about restoring.

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And today we're gonna

look at the reset part.

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Now, man, there's so much good stuff.

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As I was studying this out this week

here, uh, there's so much good stuff, but

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we're not gonna be able to get to that.

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We're gonna stay focused and allow God

to lead us in this season of Jubilee.

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All right, you guys with me Church.

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Alright, so let's go ahead.

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Let's get into it.

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Leviticus chapter 25.

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We will read verse one.

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The Lord said to Moses out Mount Sinai,

speak to the Israelites and say to

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them, when you enter the land, I'm

going to give you the land itself.

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Must observe a Sabbath to the Lord

for six years, sow your fields

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and for six years pruning your

vineyards and gather their crops.

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But in the seventh year, the land

is to have a year of Sabbath rest.

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A Sabbath to the Lord.

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Do not sow your fields

or prune your vineyards.

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Do not reap what grows of

itself or harvest the grapes

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of your unintended vines.

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The land is to have a year of rest.

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Whatever the land yields during the

Sabbath year will be food for you.

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For yourself, for your male and female

servants and the hired worker and

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temporary resident who live among

you, as well as for your livestock

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and the wild animals in your land.

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Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

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Count off seven Sabbath years.

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Seven times seven years.

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So that seven Sabbath years amount

to a period of 49 years, guys doing

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some math for the people there.

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Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere.

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On the 10th day of the seventh

month on the Day of Atonement.

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That's Young Kippur sound, the

trumpet throughout your land.

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Consecrate the 50th year, and

proclaim liberty throughout the

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land to all its inhabitants.

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It shall be a jubilee for you.

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Each of you is to return to your

family property and to your own clan.

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The 50th year shall be a jubilee.

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For you.

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Do not sow and do not reap

what grows of itself or harvest

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the unintended vines for.

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It is a jubilee and it

is to be holy for you.

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Eat only what is taken

directly from the fields.

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We'll stop right there again.

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The heart of the jubilee is a reset.

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And like a Sabbath day.

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Remember, God established a Sabbath day.

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That being Saturday, we worked six

days and God told his people to work

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six days, but then to rest and to

rejuvenate, to be restored and to worship.

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And so now he's established a

seventh uh, uh, Sabbath year.

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And not only for the people, but

also for the land that stood out

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to me like the land needs to rest.

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And he says it's a rest time.

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It's a time of resting from land

and a time of resting from labor.

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And so here's a little diagram

just to kind of understand

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what it was to look like.

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And so for the first six

years, it's a regular year.

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Then there's a SA Sabbath year on the

seventh year, and then you keep going.

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And then on the 49th year, that's on the

day of Pentecost, or no, excuse me, on the

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day of Yo Kapo, their day of atonement.

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You would have on that day, on the

10th day there, uh, uh, of the seventh

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month, then they would sound a trumpet,

and then that would signify, now

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we're going into the Jubilee year.

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And so some scholars think that, uh,

the Jubilee actually was on the 49th

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year, or some believe that, uh, it

started on the 50th year, but that

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they really shortened the 50th year.

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It, it doesn't really matter.

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The point is that they were

to have a jubilee year, and

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so this is helpful for us.

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But here's the interesting thing.

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Nowhere in archeological findings or

even in scripture, do you actually

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see God's people practice this

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like we have no record of.

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They say, oh, remember that

jubilee year, or, here's what

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happened on that jubilee year.

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Which is pretty incredible.

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No, none of the writing.

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Now there's things that might point

to a Jubilee year, but we can't say

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for certain that we know that they

actually put this into practice.

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And that's interesting right there.

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Right.

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We can have some good philosophical

discussion right there.

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I don't think it means they

didn't celebrate it, but it's just

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interesting that we don't have a

record of it, and I, I'm firmly am

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convinced that they never celebrated

again once they returned from exile.

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Because it was different.

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The land was inhabited.

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They had different nations and there was

mixture, and there was no way for them

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to properly celebrate the jubilee year.

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So this has been a long time since

God's people have celebrated the

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Levitical Jubilee year, but the

Jubilee principle, as we see can

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and does apply to you and I church.

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Are you with me here?

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Here's one observation I wanna make.

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God believes in rest.

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Did you see that?

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Amen.

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He said, rest for a whole

year, every seven years.

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Now, I don't know about you, but

that sounds good, doesn't it?

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Corinne and I talk are like,

man, a whole year of rest,

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boy, can we sign up for that?

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We like America.

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We need to get this together.

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You know what I'm saying?

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I know there's people trying

to fight for four day weekdays.

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I'm like, let's just fight

for that Sabbath year.

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Okay?

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Now again, this was a part

of God's divine schedule.

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He inserted it.

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He, he prescribed it.

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So what does that mean about God?

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God knows, and God believes

that you and I are to rest.

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Can I get an amen for that?

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Amen.

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He knows that we can't keep going.

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We can't go nonstop.

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He created a he, he had a Sabbath

day principle, the Sabbath year.

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Now a jubilee.

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I mean, he wants rest weekly.

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He wants rest yearly.

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He wants to make sure that we rest.

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Amen.

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Now, it doesn't mean be lazy.

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Some of y'all heard resting.

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You thought, Ooh, yeah, I'm gonna

binge on Netflix for 36 straight hours.

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That's not what God intended,

but it was for rest 'cause it's

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set up for a time of resetting.

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And so God's people needed

to be intentional and have

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consistent time of sacred rest.

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It was supposed to be part of

their rhythm, their rhythm of life.

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That's kind of some of the, the, the

language that a lot of people are

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into right now, our rhythm of life.

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And so God wanted the rhythm of life,

not just for individuals before his

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congregation, to have a rhythm of

life that included sacred holy rest.

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And so again, this was a rest.

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And it was set up for a reset, a reset

for society, and a reset spiritually.

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And we all need a reset too, don't we?

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You need a reset.

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We all know we need resets.

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Everything in life needs a reset.

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You know, sometimes you have your

phone, it has glitches, right?

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The, the, the app on

your phone has glitches.

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What do you do?

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You reset it, right?

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You restart it.

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Sometimes you even have to reset

your phone or, or with your car,

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it may look fine, but, uh, if,

if you never get a tuneup, you're

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headed for a breakdown, aren't you?

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And so you have to have that in tuneup.

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It's like, Hey, yeah, you might have been

doing all the maintenance that you should,

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uh, oil change every 3000 miles and

whatever, but you still need that tuneup.

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And in the same way, that's

what the Jubilee was.

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It was a reset, a divine tuneup.

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Not because they were bad, but

because God loves his people too

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much to let them run on empty.

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It's a time to recalibrate physically,

mentally, emotionally, spiritually.

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It was a time for reset.

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You know, I just gotta get recalibrated.

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You, you, you've had those

days and times, haven't you?

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The jubilee.

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Was again, something that God

knew his people needed then.

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And I still believe that God

knows his people still need today.

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And it wasn't just for individuals,

but it was supposed to be

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practiced by God's chosen people.

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It was supposed to be

a collective practice.

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And so again, as we read, as we

interpret things, we see not only the

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individual, but we see the collective.

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So as we can see as we'll, we'll study out

here today and for the next couple weeks.

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This applies to you as an

individual, but applies to us as a

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congregation, as God's chosen people.

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And it says here in verse 12,

again, I want to read this for, it

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is a jubilee and it is to be holy.

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For you to be holy means to be set

apart for something that's sacred.

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To be of God, to be

divine, to be righteous.

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And so this jubilee,

this time was to be holy.

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You know, the prescribed

interruption, the prescribed

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stopping of normal community society.

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Life was designed by God for, for God's

people, so that we, or they would hit

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the reset button, that they would hit

the reset button on life, on faith,

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on their priorities, their purpose.

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And their mission and you know,

you have to stop in order to reset.

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You can't reset while you're still going.

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Have you, have you ever tried?

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That doesn't work.

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You have to stop in order to

reset and you, so, so you see no

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regular working during the jubilee.

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Why?

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Because you then can't

reflect and you can't rest.

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If I keep going and I don't stop,

then I don't have time to reset, but I

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don't have time to reflect upon how I'm

doing, what God is saying and what's

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needed for me or even for my soul.

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Stopping allows for time of

remembering and reflection.

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And so I'm excited even with our

Jubilee that's coming up here in,

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uh, uh, uh, first weekend of August.

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We're stopping.

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We're stopping for several days,

and we're just gonna have a chance

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to, to, uh, hear what God is saying

to us, not only individually but

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collectively, and therefore being able

to go in God's direction going forward.

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But again, a time for resetting is a time

that allows us to remember and to reflect.

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And for them, the Jubilee allowed them

time to remember and to reflect on where

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they came from, where'd they come from?

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Slavery in Egypt.

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Hey, we're no longer there.

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Our people are no longer there.

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That's no longer our heritage.

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That's no longer our mailing address.

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No longer my status in life.

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They were able to remember and reflect

upon their deliverance that it was God

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that delivered them and not themselves.

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It was God who produced the miracles.

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It was God who provided

manna in the desert.

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It was God who put them in the land,

who had victories and is God who's gonna

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continue to provide for their daily needs.

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So you get a chance to

remember and to reflect.

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Upon this, and when you see God has

delivered, you get to see God and maybe

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new facets, or you get to marvel at

things that you haven't appreciated in

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a while because you're always on the go.

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And so they got a chance to see

God is a God of love, a God of

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compassion, a God of great mercy and

patience, a God of power and a God

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of provision, meaning to provide.

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And so now they get a chance to do

this and they, they pause from the

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striving and the toiling and the

tilling of their agricultural society.

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They stop and they pause from producing

and controlling, and now they hear

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the call to trust in his provision.

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Again, his providing and in his presence.

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I don't want you to work this

year the way you normally do.

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And I don't want you to store up

because I'm gonna provide in the

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previous years so much that you'll

have enough for the next year.

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What is that called?

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For some serious trust?

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And it reminds you what?

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I'm not in control.

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I depend upon a holy God, and he must

be a provider if I'm gonna follow this.

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And it will show where my faith truly

is, if I'll trust him enough to do

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that, or will I take things in my own

hands and I'll get to working again.

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And so allow them to reflect and to be

reminded of who God is a chance to be

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reminded and reflect on their current

response to this holy and righteous God.

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Again, not only individually,

but collectively.

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Hey, does my life look like it once?

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Did, does it look like it should

in response to God's blessings

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in our lives, are we faithful?

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Are we still grateful?

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Are we aligned with his mission

and his purpose for our lives?

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Or have we veered to

materialism and unholy living?

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Which will lead to the question, what

changes are needed for me to be where God.

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Wants.

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And so this,

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these were the opportunities

which were offered and presented.

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When they got a chance to stop,

remember, reflect, and hit a reset.

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Let, let me ask you, do we need

a time to reset as a church?

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Yes.

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One person believes it.

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Some of y'all so tired.

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You like, yes.

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You just said it mentally.

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No, seriously.

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Do we need time as a church to reset?

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We do.

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Do you as a child of God, do

you need a season of resetting?

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Well, most of us do individually

than we do collectively, don't we?

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And so I'm excited about

this season that we're in.

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But here's the wonderful thing here,

is that I believe I'm a hundred percent

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convinced that we can experience Jubilee

today, that the principles of resetting,

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of releasing and restoring you and

I can experience today through the

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blood and, and, and sacrifice and the

deliverance we have in and through Jesus.

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That we have the opportunity

to experience the Jubilee

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principles in our lives in 2025.

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Brothers and sisters,

are you with me here?

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But we need to slow down.

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We need to have some time to reflect and

to trust in God's provision for our lives.

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And like the Israelites, we need

to reset so that we can have a

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time to remember and to reflect.

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And so we need to have some time.

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Let's, let's hit the reset button.

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Let's start this hour.

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Let's start this week.

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Let's hit the reset button

where we slow down and get some

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time to remember and reflect.

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We get, we need to remember and

reflect on our slavery to sin.

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We weren't slaves in Egypt,

but we were slaves to sin.

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And maybe you're a youth in the crown.

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You go, I ain't no slave to sin.

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Just study the Bible.

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You'll see your slave to sin as well.

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But every single one of us and some of

us, we're still slaves to sin today.

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We have yet to be free from

that bondage through Jesus.

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I wanna encourage you,

don't wait till tomorrow.

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'cause there's nothing like freedom

in Christ, but we need to reflect

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and remind ourselves of what it

was like in our slavery to sin.

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But then we need to remember and reflect

upon God's deliverance through Jesus and

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how we've been freed from that, and the

opportunities that we have to live in that

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freedom from now into all of eternity.

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And we need to see who God is.

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We need to remember that God is

a God of love, of great patience

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and mercy, a God of power.

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And a God of provision.

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It's a call to trust in his provision and

his presence in a world that runs nonstop.

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Can we learn to stop

and let God lead again?

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Because what's the temptation for us?

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If I don't do this, I'm gonna miss out.

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I won't have, I won't get ahead.

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I might not have, can anyone

relate to those thoughts?

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But God is saying slow.

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Down, trust in me.

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If you follow me, I will

provide everything you need.

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Amen.

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But will you trust, will you allow

him to lead or will you say, no?

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Can I get my, my plow

and let me do my parts?

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And we have to do our parts?

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Don't get me wrong.

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The God calls us to trust in him.

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We need to remember and reflect on

what's our current response to the

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blessings that we have in Jesus,

and examine where is my faith?

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Where are my convictions today in 2025?

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What's my lifestyle like?

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Does it look like it's in con,

aligned with the proper response?

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To being freed in Christ.

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Are my priorities in the right place?

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Maybe I'm focusing on the right things.

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Maybe I'm getting materialistic, and

that's not hard to do in Orange County.

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Is it?

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What's my purpose?

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What's our purpose as a church?

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What's our mission as his people and

what's he individually called me.

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To do.

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What's my role in God's church?

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What's the church's role in our

community and in our society?

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I get a chance to reflect upon

these things and then ask ourselves,

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Hey, how can I stay aligned?

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If I'm aligned, how can I stay there?

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Or if I'm misaligned, how do

I get realigned with where

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God is, wants me to go?

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And so this isn't a bad thing.

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This isn't something,

oh, I should feel guilty.

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I'm the worst person on the earth.

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Hallelujah for a jubilee,

because it's a reset.

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You don't get mad.

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Or maybe you get mad,

but, oh, my app is crazy.

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Let me throw my phone.

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Stupid phones that maybe you do that.

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I'm gonna tell you that's

not the right way to do it.

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And now you gotta waste more money.

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But what do you do?

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You just restart the thing and now it

starts to be refreshed, and now you

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go, okay, now we're working properly.

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And so as we get a chance to reflect,

to remember, God starts to work on

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us so that we can function properly.

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God's design for the Jubilee was for his

people collectively and individually.

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Let me ask you this, what could that

look like if the entire thousands, if

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the entire LA church and those from the

surrounding areas who come, what would

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it look like if the entire LA Church and

beyond experienced Jubilee this year?

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What would happen if all

of us hit the reset button?

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Imagine the possibilities if we

all stopped, remembered, reflected,

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and it responded to God with

complete trust and faithfulness.

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Amen.

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Imagine that.

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Or brothers and sisters, let's do

our parts in this picture, in this

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visual coming into fruition, you

and I today can begin our season

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of Jubilee and we can pray for the

masses to be able to experience the

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Jubilee Principle in 2025 and beyond.

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So I wanna get real practical.

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Can we get real practical?

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Church?

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I said church.

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Can we get real practical?

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Yes.

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All right.

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Are you still with me here?

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Yes.

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Here we go.

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I wanna give some action steps here.

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You know, it's not a Marcel sermon

if I don't have action steps.

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All right.

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Why do have some sermons?

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I don't have action steps?

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Here we go.

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Alright, so first step here is uh uh,

I wanna give you here a reading plan.

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And so.

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Uh, here's the reading plan.

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It's, it's real simple.

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You can have this in addition.

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It's not really, uh, worthy of a

quiet time, if you will, unless

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you wanna reflect deeply upon it.

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But, uh, in the back, as you walk

away, we printed out some, you also can

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see on the, uh, on the screen there.

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So pull out your phones there.

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There's a QR code that

will take you to week one.

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So each week we're gonna

provide, uh, a reading plan.

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So it's gonna give you scriptures

for each day of the week.

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And so that you can

think and reflect upon.

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And then we also have some questions

for you that you can do either

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yourself, you can reflect upon them.

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It would be fantastic if you

do that with your discipleship

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partners or discipleship groups.

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I know a lot of us are in our summer

passion groups, but let's get together

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and let's pull this out and say, Hey,

hey, what do you think about this?

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And allow for God's spirit

to minister for to us.

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And again, deepen.

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Our conviction and our growth

and what we're learning and

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growing as a church here.

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And so here's the thanks.

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These are, oh, it's also gonna

be on the church app as well.

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So I think in about, uh, 25 minutes,

you'll get a little notification.

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All right.

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With, with, with this as well.

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So if you say, I don't have it, you lying.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So that's part of that

practical holy living.

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All right.

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I think that's Leviticus Chapter

19 or something like that.

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All right.

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So, um, I encourage you,

don't just take a picture.

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But again, if you and I are going

to experience and enter the realm

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of Jubilee, we need to practically

do something and prepare our hearts.

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And so I'm not saying this is the

end all, but this will allow you

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and me to enter into this realm and

allow for God to minister to us.

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You guys with me church.

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And so whether you've been in the church

45 years, or you're in the front row here

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and you're in the junior high, you're in

high school, uh, let's do this together.

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And as you'll see, uh uh, it's

really simple and definitely doable.

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Right now, we're gonna switch up

and we're gonna take communion.

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We have the juice and the blood.

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These are the emblems that

represent Jesus' body and his

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blood that was sacrificed so

that we could have salvation.

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God commanded his people to rest,

not just from physical labor.

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But to reset their trust in him.

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That was the heart of the Sabbath

and the heart of Jubilee in

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Jesus that rests is fulfilled.

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He finished the work and now we

come to God not to strive or try

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to prove ourselves, but to stop, to

remember, and to rest in his grace.

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In Hebrews chapter four and verse nine.

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It says there remains then a

Sabbath rests for the people of God.

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For anyone who enter God's rest also rests

from their works just as God did from his.

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As we take communion, let's stop.

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Let's remember, and let's reflect on

his body broken, his blood's poured out

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so we can have eternal rests with God.

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Let's pray.

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Father, I thank you again so much

for the Sabbath principle, the

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Jubilee principle, and the chance

and the opportunity to reset.

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And God, we thank you so much

that really salvation was a

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complete reset spiritually for us.

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Father, the fact that Jesus died

and rose again in those of us who

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were able and, and have responded.

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By turning to you in faith and trusting

in you repenting and getting baptized,

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God, we have had a true reset spiritually,

but God, we know that you call us

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to a reset on a consistent basis.

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I'm so grateful as a church, we take

communion on a consistent basis because we

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get a chance to stop, to remember, and to

reflect upon the cost for our salvation.

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We get a chance to

remember your deliverance.

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From our sin, we get a chance to

remember, you are a God of power because

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you raise your son from the dead.

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You're a guy who delivers and

continually delivers in our life.

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A God of great mercy, great

patience, and through the cross we

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see you are a God of ultimate love.

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We thank you for the

eternal rest we have in.

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Jesus.

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It's in your name we pray.

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Amen.

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