Having been instructed regarding daily and annual sabbaths and feasts, Israel is now instructed regarding sabbatical years.
I. God promises to provide for man and beast during the 7th year rest (1-7).
II. Following the 7th such 7th year rest, the 50th year was also to be a sabbatical year, with the added celebration of restoring land to its rightful tribe (8-17).
III. God promises to provide for man in this jubile year also (18-22).
IV. The right of the kinsman redeemer (23-55)
regarding the buying and selling of land (23-38)
regarding the sale of houses within walled cities and those outside walls (29-31)
regarding the sale of Levite properties (32-34)
regarding the poor (35-38)
regarding Hebrews in bondage to another Hebrew (39-46)
regarding Hebrews in bondage to foreigners (47-55)
Meditation Points:
If we seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, we need not worry about food or clothing needs (Matthew 6:33).
When our sin debt to God was so great that we could never hope to buy our way out, Jesus Christ, our elder brother and kinsman redeemer, paid it all.
II. Man shall not live by bread alone; but there’d better be bread on the table every day…(5-9)
III. Watch your mouth son, or the neighbors will kill you…(10-23)
Meditation Points:
How often have you heard a TV chef recommend extra-virgin olive oil? Do you see what kind of oil God requires for the oil-burning lamps in the Tabernacle?
The way to God is not a leap in the dark; it is a well-lit path of repentance and faith in His Son Jesus.
12 loaves of bread on the table? 12 sons of Jacob, 12 tribes of Israel.
His mother was a Hebrew; his father was not. It’s too bad that this son of Shelomith didn’t listen to his mother as did another son of a mixed marriage (Timothy, in Acts 16:1-3)
See the death penalty for blasphemy and murder.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Isn’t that how God’s justice works today?
“For I am the Lord your God.” (v. 22). Is there a better reason to obey God?
One law for citizens and the same law for foreigners.
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Acts 16:1-3
1Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
2Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
3Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Acts 16:1-3
1Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:
2Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.
3Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.
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