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*Jubilee Hearts*
 
*Open to Lev 25*
Today, take a break from Hero’s-
we are going to read about God’s heart for people through a principle called Jubilee.
How in God’s Kingdom, everybody matters.
And I mean everybody.
In our world, you have to have something to be considered important
Power, or money or both,
But In God’s Kingdom, you don’t have to have anything to be important.
And that is why, In this chapter 25 of Lev,
God is going to lay out for His people, some principles regarding how they are to live so they don’t forget to honor people.
*The principle is called Jubilee,*
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*Leviticus 25:1-7 (NIV) ** \\ 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.
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*Leviticus 25:8-12 (NIV) ** \\ 8 "'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.
\\ 9 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.
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So there is a Sabbath, a day of rest every 7 days.
Then every 7 years there is a whole year of rest, or Sabbath for the land,
Then every 49 years,
the 10th day of 11th month of that year-called
“The Day of Atonement.
On that day- blow a trumpet and declare that the next year, The 50th year, the whole year, is to be a year called the Year of Jubilee.
Outline has Two parts
*Part A:* What the Old Covenant principle of Jubilee is all about.
*Part B:* How To Be An Agent For The Spirit Of Jubilee In The New Covenant.
*Part A:* *What the Old Covenant principle of Jubilee is all about.*
*1.
A time for forgiving debt and setting prisoners free.
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*Lev 25:10*
*Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.
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Liberty is the same as freedom, being set free.
*this verse is engraved on the Liberty Bell*
Because For us it was freedom from the tyranny of Britain.
For the Israelites, freedom from prison.
You see in those days people were not in prison for the same reasons we have people in prison today.
In our day many are in prison because they have done some really bad things, and we would not want to simply open the doors and set everyone free every 50 years.
But back then, prisons were debtors prisons.
They were in prison because they couldn’t pay back their debts.
It was’t like they didn’t have the kind of bad people we have today, they did.
They just dealt with them by another rule.
It was called stoning.
you could be stoned to death for simply talking back to your parents.
Which makes me glad I live under a New Covenant, I wouldn’t have lived this long.
*Leviticus 25:39-43 (NIV) ** \\ 39 "'If one of your countrymen becomes poor among you and sells himself to you, do not make him work as a slave.
\\ 40 He is to be treated as a hired worker or a temporary resident among you; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
\\ 41 Then he and his children are to be released, and he will go back to his own clan and to the property of his forefathers.
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Now, in our day, we have a way of distengihing between the have and have nots
 
 
We determine that by the number of credit card offers you get in the mail
 
 
I recently got this one:
*Dear Mr. Osborn*
*/The road to financial success has many milestones marking how far you’ve come.
You have just reached a new milestone.
You are pre-approved for our card.
/*
( and when you read that you think- I’m not just approved.
I’m pre-approved!
I haven’t even done anything yet, and they already approve of me.
My own mother doesn’t pre-approve of me, but they do.)
It goes on to say:
*/You should know pre-approval status is not easily achieved, but with your history, our decision was really very simple…/*
*/We want you as a card member./*
Now, what if I got that credit card, and I maxed out my limit, and then stopped paying them?
what are the odds that they would write me another letter which says
*“Jubilee” *on the outside of the envelope?
On the inside says:
 
*Dear Mr. Osborn*
*/We are sorry you are having trouble paying us and we just want you to know that we have declared this to be a year of Jubilee for you, and we’re canceling your debt.
/*
 
What are the odds of ever getting a letter like that?
Huh?
But God says, there needs to a chance for the poor to get a fresh start.
*In Deut 15 *God gives clarification about the attitude you should have in applying this rule
*Deuteronomy 15:7-11 (NIV) ** \\ 7 If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother.
\\ 8 Rather be openhanded and freely lend him whatever he needs.
\\ 9 Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: "The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near," so that you do not show ill will toward your needy brother and give him nothing.
He may then appeal to the LORD against you, and you will be found guilty of sin.
\\ 10 Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in everything you put your hand to.
\\ 11 There will always be poor people in the land.
Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.
*(pretty clear)
 
 
The second thing that Jubilee is about
*2.      **Have enough respect to not take advantage of someone else’s misfortune.
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*a.  **Have fair prices.*
*Leviticus 25:14-17 (NIV) ** \\ 14 "'If you sell land to one of your countrymen or buy any from him, do not take advantage of each other.
\\ 15 You 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.
*(prorated)* \\ 16 When 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.
\\ 17 Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God.
I am the LORD your God.
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*b.
**Don’t charge **interest**.*
*Leviticus 25:35-38 (NIV) ** \\ 35 "'If one of your countrymen becomes poor and is unable to support himself among you, help him as you would an alien or a temporary resident, so he can continue to live among you.
\\ 36 Do not take interest of any kind from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may continue to live among you.
\\ \\ *
*God repeats this* in *Exo 22 and Deut 23 *so they understand very clearly, that they are not to profit from another’s misfortune
 
By the way,
Other ancient civilizations like the Babylonians, and their Hammurabi Code, allowed for exorbant interest rates
*The Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible says *there are records of interest rates as high as 33% on food and 20% on money in the Babylonian culture.
The point is, God cares about greed and apathy toward the poor
 
The third thing that Jubilee is about
*3.
A rule for restoring what debt has taken away.
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