1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,440 Speaker: well what is a Jubilee? 2 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:05,160 Well, Jubilee is a celebration, uh, but biblically speaking, it 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:09,750 was a special year designated to God for the Nation of Israel. 4 00:00:10,380 --> 00:00:14,610 And so we're actually going to go ahead and because it was a season, 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:19,409 we're gonna have a season leading up to and experiencing the Jubilee. 6 00:00:19,409 --> 00:00:23,250 And so we're gonna actually have a sermon series for the next three. 7 00:00:23,250 --> 00:00:24,990 We call the heart of Jubilee. 8 00:00:25,740 --> 00:00:29,159 And so what we're gonna be doing here is really trying to capture what was the 9 00:00:29,159 --> 00:00:34,589 heart of, of, of God's intention when he prescribed and designated the jubilee 10 00:00:34,589 --> 00:00:37,349 for God's chosen people at that time. 11 00:00:37,530 --> 00:00:42,239 And then how does it apply to us today, especially as we are about 12 00:00:42,239 --> 00:00:47,699 to have our own Los Angeles Jubilee and actually the, uh, Roman Catholic 13 00:00:47,699 --> 00:00:51,449 Church, they're actually having their year of Jubilee as well this year, and 14 00:00:51,449 --> 00:00:53,099 they're having events at the same time. 15 00:00:53,099 --> 00:00:53,519 And so that's. 16 00:00:53,910 --> 00:00:56,370 Uh, you know, interesting and cool that, uh, we're having 17 00:00:56,370 --> 00:00:58,379 this jubilee at the same time. 18 00:00:58,379 --> 00:01:01,440 And so let's go ahead and let's get into the word of God. 19 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:02,849 You guys with me here this morning. 20 00:01:03,570 --> 00:01:03,989 You know what? 21 00:01:03,989 --> 00:01:04,890 Can we pray again? 22 00:01:04,890 --> 00:01:05,399 Can we pray? 23 00:01:05,399 --> 00:01:08,700 Let's go ahead and let's pray here before we dig into God's word. 24 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:11,550 Father, I'm so grateful, uh, for your word. 25 00:01:11,550 --> 00:01:15,929 I know I'm excited about what I've been studying, excited here about, uh, 26 00:01:15,929 --> 00:01:19,020 the content and how it applies to us. 27 00:01:19,020 --> 00:01:20,490 And Father, I pray that your work. 28 00:01:20,804 --> 00:01:24,524 May be able to be spoken today that you may move me to the side, and God 29 00:01:24,524 --> 00:01:26,175 that you may communicate your message. 30 00:01:26,445 --> 00:01:31,184 Please cast to the aside everything that wants to distract, detract from 31 00:01:31,184 --> 00:01:33,075 our hearts from hearing your word today. 32 00:01:33,315 --> 00:01:35,655 And so Father, we praise you in Jesus name. 33 00:01:35,684 --> 00:01:36,524 Amen. 34 00:01:36,539 --> 00:01:36,600 Yeah. 35 00:01:37,559 --> 00:01:37,919 All right. 36 00:01:37,919 --> 00:01:41,610 So I wanna give a little history and some context so that we can 37 00:01:41,610 --> 00:01:47,880 fully appreciate and understand the Jubilee and see how it applies to us. 38 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,699 And so, uh, well shout out to my boy Chad Hoffman. 39 00:01:50,699 --> 00:01:51,300 He told me to. 40 00:01:51,509 --> 00:01:53,729 It's, it's helpful to do a little timeline sometimes. 41 00:01:53,729 --> 00:01:57,184 So when I remember I, I, I put a little timeline in, so here we go. 42 00:01:57,529 --> 00:02:00,679 And so this is just looking at God's chosen people from Abraham. 43 00:02:00,859 --> 00:02:03,740 And so right now we're gonna go into the book of Leviticus. 44 00:02:03,740 --> 00:02:08,389 And this is where Moses, uh, was chosen by God speaking of chosen. 45 00:02:08,389 --> 00:02:11,570 He was chosen by God to lead God's people out of slavery of 46 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,030 Egypt into the Promised Land. 47 00:02:14,150 --> 00:02:18,020 And so we just finished a sermon series, uh, from Jude. 48 00:02:18,020 --> 00:02:19,370 We call it The Forgotten Letters. 49 00:02:19,550 --> 00:02:22,070 And now here we are in Leviticus, and we're digging into the 50 00:02:22,070 --> 00:02:24,110 Bible here up in North oc. 51 00:02:24,110 --> 00:02:24,530 Amen. 52 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,240 When's the last time you heard a sermon, Leviticus? 53 00:02:26,850 --> 00:02:27,570 Stop lying. 54 00:02:27,570 --> 00:02:28,530 You didn't hear it recently. 55 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:28,920 Okay. 56 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:30,390 All right, so we're here. 57 00:02:30,390 --> 00:02:30,690 We are. 58 00:02:30,690 --> 00:02:32,340 So we're gonna be in the book of Leviticus, all right? 59 00:02:32,340 --> 00:02:33,300 For the next two weeks. 60 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:33,600 All right? 61 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,300 And so, again, this is important for us to understand. 62 00:02:36,450 --> 00:02:39,870 So God's people, they've been freed from slavery. 63 00:02:40,530 --> 00:02:42,870 The Passover, Moses, remember Prince of Egypt? 64 00:02:42,870 --> 00:02:44,520 All right, so we're, we're, we're at past that. 65 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:49,560 So now throughout the Mount of Sinai, and so God has given instructions to Moses, 66 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,000 and so they had yet to enter the Promised land, but God is preparing his people. 67 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,870 For what he wants them to be like a holy nation. 68 00:02:58,920 --> 00:03:03,120 That would be a representation and that would be a blessing to all the nations. 69 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,600 And so he's preparing his people and he's telling them, here's what it 70 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:13,050 means to be a holy people who serve and have a relationship with a holy God. 71 00:03:13,350 --> 00:03:16,860 And so he is gonna give them a number of things, but he's establishing their 72 00:03:16,860 --> 00:03:19,140 culture and their judicial system. 73 00:03:19,605 --> 00:03:23,445 So as you read Leviticus, as you read numbers and Exodus, you have to 74 00:03:23,445 --> 00:03:28,005 understand, again, God's establishing a covenant people and he's establishing 75 00:03:28,005 --> 00:03:29,295 some very practical things. 76 00:03:29,295 --> 00:03:31,275 How is their judicial system? 77 00:03:31,275 --> 00:03:33,195 How's their culture gonna be? 78 00:03:33,285 --> 00:03:37,875 And so to set us up, we have to understand that Leviticus chapter 25, that's where 79 00:03:37,875 --> 00:03:42,734 we're gonna be at today, is in this, what many scholars call the Holiness Code. 80 00:03:43,065 --> 00:03:47,625 And so this is where God is establishing again for his people to be holy. 81 00:03:47,625 --> 00:03:49,395 So I want us to quickly go over that. 82 00:03:49,605 --> 00:03:54,225 So in Leviticus chapter 17, again, this is where it starts with many scholars 83 00:03:54,225 --> 00:03:56,295 called the Holiness Code, uh, code. 84 00:03:56,325 --> 00:04:01,485 And in Leviticus 17, it gives instructions about sacrifices and how blood is sacred. 85 00:04:01,665 --> 00:04:02,745 It's our livelihood. 86 00:04:02,745 --> 00:04:07,635 And then at 18, uh, forbidden sexual practices, how Israel must not 87 00:04:07,635 --> 00:04:11,325 imitate the sin of Egypt in the land of Canaan in which they're going. 88 00:04:11,865 --> 00:04:16,305 Uh, then we get over to Leviticus 19 and it gets real practical holiness. 89 00:04:16,305 --> 00:04:19,485 And this is where we get the, uh, the scripture that's prominent, not only 90 00:04:19,485 --> 00:04:20,954 in the Old Testament, new Testament. 91 00:04:21,105 --> 00:04:22,365 Be holy for the Lord. 92 00:04:22,425 --> 00:04:23,805 Your God is holy. 93 00:04:24,105 --> 00:04:25,665 And he includes justice. 94 00:04:25,665 --> 00:04:27,285 It includes love for your neighbor. 95 00:04:27,285 --> 00:04:29,055 Honesty, care for the poor. 96 00:04:29,355 --> 00:04:31,575 It's like a blueprint for the righteous. 97 00:04:32,265 --> 00:04:34,634 Congregation that he's establishing. 98 00:04:34,634 --> 00:04:39,224 And in Leviticus 20, the consequences of sin, Leviticus 21 through 99 00:04:39,224 --> 00:04:41,624 22, the Holiness of the Priest. 100 00:04:41,624 --> 00:04:43,695 And what's included in that is how the priests are to be. 101 00:04:43,950 --> 00:04:47,400 Separate in their lifestyle and in their worship. 102 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,760 And then Leviticus 23, we have the appointed festival. 103 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,690 So that's the, the weekly Sabbath, that's the annual feast of like the 104 00:04:54,690 --> 00:04:57,815 Passover, uh, Yom Kippur and whatnot. 105 00:04:57,815 --> 00:05:01,805 And then you have God's sacred rhythms for remembering and rejoicing. 106 00:05:01,805 --> 00:05:04,475 Now that's key because we'll see that in 25. 107 00:05:04,475 --> 00:05:09,125 And then in Leviticus 24, uh, we have the holy items and then also justice. 108 00:05:09,275 --> 00:05:11,465 And then we get to Leviticus 25 where there's. 109 00:05:11,780 --> 00:05:14,300 Now the Sabbath year and the Jubilee. 110 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:15,410 So are you, are you with me? 111 00:05:15,410 --> 00:05:16,010 Church. 112 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:16,640 Okay. 113 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,560 So this helps us to understand what's going on. 114 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,960 'cause sometimes you insert yourself in the middle of a text. 115 00:05:21,170 --> 00:05:25,010 You can get good stuff, but you can also miss the greater and bigger 116 00:05:25,010 --> 00:05:29,060 picture, which would bring home even more the point that God wants to make. 117 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,150 So here we are in Leviticus chapter 25. 118 00:05:32,150 --> 00:05:34,970 And so before we get actually into the text here, you say, 119 00:05:34,970 --> 00:05:36,050 well, what is the jubilee? 120 00:05:36,050 --> 00:05:37,130 Let's keep it real simple. 121 00:05:37,159 --> 00:05:38,060 Well, here's the Jubilee. 122 00:05:38,435 --> 00:05:43,715 Every 50 years, God told his people to stop working the land free. 123 00:05:43,715 --> 00:05:48,365 People who owe debts, return land to the original families, and then trust them. 124 00:05:48,515 --> 00:05:49,955 Trust God to provide. 125 00:05:50,345 --> 00:05:54,575 So every 50 years, this is what God's people were to do. 126 00:05:54,875 --> 00:05:59,495 And so if we, the way we'll look at it and break it down here is this, it was really 127 00:05:59,495 --> 00:06:02,615 about a reset release and restoring. 128 00:06:03,470 --> 00:06:07,490 The God's Jubilee year was about a reset for his people, was about 129 00:06:07,490 --> 00:06:09,950 releasing and it was about restoring. 130 00:06:10,220 --> 00:06:12,800 And today we're gonna look at the reset part. 131 00:06:12,950 --> 00:06:14,780 Now, man, there's so much good stuff. 132 00:06:14,780 --> 00:06:18,710 As I was studying this out this week here, uh, there's so much good stuff, but 133 00:06:18,860 --> 00:06:20,060 we're not gonna be able to get to that. 134 00:06:20,060 --> 00:06:25,610 We're gonna stay focused and allow God to lead us in this season of Jubilee. 135 00:06:25,610 --> 00:06:26,990 All right, you guys with me Church. 136 00:06:27,365 --> 00:06:28,775 Alright, so let's go ahead. 137 00:06:28,775 --> 00:06:29,495 Let's get into it. 138 00:06:29,495 --> 00:06:31,175 Leviticus chapter 25. 139 00:06:31,175 --> 00:06:33,034 We will read verse one. 140 00:06:33,665 --> 00:06:37,715 The Lord said to Moses out Mount Sinai, speak to the Israelites and say to 141 00:06:37,715 --> 00:06:41,375 them, when you enter the land, I'm going to give you the land itself. 142 00:06:41,375 --> 00:06:46,685 Must observe a Sabbath to the Lord for six years, sow your fields 143 00:06:46,690 --> 00:06:50,135 and for six years pruning your vineyards and gather their crops. 144 00:06:50,284 --> 00:06:53,975 But in the seventh year, the land is to have a year of Sabbath rest. 145 00:06:54,575 --> 00:06:55,835 A Sabbath to the Lord. 146 00:06:56,015 --> 00:06:58,505 Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. 147 00:06:58,715 --> 00:07:01,955 Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes 148 00:07:02,135 --> 00:07:03,605 of your unintended vines. 149 00:07:03,785 --> 00:07:05,765 The land is to have a year of rest. 150 00:07:06,005 --> 00:07:09,395 Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year will be food for you. 151 00:07:09,830 --> 00:07:13,580 For yourself, for your male and female servants and the hired worker and 152 00:07:13,580 --> 00:07:17,990 temporary resident who live among you, as well as for your livestock 153 00:07:18,050 --> 00:07:19,610 and the wild animals in your land. 154 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,490 Whatever the land produces may be eaten. 155 00:07:22,850 --> 00:07:24,590 Count off seven Sabbath years. 156 00:07:24,590 --> 00:07:26,060 Seven times seven years. 157 00:07:26,060 --> 00:07:30,260 So that seven Sabbath years amount to a period of 49 years, guys doing 158 00:07:30,260 --> 00:07:31,490 some math for the people there. 159 00:07:31,955 --> 00:07:34,325 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere. 160 00:07:34,325 --> 00:07:37,295 On the 10th day of the seventh month on the Day of Atonement. 161 00:07:37,295 --> 00:07:40,235 That's Young Kippur sound, the trumpet throughout your land. 162 00:07:40,595 --> 00:07:44,675 Consecrate the 50th year, and proclaim liberty throughout the 163 00:07:44,675 --> 00:07:46,565 land to all its inhabitants. 164 00:07:46,775 --> 00:07:48,575 It shall be a jubilee for you. 165 00:07:48,575 --> 00:07:52,685 Each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan. 166 00:07:52,895 --> 00:07:55,175 The 50th year shall be a jubilee. 167 00:07:55,730 --> 00:07:56,930 For you. 168 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,320 Do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest 169 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:01,640 the unintended vines for. 170 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,760 It is a jubilee and it is to be holy for you. 171 00:08:05,030 --> 00:08:07,970 Eat only what is taken directly from the fields. 172 00:08:07,970 --> 00:08:10,100 We'll stop right there again. 173 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:12,920 The heart of the jubilee is a reset. 174 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,200 And like a Sabbath day. 175 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:17,870 Remember, God established a Sabbath day. 176 00:08:17,870 --> 00:08:21,350 That being Saturday, we worked six days and God told his people to work 177 00:08:21,350 --> 00:08:25,580 six days, but then to rest and to rejuvenate, to be restored and to worship. 178 00:08:25,850 --> 00:08:29,540 And so now he's established a seventh uh, uh, Sabbath year. 179 00:08:29,690 --> 00:08:32,450 And not only for the people, but also for the land that stood out 180 00:08:32,450 --> 00:08:34,338 to me like the land needs to rest. 181 00:08:34,984 --> 00:08:36,635 And he says it's a rest time. 182 00:08:36,635 --> 00:08:40,984 It's a time of resting from land and a time of resting from labor. 183 00:08:40,984 --> 00:08:43,984 And so here's a little diagram just to kind of understand 184 00:08:44,135 --> 00:08:45,935 what it was to look like. 185 00:08:45,935 --> 00:08:48,605 And so for the first six years, it's a regular year. 186 00:08:48,605 --> 00:08:52,085 Then there's a SA Sabbath year on the seventh year, and then you keep going. 187 00:08:52,295 --> 00:08:56,525 And then on the 49th year, that's on the day of Pentecost, or no, excuse me, on the 188 00:08:56,525 --> 00:08:58,234 day of Yo Kapo, their day of atonement. 189 00:08:58,595 --> 00:09:02,495 You would have on that day, on the 10th day there, uh, uh, of the seventh 190 00:09:02,495 --> 00:09:05,615 month, then they would sound a trumpet, and then that would signify, now 191 00:09:05,615 --> 00:09:06,935 we're going into the Jubilee year. 192 00:09:07,865 --> 00:09:11,765 And so some scholars think that, uh, the Jubilee actually was on the 49th 193 00:09:11,765 --> 00:09:15,155 year, or some believe that, uh, it started on the 50th year, but that 194 00:09:15,155 --> 00:09:17,105 they really shortened the 50th year. 195 00:09:17,285 --> 00:09:18,485 It, it doesn't really matter. 196 00:09:18,485 --> 00:09:22,775 The point is that they were to have a jubilee year, and 197 00:09:22,775 --> 00:09:25,895 so this is helpful for us. 198 00:09:25,895 --> 00:09:27,125 But here's the interesting thing. 199 00:09:27,454 --> 00:09:32,615 Nowhere in archeological findings or even in scripture, do you actually 200 00:09:32,615 --> 00:09:35,015 see God's people practice this 201 00:09:37,295 --> 00:09:38,885 like we have no record of. 202 00:09:38,885 --> 00:09:42,485 They say, oh, remember that jubilee year, or, here's what 203 00:09:42,485 --> 00:09:44,435 happened on that jubilee year. 204 00:09:44,735 --> 00:09:45,815 Which is pretty incredible. 205 00:09:45,815 --> 00:09:46,715 No, none of the writing. 206 00:09:46,715 --> 00:09:51,005 Now there's things that might point to a Jubilee year, but we can't say 207 00:09:51,005 --> 00:09:55,055 for certain that we know that they actually put this into practice. 208 00:09:55,055 --> 00:09:56,165 And that's interesting right there. 209 00:09:56,165 --> 00:09:56,495 Right. 210 00:09:56,675 --> 00:09:59,105 We can have some good philosophical discussion right there. 211 00:09:59,585 --> 00:10:03,245 I don't think it means they didn't celebrate it, but it's just 212 00:10:03,245 --> 00:10:07,295 interesting that we don't have a record of it, and I, I'm firmly am 213 00:10:07,295 --> 00:10:11,645 convinced that they never celebrated again once they returned from exile. 214 00:10:12,380 --> 00:10:13,370 Because it was different. 215 00:10:13,370 --> 00:10:14,480 The land was inhabited. 216 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,990 They had different nations and there was mixture, and there was no way for them 217 00:10:17,990 --> 00:10:20,720 to properly celebrate the jubilee year. 218 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:25,819 So this has been a long time since God's people have celebrated the 219 00:10:25,819 --> 00:10:30,440 Levitical Jubilee year, but the Jubilee principle, as we see can 220 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,839 and does apply to you and I church. 221 00:10:32,839 --> 00:10:33,620 Are you with me here? 222 00:10:34,579 --> 00:10:36,530 Here's one observation I wanna make. 223 00:10:36,589 --> 00:10:38,510 God believes in rest. 224 00:10:39,140 --> 00:10:40,100 Did you see that? 225 00:10:40,205 --> 00:10:40,385 Amen. 226 00:10:40,835 --> 00:10:45,965 He said, rest for a whole year, every seven years. 227 00:10:45,965 --> 00:10:48,695 Now, I don't know about you, but that sounds good, doesn't it? 228 00:10:49,715 --> 00:10:53,075 Corinne and I talk are like, man, a whole year of rest, 229 00:10:54,185 --> 00:10:55,775 boy, can we sign up for that? 230 00:10:56,075 --> 00:10:56,945 We like America. 231 00:10:56,945 --> 00:10:58,115 We need to get this together. 232 00:10:58,115 --> 00:10:58,985 You know what I'm saying? 233 00:10:59,405 --> 00:11:01,835 I know there's people trying to fight for four day weekdays. 234 00:11:01,835 --> 00:11:03,605 I'm like, let's just fight for that Sabbath year. 235 00:11:03,605 --> 00:11:04,025 Okay? 236 00:11:05,345 --> 00:11:08,525 Now again, this was a part of God's divine schedule. 237 00:11:09,454 --> 00:11:10,625 He inserted it. 238 00:11:10,625 --> 00:11:11,915 He, he prescribed it. 239 00:11:12,005 --> 00:11:13,234 So what does that mean about God? 240 00:11:13,295 --> 00:11:17,555 God knows, and God believes that you and I are to rest. 241 00:11:17,885 --> 00:11:19,234 Can I get an amen for that? 242 00:11:19,234 --> 00:11:19,385 Amen. 243 00:11:20,464 --> 00:11:22,415 He knows that we can't keep going. 244 00:11:22,835 --> 00:11:24,305 We can't go nonstop. 245 00:11:24,305 --> 00:11:28,234 He created a he, he had a Sabbath day principle, the Sabbath year. 246 00:11:28,234 --> 00:11:29,405 Now a jubilee. 247 00:11:29,555 --> 00:11:31,145 I mean, he wants rest weekly. 248 00:11:31,145 --> 00:11:32,495 He wants rest yearly. 249 00:11:32,525 --> 00:11:35,615 He wants to make sure that we rest. 250 00:11:35,645 --> 00:11:35,795 Amen. 251 00:11:37,055 --> 00:11:38,615 Now, it doesn't mean be lazy. 252 00:11:39,545 --> 00:11:40,625 Some of y'all heard resting. 253 00:11:40,625 --> 00:11:43,835 You thought, Ooh, yeah, I'm gonna binge on Netflix for 36 straight hours. 254 00:11:44,345 --> 00:11:48,965 That's not what God intended, but it was for rest 'cause it's 255 00:11:48,965 --> 00:11:51,035 set up for a time of resetting. 256 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,190 And so God's people needed to be intentional and have 257 00:11:55,190 --> 00:11:57,410 consistent time of sacred rest. 258 00:11:57,530 --> 00:12:00,950 It was supposed to be part of their rhythm, their rhythm of life. 259 00:12:00,950 --> 00:12:03,770 That's kind of some of the, the, the language that a lot of people are 260 00:12:03,770 --> 00:12:05,660 into right now, our rhythm of life. 261 00:12:05,660 --> 00:12:09,560 And so God wanted the rhythm of life, not just for individuals before his 262 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:17,180 congregation, to have a rhythm of life that included sacred holy rest. 263 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:19,550 And so again, this was a rest. 264 00:12:20,210 --> 00:12:27,110 And it was set up for a reset, a reset for society, and a reset spiritually. 265 00:12:27,740 --> 00:12:29,480 And we all need a reset too, don't we? 266 00:12:30,290 --> 00:12:31,370 You need a reset. 267 00:12:32,090 --> 00:12:33,290 We all know we need resets. 268 00:12:33,290 --> 00:12:34,970 Everything in life needs a reset. 269 00:12:35,180 --> 00:12:37,730 You know, sometimes you have your phone, it has glitches, right? 270 00:12:37,730 --> 00:12:39,380 The, the, the app on your phone has glitches. 271 00:12:39,380 --> 00:12:39,830 What do you do? 272 00:12:40,715 --> 00:12:41,645 You reset it, right? 273 00:12:41,645 --> 00:12:42,305 You restart it. 274 00:12:42,305 --> 00:12:45,275 Sometimes you even have to reset your phone or, or with your car, 275 00:12:45,275 --> 00:12:48,575 it may look fine, but, uh, if, if you never get a tuneup, you're 276 00:12:48,575 --> 00:12:49,925 headed for a breakdown, aren't you? 277 00:12:50,825 --> 00:12:52,535 And so you have to have that in tuneup. 278 00:12:52,535 --> 00:12:55,925 It's like, Hey, yeah, you might have been doing all the maintenance that you should, 279 00:12:56,015 --> 00:12:59,945 uh, oil change every 3000 miles and whatever, but you still need that tuneup. 280 00:13:00,575 --> 00:13:03,695 And in the same way, that's what the Jubilee was. 281 00:13:03,695 --> 00:13:05,855 It was a reset, a divine tuneup. 282 00:13:06,410 --> 00:13:09,770 Not because they were bad, but because God loves his people too 283 00:13:09,770 --> 00:13:12,410 much to let them run on empty. 284 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:21,650 It's a time to recalibrate physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. 285 00:13:22,550 --> 00:13:24,140 It was a time for reset. 286 00:13:24,170 --> 00:13:25,730 You know, I just gotta get recalibrated. 287 00:13:26,090 --> 00:13:28,490 You, you, you've had those days and times, haven't you? 288 00:13:30,110 --> 00:13:31,250 The jubilee. 289 00:13:32,750 --> 00:13:35,510 Was again, something that God knew his people needed then. 290 00:13:35,510 --> 00:13:39,740 And I still believe that God knows his people still need today. 291 00:13:41,180 --> 00:13:43,910 And it wasn't just for individuals, but it was supposed to be 292 00:13:43,910 --> 00:13:46,700 practiced by God's chosen people. 293 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:50,720 It was supposed to be a collective practice. 294 00:13:51,770 --> 00:13:55,070 And so again, as we read, as we interpret things, we see not only the 295 00:13:55,070 --> 00:13:56,990 individual, but we see the collective. 296 00:13:56,990 --> 00:14:00,800 So as we can see as we'll, we'll study out here today and for the next couple weeks. 297 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,790 This applies to you as an individual, but applies to us as a 298 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:09,020 congregation, as God's chosen people. 299 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,410 And it says here in verse 12, again, I want to read this for, it 300 00:14:12,410 --> 00:14:14,750 is a jubilee and it is to be holy. 301 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:19,280 For you to be holy means to be set apart for something that's sacred. 302 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,089 To be of God, to be divine, to be righteous. 303 00:14:23,420 --> 00:14:26,480 And so this jubilee, this time was to be holy. 304 00:14:26,839 --> 00:14:30,680 You know, the prescribed interruption, the prescribed 305 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:34,490 stopping of normal community society. 306 00:14:34,490 --> 00:14:40,220 Life was designed by God for, for God's people, so that we, or they would hit 307 00:14:40,220 --> 00:14:45,740 the reset button, that they would hit the reset button on life, on faith, 308 00:14:46,099 --> 00:14:48,829 on their priorities, their purpose. 309 00:14:49,370 --> 00:14:54,980 And their mission and you know, you have to stop in order to reset. 310 00:14:55,730 --> 00:14:57,380 You can't reset while you're still going. 311 00:14:57,380 --> 00:14:58,310 Have you, have you ever tried? 312 00:14:58,310 --> 00:15:00,110 That doesn't work. 313 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:07,550 You have to stop in order to reset and you, so, so you see no 314 00:15:07,550 --> 00:15:09,470 regular working during the jubilee. 315 00:15:09,470 --> 00:15:09,770 Why? 316 00:15:09,770 --> 00:15:14,600 Because you then can't reflect and you can't rest. 317 00:15:17,015 --> 00:15:20,944 If I keep going and I don't stop, then I don't have time to reset, but I 318 00:15:20,944 --> 00:15:27,755 don't have time to reflect upon how I'm doing, what God is saying and what's 319 00:15:27,755 --> 00:15:30,965 needed for me or even for my soul. 320 00:15:31,685 --> 00:15:36,065 Stopping allows for time of remembering and reflection. 321 00:15:36,890 --> 00:15:40,879 And so I'm excited even with our Jubilee that's coming up here in, 322 00:15:40,885 --> 00:15:42,829 uh, uh, uh, first weekend of August. 323 00:15:42,950 --> 00:15:43,790 We're stopping. 324 00:15:44,030 --> 00:15:47,030 We're stopping for several days, and we're just gonna have a chance 325 00:15:47,210 --> 00:15:51,530 to, to, uh, hear what God is saying to us, not only individually but 326 00:15:51,530 --> 00:15:55,700 collectively, and therefore being able to go in God's direction going forward. 327 00:15:57,710 --> 00:16:04,310 But again, a time for resetting is a time that allows us to remember and to reflect. 328 00:16:05,285 --> 00:16:10,775 And for them, the Jubilee allowed them time to remember and to reflect on where 329 00:16:10,775 --> 00:16:12,455 they came from, where'd they come from? 330 00:16:13,475 --> 00:16:15,395 Slavery in Egypt. 331 00:16:16,415 --> 00:16:18,245 Hey, we're no longer there. 332 00:16:19,175 --> 00:16:21,665 Our people are no longer there. 333 00:16:21,665 --> 00:16:23,225 That's no longer our heritage. 334 00:16:23,225 --> 00:16:26,225 That's no longer our mailing address. 335 00:16:26,285 --> 00:16:28,810 No longer my status in life. 336 00:16:30,365 --> 00:16:35,105 They were able to remember and reflect upon their deliverance that it was God 337 00:16:35,105 --> 00:16:37,505 that delivered them and not themselves. 338 00:16:37,835 --> 00:16:39,965 It was God who produced the miracles. 339 00:16:40,085 --> 00:16:42,665 It was God who provided manna in the desert. 340 00:16:42,755 --> 00:16:46,925 It was God who put them in the land, who had victories and is God who's gonna 341 00:16:46,925 --> 00:16:49,955 continue to provide for their daily needs. 342 00:16:50,585 --> 00:16:52,895 So you get a chance to remember and to reflect. 343 00:16:53,194 --> 00:16:57,724 Upon this, and when you see God has delivered, you get to see God and maybe 344 00:16:57,724 --> 00:17:01,325 new facets, or you get to marvel at things that you haven't appreciated in 345 00:17:01,325 --> 00:17:03,005 a while because you're always on the go. 346 00:17:03,935 --> 00:17:08,944 And so they got a chance to see God is a God of love, a God of 347 00:17:08,944 --> 00:17:16,655 compassion, a God of great mercy and patience, a God of power and a God 348 00:17:16,744 --> 00:17:19,265 of provision, meaning to provide. 349 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:24,079 And so now they get a chance to do this and they, they pause from the 350 00:17:24,079 --> 00:17:28,400 striving and the toiling and the tilling of their agricultural society. 351 00:17:28,550 --> 00:17:32,480 They stop and they pause from producing and controlling, and now they hear 352 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:35,120 the call to trust in his provision. 353 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:38,150 Again, his providing and in his presence. 354 00:17:38,810 --> 00:17:44,360 I don't want you to work this year the way you normally do. 355 00:17:45,290 --> 00:17:49,040 And I don't want you to store up because I'm gonna provide in the 356 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:52,820 previous years so much that you'll have enough for the next year. 357 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:53,990 What is that called? 358 00:17:53,990 --> 00:17:57,050 For some serious trust? 359 00:17:57,770 --> 00:17:59,210 And it reminds you what? 360 00:17:59,270 --> 00:18:00,440 I'm not in control. 361 00:18:01,490 --> 00:18:08,030 I depend upon a holy God, and he must be a provider if I'm gonna follow this. 362 00:18:08,855 --> 00:18:13,325 And it will show where my faith truly is, if I'll trust him enough to do 363 00:18:13,325 --> 00:18:17,015 that, or will I take things in my own hands and I'll get to working again. 364 00:18:19,055 --> 00:18:25,715 And so allow them to reflect and to be reminded of who God is a chance to be 365 00:18:25,715 --> 00:18:30,815 reminded and reflect on their current response to this holy and righteous God. 366 00:18:31,295 --> 00:18:34,235 Again, not only individually, but collectively. 367 00:18:35,045 --> 00:18:37,355 Hey, does my life look like it once? 368 00:18:38,180 --> 00:18:44,660 Did, does it look like it should in response to God's blessings 369 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:48,560 in our lives, are we faithful? 370 00:18:49,190 --> 00:18:51,680 Are we still grateful? 371 00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:55,700 Are we aligned with his mission and his purpose for our lives? 372 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,680 Or have we veered to materialism and unholy living? 373 00:19:02,270 --> 00:19:06,530 Which will lead to the question, what changes are needed for me to be where God. 374 00:19:06,905 --> 00:19:07,925 Wants. 375 00:19:08,795 --> 00:19:09,635 And so this, 376 00:19:12,365 --> 00:19:17,135 these were the opportunities which were offered and presented. 377 00:19:17,915 --> 00:19:23,525 When they got a chance to stop, remember, reflect, and hit a reset. 378 00:19:25,415 --> 00:19:30,575 Let, let me ask you, do we need a time to reset as a church? 379 00:19:30,620 --> 00:19:30,710 Yes. 380 00:19:32,870 --> 00:19:33,950 One person believes it. 381 00:19:35,570 --> 00:19:36,710 Some of y'all so tired. 382 00:19:36,710 --> 00:19:37,430 You like, yes. 383 00:19:37,430 --> 00:19:38,300 You just said it mentally. 384 00:19:39,830 --> 00:19:40,460 No, seriously. 385 00:19:40,460 --> 00:19:42,530 Do we need time as a church to reset? 386 00:19:43,850 --> 00:19:44,450 We do. 387 00:19:46,370 --> 00:19:50,690 Do you as a child of God, do you need a season of resetting? 388 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,700 Well, most of us do individually than we do collectively, don't we? 389 00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,510 And so I'm excited about this season that we're in. 390 00:20:00,710 --> 00:20:05,930 But here's the wonderful thing here, is that I believe I'm a hundred percent 391 00:20:05,930 --> 00:20:13,490 convinced that we can experience Jubilee today, that the principles of resetting, 392 00:20:13,490 --> 00:20:18,379 of releasing and restoring you and I can experience today through the 393 00:20:18,379 --> 00:20:23,420 blood and, and, and sacrifice and the deliverance we have in and through Jesus. 394 00:20:25,085 --> 00:20:29,405 That we have the opportunity to experience the Jubilee 395 00:20:29,405 --> 00:20:33,155 principles in our lives in 2025. 396 00:20:33,365 --> 00:20:35,255 Brothers and sisters, are you with me here? 397 00:20:36,005 --> 00:20:37,625 But we need to slow down. 398 00:20:38,105 --> 00:20:45,335 We need to have some time to reflect and to trust in God's provision for our lives. 399 00:20:46,265 --> 00:20:50,165 And like the Israelites, we need to reset so that we can have a 400 00:20:50,165 --> 00:20:53,105 time to remember and to reflect. 401 00:20:54,035 --> 00:20:55,685 And so we need to have some time. 402 00:20:55,685 --> 00:20:57,155 Let's, let's hit the reset button. 403 00:20:57,275 --> 00:20:58,655 Let's start this hour. 404 00:20:58,925 --> 00:21:00,845 Let's start this week. 405 00:21:00,995 --> 00:21:06,875 Let's hit the reset button where we slow down and get some 406 00:21:06,875 --> 00:21:11,015 time to remember and reflect. 407 00:21:11,765 --> 00:21:17,345 We get, we need to remember and reflect on our slavery to sin. 408 00:21:17,345 --> 00:21:21,785 We weren't slaves in Egypt, but we were slaves to sin. 409 00:21:22,790 --> 00:21:24,350 And maybe you're a youth in the crown. 410 00:21:24,350 --> 00:21:26,030 You go, I ain't no slave to sin. 411 00:21:26,090 --> 00:21:27,020 Just study the Bible. 412 00:21:27,020 --> 00:21:28,700 You'll see your slave to sin as well. 413 00:21:30,140 --> 00:21:33,620 But every single one of us and some of us, we're still slaves to sin today. 414 00:21:33,620 --> 00:21:36,710 We have yet to be free from that bondage through Jesus. 415 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,470 I wanna encourage you, don't wait till tomorrow. 416 00:21:39,530 --> 00:21:45,110 'cause there's nothing like freedom in Christ, but we need to reflect 417 00:21:45,110 --> 00:21:50,660 and remind ourselves of what it was like in our slavery to sin. 418 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:56,840 But then we need to remember and reflect upon God's deliverance through Jesus and 419 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:02,720 how we've been freed from that, and the opportunities that we have to live in that 420 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,740 freedom from now into all of eternity. 421 00:22:07,850 --> 00:22:09,950 And we need to see who God is. 422 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:15,560 We need to remember that God is a God of love, of great patience 423 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,100 and mercy, a God of power. 424 00:22:19,475 --> 00:22:21,545 And a God of provision. 425 00:22:22,865 --> 00:22:28,235 It's a call to trust in his provision and his presence in a world that runs nonstop. 426 00:22:28,325 --> 00:22:31,505 Can we learn to stop and let God lead again? 427 00:22:32,705 --> 00:22:34,205 Because what's the temptation for us? 428 00:22:34,265 --> 00:22:37,175 If I don't do this, I'm gonna miss out. 429 00:22:38,315 --> 00:22:40,565 I won't have, I won't get ahead. 430 00:22:40,625 --> 00:22:45,515 I might not have, can anyone relate to those thoughts? 431 00:22:46,475 --> 00:22:48,095 But God is saying slow. 432 00:22:48,890 --> 00:22:54,680 Down, trust in me. 433 00:22:56,060 --> 00:23:03,230 If you follow me, I will provide everything you need. 434 00:23:03,585 --> 00:23:03,875 Amen. 435 00:23:06,650 --> 00:23:10,610 But will you trust, will you allow him to lead or will you say, no? 436 00:23:10,610 --> 00:23:14,810 Can I get my, my plow and let me do my parts? 437 00:23:15,290 --> 00:23:16,490 And we have to do our parts? 438 00:23:16,490 --> 00:23:17,390 Don't get me wrong. 439 00:23:18,965 --> 00:23:22,115 The God calls us to trust in him. 440 00:23:23,135 --> 00:23:27,485 We need to remember and reflect on what's our current response to the 441 00:23:27,485 --> 00:23:32,765 blessings that we have in Jesus, and examine where is my faith? 442 00:23:32,765 --> 00:23:36,155 Where are my convictions today in 2025? 443 00:23:38,135 --> 00:23:39,875 What's my lifestyle like? 444 00:23:40,565 --> 00:23:46,205 Does it look like it's in con, aligned with the proper response? 445 00:23:46,805 --> 00:23:48,395 To being freed in Christ. 446 00:23:50,015 --> 00:23:52,475 Are my priorities in the right place? 447 00:23:53,675 --> 00:23:55,475 Maybe I'm focusing on the right things. 448 00:23:55,475 --> 00:23:59,615 Maybe I'm getting materialistic, and that's not hard to do in Orange County. 449 00:23:59,615 --> 00:24:00,035 Is it? 450 00:24:03,485 --> 00:24:04,865 What's my purpose? 451 00:24:05,615 --> 00:24:07,865 What's our purpose as a church? 452 00:24:08,855 --> 00:24:13,985 What's our mission as his people and what's he individually called me. 453 00:24:15,035 --> 00:24:15,335 To do. 454 00:24:15,335 --> 00:24:19,145 What's my role in God's church? 455 00:24:19,145 --> 00:24:23,555 What's the church's role in our community and in our society? 456 00:24:24,275 --> 00:24:27,755 I get a chance to reflect upon these things and then ask ourselves, 457 00:24:27,845 --> 00:24:30,995 Hey, how can I stay aligned? 458 00:24:30,995 --> 00:24:32,945 If I'm aligned, how can I stay there? 459 00:24:33,275 --> 00:24:36,545 Or if I'm misaligned, how do I get realigned with where 460 00:24:36,545 --> 00:24:37,895 God is, wants me to go? 461 00:24:39,485 --> 00:24:40,895 And so this isn't a bad thing. 462 00:24:40,895 --> 00:24:42,395 This isn't something, oh, I should feel guilty. 463 00:24:42,395 --> 00:24:43,685 I'm the worst person on the earth. 464 00:24:43,835 --> 00:24:47,645 Hallelujah for a jubilee, because it's a reset. 465 00:24:48,455 --> 00:24:49,355 You don't get mad. 466 00:24:49,355 --> 00:24:51,815 Or maybe you get mad, but, oh, my app is crazy. 467 00:24:51,815 --> 00:24:53,375 Let me throw my phone. 468 00:24:54,095 --> 00:24:55,925 Stupid phones that maybe you do that. 469 00:24:55,925 --> 00:24:57,335 I'm gonna tell you that's not the right way to do it. 470 00:24:57,335 --> 00:24:58,475 And now you gotta waste more money. 471 00:24:59,045 --> 00:24:59,645 But what do you do? 472 00:24:59,645 --> 00:25:03,485 You just restart the thing and now it starts to be refreshed, and now you 473 00:25:03,485 --> 00:25:05,945 go, okay, now we're working properly. 474 00:25:06,980 --> 00:25:11,300 And so as we get a chance to reflect, to remember, God starts to work on 475 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:14,000 us so that we can function properly. 476 00:25:15,950 --> 00:25:20,360 God's design for the Jubilee was for his people collectively and individually. 477 00:25:21,110 --> 00:25:25,640 Let me ask you this, what could that look like if the entire thousands, if 478 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:30,320 the entire LA church and those from the surrounding areas who come, what would 479 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,970 it look like if the entire LA Church and beyond experienced Jubilee this year? 480 00:25:38,885 --> 00:25:42,395 What would happen if all of us hit the reset button? 481 00:25:48,005 --> 00:25:55,955 Imagine the possibilities if we all stopped, remembered, reflected, 482 00:25:56,585 --> 00:26:01,625 and it responded to God with complete trust and faithfulness. 483 00:26:02,210 --> 00:26:02,360 Amen. 484 00:26:04,970 --> 00:26:07,100 Imagine that. 485 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:14,060 Or brothers and sisters, let's do our parts in this picture, in this 486 00:26:14,060 --> 00:26:20,930 visual coming into fruition, you and I today can begin our season 487 00:26:20,930 --> 00:26:26,780 of Jubilee and we can pray for the masses to be able to experience the 488 00:26:26,780 --> 00:26:31,250 Jubilee Principle in 2025 and beyond. 489 00:26:32,420 --> 00:26:33,650 So I wanna get real practical. 490 00:26:33,650 --> 00:26:34,610 Can we get real practical? 491 00:26:34,610 --> 00:26:35,330 Church? 492 00:26:35,930 --> 00:26:36,470 I said church. 493 00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:37,580 Can we get real practical? 494 00:26:38,030 --> 00:26:38,120 Yes. 495 00:26:38,210 --> 00:26:38,540 All right. 496 00:26:38,540 --> 00:26:39,560 Are you still with me here? 497 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:39,650 Yes. 498 00:26:40,790 --> 00:26:41,300 Here we go. 499 00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:42,710 I wanna give some action steps here. 500 00:26:42,710 --> 00:26:45,170 You know, it's not a Marcel sermon if I don't have action steps. 501 00:26:45,170 --> 00:26:45,530 All right. 502 00:26:45,980 --> 00:26:47,090 Why do have some sermons? 503 00:26:47,090 --> 00:26:47,810 I don't have action steps? 504 00:26:47,870 --> 00:26:48,290 Here we go. 505 00:26:48,620 --> 00:26:53,300 Alright, so first step here is uh uh, I wanna give you here a reading plan. 506 00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:53,660 And so. 507 00:26:53,975 --> 00:26:55,355 Uh, here's the reading plan. 508 00:26:55,355 --> 00:26:56,495 It's, it's real simple. 509 00:26:56,645 --> 00:26:57,935 You can have this in addition. 510 00:26:57,935 --> 00:27:01,175 It's not really, uh, worthy of a quiet time, if you will, unless 511 00:27:01,175 --> 00:27:02,795 you wanna reflect deeply upon it. 512 00:27:03,065 --> 00:27:06,695 But, uh, in the back, as you walk away, we printed out some, you also can 513 00:27:06,695 --> 00:27:08,735 see on the, uh, on the screen there. 514 00:27:08,855 --> 00:27:10,055 So pull out your phones there. 515 00:27:10,055 --> 00:27:12,815 There's a QR code that will take you to week one. 516 00:27:12,815 --> 00:27:16,055 So each week we're gonna provide, uh, a reading plan. 517 00:27:16,055 --> 00:27:18,575 So it's gonna give you scriptures for each day of the week. 518 00:27:19,205 --> 00:27:21,365 And so that you can think and reflect upon. 519 00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:25,745 And then we also have some questions for you that you can do either 520 00:27:25,805 --> 00:27:27,725 yourself, you can reflect upon them. 521 00:27:27,755 --> 00:27:31,745 It would be fantastic if you do that with your discipleship 522 00:27:31,745 --> 00:27:33,395 partners or discipleship groups. 523 00:27:33,575 --> 00:27:37,385 I know a lot of us are in our summer passion groups, but let's get together 524 00:27:37,385 --> 00:27:40,625 and let's pull this out and say, Hey, hey, what do you think about this? 525 00:27:40,835 --> 00:27:44,045 And allow for God's spirit to minister for to us. 526 00:27:44,195 --> 00:27:45,725 And again, deepen. 527 00:27:46,170 --> 00:27:48,540 Our conviction and our growth and what we're learning and 528 00:27:48,540 --> 00:27:49,860 growing as a church here. 529 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,360 And so here's the thanks. 530 00:27:51,390 --> 00:27:53,700 These are, oh, it's also gonna be on the church app as well. 531 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:57,570 So I think in about, uh, 25 minutes, you'll get a little notification. 532 00:27:57,690 --> 00:27:58,110 All right. 533 00:27:58,110 --> 00:27:59,370 With, with, with this as well. 534 00:27:59,370 --> 00:28:01,380 So if you say, I don't have it, you lying. 535 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:01,800 Okay. 536 00:28:01,830 --> 00:28:02,400 All right. 537 00:28:02,550 --> 00:28:04,260 So that's part of that practical holy living. 538 00:28:04,260 --> 00:28:04,530 All right. 539 00:28:04,530 --> 00:28:06,810 I think that's Leviticus Chapter 19 or something like that. 540 00:28:06,810 --> 00:28:07,020 All right. 541 00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:12,360 So, um, I encourage you, don't just take a picture. 542 00:28:13,595 --> 00:28:16,925 But again, if you and I are going to experience and enter the realm 543 00:28:16,925 --> 00:28:20,555 of Jubilee, we need to practically do something and prepare our hearts. 544 00:28:20,675 --> 00:28:24,035 And so I'm not saying this is the end all, but this will allow you 545 00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:27,815 and me to enter into this realm and allow for God to minister to us. 546 00:28:27,815 --> 00:28:28,805 You guys with me church. 547 00:28:29,165 --> 00:28:33,035 And so whether you've been in the church 45 years, or you're in the front row here 548 00:28:33,425 --> 00:28:36,695 and you're in the junior high, you're in high school, uh, let's do this together. 549 00:28:36,695 --> 00:28:39,935 And as you'll see, uh uh, it's really simple and definitely doable. 550 00:28:40,325 --> 00:28:42,785 Right now, we're gonna switch up and we're gonna take communion. 551 00:28:44,015 --> 00:28:45,605 We have the juice and the blood. 552 00:28:45,605 --> 00:28:48,065 These are the emblems that represent Jesus' body and his 553 00:28:48,065 --> 00:28:51,485 blood that was sacrificed so that we could have salvation. 554 00:28:52,205 --> 00:28:55,565 God commanded his people to rest, not just from physical labor. 555 00:28:56,345 --> 00:28:58,955 But to reset their trust in him. 556 00:28:59,975 --> 00:29:03,785 That was the heart of the Sabbath and the heart of Jubilee in 557 00:29:03,785 --> 00:29:07,175 Jesus that rests is fulfilled. 558 00:29:07,595 --> 00:29:12,755 He finished the work and now we come to God not to strive or try 559 00:29:12,755 --> 00:29:21,035 to prove ourselves, but to stop, to remember, and to rest in his grace. 560 00:29:21,845 --> 00:29:24,845 In Hebrews chapter four and verse nine. 561 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:31,610 It says there remains then a Sabbath rests for the people of God. 562 00:29:31,850 --> 00:29:38,600 For anyone who enter God's rest also rests from their works just as God did from his. 563 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,210 As we take communion, let's stop. 564 00:29:41,660 --> 00:29:46,580 Let's remember, and let's reflect on his body broken, his blood's poured out 565 00:29:47,030 --> 00:29:50,450 so we can have eternal rests with God. 566 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:51,410 Let's pray. 567 00:29:52,205 --> 00:29:56,885 Father, I thank you again so much for the Sabbath principle, the 568 00:29:56,885 --> 00:30:01,895 Jubilee principle, and the chance and the opportunity to reset. 569 00:30:02,465 --> 00:30:06,455 And God, we thank you so much that really salvation was a 570 00:30:06,515 --> 00:30:09,785 complete reset spiritually for us. 571 00:30:10,055 --> 00:30:13,145 Father, the fact that Jesus died and rose again in those of us who 572 00:30:13,145 --> 00:30:15,455 were able and, and have responded. 573 00:30:15,965 --> 00:30:20,015 By turning to you in faith and trusting in you repenting and getting baptized, 574 00:30:20,195 --> 00:30:25,355 God, we have had a true reset spiritually, but God, we know that you call us 575 00:30:25,355 --> 00:30:28,535 to a reset on a consistent basis. 576 00:30:28,865 --> 00:30:33,065 I'm so grateful as a church, we take communion on a consistent basis because we 577 00:30:33,065 --> 00:30:42,155 get a chance to stop, to remember, and to reflect upon the cost for our salvation. 578 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,900 We get a chance to remember your deliverance. 579 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:49,490 From our sin, we get a chance to remember, you are a God of power because 580 00:30:49,490 --> 00:30:51,380 you raise your son from the dead. 581 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:57,140 You're a guy who delivers and continually delivers in our life. 582 00:30:57,770 --> 00:31:03,115 A God of great mercy, great patience, and through the cross we 583 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,410 see you are a God of ultimate love. 584 00:31:07,190 --> 00:31:10,850 We thank you for the eternal rest we have in. 585 00:31:11,660 --> 00:31:12,620 Jesus. 586 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:14,630 It's in your name we pray. 587 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:16,010 Amen.