1 00:00:14,060 --> 00:00:17,320 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church Podcast. 2 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:24,059 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you. 3 00:00:24,059 --> 00:00:26,579 Thank you for joining us today. 4 00:00:37,259 --> 00:00:41,600 Let's open up with a word of prayer and then we'll just dig right in. 5 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:50,619 Lord, we just slow down our lives tonight. Lord, we slow down our weak God to 6 00:00:51,340 --> 00:00:57,039 to come before you, God, to come amongst each other, Lord, in just fellowship and to 7 00:00:57,780 --> 00:01:06,099 learn God in your Scripture, in your Word, Lord, more of you, God. And as we continue to study 8 00:01:06,099 --> 00:01:12,379 our way through Leviticus, Lord, we just pray that you open up our hearts and our minds, God, 9 00:01:12,620 --> 00:01:19,939 to reveal new revelation to us, God, and new and deeper understanding God of you through your Word, 10 00:01:19,939 --> 00:01:29,359 God. We pray that you just continue to reveal Jesus to us through Leviticus and through the old 11 00:01:29,359 --> 00:01:35,780 prophetic words, God, that you just continue to open that up and reveal that to us layer by layer. 12 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:41,019 Lord, we surrender to you tonight, Lord, and we just pray, God, that your spirit would be here 13 00:01:41,019 --> 00:01:53,120 among us in Jesus' name. Amen. So as a quick overview, Leviticus 25 gets into instructions 14 00:01:53,739 --> 00:02:01,799 about the Sabbath year, which would be every seven years, as well as the year of Jubilee, 15 00:02:01,799 --> 00:02:11,800 which would be roughly every fifth, fiftieth year, talks about rest for the land and allowing, allowing 16 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:19,759 the land to kind of regenerate, talks about debt forgiveness and freedom and restoration of 17 00:02:19,759 --> 00:02:25,580 property gets into a lot of this stuff. You know, I think, you know, for me, some of the key 18 00:02:25,580 --> 00:02:34,159 points that I drew out of this, this chapter was, and I too often forget this is that God owns it all. 19 00:02:34,699 --> 00:02:43,979 We are, we are just stewards of what he has given to us and learning to trust and rest 20 00:02:44,860 --> 00:02:52,220 in him and really embrace that freedom. So a lot of good meat in this, in this chapter. So let's 21 00:02:52,310 --> 00:03:02,229 start out with verses one through seven talks about the Sabbath year. The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount 22 00:03:02,229 --> 00:03:09,030 Sinai, speak to the Israelites and tell them, when you enter the land that I am giving you, 23 00:03:09,469 --> 00:03:17,270 the land must observe a Sabbath to the Lord. Six years you may sow your field and six years 24 00:03:17,270 --> 00:03:23,870 you may prune your vineyards and gather the produce, but in the seventh year the land must 25 00:03:23,870 --> 00:03:31,710 have a Sabbath of complete rest, a Sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your field or prune 26 00:03:31,710 --> 00:03:37,270 your vineyard. You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick 27 00:03:37,270 --> 00:03:43,610 the grapes of your unpruned vines. The land must have a year of complete rest. 28 00:03:45,110 --> 00:03:52,930 You may have the Sabbath produce of the, of the land to eat. You, your male servant, 29 00:03:53,550 --> 00:03:59,650 your female servant, your hired worker, your resident, the resident foreigner who stays with 30 00:03:59,650 --> 00:04:07,069 you, your cattle, and your wild animals that are in your land. All its produce will be for 31 00:04:07,069 --> 00:04:18,689 you to eat. So what, what God is talking about here is the Sabbath for, for the land. So, 32 00:04:18,949 --> 00:04:27,269 you know, the people, the people are used to observing the Sabbath for, you know, for God, 33 00:04:27,790 --> 00:04:35,250 but this is a new, something new that God is introducing to them so that people can eat 34 00:04:35,250 --> 00:04:43,750 whatever grows naturally, but farming and harvesting and selling is, is forbidden here. 35 00:04:44,269 --> 00:04:51,410 So there, there, there's a lot of things here to kind of, kind of unpack in this. 36 00:04:52,210 --> 00:04:58,310 The first thing that came to me was, oh, I'm a, I'm a gardener and I love doing gardening and 37 00:04:58,310 --> 00:05:08,089 things like that. And the soil naturally needs rest. Even early farmers figured out, you know, 38 00:05:08,250 --> 00:05:15,850 crop rotation and how, you know, the soil is a very fragile thing. You know, it's not just dirt. 39 00:05:16,310 --> 00:05:21,230 There's got to be the right nutrients in there. There's got to be things in there to really 40 00:05:21,230 --> 00:05:29,490 help get a good, good crop. So the soil needed to, needed that time to recover and naturally 41 00:05:30,389 --> 00:05:36,870 regenerate, you know, and there's a pest control element that goes, goes along with that. But 42 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:45,990 this idea of Sabbath, this is a, this is a kingdom principle. There are things that you can pick 43 00:05:45,990 --> 00:05:51,350 up on all through the Bible that, that I call as kingdom principles that you can see all the way 44 00:05:51,350 --> 00:05:56,689 from the book of Genesis all the way through to Revelation. And this, this idea of Sabbath and 45 00:05:56,689 --> 00:06:03,389 rest is a kingdom principle. And we'll talk a little bit, little bit about that. The other 46 00:06:03,389 --> 00:06:10,370 thing that I wanted to, to notate before we get into, into that is numbers mean things. 47 00:06:11,329 --> 00:06:19,569 Right Ken? Numbers mean things. And, you know, God is intentional about, you know, about numbers. 48 00:06:19,930 --> 00:06:25,629 You know, God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh, you know, in, in 49 00:06:25,629 --> 00:06:34,029 generation, in, in Genesis. There, there are all types of, of, of things around the seventh. 50 00:06:34,029 --> 00:06:42,050 There's seven, the seventh day is the weekly Sabbath. Seven is, is the number of completion 51 00:06:42,050 --> 00:06:51,610 and perfection. Seven times seven is ultimate completeness or, or fullness. So there, there's 52 00:06:51,610 --> 00:06:59,689 a lot to be said around this, this, this kingdom principle of Sabbath and rest. And it's something 53 00:06:59,689 --> 00:07:06,490 that, you know, that, that, that God instituted even, even for ourselves. I mean, we're not here to talk 54 00:07:06,490 --> 00:07:12,449 about, about, about the Sabbath as the day of rest for, for God's people. But when you think about 55 00:07:12,449 --> 00:07:20,649 the practical application of that, just like the practical application of resting for the 56 00:07:20,649 --> 00:07:26,149 land, there's, there's spiritual things about this, which we'll talk, gonna talk about in a 57 00:07:26,149 --> 00:07:31,850 second here. But there's, there's also this, this functionality to it. And the same is true of us. 58 00:07:32,009 --> 00:07:36,149 You know, it's God, you know, you can say, Hey, look, I'm free to do what I want on Sundays. 59 00:07:36,149 --> 00:07:41,449 And that's absolutely true. But there, there's something to be said about, let's just set aside 60 00:07:41,449 --> 00:07:48,610 a day to chill. Right. And that's, that's one of the things here. So the other components of 61 00:07:48,610 --> 00:07:56,850 this that I look and there's, there's this idea of, of, of trust and, and provision. So think about 62 00:07:56,850 --> 00:08:08,430 this from an ancient perspective. When we're hungry, we go out and get some food or go out to a 63 00:08:08,430 --> 00:08:17,490 restaurant or go out to the supermarket and get food. Most of us have enough food in our 64 00:08:17,490 --> 00:08:24,310 house to probably last two months. When we get, when we get down to it, not the case with ancient 65 00:08:24,310 --> 00:08:32,409 people like the Israelites, they were growing all of their own food, animals, all of this thing was 66 00:08:32,409 --> 00:08:42,029 they were providing food for themselves and their family was work, hard work. And it wasn't 67 00:08:42,029 --> 00:08:48,909 something that was instantaneous. Like, Hey, you know, heat me up some soup mom. It just didn't, 68 00:08:49,429 --> 00:08:55,830 didn't happen like that. So there's an element of trust and provision that goes along with this. 69 00:08:55,929 --> 00:09:02,169 When God says, Hey, this year is going to be a year of rest. Don't do all of this stuff. 70 00:09:02,970 --> 00:09:07,350 Imagine the alarms going off in their heads. Well, how am I going to eat? What are we going 71 00:09:07,350 --> 00:09:13,429 to, I mean, how am I going to provide, provide for my family? You know, God is saying, trust me 72 00:09:14,149 --> 00:09:20,970 on the provider. But it creates a completely different way of thinking about that 73 00:09:21,830 --> 00:09:31,850 when you realize how they provided for their food. So allowing the land to rest and not sowing 74 00:09:31,850 --> 00:09:40,129 had this element of trusting God so that you take all of this aspect off of our, you know, 75 00:09:40,149 --> 00:09:44,710 as humans, we, you know, we're always thinking, Hey, you know, we're doing this, we're working for 76 00:09:44,710 --> 00:09:51,149 this. I'm the guy out providing, I'm doing all of this, takes all that effort out and says, 77 00:09:51,149 --> 00:09:57,950 we're going to trust in God to do this. And there's, there's rest in that security 78 00:09:57,950 --> 00:10:04,409 that can only be found in God. And there's so many lessons that God wants to teach us through that 79 00:10:04,409 --> 00:10:11,909 builds our faith and helps us realize that it's not of our own workmanship or labor 80 00:10:12,670 --> 00:10:19,490 that God is the great, great provider. I won't read it here for the sake of time, 81 00:10:19,490 --> 00:10:27,230 but Matthew 6, 25 through 34, Jesus goes into this whole mile log about, don't worry about, 82 00:10:27,450 --> 00:10:32,750 he's God is going to provide for you, look around you, how he's done all of this, 83 00:10:32,909 --> 00:10:39,490 he's going to provide for you. So the next section is 8 through 22. 84 00:10:39,490 --> 00:10:43,210 And talking about the year of Jubilee. 85 00:10:45,169 --> 00:10:55,429 You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks 86 00:10:55,970 --> 00:11:05,409 of years will amount to 49 years. You must sound loud horn blasts in the seventh month, 87 00:11:05,409 --> 00:11:12,529 on the 10th day of the month, on the day of atonement, you must sound the horn in the entire land. 88 00:11:12,909 --> 00:11:21,350 So you must consecrate the 50th year and you must proclaim a release in the land 89 00:11:21,889 --> 00:11:29,490 for all its inhabitants. That year will be your Jubilee. Each one of you must return 90 00:11:30,129 --> 00:11:38,590 to his return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan. 91 00:11:39,429 --> 00:11:47,610 The 50th year will be your Jubilee and you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, 92 00:11:47,970 --> 00:11:54,230 or pick the grapes of its unparooned vines. Because the year is a Jubilee, 93 00:11:54,230 --> 00:12:00,230 it will be holy to you, you may eat its produce from the field. 94 00:12:06,030 --> 00:12:13,370 In this year of Jubilee, you must each return to your property. If you make a sale to your 95 00:12:13,370 --> 00:12:20,830 fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is too wrong his brother. You may buy it 96 00:12:20,830 --> 00:12:27,450 from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the land last Jubilee, 97 00:12:28,049 --> 00:12:35,309 you may sell it, he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left. 98 00:12:36,029 --> 00:12:42,309 The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price. And the fewer years there 99 00:12:42,309 --> 00:12:47,789 are, the less you may make its purchase price because he is only selling to you 100 00:12:47,789 --> 00:12:54,929 a number of years to produce. No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, 101 00:12:55,629 --> 00:13:03,190 but you must fear your God because I see the Lord your God. You must obey my statutes 102 00:13:03,870 --> 00:13:11,549 and my regulations and must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in your land. 103 00:13:12,810 --> 00:13:21,190 The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied and you may live securely 104 00:13:21,190 --> 00:13:30,009 in the land. If you say, what will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather 105 00:13:30,009 --> 00:13:37,429 produce? I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield 106 00:13:37,429 --> 00:13:47,009 the produce for three years and you may sow the eighth year and eat from the sixth year's produce, 107 00:13:47,769 --> 00:13:55,789 old produce. Until you bring the ninth year's produce, you may eat old produce. 108 00:13:56,929 --> 00:14:03,110 So every 50 years, there is a major reset. 109 00:14:05,370 --> 00:14:10,909 Property returns to its original family owner. Slaves are freed, debts are forgiven, 110 00:14:11,870 --> 00:14:19,029 everyone rests, trusting in God's provision. Jubilee resets debt, restores families and homes 111 00:14:19,029 --> 00:14:26,950 and a full restoration of dignity and provision. This is some wild stuff. 112 00:14:27,610 --> 00:14:38,990 This is some wild, wild stuff if you think about it. Again, just imagine in your mind trying to apply 113 00:14:38,990 --> 00:14:48,070 this to our western mentality here in the United States where you're not taking my property, 114 00:14:48,750 --> 00:14:53,929 you're not taking my house or my land, you're not taking my stuff, you're not taking my guns, 115 00:14:53,929 --> 00:15:01,690 you're not taking any of this stuff. Our mindset has so radically, radically shifted 116 00:15:02,409 --> 00:15:09,870 from what God was trying to instill in the Israelites of how to look at these things. 117 00:15:10,830 --> 00:15:17,389 We've just gone really far. I'm saying it about myself too. If I would have, 118 00:15:17,389 --> 00:15:22,110 I'd have a real hard time. I'm not sure where it would all end. 119 00:15:23,029 --> 00:15:29,029 But this was a radical, radical restoration and forgiveness as well. 120 00:15:29,830 --> 00:15:35,789 So it wasn't just, it's easy to read through these things and think about, okay, 121 00:15:36,250 --> 00:15:42,590 these are the cycles that they went through, but it wasn't just a cyclical thing. It was a new 122 00:15:42,590 --> 00:15:49,669 beginning that was designed to lead to a higher level of fullness. 123 00:15:50,450 --> 00:15:58,070 So it breaks a cycle, resets and pushes Israelites through to 124 00:15:59,470 --> 00:16:06,590 more higher level. It's a supernatural gift of grace that came from God. 125 00:16:07,550 --> 00:16:17,149 To me, this just points so clearly to Jesus and how when he was teaching amongst the Jews, 126 00:16:17,289 --> 00:16:22,190 he was just preaching something that was just so radically different than how they 127 00:16:22,190 --> 00:16:30,870 understood Scripture and this idea of forgiveness of sin and spiritual freedom 128 00:16:30,870 --> 00:16:37,750 and reclaiming lost inheritance and kingdom living here on earth. The Jews are like, 129 00:16:38,409 --> 00:16:45,429 what? They just weren't getting because it was so rough. And then his ultimate 130 00:16:47,990 --> 00:16:57,370 giving of grace from his work on the cross. In Luke 4, 18 through 19, Jesus is quoting 131 00:16:58,130 --> 00:17:05,650 Isaiah where he talks about the year of the Lord's favor. And this, to me, this goes from Jesus to 132 00:17:05,650 --> 00:17:12,769 Isaiah all the way back to Leviticus, which is a clear, clear pointing to that year of Jubilee, 133 00:17:13,130 --> 00:17:19,250 the year of the Lord's favor as it came down. So if you look at it in reverse like that, 134 00:17:19,430 --> 00:17:26,490 or if you look at it from a forward perception, that God instilled this year of Jubilee, 135 00:17:26,490 --> 00:17:34,569 this concept of Jubilee. Isaiah talked about it and prophesied it even forward 136 00:17:34,569 --> 00:17:41,750 to where Jesus was and then Jesus saying, this year is now. This is now what he was proclaiming. 137 00:17:42,049 --> 00:17:47,029 And when he made that statement, the religious leaders are like, is he saying what we think 138 00:17:47,029 --> 00:17:59,410 he's saying? Not good. So it was a radical, radical thing. This freedom from slavery. 139 00:18:00,750 --> 00:18:07,230 Slaves are set free. This freeing of slaves in the year of Jubilee just is this idea of 140 00:18:07,230 --> 00:18:16,410 God wants liberation for people. He doesn't want people in perpetual bondage. Jesus said 141 00:18:17,029 --> 00:18:23,289 in Gospel of John, if the sun sets you free, you are free indeed. And that freedom applies 142 00:18:25,570 --> 00:18:37,349 across the land. The next set goes from 23 to 55 and it's about redemption of property and the 143 00:18:37,349 --> 00:18:43,049 poor. And I'm not going to read through that because it's just too long. It gets into a lot 144 00:18:43,049 --> 00:18:52,009 of different scenarios of okay, if you needed money and you sold this land to this person, 145 00:18:52,170 --> 00:18:57,230 here's what's happened or if you did this. So it talks about a lot of different ways things 146 00:18:57,230 --> 00:19:05,609 could have transacted is the basic principle of it. But what I extracted from that entire set 147 00:19:05,609 --> 00:19:13,089 of scriptures is according to God, I don't know if this applies right now, 148 00:19:14,170 --> 00:19:22,650 land cannot be owned permanently because it belongs to God. I mean, do we really believe? 149 00:19:23,490 --> 00:19:30,349 I know I've said that many times in teaching and in life and even just in conversation 150 00:19:30,349 --> 00:19:37,650 with people. I don't believe that this is mine. I don't believe my business is mine. I believe 151 00:19:37,650 --> 00:19:43,769 that I'm a steward of this and I have to steward this in the way God has. But do I really believe 152 00:19:43,769 --> 00:19:53,609 that when it comes down to it? I mean, do I really, really embrace that idea? God was instilling 153 00:19:53,609 --> 00:20:01,269 that the Israelites must help each other rather than oppress them, rather than take advantage of them 154 00:20:01,850 --> 00:20:13,910 in business transactions and land transactions. Slavery, God, this was always such a tricky 155 00:20:13,910 --> 00:20:20,549 subject for me, this idea of slavery and all this. But when you really dig into scripture 156 00:20:20,549 --> 00:20:28,390 and really try to understand it from how God was designing it, God was not a fan 157 00:20:28,390 --> 00:20:38,509 of slavery, most certainly not. I mean, it was discouraged. He freed the Israelites from Egypt 158 00:20:39,509 --> 00:20:47,170 and he's compelling them to mirror that mercy that he had on them to their slaves. 159 00:20:48,130 --> 00:20:57,609 So this idea of ownership and stewardship. In verse 23, God basically just says the land is mine, 160 00:20:58,329 --> 00:21:06,210 you know, the Israelites and us. We're stewards, not owners. And I think again 161 00:21:06,210 --> 00:21:13,930 that this is a foreshadowing of Jesus and, you know, and how we're supposed to live that 162 00:21:13,930 --> 00:21:18,630 our lives are not our own. So we don't own this. 163 00:21:21,250 --> 00:21:31,730 Jesus bought and paid for this. And he owns it. And, you know, along with it everything else. So, 164 00:21:31,970 --> 00:21:40,430 you know, we don't belong to ourselves. And, you know, I think a modern day perspective, 165 00:21:41,390 --> 00:21:49,069 especially in the United States is, you know, we earned it, we own it, and it's ours. 166 00:21:50,049 --> 00:21:57,089 And don't try to take it, take it from me. And I'm wrestling with that myself, even as we speak, 167 00:21:57,349 --> 00:22:04,109 just to kind of really truly understand what God means here. First, 168 00:22:04,109 --> 00:22:09,990 Corinthians 619 through 20 says, you are not your own, you were bought with a price. 169 00:22:13,650 --> 00:22:22,190 So I thought this was a really, really interesting chapter. I think it goes much deeper than, 170 00:22:22,190 --> 00:22:29,670 then, you know, God's economic plan for the Israelites. You know, there's a lot about freedom 171 00:22:29,670 --> 00:22:39,509 and trust and restoration here and belonging. It points directly to Jesus and what he did for us 172 00:22:39,509 --> 00:22:49,130 and his ultimate claim of jubilee, you know, over our souls. You know, I thought about this for, 173 00:22:49,670 --> 00:22:57,509 you know, for a little while. And I thought, what are some practical applications of this, 174 00:22:57,509 --> 00:23:07,390 you know, for me is, you know, for me, you know, practicing trust more, you know, trusting God 175 00:23:07,390 --> 00:23:15,509 for things. My type of personality is kind of personality is like, okay, I'm going to go out 176 00:23:15,509 --> 00:23:25,250 and make it happen. And it's easy to fall back on that a lot harder to say I'm going to trust 177 00:23:25,990 --> 00:23:38,630 in God to do that. So practicing trust and resting in that spiritual discipline to trust in God enough 178 00:23:38,630 --> 00:23:48,170 to stop striving. Because we worry sometimes about things, right? It's like, you know, 179 00:23:48,609 --> 00:23:53,529 you know, I'm kind of at that age now where I'm there, retirement, you know, I should be 180 00:23:53,529 --> 00:23:58,890 thinking about this and this and I have all my ducks and lined up in a row for retirement. 181 00:23:59,250 --> 00:24:03,349 What are we going to do with this? What am I going to do that? And that kind of creates this, 182 00:24:04,569 --> 00:24:10,470 well, I have to do something. And what God is proclaiming here is stop striving 183 00:24:11,150 --> 00:24:21,470 and trust in me, have that freedom. Another thing that really was just so practical for 184 00:24:21,470 --> 00:24:33,029 for me was extending grace to people, you know, looking for ways to reset relationships, 185 00:24:33,910 --> 00:24:42,569 forgive debts, boast emotionally and and literally. I'll tell you, I'll tell you a story. 186 00:24:44,049 --> 00:24:49,029 You know, we had Tammy and I had had these good friends one time they still are good friends. 187 00:24:50,390 --> 00:24:58,470 And one guy went, they went into business and we were doing work for them as an agency. 188 00:24:59,329 --> 00:25:05,009 You know, he wanted me to do work for them and their business, you know, after a few years, 189 00:25:05,109 --> 00:25:12,650 their business was really tanking and going, you know, going downhill and having real problems. 190 00:25:14,029 --> 00:25:21,029 And, you know, the money was getting further and further and further out. And, you know, 191 00:25:21,809 --> 00:25:27,450 you know, I, you know, he started not returning calls and things like that, you know, and I just 192 00:25:27,450 --> 00:25:33,569 finally left this real nasty message saying, look, you need to get this settled. 193 00:25:34,370 --> 00:25:39,349 You know, and I put a few or ifs in there because I was miffed because that 194 00:25:39,910 --> 00:25:47,349 that idea of my ownership of things was kind of consuming me, you know, at this, at this point. 195 00:25:50,569 --> 00:25:56,269 And, you know, over, over time, you know, we, we, you know, we just healed it and I just kind 196 00:25:56,269 --> 00:26:03,589 of let that go. And I literally said to God, just take it out of my, I don't even want, 197 00:26:04,150 --> 00:26:08,089 I don't even want to remember it. And there was one time where she was really, 198 00:26:09,630 --> 00:26:16,329 she had really, you could tell it was just kind of weighing on her and she had said something to me 199 00:26:17,829 --> 00:26:24,009 about it. And I literally didn't even realize what she was talking about. 200 00:26:25,269 --> 00:26:31,710 I said, I said, I had literally completely forgotten about that until you just brought it 201 00:26:31,710 --> 00:26:37,529 up. I mean, I literally, you know, God just took it out of my mind, which was an awesome thing. 202 00:26:38,569 --> 00:26:43,089 And, you know, I didn't even, it just, it literally was not, you know, when I was around 203 00:26:43,089 --> 00:26:47,769 him, it wasn't like, I mean, I had literally, literally forgotten about it until she brought 204 00:26:47,769 --> 00:26:55,470 it up. And I said, well, I forgot about that. And it was like, I forgot about it. So 205 00:26:55,470 --> 00:27:03,369 you're applying that grace to people and it doesn't have to be about money. Sometimes it can be about 206 00:27:03,369 --> 00:27:08,269 someone who may have hurt you or may have had done you wrong or you've got just kind of this 207 00:27:08,269 --> 00:27:13,349 little bit of a grudge kind of hanging back here. It's not impacting you spiritually, 208 00:27:13,870 --> 00:27:21,369 but it's just kind of there, right? Releasing that and extending that grace to people 209 00:27:22,170 --> 00:27:27,589 that God is talking about here. Because this is, this is just, this is just powerful, powerful 210 00:27:27,589 --> 00:27:34,450 grace that God is laying down here. The third thing is remembering stewardship, 211 00:27:36,129 --> 00:27:47,529 the idea of stewardship. Hang on to things loosely, right? Loosely. Hang on to possessions 212 00:27:48,089 --> 00:27:54,170 loosely. You know, they are a blessing from God, but they're not important. 213 00:27:55,450 --> 00:28:02,670 They're not important. And lastly is celebrate freedom. This is something that I think, 214 00:28:03,089 --> 00:28:09,650 you know, we as Americans, we just take so for granted this idea of freedom and 215 00:28:10,750 --> 00:28:16,589 celebrate the freedom that Christ brought us, the spiritual freedom that He set us. 216 00:28:16,589 --> 00:28:23,589 He set us free. So those are four kind of key takeaways for me. 217 00:28:25,130 --> 00:28:30,589 I put some questions, thought provoking, I hope, questions down as we can kind of, 218 00:28:30,589 --> 00:28:40,190 kind of go through this as, as groups and let's do that. Let's break into our groups. 219 00:28:44,189 --> 00:28:49,990 Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss His Word. 220 00:28:50,710 --> 00:28:56,109 Don't forget to join us for worship live Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube. 221 00:28:56,970 --> 00:28:59,289 Be blessed and have a great day.