Leviticus 25:23-34 Bible Study | Episode 719

July 11, 2024

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

Leviticus 25:23-34   Bible Study | Episode #719

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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This is Chad Harrison, and you're listening to hope alive, applying God's word to your daily life. Hi, this is Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and have been serving as a pastor for 25 years. I'm also a practicing attorney. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word and find God's will for your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open up his word to you and allow you to see him and to know him and to know his will, that you might glorify him and that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today, in Jesus name.

Well, good morning. Welcome to Lake Community Church's morning Bible study. We are in Leviticus, chapter 25, and we're talking about redemption. And you go, well, that's just going to be really, really boring. It's really going to be something that I just don't want to have anything to do with. No, in all actuality, you do. And in fact, it is a precursor of understanding, one of the roles Christ plays in the book of the revelation. In fact, it is, in many ways, maybe the precursor of showing how Christ redeems us out of sin. But he also redeems. He also redeems the land, or God's promises from the enemy. When Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their seed went into the twelve tribes, went into Egypt, they were settled into slavery. And that meant that their power, the work that they did, was owned by somebody else. The land that they lived on, was owned by somebody else. The property that they attained was not their own. It was somebody else. So they had no freedom. They had no liberty, because everything that was theirs was someone else's. It was controlled by someone else. And so when they redeem, when God came in to deliver them through Moses, he redeemed them back out of that slavery and took them into the promised land. Well, in the promised land, that's the place where. Where God's promises, his, his best, his, his, his fullness of life is. And so he says, I'm going to take you into the promised land. Now, you know as well as I do that the promised land is a picture of the spirit filled christian life. It's a picture of the fullness of God's plan for us. But we as believers know that even though we're in the promised land, oftentimes we can. If and if you do it all, if you feed your flesh at all, it'll rise up. And sometimes you sell the promises, sell God's best for a, for what is in many ways similar to slavery. Back to that flesh and to that sin. We do that. And Jesus is our kinsman redeemer. And just a real quick synopsis of it because you really kind of need to understand it because he is our gorill. And that is an old testament word and it has two aspects to it. He's our kinsman redeemer and he is our avenger of blood. And the kinsman, the redeemer is the one who comes and redeems the land, which is the promises of God, because it's the promised land. He redeems the promised land back to us. And the avenger of blood is the one who avenges, avenges all the wrong and the evil done to God's people. And Jesus is the avenger of blood. In fact, when he comes back on that white horse, that's the role he's playing in the book of the Revelation. And so understanding the understanding of the kinsman Redeemer, and later on we're going to learn about the avenger of blood, understanding that a near kinsman, someone who is related to me, someone who is as I am, has to redeem my land back if I can't redeem it back, is an important principle. It's the important principle. And in fact, the whole Book of Ruth is about Boaz being the kinsman Redeemer. In fact, as you study through that book, it is a precursor. It is the Old TEstament explanation of the kinsman Redeemer. And it is a foreshadowing of Christ being our kinsman Redeemer, BoaZ being the foreshadow of that. And so when we're studying this, it's kind of really one of those things that you need to log into your brain, kinsman RedeEMeR. And that is one of the aspects of a guru which is an avenger of blood or a kinsman redeemer. It's somebody that, that is my family who handles my business when I can't handle it, when I have no ability to handle it. And Jesus is that he's our goel. He is our kinsman redeemer. Says, the land, verse 23, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is mine, for you are strangers and sojourners with me. Now, what is he saying? Well, what he's saying is that my promises are mine. Uh, I I gave them, uh, they, they hold me, uh, to a certain standard. That standard is myself. Uh, that's what Hebrews said. He swore by himself. Uh, and so God, God when he makes a promise there, he, it's, he's beholden to that promise because, uh, he, he's the greatest. He, well, he's the most spectacular, wonderful being, uh, uh, ever. He is, he is, uh, has no beginning and has no end, and so he swears by himself. And when he makes a promise, it's a yes and amen it's going to be. And so when, when you go into the land that he gives you that land as a promise, well, when you get. When God gives you his promises, he's going to hold to those promises, he says, and in the land you possess, you shall grant redemption of the land. What he's saying is there's going to be a mechanism by which, even if you mess up, I can redeem it. I can take care of it. If one of your brotherings becomes poor and has sold some of his possessions, and if he's redeemed, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother said. What he's saying is that if a family member comes and wants to buy the land back, wants to buy the possessions back, the property back, then you have to sell it. You have to sell it now that you're going to sell it for fair price, he says. Or if the man has no willing to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it. Meaning, if you're able to do it yourself, or if, if you have a relative that comes to redeem it, then let him count the years since its sale and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it that he may return to his possessions. What he's saying is, figure out how many years it's. I mean, it's basically paying back a loan. That's really what's going on here. You, you sold your possessions and you're paying that, paying that long back. But if he is a. Now remember, there's possessions, there's property, and then there's labor, and we're going to deal with both of those things. And by the way, those are intense economic principles that you need to know, that you need to kind of understand, to understand, well, just the world you live in. And then also to understand scripture. And so this is the redemption of property, or, and, and what is our greatest, what is our greatest property? Well, our greatest property is that which God has said to us or promised us. And so then he says that, he says, but if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of Jubilee. And that's the 50th year when everything goes back, he says, and in the Jubilee it shall be released and he shall return to his possessions. If a man sells a house in a red city, now, remember, this is the promised land, it's not the promised city. And so he's got full year to redeem it if he says something in the city, but if it's not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the vast city shall belong permanently to him who brought it throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the jubilee. Now, there's a lot of spiritual things that go along with city living, and it's pictures, far as scripture is concerned. I'm not going to get into it a whole lot, but there are some important aspects to that. However. The house, the houses of villages which have no wall around them, shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be redeemed and they shall be released in the jubilee. Meaning if it's not in a royal city, if it's just in a town, then it's treated the same as the land. Nevertheless, the city of the Levites. Now, notice the Levites have to live in towns and live in cities, and the houses and the cities of their possession the Levites may redeem at any time, because they don't have. They were not allotted land, they were allotted places in towns and cities, he says, and if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house will serve in the city of his possession, shall be released in the jubilee for the house. And the cities of the Levites are their possessions among the children of Israel. But the fields of the common land of the cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possessions. And it's talking about the common areas of the city. They are owned by the Levites and can't be sold. Now, you will. I don't really understand what's going on here. Well, what's going on here is there is a process by which not only could you redeem someone from slavery, but there's going to be a process that you can redeem property, because the property directly relates to the promises of God. The land directly relates to the promises of God. Now, it's. It's, it. Maybe you may not totally get why that's the case, and you may not, over time, ever really figure that out. I'm going to tell you that for me, it is a. It's not. It's not something that's just crystal clear. Why? Why the land? But I am willing to tell you that this picture is an important picture that needs to be carried out throughout scripture, that, that the promises of God were tied to the promised land. God took them out of Egypt and brought them to a land that he had promised to their forefathers. It was an inheritance. It was, it was something that was promised to the ones that came before them. And that promise was passed from generation to generation. And I want you to hear me that that is an important principle that is carried on throughout scripture. And when, when God gives us promises, those promises are yes and amen, and those promises are not, do not go away. And those promises can't be broken by God. You cannot live in them and you cannot have the best that comes from them, and you cannot have the results that God wanted and desired for you in them. But they are not gone. The, the gift and the, the gifts and the promises of God are irrevocable, which means, or they're without repentance, which means God does not turn back away from them. He keeps going in the midst of them. And so even if you mess up, this is a clear picture of the christian life. Even if you mess up and ensnare or cause the promises of God that he's given you to be, to be under, under the authority of someone that they should not be, you give in to the flesh, you give in to the enemy, give in to the world. And those are three different things. My flesh has to do with my own sinful nature. That comes from my literal, the lust of my flesh, the enemy, meaning giving in to the enemy's temptations or given interwoveliness, which is just carnality, it's just wanting to be like the world rather than wanting to be like God. Whenever I give into those things, whether it be carnality, whether it be fleshly lust, or whether it just be a spiritual attack that I just give into. And you can give into a spiritual attack, you can give into depression, you can give in to anger, you can give into, you just think of the fruits of the spirit. And what is opposite of the fruit of the spirit would be something that the enemy would want you to engage in. Rather than love, I'd engage in hate. Rather than, rather than power and strength. I'd give in to fear and doubt all the things, peace. Rather than having peace, I'd give into anxiousness. Rather than having joy, I would give into depression and doubt all the things that are opposite of the fruit of the spirit. Would be a spiritual tact that I'd give into. And when I give into those things, even though I give in, and even though I may even for a moment sell those things and give them away and not operate in the promises of God, his promises still remain. And so this picture is a picture of the ability to redeem them. Now, sometimes a friend of ours, somebody, our family member, will come and help us walk our way out of them. That's a picture of helping your, you being a kinsman redeemer, and you helping your, your family member or your friend redeem the promises of God that he's walked in. Sometimes God supernaturally comes in and brings, brings you to those understandings by his holy spirit. That happens a lot. And that's the Holy Spirit acting as a redeemer of the promises of God. And then sometimes you go to God and you repent and you turn and you hear the voice of God, and you walk it out, and that is you redeeming you, you determining that you're going to hear God and not hear the world. And all these, all these processes are clear understandings we have in the New Testament of how we should live. And they're spelled out and they're foreshadowed in the Old Testament. God gives us these physical pictures of going into the promised land and taking the land and holding the land and the land, producing for us, and us laboring in the promises of God, or working out or walking by faith in the promises of God. And as we do that, we receive the blessings that come from trusting God. And then you have all these struggles and struggles with the flesh and struggles with the world and struggles with the enemy, and you determine you're going to act like the world and live like the world. Maybe you tell your dad that you want your inheritance and you go spend it on righteous living. All these pictures, all these pictures are pictures of us in our lives, giving in to the world, giving in to our flesh, giving in to the enemy, or choosing to walk by faith and receiving the promises and the blessings of God. And he gives us these real, just clear pictures and then allows the jewish people to live it out over centuries and to do it well sometimes, and to do it very poorly sometimes. And each one of these stories and each one of these pictures kind of give us insight into how how this, this, these spiritual truths that are hard for us to understand because we don't start out being spirit, how these spiritual truths are worked. And so as you're studying, as you're thinking, as you're considering these things. It's good to come across a passage like this and go, oh, that's where kinsmen redeemers are coming from. And you say, well, I didn't know anything about that. Well, if you studied Ruth, you have. Or you maybe studied through the book of the revelation, you would have understood that those principles of the go, well, the kinsman redeemer. And maybe you didn't know where it came from. Well, here it is. Leviticus, chapter 25. We get the first passage that deals with redeeming the promises of God from where you gave them up. In whatever process you did, that you gave them up and did not walk in them. And God wants us to learn how to walk in his promises. His promises are yes and amen. They were without repentance, meaning they're irrevocable. You can't. God will not revoke his promises from you, but you can choose not to walk in them. You can choose to sell them. You can choose to give them away. And God has a process by which to bring them back.

As you go today, I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you, and that he will give you hope and peace today. In Jesus name.