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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Does God want you to live a comfortable life? Should you strive for an easy life? Should you spend all your resources on yourself? In today's episode, Keith shares what we can learn from the year of Jubilee in Leviticus 25. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Leviticus 25

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.
0:12.0	Imagine you received a letter in the mail telling you that all your debt was forgiven.
0:16.5	Your school loans paid off.
0:18.3	Your mortgage?
0:19.3	Gone.
0:20.3	Your credit card bills.
0:21.3	Abolished.
0:22.4	As crazy as it sounds something like this happened
0:24.8	every 50 years in ancient Israel. It was called the Jubilee and the Jubilee
0:29.8	was a day of liberation. Debts were forgiven and dintered servants released mortgage property
0:35.8	returned. And on this same day everyone's sins were forgiven. Even spiritual debt was paid off. Our word jubilation comes from the jubilee, and you can see why.
0:47.0	If you are poor or in debt or enslaved or oppressed, the day of jubilee would lead to Jubilation.
0:53.0	In Leviticus 25, the Lord gave Moses instructions for the Israelites to observe two very important years,
1:00.0	the Sabbath year and the Jubilee.
1:02.0	Those both follow from the fourth
1:04.3	commandment that instructed the Israelites to rest every seventh day and to
1:08.9	dedicate that day to the Lord. The day of rest was called the Sabbath in the same way every seventh year they
1:15.5	were to give the land a year of rest and after seven of those after 49 years
1:21.6	they had a Jubilee. The Jubilee was a proclamation of liberty to
1:26.0	the Israelites who had been enslaved because of debt and was a restoration of land
1:31.0	to families who had sold it out of financial need during the previous 50 years.
1:36.4	Here's Leviticus 25 verse 10.
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