Sermon by Friendmaker For God @ RCC 25:8 "And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 25:9 Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land. 25:10 And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family. 25:11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. 25:12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field.
Key Point: As we celebrate RCC's 50th anniversary, let us get back to the "basics" of Biblically informed, and passionate, personal commitment to being fully devoted followers/disciples of Christ Text Principles - "Year of Jubilee" - God owns everything; we are to be dependent on Him
- We can be enslaved by our possessions, debt, status, etc. and depend on our resources instead of relying on God
- Jubilee requires us to return to the basics of land, family, values
- Jubilee allows/creates opportunities to re-create justice and mercy relationships between employer/ee, lender/borrower, owner/tenant, countrymen/foreigners etc.
What would happen if we actually did a Jubilee?
To what/whom are we __________________? Property, debt, status, self-reliance etc.
How do we find __________________ from the "cult of the imperial self'? To what __________________ do we need to return in 2008? Link to the website mentioned at the end of the sermon. Click "View Presentation" |
Follow this blog
