Luke (Program #59) – Jubilee (6)
In our materialistic society today, people have many things, but are they really happy? Are they really enjoy the freedom that God had intended for them in Christ?
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Exodus (Program #166) – A Companion of God – Mediator, Knowing God’s Heart
Exodus reveals a tremendous breach between God and His people Israel, brought on by the sin of the golden calf. At the very time God was giving the commandments to Moses, Israel was breaking several of them at the bottom of the mountain. To rectify the situation more was needed than just God’s forgiveness; God and man needed a mediator.
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Luke (Program #58) – Jubilee (5)
Freedom is something that everyone is seeking today. But what is real freedom? The apostle Paul said in 1 Cor 6:12 “all things are lawful to me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful to me, but I would not be brought under the power of anything.” To not be brought under the power of anything this is the real freedom. That is what we are going to talk about in the life study of the Bible, we are on the living of the Jubilee.
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Exodus (Program #165) – The Principle of the Golden Calf Idol – Moses’ Petition for the Idolatrous People, Jehovah’s Word
In one of the truly remarkable passages in the Bible, the very God and Creator of the universe is provoked beyond His patience by the idolatry of His people Israel. In His anger He vowed to destroy them but in the midst of His righteous and holy indignation, He is persuaded not only to spare them but even to repent of His justifiable plan. What is it or who is it that can change God’s mind?
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Luke (Program #57) – Jubilee (3)
If you are hungry and a mouth watering apple pie was placed in front of you, wouldn’t you be happy? But if someone took it away from you wouldn’t you be sad? Well, in a sense God is that apple pie. He is the real enjoyable meal, He is the real food for the hungry ones.
And today in life study of the Bible, we want all of the listeners out there who are hungry to be fed by these words – not just to hear a word, not just to know about a word, but to enter into and enjoy the very food that’s in God’s word.
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Exodus (Program #164) – The Principle of the Golden Calf Idol – Two Scenes, An Idol Made by God’s Redeemed People
We all have heard the story of God calling Moses to Mount Sinai and gave him the ten commandments. And while Moses was there in God’s presence, God also gave him the design and instructions for building His habitation on earth with man, the tabernacle. This was the wonderful scene at the top of Mount Sinai. Yet at the same time, God’s people, Israel were at the base of the mountain, worshiping at the feet of a golden idol. What a contrast! These two scenes will our focus on this life study program.
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Luke (Program #56) – Jubilee (2 & 4)
There is a famous bell in Philadelphia of Pennsylvania with the inscription engraved on it from the Old Testament book of Leviticus, 25:10, which says “Proclaim liberty through out all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” In the United States this liberty bell is a traditional symbol of U.S. freedom. But the freedom refer to in the Bible is much bigger. It is referred to as Jubilee. The Lord Jesus proclaims this liberty for all mankind, when He announced in Luke 4:18-19, “the Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has anointed Me to announced the Gospel to the poor, He has sent Me to proclaim the release to the captives and the recovery of sight to the blind to send away in release those who are oppressed to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, the year of Jubilee.”
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Exodus (Program #163) – The Breaking of the Law – Idolatry, Self-Beautification, Mixture in Worship
We all know that Moses received the commandments of God on Mount Sinai in stone tablets. Yet before Moses could even get down the mountain to give the commandments to the people, the people had already grossly broken the very commandments that Moses was carrying in his hands. We know how disappointed, even angry that Moses became, but what about God? Did He not see this coming? Was He also surprised and angered by this sin as Moses was?
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Luke (Program #55) – Jubilee (1)
When all is said and done, in the human life they are really only two basics items that we really have to be concerned with #1 our possessions, #2 ourselves. To become poor is to loose all of our possessions, and to become a slave is to loose ourselves. In Israel, in ancient times all the families were given a rich portion of the land but the foolish or the unfortunate ones might be forced to sell off their possessions in order to continue to provide food. But eventually, they may be forced even to sell themselves into slavery, if they would to continue to eat. Yet the Lord made a way for these suffering ones to be released from their captivity and to be released to return back to their portion of the land. This way was called the Jubilee. The Jubilee is an important part of the New Testament as well.
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Exodus (Program #162) – The Sabbath in Relation to the Building Work of the Tabernacle – Sabbath, Refreshment
After a very long section dealing with the blueprint for the tabernacle and all of the aspects of priestly service the Lord reintroduces the matter of the Sabbath rest for His people. It’s an interesting insertion in the divine record and surely this repeat of the Sabbath rest is worth examining as to how it applies to us in our own walk with the Lord and our service to Him.
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