Because I'm looking for a harvest for my God, He's real. Lesson's everyone, welcome to another program here on Spiritual Impact. I'm Senior Pastor Tim Parton of the Bundell Life Worship Center, along with my Associate Pastor and my very good friend, Pastor Steve Rose. Good to have you Steve.
As always, to be with you on the program, we've been having some great times on spiritual impact. We've been having some great times at church. As you can see, we have some different items sitting on the desk with us today, and we're going to get into a little bit of this. I've been excited because you and I have talked about this lesson for a while, and I know that we'll barely scratch the surface on it today.
But I know you're going to enjoy today's program so quickly. Call a friend, build spiritual impacts on to get on their TV right now, or the computer, however they can to watch you. But Pastor Steve, I'm just going to turn over to you for a while here. Well, I'm going to hopefully get some input from you here in just a minute, because this is really, when we talk about the Old Testament, a lot of people tell you that the Old Testament, we really don't need to pay attention to it, that it's done away with the new, but that's far from the truth.
We need this because it shows us who Christ is in the Old Testament. The thing is exactly, and how he fulfilled these things in the Old Testament. Today, if I told you, today we're going to study the Book of Law. Everybody be joyful, wouldn't they?
But you know, there's a lot of good things in the Book of the Law here, and I know that Jesus Christ is the end of the law to those that believe. That's what the Word of God says, but you know the law is for a purpose. The law is meant to point us to the schoolmaster. It's the point that's there to Jesus Christ, the who he is, and how, and why we need him.
I want to talk about something today we've heard about before, and a lot of people might not understand the Jubilee. I'm going to tell you something when you talk about the Jubilee. But it's in the Book of Leviticus, in chapter 25 of Leviticus. I'm going to start at verse 8.
It says, in addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, and those were called Shemita, the Shemita year, and it was a year of rest. I tell you, isn't it good that we can enter into Christ and his rest, and it doesn't say, I've heard people say I mean, you know, one time after a while I'll be able to enter into the rest of God, and it says, you know, right now it says we have entered into that rest. Who is that rest? Jesus is.
Who's our Shemita? Who's our rest? Christ is. He says, in addition, you must count off seven Shemita.
That also, that word can translate suspension. For it was a year they took off, they didn't do anything in the fields those year, so a whole year they took off. That's a vacation. Yeah, I know.
What if we say, every seven years you take it, you're off and work? Everybody, hey, that's good. With plenty of provision. That's true too.
And when you look at that, it says there's seven years that seven years they didn't go out and plant and harvest like they normally do. It does say in there, if it produces a crop on its own, you can partake of it, you're not supposed to harvest it and things like that. But he says here, in addition, you must count off the seven Shemita, it's got after the seven Shemita, that's 49 years to 50 years. There's a super Shemita, which is called the Jubilee.
Now, when we start talking about here in the few minutes about the Jubilee, it's something else. But let me go ahead and read this again. In addition, you must count off seven Shemita, Sabbath years, it's seven sets of seven years, adding up to 49 years and all. Then on the day of atonement, that's Yom Kippur, is what they know is the day of atonement, that's where they would go in and make the sacrifice.
It says on the day of atonement, in the 50th year, blow the Rams horn loud and long throughout the land. And it says here, set this year apart, it's holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a Jubilee year for you, and when each of you may return to the land that belong to your ancestors and return to your own clan. I brought some Chofars today too, and there's a little bit of difference in these Chofars here.
I read an article on why they were different, why there's different ones. They said that really it was different because when they went into bondage, you know, when they went into bondage, certain horns, they couldn't get anymore. So they had to find another one, they would blow. This one is what we call the Rams horn, Chofar here, and it makes a little distinctive sound here.
And that's kind of piercing in it, but it says blow the Chofar. Because I tell you, blow on the Chofar, when you look at that, and you know what it says, the last day is more complicated than just from this too, at the last trump of God. Well that trump of God, you know, a lot of times you'll see Gabriel standing with a trumpet. Well it's a Rams horn, Chofar is what it is.
The other one I have here is a little bit different. It comes from a cadoon, which is like a waste African antelope, but it makes a little bit more distinctive sound. This is called a yum and a not Chofar. But it says to blow on the Chofar when the Jubilee year comes.
And I tell you know, that's something we do at our service on Sunday morning especially, we blow the Chofar. You know, you can ring bells if you want to, but we blow the Chofar. Because I really do believe that when you blow the Chofar, I believe the attention to God's call to that place. Because there's so many times you hear in the Word that you had the sounding of the Chofar.
Look that when they went around Jericho. He said for six days, I just want you to march around in silence. Can you imagine that my army's coming around Jericho, march around six days, and then on seven days, I want you to march around seven times. He says, and then blow the trumpets.
Amen. You know, sitting with me, and a lot of times people look at things like this and say, you're trying to go back and live under the law, or you're... In all things that we do, we're doing these in remembrance. We're doing these in reverence.
And I think that, you know, if it's something they did back then as far as, I mean they would sound for battles and, you know, good things like that. I just love the sound of it. And to me, it reminds me of heaven. And like you said, when he comes to get his children, we'll hear a sound, the trump of God.
And whether we're alive or whether we're buried, the dead in grass should rise first in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. So anytime I hear this, I get excited. Amen. And if we learn the Jewish things that come, it brings the rest so much more to life.
When talking about the trumpets and the things like that, because when you look at it, there's so much hidden treasure there. It's going to be a show far that sounds when the Lord returns. So that's why we sound the show far. It's not to take us back into certain things.
But when I look at the Book of Hebrews, for example, unless you understand the tabernacle and the wilderness and the temple, the Solomon built and how it was set up, you can't really fully understand the Book of Hebrews. Because I tell you, I used to read stuff and I didn't understand what he was talking about. But once I did a study on the tabernacle, I got into Hebrews that come to life. Because then it compares the earthly tabernacle to the heavenly tabernacle.
Now Christ was His sacrifice. And when we're looking at these things right here, please understand these all point to Christ. Christ is a fulfillment of these things right here. He is our rest.
But He says, you said apart that one year, that 50th year, He says part is holy. A time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you when each of you may return to the land that belongs to your ancestors and return to your own plan. I look to this word, jubilee in Hebrew, you know it means ram's horn.
So it starts off with the sounding of the ram's horn. Then it can also, this also translates to release or liberty. So the blowing of the trumpet, we have release and we have liberty. I tell you where the spirit of God is, there is liberty and I tell you praise God.
But it also reminds me, and going back to the New Testament, 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 16 says, for the Lord Himself. I like that when He ascended. You know the man that stood around, they looked up watching him go outside, they said there was angels standing there and says, you man of Galilee, watch stand here about gazing, this same Jesus that you see going will come again or see you on the same cell. And it says right there, for the Lord Himself, ain't nobody else coming back from the church.
The Lord Himself is coming back from the church. I feel that I'm saying it makes you want to bring to you right there. For the Lord Himself should have sinned from heaven with a shout. And with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God.
It says right there, the trump of God, that God will sound so far. Oh my goodness, hallelujah. Talking about a sound that's going to wake the dead. It will, that sound will wake the dead.
Those that are dead in Christ, they're going to rise first. But it says, the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Doesn't mean they're asleep there, but they're with God right now. Hallelujah.
They'll come back and be resurrected, glory be to God. They said, you're united into a glorified body. That's right. And raised in perfection.
It says, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds. It says to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. And you know, verse 18 says, wherefore comfort one another with these words. So if that brings you fear, you need to check yourself.
That brings fear right there. Cause it says, you know, when we fear, it says we're not made perfect in love. So when we got those places in our lives, we still fear. That's where we need to look at the love of God in the Word of God.
Help us overcome that fear. Cause we have not been given the spirit of fear, but power, love and say, I'm not. As children of God, we anticipate His coming again. The rapture of the church.
But what that scripture tells me that God Himself is anticipating it as well. Or He will come and meet us. It's going to be a joyful time. Of course, there's a lot more to come.
We get into millennial reigns and other things. But just to know that there's a call coming and Jesus will meet us in the air. And we've been invited somewhere. Usually, there's a, they have a reception type committee or something.
So you feel kind of honored that they've had this plan for your coming. Think how much greater God has planned for His bride. You know, it says, we wait in anticipation. God waits in anticipation.
Cause you know, when they ask, when is this going to happen? When is it going to take place, Lord? You know, He says, man, no, it's not the hour that your Lord has come. He says, not even the Son, but the Father.
When you get into there, there's a marriage thing here. Talk about that. And we'll get into that sometime later, we'll plan on doing a study on a Jewish marriage and how it lines up with the Word of God. But there's so many things rich in the Word that we see here.
But just know that not only do we wait in anticipation, it says the earth itself groans in anticipation. We see these things in the end times, we get things in the earthquakes and all these different things taking place. But it says that's the world growing to be renewed. And I want to look at some of the things that took place during the year of Jubilee.
When you look at the year of Jubilee, after the 50th year, it says, all debts were canceled. Hey, if you think about that, you know, we know the debt that we could not pay. And we look at that all debts were canceled. I'm going to tell you, it'd be good to buy that house in the 49th year.
Because 50th year, that debt, they'd come back and say, all debts are canceled. All debts are done. And so that's the way Christ did for us when he paid the price on Calvary's Cross. When he shed his blood, he paid our sin debt.
It's canceled, paid for all debts were canceled. It says that here also all land was returned to the original owner. And you know, there was a fall of man wasn't there? But I'm going to tell you, I'm telling you, it's good to know.
It says that out there, it says that our adversary that they have walked around as a line seeking humanism, as a roaring line. You know, but they don't hunt roaring. They sneak up on you. But it says that when a line roars that every animal in the jungle will stop.
But it ain't good to know that we serve the line of the tribe of Judah. Amen. Hallelujah. I was looking here and saying, it's talking about that, and I may be getting ahead of you.
But it's so exciting. And this is, God says, I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year that it will bring forth produce enough for three years. And when I looked at that, my mind immediately went to Ephesians 3.20, which is one of my all time favorite verses. He's able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask and think according to the power that works within you.
Well, the power is God. He's, he's an ever-ending source. And you think about that in the natural, and there's a reason he did that. And what the pastor is talking about there, he says, if we take the seventh year off and we don't grow crops, how will we live?
Well, God made a promise and provision. He says, in the sixth year, he said, I'll give you enough crops for three years. Amen. I like that.
Now, right there, he took care of them all the way through. And that's what he wants us to know. That's one of my last points on here. But Yawe was showing them that he was their source.
They made a plan in, but it was Yawe that gave the increase. And he's wanting to say, listen, trust me. And I've been in parts of my life where, you know, in the natural, they say, you ain't going to make it. You can't do this in the natural.
But you know what? He's always been faithful. And you know, I got through it, but I got through it because of the Word of God that he is faithful. He is the provider.
But it says here, too, not only was the land returned to the original owner. That's restoration. Amen. Takes back.
How will do you? I know that old song. I went to the enemy's camp. I took back what they stole from me.
We do that by the power of God. And he says, all Israelite slaves were released. That's good. Wow.
And that's what he wants us to know and understand today that he is our source. He's our source for everything. And that's what I think a lot of times we compartmentalize God. We say, oh, I know you can take care of finances, but this is my health.
Okay. You know what? He's the God of everything. He says in all our ways, acknowledge Him, and He should erect our past.
And when we go to work, we may not work in a church, but we go to work for God. You know, He said, well, no, I go to work for this company. But you know what? That company's, they're working for somebody.
And when we look at it, who owns the cattle in a thousand hills? God does. How will you? You know what Jesus is our Jubilee.
The glory be to God. I tell you, I like that. He is the Jubilee. And in the Luke chapter four, in verse 17, it says, And there was delivered unto Him, the book of the prophet Isaiah.
Now this comes from verses chapter 61 verses 1 and 2. It says, and when he had opened the book, he found the place where he was written. This was Jesus. And what he's reading about here is the Jubilee.
He says here, and he's in the God, and he goes, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. But then he stopped. He didn't finish all of verse two, because the second part of verse two deals with judgment.
He's coming right now. He came in peace. He came to bring the blessing. And when you look at that blessing, the favor of God, that's what he's bringing, the favor of God.
Right here, he wasn't bringing that judgment yet. He says here, he says, Verse 20 says, and he closed the book. And when he was a squirrel that rolled up, he said, he closed the book. And he gave it again to the minister and sat down.
But he says, in the eyes of all of them were in the synagogue, and he said, we're just like, they're watching in a whole way, because he read it with such power, because he was the Word of God. And he was reading this, and he says, and he began to say unto them, this day is the scripture fulfilled in your ears. They just heard the Jubilee talk about the Jubilee. Glory be to God.
Hallelujah. I tell you, that's something that we know that the rest that's in him, that we can rest right now in the presence of God. He says, listen, we have already entered into that rest. Do we trust him?
You know, something that kind of jumps out to me in these scriptures here is because he is our father. In life, usually things are passed down, generation to generation. It's calling inheritance, because he's our father. All these things point to our inheritance, that we have, you've preached on it a legal right, legal tender.
We have the deed. And that only gets excited, because Jesus said, my promise is we're a young man. So there's God's plan of provision doesn't call for anybody to be in lack. That's right.
For everybody to have more than enough in the Jubilee, and I've read many different things on the Jubilee, but it's just fascinating. I mean, you could probably teach for a month on this just getting into the Jubilees. And I know we're trying to hurry through it, but you think about the freedom, the liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, who is our Savior, who took all our same, all our sins, all our burdens, took everything that we owed and could not pay as you've already said, and paid it in full. It's that liberty that we have in him that we can have that rest.
We can be at peace because we know in whom we have believed. And we know that he is the Jubilee, Lord of God. All these things pointing to him, and when you look at them, what they call the Modin, they're pointing times of God, all the festivals. We'll talk about a lot of times at church, we'll talk about the festivals that comes up.
You know, we have Passover, you have Tabernacles, you have all these different feasts that come up. And the reason we do that is not to take people back, try to be bound in law, but to show you how they pointed to Christ. The Christ is the fulfillment. You see him all through them.
I was just attending a Seder service, and you see Christ all through it. He was crucified during the Passover. He was raised on first fruits. I mean, he did these things during those appointed times, and I believe that God does things according to his appointed times.
That's why I believe he said in the scripture, he says, no man know if the hour that your Lord does come, but he says, you shall know the seasons. Okay, how do we know the seasons? I believe it's the appointed to Modin. God, there's appointed times and seasons, we look for those things, because he's the fulfillment of each and every one of them.
You know, if we're entering a wintertime season, we know that it's going to be cold. And I can't tell you what's going to be the coldest day that we have during the winter, but we know we're in winter. And we know that we're in the last days by the scriptures that we read, the things that we see fulfilled. And as far as the Rapture of the Church, I don't believe there's anything that has to be fulfilled that's left before the Rapture of the Church.
Of course, we're getting into a completely another lesson here, because with the Rapture of the Church, the Ushers end the Antacrist then. So that's a whole new study there. But when you look at that, even this past year says in Jerusalem they did a dress rehearsal on Passover. The animal sacrifices again, which we know those will be reestablished in the book of the Revelation, because that's where the Antacrist comes and rips back the veil and declares himself God through in half your mark.
But I tell you, when you look at that Jewish marriage and we talked about that and we will talk about it, it was seven days long. That's why I believe when we're raptured out of here, it'll be a seven-year time frame on earth. I really do believe that because it's the marriage supper of the Lamb. But glory be to God, we'll be with him.
And you know, when that's going to come, there's going to be this sound of a trumpet. How will you? And he's going to come because that sound of the trumpet and the year of Jubilee, glory be to God. That's good right there.
Now it's looking at the Shemeza. They said the actual Shemeza should start this year. One of the seven years of rest, or the seventh year of rest, should start in September this year on Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is the day of atonement.
That's where the high priest would take the blood in once a year into the holy of holies and poured upon the mercy seat of God. And that's when the Jews knew your starts, they said right there. Yom Kippur. So they're supposed to be one of these Shemata start in 2021 and run until September of 2022.
So just saying, when you look at that, that year of rest right there. Be instant in and out. Be ready for His coming back soon, very soon. We don't know the time of the hour, but we see the things taking place.
And we need to be preparing our hearts to meet God. His Jubilee, His freedoms, His liberty, His joy, His provision, His peace. I mean, we could go on and on and on because God is an endless supply of all good things. Bob Bradley in our church, he loves to quote the scripture.
He daily loteth us with benefits. And his starts and genesis and goes all the way through Revelation. And he is so good. He's so awesome.
So mighty. I just, I enjoy my salvation. I don't look at serving God as a chore. I don't look at going to church as a chore.
I look at everything that has anything to do with God about bringing me peace and joy. And if you're watching the program today and you don't have that peace and joy, we need to have that everything in our life. And we're going to go to the Lord and prayer. We want you to pray along with us that you're going to have a Jubilee experience.
God's ready to pour it on your pastor's seat. Father, as we continue to Lord, we stand upon the Word of God. You're only Father we know that all the things that we read is pointing to our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. Father, we thank You Lord.
He is the fulfillment of all these things. Thank You that He is the source of our strength, the source of our peace, the source of our salvation. And Lord that we can rest in Him right now. You're only Father, maybe someone watching right now that does not know the Lord is Savior as their Lord.
And Father, I ask You right now that they would ask Jesus to come into their heart. All they have to do is pray a prayer. Father, forgive me of my sins. Come into my heart.
To be my Lord and Savior. Father, I thank You Lord. According to the Word of God, that whosoever calls upon Your name will be saved. Thank You Lord for saving me in the name of Jesus.
Father, I'm asking You right now that You're only Father, Lord, they'll just find a Bible believing church and they'll be Father. Find out all the good things that You have in Your Word. And the Word of God says that it is true and Father that You cannot lie. So Father, thank You for every blessing in the Old Testament.
And Father, thank You that our promises are found upon a better promise and a better covenant. Father, we praise You and thank You and we ask these things in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
You know, we invite You to come visit us at a Bundell High Forship Center. We're located at 923, Dolly Parton Parkway. And like Pastor Steve said, you'll find a lot of times we'll even, sometimes during the worship, we'll find a song that you can get a couple parts of the shofar in there. And one of us ain't no grave, gonna hold my body down.
That's that's that Trump we're gonna listen to. And you know what? Get ready. Jesus is soon coming back.
We don't know the hour of the time, but we know that He is coming. We have that promise. We know that He's coming to get a people that are looking for Him, a church that is washed in His blood. And we hope and pray that you've made preparations, that you've made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life and you've prayed with Pastor Steve there.
You know, get involved in your church. Help your pastor out because the joy of the Lord is our salvation. And I believe that we should spread that joy. Let people know all around, that we serve a big God that loves us and He wants to take care of us and bless us.
He's a good, good Father. And I tell you, I hate to go. We're having such a good time, but Steve, we're out of time. So until next week, this is Pastor Tim.
This is Pastor Tim along with Pastor Steve saying, God bless you. We love you. Look for God's Jubilee. Hello everybody.
This is Pastor Tim Parton of Abundant Life Worship Center. For those of you that live in the Subrieval area, or maybe you just visit from time to time, we'd like to take a moment and invite you to come visit us at the church. We're located at 923, Dolly Parton Parkway right here in Subrieval. Our service time is on Sunday morning at 11 a.m.
Wednesday evening at 6.30. We just love sharing the Word of God. We're just a family church, so we invite you to come grow with us. God bless.