Where do we go from here?

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Gleanings from the Sabbath Year

• Where do we go from here?

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The Law
Leviticus 251-7 The Lord said to Moses on
Mount Sinai, Speak to the Israelites and say to
them. When you enter the land I am going to give
you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to
the Lord. For six years sow your fields, and for
six years prune your vineyards and gather their
crops. But in the seventh year the land is to
have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to the Lord. Do
not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. Do
not reap what grows of itself or harvest the
grapes of your untended vines. The land is to
have a year of rest. Whatever the land yields
during the Sabbath year will be food for you
for yourself, your manservant and maidservant,
and the hired worker and temporary resident who
live among you, as well as for your livestock and
the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land
produces may be eaten.
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The Law
Exodus 2310-11 For six years you are to sow
your fields and harvest the crops, but during the
seventh year let the land lie unplowed and
unused. Then the poor among your people may get
food from it, and the wild animals may eat what
they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and
your olive grove.
Deuteronomy 151-18 The Cancelling of Debts and
the Freeing of Slaves
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The Comparison
The Fields are the Lords. It is His provision
to sustain life for people, animals and all other
living things.
Gods plan, to accomplish His purpose, is to
engage His redeemed people in His worldwide
mission of mercy. Who are His redeemed people?
US
The Church
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The Great Commission
All authority in Heaven and on earth has been
given to me. Therefore go, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you. And surely I can with you
always, to the very end of the age.
The Great Omission
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A Simple Truth
Friends, the main thing is to keep the main
thing, the main thing. And if you dont know
what the main thing is, you may find after years
that youve been majoring on minors and minoring
on majors. Don Richardson
Author of Peace Child
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A Great Commission Christian
Believers in Jesus Christ who are aware of the
implications of Christs Great Commission, who
have accepted its personal challenge in their
lives and ministries, and who are seeing to
influence the Body of Christ to implement it.
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Where are the Radicals?
What is the deal with Christian colleges,
anyway? Shouldnt they be graduating students who
are revolutionary, anti-institutional,
anti-cultural extremists? Isnt anyone else upset
that most of our Christian colleges are
graduating compliant, materialistic, irrelevant
students who dont have a radical bone in their
bodies? Who will push the envelope in the
generations to come? Mike Yaconelli
Founder Youth Specialties Limited.
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The Pearson Passage
Sew for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit
of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed
ground for it is time to seek the Lord until He
comes and showers righteousness on you.
Hosea 1012
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