Expectation Management
Helpful to get a
Torah - New Year
Mindset should we be in
Another chance to reframe
Look at our lives in a new way
Rosh Hashanah
Creation
God created Adam and Eve
Yom Kippur
Day of
Our passage today
Sin offering for himself and his family
Goats
One a sin offering
Sins placed on him and sent into the wilderness
Sin
Put to death and banished
Year starts with the double mindset of Creation and Fall
New year starts at the beginning again
Created - sourced in God
Origin
Everything is gift
Sin
We have rebelled against God
Creation is not bent and broken
We are misshapen and twisted
We chase after things that destroy us
Even the good we desire is bent
New Year Mindset
Gratitude - see God’s hand in every gift
Sin - start the year seeking God’s forgiveness
Two goats
50 years
Kick off for
Lev. 25
8 “You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 10 And you shall consecrate 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 clan. 11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. 12 For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field.
13 “In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. 14 And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. 15 You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops. 16 If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you. 17 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God. —Lev. 25:8-17
Later in vs. 23
23 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land. —Lev. 25:23-24
Finally in vs. 35
35 “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. 36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. 37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. 38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. —Lev. 25:35-38
Property - all owned by God
Given as an inheritance to the people
Down on your luck and had to sell
Only until the next Jubilee - land was to be returned to you
At the Jubilee, your inheritance was returned to you
You are stangers and sojourners with me
Don’t charge
I am the Lord your God
Society was structured to care for the poor
Because everyone understood who they were in the story
Not self-made success; barons of business and success
Rooted in God’s mercy and grace
You can’t have Jubilee without Yom Kippur
Cheap
Falls over again…
Jesus
Luke 4
Today this is fulfilled in your hearing
He is our Jubilee
In Christ,
Creator
Our Azazel
Our Jubilee - returns us to our inheritance
This year, let’s enter 2024 with the right mindset
Created, atoned
Redeemed