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Exodus 23:10-19

“Totally God’s”

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Leviticus 26:34

‘… the land will enjoy its sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

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Leviticus 26:34

Romans 14:5 “One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind.”

Galatians 4:9–10 “But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years.”

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Exodus 23:10-19

“Totally God’s”

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Deuteronomy 6:6–9

“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. 7 “You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. 8 “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. 9 “You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”

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Feasts and Festivals

  • Passover/Unleavened Bread March/April

  • Harvest/First Fruits/ Weeks/Pentecost May/June (Lev. 23:17–21; Num. 28:26–31)

  • Ingathering/Succoth/Booths/Tabernacles

September/October (Lev. 23:39-43; Deut. 26:1-11; Num. 2912-40)

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Hebrew Time Markers

  • Weekly - Sabbath rest; no work for man or beast

  • Annually – Three Communal worship festivals and feasts

  • 7th Year – Year of Release – slaves released; debts forgiven; land rest

  • 50th Year – Jubilee – all the above plus land returned to original ownership

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Leviticus 26:5

Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.

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Exodus 5:1

“And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.’ ” (Exodus 10:9 as well)

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Feasts and Festivals

  • Passover/Unleavened Bread March/April

  • Harvest/First Fruits/ Weeks/Pentecost May/June (Lev. 23:17–21; Num. 28:26–31)

  • Ingathering/Succoth/Booths/Tabernacles

September/October (Lev. 23:39-43; Deut. 26:1-11; Num. 2912-40)

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1 Corinthians 5:7–8

“Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

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Feasts and Festivals

  • Passover/Unleavened Bread March/April

  • Harvest/First Fruits/ Weeks/Pentecost May/June (Lev. 23:17–21; Num. 28:26–31)

  • Ingathering/Succoth/Booths/Tabernacles

September/October (Lev. 23:39-43; Deut. 26:1-11; Num. 2912-40)

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Exodus 23:10-19

“Totally God’s”

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Leviticus 3:16–17

‘The priest shall offer them up in smoke on the altar as food, an offering by fire for a soothing aroma; all fat is the Lord’s. 17 ‘It is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings: you shall not eat any fat or any blood.’ ”

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Exodus 23:10-19

“Totally God’s”

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Observations

  1. Promises renewed
  2. God Organizes us around Him
  3. God Orders Worship
  4. God insists on corporate worship
  5. This passage informs Christians
  6. These are about Jesus.

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1st Corinthians 15:20–23

“But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. 21 For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming,”

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Ephesians 1:13–14

“… you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.”

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Observations

  1. Promises renewed
  2. God Organizes us around Him
  3. God Orders Worship
  4. God insists on corporate worship
  5. This passage informs Christians
  6. This passage is about Jesus.

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John 4:35-36

“Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. 36 “Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.”

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Exodus 23:10-19

“Totally God’s”