Read God's Law Every 7 Years

All right. Well, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to coffee and his devotions this morning We're at Deuteronomy chapter 31 verses 9 through 13. We're gonna be talking about something that needs to be done every seven years There's a seven year ceremony. They got to read the law. Let's have some coffee.
We'll pray and get into God's Word Yes You didn't even wait for me to offer it to you. You knew it was coming someday. Someday, son, I'll be proud of you. You think someday I'll be proud of you? Someday, maybe, but today is not that day. I'm always proud of you.
All right. Here we go. Let's pray. God, we thank you so much for this day. We thank you for the blessing it is to get to read your word. It's in a language we can understand. That's a huge blessing. Father, we pray that we would. Please love your word. Please let it be instructive to us. He just while we are to believe and how we are to live in Jesus's name. Amen. All right. Deuteronomy chapter 31, verses nine through 13. Oh, this is nine. Mm hmm. I need to go back. Oh, you said 19. Thirty one, nine to 13.
All right, go ahead. So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord unto all the elders of Israel. And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every ten years, at the appointed day, the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, When all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God, the place which He chooses, you shall read this law for all Israel in their hearing. Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God, and to carefully observe all the words of this law, and that their children who have not known it may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as you live in the land which you crossed the Jordan to possess. All right. So we got three questions. A, what is this about? B, what is the best for someone? And C, what do we call it? All right. So what's this about? That you're supposed to read the law at the year of least least slaves. You're supposed to read law.
Good. So every seventh year of the year of the Sabbath year. Right. So you had the Sabbath day every week, but every seventh year you had a Yeah, it's Sabbath year. Right. And so at the year of your right, there's a remunition of slaves. They're released. And then is that all that happens? Oh. You're supposed to be kind of like what's going is kind of helping you like, oh, why are we doing? It's actually like a whole reset. Did you know that they're not allowed to plant their fields that year either? Yeah, so the seventh year is like a big deal for them. Right.
So every seventh year, God says on the sixth year, he's going to bless you enough with enough grain for multiple years to make sure not just that year, but even the year after that, you're going to have food and you'll have seed for the for the first year to be able to plant. And so the Lord says he's going to bless you abundantly, you got to trust him and keep keep his laws, but he's going to care for you. And so there's almost like this reset cycle that he wanted to have in Israel.
You know, the funny thing is every year for the farmers here, every year they have to. they like normally the farmers like to switch between beans and corn because then they plant too much corn then the ground isn't yeah they got to take care of the soil right and so they rotate the crops yeah so it's kind of interesting that one year they let the soil Yeah, so so even in in the Middle Ages, what they found out is that crop rotations were good.
And so they didn't know exactly why, but they just knew that if they move the crops around, right, we'll do lentils this year and then the next year we'll do some corn. The next year we'll do this. And they would grain then barley. They would change things around to try to care for it. But the point is, letting the field life fallow for one year was actually healthy for the land.
But the point is, is that it was getting them to see that God was king. He was going to care for them. He was going to provide for them. They could trust him. And so every and so on that seventh year. Right, there's a year of big things that have to happen, right? Slaves. Yeah. That's. Canceled. Fields fallow. Their whole life was supposed to revolve around all of this.
So what do you think would be the best verse of this? So they're supposed to say this law, read the law every seven years. What do you think is the best verse that kind of gets at the heart of that or why they're doing that? So in what we read, verses 9 through 13, what do you think is the best verse that kind of gets at the heart of this? I think maybe 10? Okay, 10 and 11, why do you choose those?
Like that's what passage is about, leading the law. Okay. Yeah. See, I actually chose 12, right? Gather to get, gather the people together, men and women and little ones, the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear, that they may learn to fear the Lord, your God, and carefully observe all the words of this law. But that didn't mention the seven years at all. So I'd go for yours too. That's fine.
I'm going to argue verse 12, but I'll let you. 10, 11, and 12. So you're just going to leave out 13 all by itself and verse nine. Come on, man. I'm just kidding. That's fine. Let's go ahead and talk about C calling. What do you think you're called to do from this? Can I give you an interesting tidbit before we get in that? We don't have any indication that Israel ever did any of this. Actually, I do know why. They had the 70 years of exile. They didn't do it? One year for every Sabbath year they didn't observe. 100 years? 700 years. So 100 times 7, 70. Or sorry, 10 times 7. Right, so every seven years they were supposed to do this, they didn't do it. And so the Lord says, OK, well, you didn't obey me that with that.
So. The Babylon you go one year for every year you miss 70 Sabbaths. So what do you think you're called to do? we'll call them to worship God at His appointed time. OK. Worship God at His appointed time. OK. Right. We can go to the book of Hebrews. Right. Do not forsake the assembling of yourselves as is the manner of some. Right. But even in the New Testament church, right, there's supposed to be an assembly where we encourage and provoke each other toward love and good deeds. OK. But this isn't this isn't actually talking about the weekly Sabbath.
Yeah, it's every seventh year. I think this is remembering that God is the king. This is what I'm getting from it. I need to remember in my life regularly what God has said. His word is perfect. That he's the covenant king, I need to be reminded on a regular basis. That it's his ways. Not my ways, not what I want to do, not the way I want to live my life, not the way I want my world to operate. But I need to bow my will to his. And trust in him.
That's one of the things I might call from here, I might I might pull up. But Jesus says that. There's. Every verse or every part of the Bible is pointing to him, so how do you how would you point this to Jesus Christ? Mm hmm. OK, so. Yeah, I think there's a few ways to go, right? One is we follow the law of Christ, right?
Many of these things that they were supposed to do on those annual Sabbaths were remembering the poor, not being oppressive, but also think about this stuff that we talked about. If you don't have to work, let's rest. Jesus tells us to find our rest in him. If the debts are canceled out, what did Jesus do with our debts? Yeah, he paid for them and for himself. I think Jesus is the one that we need to be reminded about time and time again, because he's our covenant king now. Right. He's the one who rules over us and so we can follow him.
It's kind of a little bit of a stretch, huh? Yeah, but the immediate thing, what is this about? It's about reading the law every seven years. So only read your Bible once every seven years. You think that's what this is good at? Yeah. All right. You want to pray for us or you want me to pray? You. OK.
God, thank you so much for giving us your word. It is sweeter than honey. More pure than the finest of gold. Lord, we thank you for. giving us rest in Jesus Christ. Lord, we pray that we would follow in you, in your ways and trust in you. You are a covenant king in Jesus's name. Amen. May the Lord bless you as you rest in him. May you read your Bible more than once every seven years. We'll see you next time.