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Moses is preparing Israel to cross the Jordan and enter the land of God’s promises. Moses himself cannot cross the Jordan and enter Canaan. He has one last speech, one last opportunity to prepare Israel. He wants it to go well with them, he wants them to understand that if they would listen and take God’s word into their hearts and walk according to those words that it would go well with them.
They need the statutes and judgments, the wisdom of understanding, the principles of righteousness to guide their steps, so Moses reminds them of the significance of the Law.
Many of them were not even alive when Israel received the law of God forty years earlier at Mount Sinai. They needed to be reminded; but more than that they needed to know that this was the way of greatest blessing.
In this speech, Moses is seeking spiritual revival. He knows that Israel must have their hearts right before God. In fact, Moses calls on Israel to love God more than 10 times in the book of Deuteronomy alone. That is what revival is, to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
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Here in these verses of chapter 15, Moses reminds them of the instructions of the Law that had to do with the Sabbath year. We know God gave Israel the Sabbath day, the seventh day of the week, as a day of rest and devotion to the Lord. But God also gave the Sabbath year.
According to verse 1, at the end of every seven years they were to grant a release of debts. All debts were to be forgiven. As part of the forgiving of debts, however, they were to set free any slaves that were Hebrew kinsman.
In those days and in that culture, if a person became severely indebted, they could sell themselves into servitude as a way of paying their debt. Therefore, the forgiveness of debt included setting free all those who had sold themselves into indebted slavery.
The spiritual significance is profound. These verses speak prophetically about our relationship to Jesus Christ. He is our Sabbath and in Him we find forgiveness of sin, the payment of our debts, and are set free.
However, Moses pointed out another interesting provision of the law. If the person who was being released from his debts and being set free said, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your household, then that servant could become a
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bondservant; a servant by choice and a servant for life because of his love.
The apostle Paul called himself a bondservant also. These are profound lessons.
I. Never Forget What God has Done for You
➢ Verse 12 -- In the Sabbath year they were to forgive all debts and set free any Hebrew slaves among them as part of the forgiveness of that debt.
➢ Not only should he be set free, however, he should be generously provided for so he could start a new life.
➢ Verse 13- 14 -- “And when you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed. You shall furnish him liberally from your flocks and from your threshing floor.”
➢ God is a God of new beginnings. He not only sets captives free; He sets their feet on a rock.
➢ God wanted Israel to be generous, to bless abundantly because God had blessed them. In other words…
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A. Bless because you have been blessed
➢ Verse 14 -- “You shall give to him as the
Lord your God has blessed you.”
➢ Verse 15 then follows, “And you shall
remember that you were once slaves in
the land of Egypt and the Lord your God
redeemed you.”
➢ In other words, never forget where you
came from. It keeps you always humble
and always thankful.
➢ God redeemed Israel from oppression and
slavery. What did he free you from?

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