BREAKING THE LAW OF FAITH


Bible Study
Thursday, August 28, 1997
MF Blume



Levi 25:4-7 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of its
own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine  undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. And the sabbath of the land shall be meat
for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy  stranger that sojourneth with thee, And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy
land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

Levi 26:14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

Levi 26:32-35 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword
after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the
land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths. As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.



ISRAEL HAD TO LET THE LAND REST EVERY SEVEN YEARS.

ROMANS SPEAKS OF THE LAW OF FAITH

Roma 3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

THERE IS A LAW OF FAITH WE MUST LIVE BY OR WE WILL NOT SEE THIS THING WORK.

To introduce this topic, let me illustrate the Point of this message with Abraham.

Abraham was told to walk through the land of Promise.

Genesis 13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

We have a spiritual version of this today:

Ephesians 3:17-18 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

Abraham owned the land, but he did not know about all that was in it.

 It was unrealized.

This is a land of PROMISE

 JORDAN RIVER

There was a RED SEA to see opened up at the beginning of the Exodus

Red Sea depicts water baptism, and water baptism is circumcision...

Colossians 2:11-12 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ: Buried with him in baptism,...

So what does JORDAN RIVER signify?

 -A SECOND CIRCUMCISION

There is a second circumcision for the believer to experience.
We must cast off the fear and doubt which holds us back from crossing into the promises.
Israel had older doubtful people and children who began to be born and grow after they left Egypt.
Israel doubted God at the first when the older generation were afraid to walk into the land Joshua was told to circumcise the Israelites a second time.

Israel had to begin believing. This shows us the need for believers to see that carnality is in them and must go. They must learn to trust God. Some never learn.

God told Israel:

Joshua 24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.

This stresses a wonderful thought - GRACE.
God dug a well for us when Jesus died.
But there is a message for those who WERE THERE ONCE, but left and lost something.

After being in the land, years later we read...

Israel was in this land and had the blessings.

2 Chronicles 36:15-21 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon. And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.  

Israel LOST their blessings due to unbelief.

Jeremiah 25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,

Jeremiah 25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Jeremiah 29:10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

Every 7th year was a sabbath year for the land to rest.
This speaks of our promised land.

While in Babylon, Ezekiel prophesied much about the NEW COVENANT.

Ezekiel 36:26-30 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you. And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

SO WE CAN SEE THAT BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY REPRESENTS LIFE WITHOUT OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF FAITH

God gave it a good rest by letting it be freed from the Israelites who were carried off into Babylon.

 At the end of the captivity in Babylon, Zechariah saw a vision

Zechariah 1:12-13 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years? And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

Spirit ministry is the heart of the Land of Promise.

Galatians 4:22-23 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

Galatians 4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

She was barren but now has many sons.


Galatians 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

Land of Promises and children of Promise in Jerusalem - our mother.

The Law of the Spirit of Life is our law.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

We are blessed because of His name.


Keep your faith in the cross for your needs to be met

Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Look back at the love God had for you in saving you.

ABIDE IN ME

Depending on the cross alone for our entire success is what Jesus meant when He said abide in me.

John 15:4-7 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Abiding in Him is relying upon him

Keep your faith in Jesus.
Moses' law was a schoolmaster.

FAITH HAS A LAW

MINISTRY OF SPIRIT is spiritual work accomplished in our hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

2 Corinthians  3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?


We REST in time of need, because we seek God in faith, rather than wildly try to solve our problems ourselves, and expect the need to be met. WE REST

Jerusalem means CITY OF PEACE.
Paul said the LAW OF SIN AND DEATH rules us - government of Babylon - when WE try to do everything on our own

Romans 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

But when we cease this folly and TRUST HIM instead...

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Jerusalem's law of peace frees us from law of Confusion.

Confused believers are bound in confusion and kept from the blessings of God.

Paul was in captivity.

Romans 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

ANSWER:

Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. ...

UNBELIEF surrounds the heart like a SHELL
If one is confused, ask them if they stepped out in faith and refused to worry and did not worry.

START BELIEVING AGAIN AND RETURN TO THE LIBERTY LAND

All our requests go to God's throne.
DO NOT REASON AND DOUBT

LEARN TO EXERT FAITH.

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