Leviticus 25-27, Chuck Smith teaching (C2000, 1979 to 1985)

Read as you listen: Chuck Smith on Leviticus 25

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Now as we get into chapter twenty-five, they were to give the land a Sabbath day's rest or Sabbath year. They were to plant the land for six years, the seventh year they were to let the land rest. Really, I like these laws of God. Man, you've got a lot of seven-day holidays spread through the year. Then every seventh year, you just kick back and take the year off. You don't even plant anything in that year; you just let grow up whatever grows up and you eat that. But God said, "If you will do this in the sixth year I will cause your crops to be so bountiful that I'll give you a three year's crop in the sixth year so that it'll carry you through, clear, and over until you are harvesting from the eighth year. If you'll just follow this," God said, "I'll let you have the whole year off.