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Leviticus 25 closes with the Lord reminding the people of an idea central to everything He’s discussed in this book. God declares in verse 55, “The children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”

Seven times in Leviticus God takes a moment to remind the “children of Israel” that He was the One who liberated them from Egypt and freed them from their bondage. For 400 years they’d been held captive and forced into the servitude of Pharaoh. Not only was their prospects of liberation slim, but the Egyptians had grown brutal in their mistreatment.

Most incredibly, when all hope was lost and their future bleakest, God steps through the divide, raises up Moses, and miraculously delivers the Hebrew people. What’s important about this divine intervention and why God feels the need to remind them of this reality on seven occasions throughout Leviticus was that they’d been freed for a purpose.

You see God liberated the Israelites from serving Pharaoh in Egypt so that they might serve Him in Canaan. In fact, as God is wrapping up the subject matter of chapter 25 dealing with slavery, on two separate occasions He refers to them as being “My servants!”

If we look at this story as an illustration of larger realities we’ll see that God has also freed us from this world (Egypt) and the bondage of sin (something we couldn’t attain on our own) for the exact same reason. In 1 Thessalonians 1:9 Paul will actually describe the Christian’s conversion as a “turning from idols to serve the living and true God.”

I noted last Sunday the great myth of our day is that somehow we live in the land of the free. My friend, this is at best a mirage for you’re only really free to choose who or what you’ll end up serving! In one of his lesser known albums titled, “Slow Train Coming” Bob Dylan sang, “You might be a rock ’n’ roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage. You may be a business man or some high-degree thief. They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief… But you’re going to have to serve somebody, yes indeed. You’re going to have to serve somebody.”


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