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Text: Exodus 23: 10-11

MEDITATION

Exodus 23:10-11

10 Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,
11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE

1. The Sabbath principle

a. The Sabbath was not just a day.

b. There was a principle behind it.

c. The principle would become a law in the land.

2. The Sabbath year

a. This law would be implemented when Israel entered Canaan.

b. They must seek to practise:

i. The Sabbath principle

ii. The Sabbath Day law

3. Sowing and Reaping

a. Canaan had good fertile soil.

b. Agrarian economy

This was common in those days.

c. The land may be fully utilised:

i. Sowing

ii. Reaping (gathering the produce.

4. The seventh year

a. The land must be allowed to go fallow.

b. The land can be overworked.

c. The land needs to rest too.

d. The land would include:

i. Vineyards

ii. Olive groves

5. The beneficiaries

a. The poor people who may be hired:

i. To till the ground.

ii. To sow the seeds.

iii. To gather the produce.

b. “The beasts of the field”

i. They worked hard to help the farmers.

ii. They need this break too.

6. What lies beneath this Sabbath principle

a. Understanding of the land.

b. Kindness for the poor and beasts of the field.

c. Faith in the Lord to provide:

i. A harvest good enough to last through the fallow year.

ii. God’s provision.

iii. God’s protection.

经文：出埃及记23：10-11

沉思

《出埃及记 23：10-11》
10 “六年你要耕种田地，收藏土产，

11 只是第七年要叫地歇息，不耕不种，使你民中的穷人有吃的，他们所剩下的，野兽可以吃。你的葡萄园和橄榄园也要照样办理。

在生活里有意义地应用

1. 安息的原则

a.安息日不仅是一天

b.它背后是有原则的

2.安息年

a.当以色列进入迦南地时，这律法将会被执行

b.他们必须遵守：

i.安息日的原则

ii.安息日的律法

3. 耕种和收割

a.迦南土地肥沃

b.农业经济社会

当代，农业经济很普遍

c.要充分利用土地:

i. 耕种

ii. 收割 (采集农物)

4. 第七年

a. 地要歇息

b. 土地不能过度使用

c.土地也需要休息

d.土地包括：

i.葡萄园

ii.橄榄园

5. 受益人

a. 可被雇用的穷人，能受聘来帮忙:

i. 挖土

ii. 播种

iii. 收割

b. 田里的野兽

i. 它们努力地帮助农民

ii.它们也需要休息

6. 这个安息日的原则是什么

a. 对土地的了解

b. 善待穷人和野兽

c. 信靠上帝会提供:

i. 足以耐过安息年的收成

ii. 上帝的供应

iii.上帝的保护