The scriptures read are Leviticus 25-27, Psalm 38 and Mark 12.
Leviticus 25. Everything goes fallow every 7th year. And every 50th year is the Jubilee year, when people get back their ancestral lands and Israelite slaves are freed. There's a lot in here about treating people properly, especially those who have fallen on hard times. Because ultimately the land is God's and all the people are his servants.
Leviticus 26. God paints an idyllic picture of what the promised land will be if the people keep his covenant and a chilling portrait of it if the people break God's covenant. If they confess, however, God will remember to keep his part of the covenant.
Leviticus 27. How to figure the monetary equivalent of things dedicated to the tabernacle. And now you've finished your 4th Biblical book and 2/3s of the Torah, the Pentateuch, the 5 Books of Moses.
Psalm 38. A man acutely aware of his guilt and wracked with pain and sickness and depression over it asks for forgiveness and healing.
Mark 12. Jesus tells stories and wins debates on stuff like taxes, the resurrection and the greatest commandments. And he gives kudos to a poor widow who understands giving self-sacrificially.
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