BREAKING THE LAW OF FAITH
Bible Study

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

• THIS LAW HAD TO BE OBEYED OR ELSE ISRAEL WOULD BE
  REMOVED FROM THAT LAND AND THE LAND WOULD REST IN GOOD SHAPE.

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.

Gene 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:

Ephe 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.
• until he walk through it, he would never know what he had
• We need to comprehend all our inheritance, too.
• Eph. says we must comprehend and allow Christ to dwell in us by faith
• being rooted in faith is being able to comprehend all the inheritance we have.
• we are not aware of it all until we venture out in faith.
• we walk by faith.

• what is the first thing that comes to you when you receive a promise?
• you either believe it or not
• Receiving a promise demands you exert FAITH
• this is a land of promise
• all that is there is only obtained by faith.
• but a barrier holds you back from entering this domain
• JORDAN RIVER

• Now there is a second barrier to open

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

Colo 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

• it is not for salvation, because the Red Sea did that
• water baptism is part of the salvation.
• this is a second circumcision
• just because you are saved and out of Egypt, does not mean you are in the land of Promise
• you must exert MORE faith now.

• this is long after we are saved.
• this is JORDAN

• these little ones did not know the evil of Egypt like the older ones
• the older ones brought some of Egypt along

• they saw giants and were afraid
• people are afraid of walking by faith
• they do not think it will work
• they fear failure
• that part that fears is what needs to be circumcised away.

• he meant that the younger generation had never been circumcised yet
• the older ones had been, but they died
• and after they died the newer ones were circumcised
• then God said he rolled away the reproach of Egypt.
• the older generation who doubted was removed when the children were circumcised
• it was as though the older represented the carnality that we all have when we are first in the church
• we are saved, but yet are so carnal
• this needs to be removed so we can enter the PROMISES
• the part of us that FEARS to trust God is a reproach. It must go.

God told Israel:

Josh 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

• -when God says He gives to us things we need, which we did not work to have, we see the thought of GRACE.
• But these things are only achieved by FAITH, for we cannot work for them
• They're in the land of Promise.
• And that means we must BELIEVE in order to have them.
• GRACE and FAITH go together.
• you BELIEVE God will give you blessings without working for them.

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

• but they broke God's Law and were bound captive

2Chr 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.

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

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

Jere 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.

• they could not work the land

This did occur.

Israel's land enjoyed 70 years of rest with no harvest or pruning of vineyards.

• This speaks of our promised land.
• it is a place in faith where our needs are met
• we live by a LAW.

Ezek 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

Zech 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.

• From Jerusalem went forth the Law of the Spirit
• Jerusalem is the Church
• A group of believers is what God works through - never an individual
• Body ministry
• Jerusalem is the mother from above which bears children of promise.

Gala 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.

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

• SARAH represented Jerusalem Above.
• the children of promise.

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

• we belong in the land of promise
• in the Great City of Promise where the Law went forth
• children of Jerusalem
• free born

Roma 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.

• Jerusalem was the city that Had God's name
• the temple represented the name
• we have God's blessings because of God's grace
• when we forget dependence upon Jesus' name for anything we get from God then we lose our blessings.

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

• because of His love for you in dying for you, you have all your needs

Roma 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?

• and use that to encourage yourself that He will freely give you all things you have need of.

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

• then we can ask what we will and we will have it!
• if we do not rely upon Him, then we are cast as a withered branch.
• those who dry up are those who never use faith
• too worried about what someone did to them to enjoy God.

• your only link to God is the death of Jesus on the cross in your place
• lose that connection and you lose the blessings.

• it helped teach us of the NEW LAW
• the bondage of Israel due to not obeying the Law of Moses foreshadows the spiritual bondage of not obeying the SPIRITUAL LAW.
• the spiritual law is trust in Jesus
• stand on the fact He died for YOU to have your needs met
• this is a law we must live by!

• whether it looks impossible or not, we must understand that God will give us what we need
• break that law and you lose blessings.
• no answers to prayer result from unbelief
• you must believe what you pray for will come to pass.
• you are bound as a sinner who has no faith

2Cor 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.

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

• BUT WE MUST REST IN HIS WORKS.
• do not think your good works give you blessings
• never!
• God is concerned with more than good works
• he wants your HEART to be right with Him.
• to love Him and trust Him.
• to break the law of life is to live by works. AND NOT BELIEVE

Jerusalem means CITY OF PEACE

• live in peace and rest
• no worry
• people who cannot believe cannot REST
• lack of faith carries you into bondage of Babylon - CONFUSION
• this is exactly what a person who cannot believe feels like - CONFUSED.

Roma 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...

Roma 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/

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

ANSWER:

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

UNBELIEF surrounds the heart like a SHELL

• -the heart turned to God in faith will be circumcised of that veil
• delivered from it all
• faith allows MINISTRY OF SPIRIT to work
• God's ministry is much better than OUR human ministries.

START BELIEVING AGAIN AND RETURN TO THE LIBERTY LAND

All our requests go to God's throne

• those with the seal of JESUS' NAME, are answered
• those without this seal are ignored
• the seal of His name MEANS that we know that only due to Jesus' death can we have anything from God
• Jesus said that no man comes to Father but by Him.

DO NOT REASON AND DOUBT
DO NOT LET CIRCUMSTANCES DISCOURAGE YOU
DO NOT WORRY AFTER YOU PRAY FOR A NEED
DON'T LET THE LAND OF PROMISE REST AS YOU SUFFER CAPTIVITY OF BONDAGE

LEARN TO EXERT FAITH
STRIVE TO BELIEVE AGAINST ALL ODDS
FIND REST TO YOUR SOUL
DWELL IN JERUSALEM - CITY OF PEACE