Five Years so the Increase is Yielded.

[whirlwind]

• Leviticus 19:23-25 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of. But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the LORD withal. And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase therof: I am the LORD your God.

Someone from another forum, a spiritually minded child of God, just taught me the most profound lesson regarding those verses.

When we "come into the land," or...when our Father first calls us...we study His Word. We gather knowledge but it is the milk, the letter of the Word. For those three years it is "uncircumcised" to us. But, in the "fourth year" we begin to truly see and hear what the Words say. In the fifth year His Spirit feeds us, feeds us the meat of the Word.

I found that fascinating.

 

[toddm]

Are you looking at that as spiritual growth? While that is definitely not what that passage means, if that is an analogous insight that you discovered, then more power to ya!

 

[whirlwind]

Are you looking at that as spiritual growth? While that is definitely not what that passage means, if that is an analogous insight that you discovered, then more power to ya!

No Todd....I'm sure it's about picking up apples and oranges. Whadda ya think??? :crazy

 

[Joe67]

The living reality of all things to us from God is Jesus Christ and his Body, chosen and made unto us from the Father.

Ps 40:6-8
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
KJV

Heb 10:5-10
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
KJV

Joe

 

[whirlwind]

The living reality of all things to us from God is Jesus Christ and his Body, chosen and made unto us from the Father.

Ps 40:6-8
6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
KJV

Heb 10:5-10
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
KJV

Joe

Joe, I just reread your post.

The Words you have chosen to quote are very profound...

As He does come in the volume of the Book and He is the Word I find that [Hebrews 10:10] has a two-fold meaning to me. We are sanctified through the offering of His body on the cross. And too, we are sanctified as we offer His body, His Word, to others. He doesn't want burnt offerings and sacrifices but in order to do His will we are to offer Him, the Word, to others.

 

[Joe67]

WW,

Truly, as Moses and Paul were given to testify, the Word of the Father does come to us.

He opens our ears, and then we speak, as David testified.

As Peter testified, we speak as the oracles of God.

We cannot bring Him to us by our will, and we cannot prevent His coming to us in His grace.

John 1:13
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God
KJV

Joe