This sermon looking at a number of laws from Deuteronomy 15 showing us something of God's heart.

We see that God required his people to forgive debts every seven years. This is because he is a God that releases us from debts. Nowhere is this demonstrated better than in how he releases us from the debt of sin through Jesus Christ.

God's people are called to be generous to the poor and needy. This is because he is a God who gives to us freely and ungrudgingly. God has an open heart to us and our circumstances.

We see that God instructs his people to free their fellow Hebrew's from slavery in the seventh year. This is because he is a God who free's slaves. He did this for his people in freeing them from slavery in Egypt and does it in freeing us from our slavery to sin.

God's people are told to sacrifice their firstborn animals without blemish to God. This is a foreshadowing of Jesus' earthly mission. As per the united will of God, he laid himself down for all who believe in him, as the perfect sacrificial lamb without blemish.

We can respond by celebrating God's magnificence embodied in his heart behind these laws and by living in the light of who God is.