Living In The Time Of Jubilee

In the Old Testament, in Exodus 25, God instituted the "Year of Jubilee."  This "Jubilee" was a celebration that happened every fiftieth year and it was a year where "liberty" was "proclaimed throughout the land to all its inhabitants."  This year of Jubilee signified a time when every man who had worked as a servant to payoff a debt, was to be set free and their debt forgiven and they were to be allowed to return to their home. 

In Luke 4:18-19, when Jesus was speaking in the synagogue, He stood up and read from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah and He spoke these words:  "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."

"The acceptable year of the Lord" that Jesus spoke of typified the year of Jubilee when liberty was proclaimed to all the people on the day of atonement.  When the atonement of Christ is fully embraced, the sick, sinful, helpless, and needy are restored.  When Jesus was crucified it was the year when everyone was made free and we are now living in a time of Jubilee.  The exciting aspect of this reality is that the day of Jubilee became a person not just a time of year.  Our Jubilee has come.  His name is Jesus.

Sound Your Trumpet of Freedom and Victory

In the Old Testament, the beginning of the year of Jubilee was signified by the sounding of a trumpet.  It is time for us to sound our trumpet of liberty and freedom.  There are four freedoms that Jesus has brought to His people.

1. Freedom from Slavery to Satan and Sin:  Romans 6:14 - For sin shall not have dominion over you:  for ye are not under the law; but under grace.
2. Freedom from Sickness and Disease:  Galatians 3:13 - Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us:  for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
3. Freedom from Debt to Satan and to the World's System:  Colossians 2:13-14 - And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
4. Freedom from Fear:  2 Timothy 1:7 - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Jesus came into our sorrow to lead us into Jubilee.  We have become God's property, bought and paid for, no longer belonging to the kingdom of satan.  Today is your day of Jubilee.  Are you ready to receive the freedom God has for you?