Enjoy Christ as the Reality of the Jubilee with its Freedom and Blessings

As believers in Christ, we need to enjoy Christ as the reality of the freedom and blessings of the New Testament jubilee; we need to learn to daily enjoy Christ as the reality of the jubilee.

The jubilee is not just something that was ordained by God in the Old Testament; it is an age, the age of grace, for when Christ, He came as the jubilee, and He brought in the age of jubilee. Hallelujah!

A very practical and endearing illustration of the jubilee is the parable of the prodigal son, who is a type of each one of us today.

We were like the prodigal son: we squandered what God gave us, and we lost everything.

But then one day we woke up; we came to our senses, and we realized that we have plenty of food in the Father’s house, so why should we lack and be miserable away from our Father.

Human beings are created in the image of God and according to His likeness, but we were deceived by the enemy and we lost God as our possession.

We think that today we are free to enjoy everything we want, but in reality apart from Christ as our freedom, we have no freedom.

Man is born in sin, a slave of sin, and usurped by Satan; furthermore, all the things in the world are designed by Satan to entrap man, ensnare man, and keep man busy and occupied with things apart from God. Oh, Lord Jesus!

Even after we received the Lord, we still find ourselves as the prodigal son, laboring and toiling in the world, having no food to eat, and yearning to be in the Father’s house. Oh, Lord!

We need to return to the Lord and enjoy Him in the Father’s house.

Whenever we come to God, when we repent and return to God, He lays a feast before us, He covers us with Christ as our righteousness, and He welcomes us back into His house.

He welcomes back to the Father’s house not as His hired servants but as His enjoying sons.

We are not God’s servants to serve Him and toil for Him; rather, we’re His sons, and as sons, we enjoy all the riches in His house.

Thank the Lord for welcoming us again and again. Sometimes we may think that we have gone too far away from God and there’s no way that He would receive us back, but when we hear the gospel and the Lord calls us again, we realize that He is welcoming us again and again.

How sweet it is to hear His welcoming voice, welcoming us to the enjoyment of Christ!

May we learn to enjoy Christ daily as the reality of the jubilee so that we may enjoy the reality of the freedom and blessings in the New Testament jubilee!

Enjoy Christ as the Reality of the Jubilee by Spending Time with Him to be Infused with Him

How can we enjoy Christ as the reality of the jubilee today?

A very simple way to do this is by spending time with the Lord day by day to listen to His word and to be infused with Him.

We need to follow the pattern of Mary, who was not busy doing many things for the Lord Jesus but rather, sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to His word (Luke 10:39).

Today in the church life we can be either like Mary or like Martha; in a sense we all need to be labouring saints, taking care of the needs of others and above all, of the Lord’s need, but in another sense, we need to be like Mary, listening to the Lord’s word.

Martha was busy, being drawn about with much serving, and she came to the Lord and asked Him to tell Mary to not let her do all this alone but to do her part with her.

The Lord’s answer, however, was that Mary chose the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Even as we serve the Lord, as we are busy labouring for Him, we still need to enjoy Christ as the reality of the jubilee by spending time with Him to listen to His word and be infused with Him.

We need to take time to spend with the Lord.

First of all, we need to sit at the Lord’s feet; we don’t sit at the feet of any other person but at the feet of the Lord.

We need to draw near to the Lord Himself.

There’s no other method that is better than coming to the Lord moment by moment to love Him, worship Him, fellowship with Him unceasingly, and remain in His presence.

This is the shortest way. Actually, our service to God results from our drawing near to God, and without drawing near to God, we cannot know Him nor can we know what is in His heart.

We need to pray unceasingly (1 THes. 5:17), taking time to remain in the fellowship with the Lord with an unveiled face so that we may be changed, transformed, into His image (2 Cor. 3:18).

Secondly, we need to sit at the feet of the Lord, putting ourselves in a humble position in order to receive the Lord as grace (1 Pet. 5:5).

Without humbling ourselves before the Lord to listen to His word, we cannot receive His blessing.

If we think we know the Bible and we know what the Lord wants to speak to us, God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

To be humble is not to belittle ourselves; rather, it is to ignore ourselves, negate ourselves, and consider ourselves as nothing, drawing to God to give us grace.

To be humble is to forget the things which are behind and stretch forward to the Lord to receive His new speaking and infusing.

We need to come to Him to speak to us and infuse us with all that He is so that we may receive His riches for us today. Having an attitude of humility invites God’s grace.

Third, we need to sit down and be quiet; quietness before the Lord is often the source of spiritual strength (Isa. 30:15).

Many times our eyes and thoughts are distracted to the outside world, and our soul is troubled within, for we have a wandering mind and vacillating thoughts. Oh, Lord!

When our mind wanders and our thoughts are vacillating, we cannot receive the Lord’s speaking and revelation easily.

We can say that the greatest challenge a man faces is being quiet before the Lord. As we draw near to God, we need to quiet down our being.

Our mind is easily distracted and set on many things, but we need to bring it back to the Lord.

We may think about our education, our day ahead, our family, our needs, or a particular person; again and again, we need to calm down our inner being so that we may see the Lord and enjoy Him.

May we have the simplicity and the purity that are in Christ.

Psa. 27:8 says that we ask one thing of Jehovah – one thing! – to dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of our life to behold the beauty of Jehovah and to inquire in His temple.

We want one thing: to see the Lord, enjoy Him, behold Him, and be infused with Him. If we quiet down our being and focus on the Lord in this way, we will enjoy Christ as the reality of the jubilee.

We don’t need to pray for this or that; we need to focus on the Lord in our time with Him. We need to seek His face.

His face is available to us, and as we behold Him, we will also reflect Him.

If we want to have the Lord’s image imprinted in us and be transformed into the Lord’s image, we need to quiet down our being before Him as we spend time with Him.

May the Lord make us willing to be quiet in our inner being so that we may behold the Lord and be infused with Him through His word.

Fourth, we need to listen to the Lord’s word. He speaks to us words that are spirit and life (John 6:63) so that He may dispense Himself into us.

As we listen to the Lord’s word, we afford Him the opportunity to communicate Himself to us so that we would continually receive the Lord and gain Him.

We should not just receive man’s words but God’s.

It would be such a pity for someone to receive, understand, and enjoy man’s words but miss God’s word in the meetings of the church.

May we listen to the Lord and afford Him the opportunity to communicate Himself to us, infuse Himself into us, and transform us into His image as we spend time with Him in His word (2 Cor. 3:18).

Lord Jesus, we want to enjoy Christ as the reality of the jubilee today by spending time with Him to be infused with Him. Amen, Lord, open our ears to hear Your word. We want to listen to Your word and be infused with You today. We draw near to You today. We come to You to love You, worship You, fellowship with You, and remain in Your presence. Amen, Lord, we sit at Your feet, humbling ourselves to receive Your grace. Save us from being proud before You. We put ourselves aside, we negate ourselves, and we consider ourselves as nothing; we only want You! Grant us to quiet our being before You. May our eyes and thoughts not be distracted to the outside world but be focused on You. Oh Lord, we want to see You, know You, and enjoy You! We draw near to You and seek Your face! Speak to us in Your word so that we may be infused with all that You are. We want to listen to Your word to be infused with spirit and life. Dispense Yourself into us. We want to afford You the opportunity to communicate Yourself into us so that we may continually receive You and gain You!

Enjoy Christ as the Reality of the Freedom and Blessings in the New Testament Jubilee

The jubilee today includes the freedom and the blessings; the reality of the freedom and blessings is Christ Himself.

Freedom is something that everyone desires; no one wants to be in bondage or slavery. However, freedom apart from Christ is not real freedom. Only when the Son sets us free are we free indeed.

When we come to the Lord and exercise our spirit to touch Him in His word, we are made free, for we know the truth and Christ as the truth sets us free. But without Christ, we have no freedom.

Today many people want to have freedom and they fight for their rights.

But freedom without God is not real freedom.

God’s salvation causes us to have real freedom (Luke 8:32, 36; Gal. 5:1; 2 Cor. 3:17).

Outward freedom is not real freedom; inward freedom is given by the Lord as the reality of the jubilee is the real freedom.

We need to enjoy Christ as the reality of the freedom and blessings in the New Testament jubilee.

Our freedom comes from enjoying God. When we enjoy God in Christ, we are truly free.

The world no longer usurps us, sin has no hold on us, and Satan has no ground in our being when we enjoy Christ as the reality of the jubilee. The more we enjoy God, the more we have freedom.

Freedom is to be without oppression or deficiency.

It is not just people who can oppress us; situations, things and matters can also oppress us, and this is something inward.

May we come to the Lord to enjoy Him as the reality of the freedom and blessings of the New Testament jubilee!

We may be freed by the Lord and not be oppressed, but we may be poor, for we don’t have God as our possession.

Poverty is a tremendous bondage.

May we keep enjoying the Lord to be released from any bondage and slavery, and may we partake of His riches in spirit through pray-reading His word daily so that we may not be poor but be enriched by Him!

Hallelujah, today God is our possession, and when we enjoy Him, we have freedom!

As we go through the day and take care of the things we need to do, we need to keep coming back to the Lord to enjoy Him.

We may start in a positive way in the morning by contacting the Lord, but by lunchtime, we may be in bondage to our work or our thoughts; we need to come to enjoy the Lord by spending time with Him to be infused with Him and enjoy Christ as the reality of the jubilee.

When we enter into the reality of the jubilee, the enjoyment of Christ, we not only are returned to God as our possession, but we also obtain freedom and are released from the bondage of slavery.

Real freedom is within, and real freedom comes from the enjoyment of Christ.

When people seek freedom apart from returning to God, more problems are produced and more evil things are brought in.

People today talk about freedom, civil rights, human rights, and all kinds of rights, but if man doesn’t enjoy God, he cannot have real freedom. Oh, Lord Jesus!

The Bible tells us that we first must be returned to God before we can have freedom.

If we want to enjoy real freedom, we need to come to the Lord, repent and receive Him, and by enjoying Him we have freedom!

But if we just want freedom without being returned to God, the result is that we don’t have real freedom.

God’s salvation causes us to have real freedom, and through being saved, we return to God to enjoy Him as our possession. Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus, we want to enjoy Christ as the reality of the freedom and blessings in the New Testament jubilee! Hallelujah, the jubilee has come, and we can enjoy Christ as the reality of the jubilee! Amen, Lord, we come to You to enjoy You day by day. Only by enjoying You can we have real freedom. Lord, You are our freedom, for when the Son sets us free, we are free indeed! Keep us enjoying You today. Only by enjoying You can we be freed from all bondage, all heavy burden, all oppression, and all enslavement. We return to You again and again. How much we need You as our real jubilee. We don’t want to seek any freedom apart from You. Lord, You are our riches, our possession, and our true freedom. We love enjoying You today and enjoying real freedom. We love enjoying the riches of Christ to be rich in Christ, filled with Christ, and overflowing with Christ. Hallelujah, in the jubilee we are returned to God as our possession and we enjoy Christ as our real freedom!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ricky Acosta in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Watchman Nee, vol. 38, pp. 271-272, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2024 July Semiannual Training), week 5, Enjoying Christ as the Reality of the New Testament Jubilee.
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