We can be released and have real freedom only by enjoying Christ as the life-giving Spirit; only those who enjoy God do not commit sin and are really free, for they enjoy God as their possession and He makes them free.
Jubilee is doesn’t mean that after we believe into the Lord everything is fine, peaceful, in liberty, and with no problems; rather, from the time we are saved we need to continually enjoy the jubilee.
Jubilee is for all people, including God’s people, for even after believing into the Lord we still can be under some bondage or slavery. It is so easy for things, matters, and situations to enslave us, for Satan works tirelessly behind the scenes to usurp us and bring us back under his authority.
We all may need such things as education, a job, a family, a car, a house, and other material possessions, including a phone, maybe even a laptop or a tablet. But all these things, as necessary as they may be, can enslave us.
We may go to school to study, yet we may be enslaved by our studies, and we may have no time for the Lord and His word. We need to get a job, but our job may keep us in bondage if we have no time for the Lord, for the church life, and for our family, all in the name of “making more money”, having a career, and supporting our family.
We may need a car, but when we think about the car, spend time with the car, clean the car, and treasure the car to the extent that we always have time for the car but never have time for the Lord and His people, the car is used by Satan to enslave us.
Satan works both outside of us behind the things in the world, and inside of us as the lord of the dunghill, the lord of flies, to get us to eat of his refuse and dung, and to enslave us.
He is within us, in our flesh, and he always leads us to sin. He is outside of us, behind so many things that are seemingly necessary and harmless, to bring us into bondage. Oh Lord Jesus!
We need to see Satan’s scheme to usurp us, enslave us, and rob us of our enjoyment of Christ, and we need to enter the jubilee by turning to our spirit to enjoy the Lord! As believers in Christ we need to continually turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to enjoy the Lord and remain in the jubilee.
Day after day we need to enjoy Christ as the life-giving Spirit so that we may have real freedom and enjoy all the blessings of the jubilee. Only by having an adequate enjoyment of Christ can we be freed from bondage, slavery, and usurpation.
We can be Released and have Real Freedom only by Enjoying Christ as the Life-giving Spirit
In Rom. 7:24 Paul uttered the desperate cry of every human being, recognizing that there’s something in him, in his flesh, that causes him to sin, and realizing that he’s a wretched man, having a body of flesh.
Who can deliver us from the body of the flesh, the body of sin? A few verses later he realized what the solution is – in Rom. 8:2 he said that the law of the Spirit of life frees us in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and of death.
This entire chapter, Romans 8, is a chapter on the freedom of jubilee and on living in the reality of the jubilee.
We need to realize that we can be released from sin an its power, and we can have real freedom, only by enjoying Christ as the life-giving Spirit.
Even after believing into the Lord, sin still dwells in our flesh, and whenever we set out to do the good with which we agree in our mind, evil is present with us, and we end up doing the evil and not the good.
Whenever we decide or make up our mind to do the good, evil is present with us and defeats us all the time, forcing us to do the evil which we don’t want to do.
But praise the Lord, Christ went through death and resurrection and became a life-giving Spirit, and whenever we enjoy Christ as the life-giving Spirit, we are freed from the law of sin and of death!
Man is under bondage and has no real freedom, but whenever we turn to our spirit and enjoy Christ as the life-giving Spirit, we are released and enjoy the freedom of the jubilee!
The sin within us has a real controlling power, and we cannot defeat it. For example, when we get angry, it is not easy for us to stop and turn to the Lord… And if we can do that, the anger may return whenever we are reminded of that person or that situation. Oh Lord Jesus!
We need to build up a habit of enjoying the Lord, a habit of turning to our spirit and enjoying Christ as the life-giving Spirit, so that we may enjoy both the blessings and the freedoms of the jubilee in our daily life.
We initially enter into the jubilee when we believe into the Lord and then live in it, so we need to daily exercise our spirit and remain in the jubilee, for so many things in us and around us try to usurp us, enslave us, and bring us into bondage, away from the Lord as our real enjoyment, our real freedom, and our real inheritance.
The blessings of the gospel are the return to God and the gaining of God as our possession, and the freedoms of the jubilee are being released from the bondage of sin, Satan, and the world.
As we enjoy the Lord as the life-giving Spirit, we are automatically released and freed from sin and its power. Christ we the life-giving Spirit is a law, the law of the Spirit of life, which is much stronger than the law of sin and of death which operates in our members.
As we turn to the Lord in spirit and enjoy Him, the law of the Spirit of life operates in us to free us from the law of sin and of death, and we enjoy the freedom of the jubilee.
Hallelujah, we can be released and have real freedom only by enjoying Christ as the life-giving Spirit! Thank You Lord for going through death and resurrection to become a life-giving Spirit. Thank You for becoming the law of the Spirit of life which is in our spirit. Lord, we turn to You: we want to switch on the law of the Spirit of life so that we may be freed and released from the power of the law of sin and of death! Amen, Lord Jesus, increase our enjoyment of You day by day so that we may be really free, living a life of liberty, release, and freedom from bondage!
Only those who Enjoy God adequately do not Practice Sin and are Really Free
If we do not enjoy the Lord sufficiently, we may still be in bondage to many things; making up our mind to not sin or do good will NOT work – we must continually come to the Lord to eat and enjoy Him.
God is faithful – He called us into the fellowship, the enjoyment, the joint participation of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord (1 Cor. 1:9). We have been called to enjoy Christ, and we need to continually enjoy Christ as the life-giving Spirit.
If we are thirsty, we need to come to the Lord to eat and drink; we need to enjoy the Lord freely, in a free way, and this enjoyment will release us from the bondage of everything of the enemy (see Isa. 55:1-2).
The only price we need to pay is our time and our willingness to come to Him; when we come to the Lord, He is our portion, and He sets us free.
Only those who enjoy God do not practice sin and are really free (see John 8:11-12, 24, 28, 31-36).
We may think like the Jewish people in the Lord’s time, that we have no master but God, and we are slaves to no one; however, many times we do what we do not want, we speak what we don’t really wish to, and express what we don’t really mean.
Christ has come to first shine on us and show us that we are slaves to sin in our flesh, and then to proclaim the jubilee: returning to God as our possession, enjoying God, and being released from any bondage and slavery!
The year of jubilee is for us to return to God from the authority of Satan and to be freed from the slavery of sin.
It’s useless to struggle and strive; the only effective way is for us to believe the gospel and enjoy God! Making up our mind never to lose our temper and not to commit the evil that’s in us will NOT work; we must enjoy the Lord Jesus.
We must learn to contact the true and living Lord and enjoy Christ as the life-giving Spirit. When we enjoy Christ, when we exercise our spirit to touch the life-giving Spirit with our spirit, He becomes our release within us and our freedom.
Christ as the jubilee frees us from our poverty, captivity, blindness, and oppression (see Eccl. 1:2, 14; 3:11; Phil. 3:8; 2 Pet. 2:22; Luke 12:21; Rev. 3:17).
Without Christ everything is vain and empty, but when we enjoy Christ, we are filled with Him and in real freedom.
We should not think that we as believers are alright so we don’t need the jubilee….as the Lord told the church in Laodicea, we may think we are wealthy and rich, but in His eyes we may be poor in the riches of life, poor in the enjoyment of Christ as our life and life supply.
We need to pray that the Lord would make us rich in Him, rich in the enjoyment of Christ!
Lord Jesus, save us from thinking we’re rich and have no need of anything. We come to You, Lord, to enjoy Christ as the life-giving Spirit with our spirit. Lord, make us rich toward God, rich in the experience and enjoyment of Christ. We come to enjoy You, Lord, in an adequate way until we are filled with You and we are freed from the power of sin. Oh Lord, only You as the jubilee can free us from our poverty, captivity, blindness, and oppression! We want to continually come to You to eat and enjoy You!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Ed Marks for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1984, vol. 4, “The Jubilee,” ch. 4, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Leviticus (2), week 11, The Jubilee (2).
- Hymns on this topic:
# All sinners are the slaves of sin, / All poisoned by death’s sting; / Christ only can from sin and death / A full deliverance bring. / He is the Everlasting One, / Who longs to set us free; / If we do not believe in Him, / We’ll die in misery. (Hymns #1021)
# Made free! Made free! O captive! / Bound by the law of sin, / The law of life in Spirit / Will quicken you within. / And counting on the Spirit, / His life shall now control / The members of your body, / The portals of your soul. (Hymns #508)
# There is now then no condemnation to those / Who are in Christ Jesus. / For the law of the Spirit of life has freed me / In Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. (Song on, The Law of the Spirit of Life)
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