 The Word of God is Truth and Life! Food For our Souls that sustains us everyday. As it’s freedom, God’s living Word, with its power to transform, penetrates to the depth in our being. Dare we open ourselves to that kind of intimacy? It is a Living Word, a word vibrant with life, a word that carries the power of life, and the power of transformation, a persistent word – a word that is active in us until our very spirit and soul, joints and marrow are divided or parted; that is, until death. Enjoy this short reminder that Gods Word is necessary for us to live: Monthly Manna “Our Jubilee Christ” 18 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 brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. Luke 4:18-19 Types and shadows in the Old Testament mean a living reality for us today. The Israelites’ fiftieth year of Jubilee is a type and shadow of the acceptable year of the Lord, the Jubilee that Christ has brought in. We don’t have Jubilee every fifty years; we have it all the time. Jesus brought the year of Jubilee for the whole Church period which has lasted more than two thousand years now. No longer in spiritual bondage, no longer slaves to the devil, we can be free through Jesus Christ. This wonderful Jubilee we have offers man freedom from the devil through all the power, the glory, the greatness, the joy, the goodness and the righteousness available to us in the blood of Jesus. In Old Testament days, possessions were redeemed with silver and gold, but since corruptible things could not be used to redeem the soul, man needed the perfect Redeemer to redeem his health, soul, and everything. The Redeemer Kinsman, Jesus, was the only one who could redeem mankind; that redemption would take divine blood. The divine blood of Jesus renders sin helpless; it has no power over you when you are purchased by our Redeemer Kinsman. Through Him we have victorious life and are made a partaker of His divine blood. There is NO other kinsman on Earth with divine blood of God that could bring us back to God. Jesus is the Jubilee Christ who has paid the price to redeem all that was lost in the fall of man. Man is not able to redeem souls; man cannot save people from their sins, and man can’t redeem this earth. We only have Jesus the perfect Redeemer, the Jubilee Christ. Adore Him, worship Him, strive to be as much like Him as you possibly can. Jesus is Lamb of God, the Jubilee Christ, the one who walked the waters, set the captives free, raised the dead, died and rose again. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessings. Close your eyes; open them again, and there it is, the miracle of the earth’s redemption by Jesus the miraculous Jubilee Christ, the miraculous Redeemer Kinsman, the miraculous Elder Brother in the family of God. Jesus died on Calvary so that people could be made new. God wants what He had in the beginning: Man and woman holy before Him, loving only Him. God will have nothing less than that in the Perfect Age. He never has and never will have anything to do with sin. The Jubilee Christ came saying, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). Man needed the life that only a divine Redeemer Kinsman could bring. Man had become a slave to the devil; death awaited him. Jesus brought a second chance at life, a new beginning—the Jubilee Christ our Redeemer Kinsman. Every record of those who accept Him is wiped clean, all the slaves of sin set free when they take Him as their Jubilee Redeemer. The Jubilee Christ showed men and women how to live in Jubilee freedom every day here on Earth. So NOW Live it. The term “JUBILEE” The word “Jubilee” is derived from the Hebrew term yôbÄ“l which means ram”. This is because the “ram’s horn was used for trumpets and the year of jubilee was announced by the blowing of the trumpet” (cf. Josh 6,4-8.13). Isaiah speaks the language of the Jubilee year when he prophesies of the coming prophet who would be filled with the Spirit of Yahweh and who would bring good tidings to the afflicted, bind the broken hearted, comfort mourners and declare liberty to captives. He would proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and God’s year of vengeance (Isa 61,1-3). In the NT, Jesus strongly identified himself with the messianic prophet of Isa. 61,1-3, when he read in the synagogue of Nazareth. This episode (cf. Luke 4,16-30), thus, becomes programmatic for the entire ministry of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke – as He becomes the one through whom God would accomplish all those prophetic details of Isaiah (cf. Luke4,21). Humbly Submitted Minister Nina Amos |
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