September 27, 2017 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

Want Jubilee’s Freedom—Try Repentance!

One cannot have Jubilee unless one keeps Jubilee. God is specific about what to do when He asks His children to honor Jubilee. There are of course rituals, fests, prayers, but also repentance. During a 50-year timespan, most of us accumulate un-forgiveness, resentment, and bitterness. People, things, or circumstances have injured us, yet we chose to harbor anger, hatred, and strife. We are hurt emotionally and often spiritually. We are angry toward family, community, and even God.

Through Jesus we do not have to wait for every 50-years for the benefits of Jubilee—Christ’s resurrection made all the promises of God available to each of us every day. But as it was before Christ, it is the same after Christ’s passion. God says, “Here, here is your freedom, your salvation, your life with peace and blessings—it is found in Jubilee.”

James 1:19 states: “Beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” And in Micah 6:8, He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? God wants us to turn from anger, un-forgiveness, and resentment.

If we are to serve Christ as a faithful servant, we must find healing and all healing is found in forgiveness. “As you forgive others, this is how God will forgive you,” Jesus’s own words in the Sermon on the Mount. We must repent, ask for forgiveness and give forgiveness. Do not think you can fulfill Jubilee other than through repentance—it cannot be done (read the all of Micah chapter 6—your efforts, God does not honor).

During the Year of Jubilee, all debt was forgiven to Jews and strangers alike. All sin was placed under the atonement, type of Christ shedding His blood for you and me. If we refuse to repent, if we refuse to offer forgiveness, if we remember wrongs then God will not forget our debt, our sin, or all our wrong behavior.

I challenge you to remember your sin and then ask for forgiveness. I challenge you to remember all the wrongs others have committed against you and offer forgiveness—yes forgive their debt to you. I challenge you to stand in the gap for others—knowing their sin, hatred, anger, and resentment either to you or to others that were close to you and ask God to forgive them (and yourself for continuing to remember their sin).

Do you want freedom? Do you want blessings? Repent for yourself, your family, your friends, your church, and your community. Spend the next 3 days in pray and brokenness before God. This is the time of the Forgiveness of Jubilee and it is found only in repentance.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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