If you wish to follow along turn
to Leviticus chapter 25 Now you realize we're getting close to
finishing the book of Leviticus. I Thought about this the past
several days I didn't know if I was going to even live long
enough to get through Genesis and Exodus let alone Leviticus
And I may not get through Leviticus Leviticus chapter 25. I want
to read three verses because they are the the touchstone of
this chapter Leviticus chapter 25, I hope you're there, verse
8. And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee,
seven times seven years. And the space of the seven sabbaths
of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. The amazing thing,
God wants to make sure they got this right. The seven sevens
of years should already have told them 49 years. But he says
it's going to be 49 years. Then, then, Shoutbell calls the
trumpet of jubilee to sound on the 10th day of the seventh month. Here it is. In the day of atonement. Not just any old day. But in
the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout
all your land. And ye shall hallow, or that
is, make holy, consider as holy, to count it as holy. And ye shall
hallow the 50th year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof. It shall be a jubilee unto you. And ye shall return. Now look
at this. And ye shall return every man unto his possession. Now you know what he's talking
about. If you read the chapter, there
is much said here about land and about houses. And by default,
if you have to return to a possession, that means you have left or lost
the possession. Our possession is eternal. and
ordained of God. But in Adam, we lost it. Okay? Men don't return to something
new. They return to that which God
has ordained for them from the foundation of the world. And
ye shall return, every man unto his possession. And ye shall
return, every man unto his family. These three verses are the crux
of this chapter of the subject of the day of Jubilee. My title for this message is
Jubilee Has Come. Jubilee has come. Gospel preaching
is not announcing that Jubilee will come. Gospel preaching is
not announcing that Jubilee might come. Gospel preaching is not
announcing the mere possibility of Jubilee. Gospel preaching
is announcing that the day, the year, the time of Jubilee has
come. Now, if you did have time to
read, again, take note. Verses one through seven, rest,
rest, rest, isn't it? Rest, rest, rest. Even the land was to have its
Sabbaths. Now I know there are those that
say this was of a practical nature. That six years you sowed your
fields and you reaped your harvest, and on the seventh year you let
the land rest. And Mason, I'm sure that God
in his wisdom as creator knows this would be a physical benefit
to the land, to let the land rest. But it's much more than
that. It has great spiritual implication
as well. And understand, please do not
be upset with me this morning if there are some things that
when you read this that things popped out in your mind that
I don't deal with. There is very much in this one
chapter, lands, houses, peoples, servants, slaves, strangers,
foreigners, all of these things that I don't have time to deal
with them all. But this is true. Rest. That
is true rest. Rest in Christ. Come unto me,
Christ said, and your soul shall find what? Rest. Rest is vital, but think of it.
Rest is meat. That's M-E-T-E. Rest is meat,
M-E-T-E, for God's chosen people. And this was only for God's chosen
people. This wasn't about the Egyptians.
was it? This wasn't about the Amalekites,
and I hope some don't get this wrong, but this wasn't about
the American natives that happened to be alive back then, way back
yonder. This wasn't about the Alaskan,
this was about God's chosen people. And the lesson is, God's blessing,
the inheritance, is for God's chosen people. It's always been
that way, and will always be that way, and will never ever
be any other way. So rest is meet, M-E-T-E, for
God's chosen people. But rest is also meet, M-E-A-T,
for God's chosen people. I feed on the rest God gives
me in Christ, don't you? Don't that give you comfort in
all of your toll? Whether it's your physical labors
in this world or whether it's your spiritual labors in this
world, rest is what you need. Isn't it nice on that Saturday,
Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, whatever it is, when you get done with
a hard day's work and you come home, you get your chores done,
you can just sit down and do what? Just rest. Rest. You see? According to this,
and you could go back and read it, verses four through seven,
concerning the seven year Sabbaths, and of Jubilee, verses 11 and
12, God's people can never hoard rest. Did you ever read that? On the sixth year, God said,
I'll make the land supply enough for three years, but you'll only
have to go through one year of not plowing. Did you read that? What I'm saying is, what God
has for his people is sufficient based upon the promise and power
of God, not upon us. You can't hoard up God's rest. Have you ever thought, some of
you may have, maybe some of you haven't, have you ever thought,
well, I don't want to pray for too much, because I might just
deplete things. I'm not going to pray for that.
That's mundane. I'm not going to trust God for
that. That's mundane. When you have a beast that lives
in your home with you and you have to take it to the vet and
it costs you $250, it no longer becomes mundane. Does it? Huh? Now does it? In other words,
Paul says this in Ephesians 1, God has blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in the heavenlies in Christ. It's there. It's there. I don't need to hoard it up.
But then the same Paul writes this, Philippians chapter four. It's just one verse. Think of
it, Philippians chapter four and verse 19. And am I in the right Philippians
4? Yes, right, yeah. But my God shall supply all your
need. Why? Because God has made the
land to bring forth what it's supposed to bring forth. It's
okay, my brothers and sisters, just to rest. But my God shall
supply all your need. Look, according to his riches,
in glory by Christ Jesus. Don't ever think that we can
deplete God's blessings. Now, jubilee was this. Jubilee
was restoration. Why would someone need restoration?
Because they've lost the rest. They've sold themselves into
slavery. They came upon hard times. And let me tell you this,
whether it was your own fault or the fault of another, that's not the question. If you
lose it, it's gone. People get angry at us that we
preach that we fail in Adam. Well, that ain't fair. It's just
the way it is. It's just the way it is. Bow
down to God's truth. And if you lose something in
this life because of your own failures, bow down before God. Acknowledge it for what it is. I can't blame Adam for my sins. But Adam is to blame for my sin. You see the difference? Because
we were made sinners by the disobedience of one man. but we love to run
wild in that sinfulness with our own sins. We like to have
it so. Oh, we don't like God telling
us this is the way it is, but we like our sins well enough,
don't we? Jubilee was restoration. Jubilee was liberty, liberty. All of these things are indicative
of the fact of failure. Is it not? Even if the land failed,
your crops failed for three, four, five years, and you had
to sell off everything or you're not going to live, right? Even if that happens, whose hand
is in all this? Who's the one that really makes
the crops to grow? God Almighty does. You remember when, was
it Mahon and Chilion, two sons? And they were sons of a man named,
what was his name? Somebody, Abimelech? He had to sell out
his what? His inheritance. And he moved
him and his wife and his two sons to Moab. But you know what? That was restored. Not to him,
not to his two sons, but to the person God ordained for it to
be restored to, Naomi and her Moabite descendants. her Moabite
daughter-in-law. So Jubilee was restoration, liberty,
freedom, union, and it no doubt brought about great humility
and great gratitude for free grace. You didn't earn Jubilee. You didn't earn Jubilee. You
could not earn jubilee. You could not merit jubilee. Jubilee is ordained of God in
spite of your failures and my failures. And if that's called
licensed by some, I don't care. That's the truth. Where sin abounded,
what does God's book say? Grace did super abound. Grace swallowed up the abounding
of the sin because the Son of God came and took that sin and
sins in his own body and he bore them on the tree. The Jubilee
was the 50th year. It started on Atonement Day,
didn't it? It started on Atonement Day with
the Jubilee trumpet. Think of it, no atonement. No
trumpet, no jubilee. Right? Do you think about that?
No atonement, no trumpet. You don't pick your day of jubilee.
Well, I made my decision for Jesus. That ain't a jubilee.
That might well take you to the pits of the damned. I say it
might well take you to the pits of the damned. No atonement,
no trumpet, no jubilee. But with atonement, there was gospel, there was good
news. On that 50th year, the trumpet
sounded throughout all the land, and with the gospel, there is
what? There's jubilee, there's restoration,
there's liberty, there's freedom, there's union. And I tell you,
when God gives you, really gives you these things by his grace
in Christ, you will be consumed by humility and great gratitude. If not, you have never enjoyed
jubilee. You just never enjoyed Jubilee.
In other words, and I pray you and anybody else who ever hears
me, if the gospel of free reigning
grace does not rejoice your soul and force you knowingly, willingly,
and lovingly into humility and great gratitude toward God, you
have never known Jubilee in Christ Jesus. And that's not, I'm not
trying to be mean, I'm trying to warn men and women's souls.
Now three things, three things as a foundation. Quickly, I want
you to note the temporary state of those things then present.
This is an amazing verse, chapter 25, verse 23. Look at it with
me. This is what some would call
a precedent. Now the precedent is not stated
until now. As a matter of fact, God promised
Abraham some land, did he not? He promised him some land. But
I want you to look at what God now says. This is 400 and some
years later, right? 400 and some years later. And
look what God says to the children of Israel. Leviticus 25, verse
23. I think, yes, that's it. The land shall not be sold forever,
for the land is whose? gods, for the land is mine. Do you see it? Well, God gave
it to Israel. Yeah, he gave it to Israel, but
whose land is it? You can't give something you don't own. But look at what he says. That's
not all. Look, the land shall not be sold
forever, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners
with me. When it comes strictly to the
land, the physical land, the property, what was the caveat
that God commanded of Israel for them to truly enjoy that
land? Anybody know? Anybody want to
answer that? It was obedience to God's law. Did they? No. Could they? No. Because this
land typified. It was a figure for the time
being present, something far greater. God said you are going,
you're going to what? Strangers and sojourners with
me. Do you see that? Do not fall prey to the lie perpetrated
by dispensationalists that says God has two peoples. One called
Israel a national people, and one called the church a spiritual
people. Now God has a Jewish people. He created them. There He is. But not all Israel are of Israel. And God has some Gentiles, and
though they be Gentiles and strangers from the covenants of promise,
who owns the Gentiles? God does. He's Lord of all. And God has grafted some Gentiles
into the root stock of Israel. And the physical land itself
is not the point. Because remember, I'm not going
to read it. Hebrews 11, 13 through 16. This just struck me several months
back when I began reading ahead in these things and reading some
of these things. Abraham was looking for a city. Was he not? And it's not Jerusalem which
is below. Because Jerusalem which is below
is in what? Bondage. With all its inhabitants,
with all its people. But Jerusalem which is what?
Above is what? Free. There is Jubilee. And that Jerusalem is the mother
of us all believers. Even Abraham didn't even have
this book, and he understood that much. And here I am. I had
the whole book before me. It took me years before I ever
seen that. Does that mean the land wasn't
important? The land was very important. But that land is teaching
us a lesson about something far greater. Something far greater. So again, note the temporary
state of those things then present. Secondly, Christ's crosswork
was the predestinated goal. Turn to 1 Peter chapter 1. Christ's cross work has always
been the predestinated goal of all things. 1 Peter chapter 1
verse 18, for as much as you know that you are not redeemed,
remember the subject of redemption that you read about in Leviticus
chapter 25? For as much as you know that
you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from
your vain way of life, your vain conversation received by tradition
from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as
of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily, or
that is truthfully, who verily was foreordained before the foundation
of the world, but was manifest in these last times, what, for
you. for you, who by him do believe
in God, that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory,
that your faith and hope might be in God." It says of our brothers
and sisters, back in this time, people like, even before this
time, people like Abel, people like Moses, people like Noah,
people like Abraham, people like Sarah, people like Rahab, these
all died in faith not having received the promises. Right? That they without us should not
be made perfect. God's gonna bring us all ultimately
into that true Jerusalem together. Together. Now that does not mean
that I deny anything else that's directly stated in this book.
But don't you fixate your mind on a people called Jews and think
God still owes them anything. God owes no man anything but
the recompense of our sin, and that is death under the judgment
of God. And one of these days it says
we're gonna live on a new heaven and a new earth and a new what?
Jerusalem. John sees the new Jerusalem coming
from where? From God out of heaven. And Mason,
that Jerusalem which is above is gonna end up being down here. Down here, and that is when the
promise will be truly fulfilled not even during the thousand
years Hmm not even during the thousand years I was always taught
well Christ's kingdom is going to last a thousand years. I didn't
want this book says This book says his kingdom shall be how
long forever? I'm told the thousand years will
be Finished now mark that word Mark that word. So Christ's cross
work was the predestinated goal. Our secured final glory is the
fruit. 1 Peter 1 verses 1 through 9. God saved us by Christ that one
day he might have us with him where he is. And it will be in
a new heaven and a new earth. Let me move on. That's the first
foundation. The jubilee trumpet has been
sounded. I am not sounding the jubilee
trumpet. I'm just telling you the jubilee trumpet has blown.
The jubilee trumpet, how many days was it blown? How many days? One. On the day of atonement. And do you know what that says?
Now turn to John chapter 19. Now Paul didn't know it, and
you didn't know it, but I knew it, and he went to John 19 and
began some of these things. I thought, he's gonna preach
my message before I even get there. When was actual atonement made? When Christ died on that cross,
right? That's the day of atonement. Now look at John chapter 19.
Are you there? John chapter 19. Okay, all pages
have quit turning. John chapter 19, look at what
it says in verse 28. Now somebody, I'm gonna say this.
Somebody say, I don't see that there. Well, I hope God shows
you that. Look at it, after this, Jesus
knowing that all things were now, the word is the same as
we're gonna read in a moment, finished. You see it? And Jesus, he knew this. He understood
this. And Jesus, knowing that all things
were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled,
saith I first. Now, see the, wait a minute,
how could all things be accomplished if he still got to fulfill something
in the scripture? Do you understand where I'm coming
from here? These are two separate statements about two separate
things. There was more scripture to be fulfilled. He still had
to say, I thirst. But he knew everything had already
been, he knew, hanging there. It is paid in full. But if he just knew it, what
good would that do us? If God kept all this secret in
his own knowledge, in his own self, how miserable would our
existence be in this life? Mason, God could have regenerated
us and just took us on to glory. But he didn't ordain it that
way. After this Jesus knowing that all things were now what
paid in full were accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled
saith a thirst now there was a set of Set a vessel full of
vinegar and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it upon
his lip and put it to his mouth When therefore Jesus had received
the vinegar he said what? Here the Jubilee trumpet is sounding
painful It's finished! There's the trumpet! There it
is! And that sound has been going
all throughout the earth for 2,000 years, being repeated by
pots of clay like me and Joe and Paul and you when God enables
and blesses you to do so. When we tell someone of the glories
of the personal work of Jesus Christ, we are saying the jubilee
trumpet sounded 2,000 years ago. We are now in jubilee. You don't
have to hear him say it. Believe this man that wrote this.
John was there, was he not? He heard the jubilee trumpet
from the jubilee himself. It is paid in full. So the jubilee trumpet is sounded.
We now are merely reminded, men and women, it's jubilee. It's
jubilee. What are we talking about? This
is gospel preaching. We're not sounding the Jubilee
trumpet. Now, maybe you'll hear somebody
else preach a message later, and I wouldn't fall out with
them for it, but they're wrong. I don't sound the, the Jubilee
was sounded, the trumpet, Jubilee trumpet was sounded on one day,
the Day of Atonement, and the Jubal himself sounded it out.
He is both Mason Jubilee personified, and Jubilee in message. And all
us preachers of the gospel are doing, we're saying he blew the
trumpet. He blew the trumpet. Let's think
about it. Four more things. The gospel
is the message of Jubilee. It is about restoration. It's about liberty. It's about
freedom. It's about union. It's about,
and it brings about great humility and gratitude toward God. The
gospel, here's the second thing, the gospel's not just any Bible
truth. The gospel is the message about
or concerning Jesus Christ, God's son. Romans 1, one through four. If you leave Christ out, you
got no gospel. Men will say, well, churches
ought to have a pastor. And does not this Bible teach
that as truth? They're gifts, pastors, teachers. And then people
say, well, that's the gospel truth. No, it ain't. No, it ain't. It's truth, but it ain't the
gospel truth. Well, a church ought to have
deacons. That's the gospel truth, brother. No, it ain't. If you're
not preaching about the person and work of Christ, you're not
preaching the gospel. And there are a lot of people
that's got a lot of truth, but they don't have never heard a
man say, Jubilee has come. It's done. The trumpet sounded. The day of atonement is over.
Restoration has come. Liberty has come. Freedom has
come. Union has come. Does this bring
you to great humility and gratitude before God? Thirdly, Jubilee
was and now is never about possibilities. Turn to Leviticus chapter 25. God did not make it possible
for Israel to experience jubilee. God commanded jubilee. Do you understand what I'm saying? God commanded and brought about
jubilee. Leviticus chapter 25, look at
verse 25. Leviticus 25 and 25. If thy brother be waxen poor,
and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his
kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother
sold. And you could do this any time.
This wasn't just about Jubilee. This could be done any time.
Now look at it. And if the man hath none to redeem
it, and himself be able to redeem it, then let him count the years
of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to
whom he sold it, that he may return unto his possession. But
if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is
sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought the land
until, see that, until the year of Jubilee. And let me tell you
something folks, we got nothing to buy back our possession with.
We've wasted it all just like Alemanek did. We've wasted it
all. He, let me find my spot now,
but if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is
sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until
the year of Jubilee, and in the Jubilee it shall go, what? It shall go out and he shall,
he shall return unto his possession. This wasn't something Israel
could take or leave, was it? This was commanded of God. And our Lord Jesus Christ said,
and other sheep I have. And he said them also what? I
must bring. And there shall be one fold and
one shepherd. Antichrist religion touts possibilities,
do they not? God made it possible for you
to find restoration. God made it possible for you
to find liberty. God made it possible for you
to find freedom. God made it possible for you
to find union. And there really ain't a whole
lot of humility and gratitude in that, is there? They got God
over a barrel, don't they? Their God is over a barrel, but
our God ain't over no barrel. Bless God, jubilee has come. and Jesus Christ will bring everyone
into their inheritance. Number four, when payment is
demanded, payment must be made in full. Chapter 25, verse 14. And if thou sell aught unto thy
neighbor, or buyest aught of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall
not oppress one another. Don't deal dirty with one another.
Fair price, that's what he's talking about, fair price. According
to the number of years after the jubilee shall thou buy of
thy neighbor, and according to the number of years of fruits
he shall sell unto thee. According to the multitude of
the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according
to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it.
For according to the number of the years of the fruits doth
he sell unto thee. In other words, fair price must
be paid. And Christ said, the fair price
has been what? Paid. Paid. Remember what he
said? It is finished. I remember. Can't even think
of his name now. Jim McLarty. And he's talking
about that word is tetelestai. He said an amazing thing about
that is they found from back in actually that time, the time
of Christ and the apostles, they found old debts where someone
had signed, however they did it back then, and had signed
that Mason, they owed this one money or that one money, then
they would stamp or they would write on that bill. Guess what
they put on it when it was paid in full? Tetelestai, the debts
over with. You see, the bank that owns the
note on your home cannot demand more than was agreed to on your
note. Did you know that? Now, I realize
men being who they are and what they are, men try to do otherwise,
but that's not just. But when you pay off your house,
who owns it? The bank? No. You do. Mason, people do this. Don't
get mad at me, but silly stuff like burn the note, I guess that
gives you a little bit of pleasure. But you know what? You have the
right to do that. Because when the debt's paid in full, you
don't owe them another penny. You went out with that dastardly
credit card, Bought that which you really didn't have to have
but I gotta have it right now because if I don't have it I'm
gonna die And you pay that credit card company probably about four
times whatever it was you bought and you did it for that I'm not
preaching down to you folks. I'm talking about me But I'll
tell you what when you pray off that last dime bless God. It's
yours It's yours You see the gospel the Jubilee is actually
this simple Christ has wrought restoration Has he not? He said he brought us to God
being put to death in the flesh. So when was I brought to God?
When was this restoration, liberty, freedom, union, when did this
take place? When he died on that tree. Jubilee
started that day, the day of atonement. And all we're doing
now is announcing that to men and women. And I tell you this,
If this conquers you in faith and humility and gratitude, you're
a part of it. If it doesn't, you're not. Mason,
would you close us in prayer, please? Holy and righteous Eternal
Father, we come to you this morning to thank you, Lord, for allowing
us to gather together to worship thy name. In his name, we ask all of these
things and give the thanks for all. Amen.