第五週 · 週一

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📖晨興餧養

利二五10 『你們要將第五十年分別為聖，在徧地向一切的居民宣告自由。這年必為你們的禧年，各人要歸回自己的產業，歸回本家。』

       13 『在這禧年，你們各人要歸回自己的地業。』

禧年乃是主悅納人的年，就是以賽亞六十一章一至二節所豫言，並由路加四章十六至二十二節主的來臨所應驗的。在舊約的豫表裏，禧年持續一年之久，其應驗卻是指整個新約時代，恩典時代，這是神悅納歸回的罪囚的時候（賽四九8，路十五17~24，林後六2），也是那些受罪捆綁的人享受神救恩之釋放的時候（羅七14~八2）。信徒在恩典時代對禧年的享受，就是享受基督作為神給他們的恩典，這享受要帶進千年國裏對禧年完滿的享受，以及在新天新地新耶路撒冷裏最完滿的享受（聖經恢復本，利二五10注1）。

📖信息選讀

每一個賣了他所分得美地一分產業的，在禧年要歸回自己的產業，而無須付贖價（利二五10、13、28）；並且凡賣了自己作奴僕的，要重得自由，歸回本家（39~41）。歸回自己的產業以及得自由歸回本家，表徵在新約的禧年裏，信徒已經歸回神，就是他們所失去神聖的產業，並且從一切捆綁得釋放，回到召會，就是他們神聖的家。

以色列人每家都分得美地的一分。以色列人接受了他們的一分地之後，有些人漸漸貧窮，賣了他們的那一分（25上），因此失去他們的產業，他們的基業。另有人窮到一個地步，甚至賣身為奴（39上），因此失去他們的自由，並與他們的家人分開。迦南美地豫表具體化身在基督裏的三一神（西二9），實化為包羅萬有賜生命的靈，…作為所分給眾聖徒的分。…神創造人的時候，就定意將祂自己在基督裏賜給人，作人的產業，人的基業。…然而，人墮落了，在墮落中失去神作他的產業，…並把自己賣給罪、撒但和世界作奴僕。…神新約的救恩，由神的恩典，基於祂在基督裏的救贖所成就，…將墮落的人帶回歸向作他神聖產業的神，…釋放人脫離罪、撒但和世界的奴役，…並將人恢復到他神聖的家，就是神的家裏，…使他可以在神的恩典裏享受交通（聖經恢復本，利二五10註2）。

禧年有兩項主要的福分，就是各人歸回失去的產業，並從奴役得着釋放。你若要得着真正的自由，並且享受神作你的產業，你就必須接受主耶穌在你裏面作你真正的禧年。你得着了祂，你的產業就得回了，你的自身也自由了。主耶穌釋放了你，使你有神作你的產業，並且使你脫離罪和撒但的轄制，你就有了真正的自由。我們每一個經歷主救恩的人，都能作這個見證：得救以前，我們是沒有自由的，是不能作主的。現在我們得救了，主在我們裏面釋放了我們，使我們不再作奴隸；我們不是為奴的，乃是自主的。不僅如此，我們也得回神作我們的產業。阿利路亞！我們不再是勞苦擔重擔的，乃是得釋放、享安息的，正如主耶穌在馬太十一章二十八節所說的：『凡勞苦擔重擔的，可以到我這裏來，我必使你們得安息。』不僅如此，我們也不再是貧窮的，乃是有神作我們的產業（徒二六18，弗一14，西一12）。這就是禧年（李常受文集一九八四年第四冊，一二頁）。

參讀：禧年，第一篇。

WEEK 5 — DAY 1

Morning Nourishment

Lev. 25:10 And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.

           13 In this year of jubilee each one of you shall return to his possession.

The year of jubilee is the acceptable year of the Lord prophesied in Isaiah 61:1-2 and fulfilled by the Lord’s coming in Luke 4:16-22. In the Old Testament type the jubilee lasted for one year, but in the fulfillment it refers to the entire New Testament age, the age of grace, as the time when God accepts the returned captives of sin (Isa. 49:8; Luke 15:17-24; 2 Cor. 6:2) and when those oppressed under the bondage of sin enjoy the release of God’s salvation (Rom. 7:14—8:2). The believers’ enjoyment of the jubilee in the age of grace, that is, their enjoyment of Christ as God’s grace to them, will issue in the full enjoyment of the jubilee in the millennium and in the fullest enjoyment in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth. (Lev. 25:10, footnote 1)

Today’s Reading

In the year of jubilee everyone who had sold his possession, his allotted portion of the good land, was returned to it without paying anything to redeem it (Lev. 25:10, 13, 28), and everyone who had sold himself into slavery regained his freedom and returned to his family (vv. 39-41). Returning to one’s possession and being freed and returning to one’s family signify that in the New Testament jubilee the believers have returned to God as their lost divine possession, have been released from all bondage, and have returned to the church as their divine family.

After the children of Israel received their portions of the land, some became poor and sold their allotment (v. 25a), thus losing their possession, their inheritance. Others became so poor that they even sold themselves into slavery (v. 39a), thus losing their freedom and becoming separated from their families. The good land of Canaan typifies the Triune God embodied in Christ (Col. 2:9) and realized as the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit…as the allotted portion of the saints…When God created man, He intended to give
Himself in Christ to man as man’s possession, man’s inheritance…However, man became fallen, and in the fall man lost God as his possession…and sold himself into slavery under sin, Satan, and the world…God’s New Testament salvation, accomplished by God’s grace based on His redemption in Christ…, brings fallen man back to God as his divine possession…, releases man from slavery under sin, Satan, and the world…, and restores man to his divine family, the household of God…, that he may enjoy fellowship in God’s grace. (Lev. 25:10, footnote 2)

In the year of jubilee there are two main blessings: the returning of every man to his lost possession and the liberation from slavery. If we want to be truly free and able to enjoy God as our possession, we must receive the Lord Jesus as the real jubilee in us. If we have Him, our possession is recovered and our freedom is returned to us. The Lord Jesus has released us so that we may have God as our possession and be delivered from the bondage of sin and Satan in order that we may have real freedom. Every one of us who has experienced the grace of the Lord can testify that before we were saved, we had no freedom and no control over ourselves. Now that we have been saved, the Lord has released us from within so that we are no longer slaves. Not only so, we have been brought back to God as our possession. The Lord Jesus said in Matthew 11:28, “Come to Me all who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” We are no longer those who toil and are burdened; we are those who have freedom and enjoy rest. Furthermore, we are no longer poor; instead, we have God as our inheritance (Acts 26:18; Eph. 1:14; Col. 1:12). This is the meaning of the year of jubilee. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 4, “The Jubilee,” p. 9)

Further Reading: CWWL, 1984, vol. 4, “The Jubilee,” ch. 1