When the Nation of Israel followed God’s commands to observe a year of Sabbath rest every seven years and an additional year known as the year of Jubilee every fifty years, God provided so much on the sixth year that it sustained them for three.
What does the year of Jubilee picture for us? Is there a greater meaning than just God’s provision for our physical needs? What is true biblical prosperity and what can help us experience it?
Have you ever felt like living God’s way is so complicated that you need CliffsNotes for the Bible, some kind of summary of God’s law? As humans, we tend to want God to just give us the bottom line. Tell me what I can and cannot do. Where’s the line? And how close to it can I get and still be in God’s good graces?
And too often Christianity has been made to sound that complicated. The religious leaders of Jesus’ time had certainly made things seem that way. So much so that they had religious lawyers to help interpret all the laws.
But when one of those lawyers asked Jesus for His opinion, He gave a surprising answer.