We are not encouraged to forsake our sin by having our senses amused or our preferences coddled. The Gospel is inherently and irreducibly confrontational. It cuts against our perceived righteousness and self-sufficiency, demanding that we forsake cherished sin and trust in someone else to justify us. Entertainment is therefore a problematic medium for communicating the Gospel, because it nearly always obscures the most difficult aspects of it – the cost of repentance, the cross of discipleship, the narrowness of the Way. Some will disagree, arguing that drama can give unbelievers a helpful visual image of the Gospel. But we have already been given such visual images. They are the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper and the transformed lives of our Christian brothers and sisters (Mark Dever and Paul Alexander).
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FEAST of Jubilee

This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series Feasts

Feasts

FEAST of Jubilee

FEAST of Jubilee, The

  1. Held every fiftieth year # Le 25:8,10
  2. Began upon the day of atonement # Le 25:9
  3. CALLED THE 3a) Year of liberty

    # Eze 46:17

3b) Year of the redeemed # Isa 63:4 3c) Acceptable year # Isa 61:2 4) Was specially holy # Le 25:12 5) Proclaimed by trumpets # Le 25:9 Ps 89:15 6) ENACTMENTS RESPECTING 6a) Cessation of all field labour # Le 25:11 6b) The fruits of the earth to be common property # Le 25:12 6c) Redemption of sold property # Le 25:23-27 6d) Restoration of all inheritances # Le 25:10,13,28 27:24 6e) Release of Hebrew servants # Le 25:40,41,54 7) Houses in walled cities not redeemed within a year, exempted from the benefit of # Le 25:30 8) Sale of property calculated from # Le 25:15,16 9) Value of devoted property calculated from # Le 27:14-23 10) Illustrative of the Gospel # Isa 61:1,2 Lu 4:18,19

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