<TITLE>08. Par 23-26</TITLE>L-23 Even you wasn't to plant it any corn, and ever what the field produced you was to live on it. You shouldn't trim your vineyard or anything. The poor of the land was to eat of it: a very beautiful type of the millennium.
Notice, every slave, when he heard that trumpet sound, he could throw down his hoe, whatever he's working with and say, "I am a free man. I couldn't redeem myself. But God, through His grace has declared a year of jubilee. Therefore, I believe God. And I don't have to work any more." And the laws of the land claimed him free. What a beautiful type of today.
We, poor, aliens, nothing we could do, if we kept every Sabbath, every new moon, quit eating meat, if we kept all kinds of days and done all kinds of religious sacrifice, we are under a load. We are sold in sin. Our parents sold us out to sin in the garden of Eden. And we are later--laden under the bonds of sin as a slave to the devil. We were born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. There's nothing we can do to help us, 'cause our whole makeup, our whole nature, and everything we are is sin. But when the jubilee time comes, that we are free... And the trumpet is the Gospel, the good news. The trumpet was the Gospel then: good news. You're no longer bound. You no longer have to live in sin. You can go home and be free. You don't owe any debts at all. The whole emancipation of proclamation is done signed and you are free.

L-24 And today, when a man hears the good news, Christ died in your stead, nothing that you can do about it, Christ paid the price, the Gospel sound, you can drop every cigarette, every chew tobacco, every whiskey bottle, every--every thing that's binding you and say, "I am free. This is the good news. Christ has made me free." You're a free people. You don't have to go any longer. You don't have to serve the devil any longer. You can be free if you desire to be free.
Now, you don't have to drink; you don't have to run around; you don't have to mistreat your wife; you don't have to curse; you don't have to lie; you don't have to steal; you don't have to be weary. Why, you've got the resources up yonder that's never been tapped of the bountiful blessings of God that the world knows nothing about.
You say, "I must have a little pleasure." Why, brother, if you ever hear the good news of the trumpet, the worldly pleasures seem so little they're sounding brass and a tinkling symbol. You don't need it no more.

L-25 So much greater is this news then the old boundaries of slavery, the old marks of sin that caused you to be batty-eyed wretches by smoking cigarettes, alcoholics on the street with trembling; you don't have to go that way. The Gospel trumpet's a sounding: "Whosoever will, let him come and drink from the fountains of the waters of Life." But to reject that...
If a man said, "I want to stay the way I am. I don't want to go. I just want to stay right here," that man was taken to the temple with his slave master. He must put his ear against a post, and an awl was bored in his ear. And it was a sign that he could never be free. He had to serve his master as long as he lived, because he rejected the news of the good news.
If that isn't a perfect type of the marking of the beast... The good news is the Gospel. To reject to hear the Gospel, your ears are sealed up that you'll always call it fanaticism, and there's nothing to it. And you'll be serving sin in forms of godliness as long as you live. No matter how religious you are, you're sealed off from the Presence of God.

L-26 Listen. What was it? About fifty years ago on Azusa Street in California? A bunch of people were wor--worshipping God. Methodistism had got so formal and indifferent until they didn't want none of the--what they called fanaticism: no shouting, no amen, no nothing in the church. They thought that education and reformation would reform the people to a place that they didn't need this stuff any more.


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