Freedom Forever
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31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Introduction
Introduction
Postage Stamp “Freedom Forever”
We don’t want a temporary victory.
Pharoah wanted to give the children of Israel a reprieve, a few days away from their taskmasters, but the Message of the hour was freedom forever.
What is Freedom?
Lexham Theological Wordbook ἐλευθερόω
ἐλευθερόω (eleutheroō). vb. to set free, to set someone or something free. This word describes the act of freeing a person or thing from slavery.
The Jews were insulted that Jesus identified them as slaves, or former slaves.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
The three classes of people in Roman society were:
Slaves
Freed Slaves
Freeborn Men
A freeborn man could become a slave, but a slave could never become a freeborn man. He might be freed, but his life would always be marked by having been enslaved.
All slaves and their families were the property of their owners, who could sell or rent them out at any time. Their lives were harsh. Slaves were often whipped, branded or cruelly mistreated. Their owners could also kill them for any reason, and would face no punishment. (PBS)
Around the age of 30 a slave could expect to be freed, but if their freedom was given to them they would still have t work for their former owners. Their children would also still be enslaved. If they could buy their freedom, they were completely free, but their past would always be with them.
Jesus tells the Jews, “you are slaves to sin, but I can make you free indeed”.
34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Paul explains this:
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Sin is bondage.
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Sold under sin. A Slave.
We weren’t born to be slaves.
We are freeborn children, made free by the Son, who paid the price for our freedom.
23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
You didn’t gain freedom by the devil’s good will. You were bought and paid for.
(Abraham Lincoln’s blood)
The payment has been made.
In the Old Testament, under the law, every seven years there was to be a Sabbath. Every Seven Sabbaths (49 years) there was a Jubilee Year.
Jubilee
תְּרוּעָה n.f. shout or blast of war, alarm, or joy — 1. alarm of war, war-cry; מֶלֶךְ ˊת battle-cry of king. 2. blast for march; on day of atonement; 1st of mo. 3. shout of joy with religious impulse; in public worship gen.; esp. + musical service. 4. shout of joy, in gen.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
A man who was born an Israelite could lose everything as a result of circumstances, but they could only remain lost by his choice.
His inheritance was secure, unless he deliberately chose bondage over freedom.
Now, if somehow-or-other the individual lost their inheritance that was given to them by God, there come a year called the Jubilee Year, and that was, every seven years they had a rest, a Sabbath, every seven days they had a sabbath, every seven years they had a Sabbath, and seven Sabbaths was forty-nine years, and the fiftieth year was Jubilee,
and in this Jubilee, every man that had lost his inheritance by some means, if he was a freeborn and a true blooded Israelite, no matter who held the possession, it had to go back to him free. He didn’t have to pay a thing, he didn’t have to do a thing, but just stop what he was doing and go back to his inheritance.
Oh, my! He had a right to it, it was a God-given right, because he, by grace, had inherited it, and it would been given to his fathers and handed down year after year.
No matter what had taken place, if he lost it, it must go free, it meant grace is, way provided for each individual to return to their rightful inheritance.
And what a picture it gives us tonight of the Church in this last days! You see what man can do and then you see what God does.
What man does is failing, and will fail, has failed, and always will fail, but what God does is Eternal and must forever remain, nothing can ever take it away.
God give it, it’s His free gift, and by His sovereign foresight saw it and placed it, and there’s nothing can ever move it, it’s there Eternally.
And Jubilee was God’s manner of expressing grace to His people for restoring or be brought back to their rightful position. 62-1122 - "Return And Jubilee"
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
Only land in the countryside could be redeemed. Land in a walled city was not subject to the laws of redemption.
30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
Now, remember, the ones that was walled in never got to go free, they were bondslaves the rest of their time, the owner owned them if they put their inheritance in a city that was walled in, but if it was outside, little bitty cities that wasn’t walled in, then it was considered like the plains, that it could go free in the Jubilee.
(Pentecost walled themselves in)
Now, these walls, inside, where if we ever get walled into a place where we can’t accept the Word and the Holy Spirit, and have to take the creeds and so forth of a church instead of the power of the Holy Spirit, the jubilee will never mean nothing to that person, no.
No matter how much you can say mother left the…your Inheritance, daddy did that, but you sold out, and walled up, and come into a creed, and accepted this dogma that was injected into your fellowship instead of being free in the Christ and letting the Holy Spirit lead us. 62-1122 - "Return And Jubilee"
The walls prevented them from hearing the trumpet call.
Now, a man and his family could go back to their original inheritance if they could hear the Jubilee, and a trumpet sound, and know that what it meant to them.
Now, if they heard the priest sound the trumpet (the minister, the Trumpet is the Gospel), and when they hear it, and they know what it means, and they know that that’s their inheritance,
no matter where they’d lost, how far they went back, whatever they had to do, they had the privilege to come and receive again their inheritance, the whole family could come and receive their inheritance.
Bro. Branham is preaching to pentecostals on the 50th anniversary of the pentecostal revival in Louisiana.
So is it tonight that men and women, here of Louisiana, that knows the things that we do know and have heard from our brother and different ones, of our Pentecostal experience of years ago, and find that we have walled, or,
if we haven’t walled ourself away from it so far that we got to hear what somebody says instead of what THUS SAITH THE LORD is, and can hear what the Word of God has got to say about it, now is the hour of jubilee, come back to your original Inheritance, to a real Holy Ghost again.
Remember, he could go free, didn’t have to pay nothing, didn’t have to do nothing, just get up and go, that’s all he had to do, go back, if he knew the sound of the trumpet, but he had to know the sound of the trumpet, see, for they were sons of God. 62-1122 - "Return And Jubilee"
8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Freeborn Israelites, real Christians we would say, living in bondage, unable to reach their full potential in Christ because of walled cities. Creeds instead of the Word.
Jericho was a walled city.
20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
The word shout there is “Jubilee”. The walls had to fall around Rahab’s house at the sound of the shout, so she could go from bondage to freedom.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
A shout, what is the shout? It’s the Message going forth, first, the living Bread of Life bringing forth the Bride. 65-1204 - "The Rapture"
This Jubilee is only for the elect.
It was only for the elected, God’s chosen, that’s the way it is today, “Not him that runneth, or him that willeth, it’s God that has mercy.”
It’s God that does it, God, by His grace. Jesus said, “No man can come to Me except My Father draws him. And all the Father has given Me will come to Me.” It’s God’s grace that He chose the Church before the foundation of the world.
That Church will hear the Word of God, they’ll turn every creed down, they’ll turn every organization, every denomination that’s contrary down, and they’ll serve God by the power of the Holy Ghost. Amen. They certainly know the Trumpet sound.
“My sheep hear My Voice.” “What are you talking about?” “The Word!” “You say That’s God’s Voice?”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. My sheep hear That, they know It, a stranger they will not follow.”
They don’t hear these creeds, they don’t hear these dogmas and these things that’s been injected to make an organization instead of a body.
A sacrifice and offerings Thou wouldest not, but a body has Thou prepared Me,” a body of believers, a body that’s been born.
Before it can be a body of human beings, before I can act as a human, before I can walk like a human, before I could talk like a human, I have to be borned a human.
How would a knot on the tree know how I acted? How could he ever say, “I don’t act like that.” The only way he could be that would be born like me. That’s the way organization is, they have drawed people away, because it went after a creed.
But in order to be a son of God you got to be borned of the Spirit of God, then you become Christ-like and do the works of Christ, then you’re not funny to them people.
A human acting like a human is not funny; and a Christian acting like a Christian, borned of the same Spirit, you see the Pentecostal group at the beginning, that same Pentecostal group acts the same way if it’s borned of the same Spirit, ’cause it’s born.
That’s why, today, that people doesn’t understand the Church. And the Church has begin to grow cold and formal, getting after creeds and things and leaving off the following of the Holy Spirit. 62-1122 - "Return And Jubilee"
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
There came a time when God said “you’ve compassed this mountain long enough”. The old fighters died off, and a new generation was born.
It’s time to rise, be sons of God in the Name of Jesus Christ, and rise to a place so you can return in this jubilee and hear the sound of the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Word of God.
Ye are brethren, you are not denominated; you are brethren because you can’t be denominated, you are born sons of God. If the slaves want to stay in the walled city, let them stay, but you are free. Amen.
You are free. Let’s go back, let’s go back to our Inheritance, let’s go back to the beginning, back to “they are led by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.” 62-1122 - "Return And Jubilee"
Liberty must be proclaimed in the Jubilee. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me to proclaim liberty. Freedom Forever.
14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
Today, we have preachers, ethical, educated, fine scholars, turned out, can stand up and never move, never muss up a hair, never sweat a drop, and just stand there and speak, and, oh, give the articles of the church and everything just so pretty for fifteen minutes while you’re sleeping, go on back home, and you call yourself Pentecostals.
Brother, we need an old rugged backwoods preacher that’ll come out with a pair of overalls on and hit the pulpit (Hallelujah!), anointed with the power of God,
he won’t preach five minutes till the Spirit will take the church, and it’s gone the rest of the night up into the heavenlies, it’s eagles, they won’t peck around on barnyard stuff, they go on up into the heavenlies for their Food.
But if you sold your inheritance, if you sold out and done these things (What am I saying? Return back!), if you joined up with some cult that tries to keep you away from fellowship with other brethren, leave the thing, this is jubilee. Amen. I feel religious. Return. Return! This is jubilee, don’t let it pass by.
Remember: Don’t let it pass by. If you’ve sold out, if you’ve went out in the world, if you’ve sinned, you knowed that you once had the experience, you went and joined up where you can’t fellowship with the rest of them,
you done all these things, I don’t care what you’ve done, if you’re a son, you have a right to return now because it’s jubilee, it’s jubilee time. 62-1122 - "Return And Jubilee"
No matter what you are bound by, you can have freedom forever.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
When the trumpet sounded, a man who heard it had to respond one way or another. His response tells what He is.
5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
He could never hear the Jubilee again.
He had to be willing to give up everything, for freedom.
26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
You’ve got to be willing to lose it all to gain everything.
(Patrick Henry)
29 And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Arnold Von Winkelried
(Show Painting)
But, oh, it was a little thing to what happened one day! When Adam’s race stood, demons marching in from every side, prophets had failed, law had failed, sacrifice of bulls and lambs had failed, man’s nature had failed, everything.
And Adam’s little race stood, defeated; outnumbered by devils, superstitions, sickness, diseases. There was One stepped out in Heaven, and said, “This day I’ll die for Adam’s race.” He came to the earth and was made flesh.
He looked right down where the midst of the spears was the darkest. The very darkest of all man’s dreads was death, and He took death into His bosom. And on Calvary He paid the sacrifice, and screamed, “Make a way for Liberty!”
And He screams to His Church, “Take This which I have left you, My Blood and My Spirit, and fight with ever what you’ve got.”
We can conquer tonight, through That, friend. You can drive the devil from you. Every old enemy that’s in your life, it can be drove out by the Blood and the Spirit of Christ, and you can stand perfect in His Presence. Christ made the way! 57-0419 - "The Perfection"