Chapter 7 of 8

Section 6

Section 6

invitation and have denied this jubilee and as a result cannot share its enjoyment. But we Chris­ tians have accepted God's invitation and His offer. Therefore, we are on the right ground to enjoy this jubilee. Yet we still need to be faith­ ful to enjoy the jubilee; that is, we need to be faithful to enjoy Christ.

Many genuine believers, truly saved Chris­ tians, are not faithfully enjoying Christ. All these unfaithful ones will miss the jubilee in the coming age. This means that they will miss the coming kingdom. We all need to see that today's jubilee is a matter of salvation, that the jubilee in the coming age is a matter of re­ ward, and that the jubilee in the new heaven and new earth will be the full taste of God's full salvation.

According to the New Testament, God's kingdom today is Christ as our enjoyment. This enjoyment is the jubilee. The kingdom of God, which is Christ Himself, has set us free from the bondage of sin, Satan, the world, and the self. The kingdom of God has also recovered our right to the divine inheritance, the right to enjoy the Triune God in Christ. Today in God's salvation we have the right to enjoy Christ, the right to enjoy the jubilee. Now we must remain

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