Fallen Man’S Need Of The Jubilee
FALLEN MAN'S NEED OF THE JUBILEE
When man was created, he received a posses sion. Man's possession by creation was actually God Himself. God created man to be His vessel for His expression. Thus, God intended to give Himself to man as his possession. But man be came fallen, and in the fall man lost God as his possession.
Through the fall man also sold himself. In Romans 7:14 Paul says, "I am fleshly, sold under sin." To be sold in this way is to be held in slav ery. Anyone who sells himself to be a slave enters into a condition of slavery. Today all of mankind is in slavery, mainly the slavery of sin. Man has sold himself into the slavery of sin, Satan, and the world. Therefore, fallen man has lost both God and himself.
Before we were saved, we were those who had lost God as our possession and who had also lost ourselves. Ephesians 2:12 indicates that fallen man is without God. Instead of God as his pos session, man has sin and has sold himself into the slavery of sin.
Apart from God's preserving grace, even Christians may lose God as their possession in a practical way and may also sell themselves into