Bible Verses About Christian Liberty

and you are to consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a yovel for you; you will return everyone to the land he owns, and everyone is to return to his family.

That fiftieth year will be a yovel for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended vines;

because it is a yovel. It will be holy for you; whatever the fields produce will be food for all of you.

In this year of yovel, every one of you is to return to the land he owns.

"'If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from him, neither of you is to exploit the other.

Rather, you are to take into account the number of years after the yovel when you buy land from your neighbor, and he is to sell to you according to the number of years crops will be raised.

If the number of years remaining is large, you will raise the price; if few years remain, you will lower it; because what he is really selling you is the number of crops to be produced.

Thus you are not to take advantage of each other, but you are to fear your God; for I am ADONAI your God.

So it is with us — when we were “children” we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe;

but when the appointed time arrived, God sent forth his Son. He was born from a woman, born into a culture in which legalistic perversion of the Torah was the norm,

so that he might redeem those in subjection to this legalism and thus enable us to be made God’s sons.

It says that Avraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman.

The one by the slave woman was born according to the limited capabilities of human beings, but the one by the free woman was born through the miracle-working power of God fulfilling his promise.

Now, to make a midrash on these things: the two women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai and bears children for slavery — this is Hagar.

Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Yerushalayim, for she serves as a slave along with her children.

But the Yerushalayim above is free, and she is our mother;