ADONAI’S SLAVE

“For to me the people of Isra’el are slaves; they are my slaves whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am Adonai your God.”
Leviticus 25:55

I want us to consider one more piece concerning the kinsman as we conclude Leviticus 25 and draw close to the ending of the rules and regulations as given by Adonai. The duty of the kinsman was to redeem a person’s land. Let us not forget that this was an important piece in the role he would play. In each case, he was to redeem his own family member from servitude to a foreigner. This high duty was based on Adonai’s principle that no Isra’elite should ever be a slave or servant to anyone except Himself. For one of Adonai’s children to be a servant or slave to a non-Isra’elite was viewed as an abomination and created the reasoning for his redemption.
Can you see it, the connection between a person physically enslaved to a foreigner and a personal spiritually enslaved to sin? A follower of Adonai who sells himself into sin, becoming a slave, is separated from Him. This was first seen in the history of Adam and Eve. It was their sin that separated them from Adonai, creating a wall and placing them into slavery until the wall was broken. Although they and others who followed would eventually find their way back to Adonai, it was not until the Kinsman Redeemer, Yeshua, came that the price was paid that gave us back our freedom. We, through Yeshua, were redeemed from slavery.
Why should we choose then to return back to slavery? As children of Adonai, this is an abomination! We are not to be caught up in the sinful way of the world that demotes us from being followers of the Most High to slaves of the accuser. We are to be His servants; His men and women who with purpose and of our own free will, obey His command. Perhaps Galatians 5:1 says it better than I can. “What the Messiah has freed us for is freedom! Therefore, stand firm, and don’t let yourselves be tied up again to a yoke of slavery.”

Leviticus 25:39 – 26:9