The Lord plans deliverance for all His people. Joseph made a way for the children of Israel to escape the famine that ravaged the land by a great deliverance. Sometimes the Lord uses us to deliver others just as He used Esther to deliver the Jews. When we make the Lord our hiding place, He surrounds us with songs of deliverance. He will counsel us with His eye. We will be delivered when we call on the name of Yahweh. Jesus delivers us and sets us free from the things that hold us in bondage, the acceptable year of the Lord indeed!
The Spirit of the Lord helps to set us free from those things that hold us in bondage. Don’t let yourself be entangled in bondage again. Continue to work within the law of liberty and you will be happy in your doing. The truth makes us free if we remain in Jesus word. We can remain in His house where we shall be free indeed.
Gen 45:4-7 ASV
(4) And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
(5) And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
(6) For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
(7) And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
Deliverance H6413 (Hebrew)
pelêyṭâh pelêṭâh ; pel-ay-taw’, pel-ay-taw’
Feminine of H6412; deliverance; concretely an escaped portion: – deliverance, (that is) escape (-d), remnant.
Total KJV occurrences: 28
Est 4:13-17 ASV
(13) Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
(14) For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father’s house will perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
(15) Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai,
(16) Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
(17) So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Sometimes the Lord uses us to deliver others just as He used Esther to deliver the Jews.
Psa 32:5-8 ASV
(5) I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
(6) For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.
(7) Thou art my hiding-place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
(8) I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.
Joe 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
Joe 2:29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
Joe 2:30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
Joe 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
Joe 2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
We will be delivered when we call on the name of Yahweh.
Luk 4:16-21 YLT
(16) And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;
(17) and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:
(18) ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,
(19) To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.’
(20) And having folded the roll, having given it back to the officer, he sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were gazing on him.
(21) And he began to say unto them—’To-day hath this writing been fulfilled in your ears;’
Deliverance G859 (Greek)
Aphesis ; af’-es-is
From G863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon: – deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.
Total KJV occurrences: 17
Isa 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Isa 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isa 61:3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
This is the passage Jesus was quoting back in Luke 4. Isaiah uses the word liberty instead of deliverance.
2Co 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Liberty G859 (Greek)
Aphesis ; af’-es-is
From G863; freedom; (figuratively) pardon: – deliverance, forgiveness, liberty, remission.
Total KJV occurrences: 17
The Spirit of the Lord helps to set us free from those things that hold us in bondage.
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Don’t let yourself be entangled in bondage again.
Jas 1:23-25 YLT
(23) because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,
(24) for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was;
(25) and he who did look into the perfect law—that of liberty, and did continue there, this one—not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work—this one shall be happy in his doing.
Continue to work within the law of liberty and you will be happy in your doing.
Joh 8:31-36 YLT
(31) Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, ‘If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,
(32) and the truth shall make you free.’
(33) They answered him, ‘Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say—Ye shall become free?’
(34) Jesus answered them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you—Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,
(35) and the servant doth not remain in the house—to the age, the son doth remain—to the age;
(36) if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.
The truth makes us free if we remain in Jesus word. We can remain in His house where we shall be free indeed.
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