‘the year of the Lord’s favour.’

• Leviticus 25
• Freedom
• Return to the family
• Return of property
• Borrowing without interest
• Freedom from slavery

Everyone and everything belongs to God

Good news to the poor

• Debts will be covered/forgiven, land returned, homes reclaimed...

Freedom for the prisoners

• Those who are in debt
• Those who have rebelled against the system

Sight for the blind

• physical sight, so that the blind can live and prosper

Released for the oppressed

• Oppressed by the weight of social and economic inequality
• the demonised – the demons as symbols of the evil nature of the system.

‘the year of the Lord’s favour.’

• It is primarily about a new way of living
• a new Kingdom
• a new freedom
• justice and generosity and joy