弗一13~14　你们既听了真理的话，就是那叫你们得救的福音，也在祂里面信了，就在祂里面受了所应许的圣灵为印记；这圣灵是我们得基业的凭质，为使神所买的产业得赎，使祂的荣耀得着称赞。
　　我们传福音，就是向人宣告神的禧年。主耶稣在路加四章就作了这个宣告，祂宣告禧年的来临。四章禧年的宣扬控制了整卷路加福音的中心思想；……〔而〕十五章浪子的比喻〔是禧年绝佳的例证〕。……保罗在以弗所一章十三至十四节〔指明〕，……得救就是归回我们的产业；得救就是归回神；得救就是回来归向神，重新享受神作我们的产业。我们得救之后，神的灵就在我们里面作凭质，作担保，作我们得产业的凭据，保证。……在希腊文里，凭质，担保品就是样品的意思，样品是给我们预尝的，担保将来我们会全享。圣灵今天在我们里面，就是神作我们享受的担保品，样品，先给我们尝尝味道，担保将来我们会完满地享受神。所以，得救就是得着神。不光是得了救，更是得了神。我们有了神，就什么都有了；我们没有神，就什么都没有了。……神就是我们的基业（禧年，二四页）。

　　Eph. 1:13 -14 In whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the gospel of your salvation, in Him also believing, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise, who is the pledge of our inheritance unto the redemption of the acquired possession, to the praise of His glory.

　　When we preach the gospel, we proclaim God's jubilee to others. In Luke 4:18-19 the Lord Jesus made a proclamation concerning the coming of the jubilee.The proclamation of the jubilee in Luke 4 governs the central thought of the whole Gospel of Luke, and the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15 is an excellent illustration of the jubilee....[In Ephesians 1:13-14 Paul indicates that] to be saved is to return to our inheritance, to return to God, to come back to God and enjoy Him anew as our possession. God is our inheritance, and after we are saved, the Spirit of God is in us as the pledge, the guarantee, the proof, and the security of our inheritance. In Greek the word for pledge or guarantee also means "sample." A sample is a foretaste, guaranteeing the full taste in the future. Today the Holy Spirit is in us as the guarantee, the sample, of God as our enjoyment, giving us a foretaste and guaranteeing our full enjoyment of God in the future. Therefore, to be saved is to gain God. We have not only obtained salvation, but even more we have obtained God. When we have God, we have everything; without God, we have nothing....God is our inheritance. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 4, "The Jubilee," pp. 18-19)

　　歌罗西一章十二节……说，“感谢父，叫你们够资格在光中同得所分给众圣徒的分。”今天神在基督里作了我们的福分。在基督以外，人活在世上是没有指望，没有神的。……譬如装电灯，电灯装好，也接上电了，但开关若不灵，灯就仍然不能发光。……有些基督徒就是这样，虽然有神，却像灯有电而不亮，因为他的保险丝没接上。就属灵的意义说，……〔路加十五章浪子的比喻〕乃是描写一个堕落的人，完全丢弃了父神家的产业。他离开了自己的产业，也卖身为奴。……〔后来他预备向父亲说，〕“父亲，我犯罪得罪了天，并得罪了你。我不配再称为你的儿子，把我当作一个雇工吧。”（18~19）他就起来到父亲那里，准备照样说。但父亲……打断他的话，马上告诉仆人说，“快把那上好的袍子拿出来给他穿，把戒指戴在他手上，把鞋穿在他脚上，把那肥牛犊牵来宰了，让我们吃喝快乐。”（22~23）那个肥牛犊就是预表基督，基督就是神；神在基督里作了肥牛犊，给我们这些悔改归回的浪子享受。对我们而言，这就是禧年。
　　所以路加十五章就是四章禧年的例证。浪子卖了产业，也卖了自身。有一天他归回产业，回到父家，那就是禧年，就是自由；那也就是一切应心，万事如意。在家里只有享受，只有吃喝，没有劳苦。所以利未记二十五章那里说，〔以色列人〕在禧年的时候不要种，也不要收，只要吃和享受。……要吃地里自产的，就是吃神所供给他们的，不需要他们去劳苦。
　　圣经中的禧年就是福音时代，也正是今天。我们一悔改归向神，接受主耶稣，我们里面就真正得着神，这也就是我们禧年的开始。从这一天起，我们就一辈子都是禧年，永远都是禧年；我们能一直享受神作我们的产业。感谢赞美主，……我们的禧年要越过越丰富，直到永世。这就是我们禧年的产业（禧年，二四至二五、二七至二九页）。
　　参读：路加福音生命读经，第六十七至六十九篇。

　　Colossians 1:12 says, "Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light." Today God has become our blessed portion in Christ. Apart from Christ, people live in the world, having no hope and being without God....Lights may be installed in a building, and the electricity may be connected, but if we do not use the switch to turn them on, the lights do not shine....Even though [many Christians] have God, they are like lights that do not shine because they do not "turn on the switch" by taking God as their portion.

　　According to spiritual significance...[the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32] depicts a fallen man who completely lost his possession in the house of God the Father. He left his own possession and sold himself as a slave....[He later prepared to say to his father], "I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants" (15:18-19). Then he rose up and went to his father to speak according to what he had prepared. However,...the father interrupted him and told the servants, "Bring out quickly the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fattened calf; slaughter it, and let us eat and be merry" (vv. 22-23). The fattened calf signifies Christ, who is God. God in Christ has become the fattened calf for the enjoyment of the repentant and returning prodigal sons. To us, this is the jubilee.

　　Therefore, Luke 15:11-32 is an illustration of the jubilee proclaimed in Luke 4:18-19. The prodigal son sold his possession and himself. One day he returned to his possession and his father's house. That was a jubilee, a liberation, and everything became pleasant and satisfying. In the father's house there was only enjoyment with eating and drinking; there was no labor. This corresponds to Leviticus 25:11, which says that the people were neither to sow nor reap in the year of the jubilee; they should only eat and enjoy. Furthermore, they could only eat of the produce directly from the field. This means that they ate what God supplied without the need of their own labor.

　　The jubilee in the Bible is the age of the gospel, which is this age. Once we repent and turn to God by receiving the Lord Jesus, we obtain God within. This is the beginning of our jubilee. From that day onward, our whole life is a jubilee, and we enjoy the jubilee forever. We can continually enjoy God as our possession. We thank and praise the Lord that our jubilee will be richer and richer from now unto eternity. This is the meaning of the possession of the jubilee. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 4, "The Jubilee," pp. 19, 21-22)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Luke, msgs. 67-69