16因着我们穷到一个地步,不仅失去了神作我们的产业,并且还把我们自身卖了。……但是到禧年的时候,我们不只归回产业,归回神自己,并且我们也得了自由,从奴役之下被释放出来。今天许多人讲自由、民权、人权,然而人若不享受神,是不会有真自由的。……人光讲自由,却不归回神,结果反而产生许多问题,衍生出许多恶事。……圣经的原则是你要先归回神,你才有自由;你若不归回神而想要自由,结果还是没有真自由(李常受文集一九八四年第四册,三一至三四页)。
16Because we were poor, we not only lost God as our possession but also sold ourselves as slaves…However, when the year of jubilee comes, we not only are returned to God as our possession, but we also obtain freedom and are released from the bondage of slavery. Today many people talk about freedom, civil rights, and human rights, but if man does not enjoy God, he cannot have real freedom… When people only speak about freedom without being returned to God, the result is that many problems are produced, and many evil things are brought in…The biblical principle is that we must first be returned to God before we can have freedom. If we want to obtain freedom without being returned to God, the result is that we do not have true freedom. (CWWL, 1984, vol. 4, “The Jubilee,” pp. 23-25)