Pastor Janeth was speaking, and it really touched me—it really hit me. She was talking about the year of Jubilee and how this is just such an awesome year. You see, this is a year of Jubilee. This is a great year. This is an awesome year. This is a year, as she said, that comes every fifty years—where all of the lands are turned back to their original owner, where all debts are canceled, where all slavery is turned over and released.

This is a great year for the church because, in the past, there was so much stuff that held us down. There were so many things that would interfere with our relationship—my past, my hurt, my pain. I was a slave to all these different things. Well, it is a great year, for it is the year of Jubilee, and all debts are canceled. Amen.

You see, she talked about how this was such a great time because slavery ended and the land was turned back over to the rightful owner. But she didn’t say it was us, and I thought that was very interesting. She didn’t say the land is turned back over to you—she said the land is turned back over to God.

You see, we’re still a slave. There’s no difference from back then—we’re just not a slave to sin anymore. All of a sudden, God owns the whole land. All of a sudden, the land of our hearts is taken over completely by God.

I thought, “wow—the struggle is over. Wow—the things of the past are over. All the times where we had to fight, and we had to go for it, and we had to push and push and push.” Why was it like that? Because multiple things had a call on the land. They had ownership over the land.

But today—this year, the year of Jubilee—no longer do all of those things have a hold, but God has a hold. No longer does my sin have a hold, but I am held in the palm of God’s hand. When you think about God being the owner—literally, the landowner, the landlord—I was thinking about that, and I said, “What does that make me, God?” It makes me a tenant, right? If God’s the landowner and He’s the landowner over my heart, then I’m just a tenant.

"No longer does my sin have a hold, but I am held in the palm of God’s hand."

And she was speaking about your hearts, but I’m going to go even further and say the land is your hearts. It’s your bodies. It’s your life. It’s your relationships. It’s your family. It’s your children. It’s everything in your life.

You see, all things are owned by God. Pastor Jerry was talking about Psalm 24, and it says that “everything in the world is the Lord’s”—everything on earth is God’s. He owns every single thing. That means my heart. That means my wife. That means my relationships. That means everything is owned by God. And what am I doing? I’m pretty much just renting it. I’m just a tenant for a time that holds it—because there will be a day where God will call what is due to Him and He’ll call it back to Himself and say, “Tenant, how have you handled the things that I have given you?”

I’m going to be reading from Matthew 21, called the Parable of the Tenants—or the Parable of the Wicked Tenants. And we have to look at ourselves and say, “What kind of tenants are we going to be? How are we going to handle the things that God has given us? How are we going to hold, deal, and manage with the blessings and the fruit that God has given us?” They’re not ours, and we cannot claim ownership over them.

It’s time for all the things of the past to end—to say, “It’s mine to do with as I like. It’s mine. I have a right to all these things.” Let’s just say it today: all rights are over. This is the year of Jubilee. All things have been turned over to God. That means our rights are over.

I’ll be reading from Matthew 21:33. “There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit. The tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. Then he sent other servants to them—more than the first time—and the tenants treated them the same way. Last of all, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said. But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ So they took him, they threw him out of the vineyard, and they killed him. Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.”

Jesus replied to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes?’ Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”

He was speaking in the temple courts, and the Jewish leaders were right there listening to Him. And it says a little bit later that they realized Jesus was talking about them. He even predicts His own death in this verse. They’re listening to all this, and they’re getting angry. They want to arrest Him. They want to throw Him out. And they’re saying, “You have no right to say this to me.”

He’s talking about the Israelites and the Gentiles. He’s saying the vineyard was given to the Israelites—the inheritance was given to them. But they did not treat the prophets right. It says He sent the prophets; He sent His servants to them and told them there will be a time when God is going to come to collect what is His.

And they beat them, and they killed them. If you look throughout the Bible—John the Baptist, Stephen, even Jesus Christ—every time a servant was sent, they beat him, threw him out, and even killed him. The Jews would know exactly what He was talking about. It was a very common practice: if a landowner had land and had to go back to his home country, he would rent out the land. He would be a landowner and get tenants, and he could require up to half the harvest—up to half of the fruit.

You can say it passed over them and now it’s ours, but we can’t take ownership over it like they did. They took ownership and said, “God, You have no right to tell me. You have no right to say what is Yours and what I have to give You. It’s mine.” And because of that, it was passed over and given to us. Let us not make the same mistake today. Let us not make the same mistake and say, “This inheritance is mine. This house is mine. This wife is mine. This money is mine.” Whatever it is—all things belong to God. Amen.

So we have to look and say, this parable is still prevalent today. We have to be sober-minded and know there is a God in Heaven from whom all good things come. They are not ours. They are God’s and they come down from Heaven.

So let’s look at this verse and see what God requires from us today. Number one: we have to realize that He owns the land. God owns the land. Ask anybody—anybody maybe a little bit older—what will they say about this generation? That this is the generation of entitlement. Everybody thinks they’re owed everything.

There is so much entitlement in this world that people believe everything is owed to them—that everything should be theirs, everything should be handed to them. And as great as this country is, and as great as some of the programs we have are—like welfare and unemployment—as great as that makes us, it has bred a generation of entitlement that says, “It’s mine. It’s mine. It’s mine.”

And I’m calling out today and saying, “It’s God’s. It’s God’s. It’s God’s.” Amen.

We have to turn that thinking around and say, we are entitled to nothing. We don’t—this inheritance isn’t ours. It was the Jews’. This house isn’t mine. This wife isn’t mine. All good things come from God. The Lord—”everything in this world belongs to God,” Psalm 24 says. We have no entitlement to anything.

Now, I’m sure you’ve heard of landlord-tenant disputes. In my job, I have to deal with that a lot. You’ll get bad tenants—wicked tenants. And for a landlord, there’s nothing worse than getting bad tenants in your house.

I had a family member who rented out their house, and they did all the right things. They got a background check. They got a security deposit. And what happened after the first few months? They stopped paying. Then you have to go through an eviction process. You wait months and months and months. And by the time they got back into the house, there were holes kicked in the wall. There were roaches. Everything was destroyed. Cabinets were ripped off the wall. And I said, wow—what a generation of entitlement. How could they live inside that house and say, “Well, it’s mine. I can do with it as I like”?

That’s the kind of generation we have that looks at God and says, “God, You can’t tell me. You can’t tell me what I do with my wife. This is my house. You can’t tell me how I live my life. You can’t tell me what I do on Sunday. This is my life.”

And I’m saying, “God, these people don’t see that all things come from You. They don’t see that You hold time in Your hands. And Sunday and Saturday and Monday through Friday—they all belong to You God, but You require just that Sunday to come into Your house.” I look and see that all money and everything good in my life—every blessing and every fruit that I have—does not come from me, but comes from God on high.

That mentality of entitlement—it’s the same since the beginning. If you look at Adam and Eve in the garden, whose garden was that? It was God’s garden, right? They walked around Eden, and God said to them, “You can touch any tree in here, but this is My garden, and My one rule is: don’t go and eat of that one tree.” And then what does Satan say when he comes to them? Satan says, “If you eat of that fruit, God knows you’ll become just like Him.” Just like Him.

You see, Adam and Eve weren’t happy being tenants in the garden. They weren’t happy being tenants in God’s land. They said, “No, I have a right to this land. I’m walking in this land. And God knows that if I eat of that fruit, I’ll become just like Him. I’ll become the one in charge. I’ll become the owner. And I can do with this land what I like.”

Adam and Eve turned away from God. They weren’t happy just being tenants—they wanted to be the owner. And we see it today. We see the same sin today that was there so many years ago—men and women who say, “It’s my life. God, You created me in the womb. Maybe You picked me up from the dust. Maybe You breathed life into me. But it doesn’t matter if You made me, God—I am my own. I can do what I want.”

And we see people who walk through life and say, “No, God. No, God—it’s me. I got this.” It is the same sin then, and it is the same sin today. I’ll tell you, church, we need to get rid of that mindset. We need to come out of that mindset. We need to be a people who are sober-minded—who walk every single day saying, “God, this ground is Yours. Wherever I walk is Yours. This relationship is Yours. This talent is Yours. Whatever I have—whatever good thing is in my life—it comes from You.”

"We need to be a people who are sober-minded—who walk every single day saying, 'God, this ground is Yours. Wherever I walk is Yours.'"

If you read Romans 11, it says the Jews were broken off the tree because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble—for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you either.

There are gospel messages out there that say all you have to do is say a prayer and you’re saved forever. All you have to do is say a prayer and you don’t have to worry for the rest of your life. Do what you want because you’re safe. And I’ll tell you—that’s a dangerous prayer.

The gospel message we should be preaching is exactly this: that we do not own the ground. That we were created from the dust. That everything we have is from above. That the very ground we walk on was created by God’s voice.

And when we walk and go about our day and do not consider the Landowner—when we act like tenants who say, “I can kick a hole in the wall. I can leave everything around, I can make it a mess. It doesn’t matter because it’s mine and it does not belong to God.” Our gospel message should say, just like the prophets: “There will be a time when God will come and collect what is due to Him.” There will be a time when He will come and say, “I have entrusted you with so many blessings. You have children. You have clothes. You have food. You have a roof over your head. I have given you so many blessings. How have you used that land to give back to Me? How have you tended that land to give back to me?”

Jesus Christ—He is the Son in that parable. He is the One coming and speaking to us. And God says, “Surely they will respect My Son.” Surely when they walk in on Sunday and hear His voice, they will not ignore it. Surely when God comes and speaks and gives blessing after blessing, they will turn and say, “God, I recognize You. God, I see it. It’s not mine. I cannot do it; God I know this came from You. Thank You, Lord. And I will spend my entire life giving it back and honoring You.”

"Turn and say, 'God, I recognize You. God, I see it. It’s not mine.'"

That’s the gospel message. Jesus Christ came. God sent His Son to remind the people that God owns all things—and that one day it will all turn back to the Father. We have to live in that grace. We have to live in that understanding—knowing that God owns all the land. Knowing that the land is not released back to us, but that we are slaves unto the Most High God. We are ones who choose to come underneath Him.

Not like Adam and Eve, but to say, “God, You are the Owner. You are the Most High God. I don’t want to be in control. I’m going to follow underneath You, Lord—for You are the Owner, and I am the tenant.”

And in this time—this life is but a mist, here one second and gone the next—but God, I will spend every minute giving back to You for what You have given to me. For You are the Owner of all things. Amen.

So when we see that God owns the land, then we can look at ourselves and say, alright: if You own the land, God, then I just rent the land. The first renters—they did not produce the crop. They did not give what God required from them. And because of that, it was passed over and given unto us.

But we can’t grab onto it like they did. We have to live our life saying, “God, I realize that I am a renter. I realize that I have no right to this land. I have no right to my family. I have no right to my home. I have no right to all the blessings that You’ve stored up in my heart. God, I have no right to it.”

And when you have that mindset, it takes away that mentality of entitlement. Because you say, “I have no right—yet every good and perfect thing comes from You. Every fruit in this crop belongs to You, God.”

We can’t take what God has given and keep it for ourselves and say, “God, it’s all mine.” That crop—God can require so much—up to half. But we should have hearts that say, “God, it’s all Yours anyway. It’s all Yours anyway, God. I don’t have a right to it. Every single thing I have is in Your hands.”

So we have to look at our lives and ask: what do we grab onto? What do we hold onto and not give God His portion? Which things in our life do we say, “I’m the owner of” and not the renter? I was thinking—maybe unused talents. And I’m not talking just tangible things. Every good thing comes from above. The things that you have in your life that I’m not good at and my wife’s not good at—things you are good at—because God has blessed you with them. Do we take those things and say they only benefit me? “I’m going to use my talents, excel in the world, make a bunch money, and do whatever I want with the talents God has given me.” Or do we say, “God, this is not mine. You give and You take away, Lord. God, I will lay it at Your feet. How can I use this talent to advance Your kingdom—to push the walls forward? What have You blessed me with that no one else has that I can push forward the kingdom of God?”

Or how about our spouses? Our spouses—every good and perfect thing comes from above. I look at my wife and I remember on our wedding day. As Pastor Jerry walked her down the aisle, I remember that moment where he took her hand and put it into my hand.

He wasn’t saying, “This is mine; I’m giving it to you.” No—he was saying, “God has entrusted me with this child. God has given her to me. There has been a time where she was with me. There has been a time where I had guard over her. But now I’m passing it over to you.” For God has called a time that a man and a woman shall leave their home and come into union with another. And now I look at her and I say, “God, she’s not mine. I can’t claim responsibility over her.” And there will be a time where You will come back and say, “How have you dealt with what I have given you? How have you uplifted her? How have you blessed her? How have you moved her more and more into Christ? How have you lifted her above yourself? Kris, how have you taken the blessing that I have given you? How did you tend to it?”

You see, my spouse—that’s from God, and I have to live that every single day knowing that I don’t own it, but I only rent. Or how about my worship? So many times we see that the music is going, and we don’t want to bend a knee down to God. We don’t want to move. We don’t want to dance, and we’re so rigid and locked up. Why is that? Because we say, “Well, I’m me, and I have a right over me, and I don’t want to look foolish. I don’t want to lose dignity. I have a right to stay still.”

As I was praying about this, God was saying to me, “Fool, don’t you realize that I give and take away? That I have lowered down nations to the ground and raised them up to the heavens? I have done miracles upon miracles—how can we hold on to just our pride? How can you hold on to your dignity and say, ‘God, it’s mine’?”

When we look at David dancing before God, why did he do that? It wasn’t because he was saying, “All right, God, I’m going to sacrifice for You.” No—he was saying, “God, You own all things. You own my body. You own my life. You own who I am as a person. I will not hold anything from You, God, but I will lay it at Your feet.”

So what are we coveting? What are we holding on to? We need to give God what is due to God. We need to realize that we are tenants—in our bodies, in this country, in our jobs, in all things. We are just renting the land.

We have to look at our freedom, our children, our time—all of those things that we say, “God, it’s mine”—and start saying, “God, it’s not mine. It’s Yours, Lord. What are You requiring from this?” How much do You want me to have? Do You want me to have 2%, 1%, 50%? Lord, how much of this day is my time? How much freedom do I have today, God—for You own all things, and You hold time in Your hands? Do You want me praying today? Do You want me worshiping today? Do You want me uplifting the church today? Or, Lord, is it okay to go to ShopRite?

You know, there should be something inside of our hearts that says, “God, You own all things.” And we look at the Acts church—what does it say in Acts? They took all of their possessions and they sold it, and they laid them at the disciples’ feet.

These men—they just gave up all of their stuff. They gave it, they sold it, and they laid it at the church’s feet. But as God was speaking to me about this, He was saying, “No.” You see, they weren’t just saying, “It’s mine, I’m giving it to You.” They were saying, “God, You own it all. God, You own it all. God, all things—this crop, this land, this house—it belongs to You already.”

So what is it a big deal if I take it, sell it? It’s Yours here, or it’s Yours there. And they gave to God willingly because they had the mindset of a renter. They had the mindset of a tenant. They had the mindset that nothing belonged to them.

Look at Ananias and Sapphira. What was that sin that was so bad that it even caused death? They came and they lied to Peter. They said, “Well, I’m giving you this,” and they held a portion for themselves. And yes, the lying was horrible. But I looked at it a little bit deeper, and I said, “wow—they still had the mindset of the owner. They still had the mindset of ‘it’s mine.’” You see, they weren’t in unity with the rest of the church—where the rest of the church said, “Oh, everything is Yours, God. I’ll take it here, I’ll put it there—it doesn’t matter.” They said, “No, it’s mine.” And they were separate from the church. And what did Peter say to them? He said, “Before you sold this, wasn’t it yours already? Didn’t that field already belong to you? And after you sold it, wasn’t the money yours to do with as you please?”

You see, Peter was kind of mocking them a little bit. Because for any other person—if he asked that question—to that church, they would have said, “No, Peter, it’s all God’s.” And Peter’s saying to them, “You see—you held ownership over it. You held ownership and then lied and tried to pass it off as being in unity with the church.” But their actions were so separate because they had the mindset of the owner and not the tenant.

All things belong to God. All things belong to God and are His. Every good and perfect gift comes from above. Everything that we have—the shoes on your feet, the jeans, the shirt, whatever it is—every good and perfect thing comes from above. And God, how can I honor You with it today? How can I lift up Your kingdom today?

Why does the world—and I deal with this all the time when I’m talking to people—why does the world look at the church as so powerless? We need to change the temperature. We need to change the culture. This country is going an opposite way. We see all sorts of things happening in the news. We see terrorism spreading, and they turn and they say, “Your God is not real.” But we have to say, “No—I live my life. Look at my life. Look at my heart, and you will see that God is real. You will see that there is a God in Heaven who is alive and active and moving today.” Amen.

You see, God has given so much. When I was thinking about this—taking ownership over stuff—I was thinking about it like a power tool. Guys, you know what I’m talking about—power tools. Girls, I don’t know what you guys give each other—spoons. I don’t know—plates, whatever it is you guys give to one another. But for me, it’s a power tool. So for a power tool—you know when a guy takes a power tool—if you borrow somebody’s stuff, you can’t just leave it out in the rain. You can’t just give it back all dirty. You can’t keep it for a long time. You’ve got to know it’s not yours, and you’ve got to treat it like it’s not yours.

And how is anything in our lives not the same? Women—you don’t give that dish back dirty. You wash it, right? You make sure it’s good before you give it back. But God is the same. I have to look at my life as that power tool. I have to look at every good thing I have in my life and say, “God, I can’t dirty this. I can’t mess it up. I can’t leave it in the rain. I can’t act like it’s mine and then give it back to You rusty, broken, and dirty. God, if anything, I’m going to tend to it. I’m going to make it better, and I’m going to give it unto You, God—and it’s going to be better than when You gave it.”

Once we know that God owns the land, once we know that we rent the land, then we can know that we need to work the land. We need to work the land. Let’s look at this again—verse 42 to 44.

“Jesus said to them, ‘Have you never read it in the Scriptures? “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.” Therefore, I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and be given to a people who will produce its fruit, like farmers. Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.’”

Jesus describes Himself as two separate stones there. He describes Himself as the cornerstone in verse 42, and then in verse 44, He says He is the stone that dashes people to pieces. When I thought about Him being the stumbling block—Jesus was saying, “I can either own the land. I can either have the land and be in possession of it. I can either inhabit the land, and you can build upon the cornerstone—or you can be the one who gets dashed to pieces.”

Because He is the stone that men fall upon and yet cannot break. He is the stone that men try to hurl insults at and try to break and try to move and try to send to hell—yet God raised Him from the dead, and men have fallen down at His feet who tried to come before Him.

We can either come underneath God and build upon the land, or we can fall upon Him and be dashed to pieces. We can either fight God, or we can fight with God. We need to be ones who will produce its fruit—who are building on the cornerstone. And if you look at the church, it’s no coincidence that we’re building the church right now—watching the foundation go in, and those big, humongous walls that lock together. They went down, they dropped them down, they locked in, and they made a secure foundation.

And you look at that—you can’t move them. And I was saying, “Wow—it doesn’t matter what we build upon this; that will never fall. That will never knock down. There’s nothing we can do that will move these walls, for they are solid.”

See, God—Jesus Christ—when He owns the land, He becomes the cornerstone. He becomes the foundation. He becomes the One that we build upon. I know a lot of you guys have tried things in the past. You’ve tried to build. You’ve tried to move. You’ve tried to do something—and yet it hasn’t gone exactly how you’ve planned.

Well, I’ll tell you: that was building on the sand. That was building in the past. Those things that you have done in the past—push forward. Go on. For it is the year of Jubilee. God owns the land now—so now you can build. Now you can move forward.

It’s hard to build upon a land that multiple people have a claim on. You ever watch “Alaskan Bush People”? It’s good, right? They built this house in the middle of Alaska, in the middle of the wilderness. They spent so much time. They did it with their bare hands. It was a pretty good house. They built it up, and then they all left one day. They went into the wilderness—I don’t know doing what—hunting bears or something, whatever people in Alaska do. They were out most of the day, and when they came back, the house was totaled. Destroyed. The government had come in and said, “No—we have a claim on this land. You can’t build on this land.” And because the government had a claim on it, they were able to bulldoze it over. Because there were multiple people with a claim on that land. They said, “You can’t build here,” and they had a right to tear it down.

Well, hasn’t it been the same in our past? When Satan has a right over your land, anything you build, he has a right to tear down. So every time we’ve tried to establish godliness in our household, every time we’ve tried to teach our kids, every time we’ve tried to move and there was resistance—it was because Satan had a claim on the land. He had a right to tear down everything you tried to build.

But no longer. This is why the year of Jubilee is so great. This is why this time in the church is such an amazing, awesome, marvelous time—because God is doing something new! He has cut all claims off your land. He has cut all the things in the past off.

So when we used to say, “Oh God, I’m trying so hard, but I can’t do it—the pain is too much.” Or, “God, I’m trying to find You. I’m trying to read Your Word, but my past keeps catching up with me.” Or, “God, I keep falling into the same traps over and over.” Or, “God, this sin is crouching at my door, and I’m not sure what to do.”

Praise God—it’s the year of Jubilee. Praise God—all the old has been cut off. It is a time where God has returned the land.

So we have to say: it’s harvest time. It’s a new time. It’s time when the vines and the fruit are being born—when all of a sudden things are coming out of the ground that you never thought would be there. Even the tree up on the branch—I looked at that as it was blooming the other day, and I said, “God, there’s blooming in season and out of season.” God, it is a time of harvest. It is a new time, and it is time to build upon this land. It is time to work this land. It is time to not accept the past, but to move forward. It is time to no longer sit back. Amen.

You know, I was talking to somebody this week, and I was saying to him, “What is God challenging you with? What is a new thing that God is calling you to?” And as Pastor Janeth was talking about an example of freedom—we say, “God, I want freedom. God, I want freedom for me. I want freedom for my job. I want freedom for all these different things.” But they’re always about me.

But it is a different time. And she said prayers should change. They shouldn’t be, “God, I need freedom for me.” They should be, “God, I need freedom because I need to give back to You. God, I need freedom because there is an altar in front of the church that I need to dance on.” “God, I need freedom because my legs are locked up—my knees are seized—but I need them loosened, God, for there is a church that needs worship in the house.”

When we can start to move, when our prayers change—when we don’t have “owner-type” prayers, but we have “tenant-type” prayers—we’ll see the harvest come forth. It’s a new time. What you build today will last for generations.

Your children—if you want to look at it in the physical—and I look at the church going up, and I say, “Lord, I toiled for that church. I worked the ground for that church. God, I don’t know what part of it is mine, but part of it—one of those cinder blocks is mine, God.”

For I worked the land, and I know what I did in that place will be for my children and my grandchildren. They will grow up without the struggle that I had to go through as a first-generation Christian—constantly trying to break the past, constantly trying to cut off all of the hurt and the pain. I’m saying, “No, God—the land that I toil today, what I build up today, what I don’t accept from my past and continue to strive forward—that will last for generations to come.”

Kids will find shelter in what I work on today—in what I do in my heart. Even the intangible: the relationship I build with God—the times of prayer, the times of tears, the times of worship, the times of being on my knees and saying, “God, You have to deliver me.” The times of saying, “Lord, You have to deliver these youth group kids. God, You’ve got to do something new and break through the old.” The times I’m praying and thinking about some of you guys and saying, “God, rescue them from where they’re at. God, do something new.”

You see, every work that I do on this land will last for generations. It’ll cause an effect—there’s cause and effect. It’ll make a difference in this church. It’ll make a difference in this community. It’ll make a difference—maybe even in this country—for generations to come.

So we have to look and say, “What am I holding on to? What ownership am I saying, ‘It’s mine, God—not Yours’”? What are those things that we separate God from? And in our heads we like to think tangible—we like to think money, maybe tithes. But I’m talking more than that. I’m saying the land belongs to God—all of the land: your hearts, your families, your children, your hope, your joy, your freedom, your time. They all belong to God, for every good and perfect thing comes from above. Everything on the earth belongs to God. God owns all things, and we have to break that mindset of entitlement.

I’d ask that you ask God, “What am I holding on to? What do I still have ownership over?” For everything that I hold on to, You cannot inhabit. For everything in my life that I grab white-knuckle, I cannot build upon—it becomes sand.

But You, Lord—if I make You the Owner of all things today—if I make You the literal Landlord—oh God, I can see the harvest coming. I can see the fruit rising up. I can see my family situation being turned around. I can see my kids being brought up in the Lord as never before. I can see my hurt and my pain melting away.

That is the harvest that You call for us. My past is cut off, God. It’s the year of Jubilee. I want to be a good tenant, God. I want to release my control right now over all those things. I want to break my mindset of entitlement. And God, I want to be a good tenant. I want to have the mindset of the renter.

"It’s the year of Jubilee. I want to be a good tenant. I release my control… over all things."

I want to know that every good and perfect thing comes from above. I want to know that it’s not mine, and I have no right to it. I want to know, God, that if You give it to me, it’s just for a time—for You give and take away.

Lord, I will cherish these things. I will tend to these things. I will work the land that You have given me. I won’t bury it in the sand and then give it back to You the same—all dirty and broken and rusted. No, God—I will do something new. I will work that. I will make it better, God. For when You call me home, I do not want to be one that says, “Lord, I did nothing with what You gave me.” I want to be one that presents to You what You have given me. I want to be like that child that builds something great and comes to the Father and says, “Look what I made You, Lord. Look what I did with what You gave me.”

You bought all the materials, God. You gave me all the materials—but look what I did with them. My life on this earth—it was not idle. I worked and I toiled the ground, for I knew that You owned all things, God. Praise You, Lord.

So I pray you guys would go out knowing this is the year of Jubilee—knowing that all of the old has been cut off. No longer does our past hold us down, but we can build on the land. We can build on the land that God owns, for He is the Chief Cornerstone. Amen.

So go—build. Do new things. Do great things. And let’s just worship God one more time. Hallelujah, Lord. Amen. Be blessed, greet one another, and have a great week, guys. God bless you.