Romans 8:15 – For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

DAILY READING; John 21; 2 Chronicles 33; Psalm 89:1-18

On October 20th, 1948, there was a Communist uprising in the town of Suncheon in South Korea. As Communist rioters went on a killing spree, two young sons of a Korean Pastor were among those murdered. A mob of crazed youths who were roaming the city in search of Christians had come to the college where the pastor’s two sons were schooling. A fellow student named Chai-Sun, who had ideological differences with the two boys, betrayed them to the blood-thirsty mob. These Pastor’s sons died calling on the Name of Jesus and urging their killers to accept Christ.
The news of his sons’ deaths struck Pastor Sohn Yan-Won with grief. However, he was thankful his sons preferred death than rejecting Christ to accept communism.

The Communist uprising lasted less than a week as Government soldiers arrived to quell it. Five youths were arrested for the murder of the Pastor’s sons, among them was Chai-Sun.
At the trial of his sons’ killers, Pastor Sohn gave a sermon about forgiveness and saved the five youths from a death sentence.
He then let the government know that he wanted to adopt his sons’ betrayer, Chai-Sun and teach him about Christ. Amazed by the Pastor’s gesture, the government officers released Chai-Sun to him for adoption.
Pastor Sohn devoted himself to teaching Chai-Sun, and the young man quickly became a Christian. Within two years he was a student in the Bible Institute of Korea, after which he became a minister.

The news of how Pastor Sohn had forgiven and adopted the killer of his sons spread through Korea and became a great testament to his Christian faith.
The Story of Pastor Sohn Yang-won is captured in the book ‘White Flame’

Pastor Sohn’s story is like the picture of God’s grace to us.
Although man had crucified God’s only son, yet God still adopted us into His family.
We have all sinned against God, messed up severally in life and made mistakes.Yet, despite all our sins, God forgave us, took us in, gave us His name and the right to call Him “Abba,” which means “daddy,” or “papa”.

God not only adopted us into His family, but also proclaimed us joint heirs with Christ.
Being an “heir” means we now have access to all our Father owns.
Because we have been adopted, we have come into blessings that we didn’t deserve and favor that we didn’t work for.

We now have a new spiritual status and new identity through Christ.
From slaves to sin, we have been transformed into sons of God.
From the kingdom of darkness we have been translated into the kingdom of light.
From humanity we have been reborn into divinity.

Being adopted by God as His sons has opened us up to vast supernatural possibilities. We are now no longer to live limited lives as ordinary men, rather we are to live as signs and wonders to the world.
Just as Jesus the Son of God lived an extraordinary life on earth, our lives are to be filled with miracles.

We cannot claim to be sons of God and yet there’s no significant difference between our lives and the lives of unbelievers.
God’s grace invites us and requires us to change our attitude about ourselves.
It is indeed time for us to begin to walk in the reality of our divine identity as adopted sons of God.
We must make a total break with our sinful past and begin to walk in the newness of the divine life that Christ has purchased for us through His Blood.

It is indeed time to rise above living like ordinary men; enough of living in sin, sickness, poverty, addictions and mediocrity.

Just as God sent Jesus into the world so has He sent us. We are to be lights to the world and salt to the earth.
We are to continually bring glory to God through living in holiness and purity.

Today, through the power in the Blood of Jesus, we receive the grace to arise above earthly limitations and truly begin to shine as sons of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.

PRAYER: Lord, I thank You for my divine identity as Your child on the earth. By the power in the Blood of Jesus, I receive the grace today to arise above every bondage and truly begin to live as a sign and wonder to my world in Jesus Name.

QUOTE
The truth of God’s Word in the life of a believer is always reflective, the results can never be hidden. – WORDBITE 222.