PRODUCING
CHILDREN OF GOD
Memorise:
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17
Read:
1st John 3:1-3, Bible in one year: 1st Kings 18:41-20:25,
Luke 6:24-45
Children of God are produced by the
power in the Word of God. The reason why it seems genuine children of God are
scarce nowadays despite the increase in the number of churches and increase in
church attendance is because the Church is suffering from a famine of the
genuine Word of God. It is by faith that we become genuine children of God.
However, this faith does not come by the wisdom of man; neither does it come by
the philosophical sayings of the learned or the motivational words of orators.
1st Corinthians 2:4-5 says.
“And
my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in
the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”
The world, especially devotees of
certain religious, still wonder up till now how it is possible for a human
being to claim that he or she is a child of God. Such people look at divine
paternity with the mind of the flesh, and so they cannot understand or accept
the mystery of adaptation which empowers us to become sons of God through
Christ Jesus. Even to us who have been conferred this prestigious status of
being children of God, it is still a mystery. John the beloved expressed this
mystery with awe in 1st John 3:1:
“Behold,
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.”
The Word of God came to Mary and produced
the Son of God, when she had not known any man (Luke 1:30-35). This is a
template for us. The mystery of divine adoption lies in the Word of God. For us
to produce children of God from children of disobedience, we need to expose
them to the undiluted Word of God that will produce the required faith for
their adoption. Romans 10:17 says;
“So
then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
We should therefore follow the pattern
of the early apostles, we produced children of God through the Word of God. We
see this manifested in Acts 4:4
“Howbeit
many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about
five thousand.”
Key
Point
There
is power in numbers. For the kingdom
of God be firmly
established on earth, there must be a tremendous increase in the number of
God’s children.
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