Title: PRODUCING CHILDREN OF
GOD
Memorise: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God. Romans 10:17
Bible Text: 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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