Resurrection is the bedrock of Christianity 1 Corinthians 15:14 "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.", and in the book of John 19:28-30 it says "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst. Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.", when Jesus said it is finished at the cross of Calvary, it means our sins has been paid for with his blood. Therefore our sins have been forgiven.

When a government forgives a criminal of his or her sins, automatically he or she gains freedom but Jesus did not only give us physical freedom…it is unto eternity both in the spirit and in the physical. Jesus paid a debt He did not owe. We owed the debt of sin and we could not pay. He came and paid the debt with His life at the cross of Calvary. This is the reason why we can call ABBA-Father today.

It is the desire of God to grant release and relief to His people…however we must play our part. In the divine principle for God to move His hands or send help, many believers are expecting God to do His part without man's part, no! It is not done that way. This cannot work. We must do our part for God to do His part in divine freedom.

To receive divine freedom, in our part:

We must abstain from sin.

We must trust God in totality.

We must have an unwavering faith.

We must be bold.

We must be faithful.

We must be prayerful.

Here's an illustration: Sometime ago, around 8pm in the evening, a sister, driving home after Bible study, got to a police checkpoint and was beckoned to stop. A police officer came to the lady and asked her to come down and open the booth of her car. As she was about to come down from the car to do as she has been told, he touched her and that was the last thing she could remember. She later found herself far away in a bush in Ekiti state.

In the bush were other people that had been kidnapped the same way or in a manner similar to the way she was transported to this location. They were made to line up and passed through some rituals and so called cleansing before presentation to the priest for a sacrifice. During this time, she had realised she was kidnapped and all she could do was to pray silently in tongues. There were some other brethren with her in that bush who were also praying silently in tongues.

When it got to her turn to be presented, the priest was taken aback and asked where did you get this type of meat? Immediately she was told to step aside for a while. In her presence many were brutally slaughtered and their blood and body parts extracted into a bowl probably for further usage in their wicked and demonic rituals. After two days, the priest asked his people to return the brethren to where they were taken from…after a long journey in the bush they found themselves on a major road in Ekiti state.

Somebody who went for a Bible study in Lagos state, precisely in Ogba and this was two weeks after they had been kidnapped…this is what we mean by divine freedom.

When the Lord said I will give you divine freedom, it does not mean that you will not face opposition, it does not mean that you are not going to face crisis or face trouble, at the point of that frustration when it seems that the enemy is having an upper hand, that is when as a child of God you need to pray more.

As you are praying, unknown to you, you are bringing your enemy to a halt. That is what happened to this lady. Immediately she found herself in that situation, she realised that there is no help elsewhere except God. And she began to pray. Brethren we must do our part as Christians.…pastor Benson Enakhena/Elshaddai Salvation Family Ministries