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Federal Witness Protection Program - WITSEC for short.
Run by the US Marshal’s service.
Over 18,000 witnesses and family members since 1970.
Typically witnesses in Org.
Crime cases.
Most often they are criminals whose testimony is considered valuable enough to secure a conviction and therefore worth expunging the witnesses crimes and giving them a new life.
They get new names, ssn’s, new location.
Sometimes kids get new grades.
A stipend for a period of time but are expected to eventually get jobs and support themselves.
Over 80% are never in trouble with the law after entering the program.
Beyond a general fascination with the whole idea, that last stat really caught my attention.
People who were guilty of crimes, living outside of society’s norms, are released and given a brand new life.
It appears the majority of the guilty criminals choose to take advantage of that fresh start and leave their brokenness and guilt behind.
Redemption is a powerful motivator.
While we’re not guilty of federal crimes, there are seasons, circumstances, where we’d all love to chuck this life and get a brand new one.
Just dump the problems, the decisions, the challenges, get a new start, new name, new identity.
As we follow the Spirit in the book of Acts, we meet a man with a terrible, violent, rage-filled life who gets a chance at redemption, a new life, and new identity.
Getting a New Identity
Saul is a violent, rage-filled man who hates the followers of Jesus.
He sees nothing wrong with hunting them down and bringing them to a trial that can have only one outcome.
Saul didn’t waste any time “trying on” his new identity in Christ.
In His Own Words
For the rest of his life, Saul - now Paul - testified about the new life that is available to everyone in Christ.
When you examine his letters through the lens of a powerful new identity offered to us by the Spirit, there’s a consistent and passionate plea to accept your own new identity.
Identity is now based on Christ.
Identity includes a new family.
Identity includes a new mindset.
Identity includes a new face.
Our Identity in Christ
When it comes to our own lives, are we living joyously, passionately in our new identity in Christ?
The Spirit gave you this new life when you confessed Christ and accepted his death and resurrection in baptism.
The expectation in Scripture is that we then begin to mature in that new life.
Rather like folks in WITSEC settling in to new names, towns, jobs, lives but much more vital and important.
Paul’s example is a consistent new life in step and cooperation with the Spirit which empowered him to be a bold witness for Christ.
This is a choice we can make.
Two challenges to cooperating with the Spirit in this new life:
Comfort
Are we too comfortable and think we don’t need the Spirit’s power?
Noise
Are we too distracted and don’t feel the Spirit’s prompting?
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