Luke turns himself into the Imperials at Endor.
After the officers and stormtroopers leave, he and Vader have a conversation in which Luke accepts the truth that Vader was once Anakin Skywalker, his father.
While Vader claims, “That name [Anakin] no longer has any meaning for me.”
Luke reminds him that the name Anakin is his true identity, one that he has forgotten.
Initially, Adam and Eve were created in a perfect garden with perfect communion with God. Then sin entered the world and destroyed their fellowship with God, and they (and humanity) were kicked out of the garden.
Between that time and the time of Jesus’ perfect life, death, and resurrection, people forgot that they genuinely were children of God since their sin separated them from God.
The only way to reclaim that title and the benefits that go with it is to recognize that we are sinners and need God.
Then by faith, we put our faith and trust in Jesus (be born again, John 3:3), and we will be saved and made right with God. See John 1:1-18 and Galatians 3:26-27.
One of the benefits of being right with God is that we can now be called children of God and will receive “an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time,” as 1Peter 1:4-5 tells us.
In Romans 8:14-17, we read Paul’s explanation on how we are no longer slaves. We can cry, “Abba! Father!” We are children of God, heirs of God, and fellow heirs with Christ.
If we have yet to confess Jesus as the Christ, we must do that today.
