Really determining to do God’s Will
John 7:17 L.N.T. “If anyone really determines to do His Will, then he will surely know of the teaching, whether it be of God or whether I speak from myself.”
John 7:17 “If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, wither it be of God, or wither I speak of myself.”
I am using the term “really determining” to do God’s Will….for many are “trying” to do God’s Will….or “wanting” to do God’s Will…
…but determination has to do with the mental weighing of two or more things…
….to find out which one we will do.
And “really” is the adjective form of Reality.
When we, in reality, determine to do God’s Will….we will know what it is….and do it.
And our will is the active part of us, which does it. We do, what we will to do.
It is obedience that opens up God’s Will to our understanding. And when we really determine…..
…….have, in reality, weighed the things presented in the light of our will to do God’s will…..
……we will know by the Holy Spirit, what God’s will is.
John 8:12 “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the Light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
The creature must find a resting place….and that resting place is in the Will of the Creator.
Our hearts were made for fellowship with Christ…in light….in the sunshine of His love.
Jude 20-21 “But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”
It is only when sin entered that we turned from light to darkness…..hiding our true selves, with Adam and Eve “amongst the trees of the garden”……among all the showy things, or pretenses we make to God….(Genesis 3:8, John 3:19)
But when we come to the light of the truth about ourselves…..getting honest, by the Holy Spirit’s help, with ourselves….
….grace (the unmerited favor of power) will be applied.
John 1:17 “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
John 3:21 “But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.”
This is not a matter of merit…earning the forgiveness….it is a matter of the heart openly coming before God, in honesty….and getting that help….that power….from God to deal with the situation…to deal with us.
And then walking in His light:
1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.”
This “cleanseth” is a past, present, and future term.
He did cleanse me when I came to Him and got born again. (This cleansing once for all, that I may come before His presence)
He does cleanse me when I come to Him and confess my sin that I commit. (Cleansing me from the desire, and my conscience from the defilement, all sin causes.)
He will cleanse me eternally from every evil when He takes us to heaven.
And this cleansing as Christians, is by walking with Him in the Light of His Word, in the Light of obedience to His Will.
And then standing in His light, in a world of darkness:
Romans 13:12 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.”
To wrap ourselves in the Light that is Christ…
….for when we see the light….we have the power of choice.
Paul writes concerning the ministry in this world,….giving his experience, for an example:
2 Corinthians 6:1-7 “We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
(For He saith, I have heard thee in the time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee:
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Giving no offense in anything, that the ministry be not blamed:
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
By stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
By pureness, by knowledge, by longsufferings, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,”
This is to “really determine”…..to in reality choose to obey God….and you will know what His Will is.
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