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Sunday, January 24,
2010
Whose Will?
Strong’s definition for ‘will’:
NT:2307 thelema (thel'-ay-mah); from the
prolonged form of NT:2309; a determination (properly, the thing), i.e.
(actively) choice (specially, purpose, decree; abstractly, volition) or (passively)
inclination: KJV - desire, pleasure, will.
Thayer’s definition for ‘will’:
1)
What one wishes or has determined shall be done
a.
Of the purpose of God to bless mankind through Christ
b.
Of what God wishes to be done by us, commands,
precepts
2)
Will, choice, inclination, desire, pleasure
As you can see, it can be your will or
God’s will but it can’t be both. You are either with Him and in His will,
or you are against Him and not in His will. You cannot server God and
mammon. You cannot serve your own will as well has His, they are contrary
to one another. One will get you into His kingdom and righteousness and the
other (your will) will leave you on the outside looking in. It is your
choice.
John 6:38-40 For I came down from heaven,
not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. (39) And
this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath
given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last
day. (40) And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which
seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will
raise him up at the last day. (KJV)
John 5:30-32 I can of mine own self do
nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not
mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. (31) If I
bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. (32) There is another that
beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of
me is true. (KJV)
Jesus Christ was sent here to do our heavenly
Father’s will…His will be done in earth as it is in heaven. It is His will
that we would do the same. That of all that our Father has given us, that
we should lose nothing but the son of perdition (our old nature), and be
raised up a Spiritual being that can be raised up the last day and
presented unto our Father without spot or blemish, wearing our robe of
righteousness, our wedding garment adorned in Christ.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 I call heaven and
earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and
death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy
seed may live: (20) That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou
mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy
life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which
the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to
give them. (KJV)
Those shall have life that choose it:
those that choose the favour of God and communion with him for their
felicity, and prosecute their choice as they ought, shall have what
they choose. (Matthew Henry’s Commentary)
Shall have what they choose (1Corinthians
3:21-22, Matthew 16:19, 16:24-28). Life or death, the choice is yours.
What’s on your shopping list?
Those that come short of life and
happiness must thank themselves; they would have had it if they had chosen
it when it was put to their choice: but they die because they will die; that
is they do not like the life promised upon the terms proposed. (Matthew
Henry Commentary)
So what will your choice be? Whose will,
will you seek and fulfill?
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