The Will of the Father

I have embarked on this journey several times, but it seems that the more time that I study, the more the Lord begins to reveal to me on this subject. I may have to break this up into several blogs, because the information that the Lord has given me is…well, it’s a lot and it may be lengthy once I add in explanations.

First of all, I feel it important to explain something I have asked the Lord about recently. Suddenly, upon realizing Christ’s Diety and utmost Perfection, I wondered why He would opt to be baptized. So I asked the Lord. One thing we should realize here, is that Christ has absolutely NO NEED to be baptized, for He IS the BAPTISM we ALL have need of.

Upon Christ approaching John to baptize Him, John tells Him that HE is in need of the baptism of Jesus, not the other way around. And Christ’s answer was simply this: “For this it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness,” (Mt 3:15), which means that in Him doing this, He would fulfill all righteousness.

How might “all righteousness be fulfilled,” one might ask? Through His death and burial. What Christ was in fact saying upon His Baptism in the Jordan as that He identified Himself with us. Just as water baptism is a symbol of our covenant with Him (like a wedding ring is in a marriage), so also is His Baptism in water…so as to outwardly state what He would do inwardly FOR US, on our behalf, (His wedding ring to us, so to speak).

What does this have to do with the Will of our Heavenly Father? Just this: When Christ came out of the water at His Baptism, there was a voice from Heaven stating, “This is my Beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased.” (Mt 3:17) So what the Lord is telling me, is that Christ identifying Himself with us…that was pleasing to the Lord.

Here was my second witness in scripture to support such a thought: “Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin…” (Is 53:10) And for those that are avid bible readers…and seek the Lord to know Him better, you’ll know that Is 53 is a beautiful picture of Christ and His sufferings for us.

John 5:30 Jesus says, “I seek not Mine own Will, but the Will of the Father which has sent Me.”

So…then, What is the Father’s Will, concerning me and my life? I see the Lord’s Will for Christ’s Life was to die for me. I find this to be a HUGE question in the church today. If it were not, there would not be so many people purchasing the millions of books full of trash like, the “Purpose Driven Life,” I’m sorry, I don’t mean to sound rude, but that is just what it is. It’s a waste of money, and if will NOT help someone find the TRUE will of the Heavenly Father for your life. However, I have the answer, and I am about to share it with you. It’s free….although I seriously doubt that it will be what the world would buy, in effort to find out this answer. The truth is, we really want God’s Will, under our OWN terms and not God’s. Nevertheless, I will get off of my soapbox and back to the teaching of the Word. For those of you I have not bitterly offended, I’m sure you are still eager to see what the Word has to say about God’s Will for YOUR LIFE. ☺ lol

Mk 14:36 “…All things are possible unto You” (God could have chosen ANY WAY to redeem humanity and “fulfill all righteousness,” but THIS was the Way that He chose to do so). “take way this cup from Me” (this proclaims Christ’s being fully God and fully man. Fully God in the fact that He was able to whole heartedly submit to the Father’s will to take His Life in order to save His “friends,” and fully man in His asking for the help of the Father to do so.) “nevertheless not what I will, but what You will.”

Just another example of the struggle we go through to do God’s Will. It would appear that I have changed the subject back to Christ and HIM doing the Will of the Father, but I haven’t. What God is saying to the reader, and the writer is that we are to die…our dying will complete His Will, ultimately. Not what the majority want, a death sentence from the Almighty in order to Live, now is it? The “Father’s Will” is the Cross of Christ.

Confused? Does this mean that the Cross of Christ is God’s Will for me too? Yep! Don’t believe me, allow me to direct you back to the scripture…remember, I am having to eat of this too, and I have not achieved….I struggle with this too. ☺

Lk 14:27 “Whosever does not bear His Cross, and Come after Me, CANNOT be My Disciple.” Yeah, there’s a book that would sell! Ha ha!!!

So I picked apart the scripture, because I wanted to know what it REALLY entailed. First, before I tell you what it means, I feel as though I need to clarify something here. When the Lord says that we are to take up His Cross and follow Him, or we should bear His Cross, He’s talking about HIS CROSS, not our own, ok? It’s not that we all have our OWN cross and we bear it, or we have to induce our own pain or afflictions, like fasting, in order to be pleasing to the Lord….much of the Church has fallen into the trap and is miserably saved today as a result.

Now, the reason I stated that is to show you this: I looked up in the original Greek language the word pertaining to “Cross,” here and it is mou (moo), it means “of Me, I, Mine own, My.” Meaning, the Lord wants us to take up HIS Cross, not our own. So, how do we take up His Cross? Does this mean that I have to suffer? Uh…no, He did that on the Cross FOR US, in our stead…but we DO however have to put our total and complete trust in Him and what He has done FOR US, and in doing so…that can be difficult, and sometimes painful, because we all as human beings struggle so desperately with trying to “help God” in the sanctification process.

Here’s is what I am learning that the Church has been doing concerning sancification. Ok, if you don’t know WHAT sanctification really is…that’s ok, but that is precisely the problem I am referring to! We embrace the Cross for Salvation and then when it comes to the sanctification process in our evcryday lives, we abandon it. God never intended for us to fall, but then when He made the Way, through the Cross of Christ for us to enter INTO His Kingdom, that’s what He also gave us as a means for us to be conformed into His image until He calls us home..which is what “sactification” means, being conformed into the image of Christ. The Church has resorted to all kinds of stupid and ridiculous methods…Larry Hutch says it’s the “family curse,” supposedly your great-grandpappy did something really aweful, and THAT is why you don’t overcome. He says that what you need is to come to him, or some other preacher that understands this, and they will lay hands on you, pray for you, and you will be delivered. Another says that it is demon possession. The 700 Club says that you need to give money to their ministry, they will pray for you, and God will bless your life and your struggles in finances are over. God blesses giving, He wants us be free from ALL possessions in this life and hold NOTHING higher than Him, to trust totally in Him…but giving to a particular ministry, no matter how Godly, will not save you and it will NOT produce what we are truly seeking to find. That we need to rebuke that devil and God will be pleased with us. Kenneth Hagan says you need to “speak into existence and call those things that be not as though they were,” and because you aren’t confessing the right things with your mouth, that is why your walk is not what it COULD be with God. Did Hagan ever realize that scripture says that GOD would call those things that be not as though they were, not us? We can’t even approach God, bring Him a petition, we cannot touch God, except He reach down and have mercy on us…which He DID through Jesus and what He did on the Cross for us! ☺

I know I get pretty heated about this stuff, but folks, we embrace this stuff, and make it so stinking complicated, when it doesn’t have to be, and it isn’t. Do we really think that God would create more than one Way to Him, when His Word says that there is no other way to the Father, but By Christ? What He was saying when He said, “I am the Door,” is He was making a reference the Passover back in Exodus, when the only way that the children of Israel were delivered from bondage and pharaoh, (a type of sin and satan), is by the blood of the Lamb. Again, Christ being the “Lamb of God” to TAKE AWAY the sins of the world. He is the only way, not only for salvation, but from our salvation into eternity with Him. The only way that we are going to make it into the throne room of Heaven and see our Heavenly Father, is by our continues faith in Christ and Him Crucified.

I suppose I should go on. I actually found something really awesome as I studied this further. We are Made God’s sons and daughters by Jesus Christ, joint heirs, partaking of His Death with Him, we become heirs in our living a New Life WITH HIM and IN HIM. What are we talking about? Doing the Father’s Will…how do we? By putting our faith in Christ and what He has done for us at Calvary as the sole solution for our everyday dilemma. Is it really that simple, one might ask? Again, I have a scripture for that question:

Turn to 2 Cor 11:2-4

“For I am jealous over ou with a godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chase virgin to Christ.” What is Paul talking about here? He’s talking about those that have removed themselves from “the faith,” (again, The Cross is THE FAITH), and espoused other things as the method to Christ…thus, committing spiritual adultery. We can’t embrace the Cross of Christ, and all of these other methods TO HIM. It’s like saying, “I know you sacrificed Yourself for me, and I’m thankful you gave me salvation, but now I don’t need You to keep me, I can keep myself and do it myself now.” My son does this same thing with me now days. He pushes me away when I am trying to change his diaper, as thought he is able to clean himself up, he can’t even go to the bathroom on his own, has no understanding of the fact that he doesn’t even know How to do anything on his own, yet he doesn’t want my help. We’re the same way with God.

Then Paul mentions in verse 3 that perhaps we have been beguiled by the serpent, just like Eve has. What he means here is that she was drawn away from the truth because of a lust to be like God on her own terms, without His help. Which is what we are in turn doing by not looking to the Cross for everything in our lives. Then he says…and this is the part I really wanted to mention: “SO YOUR MINDS SHOULD BE CORRUPTED FROM THE SIMPLIITY THAT IS IN CHRIST.” He is saying to the readers that the message of the Cross is not hard, but rather we don’t adopt it because it isn’t what we want.

Ok, doing the Father’s Will, we haven’t changed subjects here, still talking about His Will and not our own. It’s a grouling blog to follow, but please bear with me, I really do have some interesting things to share…although I feel as though I need to put the rest of this in another blog, due to the current length of this one.

Rom 6:12 Let Sin Not Reign

Rom 6:12

“LET NOT SIN THEREFORE REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY, THAT YE SHOULD OBEY IT IN THE LUSTS THEREOF.”

The word “reign” here means to rule as king in over our lives. The “sin” that is referred to here, is not particular ACTS of sin, rather, the Sin Nature. I’ve explained this before, but I believe it begs repeating, so as to understand that this whole “Sin Nature” thing is not made up, rather it has something to do with the translation of the word sin. When the translators wrote the text here, they translated the word “sin” as it is shown. Often times, Christian’s misinterpret this word to mean “many acts of sin;” such as fornication, lust, adultery, murder, etc. That is actually not the case here. For a lack of better words, they translated it this way so that it would READ well. The word “sin” in this verse is a noun, not a verb. If it were a verb (when you look at the actual Greek language here), it would be referring to the afore mentioned “acts of sin.” But it is a noun, which means that it is a particular class or nature of a people, all to be grouped into one…so as to refer to the “Sin Nature,” as we state it when we teach. There is a distinct difference in the two.

So returning back to the meaning of the scripture here:

We’re not to allow the Sin Nature to rule over our lives as king. We must recall, reckon, understand, calculate that when Christ died on the Cross, He took ALL of our iniquitites upon His Holy Self, who KNEW no sin. He was not familiar with sin, experientially, like we are. Therefore, he was our Substitute. He took the beating and death that we ourselves deserved for breaking God’s perfect law. In fact, anyone short of perfection, (which would name every human being on the entire planet that ever lived, other than Christ), is worthy of this death.

Since Christ served us, in taking our punishment, although He was totally Righteous and undeserving of such things…He laid down His Perfection, that we might be able to take it up, THROUGH HIM of course and what He did for us on the Cross. We could never take up His Righteousness on our own behalf, we must access that through and in Him and by no other means. How do we do that, the reader might ask? I’ll repeat it again, because I need this message repeated over and over again in my life, in order to fully grasp it and eventually, live it in my own life:

When we were baptized into Christ, again, not water, not the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues, (neither make you righteous in God’s sight), but into Christ, we were baptized into His Death. What does that mean? That means that our sinful body, (the Sin Nature) was killed, destroyed, laid dormant in our lives. We no longer should have the desire in our hearts to live for ourselves, but to live to please God now. So, now that this sinful nature is laid dormant in our lives, then what?

We are to also know that our sins were buried in that borrowed grave. Meaning, God didn’t create us to die, He created us to live forever with Him. But through the sacrifice that Christ made for us on the Cross, and through understanding granted by the Grace of God to us, we are able to understand that our “old man,” (the Sin Nature is dead).

Allow me to explain with an analogy. My husband and I are married, as should be obvious. ☺ LOL We have relationship on a daily basis. I talk to him, and he does me. We interact with each other, kiss sometimes, things like that…regular relationship stuff. If he dies, the relationship is over. There will be no more hug and kiss after he dies, because the relationship is now severed. It is the same when we realize that the Sin Nature has been laid dormant in our lives…the power of death and the hold of death on our lives brought about by sin has been halted. What Paul means here is that we are not to have relationship with the Sin Nature anymore. We are not to have relationship with Christ, AND our old master, “the Sin Nature.” We are to realize, that relationship is severed, because we DIED and were BURIED WITH CHRIST.

The whole miracle of the Resurrection is actually God’s way of showing us that death has no more hold on Christ, therefore, being raised WITH HIM, it has no more hold on us either. We are to continually RECALL that we are dead with Christ, being buried with Him in baptism unto death, and raised in the Newness of Life, through Christ Jesus.

Just because you are being tempted, it doesn’t mean that the Sin Nature is ruling in your life! Christ was tempted when He was led into the wilderness, and He had NO SIN.

The second part of that verse: “THAT YE SHOULD OBEY IT IN THE LUSTS THEREOF.” It’s not as simple to “refrain,” as we think. We don’t actually have the power to overcome sin, but Christ did and through Him and what He has done, we can pray in that moment of temptation, and God can give us the Grace and ability to turn away from that thing that binds us. Know this, once the Sin Nature comes alive, it will begin to rule as a tyrant in our lives once again. In every thing we must go before the Lord and ask for His help, and through the Holy Spirit, He will help us. So long as our “will” is to do His will and not our own, the Holy Spirit can give us the power to overcome temptations.

FAILING?

This doesn’t’ mean that when you see yourself failing, even though you have noted in your mind that you are dead to sin, alive unto God…that all of a sudden, poof! It’s going to disappear and that sin will no longer occur!!! No no no!!! Many times, I have reckoned that I am no longer a slave to sin, and then still fail or faulter and become discouraged and think to myself, “This doesn’t work!!! I can’t live by this!” So then I would resort to my own method of sanctification, (as I was being taught in a church I attended back then), such as fasting, or denying myself things that I liked like coffee, or…some other silly method of the so-called, “buffeting of my flesh.” No, no, no!!! That’s not it either!!!

This is where the majority of the church in the Christian World today get off track and as a result, they don’t live and overcoming victorious life in Christ Jesus! They are still resorting to their own methods of sanctification! Listen folks, if we could do it on our own, by fasting, or prayer time, or reading our word all day long….Christ would not have needed to come and die on the Cross FOR US! He HAD to do that in our stead, we simply are not able! That is a difficult thing for us to admit, especially when the fire is hot and the trials are endless. Understand that while fasting, prayer, and reading your word are good, they will not save you. They are necessary in the Christian walk, but they will not keep you from sinning. They will only alieviate symptoms of an already existing and dominate Sin Nature that is alive and active in our lives. This is where the fight of faith comes in again!

We have to allow God to do this work. That is why He said that they “Ax was laid to the root.” He took care of that for us. We have got to allow the Holy Spirit to do this work in us. He doesn’t need our help folks. He can do anything He wants, how He wants, Whenever He wants to do it. He didn’t need us to create the universe, we can’t effect it now, don’t know why we think we can when all we do is mess things up and make it worse. ☺

So…fighting the good fight of faith…we must CONTINUE to reckon that we are dead indeed unto sin, and alive unto God. Meaning, when you stumble, fail, and fall…(as the example I like to use, when you lose your temper and say the thing that you shouldn’t to your spouse), immediately go to the Lord, apologize to Him for sinning against Him, obviously, you need to probably let your spouse know you didn’t mean it, but more importantly, get back up, and continue to recall the fact that you are risen in Christ, the Sin Nature does not rule in your life anymore, (even when you think it is, and you see evidence that it is)…Christ has done away with all of these things. It may take a while for Him to work it out of our lives and hearts, but the Holy Spirit is working in the midst of this fire. God allows pressures to come upon us to show us what is there, so that we will allow Him to take it out, but we must let Him. It may take 10 times, or 100, or even 1000 times, but God’s Grace is sufficient for us always. Don’t give up! Trust God and KNOW that one of these days, that sinful thing that keeps coming up, will eventually go away, if we have faith in Christ and what He did for us on the Cross…He said, “It is Finished.” And it is…have faith, and faint not, for without faith, it is impossible to please God. Just don’t get your eyes on the anything other than the Cross of Christ, which is not only the way to salvation, it is the MEANS of sanctification in the life of a Believer, until the Lord comes for His Bride.


Wow, this is a long blog! But it is much needed to take the time and explain these things in such detail. It is helping me, I pray it helps someone else as well. Love ya!