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.