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Leviticus 25:55 A transaction has taken place, not simply from slavery to freedom but from the kingdom of darkness into light.  If we want to be right in the sight of God then we are to be willing to serve.  God's revelation of Himself to His people is being given to us.  The finished release in the seventh year of bondage.  Six years of bondage and then release at the beginning of the seventh.  What does this seventh year actually detail. Exodus 23 says there is what is known as the Sabbath year – A day for a year...a day for a thousand years – God’s revelation for reality.  Slavery was the consequence of sin.  Remember, all things for the good and God’s word gives us lessons to remember and learn from. By grace, by faith, the people of God have been redeemed from the slavery of sin, and so we are to interact with others as redeemed sinners rather than righteous saints.  We might have been born under the masterly cause of sin, yet in the purpose of God we serve a new master.  This follows in picture from the six days of work followed by the seventh day of Sabbath rest.  And secondly, it is a picture of the six thousand years of man, living in the world of sin from the time of the fall. This is followed by the final thousand years in heaven and we return to a new earth with God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Let’s read Exodus 21:5 as revealed in reality - if Christ plainly says, ‘I love my God, my church, and my faithful ones; I will not go out free.  By a voluntary act of the will, the servant is given a choice about his status as a slave. Note that the love of the master is mentioned first. The giving of the wife came from the gracious hand of the master. The children who only temporarily belonged to the slave could only have come through the kindness of the master as well.  Therefore, it is a devotion to the master, first and foremost, to which the rest logically follows.  The servant loves his wife, given to him by his master, he loves his children who came from the wife given to him by his master, and therefore he desires to not be freed from his master. If this is the case, then there are provisions to allow this… Verse 6 - then God shall bring the servant to the judgment for the affirmation.  God, the master, shall also bring him, the servant, to the door, or to the doorpost, the cross.  To repeat and enlarge biblical truth - the door is the access point of the home. It signifies the way in. The doorpost is what holds the door. The doorposts were first mentioned at the time of the Passover when the blood of the lamb was sprinkled on them. That signified an open profession was made in the sufficiency of the death of the lamb to save.  And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl.  God, the master is the one to pierce the servant, Christ, thus laying claim on the ownership of him and everything that he would possess from that point on. Deuteronomy 15:17 “…then you shall take an awl and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever.” In that verse, the words “ear” and “door” are parallels. The two are tied together, as if they have become one.  Christ nailed to the cross.  And he shall serve him forever.  Rather than a long time, it is to never be undone.  So, what is this account picturing?  It pictures the work of Christ for each of us. It is we who are being pictured here. We, the bondservants of God in Christ.  Psalms and Hebrews show the ears being used in parallel with the entire body.  The piercing of the ear to the door is a picture of Christ’s crucifixion and thus our being crucified with Christ, who is the Door of salvation. John 10:7-9 The slave willingly gave up his freedom and his rights in one economy and transferred them to another. When he was a free man of Israel, he was bound to the law of Moses. As Paul shows in Galatians, the law is bondage. It is what shows us our sin and it is what condemns us. The law is not freedom; it is bondage.  Galatians 4:21-26 The very thing that we think is freedom is in fact only another type of bondage. But for the slave of his master, it is his master who was bound to the law and the slave is bound to his master under the law. Christ was made sin for us. It is a picture of Christ fulfilling the law on our behalf. Galatians 2:19-21 But there was always the chance that the master might have forced his slave to remain in bondage against his will.  Not my will, but thine...Who could tell if no public affirmation of his intent was made known? This is why he had to be taken to the judgment of “the God.”  The affirmation is one which is voluntarily made and openly witnessed.  Jesus says, “as the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.  No man taketh it from me, but  I lay  it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. The slavery is not forced, but willingly accepted. This is an obvious picture of the free-will of man in his voluntary surrender to His Lord in the presence of “the God.” Nothing could be clearer. We who are in Christ are free from the law because He fulfilled it on our behalf.   “For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ’s slave.  You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.”  This freedom we possess as the Lord’s bondservants. This one word is an explanation of our eternal salvation. We actually need go no further to defend how long we are saved for, or if we could ever lose our salvation, once achieved. The picture given to us from the years before the coming of Christ tells us all we need to know.  We are His servants forever. God’s sevens are perfect for our learning in correspondence with the judgment of God pertaining to Christ and his servanthood toward his people. Consider Genesis chapters twenty-nine and thirty with the birth of the children of Leah.  In Genesis 29:32-35, she gives birth to four sons.  Then in Genesis 30:17-20 she gives birth to two more sons, making six sons in all.  Finally, in perfect correspondence to God’s seven principle, she gives birth to a daughter.  But God isn’t finished yet.  Notice the meaning of the names of these children – first the seven: Reuben – behold a son Simeon – hearing Levi – joined Judah – praise Issachar – recompense Zebulun – exalted Dinah – Justice So, we behold God’s Son, and we hear the gospel. Then we are joined to Christ by being born again.   Then we live a life of praise unto the Lord in our giving forth the messages of the three angels.  We are then recompensed at the Judgment Seat of Christ, after which we are exalted with Christ.  We will rule with Christ as priests and kings in the kingdom, which is eternal justice in the earth – the end of the reality of slavery.  Scripture does not engage in speculation.  We see in the last of the seven the woman representing the church.  With the other six sons we see a revelation. Nepthalim - wrestling Gad - troop Asher – happy Joseph – Jehovah has added Benjamin – right side of God Manasses – forgetting Dan and Ephraim were idol worshippers.  Some don’t want to go.  Joseph was sold into slavery.  We, the final generation, by way of ancestral blood were brought again into slavery, into an Egypt destined to receive again devastation by plagues.  Joseph means “Jehovah has added”.  Added what?  The last of the sons of Jacob for the forming of the tribes of the Israel to enter into the kingdom as God’s covenantal people. God tells us of our journey of affliction as experienced then and as we undergo now.  He knew that we would be unloved in the world.  But because of this we would be joined to our husband, Jesus.  And we would praise him.  We were purposed not to wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  In the good providences of God, we would be as a troop of overcomers.  We would be blessed in our happiness as God’s elect.  Recompensed in our service for the souls brought to the Father.  As being God’s purposed election that stands that this great truth may be established - that God chooses some and refuses others as a free agent, by his own absolute and sovereign will, dispensing his favors or withholding them as he pleases, He has exalted us.  And it is in His calling wherein we are willing to lose our lives that we may bring to Christ his betroths and his children.  We, with them, in all our ways have repented reverently and in godly sorrow for all done against God. And now we wait on the revelation of the impending judgment of the mystery of God’s will, as spoken in the seven thunders.

Exodus 21:1-6; Deuteronomy 15:12-17 This is a profound judgment that God sets forth.  The bible presents a very different concept of slavery from that which has disgraced humanity in modern times.  God’s judgments concerning the insane inhumaneness of slavery was made on purpose to repress it, to confine it within very narrow bounds, and ultimately to put an end to it.  The fact that God gave legislation concerning slavery does not mean that He approved it. He was only protecting the civil rights of the enslaved.  Why piercing?  Why a door?  Why an ear?  There are all manner of truth treasures to be found in the bible.  Precepts and parallels help us to come to truth.  Psalms 40:6-8 A prophecy personifying our Lord...Jesus Christ is here speaking of himself as being forever, for our sakes, the willing servant of God.  Jesus entered into covenant with his Father that he would become the servant of servants for our sakes. All through the long ages he never started back from that compact. Though the Savior knew the price of pardon was his blood, his pity never withdrew, for his ear had been pierced. He became for our sakes the lifelong servant of God. He loved his betrothed, the church. He loved his dear sons, his children whom he foresaw when he looked through the ages, and he would not go out free. Our insolvency had made us slaves, and Christ became a servant in our stead.  “A body hast thou prepared me.” He was bound to God’s service when he was found in fashion as a man, for then he “became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”  Jesus stood upon the word against Satan in the wilderness as the arch-fiend offered to him all the kingdoms of this world, and why did he not accept them? Because he preferred a cross to a crown, for his ear was bored.  Afterwards the people, in the height of his popularity, offered him a crown, but he hid himself away from them.  And why? Because he came to suffer, not to reign; his ear was bored for redemption’s work, and he was straitened until he had accomplished it. In the Garden, when the bloody sweat fell from his face, and he said, “If it be possible, let this cup pass from me,” why did he not put away that cup? If it had pleased him, he might have called for twelve legions of angels, and they would have come to the rescue; why did he not summon that celestial bodyguard? It was because he had wholly surrendered himself to the service of our salvation.  God will hold none to unwilling servitude.  The Lord’s service involves peculiar trials.  God’s grace is given to us.  The Holy Ghost abides in us. We desire to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes.  His was a life of supreme sacrifice.  We long to abide faithful though all should forsake the truth. We desire perpetual servitude to Christ, and to bear whatever that involves.  Bore the ear! Think how in our innermost soul we desire to plunge deeper into this blessed bondage, and to bear in our body the marks of the Lord Jesus, and to be his marked slaves forever. Is not this the perfect freedom we desire?  What a blessed Master we have.  We look at his wounds, and we must love him.  We have been redeemed. We look at the great gash which reached his heart, from which flowed the water and the blood to be of our sin the double cure. Could we ever fail to love him? He who died for us and bought us, not with silver and gold, but with his own pangs and griefs and blood and sweat and death.  Let us not be such devils as to apostatize from such a God. The aul of the ear saves us from the miseries of hell.  Change Masters?  By no means!  Let none talk for us, we shall talk for ourselves, to our friends and kinsfolk, and answer for ourselves their various questions. There is no fault with Jesus, and we will tell them of his name and our being forever bound to him by cords of love.  Bore the ear...we cannot but love our Master.  How could I leave my wife’s God?  How could I leave my son’s God?  My brother, my friend, how could I leave your God, to be separated from you whom I love?  We love Jesus for the sake of those who will come into a right relationship with him.  We could not leave because there are dear ones who first learned of Christ from us.  Our ear is bored with the sharp aul of the Savior’s sufferings. No story wrings a true believer’s heart with such anguish as the griefs and woes of Christ.  Let our ear be fastened by the truth, so that we are determined to hear only the gospel.  We must have discernment...his sheep hear his voice in their ear.  To be Christ’s forever, we must not allow that ear of ours to hear bad doctrine, to hear error. We must take care that, knowing the truth, we hold to it, and renounce every false way.  When we really give ourself to Christ, we must have our ear opened to hear and obey the whispers of the Spirit of God, so that we yield to his teaching, and to his teaching only. This is a sign of voluntary servitude.  An allusion to the piercing of the ear of the servant as mentioned in the law takes on an even more profound truth.  In place of "mine ears hast thou opened" we read "a body hast thou prepared me." God is teaching us something. The opening or piercing of the ear is an act of voluntary surrender to full servitude. When Jesus came to earth and was born as a baby in the manger, thus taking on him a body that had been prepared for him, this was also a supreme act of surrender to servitude. He came to do the will of the Father.  In his act of taking the body prepared for Him, Jesus Christ took the form of a servant. That is, He put His ears to the door post and allowed the Father to open them with His aul. God prescribed a significant ceremony which evoked memories of a powerful event going back to that fateful night when the Hebrews first tasted freedom after four hundred years of slavery in Egypt. Exodus 12:7 Let us meditate on the significance of each Hebrew door in the land of Goshen. Until that night, when the blood was applied on the doorposts, the door was just another door. The people went out and re-entered as slaves in the land of Egypt. Now, for the first time in four hundred years, each Hebrew knew that once they exited through the bloodstained doorposts, their status would change forever – they would be free children of Jehovah. In addition, no one re-entered into those houses because re-entrance would make them slaves to Egypt again. It was a one-way exit with no incentives to re-enter. Deuteronomy 17:16 By this we understand the profound message in the ceremony of the ear nailed to the doorpost.  The blood represents the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. In addition, Jesus is the door himself. “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture”. The slave is the believer who recognizes that unlike the door in Egypt, Jesus is the door with blood on the inside and outside – the life and blood of God is in his body. This means, as the Lord says, the slave can go in and out, back and forth, and still be free in Christ. This explains why a faithful slave does not want to leave his master because he understands that only Jesus Christ has complete and eternal freedom.  We must come in by Jesus Christ as the door. By faith in him, as the great Mediator between God and man, we come into covenant and communion with God.  We enter by the door of faith.  We shall have our witness in the world by the grace of Christ, and we shall be in his fold, where we have free ingress, egress, and regress. True believers are at home in Christ; when we go out, we are not shut out as strangers, but have liberty to come in again; when we come in, we are not shut in as trespassers, but have liberty to go out.  Aul our ear to the doorpost with the blood of my Jesus! We reject the world’s freedom.  Let him who has an ear and faith come by hearing...the ear is the first contact point of the words of Jesus’ witnesses. To save a soul first command the attention of the ear. This is why Moses shouted in the desert, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD”.  Jesus voluntarily took upon his body the boring of nails in his hands and feet, piercing in his side and head for us.  Why would we hesitate to receive the invisible boring of the Lord through the auling of our ear.  We choose to continue to serve God. Galatians 6:17   Jesus willingly gave up His life to redeem us, how much more should we serve Him who we could never repay and who purchased the soul of the believer forever?  We were all enslaved to sin. The virtuous would think of the book of Exodus as an inspiring story of freedom from slavery but a greater reality is that in the life of a believer they are no longer a slave to sin but a servant of the Lord.

Matthew 7:21; 12:50 How are we to show the indispensable necessity of obedience to the commands of Christ…by doing his Father’s will. The will of God the Father is whatever He has decreed in His wisdom, knowledge, holiness, and grace. The word of God is that righteous standard that we are to conform to. An outward profession of religious conviction, however remarkable, will not bring anyone to heaven, unless there is a correspondent conversation and remonstrance. Belonging in God's kingdom is demonstrated not by good intentions but by the actual execution of God's will. Obedience to the will of God challenges and supersedes opinionated obedience which through concretization, or abstract concentration on a detail believed to be all truth, have become meaningless and even hinder the pursuit of a knowledge of God. Ultimately, the readiness of an individual to acknowledge and then do God's will determines whether that person will be able to apprehend the truth of Jesus. Jesus Christ is the truth in power. All judgment is committed to our Lord Jesus; he has power to prescribe new terms of life and death, and to judge men according to them. And natural affection is the embedded power of what Jesus says to us…love one another. When our regard to our relations comes in contest with the service of God, and the improving of an opportunity to do good, in such a case, we must say our duty to God must have the preference. And we must not take offense of our friends, nor think it wickedness, if they prefer to please God before the pleasing of us. We must deny ourselves and our own satisfaction, rather than do that which may in any way divert our friends from, or distract them in, their duty to God. God’s people value spiritual kindred, before natural relations according to the flesh. Doing the will of God is the best preparative for entering the kingdom. The attention of all who are called and chosen is to do the will of God. Our life, our spirit, and our soul should be on the center of His perfect will from the very beginning when He created us. Understand how the mystery of godliness so conjoins the Spirit of God to the flesh of Christ, as we are allowed to peer between the folded leaves of the divine purposes. John 6:38-40 Consider the extreme of God’s will. The truth is the comprehension of both His Spirit and His flesh. We are not to take a part from this and a part from that, toning down one and modulating the other, as is too much the custom, but in believing and giving full expression to everything that God reveals whether we can reconcile the things or not; opening our hearts as children open their understandings to their father’s teaching, knowing that because the gospel is such that we can make it into a complete system, we might be quite sure it is the will of God. Psalms 143:10 There are depths of truth into which we cannot now peer. So, it is by the Spirit of God that we are shown what His will is, and are taught how to do it, how to turn our heart, our mind, our feet, our hand dexterously to His service. It is the desire and endeavor of all God's faithful servants to know and to do His will, and to stand complete in it. Those that have the Lord for their God have His Spirit for their guide; and it is both our character and our privilege that we are led by the Spirit, that we might be enlivened to do His will. We are to do as God counsels. To obey Him is our work, not to attempt to know what He does not reveal. But let us understand that the bible is an extract from the will of God, and such an extract that it contains the very essence thereof of His will. There is no contrariness with God’s will and the truth of the word. Among the unrevealed things, there cannot be anything in conflict with the revealed things. None of the secrets can possibly contradict those truths which He has seen fit to unfold. There can be no irreconcilable truths in the word of God. We just need to open our hearts to receive them. It was from the will of God that the very thought of salvation first arose. Had we been left to our own wills, we would have been willing to wander further and further from God. No man originated the idea of restoration for our race - God Himself willed it. And it is from the purpose of His grace that all our hopes begin, and the will which originated salvation, which shaped and formed it. It was God’s will that ordained salvation by faith, salvation through an atoning sacrifice, salvation by the way of the new birth, salvation by the way of perseverance up to perfection. God cast in His own mold the way and manner of salvation and it has been His will that has shaped it. His fingers have made the form and fashion of it. According to His own will He made us, that we might be a kind of first fruits of His creatures. It is His will that has brought those of us who are chosen into the knowledge of the truth, by which will, also, we are sanctified, and upon which will we rely, as the motive force which shall bear us onward throughout the entirety of our walk in this world. It will bear us over the regions of suffering, and being found in the likeness of His Son, we are set forth in the divine side of salvation, and the human side of salvation, when it is then that we shall see the face of God without sin. It is because Jesus was in and did fully the will of his Father that none of those given him will be lost. That is the divine side of salvation according to the will of God. How sovereign is the character of that announcement of Jesus. Majestic words…this is the Father’s will. No “if.” No “but.” No asking and requesting of us; no bending the knee to our impulse; no asking us if we are pleased to have it so, but because it is the Father’s will. That is the will which is altogether absolute and independent, revolving on its own axis, the will that called creation out of nothing, the will which cannot be prevented, for it is omnipotent, which none may stand against, for it proceeds ever on its eternal course. It is a determined will. Not subject to change. There can be no better thing than God taking on human flesh that His will should be done. God’s unchangeable will should be such goodwill! So full of benevolence, so full of love! And we see the obedient servant of that will which was sent not to do his own will. What revelation is gifted us in the mystery of those words. That Jesus was not intent to accomplish or bring about any private purposes of his own, distinct or different from those of His Father. Psalms 40:7, 8 All that God requires, Jesus is ready to perform. It was to this end, for this cause, that Jesus did verily take on him the form of a servant, being God’s elect. He is the accomplishment of the will of his Father. It is by this truth that the will of God may be taken for His purpose, His decree, and His good pleasure to fulfill which Christ came into the world. It is accordingly, little by little, that the full sense of the words break on our minds. As we turn that over in our mind, not to do our own will, but the will of Him that made us, we might ought to reflect, it is for us to lay down our will at God’s feet. It is but fit and right for all of us to do so. For every one of us is to say, “I came not to do my own will,” seems proper as we follow Christ. Christ, our beloved, his will is perfect; his will is as complete as the will of God, Himself. It is, in fact, coincident, and must be coincident, with the will of God. But Jesus speaks as God-man, and he puts it so that he may be to us the pattern of complete resignation and perfect obedience. This is Jesus, the Son of God, who has no difference with God, who am God, who wills as God wills. Christ is no incompetent Savior come into the world to save without a commission and without authority. He has come here willingly enough, but still, the reason of his coming is His Father’s will. When Christ forgives a sinner, it is His Father’s will. When Christ receives a rebel to his bosom, it is His Father’s will. He does not do for us covertly or in any manner inconsiderate of or contrary to the divine purposes. I like to consider the wonder of it, that God, in His divine will, was pleased to give to Jesus, His obedient servant, a number of us out of mankind who are to be His. A number that no man can number. But He did give a certain number whom He had chosen from before the foundation of the world, and these became the prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were put under a different government, being placed under the mediatorials way of the Son of God. Some became disciples, some apostles, some the elect, and some the very elect. None by their own natural inclination, but by His gracious calling. In due time these are to be Christ’s bride as even they are to be Christ’s brethren. This is a great transaction full of sublimity. Let us not forget it or slight it. This is that human side of salvation. There was once “no before”, but singularity postulates God, and then “before” was caused. And there was an instigate before anything as there was no cause but the Ancient of Days, and then the Ancient of Days, in His eternal wisdom, transferred a number whom He had chosen into the hands of the One with Him. It is of no use equivocating at it. It is true! It was so, and it is so, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. God’s eternal and electing purpose severed from all the creation a people who are to belong to Jesus. Let us say “Amen” to the record. This is a very remarkable expression denoting this One God. It is the articulate of truth that is both undeniably present and foundational in our coming to understand the will of God. How God Himself had to come into human history after the creation of all the worlds to manifest His Son and His Spirit. Jesus' life and teaching as recorded in the bible bear witness to the importance of the concept of the will of God for his understanding of his own place and that of his followers in redemptive history. Historical events are seen to have saving significance as they develop out of the determined will of God. He is one in essence, but three in person. Father, Son, and Spirit exist eternally as distinct persons sharing essential sameness. They are simultaneously and eternally three in one working in triunity in one will. Whether creating, ruling, saving, judging, or perfecting, He is always one and always three. Ephesians 1:11 God’s will is the first cause of everything that exists. God’s will is powerful and perfect. The will of God is crucial to understanding that God is sovereign over all things. God wills some events in one sense that He does not will in another sense. God never wills sin. But God willed that His Son, whom He loved, had to die. All sinned, in fulfilling God’s will, that His Son be crucified. So be very clear on this: God wills to come to pass some things that He hates. Not all do the will of the Father. Jesus says, “not everyone will enter the kingdom of heaven.” Why? Because not all do the will of God. God has a will of decree, or His sovereign will, and the will of command. His will of decree always comes to pass whether we believe in it or not. His will of command can be broken, and is, every day. Both wills correspond to man’s deep need. We need the assurance that God is in control and therefore is able to work out all things together for our good and the good of all who love Him. On the other hand, we need to know that God empathizes with us and does not delight in sin. The will of God empowers us above the trappings of deception of giving any recognition to the adversary. For example, if you were abused in some way as a child, as an adult, and someone asks you, “do you think that was the will of God,” you now have a way to give an answer. You, by reason, reply, “no it was not God’s will; because He commands that we whom He created not be abusive, but love each other. The abuse broke His commandment and therefore moved His heart with anger and grief. And yet, in another sense, yes, it was God’s will, His sovereign will, because there are untold ways He could have stopped it. But for reasons I don’t yet fully understand, but can, He didn’t.” God does not intend for us to know all of His sovereign will ahead of time. Deuteronomy 29:29 Yet, in our reasoning with the word of God, discerning implies that we should approve of the will of God and then obediently do it. We need not to search out the secret will of God that He plans to do, but discerning the revealed will of God that we ought to do. With this we require the renewed mind with its Holy Spirit-given discernment. With this, we will not distort the word of God. And with spiritual discernment we can apply bible truth to every situation thereby having the choice to be obedient to God’s command. We discern all relevant factors with the mind of Christ, and discern what God is calling us to do. We must be about our Father’s business, placing our will on the side of God’s will. Wonderful scenes are opening before us; and at this time a living testimony is to be borne in the lives of God's professed people so that the world may see that in this age, when evil reigns on every side, there is yet a people who are laying aside their will and are seeking to do God's will--a people in whose hearts and lives God's law is written. {AH 519.4} The law is the articulation of the ethical requirements of God's will. This pattern is taken up in the "new covenant" as doing God's law is the essence of the appropriate life of response to God's will. And God's will is as vast as His entire plan for creation, and from the standpoint of objective content, it is expressed in specific terms throughout the scriptures. God's will concerning the Messiah's death was specific. So specific, that it was God’s will that all be saved. This is the expansiveness of the salvation plan. I Timothy 2:3, 4 II Peter 3:9 Those who obtain a knowledge of God’s will pratice the teaching of His word. Whoever is with singleness of purpose seeking to do God's will, earnestlyheeding the light already given, will receive greater light; to that soul some star of heavenly radiance will be sent, to guide him into all truth. {GC88 312.1} To come to a knowledge of the truth is a formula that means to make a sound decision about the word of God. Not all will be saved regardless of their disposition toward the word if the whole of the truth is not received. There must be a faith response to the word of God. The will of God must be taught and understood and chosen by Christ’s followers. The Holy Spirit will equip the believer to be able to execute the divine will in appropriate behavior. Human inability continues to coexist alongside divine sovereignty. This means that the Holy Spirit must give the enlightenment necessary for the believer to perceive what the will of God is and to carry it out to completion. We are to seek God with our questions. He will direct us through the wisdom of His chosen, as well as through circumstances brought about by His sovereign will. Do not think that the reality of God's will relieves us of the responsibility of decision making. We are to reason wisely in assessing every option before us. The will of God consists of things that are in line with His plan and purpose. We are to understand the pattern of this will. God’s truth is presented to us. He reveals His intentional pursuit. We are to reason unto belief and adjust our lives to Him in obeying Him. And we experience God doing His will through us. It is clear that by seeking God and choosing to live according to His Word, we can not only do His will, but we will be rewarded as heirs with Christ because of it. Christ says, whoever does God’s will is my family. We can weed out subtle lies and learn the will of God when we hold nothing back from God, allowing God to have full control of our minds. And we can know God’s will by testing and approving it with a mind renewed by God, the mind of Christ. Our relationship with God is intimate. It must be so that our faith may be strengthened, and our heart deeply rooted in the truth that is only found in Christ, and that our mind would be fully renewed by His love and mercy. He asks that we would stand firm, fully trusting in and faithfully following Him, even when we cannot see beyond the next step. We are to live out love, justice, and humility in all of our relationships, and in so doing are made ready to live out God’s good and perfect will. With the strength of wisdom, grace, and faith let us bend our every doing in the direction of God’s will.

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