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AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 6:9 ¶ "Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. [Luke 11:2-4] |
Subject: Thy will be done, statement or fact? |
Bible Note: Hello Angel, I sure appreciate you taking the time to follow up. This discussion means a lot to me and I trust in God's guidance. When you say that His will is imposed not on an individual level but on a universal level where God’s Holy Spirit enlightens the most receptive servants so that God’s remnant will continue to obey God’s will by willingly subjecting their will to His. Rom 9:27-29 and Rom 11:5-36. Verse 28 says it is, “His sentence” that will be carried out on earth. It is not our sentence. It is not our will being carried out but God’s will. Rom 11:5-36 Verse 5 says, “there is a remnant chosen by grace.” God does the choosing. Verse 7 “What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did.” Israel tried to do it without the Holy Spirit, without being enabled by God. They tried to do it by good works, by physical acts of obedience. God commanded them to do this and to do that and don’t do this and don’t do that, but to no avail. It was impossible to obtain righteousness by physical acts of obedience only. They couldn’t do it. That is why Jesus was so angry with them when he talked to them. He gave them the commands and He expected them to obey them but they couldn’t. They proved that it is impossible to obey without the help of the Holy Spirit. “but the elect did.” We can now obey God because he has enabled us by His Holy Spirit. We are very special to God. God has chosen us and given us His Holy Spirit. Now we are His for eternity. The Israelites of the Old Testament did not have that opportunity. Rom 11:8 “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day.” Do we believe that? God is controlling who He wants to know Him and who he doesn’t want to know Him. He is in control, not us. When God gives us a spirit of stupor, we are powerless to remove it, even to this very day. God is deciding who He wants in his kingdom and who He doesn’t. John 6:44 “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent me draws him.” God does the drawing, He decides who He wants to come to Jesus and then He draws us to Jesus. John 6:65 “--- no one can come to Me unless the Father has enabled him.” Verse 66 “---many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed Him.” The reason they turned back was because they were not enabled by the Father to believe in Jesus. Peter made it very clear in verse 69 when he said, “We believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.” God lifted the spirit of stupor from the Apostles minds and not from those who turned and left Jesus. Verse 70, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve?” God chose the Apostles; the Apostles did not choose God. We have to always keep that in mind that Jesus chose the Apostles just like he chooses some of us to believe in Him. We do not chose Him, He chooses us. In verse 70 Jesus went on to say, “Yet one of you is a devil.” Did not God choose Judas to be a devil so that God’s plan for Jesus’ crucifixion can be carried out? Wasn’t Pilate doing God’s will when Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above.” The entire life and death of Jesus is a prime example of God’s will being done on this earth. Everyone involved in Jesus life were being directed by God to carry out His plan for our salvation. Those involved had no control over what God wanted them to do. If they did, that means that their will was stronger than God’s. That means that their plan for our salvation would have been carried out and not God’s plan. Does this make any sense to you? May God's will be done. Steve |