God's Will For Your Life by Derek Prince

Author:Derek Prince [Prince, Derek]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2012-06-22T16:59:20+00:00

Chapter 4

The Culmination: The Cross

We have been taking Jesus as both the pattern and the inspiration for living. We have seen that the supreme motivation of His life was to do God's will as revealed in the scroll of Scripture. Our key verse is this:

“Then [Jesus] said, "Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—J have come to do your will, O God." (Hebrews 10:7)

Two vital points are evident: first, the motive for which Jesus came was to do God's will; second, the part He had to play was already written in the scroll. That should also be true of you and me.

We have also looked at five specific results in the earthly life of Jesus that came about through His commitment to do the will of God:

1. He received physical restoration in a supernatural way.

2. He had a proper view of the situation He was in, different from that of the people around Him.

3. He rendered just judgment or impartial discernment. (Jesus was never gullible or deceived. He always saw exactly how a thing really was.)

4. He was a channel of life to a dying world.

5. He glorified God on the earth.

As He attained all these results, Jesus set the pattern for us to follow.

Let us continue by looking at the culmination of God's will in the life of Jesus. In the tenth chapter of Hebrews, we discover that God's supreme will for Jesus was the sacrifice of His body:

Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, 'Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—I have come to do your will, O God.'" First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made). Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second. And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (Hebrews 10:5-10)

Jesus came to this world to do the will of His Father. In order to do God's will, God prepared a body for Him. The outworking of that will demanded that Jesus sacrifice His own body. The culmination or ultimate goal of the life of Jesus was to sacrifice His body on behalf of the world.

As we have seen, there was a continual emphasis in the mind of Jesus, not merely to do God's work, but to finish it and complete God's will. The nearer Jesus came to the end of His earthly ministry, the stronger this emphasis became in His life.

Let us look at a statement in the gospel of Luke:

“And it came about, when the days were approaching for His ascension [literally, "His 'taking up,'" which refers to Jesus being taken up through His death on the cross], that He resolutely set His face to go to Jerusalem.

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