God's Will for Your Life by Derek Prince & Whitaker House

Author:Derek Prince & Whitaker House
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: prosperity, hearing from God, Bible, Christ, God's Will for Your Life, Christian Life, General, Religion, Prayer, Christianity, Jesus
ISBN: 9780883684085
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 2002-03-01T22:00:00+00:00

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The Culmination: The Cross

e have been taking Jesus as both the pattern and

the inspiration for living. We have seen that the

Wsupreme 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—I 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

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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

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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.

(Luke 9:51 NAS)

Notice that key phrase, "He resolutely set His face."

Jesus knew what lay ahead of Him. He had already told His

disciples, although they refused to believe Him.

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