Summary
We're approaching God's will, with caution, we're approaching it humbly, asking him to reveal what he will and what he chooses for us to understand and knowing that there is much that we will not know this side of heaven, but trusting, trusting in God and his divine perfect will always seeking good, always opposed to evil. So I want to begin with who God is and God tells us his name in Exodus, where he proclaims to Moses, says Moses says, show me your face, tell me your name and God says, I'm going to put you in a cleft of the rock, I'm going to pass by you, you cannot see me, you can see my backside and I'm going to proclaim my name as I pass by you. This is in chapter 34, where he says beginning in verse 6, the Lord passed before him, that's Moses, and proclaimed the Lord the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding instead fast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation. And so these two truths, though I don't understand how it works, I know it works because it is in the word, the holy living active word of God. And so God in his good and perfect will had already made a plan from before creation that he would come into humanity, that he would enter in himself, second person of the Trinity Jesus Christ, and that he would live perfectly unto that conditioned will. His will is that you would hear and believe that you would taste and know that your sins are forgiveness, forgiven, not that you would go forth and fret, but you would go forth in faith and assurance and proclaiming this promise for all in Christ.
Video citations
- "Has a Will" 7-17-22 — If you would please open your Bibles to the Gospel of John, the sixth chapter. If you're using a Pue edition of the Bible, you will find it on page 85 in the New Testament. That's the Gospel of…