One of the reasons we don’t understand God is because we do not choose to live under His authorityy
I wrote the following message in 1992. I am sharing it now because I want you to see the power of a never changing Word of God. The message was right for 1992, and it is right for today. Amazing!
“If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority. John 7:17.” Do we really desire as people to do the Will of God? Have you ever asked yourself that question? The world is filled with strife and contention. Even among Christians and other people of God, there is dissension and contention.
Why? Because people do not sincerely desire to do God’s will. Oh, we say we do, but our hearts are far from it. We do just as the Jews of old did – they took Moses’s laws and decided which if any they would live by. We take the Word of God and treat it as if it is only a law or guideline for some situations in life.
The Word of God is not simply a law. It is the essence of God Himself, the Spirit of God, written out so that it is available to everyone – even nonbelievers. We disbelieve God’s law because we never accept Him as an authority over our lives. We do not readily see the authoritative connection we have to Him. But Jesus says if you desire to do His will, then you shall know the Word of God and the authority of God over you. God is the same for all people and all races.
If we desire to do His will, He will reveal this to us and there will be peace within each of us. You don’t have to wait for your neighbor to learn to accept this. You do it first because it is what God requires of you individually not us collectively. Get to know His authority over your life and you will be filled with peace unsurpassed. PTL Who gives us peace with ourselves that we may be peace to others.
That was 1992. So what about today?
Today we are very much like the people of old. They had one fundamental problem, and we have that problem today. We say we want to do the Will of God, but we do not understand or accept that to do His Will we must be subject to His Will.
Back then the people questioned Jesus’ teaching, and they questioned its truth. Today we do not readily accept the Truth of God’s Word especially when we believe it does not line up with how we view things. Jesus said then and He says now, if anyone really wants to do His will, they will be able to discern the Truth of His Word.
To be subject to His will we must place ourselves under His authority and under His Lordship. When we learn to live under His authority, we learn to grow up and never to use His Word to justify what we want to say or to do. God has a position on marriage. We cannot know His position clearly unless we clearly place ourselves under His authority to do His will.
Let’s not question the Truth of the Word. Let’s search for the Truth in the Word. Let’s not say we want to do His will. Let’s place ourselves under His authority so that we can more easily hear what He has to say to us.
In John 7:10-16 the people were confused at Jesus’s teaching and at who Jesus was. In John 7:17 Jesus tells them you cannot make sense of the Word; you cannot rightly discern what the Word is saying, and you cannot understand the Word unless you first have the desire to do God’s will.
The reason many of us never understand the Word of God is because we do not first have a desire to live under the authority of God to do His Will.
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