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! Introduction:
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I. Found: Gods Will
*Introduction:* */God wants to give your life direction and purpose: /*Have you ever wondered about the future!
Have you pondered the answers to such Important, life-changing decisions such as, what job to seek, what school to attend, what career path you should pursue, or even whom you should marry?
More than likely, most of us have asked these questions and wondered if God has a definite plan or opinion in the matter.
With that in mind, here is some good news: God is vitally interested in your life, and He does want to lead you in your decisions'
Most of us acknowledge that God has a plan for the life of every believer, but just which way this plan goes is often the problem of some believers.
!!! 1. *Is God a cosmic Easter Bunny?*
To some, God appears to be a sort of divine Easter bunny who has stashed His will, like eggs, somewhere out of sight and sent us running through life trying to find it.
!!! 2. *In The Middle Of It All*.
In the middle of all this, we still ask the question, "What is the will of God for my life?”
Are there any concrete principles which may be simply stated and actually put into practice?
Yes, there is!
!!! 3. *The Search Is Over*.
Let's begin with the assumption that God has a will for us, if so, then He must want us to know it.
For us to know it then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way.
How would that be? Through the Bible, His revelation to us.
Therefore, I believe that God's will can be found in the pages of His Holy Scriptures, the Word of God.
In the end finding God's will comes down to living out what you read in the Bible and then living by faith.
My prayer is that this study will help fill in some gaps in your search for God's will for your life.
!! A. The First Step.
!!! 1. Salvation: You Must Be Saved (2 Peter 3:9).
!!!! a) It is God’s will that you be saved.
!!!!! (1) If your stumbling around in life and tossing up some periodic prayers to God but have never come to the foot of the Cross and met Jesus Christ, then you are not even in the beginning of God's will.
!!!!! (2) God has no reason to reveal to you /anything particular/ about your life because you have not met qualification number one: *SALVATION*.
!!!!! (3) However, yes, I believe that God can watch over someone’s life before they are saved, protecting them without them even knowing it, but that’s not what I am talking about.
!!!!! (4) I am talking about particularly revealing His will to you specifically in your life.
*Again… let me remind you that *"The Lord is… longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9, NKJV)
*And Paul said,* "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."
(1 Timothy 2:3-4).
*These two verses together assure us that God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked:* "Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?" says the Lord God, "and not that he should turn from his ways and live?
“For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies, " says the Lord God, "Therefore turn and live…!" (Ezekiel 18:23, 32: 33:11).
!!!! b) God leads His own (John 10:3-4).
!!!!! (1) I’ve heard people say: “I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for the Big Man upstairs.”
Well, in a sense it’s true that /“in Him we live, and move, and have our being”/ (Acts 17:28).
!!!!! (2) Christ is the sustainer of the entire universe, and nobody would be where he is today without Him.
*Jesus said that God *"makes the sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”
(Matthew 5:45, NKJV)
!!!!! (3) Those blessings of rain are given without respect to merit or deserving.
If they were, no one would receive them.
This is what theologians traditionally have called common grace.
!!!!! (4) God’s divine love and providence, in some forms, benefit everyone, even those who rebel against Him or deny His existence.
!!!!! (5) But again, as to God personally leading those who have not received Jesus Christ as personal Savior, there is not one line of Scripture that indicates that this ordinarily happens:
*Instead we read the very words of Jesus speaking about the Good Shepherd:* "And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.”
(John 10:3-4).
\\ !!!! c) Doing the will of God, starts by being related to Jesus.
!!!!! (1) Again, God’s will is that men be saved, and that is where it all starts as well as /being related to Jesus./
!!!!! (2) *Jesus made this clear in (Mark 3:31–35)*:
!!!!!! (a) What was Jesus saying?
He was teaching that in order to be related to Him, one has to do the will of God.
Turn it around.
To do the will of God one has to be related to Jesus.
!!!!!! (b) See, the doctrine of salvation is unpopular because it includes the recognition of sin.
Nobody likes to admit sin.
And many people resist the idea that they need to be saved.
*The Apostle John said *"Do not love the world or the things in the world.
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
(1 John 2:15-17, NKJV)
!!!!!! (c) Who is going to abide forever?
Those who do the will of God.
!!!!!! (d) Who is the only One who can give eternal life?
Jesus Christ!
*Paul said that *"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
(Romans 6:23).
!!!!! (3) Either you are not saved from your sin and you need to come to Christ because that is God's will, or, you are saved and need to reach others with the message of salvation.
!!!!! (4) There is a world out there that needs Jesus Christ, God wants them to be saved, and you and I are the vehicles for the transportation of the Gospel.
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!!!! d) You say you don’t know what God’s will is, here it is:
!!!!! (1) First: That you know Christ
!!!!! (2) Second: That your neighbors hear about Christ.
That is His will.
God so desired that men be saved that He gave the One whom He loved most, His Son, and sent Him to die on a cross.
!!!!! (3) That is the measure of His love, and that indicates how much He wills that men be saved!
\\ !! B. The Second Step.
!!! 1.
You Must be Spirit Filled (Ephesians 5:17)
!!!! a) Understand what the will of the Lord is.
!!!!! (1) As believers-people in God's family-if we do not know God's will, what are we?
Uniformed?
No.
Searching?
No.
We are unwise (Eph.5:17).
!!!!! (2) Furthermore, (v.16) tells us we have to get on with it; we don't have much time (v.15-18).
!!!! b) “Redeeming the time” (v.16a).
!!!!! (1) I want you to think with me for a moment: In our fast paced day and age, it is common not to finish what we begin:
!!!!!! (a) It could be a project, a song, a painting, or whatever it is.
Maybe the job did not get done because the worker dies.
!!!!!! (b) But usually it is simply the death of a person’s commitment that causes the incompletion.
!!!!!! (c) For many people, including many Christians, life can be a series of unfinished tasks.
!!!!!! (d) Those who are truly productive have mastered the use of the hours and days of their lives.
Whether in the artistic, business, personal, or spiritual realm, no one can turn a dream into reality or fully take advantage of opportunity apart from *making the most of* [his] *time*.
!!!!!! */Definition of Time — /*Is not the term for clock *time*, the continuous time that is measured in hours, minutes, and seconds.
Is the term, which denotes a measured, allocated, fixed season.
"/If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;/" (1 Peter 1:17, NASB95)
*/Making the most of /— *has the basic meaning of buying, especially of buying back or buying out.
It was used of buying a slave in order to set him free; thus the idea of redemption is implied in this verse.
We are to redeem, buy up, all the time that we have and devote it to the Lord.
The Greek is in the middle voice, indicating that we are to buy the time up for ourselves—for our own use but in the Lord’s service.
!!!!!! (e) God has set boundaries to our lives, and our opportunity for service exists only within those boundaries.
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