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Today we are talking a little bit about praying God’s Will.
A lot of times we pray, but don’t take into account Scripture or the Will of God.
Here is one such prayer:
Dear Lord,
Help me to relax about insignificant details, beginning tomorrow at 7:41:23 a.m.
EST.
Help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of them are hypersensitive.
Help me to take responsibility for the consequences of my actions, even though they're usually not my fault.
Help me to not try to run everything - but, if you need some help, please feel free to ask me.
Help me to be more laid back, and help me to do it exactly right.
Help me to take things more seriously, especially laughter, parties, and dancing.
Give me patience, and I mean right now!
Help me not be a perfectionist.
(Did I say that correctly?)
Help me to keep my mind on one thing ... oh, look, a squirrel.
Help me to do only what I can, and trust you for the rest.
And would you mind putting that in writing?
Keep me open to others' ideas, misguided though they may be.
Thank you, Lord.
Amen
Historical/Cultural Context -
The book of 1 John is one of the five books in the New Testament that was written by John the Apostle, brother of James.
They were known as the sons of thunder.
This letter was written between A.D. 85 to A.D. 100.
First John was written to a church or group of churches in crisis—churches who were being attacked by false teaching.
Some individuals who had once been associated with the church had accepted heresy and had left the church.
After they left they continued to spread their false teaching to the church.
They went so far as to organize and send out itinerant preachers to various churches with the goal of converting those in the churches to their beliefs.
This created confusion and plunged the churches into crisis.
In response to this situation, John wrote 1 John, following that up with 2 and 3 John.
His goal was to stop this false teaching and to bring comfort to the Christians in these churches.
Biblical Text -
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Life Principle - Healthy Churches Have Christians Who Are Confident In God’s Will & Who Pray For Restoration Of Those Who Have Sinned Against Them.
Life Point- Be Confident In God’s Will
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There is a lot going on these short verses.
So let’s break them down.
Previously John had just written about the assurance we have in Christ, both in salvation and in life
Before Jesus came and not only redeemed us but regenerated us and gave us the down payment of our salvation, the Holy Spirit, people could not have confidence that whatever they asked it would be granted.
Now we can have that confidence because the Holy Spirit has been given and resides in us.
We, who believe, have been sealed to the day of redemption with the Holy Spirit being on the inside of the believer.
Now we can have the mind of God thanks to the working of Him who dwells in us.
So, when we ask something that is according to His will, he hears us.
The key that so many false prophets out there forget, is according to His will.
If the Bible doesn’t say something is according to His will they will twist the scriptures and quote them out of context to make it say what they want to say.
You know who else does this?
Satan himself.
I got some news for you.
Satan knows the scriptures exceedingly well and is a master at twisting them and taking them out of context; and so are Satan’s false prophets.
When we are unsure of God’s will, then we need to come to God and spend time in prayer and meditation on the Word of God.
As we align ourselves with God’s Word, we can truly pray in His will and see His Hand move in people’s lives.
Either supernaturally or through physical means.
The key is God’s will, sometimes it isn’t God’s will to physically heal you or to remove that thorn from you.
Sometimes he wants to leave that in your life for a purpose.
You mean God may not want to give me all the money in the world or physically heal me?
How dare you say that.
I didn’t say it, God did.
Through Paul.
Here is but one of many examples:
I can’t be dogmatic, but I personally believe the thorn was a health issue for Paul.
Most notably his eyes.
I won’t get into my reasoning on this today, but you can see me later for my reasons.
The point is that God didn’t want Paul to be haughty, arrogant, and prideful.
So he had a thorn in the flesh allowed to “buffet” him.
God is much more concerned about your character than your comfortability, your bank account or even your physical health.
Illustration -
Standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand, "Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document, and my secretary has left.
Can you make this thing work?"
"Certainly," said the highly confident young executive said.
He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.
"Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO as his paper disappeared inside the Shredder.
"I just need one copy."
Life Lesson: NEVER, NEVER assume that your boss knows everything.
Life Point - Pray For Restoration Of Those In Sin
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This section of scripture, if not properly understood in the context of the entirety of scripture, can be confusing to us.
You mean there are sins that lead to death?
Yes.
There are several places where this is discussed.
I will touch on them briefly as we could spend hours on this subject.
The sin that leads to death is discussed in the book of Hebrews:
A few things to point out here.
1) Paul is writing to believers.
Yes, I said Paul as I believe Paul wrote Hebrews.
This is the traditional view and there are many evidences for it.
2) This is written to Christians for he uses the term “we” when talking about this sin.
3) Paul is writing to not just believers, but specifically to Jewish believers.
So he makes use of common understandings that every Jew would be familiar with.
4) Toward the end of this section, he states they are not of the kind to shrink back, but reiterates the opening statement in verse 38.
So what is in view here?
Paul is making an appeal to the sin offerings that were provided to the people in the Old Testament in the book of Leviticus which are broken up into 3 categories.
Sins of ignorance, Sins of Omission, and sins of defilement.
You know what is not listed?
Living in willful disobedience to God.
The sin of continuing to live in such a way, even though you have been saved, that you bring shame and reproach on the Shed blood of Jesus Christ.
In other words, you will do much more harm to the kingdom, than you will ever do for the kingdom.
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