The Will Of God

[Music] rise up in jesus name open eyes and heal the land rise up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] rise up [Music] it's time to rise this morning a couple of things we're going to get right into first off you can turn with me to hebrews chapter 10 hebrews chapter 10. and like marie i have a list of scriptures here we'll see how far we get through them and uh wasn't that good this morning that was awesome i'm telling you i i love it when i hear a message that i immediately want to go to michael and say michael g give me a copy of that i want to i want to put it in the car when we're driving we'll listen to it listen to it listen it's just good stuff amen and so it's good to have people in our organization that we like to listen to amen i've been in organizations where that wasn't the case so um you know we don't have to go outside generally jg lim to hear good preaching amen and not just your good preaching but stuff that you actually grow from and actually put into action in your life and you see change and you can help others with it amen you realize all that she did up here this morning that wasn't just for you that's for you to take in so that you could turn around and help others with it amen what goes in your ear should come out your mouth amen so now hebrews chapter 10 we are going to look at let's see what verse do i want to go to yep yep okay it says in verse we'll start at verse yeah yeah well i might as well start verse four verse four is not necessarily talking about what we're talking about but it's a good verse it says for it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sin what does that tell us it's the blood of jesus amen now look at verse five wherefore when he cometh into the world he says sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not but a body has thou prepared me a body thou hast prepared me now automatically people think well yeah of course jesus came here and he was given a body and he walked with the earth and he did these things okay well turn with me to ephesians ephesians chapter 1 and we're going to look at where do i want to go with this yep verse we're going to start at verse 7 uh 17 sorry chapter 1 verse 17 that the god now this was the prayer that paul had for the church of ephesus it's also a prayer that you could pray every day he says that the god of our lord jesus christ the father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him that the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know know what is the hope of his calling and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints in other words he wants you to know the inheritance that's in you you have an inheritance in you he has an inheritance in you right something for him that has been deposited in you which you have to get out of you for it to be his inheritance in actuality or an experience and and verse 19 and what is now this is what he's praying that we would know what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the working of his mighty power hear about that that's power twice right there what power was that verse 20 which he wrought in christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places now notice this power was used and displayed when he raised him from the dead well if you think from the natural man or natural mind we would even say you would think well that was a little late and we know the power was displayed when jesus was alive but why would you wait and display all that power when he was raised from the dead after his ministry on earth was done and it's because it took that power to raise him from the dead and create a new species of being known as christians and now when he raised him up he used this degree of power and that was just to show it was the greatest display ever but it was a display of the power that is inherent in us when we are born of his spirit and have his spirit amen that's the inheritance that's in you you inherited that power when the holy spirit came in right now let's keep going and he says when he raised him from the dead and set him in his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come and now look at verse 22 and hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the church which is his body the church which is his body wherefore he saith when he came into the world he said what you didn't want sacrifice and offering you prepared me a body with the church which is his body now we know he prepared a physical body for jesus and jesus was here in the physical body but guess what now he's here in this physical body we are the body he prepared for him from before the foundation of the world we are that body do you get that the church which is his body was prepared before the foundation of the world whenever jesus was slain as the lamb before the foundation of the world when all the works of god were accomplished in other words they were set in motion they were good as done it was counted from that time and now we're that body and we are the body of christ amen so if christ is going to do something in this world he's going to do it through his body do you get that we determine how much he impacts this world so i want to talk to you a little bit about the will of god now we've talked well i mentioned that during this week during the conference because we all have a will we have the human will we have the will of god we have the will of the holy spirit there's the will of jesus himself there's the will of mankind demons have a will satan had a will he exerted his will which got him kicked out of heaven and so all of these beings have wills and sometimes we talk about the will or or will in itself we have to go back and actually look at it and determine what kind of will we're talking about because we can talk about well i will do this well just because i will do it doesn't mean it's my will to do it on a surface level now if you get down far enough you do nothing except what you actually will to do you're sitting in that chair and you can say i'm going to stand up i'm going to stand up but until you will to stand up you won't stand up so there has to be an action of the will for something to happen right so we could say all kinds of different ways and we're going to look at a couple as a matter of fact right here now go with me uh well yeah go with me we can go first to mark chapter 3 mark chapter 3 and while you're turning there i want you to realize two things now of course we're told to love one another we're told to love people so there's there are many things we're told to heal the sick we're told to or lay hands on the sick because we would even say it we're told different things right to do things but there are two things specifically that specifically say do this okay one is this we are told in james to be doers to do the word isn't that right that's what we do we do the word now but we're also now watch this go with me to uh mark chapter three as we said and we're gonna go to verse let's see go to verse 31 there came then his brethren and his mother and standing without sent unto him calling him and the multitude sat about him and they said unto him behold your mother and your brethren outside without seek for thee and he answered them saying who is my brother my mother or my brethren i mean i mean you would think well that's kind of strange i mean you don't know who your mother is i mean what's what's the deal and and here they're outside they couldn't even get in now i remember my daughter one time somebody said you know would you help me get a you know a chance to talk to your dad and she said are you kidding me i have to make an appointment to talk to my dad well it's usually not that bad but sometimes it does kind of get hard whenever things are as busy and when there's a crowd and things like that go on it's kind of hard sometimes but usually the family can get through usually somebody you know you would think someone said oh that's mary it says mother and they would have made room to come through they actually the idea here if you study all the gospels together they didn't want in they thought he was beside himself his his mother and his brothers and sisters thought he was crazy think about that so it might give you an idea of why he said well who is my mother who are my brethren and then he answers that question because it says in verse 33 and he answered them saying who is my mother or my brethren and he looked round about on them which sat about him and said behold my mother and my brethren for whosoever shall do the will of god the same is my brother and my sister and my mother over and over again you're gonna see he that does the will of god shall endure forever that's the scripture now that's the the idea and so we are told to do the word now think about this we are told to do the word we are told to do his will those are the two primary things now we know we're told to love one another like i said before but the two primary things we are told to do we are told to do his will and do the word now here's the thing we do both of those at the same time why because his word is his will this is this would be the root of almost every problem people have especially if they think they have some issue with god or they think there's a you know why didn't god hear why didn't he answer why didn't he do this the answer is very simple is because they have not yet completely integrated the idea that his word is his will because they'll say well here's what the word says but then why hadn't this happened you know well it might not be his will but but the word says right there the word says lay hands on a sick and they'll recover well but i don't know if it's god's will that i recover well he can't tell me to lay hands on on the sick because you're sick he didn't say which sick he just said sick that means any sick so if it's his will that i lay hands on the sick any sick and they will recover then it has to be his will that you be healed do you see the natural progression of that right so i just want to nail this down a little bit today i want to show you some scriptures and give you some things to to remember and to go over now as we look at this uh we're going to go through scripture and quite a few actually if we if we can now i also want to take you let's just to tie this up go with me to 1st john 1st john if i can get over there first john we're going to go to chapter 2. wow there we go first john chapter 2 and we're going to look where are we going to look here we go verse i might as well go to verse 15. love not the world neither the things that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him he's not talking about people they tell us to love people he's talking about the systems of the world the way the world does things the and even the things in the world he says for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world and the world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of god abideth forever you know that he that doeth the will of god abideth forever all these other things will pass away so he said who is my brother who is my sister but he that does the will of god amen so we're told to do the will of god and we're told here to do the will of god if we do we will abide forever now go with me to romans i'm just going to take you through several scriptures kind of nail these things down and then we're going to move from that okay romans where am i going romance yeah i'm going to go to romans chapter 8. [Applause] romans chapter 8 and we're going to look let's see i'm going to start about we'll start in verse 26. likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities now these infirmities that word infirmities there does not mean sickness and disease and you can tell by what it means by looking at the word because the word is the same many times but here it means it helps us when we have a lack in some area so an infirmity is not always just sickness or disease it can be but it is also a lack in any area you have an infirmity in that area right likewise the spirit also help with our infirmities for we know not what we sh what we should pray for as we ought in other words we don't know exactly all the time exactly how to pray for everything that we have need of because we don't always know well be honest with you sometimes we don't even know what we have need of you know you think this is a problem in reality it's this thing over here that the problems sprung from and so but the holy spirit it says he helps our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we are but the spirit and the king james says itself we know the spirit is a hymn it's a he okay the spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered now watch and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the spirit because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of god so when the holy spirit prays for you he prays for you he prays the perfect will of god and he prays the will of god as it is because he knows what god's will is in that situation amen and he might not pray what you would pray for he goes to the root of the thing and prays for the thing that will remove the log jam that'll let everything else flow amen people say well why do i need to pray in tongues to heal the sick no no you can do it by faith you can even do it by a gift necessarily or whatever it is but you get to pray in tongues and and it will help you in ministering to the sick but the main thing is whether it has to do with this thing or that thing the main thing about it is god wants you to receive him he wants you to speak in tongues he wants you to pray in tongues he wants you to experience tongues in its full manifestation in various ways so it shouldn't be a matter of do i have to you know that's like saying they're throwing you a birthday party do i have to go well if you want the gifts you might have to go right and so we we should always want everything god has for us and we should always want everything god wants us to have amen so he says that he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of god and we know that all things work together for good to them that love god to them who are the called according to his purpose now notice that now that is not saying that car wreck was for your good people say that kind of thing no it doesn't say that he's you have to take it in context in context he is talking about the holy spirit praying the perfect will of god for you and we know that what he prays amen what he prays that will always work together for your good it may not always feel good but it'll be for your good and the holy spirit will pray these things for you good so he's not talking about incidents in your life necessarily but now notice he says who is this true for here's another thing we need to realize for whom he did for no well let's go back and we know that all things work together for good to them that love god so if people don't love god everything wouldn't work together i mean automatically we can see this just in the natural thing people say well let's talk about these things that are happening well we know that wouldn't be these other things because people don't love god so things wouldn't automatically work together for their good but now when the holy spirit prays now we know that what he does he prays for those who love god amen any praise utterings that can't or groanings it can't even be uttered then it says to them who are thee called according to his purpose for whom he did for no he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son so now we know that the prayers of the holy spirit are going to be used to conform us to the image of his son so this has really nothing to do with things it has to do with you and changes in your life in your character in your spirit in your attitude when i say in your spirit i'm talking about you know how we would say the esprit de corps you know you're someone is of good spirits right it doesn't mean in your spirit it means well like marie was talking earlier in the in the be renewed in the spirit of your mind well it's not the spirit of the mind it's not even the mind of the spirit like she said it was excellent how she brought that out it is in in in essence how your mind sees things the spirit of your mind would be like this you can quote scripture you can memorize scripture you can be around people and yes well you know how's it going oh i'm blessed and highly favored and you got all this kind of stuff and then you walk outside and you say you know well i know that you know by his stripes i was healed but you know i just don't see it happening and i just don't say okay the spirit of your mind so you can be negative in the spirit of your mind or you can be positive in the spirit of your mind the spirit of your mind will will naturally cause your mind to think a certain way you ever see people it's just no matter what i don't care what's going on you know did you hear i just you know that i heard you just won the lottery yeah but you know the government's going to take 30 percent of it see that's the spirit of their mind automatically you know no matter what happens there's something negative right and so we have to realize that in talking about his will the holy spirit is working in us and praying through us that's that's one of the main reasons why you should pray in other tongues it's just so that his will can be prayed for you i mean you say well but i'm sure he can get somebody to pray in the holy spirit for me really you want to take that chance you know look at your life does it look like somebody's praying for you you might want to pray for yourself a time or two all right just saying okay so now go with me to romans chapter 12. because what are we talking about we're still talking about the will of god right and i want to i want to narrow it down here in just a minute but in romans chapter 12 verse 1 it says i beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of god that you present your bodies god ain't going to take you and make you present your body you have to willingly present your body and watch a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto god which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind why so that you may be able or that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of god so god has a will and his will is good it is acceptable and it is perfect god does not have three wills he doesn't have a good will and he doesn't have an acceptable will and he doesn't have a perfect will and i've heard all the days growing up in some different churches they used to talk well you know i may not be in god's perfect will but at least i'm in his acceptable will no his will is good it is acceptable and it is perfect so any his will now get this so if you're going to be in his will you're going to be in his perfect will and his perfect will is acceptable and his perfect will is good amen so so don't think about well i'm over here you know i'm just i may not be in his perfect will but at least i'm still in the family no he has one will now listen carefully we're gonna we're gonna have to to divide this a little bit his will he he has a will and that will i'm gonna i'll give you how many want to know what the will is you wanna know what the will is okay i can wrap it up in a nutshell i just read it to you that you be conformed to the image of christ that is his will now now there are other plans that he has for you and he guess what his plans are good right now his will now get this his will is that you be conformed to the image of his son but now he has plans now his plans can be for you to be a store clerk a car salesman or different things those are plans that will help you but his will even in all his plans is going to direct you toward being conformed to the image of christ right so if you're in a an industry where the industry is known to be you know uh not have much integrity then his plan for you there is to be conformed the image of christ and bring christ into that and bring integrity into that industry right but now i understand this and and the thing is his plans change they can change there are seasons right there are seasons of his plans most people have a season of preparation and then whenever they start to walk out what they were preparing for that season changes and many times the job will change the place where you're located will change where you live will change things will change based on it now but now notice his plans for this time is this and then but now that plan leads up to this plan and now it's a new plan right but it's still in his will of his will of conforming you to the image of christ does that make sense now watch because we're going to go forward with this in um go with me to yeah go with me to ephesians back to ephesians ephesians chapter 6 and we're going to start here at about verse 6 and the only reason i'm not reading more in context is just for the sake of time because if you go back too far you have to read the whole book and we just don't have time but in ephesians 6 and verse 6. now watch this well we will have to go back to verse 5. servants be obedient to them that are your masters okay uh and and believe it or not that could be translated to employees right be obedient to them that are your employers okay it's kind of the same thing we could go there and that'd be a whole sermon by itself be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh masters according to the flesh right with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart as unto christ not with eye service in other words don't just do what they want you to do whenever they're watching you right as men pleasers but as a servants of christ doing the will of god from the heart you hear that you can now understand now in their time they were talking about slaves servants and they had masters and he said slaves servants do what your masters tell you and do it with with all your heart do this thing but now notice he says do it with well well yeah as servants of christ so what he what your master tells you to do you're doing your master's will okay your employer as we would say today you're doing his will but you're doing it as to christ right and you're doing the will of god from the heart so now you doing the will of your employer i understand if it's you know godly and not you know sinful or whatever it is unethical then you are doing the will of god in that situation why because that's conforming you to the image of christ you say hell is that happening you're learning to obey you're learning to obey to be obedient you're learning to be how to submit even sometimes when you don't want to do certain things right and so he goes on now notice verse 7 with good will doing service as to the lord and not to men now if you do it as to men without as he said with eye service being men pleasers then you only get the credit of whatever they see you do but if you do it as unto him then even what your boss doesn't see you do you get credit with god as doing the will of god because you're being obedient and promotion comes from god not your boss amen it was a story i heard just recently there was a a person a woman that went to work at a company and they were notorious for not having women in higher positions and she knew that where she was at she would never really be promoted and she had a boss that was apparently the culture was kind of anti-women and so she had a boss that was derogatory and you know kind of harsh toward her and kind of treated her as we would say kind of treated like dirt you know just you know used her basically told her what to do washed around that kind of stuff and so she was praying and god said i put you there she said god i want to quit i want to go nope i'll put you there and she said god but look how i'm being treated he said i put you there and so she stayed she and he said do it as unto me and she said okay i'm going to get him out of my mind i'm going to do it as unto you and she started working and just kind of put her head down did the job and lo and behold shortly after that her boss took an early retirement and now now get this the only now he was the only person that knew how to work a certain machine but because she worked right next to him she knew how to work it too nobody else knew how to work it so when he retired she had to be promoted and she got put in his place and then she was there now notice what she did whenever she got in that place she hired other people men and women she taught them how to work the machine she didn't hide it see he didn't he hid it because he didn't want somebody to replace him but she taught everybody in her department how to work the machine and their department started to really produce and made the company a lot of money and right after that the vice president decided to take an early retirement and she got put in the position of the vice president why because her department had so prospered they said we want her over more of the company why because she worked as unto the lord and not as unto the guy that treated her bad now think about that promotion doesn't come from people it comes from god and if the people in your company or wherever you're at won't promote you god can promote you out of the company to another company that they are looking for people that work as under the lord they don't know that they might not be in the job description but if you do that you will get promoted in that area amen so now but she worked as unto the lord now in uh let's see what i want to go yep let's go to the next one we'll just run through these colossians chapter 4. now you will notice how many different books we're going to what does that mean that means that the will of god is talked about in every book why well because first off the will of god is the word of god amen god cannot give a word that is not his will do you understand that in that situation now that doesn't mean that he always wanted everything to happen the way it happened but if he gave a word about that then it had to happen that way because the people would not change or would not do something or that was the only thing he could do so in that case it was his will do you realize that when the law was in effect the law was his will why because of who he was dealing with but it was to bring us to christ which is his will amen so he he cannot give a word that's not his will right that's why he always said things like if you do this i'll do that right because he couldn't do it if they didn't do that they had to get into a position where he could bless them see god can't bless sin so he had to tell them if you will obey me come out from among them touching on things all that he said if you obey me then i can bless you why because his will is to bless and then people say well i'm a christian you know i walked down the aisle i shook the preacher's hand why don't i get blessed uh because you're not a christian you walk down the aisle and you shook a preacher's hand you know i could train a dog to do that amen i mean come on you can train a dog to shake isn't that right that doesn't make the dog christian right so you have to realize it's he that does the will of god and when you do the will of god you walk in a place where god can bless amen so colossians chapter 4 and we're going to go to uh we'll go to 12. we can start at 12. epaphras who is one of you a servant of christ salutes you always laboring fervently for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of god hear that so god's will obviously would be that you stand perfect and complete in all the will of god amen now listen you have to realize god's will is not a tightrope amen his will is this word now sometimes you walk more in it than others sometimes you obey better than others sometimes you might stray a little bit over here right when when you don't fulfill the word when you're not doing his will that kind of thing but his will is not a tightrope where oops i'm out oh i stepped her i didn't realize that i i didn't realize i'm out of the will of god no you don't get out of the will of god unknowingly you step out do you get that and by the same token you step in by being obedient to the word of god because his word is his will right well i just don't know god's will no the bible says that his will the knowledge of his will has been put in our heart and that we are not to be foolish but to know the will of god and he's put that will in us and he puts that in us when we get born again now admitted many times our head is so full of other stuff that we don't know the will even though we know the will and so we have to have our minds renewed to the will so that we can also know the will so that we can walk out the will that makes sense okay now and again go with me to first thessalonians chapter four we're already there might as well just go page or two over first thessalonians chapter 4 starting in verse 3. yeah for this is the will of god even your sanctification that means to be separated from that which is wrong and bad to be separated unto god right so the will of god is that you separate yourself from whatever is not of god and that you separate and sanctify and make holy and consecrate yourself to god to do his will you got that so this he tells right here this is the will of god your sanctification now sanctification is also closely and even by the word itself is connected to holiness so his will is that you live holy not that you just be made holy in spirit but that you live the holy in your flesh that your spirit has been made when you get born again right you're to live holy amen he talks about in true holiness we have been recreated in righteousness and true holiness and that true holiness means you're outside looks like you're inside amen you ever see some people well you know but i mean i i know he did this i know he did that but you know deep down he's a good man yeah real deep real deep you got to dig real deep to find the good part right and so you need to realize that what is inside needs to be on the outside and that's exactly what it talks about in romans when he tells you have your minds renewed to the word of god that that he said don't be conformed don't let the world shape you don't be conformed to this world but be transformed that's like a butterfly as we know from the word picture that let what is inside you be seen on the outside that you be metamorphosed okay and that you be changed and that change that means that you're if you were made holy inside it's going to come on the outside if it ain't on coming out on the outside you might want to check what's on the inside amen because we're not talking about church membership we're talking about true holiness and being recreated all right now so ephesian now i'm sorry first thessalonians look go with me to well let me read the rest of it for this is the will of god even your sanctification that you should abstain from fornication that's pretty blunt right and he's writing to the thessalonians and telling them uh okay god wants you to be sanctified he wants you to separate yourself from what the people around you are doing that's why it's important that you surround yourself with good people again like marie was saying this morning that it's not just a matter of people oh yeah i've heard that oh yeah i you know no being with like-minded people you have to find people like mine let me tell you i said this the other day a while back and people got a lot as soon as i said it was like ah you know like they couldn't believe i said it man let me tell you i would rather be around a positive sinner than a negative thing because positive centers are fairly easy you know to change around and if they're positive now i'm not talking about positive in their sin okay i'm talking about i'm talking about the mindset of just being positive you know because you can you can work with that it's easier to work with that than it is take a negative mindset and try to get them to turn around you know god wants you well well he might not you know and then you tell a sinner you know well god wants you well oh thank really man that's awesome i i believe it why yeah i mean i try my best you know and i mean if i was god i'd heal me i mean come on you know you know you know and you might have to calm down a little bit and go wait wait wait wait now we might have to work on you with some some humility but uh but i'd rather hang around that than the negative you know naysayer right i said that and people got shocked right it just means you hadn't been around enough christians like himself so first thessalonians chapter five go to chapter five and we're going to look at about verse yep 18. verse 8. now i love thessalonians here too because well verse 15 he says see that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among yourselves and to all men and then he gives a list of just good advice just good ways to live he says rejoice evermore man just spend your time rejoicing right pray without ceasing stay in contact with god don't make a phone call once a day and hang up right just stay in contact just live in communion with him right now watch verse 18. in everything in everything in not for in everything give thanks why for this is the will of god for will of god in christ jesus concerning you this is the will of god what that in everything in every situation you give thanks to god not for it right oh i heard you got diagnosed with this disease yes thank god for the disease i just thank god no no that's you can't okay you can't thank him for something he didn't do you can thank him in something heard you got diagnosed with a disease yes you know what thank god by his stripes i'm healed i thank god that he provided jesus way before i ever even got sick i mean he made the provision i don't know why they don't call it pre-vision instead of provision but it's previous i guess you know pro is okay but he made the provision before i ever needed it you know thanks be unto god so you can thank him in something without thanking him for that thing right i mean you see some christians there were christians on television you know a couple years ago i saw him well okay there were church people on television let me rephrase that there were church people on television and whenever they were doing funerals for the veterans these people out there had the signs you know you god killed you because you are this and you were wrong and you did this thing and they were out there and these are people supposedly representing christ now think about that that that's not how christians are supposed to do it right we're at the very least you comfort right you don't stand there and blast people god did this to you god's doing this to teach you a lesson god's doing this to show you some no no no at least you know if you're going to say god say which one the god of this world maybe you know he did it but still all right so first thessalonians 18 in everything give thanks for this is the will of god in christ jesus concerning you so you notice i'm giving you scriptures here that i'm telling you what god's will is so when you leave here you can't say you don't know what god's will is you know it's god's will for you to abstain from fornication and that his will for you is your sanctification isn't that right we know that his will for you is that your mind be renewed to the word of god so that you can prove his will right so all these things when he says something and and you know uh that for this purpose was the son of god manifested he might destroy the works of the devil well if he was manifested for that purpose then guess what god's will is that the works of the devil be destroyed it's real simple right yeah and i mean it's amazing how simple it is and how at what length people have gone to to twist it all up if you just read what it says it's pretty amazing so we'll go next to hebrews hebrews chapter 10 back to hebrews hebrews chapter 10 and we're going to look at well yep okay we will look at verse oh let's see let's look at verse 35 cast not away therefore your confidence what does that mean keep your confidence don't cast it away keep it right which has great recompense of reward your confidence has great recompense of reward you hear that just you having confidence obviously in god in the truth has great recompense of reward and he says for you have need of patience that after you notice read this along with me if you want to even out loud i don't care after that you have done the will of god you might receive the promise do you hear that now notice the order you get that notice this order that is here number one confidence confidence what that after you have what done the will of god so the first step there is doing the will of god then you will because you're going to develop patience now notice the patience you have to do the will of god and notice when you do the will of god sometimes the promise is an instant you do the will of god and you keep the confidence and you develop patience that after having done the will of god you will get the reward you will get the promise amen so first you have to have confidence right that if you do the will then the promise will come so you have the confidence and then you do the will then patience which is not putting up with and you know oh when's it going to happen no patience the word patience literally means consistency so he says once you've done the will of god be consistent and you'll receive the promise the promise comes after you do the will of god most people want the promise first well god when you prosper me i will tithe sorry you got that backwards right so why because first you do the will of god then the promise comes and the you doing the will proves you believe god and you trust him and then the promise will come so and you need the patience of consistency meaning that you don't do the will of god and then when you don't turn around and see it right then you don't stop and go well i guess it ain't working well i guess that part ain't true like we ripped that page up that didn't work okay you just threw away your confidence why because you did not let patience have its work in you you have to be consistent once you have done the will of god do you get that now so he says for you have need of patience verse 36 that after you have done the will of god you might receive the promise now watch it says for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry now the just shall live by faith but if any man any person draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him why because the only way you can please god is through faith you have that but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition you know where they didn't walk away remember if you were here yesterday remember we're in the book of hebrews and we're talking about this was written specifically at that point two hebrew christians that had come to christ and now they had gone back under the law back to the temple to do these things because they didn't see things happening real quick and so they just kind of fell away they drew back unto perdition in many cases but we are of them that believe to the saving of the soul notice believe to the saving of the soul so there is a a process of your soul being saved what's that called renewing the mind the more your mind is renewed to the word of god the more your soul is saved do you get that now i'm not saying if your mind isn't renewed and you die then you know your spirit's going to go to god and your soul is going to go to hell i'm not saying that okay but your soul is saved saved means to be protected it means to be delivered it means to be put on the right footing so to speak right so now notice here also we're going to go just a couple more verses actually we're going to go to first peter first peter chapter 2 and we're going to start about verse 12. yeah now let's start in verse 11. that's a good verse dearly beloved i beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lust which war against the soul do you see that having your conversation your lifestyle that's what conversation means in the old english it meant your lifestyle okay having your lifestyle honest among the gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evildoers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorify god in the day of visitation so they're going to call you an evil doer but if you maintain and you do what you're supposed to do then they will see your good works now we know that when we do our good works we're supposed to do our good work and that they will be done and men shall see our good works and glorify god isn't that what jesus told us well here he says that the gentiles the people will see your good works right and they're going to glorify god in the day of visitation notice peter's just saying the same thing jesus said he said submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the lord's sake whether it be to the king as supreme or unto governors or as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers hear that for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well for so is the will of god that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men by well-doing you got that as free and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness but as a servant of god he says honor all men love the brotherhood fear god honor the king amen this is the way we are to live on our daily life now go with me next yes i want to go go with me to john chapter five we're gonna start winding it up here and tie it all together what i'm doing you right now i'm backing you into a corner where there's no escape [Applause] okay john chapter 5 verse 29 and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil under the resurrection of damnation he says i can of mine own self do nothing as i hear i judge and my judgment is just because i seek not mine own will but the will of the father which has sent me you hear that he said i judge my judgment is just because i don't seek my own will i seek the will of god to send me the father that sent me right he's now watch this go with me now notice the difference here jesus said jesus himself notice this he said i do not seek my own will but the will of him that sent me jesus had his own will his will was not separate now understand his will it was separate from god's but meaning his ability to will right do you get that and we know that in the garden he said lord let this cut pass from me nevertheless not my will but your will so we know that they had separate will abilities but jesus had submitted his will to the point where he would do the will of god even though he didn't feel like it jesus didn't feel like going oh yes blasphemous jesus didn't feel like doing the will of god uh yeah i said he was tempted in every manner just like us okay and every temptation you face is a temptation to do or not do the will of god that's what it comes down to you see that sick person in the grocery store and you decide uh you know you know i don't have to go i i i i'm you know i'm kind of tight with time i need to to go here and do this okay you're making a decision for or against the will of god why because the will of god is that that person be free that's the will of god and the will of god is that you do it now if you don't maybe maybe somebody else will be there that god can move on and that they will see it and be able to go do it but okay let me just ask you this how many people how many of you are dht's okay so you've been to the dht you've seen the dht you've heard it if you go home and you go to let's say a walmart right and who knows how many people are in there how many other people do you think are in there that have seen the dht right probably not right why so that means that more than likely you might be the only jesus they see do you understand what i mean by that i'm not saying you're the only christian but you might be the only one that knows that it is your right and responsibility to bring freedom to that person there may be other christians in there that that look at and say oh isn't that pitiful wow i wonder what the lord is trying to teach him i mean come on that's that's the typical teaching among christians isn't it you might be the only person that knows it is absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt god's will to get that person free that might be their only chance god might have awakened them and said get to walmart why because he knew when you were going and here they're walking around and they may not even have a reason to be there but their reason for being there is because you were going to be there and then you may not even do what you were sent there to do you know you start at the last minute well i need to run by the walmart and grab this and i'm just in and out i'm in a hurry i got to hurry already and you're missing the divine appointment that god set up just for you think about that okay we'll move on now real quick in jeremiah 29 11. what does he tell you and i know the plans i have for you plans of good not of evil do you hear that god's plans are good and not evil that word that he spoke to jeremiah was his will his will is that his plans for you are good and not evil he does not will evil for you do you get that so no evil that tries to come upon you can be his will do you get that okay the only suffering that is his will is for you to suffer doing good and possibly being persecuted for it you get that why his will in that sense that suffering that you would get from that that's the only because he talks about suffering according to the will of god it's not talking about suffering sickness or disease it's talking about suffering from persecution because that's the one thing that jesus promised us as believers right so we shouldn't be surprised when it happens now so if god's will is that he has plans for us that are good and not evil right well now let's look at this go with me to acts the book of acts and we're going to go to acts chapter 10 acts 10. if i can get there there we go and let's go to verse 30. and cornelius said four days ago i was fasting until this hour and at the ninth hour i prayed in my house and behold a man stood before me in bright clothing and said cornelius thy prayer is heard and thine alms are head in remembrance in the sight of god now notice at this point cornelius was not born again why because the angel that stood there said go here find this man peter and he will tell you how to get saved so cornelius was not saved but an angel was dispatched to speak to him why because he was praying and he fasted and he did good things he gave alms and all these things are mentioned you know what he said he said this angel said cornelius your prayer is heard and your alms are head in remembrance in the sight of god so here's an unsafe person whose prayers were heard and the good deeds and the things that he did was in god's remembrance and was seen in the sight of god and christians think that god doesn't hear him when they pray he said send therefore to joppa and call hither simon whose surname is peter he is lodged in the house of one simon a tanner by the seaside who when he comes shall speak unto you immediately therefore i sent to thee and thou hast well done that thou art come now therefore are we all here present before god to hear all the things that are commanded thee of god in other words here i'm telling you stories why so what have you got to say god told me to send for you and you would tell us what we need tell us talk right then peter opened his mouth and said of a truth i perceive that god is no respecter of persons but in every nation he that fears him and works righteousness is accepted with him how did why did peter say that because of the testimony cornelius just gave that here's a gentile unsaved praying and god heard him and he said i perceive that god is not a respecter of persons in other words god listen god doesn't care if you call yourself a christian he doesn't care what you call yourself what he cares is do you do the will of god that's what counts you can claim whatever you want bottom line is it's not what you claim it's how you live it's what you do do you get that i know we've had the idea well if you just make jesus lord and you drop dead you'll go to heaven yep i have no problem with that right some people should i'm gonna say that anyway so anyway but now notice let's put these things together if god is not a respecter of persons then the plans he has are good and they're right so he's not a respecter of persons that also means if you heal this person he'll heal that person and then you can see evidence of that in the atonement that it was for everyone amen now so we want to go one more well two more places probably in luke chapter 10 we know this because we actually read this also during the conference he said he that hears you hears me well guess what god's no respecter of persons he's not even a respecter of persons between jesus and you think about that he holds you in the same esteem do you get that that's how closely united he is that's why jesus said paul saul why do you persecute me saul never persecuted jesus but he did persecute jesus because he persecuted jesus's body the body of christ the church right now and finally we're finally getting there go with me to matthew chapter 8 and i say finally that means the last section of scriptures matthew chapter 8 verse 1 when he was come down from the mountain great multitudes followed him and behold there came a leper and worshiped him saying lord if thou wilt if it's your will you can make me clean jesus put forth his hand and touched him saying i will be thou clean and immediately his leprosy was cleansed now notice what jesus said jesus say that he did not say be cleansed that would be a process if he said be cleansed that could be a process going on he didn't say that he said i will be thou clean what does that mean right now right now be in a state of clean right that means if you're in a state of clean you cannot be in a state of leprosy do you get that he called the end from the moment he spoke he said this is where i want you to be and this is what i'm going to give to you now amen do you get that but now notice this and if you've been through the dht you know we talked about this because the word will here is a particular word and it literally means to desire from the innermost being based on the character and nature of the person he didn't just go uh lord if you will you know if you'll do it lord if you will do it if you if you will you can make me clean if i can get you to do it you can make me clean he that didn't what he was saying he said lord if it is your innermost desire to to heal me you can make me clean you can do it if it's if it comes from in you if it's your desire this is the thing that's amazing here because i'm going to read it to you also from the what we would say is the literal greek it's a translation from the literal greek into uh english but it's really amazing because he says here and having come down from the mountain now this is matthew 8 1-4 roughly and having come down from the mountain great crowds followed him and behold a leper having come fell upon his knees and touched the ground with his forehead in an expression of profound reverence before him saying master in the event that you may be having a heartfelt desire you are able to cleanse me and having stretched out his hand he touched him saying i am desiring it from my heart be cleansed at once now this is again the literal greek and immediately his leprosy was cured by being cleansed away and jesus says to him see to it do not tell even one person but be going away showing your show yourself at once as evidence to the priest and offer the gift which moses enjoined as a testimony to them and the funny thing is if you read and this is actually in two other places also matthew mark or yeah matthew mark and luke so three accounts are given to this and they all said the same thing but one of them adds in this and he went away and immediately told everybody and jesus fame spread now that right there goes against some theology because people say well if you're in disobedience or you sin then you won't get healed or if you've been healed and you go into disobedience or sin you will lose your healing but jesus said don't tell anyone and immediately he went and told people and didn't lose his healing a direct disobeying of what jesus told me and that amazing so that idea of well i must have done something to make myself lose my healing no he didn't have to do anything it wasn't god taking it back it was a devil trying to make you sick again he was attacking again he attacked the first time he attacked again you just maybe didn't know how to stand right now so now notice this here's the point that i want to get to he says this over and over again actually and the point is this it is god's will it is his heartfelt desire now think about this that notice the war two words stand out here every time it's mentioned matthew mark and luke heartfelt desire okay first off heartfelt in other words inside this is the nature this is the character of jesus it's the character of god it is his heartfelt nature to want people healed right and desire now the amazing thing here is that the word desire actually says if it is your desire if it's your heartfelt desire if you want to do this you can do it and yet we're told whatsoever things you desire when you pray believe you receive them and you shall have them it goes back to the same thing and it goes back to the will what is your will about being healing i've met so many people that you would think that that would be their heartfelt desire that would be the thing they think about this is the thing they they've got to get this but i'm telling you i've met so many people that were sick and literally they acted as if it didn't matter and they didn't care if they got healed or not usually it's because of the wrong teaching they've had they've been taught well maybe not maybe and so it's almost like well why i put my hope in it well i get my hope built up because it might not happen so if god gives it to me and and then i have people that always ask me well you know i'm scheduled for surgery two days from now so you know would you pray uh you know so i don't have to go through the surgery so you're telling me that unless you see a difference you're still going to go through the surgery and say and i'm not telling you not to do that i'm just saying you have a plan b and when you have a plan b plan a hardly ever works why because you've already made provision for the flesh to fail and so many times you have to set the things now i and unfortunately many people come to me you know and sometimes just because they hadn't heard ahead of time or whatever it is but but we're the last stop on their way to the hospital sometimes they didn't know about us before but they didn't contact us or whatever it is now we help you wherever we're at and wherever you're at you know along that path but the bottom line the whole purpose of this morning is to get you to realize this is his will you don't see one place in here where jesus ever made anybody sick you don't see one place in here where he ever told a sick person sorry i only do what i see my father do and i just don't see that happening he never said that he didn't say sorry my father's working in you no instead what we see is this how god anointed jesus christ of nazareth who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil and for this purpose was the son of god manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil the reason he showed up was to destroy the works of the devil and every time he saw a sick person he saw the works of the devil smith wigglesworth when i read the story at the beginning he was on that boat and he saw this man and everybody was panicking and everybody thought this man was going to die everybody saw the man on the floor everybody saw the man about to die not wigglesworth what he saw was an opportunity for god to be glorified by the power of god and he just happened to believe the word of god that said whenever you receive the holy ghost you receive power and you can fix these situations and he believed it and then i should have read the next thing right after that because there was a quote after that and he said this it is an offense unto god to ask him for power after you have received the baptism of the holy ghost why because with that baptism with that holy spirit you receive the power of god to meet any need now the only difference there is what do you believe do you believe you act do you believe the word of god and believe you have actually received something now let me ask this how many of you have received what generally is known as the baptism of the holy spirit you speak in other tongues you know you're filled amen all right now so those of you that are that you may have an an ailment or something right now i'm telling you the holy spirit that's in you is the same one i've got and i'll be glad to lay hands on you but i'm telling you all i'm going to give you is what you already got what because he's the same there is no difference amen now the only difference between us is maybe i've seen a few more things so there would be some experience so maybe my faith in that area may have grown a little bit because i've seen him do some amazing things but i'm telling you it all goes back to you know why i see things because before i saw them i believed this if i had not believed this i would not have seen them why because you believe first and then you see and that's what wigglesworth was trying to get across he believed he didn't feel he believed and i'm telling you every one of you are miracle workers every one of you are healers of the sick why if you believe and like wigglesworth would say if you only believe right don't get all that other stuff in there only believe and if you only believe you can do the same thing for yourself that you can do for anybody else and you can do the same thing for yourself that i can do for you i can i could not tell you the number of times i have literally and this sounds kind of silly if you think about it but i've actually laid hands on myself i laid hands on my foot and to be honest with you at that point it didn't really work that great and i had to have some help but then i grew up where i could lay hands with myself and get a response so that's what you need to do that's the first thing i'll be glad to lay hands on you and i'm going to dismiss you because it is noon but we're going to dismiss you but if you need us to lay hands on we'll be glad to do so we will set you free because the bible says whoever i lay hands on they shall recover end of 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Published: Mon Jun 07 2021