Topic: Original Intent Part 3/ The Will of God | |
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"Jesus said to them, My food, My nourishment comes from doing the will of God the Father who sent Me, and from accomplishing or finishing His work."
The Lord Jesus states He is infused by doing the will of the Father and by finishing the unfinished work the Father set in motion. His purpose in life, His reason for being is to bring pleasure to the Father by getting the job done. The Father is about finishing, not just starting. A complete God desires a complete work. God has a plan; He had it before creation came into play. The plan was hidden in God for those people who would shake off the effects of the fall and rise up to the plan. This people of His purpose would be His Church. The plan was hidden in God, not from the Church, but for the Church. It was hidden from all genereations until that "people of purpose" would rise up. "The sacred secret kept covered from the people of former ages and generations is now uncovered and openly shown to those who are His." Colossians 1:26 "Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;" "To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in Heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God," Ephesians 3:4,5,10 It is time to raise up the community of faith God has always desired. A people who will receive the divine nature and the divine purpose. A generation of Sons of God who lay hold of and rise up to the fullness of the stature in which our Lord Jesus Christ, the Anointed Redeemer of God, lived and walked. A holy people who will demonstrate Satan's defeat and who will live out our Lord's victory, a people of divine destiny. "Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" Colossians 1:26,27 A command given by God cannot be violated or left hanging. His word is not void of performance, it will be done. All that is yet to be settled is who will rise up, Someone will rise to the mantle and "do" the will of the Father. The Church will be the Church before He returns for it. "That is why, when the Redeemer came into the world He said, Sacifices and offerings You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me;... I have come to do Your will O God,... Hebrews 10:5-7 God prepared a body to house the Spirit of our Redeemer. His body then was the temple prepared of God to be the dwelling place of our Lord. He was the first born of many brethren (Romans 8:29). As believers we are not only His brothers, we are joint-heirs with Him (Romans 8:17). Not only are we brothers and joint-heirs to all He is and all He has, 1 John 4:17 states "as He is so are we in the world." Our body was prepared by the God who knew us before we were in our mother's womb. Our body is a temple prepared by God to house the Spirit of God which He freely gave us. "Do you not understand that your body is a temple for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit whom you have received from God?" (1 Corinthians 6:19) Since His God given body was dedicated to the will of God and we are as He is, then our body should be dedicated to the will of God. Since the will of God does not change, our pursuit of His will must return first to the original command of God to His man. When we explore what God said to His man in the first command we see it was made up of several aspects, each inter-connected and inter-related. In Genesis 1:28 the Father God laid five charges before the man He had created. Five charges or commands that bore His Original Intent for His man and His creation. The commands still stand awaiting a generation of champions who will rise to the command to do the will of the Father. "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." Genesis 1:28 Five items on man's to do list from God: 1. Be Fruitful - be productive at every level 2. Multiply - increase what I started 3. Replenish - fill the earth from the seed I have given 4. Subdue it - bring creation under your authority 5. Have dominion Over it - rule over it as I would We must be about our Father's business. We must accomplish the assigned task and completely finish the work He began. Sons of God fulfilling the will of God in bringing Original Intent to its intended work. The fall of man may have temporarily derailed the plan of God, however, the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus redeemed the plan, the man and creation. So, it is time to get back on track and fulfill the five charges of Original Intent. |
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