P4 Major obstacle to follow GOD’s will

P4 Major obstacle to follow GOD’s will

As of now, when we follow the will of GOD, is by reading bible, understand, if we are in agreement, then, we do it. All these stem from ourselves , which is either from worldly knowledge, or our tradition, so, if there is any situation changes, we will stop at no time.

But, if examine the below verses, we will detect the problem:

John. 16:13 “However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. ”

What does it mean guide you into all truth:

All we have and can do it is understand, which is built on worldly knowledge

But, how does bible say?

[Isa 55:8] For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

[Isa 55:9] As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Can we jump to heaven? Of course, no. So, every human efforts want to understand what GOD’s thoughts and ways, are ended up in vain, So, GOD want us

Into all truth, means: “Into Jesus”

Since Jesus is all in all, as

John. 1:3 “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”

Jesus is the only way, there is no other way

John. 14:6 “Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

From Eph 1-6, there are five verses, all mention in Jesus

Eph. 1:1 “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:”

Eph. 1:3 “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,”

Eph. 1:4 “just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, ”

Eph. 1:5 “having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,”

Eph. 1:6 “to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.”

Below as revealed by two bible stories why we need to be in Christ:

Luke. 17:12 “Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off.”

Luke. 17:13 “And they lifted up their voices and said, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!’”

Luke. 17:14 “So when He saw them, He said to them, ‘Go, show yourselves to the priests.’ And so it was that as they went, they were cleansed.”

Follow GOD’s will ==> In Jesus ==> Change in essence

In the beginning : Have leper

Following GOD’s will: Go, show yourselves to the priests

Then, they do accordingly

Finally: they were cleansed

What they are doing by faith ==> Change in essence (Miracle)

2 Kings 5:1  Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.

2 Kings 5:2  2 And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman’s wife.

2 Kings 5:3  3 Then she said to her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.”

2 Kings 5:10  10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.”

2 Kings 5:12  12 Are not the Abanah[a] and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

2 Kings 5:13  13 And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

2 Kings 5:14  14 So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

2 Kings 5:15  15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

Naaman wash in the Jordon seven times ==> flesh restored, clean

Action by Fatih ==> change in essence (miracle)

Naaman and ten lepers, can they understand what they are doing and leading to cure. Of course, the answers is NO, but can you understand

So being in Christ, we need to have the following attitudes

Luke. 9:23 “Then He said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”

Luke. 14:26 “‘If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.”

Paul understand on the spiritual road, you should not have anything that is worldly, so he says

Phil. 3:7 “But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ.”

Phil. 3:8 “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ”

So, we should examine if there is any behavior , we do it because of Jesus , that is not accepted by ourselves or society. Then, we might experience the transformation of essence. This is what GOD want to give to us. In summary, following GOD’s will the major obstacle is that if we have to understand is complying with the truth of this world before we will do it, rather than enter into GOD’s truth by obey his command. Ridiculously, even though we do not follow his way and we still expect GOD’s miracle.

Following GOD’s way ==> Jesus live in ==> Change of essence