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08-08-2006, 09:04 PM
True Guidance
We have our own personal will, but the fleshly control of it is gone as we overcome. Jesus had His Own personal will, though He was one with the Father (John 5.30, 6.38; Luke 22.42). The believer goes through the following steps of obedience in actively preparing his members and spending time examining the will of God: (a) willingness to do God's will (John 7.17); (b) revelation of that will to his intuition by the Holy Spirit (Eph. 5.17); c) strengthening by God to will His will (Phil. 2.13); and (d) strengthening by God to do His will (Phil. 2.13). We rely on the Holy Spirit because of what Paul says: "I can will what is right, but I cannot do it" (Rom. 7.18). First God must work in us to will by strengthening our inner man to practically obey God, then are we able to work for His good pleasure. Never does God work in our stead or use our will for us or annihilate the operation of our volition, and if we believe that we become lazy and inactive. The purpose of God's creation and redemption is to give man a perfectly free volition. A spiritual Christian is one who has authority to perfectly utilize his own volition. Though a believer may be unsure something comes from God or the devil, if he chooses to have God's will, his unawareness as to which is not so important, because he has at least given God's Spirit a working opportunity to work in him; such an attitude is appreciated before God as holding great effectiveness.
We have our own personal will, but the fleshly control of it is gone as we overcome. Jesus had His Own personal will, though He was one with the Father (John 5.30, 6.38; Luke 22.42). The believer goes through the following steps of obedience in actively preparing his members and spending time examining the will of God: (a) willingness to do God's will (John 7.17); (b) revelation of that will to his intuition by the Holy Spirit (Eph. 5.17); c) strengthening by God to will His will (Phil. 2.13); and (d) strengthening by God to do His will (Phil. 2.13). We rely on the Holy Spirit because of what Paul says: "I can will what is right, but I cannot do it" (Rom. 7.18). First God must work in us to will by strengthening our inner man to practically obey God, then are we able to work for His good pleasure. Never does God work in our stead or use our will for us or annihilate the operation of our volition, and if we believe that we become lazy and inactive. The purpose of God's creation and redemption is to give man a perfectly free volition. A spiritual Christian is one who has authority to perfectly utilize his own volition. Though a believer may be unsure something comes from God or the devil, if he chooses to have God's will, his unawareness as to which is not so important, because he has at least given God's Spirit a working opportunity to work in him; such an attitude is appreciated before God as holding great effectiveness.