UNDERSTANDING THE WILL OF GOD TODAY

^{UNDERSTANDING THE WILL OF GOD TODAY}

^{By: Bishop Albert Gran}

^{Colossians 1:10-11}

¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

Let me continue this study folks through this point by point presentation of which you and me can dig treasure of wisdom in light with God’s plan. In our past episode I made emphasized Paul’s nature of prayer which is but for understanding of God’s nature and dealing in this dispensation of grace and that every believer must be filled with all wisdom and spiritual understanding.
  

On the other hand, relative to understanding, knowledge, and wisdom of God’s will these  things which I would like to expose were God’s enactment how he truly does in the life of every believer in this dispensation of grace.  

¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

The real sense effecting God’s word working in the life of every believer will produce a special kind of life pleasing unto the Lord. How can we be pleasing before the sight of the Lord? Many thought that as long as they are filled with God’s services, doing Christian pious and religious services regardless of understanding God’s plan in this dispensation of grace is already something they thought pleasing before God. This is just a speculative thought without God’s basis from the written word if it thus God would conclude man’s thought as something accredited to be the real basis of His approval. There’s no doubt if it thus the basis is GOD’S WORD. 2 Tim. 2:15 is respectively the answer for this “how to please God” cause and issue. The count of being worthy and pleasing before God comes FIRST IN RIGHT HANDLING THE WORD OF TRUTH (2 Tim. 2;15). Doctrine of knowing who God is  and His nature most especially what he’s doing today is the inquisition to know “WHAT IS HIS WILL” in the lives of His people (Body of Christ) without racial distinctions. Doctrine classifying what God is doing before in time past and what He is doing today is the primary privilege responsibility of man so he could determine that everyone’s works are counted before Him. This is the principle of being “ever zealous but have not come to the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7). However, this is not the principle through which every believer  must think about ”doing a work-based” thought without understanding first what sense God could count anyone worthy before the Lord BY FAITH (2 Cor. 5:7). In this dispensation of grace the emphasis is “UNDERSTANDING HIS WILL” in light with the revelation of the mystery for the Body of Christ with the reconciliation message offered to all lost sinners in this world, proving doctrines and manner of life in the tenet of GRACE and not LAW ( Eph. 5:17; Romans 6:14). This is the formula as far as I learned this verse proving our pure belief in accordance to God’s plan for the members of the Body of Christ in this dispensation of grace.

KNOWLEDGE OF GOD’S WILL       +         WALK  WORTHY    +          INCREASING IN THE  KNOWLEDGE OF GOD

(God's dealing Today)

Based on the above formula the basis of “worthy walk” is the knowledge of God’s will and that the end point is to produce an increased knowledge of God. Why increase knowledge? Because the foundation is the knowledge of His will which was made available in His word.

In this formula, Paul’s epistles will help us understand the light what “God’s will” today in this age of grace really suits His plan for the Body of Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 3:3-5; Eph. 1:4). What if the walk of every believer matches the time when God superintends Israel under the law? Is it right that it’s not in accord to the present time where God had set a new plan for Paul how every lost sinner could avail the sufficiency of God’s grace and him to have completeness of life through the glory which is in Christ Jesus?  

There’s a great contribution of Paul’s epistles which will aid your faith’s foundation if it’s your prerogative to please God in all your life. As addressed to all God’s called “workman”, God through Paul has instructed them to “RIGHTLY DIVIDE THE WORD OF TRUTH” and therefore he himself shall not be ashamed and BE APPROVED IN HIS SIGHT ( the idea of well pleasing) 2 Tim. 2:15. Proving what quality of work after being saved through and based on doctrine of grace with Paul is definitely the basis of a worthy walk when life comes out in the test of fire (doctrines of grace with Paul) with the foundation made of gold, silver, and precious stones. Thus, the idea of mixing doctrines is really out of His will in the context of today’s plan as grace and law working together to produce a life of defeat instead of victory.    

¹¹ Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

There’s a sense I could share you in effect of those who walked in accord to physical-supernaturalists’ view with their doctrines of physical direct intervention with their so called faith-based principle “to see is to believe”. The strength they supposed to include in this verse or the might according to his glorious power could also mean physical strength. If it thus, then why the sense included “unto all PATIENCE AND LONGSUFFERING WITH JOYFULNES. If God acted directly in the provision of your physical affairs similar to the economy of law then why patience, longsuffering with joyfulness characterized each believer's life? If in your faith God’s might is something must be described to strengthen you so that you could move in accordance to what you wish for physical equippings through God’s special power of operation acted in your physical life then why as though many believers are destitute of those physical things? Where’s the idea of patience and longsuffering with joyfulness when God at the instance grant your physical complains in the supernatural way? Is your prayer doctrinal belief really suffice to meet the standard of God in our physical affairs to ‘GLORY IN TRIBULATION’, to labor with our own hands and eat our own bread, to charge not the gospel of Christ? Is the power of your prayers must be an exemption to change the ordained WILL OF GOD in our physical condition in our present time and to change the idea of what God had declared ….we’re suffering in pain together until now?

The fact is that there’s an idea you need to be informed what was really the ordained purpose and dealing of God today. The Scripture did not say it requires a supernatural giant or such like a member of Billy Graham’s prayer warrior team, or Pastor Rick Warren’s back up prayer lord in order to change what is the written will of God he revealed for us today through Paul’s written epistles so that the condition you wished to happen in your physical life shall be granted? Where is fairness in the sense or idea you succumb as the supposed major belief which thought to be traditionally right when one fails to comprehend to know His will with all wisdom and SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING? Is that not PHYSICAL UNDERSTANDING destroys our cause for SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING through which your concern would appeal to God in order to change HIS REAL CONCERN FOR YOUR LIFE with a body service OFFERED AS A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY AND ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD?(Rom.12:1-2)  

Romans 8:5-8

 ⁵ For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

⁶ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

⁸ So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Just to let you understand the sense of TRADITION  VS. TRUTH!

Grace and peace!