The Cross:The Will of God

    The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews in what is called the divine dialogue,  quotes from the Psalms and uses it for the words of Jesus at the incarnation.

 “I have come to do your will, O God”Heb:10:7

In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus prayed “not my will, but yours be done” Lk: 22:42

Jesus didn’t exert His own will; But rather He laid down His life in accordance to the will of God.

Jesus subjugated  and surrendered His will to the Father’s will and went to the Cross. The Cross therefore stands for all  time and eternity; that Jesus Christ would rather die than to be found out side the will of God.

  Christ died because; from the Garden of Eden humanity has been exerting their on will above

 that of the will of God. That is also why it was in a garden that Jesus uttered His words; “your will be done not mine”.  Jesus on the Cross, took on the judgment of humanities self will the judgement that all humanity deserved. Jesus faced the Cross for us out of His perfect love for His Father and us.

 The Cross stands as the logical conclusion to life of complete self sacrifice and sacrifice of the self. , which is being perfectly  conformed to the will of God.  Some  think of Jesus’ sacrifice was only that day on Golgotha, but Jesus sacrificed His whole life, His whole life, All His life, All His life, to the will of the Father.
There was not one  moment in the life of our Lord that was not perfectly conformed to the will of God.

Jesus' life , His living,  was about  accomplishing, that is living out  the will of the Father,:  not just in  His  death.

 “My will is to do the will of Him whosent Me and finish His work” Jhn:4:34

"Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,

but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.

 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, O God.’^"

Hebrews:10:5-7

  Jesus invites His followers, that is Christians , to put away the self will and “If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me”Mk:8:34  ,  that is, to be  conformed to the will of  God.

Wounds

    When the Apostle John sees the vision of Heaven he sees “a lamb, looking as if it had been slain” Rev: 5:6, .

The lamb symbolized Christ, as John the Baptist pointed Him out there on the banks of that Jordan, as the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world. The Revelation  vision shows Jesus in Heaven, in the Resurrection  state, His glorified humanity  as still bearing the marks of slaughter of the crucifixion, the same marks that He displayed to the frighten Apostles , and us, after the resurrection to convince them, and us, that  it is He “He showed them His hands and feet” Lk:24:4

  The marks of slaughter forever identify Jesus as the one who came and did the will of God.  There can never be a question that God’s will was preformed. 

The Cross takes away all of humanities excuses from being excluded from a relationship with Him from all eternity. In the end there can be no reason for any , but their own unwillingness to freely accept what God is freely offering. This how much our God loves and wants each and all of us, that He would give His only Son.

"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." 2Peter:3:9

      Paul told the Galatian Church, “I have been crucified with Christ” Gal: 2:20,

Paul  is telling them and us ,that he has submitted his will to the will of God  through reliance on and faith  in the work of  Jesus on the Cross, Who was is and will always be the ultimate expression of the will of God. For all eternity the Cross  will stand as the witness that the will of God has been carried out perfectly by and through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Rev.Todd Crouch, Pastor

Fountain of Life Church

Washington, Pa 

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