{"id":976,"date":"2007-07-24T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/july-the-qperfect-tenseq-will-of-god\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T06:17:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T06:17:52","slug":"july-the-qperfect-tenseq-will-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/july-the-qperfect-tenseq-will-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Tense Will of God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone has said, \u201cThe will of God is just what I would choose if I had all the facts as God has them.\u201d<\/span>1<\/sup> But, since we don\u2019t have such facts, we often don\u2019t choose what God would choose even though we may pray and ask God\u2019s guidance.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 The answer sometimes rests in understanding the three types of God\u2019s will.\u00a0 All agree that God has a sovereign will.\u00a0 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world (Ac 15:18).\u00a0 In the end, everything will have turned out according to His plan and we will praise Him forever for it!\u00a0 When things don\u2019t happen the way we would like, we know that God has a purpose for allowing it to go another way.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most agree that God has a moral will.\u00a0 That\u2019s why there are moral absolutes in this world.\u00a0 Whatever God has revealed to mankind becomes His moral will to us.\u00a0 Therefore we are unashamed workmen when we rightly divide the Word of truth, truth that was once for all delivered to the saints!\u00a0 If we transgress or ignore God\u2019s revealed moral will, we will find life difficult.\u00a0 Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of the transgressors is hard (Prov 13:15).<\/p>\n

The third kind of divine will is the individual will.\u00a0 Believers often disagree as to its validity from Scripture.\u00a0 Garry Friesen has become known for his denial of an individual will for each person.2<\/sup> But I would say that such a denial is unnecessary as long as we don\u2019t constantly search for miraculous interventions from God and we don\u2019t think all apostolic or prophetic examples can be directly applied to our lives.\u00a0 We will become frustrated trying to receive visions and revelations from the Lord as the apostles received (thinking God is too immanent in this age).\u00a0 But to think that God is not concerned with what we do or doesn\u2019t desire the best way for us to go, is to leave Him too far outside of our lives (thinking God is too transcendent in this age).\u00a0 Paul was content to tell the Ephesians, I will return again unto you, if God will.\u00a0 And he sailed from Ephesus (Acts 18:21).<\/p>\n

There are other obvious truths from Scripture regarding God\u2019s will.\u00a0 First, God\u2019s Word is always God\u2019s will.\u00a0 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word (Psa 119:9).\u00a0 James M. Boice wrote, \u201cNothing can be the will of God that is contrary to the Word of God.\u00a0 The God who is leading you now is the God who inspired the Bible then, and he is not contradictory in his commandments.\u201d3<\/sup> Secondly, the Holy Spirit never contradicts His Word.\u00a0 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.\u00a0 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the spirit (Eph 5:17-18).\u00a0 The more we are filled with the Spirit, the greater capacity we will have for understanding God\u2019s will.\u00a0 It is futile to claim the leading of the Spirit if it contradicts Scripture.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, God is in control of the circumstances.\u00a0 The believer should look for God to direct his life by natural means, not supernatural intervention.\u00a0 God designed these by His will also.\u00a0 Job said, For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him (Job 23:14).\u00a0 Fourthly, the end never justifies the means.\u00a0 This would be the same as suggesting that God allows contradiction to His own Word.\u00a0 Moses surely got water from the rock by striking it rather than speaking to it as God had commanded, but he suffered dearly for his pragmatism.\u00a0 Uzza kept the ark from falling by putting his hand to it, but he paid with his very life.\u00a0 Vance Havner wrote, \u201cThe course of things does not work against the believer.\u00a0 It may seem to.\u00a0 It may work against his earthly fortune.\u00a0 It may even appear to defeat him.\u00a0 But in the eyes of God and in the light of eternity all things work together for good.\u201d4<\/sup> Fifthly, godliness is always God\u2019s will.\u00a0 Paul gave this simple instruction to the Thessalonian church, For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication (1 Thes 4:3).\u00a0 It would be impossible for \u201cungodliness\u201d to be \u201cgodly\u201d and it would be impossible for true \u201cgodliness\u201d not to be God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n

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God\u2019s will in the \u201cperfect tense.\u201d<\/h3>\n

One of the most descriptive passages on God\u2019s will is Acts 16:6-10.\u00a0 There, Paul and Silas set out on the second missionary journey but (I believe desiring to go directly to Ephesus) were told twice by the Holy Spirit (an obvious apostolic prerogative) that they could not go south toward Ephesus nor north toward Bithynia and ended up in Troas at the end of the Asia Minor road (which probably seemed like the end of the world).\u00a0 At this point Paul may have thought his fight with Barnabas over John Mark had grieved the Holy Spirit, or perhaps that Silas was the wrong choice to replace him, or a number of other things.\u00a0 But Paul kept moving until he could go no further.\u00a0 That night he received a vision (again, an apostolic prerogative), the \u201cMacedonian call\u201d for the gospel to go into Europe for the first time.\u00a0 Luke (later) records, And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them (Acts 16:10).<\/p>\n

When Luke wrote \u201cthat the Lord had called us\u201d he used the perfect tense, that is, \u201cthat the Lord had been calling us.\u201d\u00a0 If he was only referring to the vision, he could have used the aorist tense as referring to the one action.\u00a0 By using the perfect tense, he was looking back to a time long ago when God began leading them, and includes all the steps along the way as God continued to lead them up to that point.\u00a0 Paul especially realized that God had been directing them to Macedonia, not Ephesus or Bithynia, and He had done that in many ways.<\/p>\n

This same word in the perfect tense is also used in Acts 13:2 when the Holy Spirit commanded the church at Antioch to release Paul and Barnabas \u201cfor the work whereunto I have called them.\u201d\u00a0 Again, \u201cthe work whereunto I have been calling them\u201d over a long period of time and many circumstances.\u00a0 I believe this is a New Testament pattern that is often how God leads us today.\u00a0 When the Jerusalem church decided on a method to encourage Gentile believers, they concluded by saying, It seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord (Acts 15:25) and again later, For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us (28).\u00a0 If hind-sight is better than fore-sight, this \u201cperfect tense\u201d sight is the best.\u00a0 Luke described it as \u201cassuredly gathering\u201d that they now knew God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n

There were a number of things that God had done in Paul\u2019s life that would lead him to know he was in God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 His training and preparation.\u00a0<\/span> Early in his life God was forming the mind and mouth of the great apostle with the specific academic tools he would need.\u00a0 When Barnabas traveled to Tarsus to seek Saul (as his name then was), it was because he was now ready to beginning his speaking ministry.<\/p>\n

2. Difficult situations.\u00a0<\/span> The first missionary journey had been extremely difficult, ending with Paul being stoned.\u00a0 But rather than discouraging Paul, it was preparing him for a Philippian jail and many more trials.\u00a0 John Broadus said, \u201cMan\u2019s extremity is God\u2019s opportunity.\u201d5<\/sup> It will be if we will let Him form His will in us over periods of time, making us perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight (Heb 13:21).<\/p>\n

3. Taking one step at a time.\u00a0<\/span> Paul knew when to suggest, Let us go and visit again our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord (Acts 15:36).\u00a0 We should ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established (Prov 4:26).\u00a0 Spurgeon wrote, \u201cWe are urged to further action; but it would be far easier to take a foolish step than to retrace it.\u00a0 We will move when we are moved, and not before.\u201d6<\/sup><\/p>\n

4. Closed doors and open doors.<\/span>\u00a0 It was certainly obvious to Paul that the Holy Spirit had closed two doors on his way to Troas.\u00a0 Now it was even more obvious that a door was opened to go to Macedonia.\u00a0 Paul spoke of effectual doors (1 Cor 16:9); open doors (2 Cor 2:12); doors of utterance (Col 4:3); and the Lord rewarded the Philadelphian church with open doors that only He could close (Rev 3:7).<\/p>\n

5. Personal burden and conviction.\u00a0<\/span> We cannot discount Paul\u2019s great burden to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Even the forbidding of the Holy Spirit was \u201cto preach the word in Asia\u201d (Acts 16:6).\u00a0 Missionaries have specific burdens for their fields of endeavor which God has fostered and grown in them.\u00a0 John Cotton once said, \u201cThere is poor comfort in sitting down in any place, that you cannot say, \u2018This place is appointed me of God.\u2019\u201d7<\/sup><\/p>\n

6. Dead ends and disappointments.<\/span>\u00a0 Troas was the end of the road on the Asian continent.\u00a0 Paul had run out of options for taking even the less traveled road.\u00a0 Sometimes this is where the Lord brings us before He calls us.\u00a0 David Jeremiah, in his battle with cancer wrote, \u201cWhen we navigate troubled waters, God is the Master of not only the waves, but also the ship.\u00a0 He never abandons His plans or His people.\u00a0 He will see the voyage through to its final destination.\u201d8<\/sup> The end of the road to us always turns into a \u201ccommencement\u201d to God.<\/p>\n

7. Revelation.\u00a0<\/span> Here, as I have noted, is an apostolic prerogative.\u00a0 Paul\u2019s vision was a real and tangible communication from God.\u00a0 These revelatory gifts ceased with the apostles, but God\u2019s Revelation which was put in permanent, written form continues with us today.\u00a0 Our appeal to revelation is an appeal to chapter and verse!\u00a0 We say with Isaiah, To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them (Isa 8:20).\u00a0 When our circumstances are reinforced by Scriptural truth, we have great confidence in God\u2019s will.<\/p>\n

8. Logical conclusions.\u00a0<\/span> Paul and his companions \u201cassuredly gathered\u201d that they had found God\u2019s will.\u00a0 There will always be the human factor in drawing the conclusion about God\u2019s individual will for us.\u00a0 We can\u2019t see all the possibilities the future may bring but we pray and the Holy Spirit interprets our prayers so that God works in our lives \u201cfor the good\u201d (Rom 8:26-28).\u00a0 William Orr said, \u201cIf there is failure to ascertain God\u2019s will, or a failure to follow that will, the failure will always be a human failure.\u201d9<\/sup> We won\u2019t find the perfect will of God every time, but we must draw conclusions from the circumstances God has designed.\u00a0 We can be sure He desires that we be successful.<\/p>\n

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And So . . . .<\/h3>\n

A.T. Robertson once wrote, \u201cThe highest test of any life is doing the will of God.\u00a0 To do that one must be yielded to that will, and follow God\u2019s guidance, as seen in the Scriptures and in the leading of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Then, if one follows the way that God shows him, he will have the richest and most fruitful life and one full of pure joy.\u201d10<\/sup><\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. Quoted by W. Wilbert Welch in The Baptist Bulletin, February 1999.<\/address>\n
2. Garry Friesen, Decision Making & the Will of God, (Portland, Multnomah, 1980) see p. 82-83.<\/address>\n
3. James M. Boice, Philippians (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Baker Books, 2000) 205.<\/address>\n
4. Vance Havner, By The Still Waters (Old Tappan:\u00a0 Fleming Revell, 1934) 31.<\/address>\n
5. In A.T. Robertson\u2019s, Life and Letters of John A. Broadus (Philadelphia:\u00a0 American Baptist Publication Society, 1910) 211.<\/address>\n
6. C.H. Spurgeon, The Down Grade Controversy (Pasadena:\u00a0 Pilgrim Pub., nd) 39.<\/address>\n
7. John Cotton, \u201cOn God\u2019s Promise,\u201d Orations, vol 4 (New York:\u00a0 Collier, 1902) 1427.<\/address>\n
8. David Jeremiah, A Bend in the Road , p. 120.<\/address>\n
9. In G. Christian Weiss, The Perfect Will of God (Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1950) 29.<\/address>\n
10. A.T. Robertson, Jesus as a Soul Winner (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, nd) 72.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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