tonight in John chapter 6 verse 37 through verse number 45. John chapter 6 verse number 37, All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life. And I will raise him up at the last day. The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. And they said, Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? Jesus therefore answered and said unto him, murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me except the Father which has sent me draw him, and I'll raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, and they shall all be taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. And I read one more verse than I meant to, but it's all right, okay? It's still scripture, all right? May we, well, I've already prayed, so let's just, Lord, help us tonight. You may be seated. I'll get around to where I'm at after a while, all right? But here we find, as we've been studying, some time ago, we started a series on the will of God. I don't know whether you remember it or not, back in October, I think, in September, we probably dealt messages upon that. But as we're talking about the will of God, you see the Bible, Paul, Paul's desire was, he wrote it down in Hebrews 13, 20 and 21 to those professing Hebrews when he said, Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will. working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. So Paul's desire for the professing Hebrew professors was that they might do the will of God. In other words, he'd make you complete in every good work to do his will, to do his will. Now sometimes it's hard to determine what the will of God is for our lives, especially the unwritten will of God for our lives, but yet there's a written will and there's an unwritten will for our lives. And so if we look in the word of God, sometimes we can see what the will of God is for our lives. And if we're not willing to practice or follow the written will for our lives, then we'll never really fully understand the unwritten will of God for our lives. We'll get in a mess, be more confused than a termite in a yo-yo. But when we think about the will, His will, God's will, you see what He wills is what He purposed. in your life, what He proposed, if you can please, okay, what He predetermined for you in that sense. Now, we've looked at several things that the Word of God said that His will was. I want to recap those a little bit today since I've been off of it for a couple of months, but the will of God is that you be saved. You see, the Lord's not willing that any should perish, but all come to repentance. He said that in 2 Peter 3, 9. So he died on Calvary. He paid the sacrifice, the supreme sacrifice. If he, 1 John 2 says that he's the propitiation for the sins of the world. That means he's our sacrifice. He's our substitute. He's our mercy seat. And no man will ever have a leg to stand on and say, well, I just wasn't I wasn't meant to be saved. I wasn't elected this summer, try to say today. I wasn't chosen. Listen, God sent his son to die on Calvary that you might be saved. He's give light to every man. He's give grace to every man. And his will for you is that you be saved. So if you die and go to hell, you'll have to say, I did it, even though God purposed in his heart to save me, he wanted to save me, he desired that I be saved. That was his will for my life. And that's one thing we need to strive, to seek him with all your heart, as far as the will of God. Then another thing we said was to give thanks. We mentioned that tonight, not just be thankful, but to give thanks. First Thessalonians chapter five, verse number 18, he said, in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. In other words, in those conditions, in those circumstances, you don't give thanks for the circumstances, but you give thanks in those conditions for what He's done for you and His goodness to you. So give thanks, the will of God. It's also the will of God that you labor, both physically and spiritually. Work out your own salvation, He said. I mean, if you're saved, work it out. Doesn't mean to work to be saved. It means what God's put in you, you let it, let your light shine that others might see in you what he's done for you. Now, you're to labor physically. God said if you won't labor, you're worse than an infidel if you won't provide for your own family. So it is a responsibility to labor physically and to labor spiritually. That's the will of God for your life. Then it's the will of God to be subject to the higher powers. That's talking about government. And it doesn't mean when they override the Word of God. Peter said one day, he said, it's better for me to obey God than man. In other words, if they make rules that goes against God's Word, then we need to stay with God rather than go with those rules, you see. And so, but yet there's some things that you say, well, if they don't have a right to do it, they may not. but yet he said obey the higher powers. Why? They're supposed to promote that which is good and do evil, do punishment, avenge, and punish those that do evil. Well, they're not doing it. I'm talking about government, all right? They're not doing that, but he still said we're to obey them, we respect them in that place, because God placed them over us in that sense. And that's why I mentioned a while ago about my servant Nebuchadnezzar, as they placed the children of Israel into bondage, into captivity for 70 years. God did that because of their failure. It wasn't God's will for them to do that. God's will was for them to be what they should be and shine a light to all nations and stay away from idols and whatnot, but they didn't do that. And so God had to punish them for what they did. And then it's God's will to suffer sometime. It didn't say suffer all time. but suffer sometimes. Second Timothy 312 said, Yea, and all that will live godly shall suffer persecution. So it's God's will for that. And then also it's God's will for you to assemble in the Lord's church. I've been talking to some and corresponding with some who They just believe you can just have church wherever you wanna have church. Well, I won't tell you, you can't, amen? God wants you to assemble together. He said in Hebrews 10, 25, not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching. It's God's will that you come together. And then also, he's not only just said, come see me, but he said, come see me and bring me something. It's God's will that you bring him something when you come. What'd you bring him tonight? Well, you say, I didn't come, I just barely made it here. I drug in by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin is what some would say. But no, listen, the thing about it is you need to bring him something. You say, what can we bring him? First Corinthians 16, two says, let every man lay in store upon the first day of the week. Now the church has got the keys to where we got Wednesday night set aside and you still need to gather and assemble and bring him something. You say, what do you bring him? your tenderness, your time, your talent, and your tithe, you do that in accordance to His will. And He said, do that. So we've already talked about those things and dealt with all those eight different things that the Word of God, now I'm not gonna deal with everything the Word of God says that's His will, because we'd be here for a while in a series of that, but that's eight things we've already mentioned about the written will of God for your lives. Now, we want to go a little further tonight and give you three more things that's the written will of God for your lives in that sense. Now, next thing I guess we could say is if you're saved, God's will is to keep you. What you present to him, he'll keep. In other words, did he not say that? In other words, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. I give unto them eternal life. They'll never perish. Why? He keeps them. It's God's will. God has purpose to keep every one of his. The devil will not get one of them. In fact, the business, that's what the Father's will was here. It said in verse number 38 and 39 of her text verse, he said, for I came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the Father's will, which has sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. He's talking about men. Yeah, he's not gonna lose this earth either, but yet mankind, in other words, he said, I will, it's the Father's will that I do not lose one. I'm going to keep you. He purposed that. If you're saved by the grace of God, he's going to keep you. And also it's the Son's will. When Jesus prayed in what we call the intercessory prayer in John 17, could be referred to as the real Lord's Prayer, but he said in John 17, 24, as he's praying, Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory. at which thou hast given me, for thou lovest me before the foundation of the world. He said, all these that you gave me, I will that they'll be with me on the other side whenever I'm glorified. In other words, I will, they'll be there glorified as well. So it's God's will to keep you, to guard you, to protect you, to carry you through. The Father willed it, the Son willed it, and the Holy Ghost, it's His will as well. Did he not say in Ephesians chapter 1 verse number 13 and 14, talking about Christ, In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. In other words, he said, I've sealed you until you're completely redeemed. Now, we talk about being redeemed all right, but see, redemption is, what's redeemed? You're dead spiritually, dead in trespasses and sin, but when the Holy Spirit comes and begins to move on you with a work of reproval, a work of Holy Ghost conviction, it brings you to the place to where that your spirit will be redeemed or saved from the penalty of sin. That's what we call salvation, or being saved. But it's also, we could break it down and say that is justification. That's just one part. But it's so sure the rest of it's going to happen, that He's going to keep you and carry you through to glorification, where you'll be saved from the presence of sin one day. In other words, the body will be saved as well. Not this flesh. but it's going to be changed, and corruption will put on incorruption, and mortality will put on immortality, and then we'll be brought to pass the saying, death is swallowed up in victory, oh death, where is thy sting, oh grave, where is thy, well I lost it, victory, amen. But you see, I didn't get it all right, just come out, but boy sometimes them things leave me. Y'all know what I'm talking about? Amen, it's getting worse by the day. I can see you shaking your head. If you don't, just wait around, it'll get there, okay? But the thing about it is we've got, it's God's will, the Father's will, it's the Son's will, it's the Holy Spirit's will for those who are saved to keep you and to guard you. In other words, but you know something? You realize something, what he's saying in this verse is as he says this, he's even saying that while you're coming to him, He's going to keep you. And I can guarantee you that's right. You're not dead in hell tonight if you're not saved. That means God's kept you because the devil would sure kill you when you reach the knowledge of accountability if he could. And He's keeping you. He's keeping you. He's guarding you right now. Keeping a hedge about you. And then that's His will. That's what He's done. The Bible said in John 6, 37, the last part, He said, Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. Now that's a TH verb, ETH verb, which means a continuous action verb, means that you're on a path of understanding, coming to me, while you're coming to me. Now, some people use that for an assurance for salvation. I know one preacher that used that on everybody he could. Saw him use it on his own daughter, and his daughter's gonna die and go to hell because he propped her up with that very scripture out there. Well, did you come to the Lord? Well, you don't know if you're lost, you don't know how blinded you are, how deceived you are, and as sincere as you know, you tried to come to Him as best you could, but you see, even while you're coming to Him, He's got a hedge about you. He's got a hedge. You better pray God never pulls back that hedge, because the devil will have you. Amen. That's why he said he gave them over to reprobate mind, vile affection, uncleanliness. Romans 1. But thank God it's God's will to guard you and protect you. And that's the long-suffering of God that's coming. That's the goodness of God. That's the forbearance of God. As you're coming, cometh to the Lord. And he also said, you notice verse number 44, he said, no man can come to me except the Father, which has sent me draw him, and I'll raise him up at the last day. Now, he sent the Holy Spirit to do the drawing, and no man's gonna be saved without the drawing of the Holy Spirit. It's not when you decide, it's not when somebody said, well, you can get saved when you want to. I'll tell you what, people have said they wanted to, and they up and said a prayer, but they did not have a complete work of Holy Ghost conviction. and it takes a full work of drawing of the Holy Spirit. But he goes on to say in verse 45, it is written in the prophets, Old Testament, and they shall all be all taught of God. In other words, he said every man is taught of God. Every man has life. of God in creation, God in conscience, a vacuum that only God can fill. That's why men worship totem poles, alligators and whatnot, whatever thing they worship across this country. But he said, every man's taught of God. They don't understand, but every man's taught of God. But he said, every man therefore that have heard and hath learned of the Father, eth, along the path of understanding to whom? To him, to the Lord. In other words, and while you're coming, he's got a hedge about you, protecting you. I look back in my life, and I see how God ordered my step back in my life. Lost as could be, but he ordered my step. He put me here in 1980 so that I'd be pastor later on, amen? It was a divine setup, amen? We couldn't have ordered anything like that, But it was that way, and yet all those places where I went and did and those things, being in business, God put me in business. He was ordering my step for a purpose, amen? He's the one who did that. You notice what kind of business He put me in, don't you? That was chamber business, okay? But He put me in business, what I'm saying, to help me out. We've got to keep at them, Brother Shirley. We've got to keep them going, you know. But the thing about it, I'm talking about He put me in business. You get the point? He ordered your... and He's doing that for you. I don't care where you are. I'm talking about it's the will of God that He protects you. He's keeping you. If it wasn't, you'd be in hell. God's purposed it. Amen? He's good. All the time. He does that. So you see, that's the will of God. And that's the written will of God. And a lot of people won't believe that, don't even want to hear that. But it's the will of God here as we see that. Because he said, he that have heard and have learned. Now you see, it's not enough just to hear somebody say, I heard the gospel when I was little. I heard it all my life. No, you hadn't heard it yet. Because you see, if you heard it, if you really heard it, you'd become a thing to him. That may not be a good comething, okay? That means you'd be on a path of understanding moving toward Him, if you really heard it. Because as you really hear with a spiritual ear, it means to learn, it means to put together to understand, and your heart becomes good ground with a seed of fine lodging, and bring forth fruit as He waters it. And while He's watering, while He's planting again, and knocking up a few clods, and getting them all broke up, and knocking out some stumps and some hard places, He's protecting you. That's God's will. I'm talking about the will of God written for you. Boy, there's something to think about tonight. You ought to be thankful. You may not have heard much, but what little you have, you ought to say, praise the Lord. I tell you what, you talk to a few sometimes that's been in church all their life, and they don't even want to hear. They don't even want to hear some truths. The little phrases that we use, they hate them. They literally hate them. I'm talking about people who are Baptists, okay? They literally hate those phrases. Amen. And they don't want to hear it. Amen. Well, anyway, He keepeth you. So it's the will of God to keep you. Now, I know the saints of God are going to be kept. Once you've come to a place of justification, you're guaranteed a place on the other side you'll go in. Now, but while you're coming to Him, as long as you'll continue, you're protected. As long as you'll do as best you can and cry out for help when you can, I believe you're protected. Amen. If you wasn't, you'd be in hell. Amen. You'd be in hell. And you ought to be thankful that you're not in hell. This is you, 2008. Amen. You ought to be thankful you're not there. You ought to say, thank you, Lord. I don't understand it, and I really hadn't. Give me an ear to hear this year. Give me a heart to understand, to learn, to put together, and give me some feet that cometheth to you, okay? All right, you get the picture. That's what it, along that path of understanding to you, it's a will of God. Now, Bible does say in 1 Peter 1, verse number three and five about the saints of God. He said, blessed be God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. Now in context, that's talking about those who've been justified. He's keeping you unto salvation, meaning until there's a salvation complete. See, salvation is an umbrella. It includes justification being saved from the penalty of sin. It includes sanctification being saved from the power of sin. It includes glorification being saved from the presence of sin. The soul, the spirit is saved from the penalty of sin, justified. The soul is daily being saved from the power of sin, sanctified. And one day when the Lord comes back, the body is going to be saved from the presence of sin and every bit, Spirit, soul, and body is going to be on the other side. Therefore, he's keeping us unto completed salvation is what he's saying there in that place. There he's keeping us. Therefore, that's why he said in Philippians 1, 6, he that hath begun a good work, I am confident that this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it unto the day of Christ. In context, it's talking to the saints who've been justified. He's going to carry you completely to glorification, completed salvation, but I believe the scripture applied where it said, He that cometh to me, while you're on that path, I'll finish what I've started, but that's a conditional promise if you continue. You shall know the truth. 1 Thessalonians 5, 24, Faithful is he that calleth you who also will do it. See, it's God's will to keep you. Just think about it tonight. You've got a hedge about you. God's close to you. And as Dan said, this universe, how big it is and how, we can't even comprehend it with a thimble brain like I've got, amen? But I'm gonna tell you what, he's still, He's still got you on His mind. He's got a hedge about you. He's carrying you through, and you're kept. You're guarded right now. You continue, you come through. Once you're justified, you're guaranteed to go through. The other's condition of promise, you see, but even while you're coming. Now, it's the Lord's will, the Lord's will that He keep you. It's also the Lord's will that He sanctify those that are saved, okay? Now, the sanctification, some people think sanctification means living above sin, without sin, that you can't do that in this body, amen? But sanctification means the setting apart work of the Lord. And what the word itself means, it means the walk of progression toward perfection that'll be gained at the first resurrection. In other words, we'll not have it until then, but we move toward the Lord. In other words, and he is guaranteed, his will is to sanctify you. He will do it, his purpose to sanctify you, set you apart to where you'll be completely like he wants you to be on the other side. Jesus prayed this in John chapter 17, verse number 15 through 17 in his intercessory prayer there in John 17, but he said this in John 17 verse number 15, He said, I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. Now that word is hard. We could translate this, and not do injustice to the Greek, the evil one. evil one. Keep you from the evil one. You better be thankful that God's will is to keep you from the evil one. Amen. And he said, I pray it. Jesus said, I pray that. And then he says, they're not of this world, even as I'm not of the world. Talking about his saints now here. But he said, sanctify them through thy word, and he said, thy word is truth. Then he also prayed in verse number 19, he said, and for their sakes, I sanctify myself that they also might be sanctified through the truth. In other words, I'm willing to set my part completely apart and move towards you and be what you want me to be, a hook, line, and sinker, I guess you could say. In other words, they might have an example to follow. And that's why Paul said, follow me as I follow Christ, because he's following the one who sanctified himself. And we're to be sanctified with the Word. That's why we need to read the Word. I'm talking about the saints of God. Read the Word, study the Word. Now, I'm amazed that some people say, well, now that you're saved, you don't even have to read the Word. You ought to read it more. It's your love letter, amen? I mean, did you ever get many love letters? I never got too many, amen? I never got too many because I was always there, all right? But I got a few. I mean, I've got a few, and I'll tell you what, out there on the tractor, I mean, when I was on the tractor or whatever, I had grease on them and everything else. I'd take it out and read it while I was driving. An old WD, I remember, back years ago, you know. And driving that, whatever I was driving, read it over and over again, and it'd be wadded up and greased and every other way. Had it memorized, I guess, you know? That's what this is, a love letter, amen. He's speaking sweet peace to your soul, and it helps you to be what you won't need to be. In other words, it conforms you to the image of his sons, what he's doing. In other words, that's what he said. Now his will is to sanctify you, and he will sanctify you if you're justified. If you really say, he will sanctify you, not might, he will. John says this in Romans 8, 29, he said, for whom he did foreknow, that doesn't just simply mean God has foreknowledge. He also did predestinate, has nothing to do with a lost man. It means those that he knew was coming and conforming to the image of his dear son, or to the wheel, if you please, as the master potter. He saved them and he said, I knew them and therefore I predestinated them. I predetermine and my will is for them that they may be conformed to the image of his dear son. He will sanctify you if you're justified. Not might, but he will. In other words, it's what I'm talking about there. Therefore, you could say in Romans 8, 28, we know that all things work together for good to them who love God. who are the called according to his purpose. In other words, after one is saved, God's will is for you to be completely set apart, saved from the power of sin, day after day, saved from the evil one, so that you'll be victorious in the end, completely like his dear son. And he's going to carry you through that way. That means he's got to put some things in our life that buffet us, that suppress us, that we've got, you learn by, you learn by, Well, that stove's hot. Well, I don't... Ah, hot! And the kids say, hot, hot, hot, hot, and go around it. Now, you know, war unto the ones that go back and touch it again, you know, but that happens, I understand, and yet we do the same thing, but yet God, in His long-suffering and loving, will continue to work things together in our lives if we've been justified, because His will sanctifies. His will is for us to be completely sanctified. Now, that's going to involve some chastisement, does it not? The Bible says in Hebrews chapter 12, verse number 6, he said this, he said, Hebrews 12, 6, for whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, ETH, it means a continuous action verb, and scourgeth, ETH, there's a continuous action verb, every son whom he receiveth. In other words, he said there's not a son that don't need a spanking every once in a while. And that would go for daughters as well, okay? And then in other words, he said, we're gonna have to have the, we're gonna have, I will discipline you because I love you. Listen, discipline is not something you do because you hate somebody, it's because you love them, amen? Exactly. In other words, and he chastens those that's been saved. It's his will. He'll chasten. Now, chastening is not joyous, but it brings about peaceable fruit, Hebrews 12 said. In other words, even in the children's lives, it says that if you'll do that. But the Lord chastens you. He will do that so that, why, He's sanctifying you. The walk of progression toward perfection that'll be gained at the first resurrection by chastening. Now, we've said chastening sometimes. What does it do? I mean, I know that sometimes chastening is just simply instructions. Hey, don't touch that stove. Loud voice, you see. Don't do that. Hey, don't do that. Somebody said, don't holler at your kids. Oh, man, I never hollered at mine. Y'all believe that? But y'all understand. But the thing about it is, it's instruction. That's chastening. Instruction, because you don't want them to get hurt. And yet they sometimes have to learn the hard way, don't they? But then sometimes you've got to, God's got to take some form of punishment upon us to get us sanctified. He said, my will is that you be sanctified, and I will sanctify you. In other words, He'll punish us so that we'll be corrected, and we'll learn obedience, we'll learn to walk with Him, we'll learn to obey Him. And if we don't heed that, if we refuse that, and then most of those who do that, those who profess, they're not saved, but those who happen to, and He gives us an example of that, if they refuse that, there'll come a catastrophe in his life some way. Some way to get his attention and say, this is your problem, this is what you're doing and so forth. And then if you refuse to do it and you're really his, you've been justified, he's still going to sanctify you by taking a casket and sending it in your life, carrying you home early. and you will have a glorified body. You'll be saved so as by fire. The Bible said in 1 Corinthians chapter number three, I believe, verse number chapter three, I guess it is. You'll be saved so as by fire. In other words, no rewards, but you'll be saved. But that's not the norm. That's not the meaning. Now you see, as he's gonna sanctify us, that means you can't live an ungodly life in this world and be his. Now a person named in the name of Christ can get by with some things. But those who are His cannot get by, and you on the outside looking in may not understand all that's going on in the heart, okay? You say, well, I know so-and-so doing that, and I know that we got benefits of doubt, I understand. But listen, what's going to happen if you're His, that the Spirit is going to be grieved, and there's going to be a confession of that? and you may get back in it tomorrow, and you may get back in it tomorrow, but if you'll confess again, God will forgive 70 times 70. I'm not talking about doing, knowing, say, I'm just going to ask forgiveness, and he'll do it, and then I can go back and do it tomorrow. Now, if you've got that attitude, there'll be no, that's not real confession, okay? But once you come to that place, the outsider looking on may not see all that, But there'll come a time and God said, all right, son, one more time of whatever it is, you do that and it's done, it's over with, you're going home prematurely. Because God will sanctify his and it takes chastisement, okay? It takes chastisement. Well, you see, as we think about We're like a clay, and I mean, listen, when God puts his fingers down, you talk, think about a potter putting his thumbs down in that clay, and that clay's us, represents us, and he's got that wheel turning around, and he puts that, oh, oh, if that clay could holler it, oh, oh, it's straight, it's hurting, huh? But he's making that into the vessel he wants to make that clay. Now, you get the picture. I know Clay can't holler, but yet we are sometime in that situation, and God puts His fingers in us as He molds us and makes us, and we kick against that. But I'm talking about the flesh, okay? Now, the Spirit's going to be grieved, and God's going to make you get it right, okay? And if you can continue in that, you're not His, all right? you're just not His, and He probably don't even have His finger in it, it's just raining on the just and the unjust alike. But if you're really justified, He will sanctify you and make something out of you. The Bible says in Romans 9, 23, He said, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He hath aforeprepared under glory. In other words, He's done that. His will is not only to sanctify us, keep us and sanctify us, but it's also to glorify us. John 17, 21 and 24 in the prayer, there as he was praying at intercession prayer heading to the garden of Gethsemane, he said as he's praying that they all may be one as thou father art in me and I in thee, that they may also be one in us. that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And in verse 24 he said, Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me for thou lovest me before the foundations of the world. In other words, He's going to glorify us. He's going to conform us to the image of His dear Son. He's going to catch us out of this earth and change this old vile body. Flesh will be left behind. Corruption shall put on incorruption and mortality shall put on immortality. In other words, we'll be with our Lord forevermore and we'll behold His glory. We'll behold His glory and He'll put us on display as trophies of grace before all the demons and the angelic beings to show them what He's done with that individual. In other words, because he said, my will was to justify them, save them. My will was to keep them, and my will was to sanctify them, and my will was to glorify them, and not my be but will, those that are his. But the thing about it is, for you have not saved, his will is still to keep you and bring you to the place of justification so that you can fulfill, in essence, or follow the Lord's will by being saved or justified. and then day by day, he'll save you from the power of sin. Oh, you realize something, this glorification's good as done if you've been justified. Romans chapter eight, verse number 30, he said, moreover whom he did predestinate, means a saved person, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified. Spoken up in the past, if it's already done. Why? Because it's God's will to keep you, to justify you, to keep you, to sanctify you and to glorify you, and you're going through. Saints of God have got that promise. You say, well, I'm not there. But remember, he's got his hedge about you, and he's loving you. Oh, it's hard for us to see that, isn't it? But if he didn't have you, you'd be in hell tonight instead of here. If you reached the knowledge of accountability, you'd be in hell tonight. But God's good to you, long suffering, holding back that wrath that hangs over your head, giving you a space of repentance so he can work a complete work. Now, the day in which we live, the preachers and these so-called soul winners and well-meaning social workers, spiritual workers, so-called, they call them, altar workers, all they want to do is get you to pray some prayer, say something, what they've got, and that doesn't do a bit of good. In fact, it hinders you. It's hindered you, hasn't it? Hadn't it? It's hindered you. And we're so geared to that. We wanna get something to give us some relief. No, what you need is peace. You don't need any relief from the devil, amen? You need peace and there will be relief, okay? That's the kind of real relief you need, you see? And so therefore God said that in his word, we're talking about Paul's desire for the professors was that they might pursue a course of action to do his will. And you say, but what is the will of God for my life? Well, the will of God is to be saved. The will of God is to give thanks, to labor, to be subject to higher powers, to suffer some time, to live clean, to assemble in the Lord's church and bring Him something, if you please. But the Lord's will is to keep you, guard you, and He is. And if you're justified, His will is to sanctify you. Not might, but He will do it. And of course, He's purposed that. And His will is to glorify you. In other words, it's as good as done. It's as good as done for you if you're saved, I'm talking about. Now, some of these things the Lord will do if you're saved. If you're what we call saved or justified, he will do that. It don't make any difference what. I mean, but you're gonna yield to him. He's gonna make you like his dear son. But you realize something, the others, some of the wills of God, as far as the will of God, it requires obedience. to pursue a course of action to take that up. In other words, you need to give thanks. You need to give thanks. I don't care where you're at. While He's guarding you and coming along, you need to give thanks for what God's done for you. I don't mean you've got to make it a public display every time, Get out there in the night hour, look up at the sun, thank you, Lord. I won't understand it all, but thank you, Lord. You ever done that? Do you do that sometime? Just get out there and look up, hold your hands up to heaven. Say, I'm not saved, but God, you've kept me, you've guarded me, I'm not in hell. And Lord, I don't understand, man, what a bright moon is out there. The snow flurries coming down today. Think about the good thing. I sure there was cold. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Lord, I know I need this. In the night hour when you wake up, ask God to help you dream something that'll go along with the Word of God. Some of you, you'd be surprised what you'd come up and dream about if you start doing that. Now, I know the devil's gonna shoot fiery darts. He's a master deceiver. He's gonna do everything he can. But just keep on keeping on and he's keeping you. He's keeping you. Wake up in the morning and say, hey, I can put one foot in front of the other. Amen? It may not feel as good as the D&O author may be setting in on some joints here and there and whatnot, you know. But at least, I'm talking about if you're not saved, you've got something to be thankful for and give thanks for because He's keeping you. He's got a hedge about you. You better pray you don't pull the hedge back. Amen. You better pray, though. And if you will be obedient to what light you've got, He'll give you more light and bring you the place you need to be. Now, you see, if you're doing the will of God, as much as you know how, I'm talking about the written will of God, you need to do that, pursue a course of action in the written will of God so that you might find the unwritten will of God for your life. because there's some things just not written in there, down in other words. And by the way, what I've shared with you these, I guess, 11 things is just part of what God said in his word about the written will of God for our lives. But now we need to look at the unwritten will of our God in our lives. But if we're not obedient, we can't expect to know where God's will is for the unwritten will for our lives. And if we're not there, we're in trouble. If you're not in the will of God, you're in trouble. You say, yep, God's still good to you. I understand that. Boy, he's long-suffering, isn't he? I look back in my life. If I was God, I'd kill me a long time ago. Amen? You understand what I'm saying? You get the point? We don't have much patience with others, and yet we've got to stop and think, how much patience did God have with me? Let that soak in. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for giving us for hearing. Thank you for giving us some understanding. Not enough, but hey, thank you for the hedge about me. Lord, I'm cometh unto you the best I know how. Feeble weak, but I'm cometh unto you. I'm gonna cometh to you. I'm gonna cometh to you. I'm gonna cometh, cometh. Y'all get that? E-T-H, continuous action verb. And while you're doing it, I won't cast you out. Faithful is he who calleth you who will do it. Now, he said, if you'll continue, you shall know the truth. He didn't say you might. He said you shall know the truth if you'll continue. What? Cometh, cometh. Okay, cometh, continue, cometh. You got that word? You know what come, the word come is equivalent to? Seek, seeking Him. It's an interchangeable word in a sense. I mean synonym, I guess that's what you call it. Seeking Him. Not I, Lord, I need you. I don't know where you at. Just touch me. Just help me. Just give me grace. Keep that hedge about me. Lord, I ain't got enough sin to do what I need to do. But you keep cometh to him, coming, in other words, along the path of understanding. And he says, you shall know the truth, because God's will is to guard you. He that cometh to me, cometh to me. I will no wise cast out. I won't cast you out. I won't cast you out. He that hath begun a good work will perform. That's a conditional promise, continuing in my word, shall know the truth. And if you've been justified, he will sanctify you and he will glorify you one day. Father, I pray that you'd help us to pursue a course of action, to walk in your will and way for our lives as far as the written will is concerned. And when we do that, then we can find the unwritten will of God for our lives. and be what you'd have us to be in the days to come. And Lord, you'll make us, and you'll shape us, and you'll work things together. Help us not to grumble and complain. I'm talking to myself as well as anyone else. Help us to be thankful and to give thanks for what you're doing in my life. Lord, I'm sorry that it took me so many years to get to the place to where I can see some of that. I failed so miserably in my life, my family, and as far as my family's concerned. But oh God, I pray you'd help me to be what I need to be in these days, to be sensitive to you, and to find your will of God in my life as far as the unwritten will of God, what should have us to preach and deal with the subjects, if you please, from time to time as best I know how. And that's so feeble. Lord, I need help today. So I pray you'd help us all. And thank you. I want to praise you tonight. I want to thank you for your goodness to us. I want to thank you for your heads. It was about us all those years and still about us. Thank you for that. Just do what's needed now in our lives. Help everyone yield to what you're speaking to their heart about, and we'll thank you for what you do and praise you for it. For we ask it all in Jesus' name. For his sake we do pray. Heads bowed, eyes closed, altars opened. Will you mind the Lord as you place?