The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-08-27

which takeSh away the sin of tn
world. !" Unrighteous before Go
apart from Christ. but in Christ, &C
eepted because Of His Righteousness
8 AS Paul puts it in the third of Phil
ippians: THAT / may be found il
Christ, not having a righteousness o
mine own, even that which is Of tn,
law, but that which is through faitl
in Christ, the Righteousness which i
from God by faith" The first candi
tion, then, CT doing the will of Got
is In obtaining from Hin that right
eousness which we have not OF our
selves. and this Is realized by q faitl
in Jesus Christ as the personal Sa
yiour and the One Who cleanses from
all sin.
n DING the Will Of God. chen. involves
! - the acceptance OF Jesus Christ as
Saviour, and this act depends upon the
real desire to do the will of God 1t in
wolves the attitude of the heart towards
God. The Seribes and Pharisees, the
leaders OF the Jews, came, to Jesus, talk
ing about God their Father, and pre-
I tending to be jealous for God and the
| doing of His will. But they were rot
| willing to accept the Christ, the Son
| Whom God had sent into the world to
save the world from sin and unrighteous-
ness; and, because they were not willing,
Jesus declared they were Of their IA
Their the Devil, and that they did his
will and not Gods will Man cannot do
the will of God while his attitude towards
God is not right, any more than that
child who is in rebellion against the
parent can do its fathers will. A re-
bellious heart cannot do the will of
parent or God. Note the parable which
Christ spoke of the two sons. One Gith
rebellion in his heart said, when told
to go and work in the vineyard: 81 wiu
not co. And while rebellion ruled he
went not. But afterwards he repented
and went. The desire to do the fathers
will took possession of his heart and he
went and did it. And the second son
who outwardly assented, but went not,
lacked as much as di6. the rebellious son
the desire to do the fathers will. He
recognized the right of the father to
command him to go into the Viuayard.
but he was so busy doing his own will.
and seeking his own desires, that there
was no room to desire the will of the
father, and so went rot.
II ERE we have illustration of two
! classes Of people in the world to-
day. Both refuse to do the will of God.
One class recognize the claim of God
upon them, but being SO occupied with
their own affairs, and the doing of their
own will, they fail to Go the will of God
The other class in rebellion of heart re-
fuse to recognize that God has any claim
upon them. And would that it were
true that all in such rebellion would re-
pent and do the will Of Ged. But, alas.
many, many will not, But there are
those WHO are coming The will is be-
ing given up for Gods will; the desire OF
man is being given up for the desire of
God. The family circle of Jesus is grow
ing. In ever widening stretch of arm
He points out His mother and brethren.
including not those Hho only say Lord
Lord, and go on doing their own will, but
Including those who 90 the will of God
The acceptance of Christ is the Begin
ming Of the doing the will of God. Tie
successive steps are taken as we do the
will of God as it is revealed to us. One
step at time, is Gods order. Gods
Word assures US that IF any man will
eth to do His will he shall know of the
If you 1--we up to the light
you have, when you need more light for |
the next step. God will see that you have
it. Many Christians are cropping about |
n the dark, are discouraged and their /
faith is dim because they have failed to |
10 the will of God as far as it had been
revealed to them. They wanted to see
I'll the way, and because they could not /
they refused to take the first step which /
would have brought more light.
n DING the will of God may bring sur
II fering, but it means blessing in the
end. But what comfort to know that
he affection Is IN line with the will OF
God. Peter says (and who is there who
Knew what suffering meant better than
ne-surely none, save it were Paul.:
: Wherefore let them also that suffer
according to the will of God commit
heir souls in well doing to faithful
Creator" The Cody shall suffer perse-
'utfon, but what glory is to some day
hine out of that sufferingi We say
Thy will be done" as though it were
he hardest and saddest thing in all the
world, when it is the most glorious. for
hat will will find it's joy and realiza-
ion ultimately in the best and most en-
Turing. Doing Gods will is a copartner-
hip affair. Christ by HIS indwelling
spirit Is present and ready to help US do
What we cannot do ourselves. And NOT |
My does Christ's strength become our
trength, but His desires become our
esires. The Spirit maketh interces-
ion for us with groanings which cannot
e uttered; and He which searcheth the
carts knoWeth what is the mind of the
pirit, because He maketh interasssion
Or the saints according to the will OF
3d." Surely, this is blessed encourage
lent for those WHO desire to know and /,
o the will Of God Christ the One Who
ives us His Righteousness, Christ the
ne Who dwells within to help US do |
lie will Of God. The highest end and
i'm of man should be, as Peter puts il, to
Q longer live the rest Of his time in the
esh to the lusts of men, but to the viii !
God. Let us will to do the will Of
cd!
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