Part III: Sacrifice Your Life Unto the Perfect Will of God (1806)

Part III: Sacrifice Your Life Unto the Perfect Will of God

 

 

Part III: Sacrifice your life unto the Perfect Will of God

 

By the Guidance of the Holy Spirit, we will review Joseph’s Sacrifice this week.  Next week we’ll look at the sacrifice of Jesus, per last week’s homework assignment.

Students of the Word, as you look at the circumstances you may be facing in your life today, always look to the Word of God for direction.  Whatever you are going through today, God has an answer and encouragement in his word for you and your circumstances.  We must learn to present our bodies as a living sacrifice unto the perfect Will of God. HIS Will, NOT OURS.

THIS BIBLE STUDY IS TAKEN FROM THE MESSAGE, “SACRIFICE YOUR LIFE UNTO THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD” PREACHED BY, “EVANGELIST WATERS”

ON PALM SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2015.

Summary:

Remember, we’re talking about presenting your body as a living sacrifice to the perfect will of God.

Do you think any of this was Joseph’s will?  No, Joseph, like us would never will such a hard suffering way.  If Joseph knew the interpretation of his dreams: You will be governor of Egypt.

He probably would have desired to take a journey to Egypt around age 21, get to know the land, the culture, learn to fit in with the Egyptians, get a good Egyptian education, get a good job in government and work his way up through the ranks like we do in America from City Council Man to Mayor to Governor.  But, those were not God’s plans.  God always chooses a suffering way. If you suffer with him, you will reign with him (2 Timothy 2:12).  

You must remember while you are suffering:

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. Isaiah 54:17 KJV

(Weapons FORMED against Joseph:  hatred, conspiracy, thrown into a pit, sold into slavery, separated from his family, false accusation, unjustly imprisoned, forgotten in the prison) (Even Joseph forgot his own dreams)

All of Joseph’s troubles seem like they were prospering against him. But Joseph was in being made and tried in the fire for God’s will to be accomplished in his life.

Recap:

As a living sacrifice – Joseph submitted himself to the will of God obeying him, although he did not understand everything he was going through.  Joseph feared God and he loved God; he would not sin against his God with the Queen. 

 

When Joseph’s brothers bowed before him during the famine – he remembered his dreams and then realized/ discern God’s will for his life, that’s why he told his brothers what you meant for evil, God meant it for good to save much people alive : Egypt and Israel. (Genesis 50:20)

Joseph presented his body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which was his reasonable service; he never conformed to the world: Egypt’s culture. His mind was transformed to continue to obey God in this pagan worshiping country, at all cost.  Young people, whether you are in the presence of your parents, at school, hanging out with your friends, or off at college, you need to take a stand for God and not conform to the world around you.

Re-emphasis: Joseph became governor of Egypt: saving the lives of two nations: Egypt and Israel, fulfilling God’s plans/ God’s will for his life which came at great cost.  

 

 We often quote, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ^“ Jeremiah 29:11 KJV

 

 “ WE DON’T KNOW GOD’S PLANS.” HE KNOWS HIS PLANS AND THEY DO COME WITH A COST.

 

Luke 14:27-28 (KJV)

²⁷ And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

²⁸ For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

 

 

After all of this, Joseph was able to prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God for his life.  It did come with a cost.

 

Joseph remembered his dreams Gen. 42:9*

               Joseph grows spiritually, forgives his brothers (who NEVER asked for forgiveness), seeing the will of God Gen. 50:19-20

               God knows the plans he has for you……  Do you think this would have been Joseph’s plan?

            Joesph saved two nations: Eygpt and Israel (proved ….acceptable will of God)

God also had a greater plan; the ultimate plan:

Joseph saved the blood line of the Messiah*** (Tribe of Judah)

You get to prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God once you have endured to the end, then when you endure to the end you shall be saved. 

(Endure hardness as a good soldier).

 

Romans 12:1-2 (KJV)

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

 

2 Timothy 2:3 (KJV) 

 

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

 

Jesus said, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.  For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?  Matthew 16:24-27 KJV. 

Joseph’s life was a true “Sacrifice unto the perfect will of God.”

You must strive and purpose in your heart that yours will be also.

 

Encouragement:

Psalm 121:1-2 (KJV)

1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

² My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

 

Assignment:

• Next week we’ll study: Jesus our sacrificial lamb: who knew the will of God for his life?
• Read one of the gospels (Matthew, {Mark}, Luke, or John before next Tuesday.  Pay attention to his birth, life, death and resurrection.)
• Read Acts chapters 1 and 2.

 

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