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Part
15 THY
WILL BE DONE IN EARTH
“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in
heaven...Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Mat. 6:9).
There are three petitions in the Lord’s prayer that are
inter-related. These are: (1) Hallowed be Thy name (2) Thy Kingdom come
(3) Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. The three petitions are
to one another as root, stem, and fruit; as beginning, middle, and end. In
the hallowing of God’s name the foundation is laid for the establishment
of His Kingdom; it is the unveiling within the heart of the nature and
majesty of God. Thus the Kingdom is established as the heart of man
prostrates itself before the King, renouncing all of self, and rejoicing
in its new allegiance. But this is not all — there can be no stopping
here. It is not enough to know the rule of God, that the Kingdom be
established within and rejoiced in. There is an end, a goal, a great
purpose for which all of this is wrought, and that end is that THE WILL OF
GOD MAY BE DONE. From the name of the Lord we pass to the rule of God; and
from the rule of God we press onward into the will. From the outskirts of
His personality we pass to His heart.
This third petition of the Lord’s prayer springs directly and
naturally out of the second petition, and is really explanatory of it. We
have been taught to pray, “Thy Kingdom come.” God’s Kingdom does
come, when His will is consciously done in earth, as it is done in heaven.
The central idea of kingship is that of rule, authority, power. Kingship
is only real and effective when the King commands and the people
consciously obey. In looking to heaven as the model of our obedience to
God’s will, we should consider the physical heavens which are the shadow
of the true. The sun, moon and stars observe their seasons, traveling
along their appointed orbits — all these are what they are, and do what
they do, in obedience to God’s will. We see how unwearied all perform
their function, the great sustaining the small, the small reflecting and
enhancing the glory of the great; and, as members together of one system,
obeying in peaceful harmony Him who calls them all by their names. We see
how the sun, morning after morning, comes forth rejoicing to run his race;
how the moon observes her appointed seasons, and the sun knows his going
down; how all fulfill the will of God untiringly and unfailingly. So is it
in the spiritual heavens.
Throughout history, there have been those anointed of God who have
seen some connection between the stars and the messengers of God. This
connection can easily be made because both the stars and the ministering
spirits are called “the host of heaven” in the Bible. There are
several beautiful passages that provide the indisputable link between the
two, of which I will cite only one. “Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the
Lord from the HEAVENS: praise ye Him in the heights. Praise ye Him, all
His ANGELS: praise ye Him, all His
The natural sun is the brightest luminary in the natural heavens.
And to help us in correctly interpreting the meaning of the spiritual sun,
Genesis
The truth of the stars of the heavens includes many wonderful
examples of that which is taking place in the realm of the Spirit. The
stars of the heavens exist in a realm where God is absolute Sovereign and
Lord, where His life prevails. Therefore, in their highest meaning, in
their spiritual meaning, the stars are used to represent HEAVENLY,
SPIRITUAL RULE AND DOMINION. Can we now open the eyes of our understanding
to behold the wondrous truth that God’s elect sons ARE THE
CONSTELLATIONS OF THE SPIRITUAL HEAVENS, THE LUMINARIES AND RULERS IN
GOD’S SKY! As the glory of the Lord arises upon His chosen ones they
pierce the gloom of the dark night of sin and sorrow and bring
deliverance, life, and order out of the chaos of man’s failure and
despair.
From the finger tips of our almighty heavenly Father worlds glide
forth in their orbits, and mighty stars as numerous as the sands of the
sea circle for incalculable ages in their courses with the sweet precision
of a diamond watch. The inspired Psalmist penned these words of beauty and
truth: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth
His handiwork. IN THEM
In the day when David wrote these expressive words the word
“tabernacle” carried an altogether different connotation than it does
in our modern usage. When we were in
In God’s tabernacle or habitation it was not a matter of
protecting God from the influences of the external elements, but a matter
of a place to draw attention to the fact that He was there. It was the
place of His abode, His manifestation, His activity, that His people might
behold Him and know that He dwelt amongst them. He inhabited the
tabernacle in order to presence Himself among them, not in order to have a
shelter for Himself. This concept of the tabernacle as being a display to
exhibit the glory of God is the thought of the Holy Spirit in Psalm 19.
The sun is not contained within the strong walls of some celestial
fortress — if it were it would be hidden. It is not concealed, but put
on display for all creation to behold in all of its brilliance and
majesty, and to benefit therefrom. “In them (the heavens) hath He set a
tabernacle for the sun.”
There is no truth within the pages of God’s blessed Book more
certain than the fact that God is creating a new heavens and a new earth,
and the constellations of the new heavens are not made up of the physical
stars, but of living stars of God’s sons formed and fashioned into an
order and image through which to influence creation and rule over all
things. Beyond question this is the allegory proclaimed by the Lord to the
prophet Isaiah: “And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have
covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, THAT I MAY PLANT THE HEAVENS, and
lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, THOU ART MY PEOPLE”
(Isa. 51:16). In commenting on this instructive passage Ray Prinzing
wrote: “When God has thoroughly planted His people in the heavenlies,
they will be in a settled place, firmly secured by His grace, to dwell in
Him, established in His love and grace, no more to be lost or wandering in
the emptiness of selfhood. ‘But God...hath raised us up together, and
made us sit together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus: that in the ages
to come He might show (display) the exceeding riches of His grace in His
kindness toward us through Christ Jesus’ (Eph. 2:4-7).
“As Paul pointed out, we are made to ‘SIT T
“All the hidden secrets of His righteousness will be revealed
through those whom HE has planted in the heavens. What a union, what a
oneness with Him, that HE shares the mysteries of His righteousness with
these processed ones, and then places them in position to declare that
righteousness. Not just by words, not just by some form of preaching or
teaching, but by their OWN TRUE
In heaven — in that realm of spirit in which God dwells, where He
is all that He is — God’s Kingship is a reality. There is divine order
there in all its perfection. The hearts of all who are one in Him there
wait upon God. Mighty angels and holy saints delight to do His will. In
heaven — the realm of spirit which God inhabits, where all His plans and
purposes originate — God speaks and it is done. This third petition is a
prayer that all God’s sons may grow up in His house and learn the ways
of obedience and responsibility, so that His Kingship may be consciously
as real and effective in the earth realm as it is in the heavens — the
realm of the spirit.
In this regard J. D. Jones penned these inspiring and instructive
words: “‘Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.’ Will it be
hard? Hard? I know of nothing harder! This is the great feat of life. You
can only learn to say, ‘Thy will be done,’ through struggle and agony
and heartbreak. Obedience to God leads to the land of blessedness and
peace, but the gate by which we enter — the gate of self-denial — is a
narrow gate, and we have to agonize to enter in. God has a will for each
of us, and His will concerning us often clashes with our own. The desires
of the flesh and of the mind hanker after earthly comfort and wealth and
ease. Scarcely a day passes but our desires and the will of God for us
come into violent conflict. To surrender our own wills, to make God’s
will ours, means pain. It is a dying. It is a crucifixion. But there are
one or two considerations of which I would like to remind you, which ought
to make this surrender easier for us.
“The will we are asked to make our own is our Father’s will.
‘Thy will be done!’ Whose will? Our Father’s will! After all, it
ought not to be very difficult to obey a father’s will, to fulfill a
father’s desire, even when that will runs counter to our own, for we
know there is love in that case. Remember, you are not asked to obey a
despot; you are not asked to obey a tyrant; you are not asked to obey a
slave-driver; you are asked to do the will of your Father — your Father,
whose love is only to be measured by the Cross of Jesus Christ. It was the
remembrance that the will He was called upon to obey was His Father’s
will, that helped Jesus in the Garden. It was a hard thing for our Lord to
say, ‘Thy will be done,’ when He knew that involved the Cross and the
Grave; for Jesus, let me say it with all reverence, had all a man’s
feelings, and He shrank from the bitter agony and shame. He would gladly
have escaped the Cross and the Tomb. ‘If it be possible, let this cup
pass.’ Then He remembered it was His Father who was bidding Him drink
that bitter cup. That thought steadied Him, gave Him courage, made Him
strong. He was ready for anything and everything that His Father
appointed. ‘The cup which the Father hath given me to drink, shall I not
drink it?’ We, too, shall be strong to make God’s will our own, when
we remember it is our Father’s will. For our Father is love — love at
its best and highest. There is a story about a man who had in his garden a
weather-vane which had on it this inscription. ‘God is love.’ A friend
seeing it asked if it was meant to imply that God’s love was as fickle
as the wind. ‘No,’ was the reply, ‘I mean that from whatever quarter
the wind may happen to blow, God is still love.’ Bear that in mind —
God is love; the will you are asked to obey is your Father’s will.
“‘Thy will be done!’ Notice, God’s will is not simply to be
endured or suffered — it is to be DONE. The petition is not ‘Help us
to suffer Thy will,’ but ‘Help us to DO it.’ Do not narrow the scope
of this prayer. You prayed this morning, ‘Thy will be done on earth, as
it is in heaven.’ What did you mean by it? I will tell you what you
ought to have meant by it: ‘Help me, O God, to do what Thou wouldest
have me to do, to be what Thou wouldest have me to be.’ That is what the
prayer means. It means that we accept God’s plans and purposes as our
own, and resolve to realize them, at any cost. You can pray no nobler
prayer than this, for in the doing of God’s will lies the secret of the
perfect life. We look at the life — the sonship — of Jesus, so
beautiful, so pure, so perfect, so powerful, and we are lost in wonder and
rapture. But the secret of that life is here: Jesus from the beginning to
the close of His life was intent on doing God’s will. He Himself let us
into the secret. ‘I am come,’ He said, ‘not to do my own will, but
the will of the Father who sent me.’ ‘My meat and drink,’ He said,
on another occasion, ‘is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to
accomplish His work.’
“When a boy of twelve He had come to the sublime decision that
every moment of His life should be spent in doing His Father’s business.
Do not commit the mistake of thinking that it was only in Gethsemane and
the Judgment Hall and on KNOWING GOD’S WILL
How do I know when I am in God’s will for my life? This is a
question often asked by the Lord’s people. They say, “I have gone
through many trials, nothing seems to be working; I appear to be going
nowhere. It must be that I am outside of God’s will for my life. I
desperately want to know His will for me and to be in it. If God would
only write His will for my life in big letters on the wall of my bedroom,
I would gladly do it. But I don’t know what His will is. How can I know
the will of God, if it is not clearly spelled out?” That is a good
attitude — we all need to be where He wants us to be, doing what He
ordains for us to do. But it is not uncommon for saints to have idealistic
notions concerning God’s will. We think that God only cares about great
and mighty happenings — not the mundane things of ordinary life;
certainly not the commonplace things of our lives! We want to have the
power of Elijah, the wisdom of Solomon, and the strength of Samson —
then we would know we were in God’s will!
We forget that in the New Testament saints were more apt to be in
jail, to be misunderstood and despised, to be hated, persecuted and
martyred as a result of being in God’s will. Certainly thirty years of
doing nothing in
The blessed firstborn Son of God testified: “I came down from
heaven, not to do mine own will but the WILL OF HIM WHO SENT ME” (Jn.
Are we doing God’s will? The question just means this: Are we
working out our common every-day life on the great lines of God’s will?
In all we say and do, are God’s nature and character expressed through
us? Is SELF swallowed up in HIM? Is CHRIST the CENTER of our lives? It is
not a question of where we are and what we are doing — it is a matter of
how we are doing it. You may be held within the limitations of a most
difficult and contrary situation, in a very “un-son-like” environment.
You may conceive that God’s will can only be found in circumstances more
“conducive” to spirituality. But — God will hold you there until you
learn that in living union with Christ, His will is done in any
circumstance as naturally as breathing. If you, dear one, are struggling
to know His will, then sit at His feet like a little child and learn the
simple truth that God’s will may be done as much by hewing stones, or
sweeping floors, as by preaching or prophesying. God’s will is THE
LIVING OUT OF HIS LIFE! Seek not a dream, or vision, or great revelation
of what you should do. Start where you are...LET HIM LIVE THROUGH YOU
right there...His will shall begin to be done in you today! This will
bring you to the blessed place where the will of God is like the air you
breathe — it just comes naturally as you obey the still small voice of
the spirit within. THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH
In heaven the will of God is done absolutely, totally, completely.
Is it possible — faintly, vaguely possible — for God’s will to be
done in earth in the same totality and completeness as it is done in
heaven? Is it? You know about Sadam Hussein, of course. And you know about
Fidel Castro, the Serbs, the Islamic Fundamentalists, the gangs,
abortionists and humanists. If you took the terrorists into account, and
all the liquor stores, the vulgarity and obscenity in movies and
television shows, the divorce rate, the violence, the sexual immorality,
the crooked politicians and the Chinese — do you still think that the
will of God can be done in earth, as it is in heaven? I’m going to tell
you something. You’re dreaming, it’s wishful thinking, you’re
whistling in the dark, you’ve got your fingers crossed hoping for the
best — unless you know which earth the Father’s will has to be done in
first, completely.
It is significant to note that neither Luke nor Matthew record
Jesus as asking for the Father’s will to be done ON the earth, but
rather, IN earth. “In earth” does not mean the outer world of
mountains, hills and valleys, of rivers and trees, of cities and villages.
Man himself is the earth, as the apostle says, “But we have this
treasure in earthen vessels” (II Cor. 4:7). Again, “The first man is
of the earth, earthy” (I Cor.
But let me say to you: That is impossible. The whole will of God
will never be done in your life. “But,” you say, “evidently you
don’t know how spiritual I am. You’re not aware that I’m totally
committed. I’ve been walking with God these many years. I am an
intercessor, and I have the gifts of prophecy, the word of knowledge,
healing and miracles. I am in fastings often. I pray without ceasing. I
don’t drink wine, smoke, curse, lust, tell white lies or go to movies. I
have given up much for the Kingdom. I have come out of
It is like the story I read some time ago. Once there was a fine
orchestra. And they had one of the finest first chair violinists ever. The
word got out that this violinist had recently purchased a new Stradivarius
violin, the finest made. The newspapers caught wind of it and made a big
to do of his first performance on this new instrument. And so it was on
the front page of the Calendar section. And there were posters around
town. Articles were published that gave the history of Stradivarius and
the many decades of musicians who had played this fine instrument. So the
night of the concert comes. The theater is filled to overflowing with
people who have come to hear this violin. The music begins. The
orchestra’s sound builds. Emotions swell. People are overcome by the
beauty of the sound. The evening is a great success and at the close of
the concert, applause breaks out. The star violinist stands and raises his
violin above his head. With that everybody jumps to their feet and
applauds louder. And at that, the violinist takes his valued Stradivarius
and breaks it over his knee. Horror and silence sweep over the audience.
The people were aghast. The musician held up the twisted and splintering
rubble and said, “This thing did not make the music. I bought this at
the pawn shop for $150. It is not my Stradivarius.” And he threw it on
the floor. Then he added, “It is the Master who makes the music.” Ah,
Jesus Christ is the Master who makes the music — we are the violin! It
doesn’t matter what value you place on your life, or what power you
hold, or what lineage you have. You may see yourself as a Stradivarius.
You may see yourself as a pawn shop special. It really makes no
difference. Jesus Christ is the Master and He can make the most beautiful
music through any life that will say and truly mean it, “Thy will be
done in this my earth, as it is in heaven!”
And, let me add, God’s will shall be done ON that earth out there
as well. You see, dear ones, the disruption of God’s will on this planet
did not originate with the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. The
rocks and waters did not disobey God’s command or rebel against His
will. The sun, moon, and stars did not sin. MAN was the crowning glory of
God’s creation. He was formed of the earth, and wonderfully and
fearfully made in the image and likeness of God and given dominion over
the earth and all things. And it was this man who did his own will rather
than God’s, moving out of the divine order. Through man’s disobedience
(Rom. GOD’S NAME AND GOD’S WILL
There is another great truth I share with God’s elect today. It
is the truth that the name of God and the will of God are ONE. The name
denotes God’s nature and character, what and how He is. The will
bespeaks of energy going forth — it points to action, to effect — it
is to be done. It is very needful for our spiritual understanding to
remember this distinction, for the will of God always acts out the name of
God. What God IS is what God DOES. What He brings forth into manifestation
is precisely that which is true within Himself. God’s name and His will
exactly correspond to each other. If the name of God is that which has
been revealed to us of His nature and character, then the will of God will
be the doing of those things that spring as actions out of His nature.
But there is a truth beyond this. When the name or nature of God
has been formed in our lives, the will of God will then be done out of
what is true within us. It is here that we no longer merely do the will of
God, we become the will of God. George Hawtin wrote of this: “Truly
DOING the will of God springs directly from BEING the will of God. You can
never truly DO God’s will until you have BECOME God’s will. As soon as
this happens, you find all the old things are done away. Your ambitions go
and His ambition becomes yours. All the old ambitions fade out of your
life to make way for God’s will. You no longer have a will of your own.
At Gethsemane Jesus still had a will of His own which He surrendered fully
to the Father. But after His death and resurrection He no longer had a
will of His own. We have died with Him and we have been raised with Him to
I WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME
“Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven...” We are
invited to consciously seek harmony with God’s will. His will shall be
done in any event, but every man must be brought at some point in time to
personally and actually submit to that will. “Who hath resisted His
will?” (Rom.
“And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes
unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the
Most High, and I praised and honored Him that liveth for ever, whose
dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to
generation: and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing:
and He doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the
inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him,
What doest Thou?” (Dan. 4:34-35).
With what new and wonderful significance does the proclamation of
Jesus Christ now echo through the corridors of our spirits as we hear the
impelling words sound from His lips: “And I, if I be lifted up from the
earth, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME” (Jn. 12:32). This speaks not of Christ
being lifted up in our daily living, or in praise, or by preaching, but
upon the cross of
Whenever there is introduced into any revelation this “I WILL”
of God, then you immediately erase the will of man, the self-efforts of
man, and are brought face to face with the sovereign grace of God. In the
face of the sovereignty of God’s purpose all of man’s hostility toward
or unbelief regarding what God says He will do is as nothing, for whenever
God decrees “I WILL do it,” all of man’s unbelief cannot deter the
sovereign operation of His grace. Man has the tremendous powers of will.
Man can say “I will,” and he can say “I will not”; and when a man
says “I will not,” to God, he will go down as swift as an arrow to its
mark, swift as a stone into the depths of the sea; he will sink to the
deepest depths; he will be cast down to endure the judgment of fire and
brimstone until his breaking comes. Learn this, O man, and you will know a
great truth: man’s will is subject to God’s will! The will of God is
always the higher will. In the will of God lies the origin of all creation
— its very existence, its joys, it power, its glory. In the will of God
lies the origin of redemption — the fact of it, its power, its glory. In
the will of God alone lies the origin of the grace of God in the life of
each of His children — its being, its power, its blessedness, its glory.
The Lord Jesus Christ became man in order to do the will of God,
and also to teach us what is God’s will, and how to do it. On one
occasion we read, “And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped Him,
saying, Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth
His hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately
his leprosy was cleansed” (Mat. 8:2-3). I desire to impress upon your
mind and heart, dear reader, these words, the words of Jesus: “I
will.” The most important of all things is first to know God’s will,
and secondly to do, the will of God. I would call your attention to the
prayer of the leper. That is a prayer which neither you nor any Christian
should ever offer. It is a wicked prayer for you to offer. It is a prayer
that will be fruitless. The leper said, “Lord, if Thou wilt, Thou canst
make me clean.” That leper was ignorant. In his case there was this
excuse for him: that the Lord Jesus Christ was only unfolding His mission,
and that He had not fully revealed God’s will. Ignorance of the Lord’s
will was the one thing that stood in his way of getting the healing. He
saw that Christ was able. He said, “Thou canst make me clean.” But he
was in doubt as to whether Christ was willing. Therefore he said, “Lord,
if Thou wilt.” The Lord said, “I WILL,” and the moment He said that,
there was no more “If Thou wilt” in that man’s heart.
Let me illustrate. Supposing now that you and I are talking
together on the telephone, and after some remarks you say to me, “Bro.
Eby, may I see you this morning?” You know many precious folk want to
come by and see us, about the same time sometimes, and sometimes would
like to stay and visit for a few hours, or days, and sometimes they cannot
do it, because I am a very busy man, and have an immense number of things
to do. The work load is such that I must spend a full fifty to sixty hours
in my office each week with correspondence, study, writing, and attending
to many matters pertaining to this ministry. Generally, when we have
visitors, or when I go away for a few days, I must then work overtime the
same number of hours in order to keep up with those things the Father has
entrusted into my hands here. Many people do not understand this.
But you have said to me, “May I see you this morning?” and I
say, “Yes, if you will come to my office I will see you at eleven
o’clock today.” Well, now, suppose you come to my office at eleven
o’clock. You walk into the front office where my wife is the
receptionist. Suppose you say to
Now, would that not be great nonsense? But that is the way people
talk to God and about God. Jesus said to the leper, “I will — be thou
clean.” And straightway his leprosy was cleansed. In this case the leper
said, “Lord, if Thou wilt.” And Jesus answered, “I will.” But in
John 12:32 no man is inquiring concerning the will of God. The omnipotent
and sovereign Lord and Redeemer of heaven and earth issues the wonderful
and certain fiat: “I WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME!” When the Lord Jesus
Christ says “I will,” no man on earth has any right to even question
whether or not He will. It is a wicked blasphemy to say that He will not
do what He has said He will do. He said that if He was lifted up upon the
cross He would draw ALL MEN unto Him. The WILL OF GOD is that all men be
saved. “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for ALL MEN; for this is good
and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who WILL HAVE ALL MEN TO
BE SAVED, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (I Tim. 2:1-4).
And yet I hear many Christians, and some who profess to be walking in
sonship, impiously saying, “I do not believe that God will save all
men.” To which I say, It doesn’t make any difference what YOU believe,
your unbelief does not make either the grace or the power of God of none
effect.
Jesus says, “I, if I be lifted up from the earth, WILL DRAW ALL
MEN UNTO ME!” “It does not mean that,” they argue, “it means that
He will draw all of the elect, or He will draw all men who believe, or He
will draw all kinds of men.” “But how many does it say He will
draw?” “All men,” they are forced to answer. To which I respond,
“If that proclamation is not true; if He is not strong enough, and
purposeful enough, and loving enough to draw every spirit on earth and in
hell, and throughout the universe, to Himself, then He has told a lie. If
He can, but won’t, then He is a mean, hard, vindictive, uncaring,
sadistic tyrant. And if He can’t, then He’s not God.” “Oh, Bro.
Eby,” they cry, “that is heresy!” “But,” I say, “that is
Jesus. Was He a heretic?” “Oh, no; you do not understand, we can
explain all that away, and you must not talk like that.” But they
explain and I still don’t understand!
Has the first Adam more power than the second? ALL were made
partakers of the sinful nature through the fall of one man (Rom.
Are you perplexed and agitated over the wayward condition of sons
and daughters, or other loved ones? THEN REST IN GOD’S PROVISION, FOR HE
HAS APPOINTED A TIME WHEN THEY, TOO, SHALL COME TO CHRIST. And if they are
not responding to the many attempts to convert them, it is because GOD IS
NOT CALLING THEM YET. But never fear, in due time, He will merely point
His finger at them and say, “Come!” and it will be as when Jesus stood
before the tomb of Lazarus and cried out, “Lazarus, come forth!” All
of heaven’s hosts will converge upon them to bring them to their
promised and purchased salvation. At last they will know the power of
sovereign, irresistible GRACE!
Paul Mueller relates the following story that so beautifully
documents Christ’s ability and power to draw all men unto Himself.
“Some years ago, during our missionary tour in
Beloved, when God wants to bring a people unto Himself, He is well
able to do so, even to reach out to them without the use of human vessels,
if need be. The Christ has been lifted up from the earth and now HAS ALL
POWER IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH. In due time He will bring His redemptive
process into glorious fulfillment and consummation. If God wants to save
some Russians, He has shown how powerfully He can demolish the iron
curtain and take those lives unto Himself that are appointed of the
Father. If He wants any number of Chinese, He is able to apprehend them
unto salvation in spite of the iron rule of an atheistic government. There
is no continent too dark, no people too enslaved by satanic powers, no man
too wicked and incorrigible but what His power can reach them. Christ has
been lifted up from the earth, and HE WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO HIMSELF. You
can count on it! In the meantime Christ invites us to be participators with Him in His great redemptive and reconstructive work by praying as He has taught us to pray, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” And God will answer that prayer. May He begin the answer in each one of us today! BY J. Preston Eby. [ENTER TEXT OF WRITING / SCRIERE HERE] |
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