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Concerning the concept that we are here to learn how to perceive and choose God’s will over our own please see the following.
(In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus tells us to pray that God’s will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven (i.e., we should submit to God’s will). See Matthew 6:9-15.).
Matthew 7:21-27 Not everyone who praises me will enter Heaven, Jesus said, but only those who do the will of my Father in Heaven.
Matthew 12:46-50 When told that his mother and brothers stood outside and wanted to speak with him, Jesus responded, who is my mother and who are my brothers? Then he stretched his hands out to his disciples and said, look, here are my mother and brothers. Whoever does the will of my Father in Heaven is my brother, sister and mother.
Luke 11:27-28 While Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd said, blessed the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you. Jesus responded, yea, rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.
(Jesus said his food is to do the will of the One Who sent him. John 4:31-38.)
John 5:30-47 Jesus said, of my own self I can do nothing. As I hear, I judge and my judgment is just because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of the Father Who sent me.
John 14:29-31 At the Last Supper, Jesus told the disciples, I’ve told you what is going to happen before it happens, so when it does happen you might believe. I won’t talk to you much after this because the prince of this world is coming and he doesn’t have anything in (any control over) me. It (i.e., what is about to happen) is so that the world may know that I love the Father and I submit to whatever command the Father gives me. (Then, in John 15:1-6 he told us to do as he did, to be branches from his vine.)
(These quotes are from the book “Jesus Said… by subject, all he said in the Gospel”)
We cannot be released from the cycle of reincarnation until we learn to choose God’s will over our own. Jesus said, you may say you did great things in my name, but I will send you away and call you evil if you do not do the will of my Father in Heaven (Matthew 7:21-23). Where did he get that teaching? Actually, it is one of the most often repeated teachings in the Bible. Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph all learned how to choose God’s will over their own. And though Moses said, not me, send someone else (Exodus 4:10-17) and Jonah tried to run from God (Jonah 1:1-17) they, too, eventually accepted their missions.
God has repeated and repeated this message through His messengers. If you forget your God you will perish for not having listened to the voice of God, Moses warned (Deuteronomy 8:19-20). God implored Israel and Judah to turn away from evil and keep His laws and guidance (2 Kings 17:13). You will be a unique treasure to Me if you keep My laws and do My will, God promised (Exodus 19:3-6). If only Israel would listen and keep My ways I would rescue them, God said (Psalm 81:13-14). If you, God’s servants, have not lived by the law nor submitted to God’s will, He will fall on you suddenly with judgment, Wisdom warned (Wisdom 6:4-6). Keep the commandments and be faithful to His will. God sets fire and water before you. Choose, wrote Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus 15:15-16). Listen to God’s word. Do justly. Don’t injure the stranger, orphan or widow. Don’t shed innocent blood. If you don’t heed these commands your place will become a ruin, Jeremiah warned (Jeremiah 22:3-5).
They worshipped Him, but lied to Him. Their hearts were not right with God, a psalmist wrote (Psalm 78:36-37). Woe to rebels who don’t consult Me for their plans and so add sin to sin, God said (Isaiah 30:1). If only you had listened to My commandments your prosperity would have been like a river, God lamented (Isaiah 48:18). Those who abandon God are destined for the sword because I called and you would not answer. I spoke and you would not listen. You chose to do evil, God said (Isaiah 65:11-12). Zephaniah wrote that God will judge Judah for turning their back to God, for not seeking God or consulting Him (Zephaniah 1:4-6).
Through Hosea (8:7, 12-13) God said, I gave them the great things of My law but they thought them strange. They have sown the wind and will reap the whirlwind. God told the Hebrews through Ezekiel, You refused to keep My laws or live by My judgments that must be lived by for (spiritual) life and you profaned My Sabbaths…shall I let Myself be consulted by you? No…I will make you pass under the crook, bring you to respect the covenant and rid you of the rebels who revolt against Me (Ezekiel 20:21, 31, 37-38). Keep God’s law because to not keep it shows contempt for His holy name (presence) Moses warned (Numbers 15:30-31). Ezekiel warned, since you don’t live by God’s law or keep His holy days and since you defile God’s sanctuary, God will be against you without pity (Ezekiel 5:7-8, 11).
Hosea wrote, Israel has violated My covenant and been unfaithful to My law. In vain do they cry for God (Hosea 8:1-8). Amos wrote, Judah has despised God’s law and rejected His commandments. Fire will devour their palaces (Amos 2:4-5). On the day of God’s anger the whole Earth will be consumed and all the living will die. So seek God and be humble. Obey His commands; be upright and you may find shelter, Zephaniah counseled (Zephaniah 1:18, 2:3).
Throughout the Old Testament God strongly threatened the Hebrews if they did not keep the laws of the covenant He gave through Moses, and that their ancestors had agreed to at Mt. Horeb. Retribution was promised for those who chose against God’s rules. Wild animals would eat them and foreigners would eat their harvest (Jeremiah 5:5-17). They would be scattered and die by the sword (Jeremiah 9:11-16, 17:24-27). There would be a famine for God’s word but they wouldn’t find it. God would scatter them among the nations. They would fall and never rise again (Amos 8:4-14, 9:1-10). Darkness would come on them because of their injustice (Micah 2 and 3). They would be given to robbers (Isaiah 42:18-25) and die by fire and the sword (Isaiah 66:3-4, 15-17). Then, because those who were supposed to lead all nations back to God did not change and return to God’s rules after disasters came to them, God said He would pour out His indignation on all the Earth (Zephaniah 3:1-8; Isaiah 24:1-6). God arms creation to punish His enemies, Wisdom said (5:17-23). This comes about naturally as laws of spiritual nature are broken and the energies of rebellion permeate the Earth.
Isaiah wrote that God said He cannot endure Judah’s hypocrisy – their hands are covered in blood. End your wickedness and give justice and your sins will be gone. If you obey the law you will have good. If you refuse, the sword will have you (Isaiah 1:13-20). Woe to those who are full of guilt and pride, who call bad good and good bad, who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the upright. Your root will decay for having rejected God’s law, Isaiah wrote (Isaiah 5:18-24). Earth is defiled by humans for they have transgressed the law, changed the ordnance and broken the everlasting covenant, he wrote (Isaiah 24:5). We are expected to live by God’s rules because it is a step toward being able to perceive His presence and daily guidance, so we can choose to do His will in specific situations.
God created us to have free will souls to communicate with. We insult God when we refuse to listen with our spirit to the Spirit of God, and we miss receiving the guidance that only the One Who sees and knows everything can give. Jeremiah wrote, God will bring disaster on you as the fruit of how you think. You don’t listen to My words and have rejected My law, God complained (Jeremiah 6:19). Prophets prophesy lies in God’s name, Jeremiah wrote (Jeremiah 14:14-15). Jeremiah preached, we have sinned; we have not listened to the voice of God (Jeremiah 3:25). When I brought your people from Egypt, God said, I gave no order about sacrifices. My one command to them was: listen to My voice. Then I will be your God (Jeremiah 7:22-23). Why is the country destroyed? Because they forsook My law and didn’t listen to or follow My guidance, God said (Jeremiah 9:12-13). Listen to My voice. Obey My orders. Then you will be My people and I will be your God, God promised (Jeremiah 11:4). Your ancestors abandoned Me and did not keep My law or listen to Me. You have behaved even worse. So I will eject you from this country and show you no more favor, God said (Jeremiah 16:11-13). (Judah) has kindled My great anger, which will burn forever. All are cursed whose heart turns from God…They rejected God, the fountain of Living Water, God said (Jeremiah 17:4-5, 13).
(These paragraphs are quoted from “Jesus, the Formative Years, How Jesus Developed His Theology”.)
(In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus tells us to pray that God’s will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven (i.e., we should submit to God’s will). See Matthew 6:9-15.).
Matthew 7:21-27 Not everyone who praises me will enter Heaven, Jesus said, but only those who do the will of my Father in Heaven.
Matthew 12:46-50 When told that his mother and brothers stood outside and wanted to speak with him, Jesus responded, who is my mother and who are my brothers? Then he stretched his hands out to his disciples and said, look, here are my mother and brothers. Whoever does the will of my Father in Heaven is my brother, sister and mother.
Luke 11:27-28 While Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd said, blessed the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you. Jesus responded, yea, rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.
(Jesus said his food is to do the will of the One Who sent him. John 4:31-38.)
John 5:30-47 Jesus said, of my own self I can do nothing. As I hear, I judge and my judgment is just because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of the Father Who sent me.
John 14:29-31 At the Last Supper, Jesus told the disciples, I’ve told you what is going to happen before it happens, so when it does happen you might believe. I won’t talk to you much after this because the prince of this world is coming and he doesn’t have anything in (any control over) me. It (i.e., what is about to happen) is so that the world may know that I love the Father and I submit to whatever command the Father gives me. (Then, in John 15:1-6 he told us to do as he did, to be branches from his vine.)
(These quotes are from the book “Jesus Said… by subject, all he said in the Gospel”)
We cannot be released from the cycle of reincarnation until we learn to choose God’s will over our own. Jesus said, you may say you did great things in my name, but I will send you away and call you evil if you do not do the will of my Father in Heaven (Matthew 7:21-23). Where did he get that teaching? Actually, it is one of the most often repeated teachings in the Bible. Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph all learned how to choose God’s will over their own. And though Moses said, not me, send someone else (Exodus 4:10-17) and Jonah tried to run from God (Jonah 1:1-17) they, too, eventually accepted their missions.
God has repeated and repeated this message through His messengers. If you forget your God you will perish for not having listened to the voice of God, Moses warned (Deuteronomy 8:19-20). God implored Israel and Judah to turn away from evil and keep His laws and guidance (2 Kings 17:13). You will be a unique treasure to Me if you keep My laws and do My will, God promised (Exodus 19:3-6). If only Israel would listen and keep My ways I would rescue them, God said (Psalm 81:13-14). If you, God’s servants, have not lived by the law nor submitted to God’s will, He will fall on you suddenly with judgment, Wisdom warned (Wisdom 6:4-6). Keep the commandments and be faithful to His will. God sets fire and water before you. Choose, wrote Ben Sira (Ecclesiasticus 15:15-16). Listen to God’s word. Do justly. Don’t injure the stranger, orphan or widow. Don’t shed innocent blood. If you don’t heed these commands your place will become a ruin, Jeremiah warned (Jeremiah 22:3-5).
They worshipped Him, but lied to Him. Their hearts were not right with God, a psalmist wrote (Psalm 78:36-37). Woe to rebels who don’t consult Me for their plans and so add sin to sin, God said (Isaiah 30:1). If only you had listened to My commandments your prosperity would have been like a river, God lamented (Isaiah 48:18). Those who abandon God are destined for the sword because I called and you would not answer. I spoke and you would not listen. You chose to do evil, God said (Isaiah 65:11-12). Zephaniah wrote that God will judge Judah for turning their back to God, for not seeking God or consulting Him (Zephaniah 1:4-6).
Through Hosea (8:7, 12-13) God said, I gave them the great things of My law but they thought them strange. They have sown the wind and will reap the whirlwind. God told the Hebrews through Ezekiel, You refused to keep My laws or live by My judgments that must be lived by for (spiritual) life and you profaned My Sabbaths…shall I let Myself be consulted by you? No…I will make you pass under the crook, bring you to respect the covenant and rid you of the rebels who revolt against Me (Ezekiel 20:21, 31, 37-38). Keep God’s law because to not keep it shows contempt for His holy name (presence) Moses warned (Numbers 15:30-31). Ezekiel warned, since you don’t live by God’s law or keep His holy days and since you defile God’s sanctuary, God will be against you without pity (Ezekiel 5:7-8, 11).
Hosea wrote, Israel has violated My covenant and been unfaithful to My law. In vain do they cry for God (Hosea 8:1-8). Amos wrote, Judah has despised God’s law and rejected His commandments. Fire will devour their palaces (Amos 2:4-5). On the day of God’s anger the whole Earth will be consumed and all the living will die. So seek God and be humble. Obey His commands; be upright and you may find shelter, Zephaniah counseled (Zephaniah 1:18, 2:3).
Throughout the Old Testament God strongly threatened the Hebrews if they did not keep the laws of the covenant He gave through Moses, and that their ancestors had agreed to at Mt. Horeb. Retribution was promised for those who chose against God’s rules. Wild animals would eat them and foreigners would eat their harvest (Jeremiah 5:5-17). They would be scattered and die by the sword (Jeremiah 9:11-16, 17:24-27). There would be a famine for God’s word but they wouldn’t find it. God would scatter them among the nations. They would fall and never rise again (Amos 8:4-14, 9:1-10). Darkness would come on them because of their injustice (Micah 2 and 3). They would be given to robbers (Isaiah 42:18-25) and die by fire and the sword (Isaiah 66:3-4, 15-17). Then, because those who were supposed to lead all nations back to God did not change and return to God’s rules after disasters came to them, God said He would pour out His indignation on all the Earth (Zephaniah 3:1-8; Isaiah 24:1-6). God arms creation to punish His enemies, Wisdom said (5:17-23). This comes about naturally as laws of spiritual nature are broken and the energies of rebellion permeate the Earth.
Isaiah wrote that God said He cannot endure Judah’s hypocrisy – their hands are covered in blood. End your wickedness and give justice and your sins will be gone. If you obey the law you will have good. If you refuse, the sword will have you (Isaiah 1:13-20). Woe to those who are full of guilt and pride, who call bad good and good bad, who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the upright. Your root will decay for having rejected God’s law, Isaiah wrote (Isaiah 5:18-24). Earth is defiled by humans for they have transgressed the law, changed the ordnance and broken the everlasting covenant, he wrote (Isaiah 24:5). We are expected to live by God’s rules because it is a step toward being able to perceive His presence and daily guidance, so we can choose to do His will in specific situations.
God created us to have free will souls to communicate with. We insult God when we refuse to listen with our spirit to the Spirit of God, and we miss receiving the guidance that only the One Who sees and knows everything can give. Jeremiah wrote, God will bring disaster on you as the fruit of how you think. You don’t listen to My words and have rejected My law, God complained (Jeremiah 6:19). Prophets prophesy lies in God’s name, Jeremiah wrote (Jeremiah 14:14-15). Jeremiah preached, we have sinned; we have not listened to the voice of God (Jeremiah 3:25). When I brought your people from Egypt, God said, I gave no order about sacrifices. My one command to them was: listen to My voice. Then I will be your God (Jeremiah 7:22-23). Why is the country destroyed? Because they forsook My law and didn’t listen to or follow My guidance, God said (Jeremiah 9:12-13). Listen to My voice. Obey My orders. Then you will be My people and I will be your God, God promised (Jeremiah 11:4). Your ancestors abandoned Me and did not keep My law or listen to Me. You have behaved even worse. So I will eject you from this country and show you no more favor, God said (Jeremiah 16:11-13). (Judah) has kindled My great anger, which will burn forever. All are cursed whose heart turns from God…They rejected God, the fountain of Living Water, God said (Jeremiah 17:4-5, 13).
(These paragraphs are quoted from “Jesus, the Formative Years, How Jesus Developed His Theology”.)
