The Will of God | October 19 2025 (Part 5)

Well, good morning everybody. Once you go ahead and open up

your Bibles with me to first Peter, Peter's first letter that

was written to the church, at least the one that we have

recorded. Maybe you got it on your phone

or on your tablet. And let's get the word of God

open today. We are really closing up our

series on the will of God. Have we covered everything there

is to say on the will of God? We we definitely have not done

that. But just just a little bit of a

heads up before we get into this next week, as you're turning

there next week, we're starting a new series called Words to

Live By. So we're taking some very

popular secular sayings that are often making their way into the

vocabulary of Christians and just taking a look at those in

relation to Scripture. So it should be a really, really

great series. Really looking forward to it.

So hope you can join us for that next week.

But today, last message in the will of God, we have not covered

all the ground, but we have been talking about the will of God in

terms of two kinds of wills of God.

Scripture speaks of 1 is the mysterious will of God.

That is, we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, but

whatever does happen tomorrow, that is the will of God, right?

Nothing escapes his notice. But there is a will of God that

isn't mysterious. And that is what he is clearly

laid out in Scripture. His commands which reflect his

character, but also his desire for each one of our lives

clearly revealed in in Scripture.

So there's the mysterious or the concealed will of God.

We won't know until the moment it happens.

But there's also the commands of God, the the revealed will of

God that he makes clear to all people what we've been doing,

what we're doing for the last three messages in the series.

So this is number three of those 3 messages is looking at where

it explicitly says like, you cannot miss this.

While all of the commands that God gives to us are his will for

our lives, There's a few places in Scripture where it says this

is the will of God for your life.

We thought, hey, you know what, let's close on on, on these, on

these places. So last two, two weeks ago we

looked at First Thessalonians chapter 4 verse 3, where it says

1 Thessalonians 4:3

it is God's will that you would be sanctified, that you would

avoid sexual immorality. Then last week we looked at the

next chapter in First Testimonies, chapter 5 or 16 to

18, where it says rejoice always, pray continually give

thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in

Christ Jesus. Now today we're going to look at

a final one. So first Peter chapter 2, verse

1 Peter 2:15

15. And it says this for it is God's

will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk

of foolish people. Father, thank you for your will.

Thank you for Your word that reveals your will.

We pray that You would illuminate our minds, that you'd

fill us with Your spirit and change us from the inside out.

Teach us what You are all about and Your plans for our lives in

Jesus name, Amen. Hey man, first Peter chapter 2,

1 Peter 2:15

verse 15. For it is God's will that by

doing good, you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish

people. That's one verse.

That's that's kind of sitting in a sea of context.

It is so important for us to understand the implication of of

this, this one verse. So we're gonna take a look at,

we're going to jump into a few things here.

So chapter 2, starting at verse 11, we're going to read a little

bit of context here. Dear friends.

I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from sinful

desires which wage against your soul.

Live such good lives among the pagans that though they accuse

you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God

on the day he visits us. We'll just pause right there.

Notice that Peter is speaking to Christians in a Pagan culture.

Pagan simply means that people that don't believe in the God of

the Bible and he is, he is referring to these Christians as

foreigners. Literally it means aliens like

from another planet. And literally when when we

receive Jesus Christ and, and into our lives, heaven is given

to us. We are now citizens of heaven.

So while we are part of this world, we really don't belong to

this world. We belong to God.

And so we speaks to them as foreigners.

But the way that the Pagan culture is treating these

foreigners, these Christians, is that they're accusing them of

doing wrong. Now, since Constantine that you

know, 3rd century made Christianity official religion.

Since that time, Christianity has gained steam in terms of its

legitimacy in our culture and it's acceptable to be a

Christian and it's good to be a Christian.

People would look at at Christians and say, you know

what, I may not agree with their way that you know the way that

they conducting their lives, but what they're doing that's

actually pretty good at this point in time, Christians were

looked at as know what they're doing is wrong.

It's offensive. It's it, it's, it's disobedient

toward our culture or or even to our, our, our government or

governmental laws. And we can even call that, hey,

that's even evil. I don't know if you notice

there's a, there's a good overlap.

We, we are kind of going full circle right now.

Christians today in our, in our, in a very secular culture, which

is kind of like moving away. That's becoming more connected

to our Pagan roots. That is not believing in the God

of the Bible. Christians.

Now we're originally or, or, or, you know, since the 3rd century

would be considered good. This is good stuff.

Now we're being looked on in a very negative light.

What you're doing is actually regressive.

It's oppressive, it's evil that's beginning to happen in

our culture today. So there's a, there's certainly

an overlap here that that I think we can identify with.

So let's just keep going. Verse 13, it says this is.

So in this context, this is Peter's exportation to his

people. Submit yourselves for the Lord's

sake to every human authority, whether to the Emperor as the

supreme authority, or to governors who were sent by him

to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.

For it is God's will that you, by doing good, you should

silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

Peter is urging them to respect the emperor.

Now at that time the emperor's name was Nero, and Nero had it

out for Christians. He hated Christians, and yet the

Christians are being commanded to submit to his authority.

Why and and even the governor at that time, which would have been

Pontious Pilot and and for those of that you know the story, the

story of Jesus crucifixion. You know, Pontius Pilot is just

be submitting to these people. Now we look at our government

and you may or may not like our current government, but there's

some operative expectations here for us as well.

How we speak about our current government.

We not agree with everything that they do, but we are to

respect them. We are to honor them.

We're actually even to pray for them, Paul says in in other

places in Scripture. Why?

Because they've been set in place by God for a purpose, and

that purpose is to punish those who do wrong and to commend

those who do right, really to keep order within society.

Now, many governments go off the rails and the definition of what

right and wrong are can be very fuzzy, can be very blurred or

downright contradictory. However, in that context, we are

to be honourable people and in doing so, being good.

We should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

Just take a look at the context of of of of the next couple of

chapters here of this verse in the context of the rest of the

chapters. If I if I was to look at the

headings in my Bible, and I know this isn't the word of God, the

headings just kind of summarize sections of scripture, but it

says here living God, living godly lives in a Pagan culture,

suffering for doing good, living for God, suffering for being a

Christian. Is there a common theme going on

here? It's suffering, Christian

suffering within a Pagan culture that that's, that's the that's

the overriding theme going on here.

And and so Peter's just speaking right into this.

Look at chapter 3 verse 17. Peter says for it is better if

it's God's will to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

So we can fall and we, we, we can we kind of fall into the,

the, the flow of the culture or we can continue to do good and

suffer for it. Interesting that he calls that

God's will and then verse 4, chapter 4, verse 15, he says if

you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or a thief or any

kind of criminal or even as a meddler.

He's he's saying God's will for us is to suffer for doing good.

That's part of God's will actually be doing good and in

the process of doing good, actually to suffer for it now,

not for doing what's wrong, suffering for doing wrong is a

whole other story, but suffering for doing good is something that

is very commendable. To suffer for being a Christian

is to suffer according to the will of God.

It's an important conversation for us to have when we talk

about God's will for God's will for our lives.

We are to enter into suffering with a different kind of a

mindset because we are now entering into, um, we're

entering into the realm of what Jesus Christ has done for our

perception of what suffering is. The way that Christ suffered is

helps us to explain for us what suffering is going to mean.

What do I mean by that? Matthew 26 says that Jesus this

was the night he was betrayed just before his crucifixion.

He went away a second time. This is in the garden Kissimmee

and he says my father if it is not possible for this cup to be

taken away unless I drink it may your will be done.

What he's saying is that the crosses before me, this is the

cup that I need to drink. If there is any way father for

me not to have to go to the cross, I would really like that.

But if there's no other way for this to happen, I am.

If this is your will for me, I'm all for it.

And of course, we know what God's will for for for Jesus

was. He was crucified on that cross.

It was God's will for him to suffer.

And so when we look at our own lives, if you call yourself, you

consider yourself a follower of Jesus Christ.

We were following Jesus into suffering.

Now, Jesus suffered and died on a cross to atone for our sins.

We're not doing that with our suffering, but we're following

in his footsteps as one who has, who has suffered like he is.

He is the man and I wanna be like him and I'm willing to

suffer for his namesake. This is this is the the flow of

Peters of Peters argument. We're to enter into suffering

and approach suffering with the mindset of Jesus Christ.

Jesus kind of puts this whole thing we need to understand our

own suffering in light of Christ's suffering.

So chapter 2 verse 21 to 23 says this.

Peter says to the Christians to this You were called because

Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should

follow. In his steps He committed no sin

and no deceit was found in his mouth.

When they hurled their insults at him, He did not retaliate.

When he suffered, he made no threats.

Instead, he entrusted himself to him who just judges justly.

We're following an insteps, and in doing so, when we're

suffering for doing good, something is happening.

We're actually revealing Christ to the world.

Jesus Christ suffered for the ultimate good.

Now, as we follow in his footsteps and we are suffering

for good, we are revealing Christ to the rest of the world.

Why? So that by doing good, we should

silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

OK, so we're gonna pause there. Pretty heavy topic, right?

If you're wondering, you know, first time to church is like,

man, I picked up a hard one to come through.

Like we're talking about suffering, but suffering is such

a it's such an integral part of all of our lives.

There are things important for us to pause for a minute and to

think about it. So, you know, like we've got a

pretty good, like some people will argue, you know what, we're

being persecuted as Christians in Ontario, guys, we are not

being persecuted. OK, There are, you know, you

look to the church in China, you look at the church in Nigeria,

like there are people, you know, that there are 380 million

Christians today who are being literally persecuted.

That means thrown from their homes, arrested, killed,

martyred for their faith Right now.

That's not us right now. Like there's a little bit of

pressure on Christians to be sure, but this is not, this is

not persecution. Are we moving in that direction?

I believe we are and I think for that reason we need to be ready

Now. If you're not a follower of

Jesus Christ and I'm scaring the living daylights out of you as

to be a Christian, I'm not going to candy coat anything for you.

If you are going to receive Christ as your Lord and Savior

because it's the right thing to do and is the right thing to do,

you need to realize that I'm following Him into a life of

doing good, and I will likely suffer for that.

In other words, the will of God is not always the easy path.

In fact, sometimes it's a very difficult path, but the rewards

are unmatched. It means fellowship with the

living God and it means eternal life, not just now, but for all

eternity, the quality of life, for all eternity.

But we do need to realize that it is it's it's Jesus says come

follow me. But on doing so, deny yourself.

Take up your cross, your instrument of suffering, and

follow me. I bid you to come and die with

me. That's the call.

But we know that that call to death is really a call to life,

because there's no life worth living more than that, Jesus

calls in to what true life really is.

But if you are a follower of Jesus, if you identify as a

child of God and one who is saved by the blood of Jesus

Christ, you must prepare yourself for suffering, for

suffering, for his name. That's something we need to

prepare ourselves. So I just want to talk today,

just the remainder of time that we have, about how to prepare.

How do we prepare ourselves for persecution when it may come?

How do we prepare ourselves for the resistance that we will

receive for doing good? Here we go #1 prepare yourself.

You have to prepare yourself emotionally, emotionally looked

up on on ChatGPT. You know emotion.

What does it mean to be emotionally prepared?

This is what it says. Getting your thoughts and

feelings in order before an event to minimize panic and

anxiety and to be more resilient when you face it.

I'm getting an emotionally prepared for an interview.

I'm getting my thoughts in order before the event happens in

order to minimize the panic and anxiety that might go through

and to be more resilient to be able to face it.

Same preparation that we need to have when we're going into this

life as followers of Jesus Christ.

We need to adjust our expectations.

What are we expecting from this world?

We need to expect persecution. We need to expect resistance.

And OK, by saying that I'm not being negative, I think we

should all hope for the best, but we should also prepare for

the worst, right? So that's the way we should

approach the Jays tonight. Hope for the best, alright, but

prepare for the worst. It's very possible.

Who is a good feeling about the game tonight, anyway?

Yeah. We'll raise their hands for that

anyway. Yeah, you know, those who are

poor in our culture expect hardship.

That's how they living, but those in our culture who are

very are much more well to do well off when the hardships

come. It's like this is abnormal.

This this should not be. Right.

And I'm going to do everything in order to change that, in

order to get back to kind of the easygoing life, right?

That is the exact opposite of what Peter is talking about,

what we need. He's not saying everybody should

be poor, but he's saying that we should all have an expectation

that there's going to be suffering in this world,

suffering their lives. There is suffering regardless of

whether we're doing good or not. All people, we've got a light, a

world that is broken by sin. And so there is disease, there

is sickness, things don't go as well.

Our bodies are breaking down. There's all manner of things,

but are we prepared for the inevitable clash that takes

place when we do good in Jesus name?

Because it's a spiritual battle that's going on.

Whenever light, the light of God's Kingdom, is being a

shining bright, it is clashing with the forces of darkness.

That's what's happening. And so we need to expect a fight

in AD. Where are.

We here 8064, there was a there was a fire in Rome and it was

set by Nero himself. So whenever a new emperor comes

into power, it's like, OK, I wanna level all of the work of

the previous emperor. I'm gonna make my mark here and

establish do have my own building project.

He set fire to much of Rome and in order to kind of do his

building expansion, but it was found out.

He was found out that he's the one that set the fire and

everybody turned on him. Well, what did he do?

He was looking for a scapegoat and he blamed the Christians.

He blamed the Christians and then the society turned on the

Christians for that. And in fact, he just, he just

went to town. He, he, he.

As a result, he was. Plunging innocent Christians

into vats of oil, throwing them into cages, hoisting them up and

setting them on fire to light his dinner, garden, dinner

party, evening dinner parties. Talk about persecution.

This is this is the context that Peter is speaking into right

now. There is a clash.

Between light and. Darkness and we need to expect

that we need to anticipate that we need to.

You know. Hope for the best, but we do

need to prepare. For the worst, look at how Peter

puts. It chapter 4, verse 12, he says,

dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal

that has come on you to test you literally as though something

strange were happening to you. It's interesting.

He's speaking right into this kind of context and saying like,

why are you surprised? Like, don't be surprised, like

something strange is happening. This is exactly how it's

supposed to go. Light is clashing.

With darkness. So Peter is totally reframing

the way that his people, his his his brothers and sisters in

Christ are thinking about suffering.

It's a normal part of life if they targeted Jesus.

They're gonna target. His followers as well.

And we want to. Please everybody, that's my

nature. I don't want to offend anybody.

We wanna live good lives, upright lives, kind of stay out

of trouble. But even doing that, we'll,

we'll, there will be resistance to that.

I mean, even Jesus said he says woe to you when everyone speaks

well of you. This is Luke chapter 6.

Luke 6 · chapter mention

That's not a good sign. When everybody speaking well of

you, probably something's not quite right if you're a follower

of Jesus. There there's.

Going to be resistance and we need to prepare ourselves for

that so. Preparation is.

Just is. It's certainly a mindset, but

it's more than that. You and I need support.

As followers of Jesus Christ, we need a network of support and

that's what life groups are all about.

And that's just like promo of life groups, like I need a life

group where people know my stuff, know my struggles, know

where there is resistance in my life.

And I'm gonna give me encouragement.

And we're around the word together, praying for one

another. We need that for our own

emotional preparation. So that's number one.

We need to be emotionally prepared #2 we need to be

theologically prepared. Be with me.

You're good, you're good. All right, No one nodding off on

me. My, my, my theology.

Theology. Professor Ji Packer used to see

it used to begin every lecture by saying, OK, everybody, let's

gird our loins as we get into this topic.

Gerda loins, how, how often do we use that kind of language?

Originally it meant, OK, I'm going to, you know, stuff my

robe into my belt in order that I have room in order to, you

know, to be able to do the strenuous work that's ahead of

me. Right.

Gerda loins. Theologically, we need to gird

our loins as well. Why?

Because when things that we, we've got a theology for when

things go well, but we also have a theology when things don't go

so well. When when things are going well,

it's like God is great. He loves me and everything.

But when things tank, when things go South, it's like, does

he love me? Where is he?

I thought he, you know, then we begin to doubt His goodness, his

presence, everything that the Bible speaks about who he is.

When we are sinned. Against.

I know some. Some of us in our congregation

have been horribly send against physical abuse, sexual abuse.

And we look at that. And we try to make sense of

that. We need to understand who God

is. It is so easy to lose, kind of

to begin to doubt his sovereign goodness in the middle of that,

because how do I make sense of that?

Where was God when this happened to me?

Those are heavy duty questions. Those questions we.

Need to wrestle with, but I think it's so helpful for us to

know the two wills of God and to be able to affirm them both.

The mysterious will of God, meaning whatever happens, is the

will of God. But also the.

Fact that God commands people not to sin against one another.

People do sin. Against one another.

But he commands us. Not to.

And and and. And we really, we, we need to

hold those two things in tension.

There's a world where people are given free, free will.

And so this kind of stuff happens.

But. Somehow, in the midst of the

breaking of God's law, the breaking of God's commanded will

and for our lives, He is still in charge.

He is sovereign over all of the what's taking place and He's

going to use all things. He's going to take use all

things sorry. He's going to use whatever we

have gone through. In order to bring.

About something good in our life, CR has a famous saying.

Now you know God never wastes a hurt.

He doesn't. Why?

How do we know that based on Romans 828 in all things God

works for the good of those in all things like no matter what

has happened to you or to me is using that for our good.

And we need to, we need to embrace that when we push God

out of those past experiences that we have had where we've

been hurt by people. Where was God?

Well, he. Wasn't there because he's a good

God. So when we remove him from that,

we actually shoot ourselves in the foot like we, we, we are

removing the one thing, the one person that can actually help us

move through that, that that horrible situation.

The only one that we. Can lean on to get us through

two wills of God. He's not responsible for the

sins that are that are been done to us, but he will use

everything for our healing, for a good for our sanctification.

We need to remember that theologically, we need to kind

of reframe how we think about this stuff.

Will we ever be separated from his love?

I mean Apostle Paul in Romans 8 he says, Who shall separate us

from the love of Christ? You know in that.

Moment when I was hurt. Was I still loved?

By God. Pulses shall trouble or.

Hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or

sword just listing off all of the things that could make us

dealt with a God still loves me and he says no, nothing, none of

that can separate you from the love of God.

Peter is actually gonna. Turn it on, it's on, said it's

because of the cross. Crash shows us punishment.

That we deserved for our sin for all those who put their trust in

Jesus has been absorbed by by Jesus.

He has borne the weight of it. In other words, there is no

punishment left for those who put their trust in Him.

God's not going to punish twice. Jesus took it all for us.

I like how Larry Osborne put it, he said, he said.

Of Valley a value doesn't. Necessarily mean a wrong turn if

we're in a dark valley. It doesn't mean.

That God has abandoned us? It doesn't.

It doesn't even mean that I have done something wrong in order to

deserve this number. Sum 23.

No, I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

I will fear no evil, for you are with me, right?

Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my

life, like I can be. I can be confident even when

things are very dark. So, Peter.

'S saying you need to reframe the way that you're thinking

about this. How does he say that?

Chapter 4, verse 13 to 16 he says, I want you to rejoice, but

rejoice in as much as you participate in the sufferings of

Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is

revealed. If you are.

Insulted because of the name of Christ.

You are blessed. For the Spirit.

Of glory and of God rests on you.

If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer, a thief, or any

kind of criminal, or even a meddler.

However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed,

but praise God that you bear that name.

Suffering is not a. Sign that God has abandoned me.

Suffering is not a sign that somehow I have done something

wrong. Suffering for doing good.

Is actually a. Sign that God is with me it it

means that his spirit says the spirit of glory and of and of

God is resting on me. The Holy Spirit of Glory, the

spirit that comes from heaven is actually resting on me, saying

heaven is yours, that moment is coming.

I've got you. Even, you know, Peter's just

totally flipping it. It's almost like it's a badge of

honor that we're suffering for being good.

It's a badge of honor that we can celebrate.

Polycarp. That was a 2nd century Bishop of

Smyrna and he's arrested for his faith and the pro council was

urging him to, to, to offer incense to Caesar and, and the

pro council said, basically said take this oath and you're going

to be released, cursed, cursed Jesus Christ.

And this is what his response was. 86 years I have served him.

That is, I've served Jesus, and he never did me wrong.

How can I blasphemy my King who saved me and with joy?

He was martyred. There is a confidence that we

can have. When?

Persecution and resistance comes our way.

It's a recognition. Actually.

The Spirit is on me now. And this is a badge.

Of honor. This is a sign.

That I'm his. I belong.

To the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Theological. We need to.

Wrap our mind around that and embrace that.

Alright, let's move on. Third thing, practically, we

need to prepare yourself emotionally, we need to prepare

ourself theologically, and we need to prepare ourselves

practically. What does it look like

practically to suffer? And trust God.

How do we what does it look like to be trusting God in the midst

of our suffering? Peter says it in chapter 4,

verse 19. Last verse we'll look at So then

those who suffer according to God's will should commit

themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.

What does it look like? When we're commending ourselves

or trusting in in gas or faithful Creator in the midst of

our suffering, we're going to continue to do good.

That's what it looks like, practically speaking.

We need a lifestyle of do Gooding so to speak.

Is that part of your lifestyle to be to be doing good for

others? Why do we do that?

Because it's it's right, but also it's revealing Christ in

the midst of our suffering. It's going to open up

opportunities for us and and connect us in relationship with

people. Who wouldn't?

Necessarily be followers of Jesus.

It's gonna open up. It's gonna open up conversations

in this way. It's gonna it's gonna even for

those who are resisting the message of the gospel.

It's going to make us think radical goodness.

Calls for a. Response.

It may be full rejection, but it may be I want to.

I want more of that. I want more of that.

Doing good. While we're suffering, that is

how we practically prepare ourselves, continuing to do

good. What do we mean by that?

Doing good Just it's essentially, it's just thinking

of others first. It's serving others.

Practical. Simple acts of kindness.

Toward people. Never underestimate what a small

act of kindness can do in opening somebody's eyes.

It was a someone that was part of our church years ago and he

just went rogue with his life. Complete rebellion.

Living the lifestyle of an unbeliever.

Cut off contact with with the with the with the church.

I had heard through a family member that he was sick.

And I went. To visit him in the hospital.

Very cold reception after that visit.

I hadn't didn't see him for 10 years.

I got a phone call 10 years later.

This wasn't too long ago and. You wanted to meet.

And so we met. This is the first time in a

decade. And he said.

I just couldn't shake that visit in the hospital, he said.

That made me think that there may still be hope for me.

Well, he returned to Christ, started putting his life back

together. It's like Hallelujah, you know,

he, he wanted to be reconciled with me.

I'm thinking. That was just like a simple

visit that didn't seem like it was very well received.

Never underestimate. What some?

Simple act of kindness can do to open somebody's eyes.

I want you to think. Now just just think about your

world, your life where you could be doing good at work.

Not just like do we like Christians sure should have

integrity in our work and do a good job of our work, but with

the people that I'm working with, how can I be practically

doing good for them, bringing that revealing Christ to them

and their life just by the things, simple things that I do.

Maybe in your neighborhood. What am I doing to do good, not

just kind of staying out of the way of my neighbors, but

practically leaning in and being good to my neighbors?

What would that look like? Or maybe even our own home.

Peter gives some examples here in chapter 3.

You know, he talks about speaking to wives who have

husbands that are unbelievers. And he said you can win them

over without words by your behavior, right?

Then he starts in verse 7, chapter 3.

It's just been speaking to husbands like husbands.

Do you know that the way that you love your wife and love and

care for your wife is a testimony to the rest of the

world of the goodness of God just by the way that we care for

one flesh partner? And then verse. 17 he goes.

Because it's more than just our behavior.

Our words are important, it says in verse 15.

He says always. Be prepared to give an answer to

everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you

have. Always be prepared.

That's part of the practical preparation, being in a

lifestyle of doing good, but also being ready to give a

reason for the hope that you have.

If someone was to ask you why you're a Christian, or why do

you have joy, or why are you doing this good thing, would you

have an answer for them? Would you have an answer like a

reason for the hope that you have next month?

We have professional faith classes started and really all

that is is helping us prepare to give an answer to all who would

ask that we could share our story in a very brief way.

That class is just all about how to do that, how to do that and

help you to write your story. I just encourage anybody that

would want to profess their faith that way.

Even if you profess your faith and you want help and your

testimony, join the class. It would be great to have you

free lunch and what we'll teach you how to how to testify to the

goodness of God in your life. OK, that's all the time we got.

OK, we gotta, we gotta, we gotta wrap things up for this series.

This is the. Will of God for your life.

This is it that we would. In the midst of suffering,

continue to do good, to continue to do good, and in doing good,

silence the ignorant talk of foolish people testifying,

revealing, testifying to and revealing the goodness of Christ

to our world and how they respond will let God look after

that with them. The will of God has mysterious

element, to be sure, but the will of God, the majority, the

will of God for your life is abundantly clear right here in

Scripture. Is it always easy to follow

through on it? No, it's not.

Sometimes it's very, very difficult.

But is it right? It is.

Is it good? It is.

It's in fact it's beautiful. And when we step into doing His

will, being serious about doing His will, there's so much grace

that God gives to us, to boy us up, to strengthen us and

encourage us in the battle as light clashes with darkness.

Let's pray, Father. We we, we stop at the end of a

series first to thank you that you have a will.

And it's so much better. Than ours, Lord, Your will is

good, pleasing and perfect. And we declare this morning, May

your will be done, not my will be done, but may your good,

pleasing and perfect will be done in my life and the life of

my family and the life of my of my neighbors.

Province. Country in our world.

More we ask that you. Would have your way with us,

equip us, and give us every grace to follow through on it.

And Lord, when we fail, when we know we have messed up, we thank

You that Your grace is sufficient for us.

May we receive it with grateful hearts and respond and grateful

obedience as a result. Thank you for your help and Lord

2 as we gather our ties and offerings this morning, we thank

you for the. Incredible.

Generosity that you have shown to us, not just in giving us a

world, but giving us so much in our culture.

Where we pray that you would grant to us hearts that are

willing to be generous. That your.

Keenan would come, your will would be done on earth as it is

in heaven. Thank you for hearing our

prayer, but we prayed all in Jesus name, Amen.