JESUS: OUR ROLE MODEL FOR OBEDIENCE!

TRUE BELIEVERS DESIRE TO DO THE WILL OF GOD!

Psalm 40:8 - "I delight to do Thy will, O my God: yea, Thy Law is within my heart."

Psalm 143:10 - "Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God:  Thy Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness."

Matthew 6:10 - "Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."

Matthew 26:42 - "He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if this cup may not pass away from Me, except I drink it, Thy will be done."

DESIRING TO DO GOD'S WILL IS FOLLOWING CHRIST'S EXAMPLE!

- From the King James Version of the Bible -

Hebrews 10:1-10 [KJV] - "For the Law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.  For then would they not have ceased to be offered?  Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.  But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.  For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.  Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me:  in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had no pleasure.  Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me), to do Thy will, O God.  Above when He said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin Thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the Law; then said He, Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God.  He taketh away the first, that He may establish the second.  By the Whose will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."

DESIRING TO DO GOD'S WILL IS FOLLOWING CHRIST'S EXAMPLE!

- From the New Living Translation of the Bible - 

Hebrews 10:1-10 [NLT] - "The old system under the Law of Moses was only a shadow, a dim preview of the good things to come, not the good things themselves.  The sacrifices under that system were repeated again and again, year after year, but they were never able to provide perfect cleansing for those who came to worship.  If they could have provided perfect cleansing, the sacrifices would have stopped, for the worshipers would have been purified once for all time, and their feelings of guilt would have disappeared.  But instead, those sacrifices actually reminded them of their sins year after year.  For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.  That is why, when Christ came into the world, he said to God, "You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings.  But you have given me a body to offer.  You were not pleased with burnt offerings or other offerings for sin."  Then I said, "Look, I have come to do Your will, O God - as is written about Me in the Scriptures.'"  First, Christ said, "You did not want animal sacrifices or sin offerings or burnt offerings or other offerings for sin, nor were You pleased with them:  (though they are required by the Law of Moses).  Then He said, "Look, I have come to do Your will."  He cancels the first covenant in order to put the second into effect.  For God's will was for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ, once for all time.