18th July 2015 Radio Message by Pastor Isaac Peter Oyako

ROMANS 12:1-2 “Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”

Having considered extensively both, “the Permissive Will of God” and the “Perfect Will of God”, we are set to explore how to get into God’s perfect will and to prove that we are in the Perfect Will of God for everything we do. The Perfect Will of God has all the three indicators of “goodness,” “acceptability” and “perfection” as mentioned last Saturday.

Walking into the perfect will of God in all things begins from the point of voluntary sacrifice. There is no short-cut. To sacrifice simply means to put something to death in order to save the other. Jesus Christ had to die on the cross so that you may have a relationship with God now, and in future, eternal life. Similarly, our God-given free will must die first if God’s Perfect Will for us is to thrive. 2 Corinthians 5:15 “… and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf.”

God will not forcefully kill your free will. It is up to you to walk with it to the altar, slaughter it and leave it there. That makes a difference between a religious person and the one having a living relationship with Christ Jesus. It is not the amount of prayer, fasting, and good works that defines a saint destined for eternal glory, but a life placed on the Altar of God. Religion is an expert in prayer, fasting and good works and is meaningless before God unless it is accompanying sacrificed life.

A clear picture of what I mean took place in the garden of Gethsemane below the Mount of Olives, east of the giant Temple.

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