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of every blind man. He did not heal all those who were sick. He only did those things the
Father led Him to do. He did nothing of His own initiative.
What a critical matter this is. Christianity is running over with personal initiative.
There is little consideration for the will of the Father. People only consider what they can
do, disregarding whether it is the will of the Father. For this reason the majority will appear
before the Lord on that day of judgment and He will say, “Depart from Me, you lawless
ones.”
If the Corinthian believers had considered the words of Yahshua they would have seen
their own error. He said, “For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself
who sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak” (John 12:49).
Yahshua could have spoken many profound things. He could have proclaimed mysteries.
He could have spoken astonishing revelations. When He taught He could have spoken
plainly instead of cloaking His meaning in parables. He could have done all of these things,
even as saints today can speak many things, but He did not do so. He only spoke that which
the Father commanded Him to speak, and so should we.
There are many things people can do today, but they are not all the will of the Father.
Many saints mistakenly believe that because something is supernatural that the Father
must be the author of it. This is not true in the supernatural realm anymore than it is in the
natural.
In the natural realm we are told that all things in heaven and earth have been created
by God, and in Him all things consist or hold together (Colossians 1:16-17). The presence
of God is everywhere in His creation, and we are told that He is “over all and through all and
in all” (Ephesians 4:6). Yet just because He is present in His whole creation we cannot argue
that everything done by man is the will of the Father.
Man was created by God, and man’s abilities were given to him by the same. The
power of procreation is one such ability, and indeed there is much that is supernatural in
this ability of man. We cannot say that because man can go out and have relations with any
woman he desires, and that this intimacy can result in offspring coming forth, that it is the
will of God that man do so. In fact, we have clear words from the Father telling us that it is
His will that man should NOT be promiscuous in this manner. Yet the Father allows man
to do this if he should desire.
It is no different in spiritual matters. The Holy Spirit has given gifts to men in the
church, and they can exercise them much as they please, but it is not the will of the Father
that they do so. A saint cannot assert that because he was able to prophesy that it was the
Father’s will, anymore than he can say that because he could raise up offspring by a woman
that is not his wife that it was the Father’s will. The scriptures state that spiritual gifts are
good, given to edify the body, and it also states that children are a blessing from God.
However, both spiritual gifts and the power of procreation can be misused in a lawless
manner.
As one considers this, and as they understand what Sabbath truly means - perfect
agreement with the Father and His will in every situation, it is possible to see that virtually
all of the sins of this world are the result of Sabbath breaking. They are the result of man
doing something of his own initiative.
Entering into the Sabbath rest of God is to embrace death to initiative. We are at rest
when everything that the Father wills becomes our will. We are at rest when we have no
initiative of our own, no will of our own in any matter. Even if we should discern that the
will of the Father will lead us to places that are painful we should seek to proclaim as did