By Dr. Greg Little

June 21st, 2006

This is a subject that most religions talk of, but never seem to know much about.

If you ask the Catholic, the will of God is the Pope’s leadership, the sacraments, and the Catholic church’s direction.

If you ask the Protestant, the will of God is their version of the Pope’s leadership, and what they think a lost set of Greek and Hebrew manuscripts seem to imply.

If you ask the Baptist, the will of God is their favorite preacher’s leadership, and what they think their commentaries on the Bible seem to agree upon.

Let’s take a totally different approach.  This is the Christian’s Final Authority on ALL matters of faith and practice.  The King James Bible.

“Will of God” appears 23 times.  All but one occurrence says “the will of God” while that one exception says “perfect will of God.”  Where are all these occurrences? In the King James Bible of course! 

Here there are:

Mark 3:35; Acts 13:36; Romans 1:10; 8:27; 12:2; 15:32; 1 Corinthians 1:1; 2 Corintinas 1:1; 8:5; Galatians 1:4; Ephesians 1:1; 6:6; Colossians 1:1; 4:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 5:18; 2 Timothy 1:1; Hebrews 10:36; 1 Peter 2:15; 3:17; 4:2; 4:19; 1 John 2:17

 Take a look.  Pray Psalm 119:18 and see what the will of God is for your life.