Preface:
Rom. 7:18 , 25 ; Rom. 8:10 ; Phil. 2:12-13 - With the mind, I am to honestly face the truth and admit my inability to cope with any problem. But by my will, I open the door to lay hold of God's resources. Here is the secret of the will: not that I will by my will-power to accomplish, but that my will is simply to open the door so as to receive His power and performance. "For me to will is present……" and now Lord it is your performing that does it. "

Will Principle:
John 7:17 ; Matt. 12:10-13 - Jesus always ask us something we can do if we will. We are to do it without trying to figure it out first. . But if you will 'do', then you shall understand. It is the inner withered will which produces every outward withered condition in life. Once the inner government of our will is in perfect harmony with His will, He can move from this inner beachead to fix up all the outward withered conditions in life.

Knowing and doing is a constant pathway, a constant cooperation between the mind and will. God takes the initiative in giving man what he needs to know. Then man is responsible for the choice of his will and God does the performing (doing) through man. . God only requires us to walk in the light we have, that is, to obey what we know to be the truth now !

Restoration:
Gen. 1:26 ; Eph. 3:3-4 ; Phil. 3:13-14 ; 2 Tim. 1:9-10 - Jesus came to restore us through inner spiritual development, like a flower bud moving on to full blossom unto the full measure of the fulness of God. "God said let us make man under Our Shadow, as Our representative… " God has a two-fold calling and purpose for man:

1. as sons to be as His shadows and;
2. as fathers to be His representatives.

God made man an original - a "Somebody" who exercises dominion over creation and who is personally capable of free choices. He also made man to be an IMAGE - one who reveals God and by so doing he himself becomes a "nobody". Man is a finite copy of Sovereign Originator and Determinator of all. As an IMAGE , man is a self-effacing revealor of God and His attributes.

Man was created to be a "Somebody" who wills to be a "Nobody" that God may be all in all. Thus, man fulfills his two-fold purpose and calling: being a father for Him and a son unto Him.

Being:
Gal. 2:20 - It is in Christ that we can manifest the balance of representing, 'from the Father' and living 'unto the Father' Unto God through Jesus we are created sons, but on earth, we are to be an earthly father-a representative for God. When we truly learn to be a father 'for Him', and know how to be a son 'unto Him', then it is God Who accomplishes His 'doing' through us. As we learn to be , God is free to do through us. Our effective 'doing' is simply fulfilling our call in 'being'.

John 6:28-29 - It is not our working, but our belief. For belief is literally by-life - the things one lives by: then God does the working through us.

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