The will of God is infinite, eternal and unchangeable because God Himself is infinite, eternal and unchangeable. Unlike the will of man, which is finite, temporal and changeable, the will of God is a sure guarantee because it emanates from His Sovereign nature. After all , He “works all things according to the counsel of his will”(Ephesians 1:11)
The will of God reached its apex at the cross. Why? Simply because it was the will of God the Father for the Son to be crucified. And this from eternity past. In the famous passage known as the Suffering Servant, Isaiah the prophet makes this very clear.
“Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;”
Isaiah 53:10a
Even on the day of Pentecost, when Peter preached the first sermon of church history, one of the things he goes to great pains to emphasise is that the crucifixion of Jesus was God’s will.
“this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God,”
Acts 2:23a
But furthermore, Jesus Himself said that the reason he came down from heaven was to do the Father’s will.
“For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.”
John 6:38
And what specifically was the Father’s will that Jesus came down from heaven to do?
“And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.”
John 6:39
Now that ends the discussion once for all on assurance of salvation. If you doubt you assurance of salvation, no longer. Your assurance is based upon the the eternal will of the Sovereign Father who sent Jesus so that none would be lost of those He had given the Son. And who are the ones the Father has given to the Son?
“All that the Father gives me will come to me,”
John 6:37a
Those who come to Christ. Not those who come to religion. Not those who come to church. Not those who come to spirituality. Not those who come to morality. But those who come to Christ. Jesus said it, not me. And this is the will of God, that those who come to Christ will not be lost.
And with a crescendo, Jesus finishes this section of the Bread of Life Discourse.
“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:40
The will of God is that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life. Do you have eternal life? Have you come to Christ? Are you looking on the Son? Do you believe in Him?
“Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.”
John 6:35
