How can I know and do the will of God? First of all, there must be a desire for the will of God in your life. I want the will of God above everything else in my life. Second thing is, God has power to place you in His path. If you really want God’s will, submit to Him. He not only knows what’s best for you, God has the power to put you in His will. The third thing, God loves you, and He wants you in His will. And His will for you is the best thing in your life. We need to have a desire, an overweening passion, for the will of God. And until we have it, we haven’t even got to first base with Him.

Do you know what it is tonight to trust Him? Do you know what it is tonight to rest in Him? You can be religious and still not trust Him. Are you trusting? Shall we pray. Our gracious Father God, we can’t have peace apart from Thee. And yet there’s a Savior tonight that is calling us, saying to men, Come unto Me. There are those that are torn by turmoil and trouble. We pray Thou wilt speak peace to their hearts tonight by them just simply trusting Jesus, believing in Jesus, that He is the solution to our problems. For we pray in Jesus’ name, amen.

God sent His Son because He loves you, and because He’s holy He had to pay the penalty for your sins and mine. And He died on the cross. He is the mercy seat for our sins, but not for ours only but for the sins of the whole world as a mercy seat. And you can come to Him. But now, if you reject it, then the judgment of God must come upon youbecause Christ bore your judgment. That’s the only way God forgives you. It’s not because you’re a sweet little boy or you’re a nice little girl. You’re a lost sinner; you’re in rebellion against Him. I don’t know why we feel like we’re superior people today. The best that we can say is we’re saved sinners.

Avoid foolish questions, genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. Now, Paul said we’re to defend the faith but not in argument or debate. That’s no good. That never led anyone to the Lord. You might whip a man down intellectually, but you’ve not touched his heart and won him for Christ. Stay away from these foolish questions. Right through this period there’s been a great deal said about demonism, and I’ve had any number of letters, Oh Dr. McGee give a series on demonism. Write a book on it. No, I’d much rather tell you about the Holy Spirit that can indwell you and, if He does, no demon could ever possess you, my friend.

If you are listening to this program and you have not accepted Christ, God's not even interested in your good works, because what you call good works, God calls dirty laundry. The righteousness of man is filthy rags in his sight. He wants to save you, and if you come just like you are to Him, He's done something for you and He's not asking you to do something. What can you do for God? Now that you've been saved and you're His child, He wants you to get involvedI think to get the Word of God out today. That's the reason I keep mentioning that, friends. I feel like that you ought to be involved in getting the Word of God out and you might be cheerful to perform good works.

Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior. Have you ever noticed that God always has a surplus of everything? Anything God does, there's surplus. When somebody says to me, "You know, we prayed for so much money and the exact amount came in and we know God did it," believe me, I think if God was in it, He would have given you a few more dollars. He generally does. That's the way He moves. Abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior. When you read through the Bible, notice how many times God has a surplusabundantly, you know. He's able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. He doesn't just give you the exact amount, friends. He always has a surplus.

Paul taught the deity of Christ, and I believe it means here of the great God, and He's also our Savior. Who is He? He's Jesus Christ, my friend. What did He do? He gave Himself for us that He might redeem us. He paid a price for us that He might redeem us not just out of sin, that's true, but redeem us "from all iniquity and purify unto Himself a people of His own, zealous of good works." Sure God wants you to live for Him, and sure God wants good works, but He'll have to redeem you first, friends.

I would say this is a tremendous passage of Scripture, and by the way, it's very practical, is it not? It fits right down where we live today. You see, ceremonies and rituals cannot change the evil heart of man. Only the Word of God can change a human heart. And when the heart is changed, it's going to be revealed in the man's life. In other words, Paul is saying here the same thing James saidand Paul and James were never in disagreementfaith without works, it’s dead. Saving faith, it produces something. And faith, as Calvin said, Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

God cannot lie. Paul, you remember in the epistle to the Romans, made that abundantly clear. And I think sometimes we believers almost make God out a liar by the lives we live. We say we believe something, and we really don't believe that. And we act as if we don't believe it. Even God cannot do certain things. Here's one of them. God cannot lie. Why can't He lie? God must be true to Himself. He's holy, He is righteous, and that's His nature. And there are certain things He can't do because of His nature. It's not because of the fact that it would be an impossibility. But God is true to His nature, and His nature is that He's righteous and He's just.

The people on the island of Crete, they were abusing the grace of God. They said, Since we’re saved by grace, we are free to live in sin if we want to. Paul has a great deal to say about that. He says that grace saves us and he's going to say that it lays down certain disciplines for our lives. You cannot use the doctrine of the grace of God to excuse sin. If you think that you can be saved by grace and live in sin, then you are not savedperiod. Because if you've been saved by the grace of God, it leads to a godly life.