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Newsletter #257 - March 2000
Dr. Arnold Murray, DRE @2ooo SCN

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Are you willing to serve your Father? rr.~~~~~~~ is your spirit that is willing to serve God. It is

Our English word willing is translated from milling the flesh that can cause distractions. Don't go to

the Greek word "prothumos" (proth'-oo-mos). sleep on your watch.

This word is often translated in the Bible as

ready. One of the primes of this Greek word means MA TTHEW 26:42 He went away again the second time,
passionately ready to serve our Father. He will utilize and prayed, saying, ·0 Mr Father, if this cup may not pass
away from Me, expect drink it, Thy will be done. 1/
only those who are passionately ready to serve Him in
accomplishing His plftft;'J'he ehoice is yotlfS;-Father-wams­ -lbereisnolhin~ wrong--wmr-prnytng-forli1E:same-lhtng-­ c­

you to choose rightly so He can bless you. Let's begin more than once; however, if what we are praying for doesn't

our study in Matthew.

happen, we must be mature enough to realize that it wasn't
God's will and move on.
MATTHEW 26:36-37 Then cometh Jesus with them unto

a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples,

MA TTHEW 26:43-44 And He came and found them asleep
"Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder." !ll. And He again: for their eyes were heavy. ~ And He left them, and
took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the
began to be sorrowful and very heavy. same words.
The sons of Zebedee were James and John. Jesus was This Scripture is the reason you have often heard me
distressed about something. say to try things three times. Don't be a quitter, if your
MATTHEW 26:38 Then saith He unto them, "My soul first attempt fails. Pray about it, and make necessary ad­
is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here,
justments. If success evades you after three attempts, you
and watch with Me."
know it wasn't God's will and move on to something else.

It is important to differentiate between flesh and
spirit. It was His soul that was sorrowful, and His instruction
to the three disciples was to watch.
MA """"''-IEI;" 26:39 And He went a little farther, and fell
MA TTHEW 26:45-46 Then cometh He to His diSCiples, and
saith unto them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold,
the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed unto
the hands of sinners. ~ Rise, let us be going: behold, he
is at hand that doth betray Me."

on His face, and prayed, saying, "0 My Father, if it be

possible, let this cup pass from Me: nevertheless not He that will betray and deceive many is at hand, that
as I Will, but as Thou wilt." is to say antichrist. Don't let him catch you sleeping. Be
passionately ready to stand for the true Messiah. We are

Many people don't differentiate between flesh and

going to turn to I Chronicles for another example. David

spirit. They are taught and believe the Christ was 1'or­
has been told by God that it will not be he that builds
..rowful an~stre~sed because His flesh would soon Of! the Temple, but that it will be Solomon. David gives his,

crucified. Thatisn'i--the ~case:--TheCup Jesus is~piaymg

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to His Father about is the cup of God's wrath that Christ
must poor out on the disobedient upon His return at the I CHRONICLES 28:9 And Thou, Solomon my son, know
second advent. His soul was sorrowful for the disobe­ thou the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect
heart and with a willing 'mind: for the LORD searcheth all
dient. hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts:
if thou seek Him, He will be found of thee; but if thou
MATTHEW 26:40 And He cometh unto the disciples. forsake Him, He will cast thee off for ever.
and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, "What,

could ye not watch with Me one hour?

We are to serve God with a perfect heart and a willing
This one hour is a type for the hour of temptation mind. This could be translated, "with mature flesh and a
written of in Revelation 17. This is the period of time willing soul". Don't ever try to con God. He knows your
heart, and He knows your spirit. Seek Him, and you will
in the future that antichrist will be worshipped by millions.
Will you watch, or will you be deceived? find Him. Forsake Him, and He will cast you off forever.
The choice is yours. Control your flesh, and have a pas­

MATTHEW 26:41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not

sionately ready spirit to serve your Father. You will do fine.
into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh God will see to it.
is weak."

I CHRONICLES 28:10-11 Take heed now; for the LORD

The spirit is passionately ready to serve God, but the hath chosen thee to build an house for the sanctuary: be
flesh is weak. The flesh is easily sidetracked. We must strong, and de it.· 11 Then David gave to Solomon his son
learn to srrengthen our spirits to overrule our flesh. It the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and
of the treasuries thereof, and of thee upper chambers

thereof, and of the inner par/ours thereof; and of the
place of the mercy seat,
Solomon would follow the instructions and success­
fully complete the Temple. Was Solomon perfect? No,
but guess what. Neither are we. Let's skip to verse
twenty-one.
I CHRONICLES 28:21 And, behold, the courses of the
priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee
for all the service of the house of God: and there shall
be with thee for all manner of workmanshr: every willing
skilful man, for any manner of service: a.so the princes
and all the People will be wholly at thy commandment. u
Here is another important lesson for us to absorb.
Not only will God utilize willing servants, He needs
skilful servants, as well. How do we grow skilful? By
studying His Word. Discipline yourself, and set the example
for others. Let's turn to Hebrews. God doesn't only expect
us to be willing, He is also willing.
HEBREWS 6: 13-14 For when God made promise to
Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He
sware by Himself, 14 Saying, "Surely blessing I will bless
thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee."
When God swears by Himself, you can count on it.
HEBREWS 6:15-16 And so, after he had patiently
endured, he obtained the promise. 1Q For men verily
swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is
to them an end of all strife.
The children of Abraham are as numerous as the
sands of the sea.
HEBREWS 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly
to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of
His counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Immutability means unchangeableness. You that are
heirs to the promise can rest assured that God doesn't
change His mind or His Word.
HEBREWS 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which
it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong
consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon
the hope set before us:
God is willing to do this for you.
HEBREWS 6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor
of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth
into that within the veil;
God is willing to give both the promise and the
covenant. You can anchor your soul to the fact that our
hope, Jesus Christ, entered within the veil of the holy
of holies and is there as your intercessor. You have
access to God, if you seek Him.
HEBREWS 6:20 Whither the Forerunner is for us entered,
even Jesus, made an High Priest for ever after the order
of Melchisdec.
God is willing. He is passionately ready to keep His
promise to those that serve Him, and He never changes
His mind. We should be passionately ready to serve Him.
In conclusion, let's turn to II Peter. We will pick it up
with what the scoffers will be saying in the last days.
We are going to compare God's willingness to man's
willingness.
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II PETER 3:4-5 And saying, "Where is the promise of
His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of the cre­
ation. If 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by
the word of God the heavens of old, and the earth
standing out of the water and in the water:
They are willingly ignorant of the fact that there was
a world age prior to this one and that there will be one
that follows. They choose to be ignorant. Thank God that
you have eyes to see and ears to hear. There is abso­
lutely no way that one could understand why they are
here in this age today without understanding what hap­
pened in the first earth age and first heaven age.
1/ PETER 3:6-7 Whereby the world that then was, being
overflowed with water, perished: z But the heavens and
the earth which are now, by the same word are kept
in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men.
The ungodly will face the judgment of the consum­
ing fire which is our Father (Hebrews 12:29). They will
perish in the lake of fire. ­
/I PETER 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is with the LORD as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day.
One of man's days is equal to one thousand year's
on God's calendar. How long is the Lord's day? The
Loftfs day is a thousand years on man's calendar. This
is the thousand years of Revelation Chapter 20.
/I PETER 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering
to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance.
Longsuffering means patient. I don't know about you,
but I am surely thankful our Father is patient. God is
not willing that any of His children should perish. That
is God's will. He wants all of his children to come to
repentance and love Him. Will they? No! Many are
willingly ignorant rather than willing to serve. I am
thankful that many of you choose to be passionately
ready to serve your Father.
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