Doing the will of him
Are you employed in doing not your own will, but the will of him who sent you — of him who sent you down to sojourn here a while, to spend a few days in a strange land, till, having finished the work he has given you to do, you return to your Father's house? Is it your meat and drink to do the will of your Father who is in heaven (John 4:34)? Is your eye single in all things (Matthew 6:22)? Always fixed on him? Always looking to Jesus (Hebrews 12:2)? Do you point at him in whatever you do — in all your labor, your business, your conversation? Aiming only at the glory of God in all? Whatever you do, either in word or deed, doing it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, even the Father, through him (Colossians 3:17)?
1771 text
15. *Art thou employed in doing not thy own will, but the will of him that sent thee? Of him that sent thee down to sojourn here a-while, to spend a few days in a strange land, till having finished the work he hath given thee to do, thou return to thy Father’s house? Is it thy meat and drink to do the will of thy Father which is in heaven? Is thine eye single in all things? Always fixt on him? Always looking unto Jesus? Dost thou point at him in whatsoever thou dost? In all thy labour, thy business, thy conversation? Aiming only at the glory of God in all? Whatsoever thou dost, either in word or deed, doing it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks unto God, even the Father thro’ him?
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 39 in the 1771 Works. 2 Kings 10:15.
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