If I asked you, “what is the will and work of God” could you tell me? If I asked you, “what God’s purpose is for your life?” could you tell me? The Bible tells us what God’s will is for every person. God’s permissive will is to save everybody, but if that person desires not to be saved they will not be.

The question is what is your choice? In John 6:28 the Pharisees asked Jesus, “What shall we do that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answers and says, “This is the work of God, that you believe in who he has sent.” It is completely by faith in the person of Christ. What is the work? It is Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection.

2 Peter 3:9 tells us what the will of God happens to be. God’s desire and will is that no one should perish and that all should come to repentance. But you ask, why do people perish? Answer: their will and their choice.

Because it is not easy for people to stop trusting themselves and rest in the work that Christ has done. Are you struggling? Maybe it is because you are trying by your effort, instead of trusting God’s work. Jesus said, “He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit, for without Me you can do nothing.” St. John15: 1-5.

So it is based on God and not on us to save ourselves. It is Christ’s ability living in us, giving us the power to live right. The bottom line is that it’s God’s work that has the power not our human effort.

God’s work must be done by God and not by our strength. Before you do anything you must depend on God. Depend on Him to save you, then you should keep depending on Him (God) by doing His work and His commands not our own. For us by Him.

We must not forget that believers have been redeemed and forgiven. Our salvation has been purchased through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. He died and took upon Himself the penalty of our sin (Ephesians 1:7).

God is cleansing and setting us apart for Himself so His purposes and His will might be done through us. This is known as sanctifying us so that we would be clean vessels for His good work (Hebrews 12:14).

Some excuses just won’t work, just like not allowing God to have a close relationship. Like the Boss saying, “What’s the idea of coming in here late every morning?” The employee responds, “It’s your fault. You have trained me so thoroughly not to watch the clock in the office, now I’m in the habit of not looking at it at home.”

God’s original will was one of intimacy, loving and unbroken fellowship between Himself and us. In Genesis 3:8 we read how Adam and Eve knew God and that it was a normal activity and regular part of their day to be with God in the garden.
God created Adam and Eve for His pleasure so that He might have a close communion with them. It has been His desire for humankind from the very beginning to be close to us. It is still His desire today. How close are you letting Him get?

God gave you a choice just like He did with Adam and Eve. God placed only one limitation of them and that was that they not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God didn’t want Adam and Eve to know evil. He wanted them to know only Him and His goodness. God knew that evil exists because He knows everything.

God gave Adam and Eve a choice to Obey or Sin. A choice is God’s way of showing his love. He gives us the exercise of our free will. Free will is what separates humankind from all other things of creation.

God gave us a choice when He said, “Let Us make man in our image,” (Genesis 1:26). Just as God has free will and can choose, so has He given us that same unique ability. Along with a choice there is also a consequence to our choice.

God spells out the consequence if you choose to disobey Him. Disobedience is sin and sin is death. The consequence is death, when Sin occurs. On the day Adam and Eve disobeyed, they began to die. The curse of death was on them.
Their Choice leads to the Consequence which provides the Cure.

1). The Choice
2). The Consequence
3). The Cure

When Adam and Eve sinned there was the consequence of sin, which caused death. But God provided a cure. “He made, tunics of skin, and clothed them,” (Genesis 3:21). The tunics God made was by shedding blood. Why? Because “without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin,” (Hebrews 9:22)

Blood is an evidence of life, (Genesis 9:4). It points to the powerful cleansing power of Christ’s blood from the cross. The cure to sin is Christ death, burial, and resurrection. Christ shed His pure sinless blood for the sins of the world for whoever would believe.

This is the work of God that you would believe in who He has sent, John 6:28. If I where to ask you again, “What is the will and work of God?” Could you tell me?