Finding God's Will for Your Life: Part 2

This is the second in a 2 part series on finding God's will for your life. Many Christians have adopted the view that God speaks to us today through circumstances, intuitions, nudges, impressions, His 'still small voice,' etc. Is there any evidence that God revealed His will to His children that way in Scripture? When God wanted Moses to go to Egypt to deliver His people, how did God reveal His will to Moses? GOD SPOKE TO HIM, in a way that was unmistakeable. When God wanted Jonah to go to Nineveh, how did He reveal it to him? GOD TOLD HIM. Until that point, Jonah was free to travel to Tarshish. It only became sin for him because God clearly told him to go to Nineveh and preach there. This sermon affirms that the only way for you to be out of the will of God is to sin. You cannot get out of the will of God by choosing one college over another, one job over another, one spouse over another, unless that choice is a violation of the revealed will of God. Many Christians have adopted the view that, since God has a secret plan for their lives, they are not to make choices in morally neutral matters. Rather, they are to wait for God to lead them through circumstances, impressions, the nudging of His spirit, etc. But where is the Biblical evidence that God leads His people that way? Yes, God has a secret plan for His sheep. But God has not chosen to reveal that plan to them, except on very rare occasions; and in those cases, He makes His will crystal clear: 'Arise, take the young child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word...' In all matters not addressed in Scripture or revealed to us supernaturally, God has given us liberty.