Jesus was speaking to His followers in John 8 19 (Amplified) which says, "Then they said to Him, Where is this Father of Yours? Jesus answered, You know My Father as little as you know Me. If you knew Me, you would know My Father also."
For centuries, there's been much debate about what God's will and His plan for mankind are. We seemingly forget that Jesus was (is) "Emanuel, God with us." We witness God's will in action for all who will believe, when we watch the earthly an Spiritual ministry of Jesus. Even Jesus' healing ministry was based on the degree people believed what He said. In Jesus' hometown, the unbelief of the people, prevented Jesus from doing any mighty works among them.
The woman with the issue of blood, was someone who decided the healing power from the Lord, by her faith in Him. The masses gathered around her didn't receive anything, except for Jairus, who received his daughter's healing. This doesn't apply for only those of Jesus' time, but also for those of us today who are in His Kingly ministry with the Father. Our faith in His ministry, determines what we receive or do not receive. It's God' will that we all receive, but not everyone does. Even salvation is determined by those who will believe in Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Someone's unbelief, doesn't change God's will to do it, but our will to believe it. Many have believed that God's will is for the new birth, but few have dared believe much further on His Word. Man's ideas about what God's will is and the Truth of what God's will is, are two entirely different things. Romans 3:3-4 (Amplified) says, "What if some did not believe and were without faith? Does their lack of faith and their faithlessness nullify and make ineffective and void the faithfulness of God and His fidelity to His Word? By no means! Let God be found True though every human being is false and a liar, as it is written; That you may be justified and shown to be upright in what you say, and prevail when you are judged by sinful men."
Many well-meaning men and women have wrongfully taught their ideas about God's will and Word. When Jesus made a will or new covenant with the Father, it was signed and sealed forever in His Own Blood. This will is more than ironclad, it is BLOOD CLAD and ratified by Jesus' Own death. God wouldn't write a will and then go against that will, for any purpose or reason. Galatians 3:15 (Amplified) says, "To speak in terms of human relations, brethren, if even a man makes a Last Will and Testament (a merely human covenant), no one sets it aside or makes it void or adds to it when once it has been drawn up and signed (or ratified, confirmed)."
God's written will and His Personal will are both the same. The Promises of what God's will is and was to be for His children, are found under the Law. Under our new covenant or new Will and Testament, these Promises are now a sure thing in our lives. 2Corinthians 1:20-22 (Amplified) says, "For as many as are the Promises of God, they all find their Yes answer in Him, Christ. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it), to God through Him in His Person and by His agency to the Glory of God But it is God Who confirms and makes us steadfast and establishes us in joint fellowship with you in Christ, and has consecrated and anointed us, enduing us with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit." Verse 22 goes on, "He has also appointed and acknowledged us as His by putting His Seal upon us and giving His Holy Spirit in our hearts as the security deposit and guarantee of the fulfillment of His Promise."
My close friend recently went Home, to be with the Father. Before leaving, he made a Living Will, for his children. He determined by an act of his will, what things he would leave to his children. By this act of his will, he decided how his estate would be left to his family. This was just a promise to his children, telling them what they were to have after his leaving this earth. When he left this earth, this promise was ratified and became a reality in the lives of his family. God made Promises to His family about their inheritance. These were only a Promise of what was to come. Upon Jesus' death and resurrection, this Living Will became a reality for all His children. God's will was now ratified and made valid, by Jesus' death. God's Promises are now ours to enjoy, because God's will has been ratified.
Paul tells us in Hebrews 9:16-17 (Amplified), "For where there is a Last Will and Testament involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a Will and Testament is valid and takes effect only at death, since it has no force or legal power as long as the one who made it is alive." Jesus is God's Will for for all who will believe in His Last Will and Testament. Many have never read the Will with a sense of receptivity of that Will. Many read it as being a Living Will, that will happen at the future death of the Will Writer.
By an act of His Own will, God the Father ratified this Last Will and Testament, through Jesus. He decided what He wanted His family to inherit at His death. And, through Jesus' death, He ratified and made it legal for all His children. All the Promises God made in Jesus, were just that, the Promises of things to come. At the Testator, Jesus' death, all these Promises have now become Truth and fact. The healing He Promised in Isaiah 53, is now ours. The righteousness He Promised in Isaiah 54, is now ours. The "established peace" He Promised in Isaiah, between us and Himself is now ours. All of the Promises in His Living Will, are now ours by the death of the Testator, Jesus Christ.
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