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As a diligent student of the Bible, you will want to make sure the Bible really says what this study says.  Always remember to test all things with God's word - as the Bereans did.  They "received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily, to see whether these things were so" (Acts 17:11). 

First, read the study all the way through, without looking up the Scriptures.  Then read the study again, this time looking up the Scriptures.  Highlight or mark each verse you look up so you can easily find it later.

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Satan wants you to feel condemned in your life. He wants you to feel unworthy.  He wants you to be overcome with feelings of guilt and despair.  He wants you to give up and say, "What’s the use.  I can’t do it, it’s too hard.  I can’t be the kind of person I want to be.  I don’t have time to do it.   I can’t be someone I’m not."  When we say these things, we give in to our human nature and we are held captive by Satan to do his will (2 Tim. 2:26).   Satan’s will is full of excuses so we can justify our bad behavior all day long.

God wants us to overcome Satan’s sick will in our human nature (Eph. 2:3).   He wants us to replace it with His Will (Matt. 6:10).  He wants us to do the same Will Jesus did and overcome just as Jesus did (John 4:34; 6:38; 16:33).  In fact, one of the reasons Jesus Christ came to this earth was to show us how to overcome our old fleshly wills by practicing only the Father’s Will in our daily lives (1 John 3:7, 10). We overcome Satan’s will, by performing Christ’s deeds in our lives on a daily basis (Rev. 2:26).

God’s Will is righteousness.  When we practice righteousness for God daily, we are keeping His Will (Matt. 7:21).  We are to practice righteousness to please God by committing all our ways - our thoughts, words and deeds - to Him (Matt. 5:16; 2 Cor. 10:5 1 Peter 4:11; Col. 3:17).  As we live to please the Spirit, we will crush and suffocate the deeds of the flesh, putting them to death in our bodies (Rom. 8:13; 16:20).   We will be worshiping God with a pure heart the way He wishes to be worshiped, and we will understand why Christ died - so we could live righteously (John 4:24; Heb. 13:16; 1 Peter 2:24).

Yes, Satan wants us to keep our ways condemnable so we will keep on feeling condemned (1 John 3:21).  God wants us to make our ways commendable by happily performing righteousness to please Him every day (Heb. 13:21; James 1:22, 25, 27).  Let’s continually serve others from a pure heart, so we can have confidence before God every day and be ready to meet Him when He returns (Rom. 15:2-3; 1 Cor. 10:24; 1 Tim. 1:5; 1 John 3:18-22).

(Feel free to give copies of this study to others who want to know God’s truth.   You will be doing God’s Will when you show and tell others how to live this special Way.)      

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