We have now navigated through three of the four topics that constitute our “Theology for Dummies” seminary course in some detail (not too much because we are, after all, “Dummies!”). 
What common idea has run through each topic so far? Here is a brief review: 1.) God is absolutely sovereign; 2.) Man is absolutely sinful, 3.) God relates to man absolutely by Grace alone.
Even we, who must qualify as theological dummies to get credit for this course, can see that the common thread is that God is not dealing in “almost’s,” “maybe’s,” “or “might-be’s,” but God is dealing in ABSOLUTES! I know that when Daddy speaks to me in my heart, I listen, and I do what Daddy says, to the best of this little child’s ability. As time goes by, I am learning to hear His voice in my heart more and more clearly.
Now we have arrived at Topic #4, and the emphasis changes. If #1, #2, and #3 are true, then #4 must be: 4.) Now What Do I Do?
At this point in our Theology for Dummies course, my relationship with God has been finalized. He is my loving, all powerful, Abba Father, who I can’t run off or even irritate, no matter how badly I sin. He is no longer a “God of judgment,” because His righteous judgment has all been poured out on Jesus at the Cross! He just loves me—with a firm, unconditional love, no matter what I do. That love is winning my heart completely!
hat now for this loved, secure little child? Now that God has captured my heart, I am eager to please Him! I want, with all my heart, for the answer to point #4 in our theology course for dummies to be whatever pleases my Abba Father!
isten to Jesus tell us clearly how He, our perfect, flesh-and-blood, big brother modeled our theological point #4: “So Jesus answered them, ‘I tell you the truth: the Son can do nothing on his own…” (John 5:19; “I cannot do anything on my own” (John 5:30); “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, you will know who I am. You will also know that I don’t do anything on my own. I say only what my Father taught me.”
These verses actually say that Jesus lived His perfect life by not deciding or initiating anything. He did nothing!
Furthermore, Paul assures us that not only did Jesus do nothing, but Paul, that old “chief of sinners” human being (1 Timothy 1:15), didn’t either! “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God (to now live through me by His Holy Spirit)” (Galatians 2:20).
So, we, with an experiential relationship with our Abba Father,as born-again Christians, embark enthusiastically on our Christian lives by DOING NOTHING! I am but a little child, who, with my hand in Daddy’s, “walks in the light” with my brothers and sisters (1 John 1:5-10), eagerly and openly confessing my already “forgiven and forgotten” sin!
This life I am describing is truly a “natural, spontaneous and unconscious” (NSU) life—the life, according to Paul in Galatians 2:20, is the actual life of Jesus being lived through me by His Holy Spirit!
When I am living like this, what can I expect the Holy Spirit to do through me? I am “working out my own salvation” (Philippians 2:12) as I am figuring out what this new way to live actually means to me, As I do so, I will notice that God is:
1.) Producing the fulfilment of the Law of God IN ME, of which I am unaware.
“He (God) condemned sin in the flesh (at the cross), that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled IN US who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit” (Romans 8:3,4).
As I walk, “according to the Spirit” (by faith as a little child, in the light, openly confessing my sins), Paul tells us the Spirit is released and is energizing me to keep the law of God, completely NSU!
God is not only producing my fulfillment of His law in me, but He is also:
2.) Changing my desires to make me actually WANT TO keep God’s Law.
“For it is God who is producing in you both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him” (Philippians 2:13).
Can you believe it? God is clearly telling us that as we live by faith as little children, He is actually changing our “wan-to’s” to conform to His! We keep the Law of God NSU by just doing WHAT WE WANT TO DO! Next week we will see in what specific ways He is at work changing those “want to’s!”
