In Celebration of Free Will (John 6:35-45 Jeff Kliewer)

The Greatness and Sovereignty of God

That we are called his children. That's a tease pastor. You get to flesh that out as we go further. Before I take us into. Into the scripture reading. I just want to acknowledge our pastor for Demonstrating his multi-sport prowess.

You guys know him as a basketball player. He has told us about that before but I understand that he dominated the field of play out outside during the Turkey Bowl. Hopefully the time was was rich in fellowship and I understand that there were no injuries.

So praise God for all of that. I want to turn us this morning to Psalm 135 verse 5 for I know I know That the Lord is great and that our Lord is above all other gods. I know that our Lord is great that our Lord is above all other gods.

Here's the thing knowing the greatness of God is. Not an issue of having the intellect or having sat in Sunday school classes. Or even reading in the Bible about the greatness of God. Knowing that the Lord is great as a matter of the heart.

It's a matter of having this Surrender to him and to his sovereignty deep in your heart. Because you know what? I don't care what it is. There is nothing in this world that is going to match the greatness of God.

And so we rejoice in what he does for us. We rejoice in who he is. The world is going to present a lot of things to you, but they are not God. There is one God Yahweh, I know that our Lord is great and that our Lord is above all other small g gods.

Some announcements ladies this coming Saturday is a girls night. Cookie exchange. I think there's a movie involved ladies. Come on out bring friends neighbors. It's at Saturday and here in the church at 630 gentlemen our.

Our Gatherings are our Monday gatherings. It's not tomorrow, but it's the following week. Just a call ahead. We're changing back to the church building instead of a Cracker Barrel. God has blessed us with enough guys that it's getting difficult to really fellowship in the middle of a public restaurant.

We're coming back here. So Monday at 6 o 'clock you can go to Cracker Barrel if you want and have breakfast. But the rest of us are going to be here. Anyway number three we are still looking for your inputs on the Christmas service.

Christmas is a Sunday this year our congregation our sanctuary can't hold about 220 people. If we have the fullness of people that are coming on a good Sunday, we're like 250. We don't fit so we have to be two services.

We would really like to know if we can fit all of us in the sanctuary for one service. It helps the pastor it helps the worship team. It's great to get together with the family together. By the way, there still is going to be a New Year Christmas Candlelight service on Saturday correct time to be announced on that.

There's a youth ministry that's coming up. Jeff had it in his pastor Graham. You can read about it. It's going to be ministering to the seeds of hope ministry. It has to do with a blanket drive. I think it also has to do with homemade cookie drive.

So read about it and be part of it a great way for us to minister to those in need. The nominating process is on is going and it's it's starting to ramp up. This is your last opportunity. Please if you're not in a position to at this point in time to serve on the board for whatever reason and.

And you believe your name might be on the list. I need you to contact Rob he's the chairman one of the elders pastor Jeff myself Michael Stockland, we need to get that list correct because it's going out in the next day or two.

So we need you to to respond to that. Our Christmas Day, we're seeking to have one service. We're also looking ahead to the following Sunday, which would be New Year's Day. And we recognize that not everybody might want to wake up for a nine o 'clock service on New Year's Day.

So in a couple of weeks, we're just going to be looking for a show of hands. So we know if we should plan one service on New Year's Day or to have to the police ministry continues. We've had our third week now.

It has been very very well received by our brothers and sisters in the police department. I send out an email to the families that are involved each week on Monday. There's been a couple of scheduled changes.

So I'm going to send out an update to the schedule. So you have that please remember our normal weekly gatherings come back tonight for prayer meeting. It's an awesome time. Tomorrow night the men continue in their apologetics study.

This is going to be a fascinating one. They all are by the way, there's nothing in the apologetics. That's not fascinating. But they're going to be pursuing the origins of hell. That's something I've never really considered.

I asked pastor earlier today, and he's not sure. When did God create hell? I don't know but you can ask that tomorrow night at the men's. I don't know if they have the answer to that. But come back for that the women's studies.

The precepts on Wednesday. We are back meeting. We took last week off because of the Thanksgiving week. We are back together this week at at 12 o 'clock here in the sanctuary and we're resuming in Ephesians.

Please join us with that and all the small groups that are going on. There are plenty opportunities to be part of your growth one with another. Let's go to prayer. With the psalmist Lord we profess the goodness of God.

We proclaim that we know that our Lord is great. We know that our Lord is above all other gods. The supremacy of our God is something we stand sure on and we rejoice in. So Lord, we pray surrendering to you.

We surrender to your sovereign will. Your sovereign will that is never is never opposed can never be defeated. We rejoice in that in our confidence in you. We pray Lord confessing and professing your goodness.

For all the things that you have done and the what you've blessed us with. This time of the year Lord we start to focus on the coming of Messiah who came as your gift. Came as your perfect lamb who died for our sins.

He now sits at the right hand of the father. Interceding for us we acknowledge Lord with the psalmist that we know that our Lord is great. We know that our Lord is above all other gods. Superior to anything the world offers.

Thank you father. Lord we do pray for those in need in this time of year as we approach The holiday season as we approach the birth of our Lord. We know that those that are still grieving the loss. It's a tough time of year.

We pray Lord for them be their very presence their comfort. Lord many who are still struggling who are struggling with diseases injuries illnesses. Lord, you are the great physician. We lift them to you.

Pray for those Lord in our midst who lead us. Spiritually thinking of our pastor of the elders for the leaders of the different study groups. We pray Lord for the guide of your Holy Spirit for the power of your word.

We pray the truth is never deviated and we Lord we lift up each of these individuals protect them from the attacks. Satan would not want these words to be out. So he is on the attack protect them Lord.

We pray pray for those in our country and authority. We pray Lord that they would turn to you Lord that your grace would touch their hearts. That they would turn to you that this country would be governed according to your will.

So Lord today as we Anticipate your word as we join our hearts in song and in worship of you. We pray that your Holy Spirit would would speak to our hearts. Speak through our pastor with the words of truth.

We need to hear we pray these things. In Jesus name. Amen.

Grace Abounds Through Christ

Romans 5 says where sin increased Grace abounds all the more. Let's stand. Let's. Let's praise God for his amazing grace. Well this grace of our loving Lord. Grace that exceeds our sin and our guilt. Yonder on Calvary's mount.

Our poor for us to Pray. That's great Grace that will pardon and cleanse within. Pray that is greater is the state of shit. Oh, there is flowing a crimson Snow. You may be today. Craig's with this infinite matchless.

Great. He's stoking to see. Grace receive grace. That will pardon and cleanse with grace. God is greater than all our sin. Great. God's great Grace that will pardon and cleanse with it. Great. Great. God's great grace that is greater than all.

Grace that is greater than all. Lord. God, we just thank you. We praise you for your amazing grace. So undeserving are we Lord God, but your mercy was poured out on us Psalm 63 Three and four because your steadfast love is better than life.

My lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live in your name. I will lift up my hands.

Father we praise you this morning for your glorious grace. But not as we should we praise you as. Seeing through a dark glass. And I pray Lord that we would see a little more clearly this morning what grace has done for us.

Lord we pray that you would help us to see wondrous things from your word help us to behold your glory and That glory displayed in your grace towards sinners like us because apart from your grace, we would be helpless hopelessly lost.

Open our eyes Lord and help us to leave this place more in awe of your grace. Worshiping more. Sincerely, we pray that we would be more thankful as a people that we would have better attitudes more of a God-centered worldview.

Help us to love you because you first loved us in Jesus name. Amen. We celebrate Great feats of human will. So when Scotland was oppressed by England and one named William Wallace appeared. He couldn't be stopped and by the force of his will he fought for freedom.

We love freedom and we love Willfulness, we love the power of the human will to overcome. Think about when communism was competing With capitalism on the world stage and the United States and Russia were in a Cold War by the will of the American people.

Somebody landed on the moon. What a testament to human will the power of the human will to overcome. That was done in opposition to the Russians who are pushing communism. Think of Rudy. How many of you like the movie Rudy about that football player who played for Notre Dame?

Maybe it's a little old-school. Some of the younger people are looking at me like they've never seen it. But Rudy did not have the physical gifts. He didn't have what it takes to play division one football.

But by the sheer force of his will he was able to make the team and We celebrate that that willpower. Maybe some of you have seen the movie unbroken the story of Zamperini who was taken captive during World War two and was tortured in a Japanese internment camp.

But he was unbroken the power of his will. Could not be defeated. And surely you've heard of William Wilberforce. When slavery was throughout the the English United Kingdom Empire and there was a slave trade taking place.

He withstood it and with goodwill towards people and Sheer willpower he fought and fought for 40 years until finally he saw the defeat of slavery in The English Parliament it was his will that would never give up until the cause was won they willed their way to victory and How many of us here?

Understand the importance of the will. We each have a will and we must exercise our will by our choices and Some choices we make will result in very bad outcomes. Other choices will result in good outcomes and we must make good decisions.

We have a real will. We're not robots. Did you know that church? We're not puppets on a string. We must make choices. We have a Will that reflects the image of God our creator? God has a free will and we likewise have a creaturely will now.

What makes a will so good? Well, it must first of all be virtuous. William Wilberforce was fighting for a good cause so he had good will but secondly, it must be powerful the force of the human will. Accomplishing things is to be celebrated.

We notice when somebody wills their way to victory. An Athlete who just wouldn't let his team lose is commended because they have willpower. They won't give up they fight until the fight is won but neither human virtue nor human power is infinite.

There are limits to the will of a creature. So America we were able to go to the moon right by the power of the will of the American people. We went to the moon, but we didn't go to Andromeda a distant galaxy.

That's beyond us. That's beyond human capacity to reach. It's not an infinite will. Likewise Wilberforce fought for the freedom of People and yet in our day and age in this very country people are enslaved through this thing called abortion.

Their freedom taken away. In fact, their very life snuffed out and as free as this country is there are still elements of oppression. We're not completely free and an ever-growing government that takes more and more power over people and over churches.

So there are limits to our freedom. Think of Rudy. He played for Notre Dame, but he didn't play for the Eagles. There were limits to how far he could go just by the sheer force of his will. Zamperini.

He fought against the Japanese in the internment camp, but when he came home He fell victim to the power of the bottle and became an alcoholic. But there was a power that was higher than his own will.

That set him free and that power which delivered Zamperini from alcoholism. That power is a truly free will. Meaning a will without constraint. It is the will of God. We celebrate free will but we often mean the will of mere creatures.

What we ought to celebrate is the free will of God infinite in virtue perfect in character. The will of God is also infinite in power. There is nothing that he cannot do. His will is perfect and infinitely strong.

We're still creatures. And so being created things we ought not be worshipped, but God deserves worship. Now this introduction as I've given it raises a dichotomy. Two seeming polar opposites that don't seem to fit together and it raises what has been.

Probably the biggest debate in church history intramurally between Christians and that is the struggle between God's sovereignty on one hand and human responsibility on the other hand the struggle between the will of God an infinite will and Humans still having some creaturely will.

How do those things fit together. Because the longer you think about it The more it seems impossible for us to understand. How do you reconcile these two things? Well for some people it's easy to do. Like Charles Spurgeon.

He says I don't need to reconcile Divine sovereignty and human responsibility because you don't reconcile friends. They're not at odds in Spurgeon's mind. They're just two truths that you need to accept both of them.

You need to accept that humans have responsibility a real creaturely will but you also need to accept that God predestines. Whatsoever comes to pass to the first point. This should be enough to prove the case.

Joshua 24. You guys remember the end of the book of Joshua once Joshua has said and done Everything that needed to be said and done he ends this way if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord. Choose this day whom you will serve whether the gods of your fathers.

That they served in the region beyond the river or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Do you see the choice that needed to be made you can choose to serve idols or you can serve God?

Choose for yourself, but as for me We will serve the Lord. Do you see human responsibility? We must make real choices and that that is given to us as a capacity to choose between two things but likewise.

The choice of God the freedom of God to determine whatsoever comes to pass is also taught in Scripture. Ephesians 1 11 in him we have obtained an inheritance. Having been here's the dirty word to many predestined.

But it's in the Bible According to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will all things. Not some things, but all things work according to the counsel of his will. So we have two seemingly Incompatible truths.

But the part of the Christian who reads the Bible Is not necessarily to be able to solve every mystery. Deuteronomy 29 29 says. The secret things belong to the Lord our God. But those things that belong that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever that we may do all the words of his Law.

In other words, there are some secret things that are beyond us. Believe it or not if you're a know-it-all there are some things that you don't know. Amazing you may never solve the mystery of sovereignty and human responsibility.

Some people like myself struggle with that for years for me. It was between the years 2005 and 2010. I just thought about it all the time trying to reconcile the two. Other people maybe you thought about it for five minutes, and then you said Secret things belong to the Lord our God.

Basically you and I and whoever else struggles with this question all end up at the same place. Deuteronomy 29 29. There will come a point where our minds will not be able to figure it all out. But that does not mean That we are to believe anything and everything.

That we desire to believe it doesn't mean we resort to philosophy and just picking Ideas that seem right to us because there's a second half to Deuteronomy 29 29. The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed Belong to us and to our children forever that we may do every word written in the law.

So there are things revealed so I ask you three questions. To which there are answers in other words. You will either get these questions right or wrong. Heaven forbid that anybody say that a religious belief is wrong.

Because in our postmodern world there's only your opinion and your truth versus my opinion and my truth and nobody's ever wrong. But in God's world because this is his world not ours there is such a thing as absolute truth.

So here are the questions To consider today the answer to which is Definite and not up to us. Number one what comes first? The giving of a person to the Son or The coming of a person to the Son let me rephrase.

Does a person get saved come to faith? Because God first gave them to the Son. Which would mean that it's God's will that's ultimate. He's the free one who's ultimately deciding this. Or Does a person by their own will come to the Son and therefore they're given to him.

Which comes first? Okay, we're gonna answer that as we get into the text today question number two. Whose will is Ultimately free. Whose will is ultimately free meaning unconstrained. Can anything thwart God's will.

Could there be a man let's say Judas or Paul or someone who was so obstinate so obtuse so arrogant. That even though they hear the gospel of Jesus they refuse to come and God cannot conquer that obstinacy.

Can God's will be thwarted by the will of man? That's the second question. And then lastly What is the nature of man? Are we neutral? Meaning we're born into the world tabula rasa blank slate and we can choose to go this way or we can choose to go that way.

Or are we born in sin? But God gives grace to everybody. Making everybody neutral where they can make a choice. That's called prevenient grace. That's Wesley's doctrine or third. Effectual grace. Are we so dead in sin?

That we cannot come to Christ. By any resource in us it requires effectual grace from God outside of us to bring us to God. In other words how dead is dead? That's the third question. So we're gonna get to those because that is the flow of the text.

Turn with me to John chapter 6. Let's open up the Bible. It's time now to take a deep dive. Some sermons that I preach are very Political or relevant or practical. Other sermons are deeply theological.

This is one of those meaty sermons. So if you're a baby Christian and all you want is is milk. You might have trouble chewing with no teeth, right? But the meat of the word according to Hebrews 5 this actually is for a mature Christian.

This kind of sermon a more theological sermon doesn't have the practical appeal that right off the bat. You know why it's relevant, but I want to tell you a secret. It's these kind of sermons that bear the most fruit in your life over time.

Hear me. Because as you begin to think differently about God, that's theology study of God. It changes your whole perspective on life. By studying these kind of doctrines that we're gonna get into and we're only gonna say what Jesus said.

No more no less. We're gonna quote it and read it and explain it. By studying these things it changes your perspective on life and over time that bears more fruit Than what the temptation would be which is okay.

This is kind of deep. We're gonna kind of skirt past this part and Move to the more practical relevant stuff. If you do that you miss out on what changes your very heart. Your worldview how thankful you are how joyful you are how much you appreciate?

Grace and salvation and God himself, so let's read it. John 6 35 to 45. Verse 35 is sort of the linchpin of the sixth chapter of John remember John 6 is a huge sermon. It is all about bread because Jesus had multiplied the bread to feed the 5 ,000.

Then he walked on water and now they're gonna talk about bread and in verse 35. He's Making a very definitive statement to be the bread of life. So that's key because they were kind of obtuse Leading into verse 35.

He had already said to them that the that Verse 33 the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. He's talking about himself. He's claiming to be the bread and they're still thinking physically in verse 34.

They say sir, give us this bread always. They don't want him. They want physical bread. So in verse 35, it's the clincher of the last sermon. I preached last week he says explicitly I Am the bread of life.

Now I say it's a linchpin because now that something changes in the text now we move to the response of The people the crowd and Their response is unbelief so the question becomes why aren't they believing him they've seen the miracles and Jesus will answer their unbelief.

Let's read it. John 6 35 to 45. Jesus said to them I Am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me Shall not hunger and whoever believes in me Shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

All that the Father gives me will come to me and whoever comes to me I will never cast out for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me and This is the will of him who sent me that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me.

But raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my father that everyone who looks on the Son and Believes in him should have eternal life and I will raise him up on the last day. So the Jews grumbled about him because he said I am the bread that came down from heaven.

They said is this not Jesus the son of Joseph whose father and mother we know. How does he now say I have come down from heaven? Jesus answered them do not grumble among yourselves. No one can come to me Unless the father who sent me draws him and I will raise him up on the last day.

It is written in the prophets and they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard and learned from the father comes to me. So in verses 35 and 36 we have the problem and that problem is unbelief.

They've heard the claim I am the bread of life and yet we're told in verse 36. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. The problem is Human sinfulness. Unwillingness to come to Christ.

This is of course consistent with the nature of man. Earlier in John chapter 2 verse 25 We were told that Jesus did not entrust himself to them because he knew what was in a man. What was in a man? Well, it was sin.

It was unbelief in John 8 34. Jesus will answer a crowd and say truly truly I say to you everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. So are people free or are people enslaved? According to John 8 people are enslaved to sin.

In Romans 8 verses 7 and 8 Paul says the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God. For it does not submit to God's law. Indeed it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. So in verses 35 and 36 we have the problem introduced which is that Jesus has told them the truth.

He has claimed to be God. But Yet they do not believe. Okay. Now at this point, we've made the first point. There's a problem. That's human unbelief. How would you expect Jesus? to answer human unbelief.

Well, you'd think maybe he's gonna rail against them and He's going to appeal to their to their will and begin to try to persuade them or Maybe he'll just cast them off and condemn them as hopelessly lost.

But what follows in the text is nothing short of astonishing. Because he turns the conversation away from their hard hearts and unbelief. Onto God and his sovereign power his freedom the freedom of God to save.

Whomever he will one of the most hard-hearted men of that day was a young Pharisee named Saul and he will turn out to be a persecutor of Christians, but even that hard heart of Saul can be turned and Changed by the grace of God.

You see what what Jesus does here is Turn the conversation away from their hard hearts on to The grace of God look at it. First of all, and this should be the first point that we celebrate. Rather than lamenting the wickedness of man that rejects him Jesus has a God-centered view a father-centered view where he takes this vertical and celebrates God's freedom.

To save look at verse 37 now. Here's the first celebration and it is the answer to my first question. Some theological traditions say it's up to you by your free will to come to God. And if you do that, then you're given to him for all eternity.

But you're determinate of that you have to come comes from you. Look at the text verse 37 says all that the father Gives me Will come to me which comes first the chicken or the egg. The giving or the coming in order for this to be a sentence in English sentence translated from the Greek.

In order for it to say anything it must say That the giving of the fathers of a people to the son comes first. Do you see that? Whenever I used to read the book of Acts, I would think the coming proceeds the being given to eternal life and So as I read through chapter 13 of Acts I thought that's what it said and somehow my mind just skirted over verse 38 because of my supposition my presupposition I assumed that all those Who came to believe in the Son of God?

Were appointed to eternal life. But Acts 13 48 actually says all who were appointed to eternal life. Believed. Which came first? The being appointed to eternal life or the believing. Acts 13 48 says all who were appointed to eternal life Believed here in John 6 37.

It says all that the father gives me will come. That's an interesting teaching, isn't it? When does the father give to the son? Prior to their coming to him prior to them having faith. Now if you look back at verse 35 coming is Believing.

Coming is like eating bread. It says in verse 35 whoever comes to me shall not hunger that you don't hunger because you're eating from the bread of life and There's this is not a different idea in verse 35.

But the same idea in a parallelism at the end of verse 35 whoever believes in me Shall never thirst so coming is believing. The idea here is having faith. What comes first? To be given of the father comes before you're believing.

That is an interesting teaching and it's hard for us to swallow especially as we esteem The will of man that we think has to be finally determinative. In truth here the Bible clearly teaches that the father gives a Gift to the son if it was my anniversary and I came home with a wonderful gift for my wife and I gave her the gift and she was so excited.

It was something she had wanted and it showed how thoughtful I had been and she said thank you. And she was so happy and I turned to her and said Well, I had to do it. It's our anniversary. I don't have a choice.

I had to get you something. Now listen, would that be particularly flattering to my wife and how do you think she would receive that comment? She'd probably leave the gift and say take it back. No, she wouldn't she's she's sweet.

But that would be putting my foot in my mouth, right? You see what's happening in verse 37 is that the father is giving a gift to his son and He is free to do it and he wants to do it he wills to do it.

It's coming from his desire his will and he offers that to his son. The Moravians who were missionaries Used to say to receive to return to the Lamb the reward of his suffering. They would go across land and sea lay down their lives for the gospel because they wanted to give to the Lamb the reward of his suffering.

That's why they were missionaries. They wanted to give him a gift. They were so thankful for salvation. They wanted to give a gift in verse 37. There is a free gift. But that gift here this church is you who believe?

You were given to the son by the father before you ever believed. You were appointed to eternal life before you believed this is that doctrine of predestination election that the father has predestined us unto adoption.

Ephesians 1 5 and Ephesians 1 11 and This is according to his will. It comes from his desire from his determination from his heart. He's not forced to do it. He's not responsive to something that you do rather you're coming to him because you're being given by the father to the son.

It goes on to say in verse 37 whoever comes to me. I will never cast out this one coming Jesus will secure their future. So the father gives the gift and the son keeps the gift and surely brings that gift.

Which is a people for his own possession? He brings that gift to heaven and it's a certain transaction can't be lost. We celebrate free will right we like Rudy's will. We like Zamperini and how strong he was.

How strong is our Savior? If he's given a gift, which is your heart your soul. Let me tell you he will not lose it. If you think Rudy is strong and Zamperini are strong and the American will to go to the moon is strong.

How much more. The will of the son to keep what the father gives him. He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. Because Jesus is not only the author but the perfecter of your faith.

He's the finisher. You see salvation is the work of God. It is the Trinitarian work of the father you are given to the son. He keeps you and by the Spirit He seals you until the day of redemption. This is the work of God.

Now that should be a clincher. We shouldn't be having all these debates for thousands of years because that's pretty clear. Which comes first, but the second question is whose will is celebrated in the Bible?

There are only a few passages that deal with this subject as a unit. This one Ephesians 1 Romans 9 and a few others here in the passage the subject is unbelief and what accounts for that unbelief and How does somebody get saved and the answer is given in the text?

Here and in Romans 9 and Ephesians 1 there's a clear teaching on this subject. But there are some teachers who like a Pinball player anybody you guys remember playing that old arcade game pinball or that little balls bouncing all around.

Boing boing boing boing from one obstacle to the next. Many people handle the Bible like that. They say okay. Well, this is here in the Bible. But 2nd Peter 3 9 and 1st Peter 2 4 and Matthew 23 37 and they're like a ping-pong ball or a pinball getting bounced all around.

Here we have a Passage of Scripture that deals with this particular subject and it expounds upon it. Not only does it give that answer to the first question in verse 37. It gives the ground. The very basis for what I'm saying to you today and that's the second point.

The Will of the Father and the Son

Whose will is free. Who can determine with absolute power. Whose will look at it with me in verses 38 and 39 that word for in the Greek it's gar it means the basis for the thing previously said. You follow me?

We Just saw in verse 37 that the giving of the Father to the Son is the issue. Well, why is that what is this based upon? Answer for I Have come down from heaven. Not to do my own will. But the will of him who sent me.

Verse 39 and this is the will of him who sent me that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me. But raise it up on the last day. Whose will is that issue here? It is the will of God. The word in Greek is thelema.

Thelema this is the will of God. Well, why does Jesus say he's not doing his will? But the will of the Father. Answer. Jesus has two wills. Correspondent to the two natures within the one person. Jesus is one person with a divine nature and a human nature.

In his human nature his human will would be to avoid the suffering of the cross, but in Gethsemane. What does he say? Not my will but yours be done. In other words in his human will through that nature of his humanity.