...Christ taught to pray, "Thy kingdom come : thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven ;" and said, " I came not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me;" and, " not my will but thy will be done," when he was to drink that bitter cup,...

...the precepts of the blessed Jesus — he declared " my doctrine is not mine but his that sent me," " I came not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me" and " for this end was I born and for this I came into the world that I might bear...

...we are called upon to imitate the sacrifice of himself in his will. Even the Son of God declared, " I came not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me." This was his grand lesson, this was his distinguishing character. Self-will is the...

...armies of heaven &c.' — that is, He doeth according to his New Testament in the armies of heaven &c,! "I came not to do my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me' — that is, not my own New Testament, but the New Testament of my Father who...

...happiness of their nature. ' My meat and drink,' saith Christ, ' is to DO THE WILL of Him that sent Me.' ' I came not to do MY OWN WILL, but the will of Him that sent Me.' But is not this Lord, who thus surrendered the acting of the finite will within...

...which was shewn thee on the mount ; that is, learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart ; for I came not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me; nay, I became obedient to God the Father unto death, even the death of the cross....

...ought to be the maxim of ours. " My meat ig to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish his work. I came not to do my own will, but the will of him that eent me." My brethren ! this defines our duty as well as the work of Christ. This is what...

...Son can do notning of himself; but what he seeeth the tather do, the same things he also doeth ; " "I came not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me;" and all such passages. On this kingdom he entered after his resurrection, when he...

...is decided in the negative, on the authority of many passages, the last of which is John vi. 38, " I came not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me." 9. The study and meditation of the Scriptures was regarded as the great means of...

...and him that cometh to Me I will in no wife caft out. For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that fent Me. And this is the FATHER'S will which hath fent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I mould fhould lofe nothing, but...