Remember! When I refer to person in the Godhead in any blog, I am referring either to singular person (one-of-three) or to the collective person (three-in-one) of the Triune.
God’s Will covers everything, of course, dear tour companion, everything but everything.
Based on the certain implications of Blog #54, The Answer, and equally certain significance of the Godhead in all things (described in Blog #55: The Sweep of God’s Thinking); I found that an abundance of derivatives naturally flow from certainties of this kind. Things such as . . .
God’s Will is more inclusive than usually realized.
For example, God wanted community, so He made community in the Godhead.
God wanted life in the Creation, so He breathed life into it.
What God wants to happen, happens—in His own good time.
In a nutshell, in the Godhead, Will becomes the tie that binds, that is, it becomes the agent of definition, accountability and control of all elements of the soul of the Godhead—of the mind, of the emotions, and yet to come, of the personality and the Life of the soul. In other words, God’s Will determines all things within the Godhead and in existence, and He determines it (wills it) pre-Creation (We keep coming back to this truth, don’t we?).
So, it pays to dwell on these things of the Godhead and His Will, things such as the emergence of the concept of Justice in the Godhead that we toured in Blog #52, #45.
There are more dynamics to the Justice System established by the Godhead’s Will other than the “crime and punishment” cluster alone. There is the moral law with moral imperatives cluster, the good versus evil cluster, the law and order cluster, the sin (lawlessness) versus righteousness cluster, there is the personal law versus public law cluster, the guilt versus innocence cluster, the accusations (with heavy disapproval of false accusations) versus evidence cluster, the condemnation versus forgiveness cluster, the ingratitude versus appreciation cluster, the 7 deadly sins versus the cardinal virtues cluster and so on. God’s will for Justice has a huge part in everything in existence, be it the Godhead itself or the Creation.
The tenets and operations of the Justice System in the Godhead can be explored in depth in the Old Testament. As an overview, Vine’s points to this system in the word study of the verb to judge, and the noun, judgment (page 125-126). According to Vine’s, the Hebrew verb, sapat, Strong’s #8199, means . . .
“to judge, deliver, rule. . . . this root has a judicial sense.
Sapat refers to the activity of a third party who sits over two parties at odds with one another. This third party hears their cases against one another and decides where the right is and what to do about it—he functions as both judge and jury. . .
Sapat also speaks of the accomplishing of a sentence. Both this concept and those of hearing the case and rendering a decision are seen in Genesis 18:25, where Abraham speaks of ‘the Judge [literally, “One who judges”] of all the earth.’ In 1 Samuel 3:13 the emphasis is solely on ‘delivering’ the sentence: ‘For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth . . .’
Sapat can be used not only of an act of deliverance, but of a process whereby order and law are maintained within a group.’
As a noun, Hebrew, mispat, Strong’s #4941, ‘judgment . . . This word has two main senses, the first deals with the act of sitting as a judge, hearing a case, and rendering a proper verdict. Ecclesiastes 12:14 is one such occurrence: ‘ For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
The noun s’patim refers to ‘acts of judgment.’ One of the 16 occurrences is in Numbers 33:4: ‘For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the Lord had smitten among them, upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.’”
To be continued . . .
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