Session 4 | Proving the Will of God

Charlie McQuillan’s sermon on “Proving the Will of God” begins in the Garden of Gethsemane, where Christ reveals both His will and His submission to the Father’s will—“not what I will, but what Thou wilt.” McQuillan draws from Mark 14 to show that true discernment begins when our will aligns with God’s, as seen in Christ’s example. He explains that God’s will is not hidden or mystical but revealed in His Word—the counsel and thoughts of His heart made known to all generations. Using passages from Ephesians 1, Psalms, and Acts, he demonstrates that the believer can know all the will of God through Scripture, rightly divided, and that it is through understanding this revealed Word that we are able to walk in alignment with God’s purposes.

He then moves from doctrine to transformation, explaining that God works in the believer both “to will and to do of His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). McQuillan shows how this process unfolds through knowing, reckoning, and yielding—knowing the facts of God’s Word, reckoning them true by faith, and yielding one’s life accordingly. Contrasting Adam’s disobedience in the garden with Christ’s obedience, he portrays Christ as the Second Adam who, in perfect submission, took on our curse and blame. The message closes with a call to daily renewal through the Word—morning by morning—to cultivate a heart like Christ’s, one that says in every circumstance, “Not my will, but Thine be done.”