The Inscrutable Question: Gaining Understanding & Insight into the Will of God Demands Submission to Imperative Moods, Eph 5:17

	35)	Remember, an imperative mood is a challenge to the believer’s volition to make a conscious alteration in behavior beginning with his thinking.  Volition must make the correction for the behavior to follow suit.
	36)	Therefore, very believer must be constantly on the alert to determine his spiritual status quo and make corrections if necessary.
	37)	Acquiring insight and comprehension of the will of God takes consistency of spiritual growth and the moral courage to apply the principles learned.
	38)	That the objective is comprehension and insight into the will of God is introduced by the interrogative pronoun:
t…j / tis / -	 “what”	This is followed by the elliptical verb:
e„m… / eimi / -	“to be” translated “is.”  We know that this is the verb to insert here because of the predicate nominative of the noun:
qšlhma / thelema / -	“will, plan, or purpose”	This is said to belong to:
kÚrioj / kurios / -	“of the Lord.”	This is the title of our Savior’s deity.  We must learn the thinking of Christ in order to learn the will, plan, and purpose of God for our lives.
Ephesians 5:17 - Therefore, stop becoming fools but keep on gaining insight and comprehension of what the will, plan, and purpose of God is.
	39)	The purpose of Jesus Christ’s work on the cross is that He might be glorified in time and eternity by the spiritual growth of those who believe in Him.
	40)	The plan of God to accomplish this objective is revealed through spiritual growth.
	41)	The will of God is that each believer after learning His plan will execute it through the enabling power of the Holy Spirit.
	42)	Therefore, the will of God for every believer is found in every imperative mood of the New Testament.
	43)	The end result of your submission to the imperative moods of Scripture is divine guidance.
	44)	Therefore, when you choose to be led by the imperative moods of Scripture you are under the ministry of the Holy Spirit, you decisions are being made from a position of strength, and you are executing the plan of God for your life.
	45)	At times you will have no idea where your decisions will take you but you have learned through experience that you can trust God’s Word.
	46)	By following His lead you make the right decisions and let God take care of the details.
	47)	In the end it is your submission to God’s will and loyalty to truth that enables God to lead you to the high ground where you experience life beyond your wildest dreams.
	48)	God honors his word even when it is found in your soul.  God will bless the believer who places his faith and trust in His word.
	49)	When you redeem the time allotted to you to the maximum and invest it all the way to spiritual maturity, dividends will be conveyed from your escrow account that are exceedingly abundantly beyond all your could ever ask or think.
	50)	One major distraction remains to be dealt with among the Ephesian believers and Paul addresses it in:
Ephesians 5:18 - [NASV] And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit.