Will of God.

 The Will of God.

Joh_6:29  Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

We believe and once we believe on Jesus Christ, we believe in what our Lord believes, and our Lord believes in the law of God and states that the law - the entire royal law - the ten commandments- are summed up this way--

Mat 22:36  Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 

Mat 22:37  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

Mat 22:38  This is the first and great commandment. 

Mat 22:39  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

Mat 22:40  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

Loving God, loving each other- on these two principles encompass all the laws- all.

The law contains the WILL of God for us. 

When we DO the will of God we are living as He would have us live as outlined in His word, in His law. We see the perfection of the law and realize our inability to keep the law of our own accord. We MUST live in Christ- this is the WORK of God, BELIEVING in Christ. When we believe we trust the HE has kept the law perfectly for us, He has lived the will of God perfectly. He wills to live in us, Christ in us our hope. 

Col 1:27  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory

Christ is forever our hope. We know God's will for us is to be His, now and always.

(Excerpt - EJ Waggoner)

Rom_2:17  Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God

Boasting of God.

This is something different from making one's boast in the Lord. Ps. 34:2. 

Psa 34:2  My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 

Instead of rejoicing in the Lord's salvation, the Jews boasted over their superior knowledge of God. They did indeed have more than others, but they had nothing that they had not received, yet they boasted as though they had not received it.  They glorified themselves, rather than God, for the knowledge that they had; and therefore they put themselves in the condition of the heathen who "when they knew God, glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations." 

(Albert Barnes wrote- 'Makest thy boast in God - Thou dost boast, or glory, that thou hast the knowledge of the true God, while other nations are in darkness. On this account the Jew felt himself far elevated above all other people, and despised them. It was true that they only had the true knowledge of God, and that he had declared himself to be their God, Deu_4:7; Psa_147:19-20; but this was not a ground for boasting, but for gratitude. This passage shows us that it is much more common to boast of privileges than to be thankful for them, and that it is no evidence of piety for a man to boast of his knowledge of God. An humble, ardent thankfulness that we have that knowledge a thankfulness which leads us not to despise others, but to desire that they may have the same privilege - is an evidence of piety.')

Rom_1:21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Whatever reader is inclined to censure the ancient Jews for their vain boasting, let him remember how he himself has often felt on comparing himself with the inhabitants of heathen countries, and with the "lowest class" in his own land.

God's Will His Law. 

Rom_2:17  Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Rom_2:18  And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law

The apostle says that the Jew knows the will of God, because he is instructed out of the law.  This is sufficient to show that the law of God is his will. 

Indeed, no argument should be needed on this point.  The will of any government is expressed in its law. 

Where there is an absolute ruler, his will is always law.

God is an absolute ruler, although not an arbitrary one, and as his will is the sole rule of right, it follows that his will is law. But his law is summed up in the Ten Commandments; therefore the Ten Commandments contain a summary statement of the will of God.