PLEASING GOD.<\/p>\n
"Ye ought to please God" (1Th_4:1). <\/p>\n
I. Those who are not pleasing God.<\/p>\n
1. They that live only for themselves are not pleasing God. "We ought not to please ourselves, for even Christ pleased not Himself" (Rom_15:1-3). Self is all the god that many worship.<\/p>\n
2. They that only seek to please men are not pleasing God. "Do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ" (Gal_1:10).<\/p>\n
3. They that are in the flesh cannot please God. "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit" (Rom_8:8-9).<\/p>\n
4. They that have no faith cannot please God. "Without faith it is impossible to please Him" (Heb_11:6). A man might have faith in the minister, in the Church, and Bible, and yet have no faith in God.<\/p>\n
II. Those who are pleasing God.<\/p>\n
1. Those who ask right things from God. "David asked for an understanding heart to discern between good and bad, and the speech pleased the Lord" (1Ki_3:9-10).<\/p>\n
2. Those who are separated for God. "No man that warreth entangleth himself, that he may please Him who hath chosen him" (2Ti_2:4). How numerous are the entanglements!<\/p>\n
3. Those who are wholly yielded to God. Now God "working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight" (Heb_13:20-21).<\/p>\n
4. Those who walk with God. "Enoch walked with God" (Gen_5:24), "and he pleased God" (Heb_11:5).<\/p>\n
5. Those who praise God. "I will praise the Name of God. This also shall please the Lord" (Psa_69:30-31). All singing is not praising. God judgeth the heart.<\/p>\n
III. Promises to those who please God.<\/p>\n
1. "Their enemies shall be at peace with them" (Pro_16:7). This is a different thing from being at peace with our enemies. They surrender.<\/p>\n
2. Their prayers shall be answered (1Jn_3:22). If we are always doing what pleases Him we may always expect what we ask.<\/p>\n
3. Their name shall be everlasting (Isa_56:4-5). "Choose the things that please Me, and I will give an everlasting name." "They shall be called by His Name, and His Name endureth for ever."<\/p>\n
Autor: James Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PLEASING GOD. "Ye ought to please God" (1Th_4:1). I. Those who are not pleasing God. 1. They that live only for themselves are not pleasing God. "We ought not to please ourselves, for even Christ pleased not Himself" (Rom_15:1-3). Self is all the god that many worship. 2. They that only seek to please men … Continue reading “0138. PLEASING GOD.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}