BIBLICAL FOCUS | PLEASING GOD (1)

1. Pleasing God.

a) There are many key terms and concepts in Scripture like faith, hope, love, joy, grace, peace, pleasing the Lord, etc. that we come across as we read our Bibles, but often these are just vague concepts for many people. 

b) Here we have some biblical focus on what it means to please the Lord as it is found in the Word of God.  

2. Pleasing the Lord should be the great ambition of every believers’ heart. As you can see, one of the motives is the Bema. 

2 Corinthians 5:9-10 

Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

1 Thessalonians 4:1 

Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you may excel still more. 

3. Pleasing the Lord is not only to be a primary aim of every believer, but something at which we should all seek to excel, not to be accepted, but because we love the Lord and because of future rewards. 

Hebrews 13:21 

Equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever.