BIBLICAL FOCUS | PLEASING GOD (2)

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. Ability to please the Lord is ultimately the result of His work in our lives as the Great Shepherd. 

Ephesians 5:8-10 
For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light (for the fruit of the light (consists) in all goodness and righteousness and truth, trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:1 
As you received from us (instruction) as to how you ought to walk and please God. 

3. Pleasing the Lord involves discovering and doing what pleases the Lord through living in the light of the Word. Pleasing the Lord means doing His will. 

1 Thessalonians 2:4 
But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men but God, who examines our hearts.

Galatians 1:10 
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. 

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