Currently, we’re in a message series which I’ve entitled “Worship Can Change Your Life.” Worship is one of the five biblical purposes for your life. God created you to worship and He gave you a free will to choose what or whom you would worship. The only worship that makes sense is to worship your creator, God Himself. However, many people worship created things. The Bible calls worshipping created things foolish and it leads to big problems in your life.
When you worship God, you build a relationship with Him. You draw near to God and God draws near to you. That’s a good thing to have God close to you. Worship is all about pleasing God. If you do things that aren’t pleasing to God, it certainly is not worship. So, if we can learn to do the things that please God, we are learning to worship Him, we are building our relationship with God. So today, I’ve entitled my message “Learning To Please God.”
You can learn a lot of God as your Father by observing children interacting with their parents. Have you ever been in a store where a child was screaming and yelling about buying something and the parent was dragging them out of the store as fast as possible? What kind of expression was on the face of that parent? I’m sure it wasn’t a smile, they weren’t pleased with their child. In our theme picture today, the father is smiling at his daughter and they are enjoying their relationship. She is pleasing him as he reads to her and she is smiling back. That’s a picture of how you and I should please our heavenly Father.
Pleasing God is a necessity for a believer. NIV Galatians 6:8 The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. So I want to learn how to please God. Our world is full of people who are not God pleasers but self pleasers. Our world is similar to the world that existed in the time of Noah. Jesus said in NIV Matthew 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. We’re closer today than we were yesterday to the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ and our world is becoming more and more like it was in the days of Noah.
In a world full of evil, there was one man who was different, his name was Noah. The Bible says that NCV Genesis 6:8 But Noah pleased the Lord. God wants you and I to be radically different than the people around us. He wants you to be like Noah. He wants us to learn how to be God-pleasers and truly worship God. So how can we learn to please God?
To hear more about this topic, listen to my February 26, 2006 message entitled Learning To Please God
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