2ND JULY, 2023
PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON
LIVING TO PLEASE GOD
Matthew 3:17 KJV
And lo a voice from heaven, saying, ‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’
There are three categories of Christians:
(1) Those that do not please God (1Thess. 2:15).
(2) Those that please God (Heb. 11:5).
(3) Those that are well-pleasing to Him (Matt. 3:17).
God wants to see the travail of His soul and be satisfied (Isa. 53:11).
His ultimate desire is to have sons and daughters that are well-pleasing to Him. It is the sin nature in the soul (the will, mind and emotions) and body (together known as ‘the flesh’), that hinders us from pleasing God (Rom. 8:7-8).
Why should we live to please God?
– It guarantees answers to prayers (1Jn. 3:22).
– It guarantees living long to fulfill our destiny (1Cor. 10:5).
– It is the pathway to inheriting the Spirit without measure (Matt. 3:16-17).
– It is those that are well pleasing to God and those that are pleasing Him that shall be caught up (Rev. 12:1-2; 5) like the Lord Jesus (Acts 1:9) and Enoch (Heb. 11:5).
How then, do we please God and become well-pleasing?
By suffering self-denial to give time in prayer with fasting, reading and studying the Word (Rom. 8:12-14). This enables us to generate and release sufficient power to rule over the carnal flesh, and to obtain first, the borrowed anointing as sons of God.
As we continue to totally flush out the sin nature from the soul and body, we become well-pleasing to God, like the Lord Jesus was all the time (Jn. 8:29). Doing this will enable us to inherit the fullness of the Spirit, that is the Spirit without measure (Jn. 3:34).
1Peter 4:1-2 AMP
So since Christ suffered in the flesh for us, arm yourselves with the same thought and purpose [patiently to suffer rather than fail to please God]. For whoever has suffered in the flesh [having the mind of Christ] is done with [intentional] sin [has stopped pleasing himself and the world, and pleases God], So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills.
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