Manifestation Pt.3 How to Please God
Micah 6:6-8
With what shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old? He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?
I. INTRODUCTION
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II. A HEART MATTER: THE PURPOSE IN PLEASING
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Mark 12:33-34
And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. Now when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, He said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” But after that no one dared question Him.
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Hebrews 10:6-8
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin You had no pleasure. Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—In the volume of the book it is written of Me—To do Your will, O God.’ ” Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law)
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III. LIFE OF JESUS: PATTERN FOR PERFECTION
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Mark 8:34
When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, ‘Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.’
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1 Peter 2:21
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:”
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1 John 2:6
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.”
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IV. THE PLEASING LIFE DISPLAYED
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Matthew 3:17
And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’
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Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, ‘and was not found, because God had taken him’; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
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John 5:41
I do not receive honor from men… How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God?”
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John 5:44
not by the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.”
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V. WHAT PLEASES GOD?
- HUMBLE HEART
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Psalms 51:16:
For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.
Micah 6:6-8:
With what shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the High God? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old?
- OBEDIENCE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
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1 Samuel 15:22:
So Samuel said: ‘Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.’
- FAITH
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John 6:28-29:
Then they said to Him, ‘What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?’ Jesus answered and said to them, ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.
Hebrews 11:6:
But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
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