Title: The Saints Who Make the Father Rejoice
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Title: The Saints Who Make the Father Rejoice
Bible: Ephesians 5:15-21
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In this session, we will share a sermon with the title of “Saints who please the Father.”
These days, we are sharing the fellowship of the Word with each other through “purpose driven life” every evening, and we receive a lot of grace through the Word.
What we are most grateful for while sharing the Word is that the tribe wants God to be glorified through us and wants to be pleased with us.
I am thankful for choosing me, for saving me, for setting me up in the class of salvation and for making me a child of God, but I couldn't help but be moved by the words that He wants to receive joy through us.
Ladies and gentlemen, there are more than 6 billion people living together on this planet.
However, when we leave this world in the not-too-distant future, not everyone will live together.
It will be clearly divided into those who will live in heaven and those who will live in hell.
So, who will live in heaven and who will live in hell?
Those who will live in heaven are those who have been blessed with a good relationship with God while on this earth, and those who will live in hell are those who live according to what is right in my opinion regardless of God.
Therefore, while we live in this world, we must live a life that pleases God and brings glory to God.
So, what kind of life should we live in order to live a life that pleases God?
In order to please God, we must become saints who have a good relationship with God.
God is omnipotent and omnipotent, and as the Creator, He created the universe and all things, and He reigns until now.
He not only redeemed all our sins by sending His only begotten Son Jesus into this world to bear the cross for us, but He also has absolute sovereignty and is in control of our life and death.
He is also the God who redeems us from all our sins and curses and enables us to receive the blessing of Abraham.
Therefore, it is most important to live in a good relationship with God, who is the source of all things.
Anyone who has a good relationship with God and lives pleasing to God will live eternally with God and receive abundant blessings.
The secret to living pleasing God is only to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
As the words of today's text say, do not get drunk and live a life full of the Holy Spirit, not living a life of debauchery.
No matter how determined and strong our will is, it is because of our weakness that things do not go well in order to please God.
However, you can receive the filling of the Holy Spirit.
This is the way to live pleasing to God.
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So, what are the specific ways we can please God?
First, we must become saints who always praise and live in order to please God.
If we look at the words of verse 19,
“Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your hearts.”
Says.
If you look at Ephesians 1:4-6,
“He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world, so that we might be holy and blameless before him in love, according to his pleasure he predestined us to be his sons through Jesus Christ, freely given to us in the one he loved. to the praise of the glory of his grace.”
Said.
In this way, God clearly states the purpose of choosing us before the foundation of the world.
It is for us to praise God.
According to Isaiah 43:21,
“This people I have formed for myself, that they may sing my praises.”
Said.
God delights in our praise.
Also, when we sing praises, not only God is pleased, but also the amazing work of evil spirits leaving us takes place.
In 1 Samuel 16:23,
“When the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, David took the harp and played it with his hand, and Saul was refreshed and healed, and the evil spirit departed from him.”
Said.
As David sang, the evil spirit in Saul left.
Also, looking at the words of Acts 16:22-26,
Even though Paul and Silas are being held captive, God helps them when they praise God.
As a result of this incident, the jailer's entire family was saved, and the amazing work of establishing the Philippian church took place.
As saints, we must now become saints who sing praises and become saints that please God.
God still wants to receive our praise, and He wants His glory to be revealed through our praise.
Second, we should always live in gratitude for everything in order to please God.
Let's look at verse 20 of today's text.
“Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”
Said.
Also in Psalm 69:30-31,
“This will please the LORD more than offering an ox, a bull with horns and hooves. The meek will see this and rejoice. Renew your hearts, you who seek God.”
Therefore, when we pray, when we sing, when we serve, when we give alms, when we evangelize, even when we drive and go on the road, whatever we do, I hope that we give thanks to God and live.
In addition, whether good or bad things have come to us, whether our prayers have been answered or not, please give thanks for everything.
Even if he passed away because his illness did not get better, it is truly a great faith to be thankful for.
He is a man of great faith.
It is because those who have little faith are not thankful and cannot do it.
A person who is grateful for everything is a person who believes that God’s will will be done and gives thanks, and a person who believes that all things work together for good.
A prayer of thanksgiving works miracles.
Bring God's blessings.
Example>
A businessman in the United States has an 8-year-old daughter who suffered a brain injury in a car accident, leaving her father unrecognizable.
One day, while the father was praying for this daughter, suddenly a voice in his heart said, “Aren’t you grateful for your daughter’s hard work for eight years?”
Startled, he shook his head and said, 'What? My daughter has been struggling for eight years and I want to thank her?’
From then on, troubles began to arise in his mind.
It seemed to me that the voice of ‘thank you for your daughter as long as you get in the car’ kept ringing in my ears.
Each time, I thought it was Satan's voice and cried out, Satan, go away.
How sad it is for my daughter to suffer, but what kind of gratitude comes out!
Then, a small voice was heard saying, ‘This is your last chance, thank you for your daughter’s hard work for the past 8 years.
He made a decision at the voice saying ‘the last’ and prayed earnestly, ‘Thank you for my daughter’s hard work for 8 years.’
And I went to my daughter's room.
To my surprise, my daughter was screaming that she wanted to see her father.
I quickly opened the door and went in, and as the weeping began to rise, the father hugged his daughter tightly and shed tears of emotion.
Indeed, after eight years of hard work, the daughter's mind has returned to its original state.
It is the prayer that we were thankful for in the midst of being thankful that brought about this wonderful miracle.
Do you feel that there are no conditions for gratitude in our lives right now?
no.
We should be thankful for the grace of salvation alone, and we should be thankful even if we were born on the cross of the Lord.
When thanksgiving does not stop on our lips, God is pleased and is preparing the conditions for greater gratitude.
From now on, I ask in the name of the Lord that you will become all the saints who confess your thanks again.
Third, we must always live a life of submission to one another in order to please God.
Look at verse 21 of the text.
“Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ”
To submit to one another means to be in slavery to one another.
It's about serving and serving each other.
All officers of the church are servants.
All believers, including the pastor, are servants of the Lord.
There is only one owner.
Only the Lord is Lord.
God is pleased when we have the heart of a servant, obey, and serve.
Therefore, you should not insist on your own feelings and opinions.
For example, the person serving is the person who, after an intense small group get-together, cleans up for the next person.
As I said at the beginning, these days, when studying “Life Driven by Purpose,” I often drink iced coffee to share.
Sometimes my wife rides, sometimes the butler rides, and sometimes I ride.
We did it with the heart of serving each other without deciding who should do it.
But in my heart, Minwoo student comes to mind.
So, I made Minwoo student try coffee first.
But the surprising thing is that you are now drinking coffee even if you don't order it.
There are many times when I feel like a church with a big vision in the future while looking at our Servant Church.
In addition to this, in the many things that our church can do, I see that the members are always doing well with one heart.
A church that serves one another is bound to revive.
Do you know why?
Because God wants to serve, and He delights in humility.
According to Colossians 3:23,
“Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly, as to the Lord and not to men.”
Said.
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Organize your words.
Our greatest purpose as saints is to please God.
When God rejoices, we are happy, and when we rejoice, God is pleased.
I hope that you will become believers who please God by entrusting everything to God and obedience, not us who make your hopes with the things of the world and hide the glory of God.
To that end, as I said before, we pray that all of our saints who always praise God with praise, seek God's greater grace with a confession of thanks, become one by serving one another, and fulfill God's good works to please God. Congratulations in your name.