What's Your Ambition?

I. Is your ambition to please God? (II Cor. 5:7-9; Gal. 1:10)

• A. Things that will not please God.

--Prov. 20:23; Jer. 6:20; Rom. 8:8; I Cor. 10:5ff

• B. Things that will please God.

--Heb. 11:5-6; Heb. 13:16; I John 3:21-22; Eph. 5:8-10; Matt. 3:17

Ask "How can I please God today?

II. Is your ambition to live a quiet life? (I Thess. 4:11-12).

• A. The concept of quietness.
• B. The lack of quietness.
• C. The importance of quietness. (Psalm 46:10; 23:1-2; 131:2; Isa. 32:17; 30:15).
• D. The blessing of quietness.

III. Is your ambition to make Christ known? (Rom. 15:20-22).

• A. We need the proper focus.
• B. People need the Lord. (Acts 4:12; Eph. 2:1, 12-13; II Thess. 1:8-10; Rom. 15:20).

Is your ambition the same as God's ?