Pleasing to God (Heb. 11:1-7)
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INTRO:
The power of approval and support from a friend, coach, boss, teacher, leader, etc…
Power of approval...
Cooperstown loss and my final game of baseball...
power of my dads words I love you and Im proud of you…
PROBLEM:
As humans, in order to live fulfilled and holy and joyfilled lives, we need approval from God. Its how we are wired.
Some of us in here either dont have the approval of God or dont feel that
because you are living in sin and you dont believe in him
OR because you have a need to be constantly reminded of the Father’s love for you and for the things he wants for your life
“At your right hand there are pleasures forevermore”
Tonight, my goal is for you to know that you know that you know that God approves of you and loves you. I want you to experience the kind of power in your life that is the effect of knowing that. And from God’s word tonight i want to show you how you CAN KNOW how to please God, there is one way, and we will see that way tonight.
Main Point:
We get God’s fatherly approval and ever-living power when we take him at his Word.
We get God’s fatherly approval and ever-living power when we take him at his Word.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation.
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Abel’s faith in God allowed him to live a daily life that God approved of even though he was a sinner.
Abel’s faith in God allowed his death to be meaningful and supportive.
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
By faith, Enoch walked with God and escaped death itself, even though he was a sinner.
God loved him, approved of him, and spared him from death because he trusted God in his daily life all the way to the end.
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Trusting God at his word is the only way to please God…
Do you believe this twofold reality?
Not just that God exists… but that he cares deeply for those who just believe him.
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Noah’s faith empowered him for action and saved him from coming destruction.
Faith, and God’s approval that comes from it, is a gift from God himself.
Faith, and God’s approval that comes from it, is a gift from God himself.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Faith in God’s word fills us with power to run the race of life with him.
Faith in God’s word fills us with power to run the race of life with him.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
LOOKING to Jesus
Lay aside your sin, Lay aside your worries, your weights and your stresses, trust God at his word, know you are loved by looking to Jesus
