How to please God

Eric E Stahl · Aug 10, 2013

Davy · Aug 14, 2013

Hi Eric E Stahl: Your comment on how to please God are very interesting, but I think you have slightly missed the point of these verses.

In Hebrews 13:15, the Amplified Bible render this verse as: "Through Him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name." The context shows, Paul is not referring to prayer, he is referring to preaching with the lips about God. The first century Christians were zealous preachers and missionaries who daily publicly preached about God and his Son the Messiah. It was this that was pleasing to God. After all, that was the commission given to Christ's followers in Matthew 28:19, (NASB): "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."

As regards 1 Peter 2:5, which is rendered by the Amplified Bible as: "[Come] and, like living stones, be yourselves built [into] a spiritual house, for a holy (dedicated, consecrated) priesthood, to offer up [those] spiritual sacrifices [that are] acceptable and pleasing to God through Jesus Christ." The spiritual sacrifices Peter is talking about may very well be the same spiritual sacrifices Paul was talking about in Hebrews 13:15. After all, these letters were written to the first century evangelists who labored hard in declaring the good news of God's kingdom.

Today, we can please God by taking the initiative to preach about Christ, just like the first century Christians.

Eric E Stahl · Aug 14, 2013

Davy said:
Hi Eric E Stahl: Your comment on how to please God are very interesting, but I think you have slightly missed the point of these verses.

In Hebrews 13:15, the Amplified Bible render this verse as: "Through Him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify His name." The context shows, Paul is not referring to prayer, he is referring to preaching with the lips about God. The first century Christians were zealous preachers and missionaries who daily publicly preached about God and his Son the Messiah. It was this that was pleasing to God. After all, that was the commission given to Christ's followers in Matthew 28:19, (NASB): "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."

As regards 1 Peter 2:5, which is rendered by the Amplified Bible as: "[Come] and, like living stones, be yourselves built [into] a spiritual house, for a holy (dedicated, consecrated) priesthood, to offer up [those] spiritual sacrifices [that are] acceptable and pleasing to God through Jesus Christ." The spiritual sacrifices Peter is talking about may very well be the same spiritual sacrifices Paul was talking about in Hebrews 13:15. After all, these letters were written to the first century evangelists who labored hard in declaring the good news of God's kingdom.

Today, we can please God by taking the initiative to preach about Christ, just like the first century Christians.

Dave you preach and I will praise and God will be happy with both of us as long as we do it with the right motive.

will · Aug 14, 2013

Amen, brother Eric.

There is zero thing we can do based on our own strength to please God. Nothing at all, ever.

Our only participation in God's grand plan of salvation, is to grow spiritually to be the image ('icon') our savior and Lord, God's only begotten Son.

Which cannot be done without a willing, submissive heart to the Scriptures and the Power of The Holy Spirit which is given to us the moment we receive Him as our Savior.

spirit1st · Aug 14, 2013

What the Father wants from His children is a Close Relationship with us always . And for us to Hear Him and obey Him. He then will use us to help others and be a blessing to many.

He wants to use us to do the same works our LORD JESUS did. We just need to fast and pray and do what He says do. It not hard it simple.

But so many want to tell us what to do and we might listen to that and Not be Hearing or obeying Him? It a Very personal ONE on ONe Relationship forever more and later ? HE will reward us for listening and obeying.

He will do great works and miracles though You if we Hear and obey Him.
1Jn_2:20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

1Co_2:10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

He made everything we will ever need for us already ,Now it up to us to live it . The Question is ? Will we or not?

james1523 · Aug 14, 2013

Eric E Stahl said:
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1 Peter 2:1-5
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood,

to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 13:12-16
12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
16 But to do good and to communicate (share) forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Do you understand? Your prayers of thanksgiving from your heart are of great value to God!

Why?

It is of your free will.

I believe you're on the mark there, it is about our prayer, our praise, our thanksgiving. But we can go a little deeper into what the verses are saying, the passages you are quoting are much richer.

I noticed that in vs 13:15 , you did not underline or bold the very important two words "by him". Without these two words, it seems we are praising the Father "by ourselves", but this is not the case. We must praise the Father "by Christ". That is, not I, but Christ.

Because our righteousness is like filthy rags, only Christ is the acceptable perfect sacrifice to God. If we praise God by our self, apart from Christ, we do not please Him at all.

vs 13,14, is about going outside the status quo of religion, 'outside the camp', and bearing the reproach. This means leaving all the man-made denominations and institutions of man. Because as 1 Peter 2 says, we are living stones, we are not dead stones. Living stones are active stones, doing the will of the Father, and not merely "attending church services" or conducting religious activities. Whatever we do must be done in , by and through the Spirit.

The reference to seeking the city to come (vs 14), is the New Jerusalem, which is our mother (Gal 4:26), spoken of extensively in scripture. For the average Christian today, Heaven is the goal, but for the early Christians, the goal was not Heaven, but the city to come, the New Jerusalem. Actually, the New Jerusalem is a city built with living stones, which is us. The New Jerusalem is not a physical building but a metaphor for the Church in all her glory.

And it is also about Christ's prayer, praise and thanksgiving. Hebrews 2:12 He says,“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters; in the assembly I will sing your praises.”
It is not speaking just about our individual prayer, thanksgiving and praise, but the churches praise and thanksgiving as a whole, through Christ.
Specifically, as Hebews 2:12 says, Christ is singing the Father's praises in the assembly.
The assembly is all the brothers and sisters of Christ, coming together for fellowship in the Spirit.
The assembly is not a particular denomination, or organization, that comes together for a goal other than the fellowship in the Spirit.

Christ, who lives in us , praises the Father from within us (Rom 8:15). And we, praise the Father by His Spirit. This is proper thanksgiving, praise, and prayer, which is an acceptable sacrifice. This is how we praise the Father through Christ (or 'by Him', Heb 13:15) .

So to summarize what Hebrews 13 is saying about thanksgiving,
The sacrifice which is acceptable to God is the praise and thanksgiving that comes from the Spirit of His Son in our hearts, and by which we declare the Father's praises from our own heart, with the brothers and sisters in the assembly who have come out of the religious camp, and seek the Heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, which is to come. It is not an individual thing, our individual sacrifices alone cannot satisfy the Father, He wants all His children in the assembly to praise Him. It is the whole sacrifice of praise from the assembly which please God.

Let's not be deceived: thanksgiving and praises which come from the human self, for religious reasons, not from the Spirit, and from religious organizations that do not have the New Jerusalem as their goal, is not an acceptable sacrifice to God and does not please Him. This is because John 4:24 "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."

Eric E Stahl · Aug 14, 2013

How to please Jesus
Matthew 25

31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

At our judgment Jesus will personally thank us for each kindness we have done for one of the brethern as though we did it for him personally.

Boanerges · Aug 15, 2013

If you want to please God all of the above is great, but you really only need one thing - be found in Christ. In Christ we are the righteousness of God Himself and He loves us just as He loves the Son.
Our job then is to abide in Christ; as we abide in this heavenly Vine Love flows through us- Love does all things pleasing to the Father's heart.

spirit1st · Aug 15, 2013

We never get judged , Because we cannot sin. But our works are judged and if we gain rewards ? Then we get our rewards.

But we judge the world and the fallen angels , that another reason they hate us so much.

We have the mind of Christ Jesus , so it the same mind as our Lords that judges them .

1Co_6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
1Co_6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

It really amazing what GOD has done for the few willing to accept His gospel as truth and Him from our heart [Spirit] as LORD

It All easy to understand when we understand we get His type Mind and Nature at salvation in our New Spirit[new Creature]

But we must give a;ll we have and are to Him at salvation . Of course He wants nothing we have. He only wants a true daily Relationship with us . Just as our Dads and Moms want.

There is no way we will not worship Him and praise him if we truly get close to Him and understand just how much He done for us and given us and has so much ahead for us.

clark thompson · Aug 16, 2013

To be in God's will is to please Him but, to not be is sin.

spirit1st · Aug 16, 2013

The Relationship is prefect .Between our Spirit and it mind and our LORD JESUS .
It not about our weak flesh.
people are always wanting to judge it by our weak sin filled dying flesh. There is no good thing in the flesh .

So many are being kept from serving the Lord by others talking and looking down on there weak flesh. Many baby Christians are being hurt and even kicked out of churches and fellowships because they have been born again as a baby into His kingdom.

We are Not helping the new child of God . He said to help them . Not put them down or reject them or turn our face away from them . They need the strong child of God helping them . Then They too can grow strong and help others.

No one comes out a new strong mature child of God . It takes time and love from others .

We judge others who are not even sinning as if they are sinning?

We are to be the examples to the younger ones. Not there lord and masters.

Love the key it gives mercy and grace. You be surprised just how much a little love helps a person over come .

Our rewards will be based on how much Love we have shown others?

Just my way of thinking on this.

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