December 20th 2015
A Service that Pleases God
We are going to share something this morning for about 10 to 15 minutes while we are talking about the activity that we are having here in the city and in our church.
We sometimes say that we are going to a service, we have a service this morning ,we’re going to go praise God this morning at Church...
That’s a word that we often use in a sense or another. But today, we are going to talk about a service, a service that pleases God. A service that God wants you to give to him yourself. Because the Lord is waiting for you, to not just only give your life to him, but you also be to him an offering, an offering…
That’s the reason why he says in Romans, «Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. ». That’s the service we’re going to speak about this morning.
To give that service to God, you have to position yourself in a certain way to be acceptable to God. To give that service to God, that means to serve God, because giving a service to God means serving God, you have to be holy. That’s the reason why the Lord says that you have to be an offering.
One of the characteristics of the offering is that it has to be without fault. To offer that offering to God, that offering has to be without fault. That’s the reason why, my brothers and sisters, the Lord is waiting for you to live a life of holiness, so when you serve God, you may be able to give him a service that pleases him. And the bible says «The joy of the Lord is our strength.» So, if you please God, you also going to be strong my brother. A life of holiness is living a life in the will of God.
So, the Lord is telling us, because our God is very patient and loves us so much. He loves us profoundly that he’s exhorting us. He has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. He is waiting for you and me to be saved. But for me and you to be saved, we have to give our lives to the Lord Jesus-Christ…
How can you give God a good service, if you have not given your life to Christ? That’s why Paul says to the Romans “Offer yourself to God”. Meaning when you offer yourself to God, you are truly this sacrifice because your will is under the will of God. What the Lord is asking you to do is what you do, you’re not asking yourself questions, because you are under his will. You are that offering that pleases God. Amen!
So, you will be able to give him a good service. The offering that you will be giving to him is going to be an offering that smells good. That offering will be a good perfume. So, when you’re going to do that prayer, because the prayer is an offering, it going to smell good before God. So, when you’re going to be liberating, it’s going to be a perfume that smells good before God…
So, when you’re exercising the ministry that God has giving to you, which are the talents that God has given not only to you, but for the service of other people. That’s also going to be a perfume that smells good.
What the Lord is expecting from you and me, is for us to serve him. To serve him yes, but according to the norms. To serve him yes, in holiness, in the fear of God, in the word of God. Because when you give your life to the Lord Jesus-Christ, you don’t exist anymore, but it is Jesus-Christ who directs your life. That’s the way you become the true worshiper. Because the bible says, “The true worshipers, worship him in truth and in spirit”.
So, simple exhortation... I’m asking you brethren, to reconsider your life, to reconsider your relationship with God. What’s your position with the Lord? Are you that offering to God? The one who’s given his life to Jesus-Christ.
It’s the verb to give… When you give, it doesn’t belong to you anymore. When you give to the Lord, you don’t look again and ask what happen to that thing that you gave…You are that sacrifice that the Lord uses in his own way. But for the Lord to hold you with his powerful hand and uses you, you got to be holy
May the Lord hold you… We always say often, I want to see the hand of the Lord in my life, but how can the Lord hold you if you don’t live that life that pleases him? How can he holds you, if you live your life in sin? How that God’s going to hold you? He is a God that is holy. That’s the word that we like to preach here. The word that talks about holiness, sanctification, and the fear of God. You are waiting for great things from God, but you don’t want to live a life that pleases him. You want to be blessed but don’t want to live a life that triggers the blessings
Talking about blessings, the bible says « If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.» You are blessed if you know these things. If you know them and practice them, that when your blessing will become truly a blessing.
The blessing…We like to be blessed, but we are often outside of the word of God. We want to be blessed but we don’t want to do what God is expecting us to do.
The lord want to tell you this day, to reconsider your relationship with him, Reconsider what you’re living with him, because the service we are talking about this morning, it’s a life, it’s a relationship that you have to have with him. It’s not a local service on Sunday, it’s not s ceremony but it a life that you live with him, it’s a relationship that you have with God.
Reconsider the relationship that you have with Christ, and that you will be pleasing God. And when you please God, you will be strong. Why? because the joy of the Lord is our strength.
May the Lord bless his Church.