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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

We desperately need the church for love, for maturity and preparedness, for spiritual care. It is arrogant, rebellious, self-reliant, God-indicting pride to conclude that the church is an optional extra to the Christian life. We need everything God designs for us. Everything. To reject what God designs for His glory and our good is spiritual suicide. To reject the church is to take your own spiritual life.
Thabiti Anyabwile

It is doubtless a most joyful thought that we have redemption through the blood of our adorable Savior. But I have no less comfort in the thought that He is exalted to give repentance and remission of sins... Repentance is in every view so desirable, so necessary, so suited to honor God, that I seek that above all. The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. I long to be in my proper place, my hand on my mouth, and my mouth in the dust... I feel this to be safe ground. Here I cannot err.
Charles Simeon

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What pleases God?

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series What pleases God

Continuing the topic of what is pleasing to God, here are several more entries for our list:

  1. Smell:
    1. frankincense (part of worship & prayer):  Lev 2:2
    2. Discontinued (for now…see NOTE), since the one-time offering of Jesus was accepted
      1. certain cooked meat:  Gen 8:21, Ex 29:18, Lev 1:9
        1. “all fat is the Lord’s”, Lev 3:16
      2. cereal offering (flour & oil), and wine (drink offering):  Lev 2:9, 23:13, Num 15:7
      3. NOTE:  David Levoy writes in a 1998 article:  “Sacrifices in the Millennial Temple (Ezek 45:17) will not expiate sin…these offerings will be memorial in nature, similar to the church’s keeping of the Lord’s Supper in remembrance of Christ’s death.”
  2. Hearing:
    1. words of the pure:  Prov 15:26
      1. singing: Rev 4:10, 14:3
  3. Thoughts:
    1. Meditation (what we think about):  Psalms 104:34
  4. Sight:
    1. Doing His will:  Heb 13:21  “pleasing in His sight”
    2. Giving:  2 Cor 9:7  “God loves a cheerful giver”
    3. Doing good, sharing what you have:  Heb 13:16  “pleasing to God”
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