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”