CAUSING GOD TO SMILE

EPHESIAN 5:8-11Bishop Genesis T. Udang

• Eph 5:8-11 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord. 11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

• Gen 6:8 But Noah was a pleasure to the Lord.

• Gen 6:5-7 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth--men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air--for I am grieved that I have made them."

WHAT BRINGS PLEASURE TO GOD THAT WILL CAUSE HIM TO SMILE?

• A LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM

A LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM

• Gen 6:9 Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God.

• Gen 6:9 Noah consistently followed God’s will and enjoyed a close relationship with Him. NLT version

• Hosea 6:6 the Living Version: “I don’t want your sacrifices - I want your love; I don’t want your offerings - I want you to know me.”

WHAT BRINGS PLEASURE TO GOD THAT WILL CAUSE HIM TO SMILE?

• A LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM

• BY TRUSTING HIM

• BY OBEYING HIM

BY OBEYING HIM

• Hebrews 11:8 puts it this way: “By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.”

• Ps 119:33-34 Just tell me what to do and I will do it, Lord. As long as I live I’ll wholeheartedly obey. Living Version

WHAT BRINGS PLEASURE TO GOD THAT WILL CAUSE HIM TO SMILE?

• A LOVING RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM

• BY TRUSTING HIM

• BY OBEYING HIM

• BY SERVING HIM