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Those Who Displease God

Every believer hopes that he will live a life that is truly blessed by God and is pleasing to Him. But if there is something offensive to the Lord that is obstructing our lives, the result is that we will become someone who displeases God. Today, I would like to examine and clear out with you these things that affront the Lord.

1 Corinthians 10:5-12:

5. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert.

6. Now these things occurred as examples to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did.

7. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in pagan revelry."

8. We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

9. We should not test the Lord, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.

10. And do not grumble, as some of them did—and were killed by the destroying angel.

11. These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

12. So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall!

From the passage above, we can discover those things in our lives that displease God -

1. Set our hearts on evil things (v. 6)

2. Be Idolaters (v. 7)

3. Commit sexual immorality (v. 8)

Hebrews 13:4 – Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

2 Timothy 2:22 – Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

4. Test the Lord (v. 9)

Hebrews 3:7 - So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
Hebrews 3:8 - do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,
Hebrews 3:9 - here your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.

Hebrews 3:10 - That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'

Hebrews 3:11 - So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.' "

Hebrews 3: 12 - See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.”

5. Grumble (v. 10)

Exodus 16:2-3 - In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the Lord's hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death."

6. Think you are standing firm (v. 12) [i.e. being self-assured and refusing to admit sin.]

Psalm 32:3 - When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 32:4 - For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

Isaiah 59:1 - Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.

Isaiah 59:2 - But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.

Matthew 5:23 - Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

Matthew 5:24 - leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.

Conclusion: May we all be cautious; rid our spiritual lives of its garbage; be humble before God, and become a person with whom God is pleased.

By: Esther Hung