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Pleasing God - Pt. 1
There are 3 main points I want to unpack from this portion of Scripture.
1) The supreme aim of the Christian Life; 2) Everything else rendered insignificatnt; and 3) The ambition / motivation towards this supreme aim.
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The Supreme aim of the Christian life (Verse 2 Corinthians 5:6 - 9)
How long he will continue to live at home in the body or whether he will soon die and be away from the body are matters which he cannot determine.
But what he must determine is how he will live.
Paul states that it will always be his aim to please the Lord.
The Supreme aim of the Christian life is to please the Lord.
Aim- What are you aiming at?
What is the aim of your life that you know whether or not you hit it.
“A fanatic is a person who, having lost sight of his goal, redoubles his effort to get there.”
The fanatic runs around frantically getting nowhere.
He is a basketball player without a basket, a tennis player without a net, a golfer without a green.
Some people aim to be successful, some people aim to be rich, famous, comfortable, happy, accepted, etc.
The only acceptable and non-negotiable aim for the believer is to PLEASE GOD.
Dig a bit deeper into this word - AIM - The word here used (φιλοτιμούμεθα, from φίλος and τιμὴ, loving honour) means properly to love honour; to be ambitious.
This is its usual classical signification.
In the New Testament, it means to be ambitious to do any thing; to exert one’s self; to strive, as if from a love or sense of honour.
As in English, to make it a point of honour to do so and so.—Robinson (Lex.);
see Rom. 15:20; 1 Thess 4:11.
It means here, that Paul made it a point of constant effort; it was his leading and constant aim to live so as to be acceptable to God, and to meet his approbation wherever he was.
This [Supreme Aim] became the fixed principle of his soul and very purpose of his life.
Everything therefore had to adhere to this FIXED principle and purpose.
What are these principles and purpose that are pleasing to God?
Speaking boldly the gospel (3:12; 4:1, 13; 5:20; 6:7, 11)
Taking with good courage the suffering that ensues (4:7-12, 16-17; 6:4-5, 8-10)
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