Six Things It Pleased God to Do
I. “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him…” (Isaiah 53:7-10).
A. It was necessary for Christ to die that man might be saved (Luke 24:45-47).
B. God made Christ to be sin for us (II Corinthians 5:21).
II. “For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell” (Colossians 1:15-19).
A. Jesus is God in the flesh (John 1:1; 1:14).
B. God the Father has given God the Son all authority (Matthew 28:18).
III. “…It pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe” (I Corinthians 1:20-25).
A. God’s word accomplishes just what God intends (Isaiah 55:11).
B. It discerns the thoughts of the heart (Hebrews 4:12,13).
IV. “…It pleased God,…to reveal His Son in me…” (Galatians 1:13-17).
A. The church has been built upon the apostles and prophets (Ephesians 2:19-22).
B. That which has been revealed to the apostles serves to instruct us (Philippians 4:8,9).
V. “But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased” (I Corinthians 12:14-18).
A. God gives different abilities to different people (Romans 12:6-8).
B. We must do all to the glory of God (I Peter 4:10,11).
VI. “But God gives it a body as He pleases…” (I Corinthians 15:35-40).
A. Christians can take comfort in the hope of the resurrection (I Thessalonians 4:13-18).
B. The inner man is daily renewed (II Corinthians 4:16-18).