Living to Please God - Part 1

Are you a pleaser? Many of us feel a strong need for people to like us. Sometimes that need grows so important to our emotional well-being that we end up on the wrong side of an issue, choosing approval over standing for what is right. Even in our relationship with God, our perspective can become inverted. Instead of asking how we can please Him, we expect Him to please us.

In 1 Thessalonians 4 and 5, Paul gives the church one overarching theme: how to live a life that pleases God. "We instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more" (1 Thessalonians 4:1). If there is anyone whose approval we should long for, it is our heavenly Father. As we begin walking through these verses, Dr. Dodd shows us why we please God and the first three ways God calls us to do it.