“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please
men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”
Galatians 1:10
Most people who call themselves Christians have no idea what
this verse is asking. They have grown up in an Arminian church who has never
known nor will ever know the True God of our universe. Their entire service is
about pleasing mankind, it is not about God or His blessed Son Jesus Christ who
is the Saviour of mankind. If you do not believe, and your church does not
proclaim the absolute Sovereignty of God and the total saving ability of Jesus
Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, then you do not seek to please God.
Satan was selfish in his fall from heaven by seeking what God had for himself.
Mankind is just like their father Satan, they seek to be sovereign like God,
they seek the ability not to need God for salvation, they seek the ability not
to need Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and they seek not to need the power of
the Holy Spirit to come to Christ. These people seek to save themselves by
their own power, under their own authority, and by their own works, but their
end will be misery and destruction in the lake of hell’s fires for eternity. I
have heard their preaching, their singing, I have seen their worship services
and they are not God pleasing, they are soul pleasing. Therefore the people
flock to them, they do not want to hear about God or about glorifying God, they
desire only to hear about themselves and what they can accomplish if they just
try. God left no doubt that salvation is the total work of God and man has
nothing to do with it. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God…Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8 – 9 If you,
if your pastor, or if your church thinks otherwise that makes this scripture
meaningless, and you do not believe in God as Sovereign. You do not seek to
please God, because worship is 100% about God and 0% about us. Salvation is
100% from God and 0%from us, we are the benefactors of God’s goodness and not
the other way around. We worship God and in that worship God is blessed and
glorified and that is pleasing to God. “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to
them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth
generation of them that hate me;” Exodus 20:5 God does not want to share
His glory with you, He wants all your praise for His glory to you. “And Samuel
said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not
aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart…And
turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot
profit nor deliver; for they are vain.” 1 Samuel 12:20 - 21 Folks, if your
worship service is not all about worshiping God then it is not a worship
service to God. If your salvation is not a gift from God, then you are not
saved. Do not be fooled by the trickery of itchy ears of satisfying
selfishness, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having
itching ears…And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be
turned unto fables.” 2 Timothy 4:3 – 4 Where are you, what is your worship, do
you seek to worship God or yourself?
