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! Introduction:
Hebrews 11:5-6
Have you ever thought about what most pleases God?  Or what things He most desires to see in the lives of His believers?
Important question wouldn’t you think?
For many in the world, in all religions, desire to please God, but their zeal and commitment are not accepted because they are not based upon the solid truth that God has revealed in His word, the Bible.
So what pleases God?
And what displeases Him?
Does He expect anything?
I would have to say that some Christians live as if God expects nothing from them.
As Kristi and I watched the Olympic Games this year, I marveled as I watched people performing at their very best, going all out, and giving 100%.
·                     /It reminded me of what Paul said to the Corinthians:    /
*Speaking about athletics, Paul said that *"All athletes practice strict self-control.
They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.”
(1 Corinthians 9:25, NLT)
·                     /The Scripture’s also teaches that soldiers desire to please his superiors: /
*Writing to Timothy, Paul says *"No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier."
(2 Timothy 2:4, NKJV)
*Speaking about the parable of the Sower, Jesus put it this way* "the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful."
(Mark 4:18-19, NKJV)
 
*Let me share a story that I read of a Marine who “lived to please those who enlisted him.”
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*It’s a bit lengthy, but well worth it!*
Don Hamblen enlisted in the Corps at 17 and within months was serving as a rifleman and sniper at the height of the Korean War.
During his tour in Korea, an enemy mortar fire hit Hamblen's squad.
When a stretcher team came to their rescue, they were ambushed.
Hamblen was shot and left for dead, but he managed to get to a battalion aid station.
Eleven days later, he e0turned to his platoon and was promoted to squad leader.
Throughout a 20-year career in the military, Hamblen displayed a remarkable ability to rebound from serious injury.
While serving in Vietnam, he participated in more than 80 covert missions and was wounded twice.
To this day, he carries a .32-caliber
bullet in his left arm.
But most serious was the loss of a leg.
As far as is known, Don Hamblen ended up doing what no other Marine in the history of the Corps has done - fighting in combat with a prosthesis.
In fact, he served 30 consecutive months in Vietnam.
The most difficult challenge of his life began on September 21, 1962, when Hamblen and 12 men in his platoon made a parachute jump over Camp Pendleton in California before leaving on a one year deployment to Okinawa.
As jumpmaster, Hamblen was the last to exit the C-130 aircraft, at a height of 1800 feet.
Less than 50 feet above ground, the wind suddenly changed direction and blew his chute upward and backward into some high-tension wires.
His canopy became entangled in the lines, leaving him suspended above three 12,000- volt auxiliary lines.
As the winds caused him to sway, the canopy slipped, and his left foot caught the middle line, causing an explosive contact.
'I felt the shock as it came racing up from below,' he recalled.
'Everything turned a bright, flaming yellow.
Thunderbolts seemed to ricochet through me.'
As electrical current and flames engulfed his body, Hamblen's nylon canopy melted, and he dropped 30 feet to the ground, still smoking.
'I remember lying on the ground, trying to move, but I couldn't,' he said.
'One of the electrical lines snapped and fell to the ground, igniting grass fires everywhere.
Our training had been so repetitive that it was instinctive for me to try to get to my signal flare and let someone know I was alive, but I was just too weak to do it.'
Help finally arrived, and Hamblen was flown to the base hospital nearby.
There, doctors informed him that third-degree burns had destroyed the flesh on his lower left leg and foot and a gangrenous infection had set in.  Four days after the accident, his leg was amputated several inches below the knee.
Hamplen's future as a Marine looked dim.
'My worst moment,' he said, 'was the realization that I might be forced out of the Marines because of my injury.’
But Hamblen resolved to continue to serve in combat as an amputee.
In January 1963, Hamblen was transferred to a naval hospital in Oakland for rehabilitation and to be fitted with a prosthesis.
There, he taught himself how to stand, walk, run and even dance on his artificial leg.
Only 58 days after being admitted, Hamblen was discharged from the hospital and reassigned to limited duty with his reconnaissance company.
After his recovery, Hamblen had to prove to skeptical Marine Corps officers that he could perform his duties without any difficulty, so that he would be allowed to return to full active duty.
\\ His chance came that same year, in July, when he took the grueling Physical Readiness Test - a 2-minute up hill climb, 2 minutes of deep-knee bends, a 20-foot rope climb, a leap over an 8-foot trench and a 3-mile run while carrying a full combat pack and rifle.
After completing the run, Hamblen removed his artificial leg and poured out a cup of blood.
His scar tissue had split open.
IF anyone still had doubts, Hamblen made his 216th jump in September 1963.
He was returned to 'full-duty' status, resuming his position as platoon sergeant, company jumpmaster and - after having his prosthesis fitted for a swim fin - scuba diver.
In the spring of 1965, Hamblen volunteered for the Naval Advisory Detachment, operating out of Vietnam's coastal city of Da Nang.
He was assigned as military adviser to a secret 37-man team.
'My team's primary mission was to conduct nighttime prisoner snatches of North Vietnamese officers,' Hamblen explained.
'That combat was the final test of whether or not I was the equal of any other Marine.'
Hamblen served in Vietnam from June 1965 to November 1967.
After a year at Camp Pendleton, he was assigned to the U.S. Strike Command at McDill Air Force Base in Florida.
In 1969, he was promoted to first sergeant and returned to Camp Pendleton, where he completed his career with the Fifth Force Reconnaissance Company.
*Again, as Paul was writing to Timothy, he said that *"You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier."
(2 Timothy 2:3-4, NKJV)
Don Hamblen lived to be a Marine.
He lived in such a way as to please those "who enlisted him as a soldier.”
Don went through great hardships and pain to live in such a way as to please those in authority over him.
How strong is your desire to please God?  What are you willing to sacrifice, what pain are you willing to endure that you may live in a way that is pleasing to God?
The Lord Jesus Christ lived his whole life with the aim of pleasing God.
*In John 8:29, Jesus said that *"He who sent Me is with Me.
The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him."  (John 8:29, NKJV)
 
As Christians, we are called to imitate Christ; we are called to live our lives to please God.
Do you?
Is your life structured in such a way as to please God by all you do?
Is pleasing God important to you?
I believe the Bible tells us the things God wants from us; it tells us how to please Him.
But before we look at those, I want to point out the prerequisite for doing what pleases God.
When I talk about pleasing God, I'm not talking about trying to earn our way into heaven.
The Bible tells us that we can only get to heaven by the grace of God.
However, what is the Prerequisite to Pleasing God?
 
!! A.           Those Who Have Faith In God (Hebrews 10:38).
!!! 1.
To please God we must trust God *(**Hebrews 11:5-6**)*.
!!!! a)            The Christian life starts with an act of faith (John 3:16).
!!!!! (1)           That is a promise; when I believe in Christ, I am given everlasting life.
!!!!!! (a)           When I come to the living God as a guilty sinner who deserves hell, trusting in Jesus Christ and Him alone for my redemption, I am engaged in an act of faith.
!!!!!! (b)           I've never seen God.
I've never seen this place called "heaven", or this place called "hell".
I've never seen Jesus Christ.
*Speaking about our faith in the midst of trials, Peter says *"In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love.
Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.”
(1 Peter 1:6-9, NKJV)
!!!!!! (c)           By faith those things which I cannot see become realities to me.
But trusting God for my eternal salvation is only the beginning.
It is the start of a journey that cannot be traveled successfully in any other way but by a growing faith.
\\ !!! 2.            To please God we must walk in faith (Hebrews 11:5-6).
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