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      • God delights in obedience and not in sacrifice or offering. He enjoys and is pleased when His children who obey His voice, either through the written word or by the Holy Spirit. Obedience is superior to any sacrifice you may want to offer to God.
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  2. Aug 23, 2006 · The proper reason to be glad that God delights in our delight in him is because it confirms that our delight is truly in God. This fixes our gaze more steadfastly on him and deepens our joy in his beauty. But there is a devastating way to respond to God’s commendation of us.

  3. Jul 25, 2024 · At one level, God has an unshakeable delight in his people because we are united to “his beloved Son” (Colossians 1:13), our holy Savior who remains the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8).

    • Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 199 helpful votes. The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.
    • Psalm 18:19 ESV / 154 helpful votes. He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me.
    • Psalm 147:11 ESV / 138 helpful votes. But the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.
    • Isaiah 62:3-5 ESV / 91 helpful votes. You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
  4. For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the afflicted ones with salvation.

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    First, God has expressed delight in his children in the election. Unconditionally and freely, without a hint of injustice or unfairness, God chooses to set his delight on certain human souls, and this delight is an expression of the delight of the triune God (Luke 10:21). God freely delights in electing children for redemption and for adoption into...

    Second, God delights in the redemption of his elect in Christ (Luke 15:7). This delight hinges on the perfect work of Christ and the application of his work to the elect, by faith, in space and time. Even down to the display of our saving faith pleases God (Hebrews 11:6). And once his children are set free from the legal demands of righteousness, a...

    Third, God delights in sincere obedience. In one of the most mysterious and profound realities in the universe, the Father’s delight in Jesus was increased after the incarnation, as Jesus matured (Luke 2:52). Think about it. By his obedience to the will of the Father, the Son abides in the delight of his Father (John 10:18, 12:49; 14:31; 15:10). It...

    So how do these three delights hold together? The key is to understand God’s delight over us, not as three distinct delights, but as three degrees of the same delight. In other words, all three hold together in one plan. God’s delight in 1 (election) builds to his delight in 2 (redemption), leading to his delight in 3 (obedience). At each stage, Go...

    Anyone in Christ can look at this plan of God and marvel. In the beginning, God created humans to magnify his glory. He made me. I rejected him and chose sin instead, to my ruin and despair. But unknown to me, in eternity past, he set his special love on me. By his beautiful obedience, Christ entered the world to live and die and redeem me, by name...

  5. God Takes Pleasure in His People. But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD.

  6. Sep 1, 2023 · Human strength is something that God does not delight in. When we trust in ourselves, we often fall into sin. God desires people to find their strength in Him. The apostle Paul reminds us that God “uses the weak to shame the strong” (1 Corinthians 1:27).

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