Proverbs 15:8<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases Him.<\/i><\/p>\n
When a person who does not love God and who is not repentant of his evil ways, makes a sacrifice to appease the Lord, does that please the Lord?\u00a0\u00a0This verse clearly shows that it does not.\u00a0\u00a0It is clearly mentioned that the sacrifice God does not accept is from whom He describes as \u201cwicked.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Because they are wicked the Lord does not accept the sacrifice because it is not given in humility and is not given in true repentance for sin.\u00a0\u00a0The Word clearly states that there is only one way to Heaven and that is through Jesus. (John 14:6, Acts 4:12<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0All who try to get to please the Father by their own works rather than through Jesus have set themselves as a higher authority than God Himself.\u00a0\u00a0They have rejected the Way that the Father gave them to be saved from sin and have asserted their own will rather than obeyed God\u2019s will.\u00a0\u00a0Since the only way to receive forgiveness of sin is through Jesus, then the one who tries to \u201cbe good\u201d and rejects being \u201cborn again\u201d (John 3:3<\/b>) through Jesus remains in the condemnation that is upon all humankind from birth. (John 3:18<\/b>) Therefore, unless one is born again through Jesus, that one is the one here described as wicked.\u00a0\u00a0God does not accept any sacrifice offered to appease Him because the only sacrificed needed and accepted is the sacrifice of His Son Jesus Christ.\u00a0\u00a0To try to appease God by one\u2019s own merit (sacrifice) is to reject salvation as only through Jesus and is attempting to get into Heaven by their own righteousness rather than Jesus who is the only gate to Heaven. (John 10:1-18<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0That, as described by God, is wickedness.<\/p>\n
However the one who is called upright is the one who has been cleansed by the sacrificed blood of Jesus, by His perfect and acceptable sacrifice.\u00a0\u00a0(1 John 1:7, Matthew 26:28, Ephesians 1:7<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0It is that person\u2019s prayer, the prayer of one made righteous through Jesus, which pleases God.<\/p>\n
1 John 3:19-24<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence:\u00a020<\/a>\u00a0If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.\u00a021<\/a>\u00a0Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God\u00a022<\/a>\u00a0and receive from Him anything we ask, because we keep His commands and do what pleases Him.\u00a023<\/a>\u00a0And this is His command: to believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as He commanded us.\u00a024<\/a>\u00a0The one who keeps God\u2019s commands lives in Him, and He in them. And this is how we know that He lives in us: We know it by the Spirit He gave us.<\/i><\/p>\n We are sinners when we become born again. As we walk with the Holy Spirit sin begins to fall away.\u00a0\u00a0We become more like Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0However in this life, we will always sin.\u00a0\u00a0But we do not let sin have a victory over us.\u00a0\u00a0We know that Jesus paid the full price for our sins and we know (by His Word) that though our minds want to condemn us, in Christ, we are fully forgiven.\u00a0\u00a0Our hearts are then free to approach God and fellowship with Him solely because of Jesus.\u00a0\u00a0We who are fully forgiven have no reason to feel guilty.\u00a0\u00a0Freely when He calls out to us we answer \u201cFather, here I am!\u00a0\u00a0Here I am with you!\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Jesus fully frees us to be children of God!\u00a0\u00a0(John 8:26<\/b>) Praise God!<\/p>\n Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/p>\n Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Proverbs 15:8\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases Him. When a person who does not love God and who is not repentant of his evil ways, makes a sacrifice to appease the Lord, does that please the Lord?\u00a0\u00a0This verse clearly shows that it does not.\u00a0\u00a0It is clearly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[100,101,94,2538,88,17],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-john","tag-matthew","tag-micah","tag-numbersephesians","tag-proverbs","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}