Are You Trying To Earn God?

Main message: The sermon encourages listeners to stop thinking God’s love depends on their productivity or spiritual performance. God delights in simply being with us, so we can rest in his presence instead of trying to earn it.

Key points:

• Ministry, Bible reading, and prayer are good, but they do not make God love us more.
• It’s easy to slip into believing God is only pleased when we are doing enough for him.
• A season of simply spending quiet time with God can be freeing and restorative.
• God delights in his people and rejoices over them with singing.
• The gospel is the opposite of earning: we do not climb up to God; he came down to us.
• Hard work can still be worship, but it should flow from relationship, not from fear.

Scriptures mentioned: Zephaniah 3:17