WITHOUT ACTION IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD!

WITHOUT ACTION IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD! 

Where did I get that idea? 

Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead  James 2:17 

v 20-24 

But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?  Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
and again in v 26 
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works (of the Spirit) is dead also.
But without faith, it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6 
We could and perhaps should reword this to read 
But without (the works of the Spirit making faith perfect) it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him
Presenting your members as your act of faith 
And do not present your (bodily) members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your (bodily) members as instruments of righteousness to God.  Romans 6:13

Sometimes we are pleased when we 'hear' God speak something of a revelation to us, for us the revelation itself is a pleasure. However, once we 'hear' or 'see' something we must respond to what God has shown us, 

Hearing God is not enough and faith is not required to hear, however, it does require faith to act on what is 'heard' or 'seen'. It takes real faith to obey his commands. 

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