1. To bruise His Son. "It pleased the Lord to bruise Him" (Isa 53:10).
2. To make all fulness to dwell in Him. "It pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell" (Col 1:19).
3. To save them that believe. "It pleased God…to save them that believe" (1Cr 1:21).
4. To reveal His Son in the saved ones. "It pleased God…to reveal His Son in me" (Gal 1:15-16).
5. To make us His people. "It hath pleased the Lord to make you His people" (1Sa 12:22).
6. To make us one in Christ. "Set the members everyone of them in the Body as it hath pleased Him" (1Cr 12:18).
7. To give us a resurrection body. "God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him" (1Cr 15:38).