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We will worship

As a teacher, I know....

overload of information

we take in only so much

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DIsciples of Jesus - He is our Rabbi

Currency of the Kingdom

Temptations will come

these all have to do with Who we are.

todays message is We Will Worship

Are we worshippers?

Remember, I love you guys....

of what?

What do we worship?

today, we will look at worship and briefly talk about,

what it is

what it isn't

and we will have an opportunity to enter into worship.

think about this..... we were made us to worship.... all of the human race.

we will worship.

in fact, every single person worships something!

WE WERE MADE TO WORSHIP

who made us??? God.

Does everyone think that He made them?

No.

then who do the people that don’t think God created them, who do they worship?

or should I say what do they worship?

Not to pick on people who don’t know God and don’t worship God, lets look at ourselves here....

Just because we know that God created us, and created us to worship, does that automatically mean that we worship Him?

Let’s be real.

Let’s look at what worshipping God isn’t.

at the very end of 1 John, we see a startling verse.

Let’s dig into this verse for a second.

Who is John writing to?

Believers.

What is John giving us here?

a warning.

What is the warning to believers?

Don’t have any idols.

in other words, inside your hearts, don’t put anything above the Lord.

Nothing!

Is John saying this because we could have something in our hearts that would be above God?

what are the implications if we did?

they aren’t spoken, yet we know what they are.

If we have anything above the Lord in our hearts, we will worship that thing.

And we will not be right in our relationship with our Lord if we have something in the place where only He belongs......And that means the Lord will need to deal (if the Lord loves us) with us in ways to get us to see that we are not putting Him first.... which we will need to repent, change our ways and come back to the place where He is in His rightful place in our hearts.

Confession, and Repentance brings us back to right relationship with Him.

Wow.

(Matt Redman story) heart of worship song came from this.

there really are implications if the Lord is not in His rightful place, eh?

Is He really first in your heart today?

or is He second, or third to something else in there?

only you can answer that..... but, guess what.

It shows.

In everything we do.

And,

whatever is first in your life shows through what you do!

think about it, everyone lives differently.

why?

it is about what they value.

what they want.

desire.

if we value money too high?

we work, hard.

we might even be said to worship money.

if we value things too high?

we get things, protect things and get extremely mad if something happens to those things.

In your heart, what is the order of value?

everything in life has a value....

what is first for you?

ONLY ONE THING CAN TAKE FIRST PLACE!!

that is what you will worship.

When the Lord is first!

do tell, when the Lord is first!

Ahhhh.

worship!

there are so many verses I could share with you.... so much we could talk about with the topic of worship.

lets just look at what it is.

How is it defined?

Worship is the awed response to the saving acts and praiseworthy character of God.

Its a response!

While God wants us to worship Him we cannot worship Him just any way we will.

The One who made us to worship Him has decreed how we shall worship Him.

He accepts only the worship which He Himself has decreed.16

A. W. Tozer

Tozer says we cant worship any way we want.

what has God decreed to us as the way to worship?

From the Lexham theological wordbook:

In the ot, worship encompassed a variety of activities.

Bringing forward an offering to God was an act of worship (קָרַב, qārab).

Bowing down in the presence of God was an outward display of an inner attitude of reverence before the Creator (חָוָה, ḥāwâ).

The verb רוּם (rûm) could indicate that a person was “lifting up” or “exalting” God with praise.

Together, these last two terms provide a rich image of worship: People both bow before God and lift him up in praise and wonder.

This week I asked in facebook land, what they thought worshipping God was all about.

they mentioned some of these things, reverence, total surrender, obedience, acceptable service, connection, adoration, transparency and letting Him love you so much that you cant help but want to love Him back!

SO SWEET, very special the words that they shared!

And so true!

Worship is something we show outwardly because of the state of our heart on the inside.

we express our heart by worshipping.

What can it look like?