Spirit & Truth : A Theology of Worship -2
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Part 2/5 - Relationship: Identity and Position
Part 2/5 - Relationship: Identity and Position
God has revealed Himself. We must know Him if we are to worship Him. Knowing things about him will only get you started in
He is Holy - There is none like Him
8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
11 “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
2 “There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.
4 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”
2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.
27 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.
Jesus bears the same Image and Glory
2 Peter 1:17 (ESV)
17 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
HIS NAME IS>>>>>>>>
HIS NAME IS>>>>>>>>
The first place of revelation in scripture is that God created all things
The first place of revelation in scripture is that God created all things
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
YAHWEH/ELOHIM/EL
YAHWEH/ELOHIM/EL
Elohim- God is spirit. - Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
This is why we must worship him in spirit.
Yahweh - God is the Uncreated, Self-exisitent One .
4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
This is why he is know as I AM. Anyone who comes to God must believe that HE IS.
Heb 11:6
YAHWEH- RA-AW (YIREH)- GOD IS PROVISION
YAHWEH SHALOM: GOD IS PEACE
YAHWEH T’SIDKENU - GOD IS RIGHTEOUSNESS
YAHWEH M’KADDESH- GOD IS SANCTIFIER
YAHWEH ROHI - GOD IS SHEPHERD
YAHWEH RAPHA - GOD IS HEALER
YAHWEH YA-ETS GOD IS COUNSELOR
THE HIGHEST ONE/ MOST HIGH GOD/ EXALTED ONE
THE HIGHEST ONE/ MOST HIGH GOD/ EXALTED ONE
Hebrew Word: EL-ELYON
SOVEREIGN RULER/ GOD ALMIGHTY
SOVEREIGN RULER/ GOD ALMIGHTY
Hebrew Words: EL-SHADDAI -
There are things God has made evident for all to see. He has put this awareness in every human.
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
ILLUSTRATE
ILLUSTRATE
THE GATEWAY WE USE
THE GATEWAY WE USE
We approach God on the basis of a new relational covenant. not the old covenant which was with a specific group. We have become children of promise by faith - We have a new identity and position
God reveals Himself as our Father.
God reveals Himself as our Father.
More than any other revelation of God, this revelation of God is central to the one Jesus came to portay. He, infact, doesn’t dodge this description of God when referencing other humans. He intentionally speaks about and offers orphans and outcasts the opportunity to be adopted by the Heavenly Father. The New Testament (Jesus, in particular) goes to great lengths to state that God, The Father is the center of all glory and one who receives all worship.
More than any other revelation of God, this revelation of God is central to the one Jesus came to portay. He, infact, doesn’t dodge this description of God when referencing other humans. He intentionally speaks about and offers orphans and outcasts the opportunity to be adopted by the Heavenly Father. The New Testament (Jesus, in particular) goes to great lengths to state that God, The Father is the center of all glory and one who receives all worship.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
THE REDEEMING SON/SAVIOR
THE REDEEMING SON/SAVIOR
This revelation of God is central to the gospel, and most of us who came to know God would have started here. Jesus is not just savior or son, the exact representation of God, Himself. We must understand that Jesus never lost his God-ness when He took on flesh, but He willingly and obediently laid it down “for the joy set before Him”.
This revelation of God is central to the gospel, and most of us who came to know God would have started here. Jesus is not just savior or son, the exact representation of God, Himself. We must understand that Jesus never lost his God-ness when He took on flesh, but He willingly and obediently laid it down “for the joy set before Him”.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
THE SPIRIT OUR GUIDE/TEACHER
THE SPIRIT OUR GUIDE/TEACHER
The Spirit of God enables and empowers all that Jesus accomplished for the children of God
The Spirit of God enables and empowers all that Jesus accomplished for the children of God
26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
14 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
15 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.
12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POSITION AND PRACTICE
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Justification and Sanctification
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Reconciliation and Relationship
10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.