A Life of Worship

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Paul is writing to the Corinthian chruch about historical Isreal and some of the things they learned as they moved forward in living lives that were pleasing to God.

Corinth was a bustling city during that time that had recources, and often when recources abound Morality can begin to slide, even though they had spiritual gifts in operation, they lacked maturity and spent time bickering with each other. So Paul opens up to share some thoughts from the OT.

1 Corinthians 10:1–4 (NLT)

1 I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3 All of them ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ.

There is a protocol to the presence, through the gates, through the door, your mind is not even open.

Here Paul is teaching us about Isreal, and reminding the Corinthians Chruch about some of there stuggles, some of their learnings.

1 Corinthians 10:11 NLT

11 These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.

We all love to have a Pastor encourage us! But also must warn people so they understand who God is, His Holiness, His righteousness.

Exodus 25:8–9 (NLT)

8 “Have the people of Israel build me a holy sanctuary so I can live among them. 9 You must build this Tabernacle and its furnishings exactly according to the pattern I will show you.

There is a protocol to the presence, through the gates, through the door, your mind is not even open.

MOSES WAS ABLE TO SPEAK TO GOD FACE TO FACE, DON’T LIMIT GOD TO DREAMS AND VISION, THOUGH THOSE ARE AWESOME LETS NOT LOOK FOR THE SPECTACULAR, BUT THE LITTERAL SUPERNATURAL.

What are you building? Imagine trying to build a house with out the blue prints, with out the instructions. The other week, I was putting one of those electronic door locks on the door. I installed it, it looked right , but when I programed it did not work. Then I get frustrated! Sometimes, things need to be done in order, “In all your getting get understanding!

Like any facility, or building there is the door. Faith in Jesus is the door to the blessing and having a blessed life.

Do we go in expectation? In humility, knowing who we are as

Picture of the Tabernacle

John 10:1–3 NLT

1 “I tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber! 2 But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

In Isreal around some of the Pastures there was a rocks and stones and cliffs where the shepherds would hid the sheep, he would then be the one who would stand and not permit things to come into the sheep fold.

God wants all of us to experience the abundance of Life with Him,

Psalm 100:1–4 NASB 2020

1 Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Serve the Lord with jubilation; Come before Him with rejoicing. 3 Know that the Lord Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. 4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving, And His courtyards with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name.

Article from Jennifer McGinley

Princeton Health News associated with Penn University

Gratitude also has the capacity to increase important neurochemicals. When thinking shifts from negative to positive, there is a surging of feel-good chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin. These all contribute to the feelings of closeness, connection and happiness that come with gratitude.

Gratitude builds on itself. We know the brain changes with experience, so the more that gratitude is practised, the more the brain learns to tune in to the positive things in the world. This isn’t something that tends to come naturally. We humans have a negativity bias, which means that we’re wired to notice threats in the environment

I know that life can be a grind, but when you start being thankful, opening up your mouth with gratitude it shifts everything. It shifts all things.

Stop complaining about your boss, you don’t walk in their shoes, don’t be the person “I tell the truth”

Praise is a weapon. Lets know that there is the Door, and be grateful and glad about it, clap, shout, but also express and shout for the victory that God wants to give you, this begins to remove the strong holds of our mind. Our insecurity, “the voice of not good enough” I am enough, because the one at the gate is enough, and he let me!

The Alar is the place where the sins of the people where transfered to the animals, There is never forgiveness with a sacrifice.

The Altar was made of Arcia wood,

This wood was more rare

It was unique

It would not rot, it never got old

Here is the place of Sacrifice, now we know because biblically when animals were placed on the altar, made of wood, but then had a bronze screen that they placed the sacrifice on, there was an aroma,

Burning hair

Burning flesh

Yet this was an aroma to God.

Exodus 29:11–19 (NLT)

11 Then slaughter the bull in the Lord’s presence at the entrance of the Tabernacle. 12 Put some of its blood on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest at the base of the altar. 13 Take all the fat around the internal organs, the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat around them, and burn it all on the altar. 14 Then take the rest of the bull, including its hide, meat, and dung, and burn it outside the camp as a sin offering.

15 “Next Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the head of one of the rams. 16 Then slaughter the ram, and splatter its blood against all sides of the altar. 17 Cut the ram into pieces, and wash off the internal organs and the legs. Set them alongside the head and the other pieces of the body, 18 then burn the entire animal on the altar. This is a burnt offering to the Lord; it is a pleasing aroma, a special gift presented to the Lord.

19 “Now take the other ram, and have Aaron and his sons lay their hands on its head.

We don’t sacrifice bulls and cattle, anymore, rather do today still offer sacrifices, I am not talking in an offering bucket.

We offer our physical bodies Our flesh

Our Physical is not ours, it is His.

Romans 12:1–2 (NLT)

1 And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Tyndale House Publishers, Holy Bible: New Living Translation (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2015), Ro 12:1–2.

What Flesh will hurt, it might burn, but when we yield to the spirit there is freedom, its not about white knuckles, in temptation, but yielding to the grace, as we think of the door, as we enter with praise, It all shifts our minds, hearts, to be in tune with the Spirit.

Galatians 5:19–25 (NLT)

19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. 25 Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.

We bring our bodies, to the altar, knowing that nothing pure is in them, it is corrupt, now we need to take care of and make them a living sacrifice, with out doing this continually, we will have a life of being invited in to the court, into something so much greater, but reamin here.