Sermon Tone Analysis

Ascribe

(NASB95)

We just finished up our series READ DA BOOK..

Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to His name;

Worship the Lord in holy array.

We just finished up our series READ DA BOOK..

I think it is important to talk about worship this morning.

Because, There can be no true worship outside of the knowledge of God and who He is.

Notice the langue here Ascribe to the Lord

Ascribe, To place.

In the sense of, to give or place value upon.

To place.

In the sense of, to give or place value upon.

You can not give prober value for a thing unless you know how valuable a real thing is.

There can be no true worship outside of the knowledge of God and who He is.

24 “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Back to our text

Worship the Lord in Holy Array.

The word worship here is the word shaw-khaw' meaning to prostrate (especially reflexively in homage to royalty or God) bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.

So basically when God says to worship Him with your life ,He is say lay down your life.

Our lives are to be worship.

To worship one first needs an object to admire.

AW Tozer says, in his definition of worship.

That is is “ to feel in the heart and to express.”

He add that without humility worship does not exist because humility is the acknowledgment that the object is great the one beholding the objected.

And in humility the beholder admires with awe .

Worship is not an experience but a lifestyle.

It’s a condition of the heart.

When I raise my hand it is the outward expression of my heart.

True worship starts in the heart.

And the expression goes to an object

Yes, notice I am using the term object rather than He.

Because it is true that anything can be worship but you can not experience and encounter everything.

So when I came to God my worship was to an object and the object was a that

I’m going to try to make a point

(KJV 1900)

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

(KJV 1900)

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

(KJV 1900)

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

(KJV 1900)

The question becomes why would John when referring about Jesus refer to him as a that rather than a He.

With an account or character of the Mediator’s person.

He is the great subject of the gospel, the foundation and object of our faith and hope, the bond and cement that unite us unto God.

He should be well known; and he is represented here, Matthew Henry

The question becomes why would John when referring about Jesus refer to him as a that rather than a He.

Matthew Henry’s

The question becomes why would John when referring about Jesus refer to him as a that rather than a He.

When He is a that, often time We just worship out of obligation alone

Which produces ungodly fear of him

And when He remains only an object to us then the stormy or the troubles of life come our energy for him decreases because we had the wrong concept of his reality

When the that became a He my energy to worship increase

I went to church and I even read my bible but honestly worship is much more than church attendance and Reading da Book

It begins there but We cant stop at hearing and reading we must put our faith in the very thing that we have heard

(NASB95)

13 for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

14 How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed?

How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard?

And how will they hear without a preacher?

15 How will they preach unless they are sent?

Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!”

Yes faith come by hearing but faith is then activated by doing

16 However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

Yes faith come by hearing but faith is then activated by doing

If you just coming in hear you’ll never truly be a worshiper

Why?

Because it is faith that activated what we hear and read

Jesus says to Martha in

(NASB95)

40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”

if you believe you will see.

So then faith produce knowledge… it does beyond hearing

Placing faith in what you have read or heard produces knowledge.

You know I believe that.. and because I believe that I’m going to do this

And once we do what we believe we experience our faith.

if you believe, you will see or experience

And you can not have true worship without knowledge

Experience and makes our worship personal.

I read

i look back over my like and i’ve experienced

Now i have increased in confidence

now when i say that verse it not just words.

i’m ascribing value

so, knowledge gives us confidence that our believing was not in vain.

And when we experience what we believe it produces confidence

Then we can really say

Now the question becomes,

8 I have set the Lord always before me:

Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Now the question becomes,

Can you experience something that you do believe in?

And the answer is yes..

I don’t have to know how fast the earth spins on its axis

Sherry Shepard from the view said one time on national television that she didn’t know if the world was round or not

Just because she didn’t know doesn’t mean that it flatten out.

if a thing is true it remains true weather you believe it or not.

But it is true that you cannot acknowledge what you do not know.