Daily Worship

What should be the focus of each and every day of our life?

Complete devotion to God, which is our daily worship.

Romans 11:36–12:1 CSB

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen. Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.

Paul moves in these two passages from declaring who God is to declaring how we should live in response to Him.

Worship is knowing God for who He is

Worship is knowing God for who He truly is, and praising Him in response to that knowledge.

Romans 11:36 CSB

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.

All things were made from Him

God is the source of all things

Creation and the New Creation both find its source in God.

All things were made through Him

God is means through which all things come to pass.

Both creation and New Creation come to pass by Gods eternal means.

To Him are all things

All things point o God’s glory

Both Creation and New Creation are for God’s glory and point to God’s glory.

If God desires for His glory to be made known, then our daily lives should reflect His glory.

Romans 12:1 CSB

Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.

Therefore - Because God is Glorious

With His mercies in mind

Mindful of how merciful God is and has been to us.

Shown us mercy in salvation.

Then our response is to present our bodies a living sacrifice to Him.

To present ourself is to surrender our self to God.

Everything should be surrendered in our life.

Here is how Eugene Patterson puts it:

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Peterson, E. H. (2005). The Message: the Bible in contemporary language (). Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress.

Our physical bodies and our daily lives are not perfect, but they are desired by God.

We may be imperfect, but God still uses us.

When we surrender ourself to be used by God, we are worshipping God.

How are we to surrender our daily lives?

As a living sacrifice.

Old testament required dead sacrifices for worship.

Christ fulfilled the need for dead sacrifice

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 9

11 But Christ has appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come. In the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands (that is, not of this creation), 12 he entered the most holy place once for all time, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow, sprinkling those who are defiled, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works so that we can serve the living God?

Acceptable worship God in the New Covenant in Christ now comes not by dead animals, but by living sacrificial lives for God through Christ.

What does that look like?

It is a holy life.

A life that is set part from sin and lived in devotion to God.

It is a pleasing life.

A life that brings pleasure to God.

And that is daily worship

It is true worship

Reasonable worship

From reasonable we get the word logic

It makes logical sense that we devote ourselves to God it is worship.

Worship is praying, reading the Bible, and helping others.

...But Worship is not doing these things in order to say you done them.

Worship flows from the heart.

Doing these things because you love God will make them enjoyable not burdensome.

Worship is not praying elaborate prayers, skillfully interpreting Scripture, or selling your house to help the poor.

All these things are good.

All these things should be done if you are led by the Spirit

With the wrong motive these things become prideful and legalistic.

Like the pharisees who only wanted to look religious.

Worship is not about looking religious, its about loving the one whom we worship.

Worship is the believer being completely devoted to God, by living a sacrificial life that is set apart, and pleasing to God in order to bring Him glory.