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Worship: In His Presence
(NIV)
4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—
5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
This image of the Christian leader as a shepherd is picked up in a number of places in the New Testament.
Peter writes, ‘Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care... not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock’ ().
Jesus is the ‘Chief Shepherd’ (v.4).
6 For in Scripture it says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
Jesus said, ‘I am the good shepherd.
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep… I know my sheep’ ().
He says that one day there will be ‘one flock and one shepherd’ (v.16).
The writer of Hebrews describes Jesus as ‘that great Shepherd of the sheep’ ().
7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious.
But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
8 and, “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”
They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.
The rest of the passage in Numbers, with its regulations for eating and drinking, religious festivals and the Sabbath, again points us ultimately to Jesus ().
St Paul writes, ‘These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ’ ().
Jesus is the Chief Shepherd, the Great Sower and the Saviour of the world.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
We started a series a few weeks ago entitled, “THIS IS US.” It’s based off of the hit TV show that details three siblings who stick together through the thick and thin times.
They value principles that their parents taught them which enables them to maintain a loving family culture.
Likewise the church has been instructed by the WORD of GOD to embrace certain principles such as UNITY, DIVERSITY, RACIAL ACCEPTANCE, HOSPITALITY, & WORSHIP.
These principles and the like help the church to maintain a loving, caring, accepting, God-fearing church culture.
In order for these principles to be at work in our congregation, we must have something that ties these things together.
It has to undergird everything we attempt.
It has to be the center of what we engage in.
PP- But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
(-NIV)
PP- But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
(-NIV)
The source for who we are and what we do comes from the light!
“…into his wonderful light”.
What is this light?
His illumination, in His sphere of glory, where righteousness and goodness dominates.
It’s in His presence!
We pretty much all agree from last week we were called out of darkness into God’s light, for the purpose of Worship!
But God didn’t stop there, he called us into something.
Where?
“…into his wonderful light”.
What is this light?
His illumination, in His sphere of glory, where righteousness and goodness dominates.
It’s in His presence!
PP- Today’s Topic is, “In His Presence”
11 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
(NIV)
13 Surely the righteous will praise your name, and the upright will live in your presence.
(NIV)
11 You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
His presence creates a loving light atmosphere.
It also not only works on the outside but on the inside of us!
In order for unity, diversity, different races of people, hospitality, we must have God’s presence among us!
In his presence there is fulness of joy, peace love, light, and unity!
PP- Worship connects us to His presence!
It draws a dotted line to HIM!
Illustration: (locator dots leading to God on a map) God tries to make a clear pathway for us to get to Him!
There are a lot of distractions and potential destination that can put you out of his will.
We love to take detours!
“God, I’m on my way, can i stop at the Ice Cream Shop First?”
I asked Pastor Ruth to get me some special putty glue I needed to secure a cold show onto my Go Pro Camera.
Bring it back to me.
She went, but on her way back to be, she stopped at Panera bread, and every other that was opened in route to me!
God drew dots to himself.
In the OT He set forth statues (written Law) and precepts (principles, rules) and decrees (verbal commands) in order to connect them to him.
There are two categories of Worship that God set forth in order to connect us to Him!
So He and man could commune in holiness:
There are two categories of Worship God set forth in the Laws of Moses:
PP- Practical Worship
The long litany of rules, social, and civic rules God set forth was to encourage a lifestyle of worship.
We are to worship with our practical lives by way of our decisions, actions, responses, motives, how we meet the needs of those who are less fortunate.
(NIV)
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.
2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
(The Message)
1 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.
2 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.
Then we have what I called years ago,
PP- Spiritual Worship
The bible instructs us to worship by means of our spirituality.
(NIV)
2 May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
At the conclusion of a day, after the rigors and stressors of the day, there was an assigned time for an evening sacrifice, which was a show of appreciation for the completion of the day.
it marked the time for reflection and prayer.
It was thanking God for making it through another day.
Accept my hands raised in worship the way you accept the smoke from the evening sacrifice.
So these practical and spiritual worship elements keeps us connected to God, with Him being the center of our existence!
Remember, everything is vying, competing, contending for your worship.
Your adoration, devotion, admiration, glorification, attachment, your worship!
There are things and interest in people’s lives that have won their peak interest.
These things, events, interests, get their adoration, ultimate attention, it gets preeminent glorification from them, it gets their worship!
These practical and spiritual worship connects us to God even in the midst of a hectic, topsy-turvy world.
Worship connects us to God even in the midst of a hectic, topsy-turvy world.
PP- Worship Makes Us Aware of His presence!
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