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Introduction
For decades the American church has been in some phase of worship wars.
The intensity of the war comes and goes but at the very least it is always on the back burner.
The questions that are fought over are many.
Should we sing hymns or contemporary?
My answer is yes.
Should we use video or not?
Yep.
Does the preacher preach too long?
Will his sermons get any shorter?
My answer is yes and God still does perform miracles.
We have to wait and see.
Honestly, we have taken our attitudes about worship as a consumer of a product.
That is unbiblical!
Worship is not about your style or preference.
It is not about what makes you feel good.
Worship is not about you being satisfied.
It is about you, and us as a church, satisfying God.
We can do worship through the singing of hymns and contemporary praise.
We can do worship through the use of just a piano, or the addition of more instruments, or taking out all the instruments.
We can do worship through a short sermon or a long winded sermon.
We can do worship with the offering at the beginning of the service, in the middle of the service, or at the end of the service.
The important thing is this.
Is our worship God honoring and biblically appropriate.
Are we worshipping appropriately?
Today I want us to look at appropriate worship.
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Our worship is to be focused appropriately.
Notice that the focus of worship in this passage is on Jesus and God.
We must remember that this world centers around God.
God invites us to enjoy His glory.
It is imperative that we, as his redeemed children, cultivate a high view of God.
As we cultivate a high view of God, we humble ourselves before our King, Our Lord, Our Savior.
The writer of Hebrews is driving home the important message that ....
We come together in worship with God the Father and Jesus the Son as our primary focus.
Jesus Himself gives us these words in
Our worship is not to entertain us.
The primary goal of worship is not to make us feel better about ourselves.
It can be a by product.
The goal of worship is to give glory and honor to our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus.
If our focus in worship is about anything else it is not appropriate.
2. Our worship is to be driven appropriately.
The driving force of our worship is the truth that is found in God’s Word.
It is through the Bible that we understand correctly
Who God is.
Who we are.
How much God loves us.
Our appropriate response to God.
God’s ultimate revelation is found through Jesus Christ and told through the Bible.
Have you noticed a lot of churches have the pulpit in the center of the stage of the church.
Do you know why?
It is not because the preacher or music minister is to be the center of attention.
It is because the Word of God is to be exalted, taught, and responded to in worship.
True worship is us giving God His due praise, Him speaking to us through His Word and the work of the Holy Spirit, and then us responding appropriately in faith to His Words.
He speaks through His Word, through the music, through prayers, through circumstances and we respond to Him.
Our Worship is driven by God’s Word to us.
Worship is thus a dialogue of God speaking and us responding.
3. Our worship is to be saturated appropriately.
3. Our worship is to be saturated appropriately.
This year we are kinda understanding the word saturated.
Many years we can say that is a foreign concept.
If something is saturated it is full.
It is full so much that it drips, or oozes out.
Our worship should be so full of the Gospel that when we are exposed to it, we can’t keep it in.
What is the Gospel?
It is the story of God loving us even when we don’t deserve it.
His love is demonstrated in the person and ministry of Jesus.
The Gospel call is for us to repent of sin and put our full faith and trust in Jesus as Savior and Lord.
As we saturate our worship with the Gospel, it thus should freely come out of us into the world in which we live.
Our worship should help us to recall where we were, what has been done for us, where we are today, what we should be doing today, and where we are going.
4. Our worship is to be connected appropriately.
In verse 22 the Hebrew writer calls us to draw near with a “sincere heart” with “hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscious and our bodies washed with pure water.”
When we connect with a holy God we should not be the same.
A lot of times we can come in here and we become actors; we aren’t sincere or real.
We aren’t sincere, because we know if we get real, we have to deal with stuff we don’t want to deal with.
We do not want to be honest with ourselves.
Our worship calls us to be sincere with ourselves and with God.
If we don’t first realize where we are, God cannot do anything with us.
His desire is to do something in You.
His desire is to do something here at this church.
But it requires us to be honest with ourselves.
Honest with our sufferings.
Honest with our sin.
Honest with our salvation.
5. Our worship is to be relationally appropriate.
We must understand that this is our time as Calvary Baptist to come
together to worship our God.
Notice again verse 25
Worship is not just an individual experience.
It is not just an individual experience; it is a family of faith experience.
Worship is a family of faith, a church, experience.
We are called to worship together.
We are warned not to forsake this time together.
We can’t build each other up unless we are together.
Our faith is not only shown by our actions outside these church walls, but also us coming together as a church family.
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Our worship is to be energized appropriately.
As we worship or Lord and Savior, know that He gives back a double portion to us if we worship appropriately.
Our worship should energize us to live the life that God has set before us a congregation and as an individual.
Our worship is a time of instruction.
Our worship is a time of practicing obedience.
Our worship is a time of receiving encouragement to continue on in our journey of faith.
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