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WHAT IS BIBLICAL WORSHIP?
WHAT IS BIBLICAL WORSHIP?
If you don’t worship… you’ll never experience God.
– David Jeremiah
Without worship we go about miserable.
– A. W. Tozer
Worship and intercession must go together; one is impossible without the other.
– Oswald Chambers
Have an eye to God in every word you sing.
– John Wesley
Worship is the highest elevation of the spirit, and yet the lowliest prostration of the soul.
– Charles H. Spurgeon
Definition: Biblical worship is the response of God’s redeemed people to His self-revelation that exalts God’s glory in Christ in our minds, affections, and wills, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
self-revelation that exalts God’s glory in Christ in our minds, affections, and
WHAT IS BIBLICAL WORSHIP?
wills, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Among adults who regularly attend church services, one-half admit that they haven’t experienced God’s presence at any time during the past year.
Remember, this is not among the Easter-and-Christmas-only church attenders, but among people who attended an average of more than two dozen worship services last year.
– George Barna
I. Biblical Worship…
We are always worshipping.
The question is what or who?
We’re always placing something above us that we desire, pursue, and allow to govern our behavior.
allow to govern our behavior.
When it’s God, He must determine how we worship Him.
Not our opinions, preferences, or ideas.
God has more to say about how we worship Him than we think.
we worship Him than we think.
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Is the Response…
God has already done something outside of us and inside of us that enables us to worship Him.
enables us to worship Him.
Created us
b.
We are not the initiators of worship; God is.
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2. Redeemed us
2. Redeemed us
Redeemed us
Sustains us
3. Sustains us
3. Sustains us
2. Redeemed us
We are not the initiators of worship; God is.
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3. Sustains us
b.
We are not the initiators of worship; God is.
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the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their
dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their
way toward him and find him.
Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for
“ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets
have said, “ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
III.
Of God’s redeemed people…
Just as God delivered the nation of Israel from Egypt to worship Him (), so He has redeemed us as a holy nation to declare His praises.
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(), so He has redeemed us as a holy nation to declare Hispraises.
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praises.
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Worship of God is more about what we do when we’re together, rather than when we’re alone.
than when we’re alone.
Worship is about our life TOGETHER.
We bring glory to God by the way we relate, interact, love, and serve each other.
we relate, interact, love, and serve each other.
IV.
To His self-revelation…
1. Created us
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2. Redeemed us
We couldn’t know God apart from what He reveals of Himself to us.
We could study for the rest of our lives and not know him unless He showed himself to us.
could study for the rest of our lives and not know him unless He showed
3. Sustains us
himself to us.
We must listen for God’s voice everywhere,
We must listen for God’s voice everywhere,
In creation - , eternal power, divine nature, creativity, power, beauty
In His Word - ;
His Son – ;
creativity, power, beauty
Just as we don’t have our own ideas about worship, we don’t have our own ideas about God.
In His Word - ;
His Son – ;
c.
Just as we don’t have our own ideas about worship, we don’t have our
own ideas about God.
V.
That exalts…
The essence of worship is exalting - raising up, lifting high, submitting to, magnifying, making much of, honoring, reverencing, celebrating – the triune God.
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magnifying, making much of, honoring, reverencing, celebrating – the
triune God.
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Proclaiming/declaring – (Read )
Expressing desire for – (Read )
VI. God’s glory…
God’s glory is everything that makes him uniquely God.
b. “In the ultimate sense, no subject is more important than this. . . .
His is the right of preeminence by virtue of being God-- the Creator, the Redeemer, the All in All.
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