Week 6 - Worship

Rare and then prayer takes me to the presence of God. We just sit with him all that is worship and we're going to notice it and I've noticed and I'm going to start pulling these out as we go there's some but I called Golden Threads some common themes that run throughout everything and meditation. That's one of them just sitting and thinking on dwelling in the presence of God recognizing the presence of God meditation in in in Waiting in prayer and scripture reading and and worship. One of the other Golden Threads I've noticed is prayer and we of course have that in our scripture reading and meditation of prayer itself and worship itself is a prayer and worship. This is another one of these Golden Threads that we see throughout that to I can't just do a talk on worship and say okay in that that's worship package that in a box and said that on the shelf and whatever you want to worship you grab that out. No because worship is a part of It's part of your reading of God's word and later on. We're going to talk about our corporate life together community and worship. Of course as we're doing now worship is a big part of us are going to revisit Worship in a different light soon. So that was where was contemplation with with Divine reading that was one of the sort of one of the defining aspects of contemplation in reading of God's word and that we get to that we surrendered to him that time where we we surrender to him and expect to meet with him. Now I didn't read from this last week. I just referenced it. But I do want to read some of this week. This is the work called the ladder of months by Grillo is cistercian from the 12th or 13th century and he took everything it's monkey been practicing for years and put it down in a a really good little small work explaining Club monks to do is particularly with Divine reading and here he goes through each of the four. Steps, so is you hear the contemplation part of this? I want you to be thinking about worship. So he says that over the four steps of Lexi. Oh, I should have put a slide up. I'm sorry reading is the careful study of the scriptures concentrating all power ones powers on it meditation is the application of the mind to seek with the help of one's reason for knowledge of hidden. Truth prayer is the hearts devoted turning to God and driving away evil to obtain. What is good and contemplation is when the mind is in some sort lift it up to God and held above itself so that it tastes the joys of everlasting sweetness. He does this a couple more times. He says reading 6 for the sweetness of a blessed life meditation receives it prayer asks for it contemplation taste. It is for aspects of Lexi Luna Vina reading as it were put the food into the mouth meditation choose it up like what type of chewing right meditation choose it up and breaks it up. Prayer extracts its flavor and contemplation is the sweetness itself which gladdens and refreshes and then finally reading works on the outside meditation on the inward Parts prayer asks for what we long for and contemplation gives us the light in the sweetness, which we have found in those steps of lectio Divina that contemplation is that that sitting that one more time that Delight in the sweetness, which we have found contemplation really is worship that sweetness that we have found. So that that sweetness is the meeting with God and the Delight right the Delight of that sweetness of meeting with God that the light is worship. That's what today we're going to be talking about worship, but not in a community since I was ever talk about that later Foster in his book hear celebration of discipline, which again I recommend this over and over again. He separates the spiritual disciplines into three things in where disciplines would like prayer meditation outward disciplines acts of service and he puts fasting in our disciplines. I think and then Community corporate disciplines, which that's where he includes worship is in the corporate discipline, but respect. Mr. Foster worship begins in the individual level. It is also an inward discipline affected really is all three worship His inward something you do when you commune with God it also wasn't out word discipline and that it produces something it produces praise. It produces a response and which often comes out in song But also comes out in in service in Worship in a changed life in ministering to others worship results in that and it also is a community as well. It is a corporate discipline so against or that golden thread idea worship is all three of these as well. I'm not going to do a 2 week session like I did on prayer and scripture where we did like a wise in the nuts and then the house we're just going to do one week on worship though. We kind of do in tubes. I took a whole lot out of this. I kind of put over in the corporate things are going to come back to Worship in a few weeks when we get to our our community life, but The reason that I don't have to separate this into the whys and the what is because it's in learning the the what's it's in learning. What worship is that? We learn how to do it. It's not as divided as you could see in in Prairie Hill learning what it isn't in how to do it in learning. What worship is we learn how to do it. So we're going to spend one week on this today and coincidentally because of course God is all about coincidences Shelly and I don't often talk about well, I don't I don't think it in my well, I guess we're going through acts, you know where I'm going. But like I said like that she didn't know what passage I'm going to be in sometimes I give her the themes of the week and sometimes I don't cuz I'm a failure but you she likes have a theme or going sheet. She makes us to worship songs together. Will this week's the song that she she picked for the reading with Derek anything this morning was the same passage that I had pulled out as well the same passage it I was drawn to so we have this coincidence that got a range. We're going to be trying to study Worship in Psalm 95 if you want to turn there with me.

Ethan go. Hey Derek. Could you bring me a water buddy? I'm already I'm already starting to so I can get all choked up. So I'm going to die up here if I don't get a water and nobody wants to clean clean that up so Psalm 95 it one of my favorite songs. I recite it often almost everyday in my own devotional time. It's and I didn't come to this because of that because I was going through this just a couple phrases started ringing out green in my ear and I was like, oh yeah song 95 says that that's why I started looking at somebody 5 and said yes, this is going to be our texts. This is where we are going and it explains worship beautifully and that leads us into a place of worship of being a song. It is an expression of worship. So verse 1 of Psalm 95 will just going to take apart a bit with the boys read this morning. Come let us sing for Joy to the Lord. Let us shout. Joyfully to the rock of our Salvation. Let us come before his presence with Thanksgiving. Let us shout. Joyfully to him with songs now that we've not yet started talking about worship. I know it sounds like it come let us sing for Joy Lachelle. Joyfully, let us come before his presence with Thanksgiving. Let us shout. Joyfully to him with songs in the song. We've not yet begun to talk about worship. But you do see here is a an outpouring a result of worship and it begins here with a call a call to worship. Come come let us sing. Let us shout. Joyfully, but these things are not worshiping in themselves. These are what we would call praise and yeah, there is a difference between praise and worship and I know it's kind of like your musically, you know, what kind of lump together or if you want to talk about a Christian music genre. I just praise and worship, right and we talked about praise and worship a lot but they are very different things in this is this is what we would call praise the songs that the shouts of joy and so quickly me my water quickly. Quickly, let's talk about what worship is not. Because it can cause problems if we think worship is sitting in church and singing songs that can cause problems if that's what we think worship is because going to get our heart gets our eyes off the Heart of Worship singing That's not worship. That is an outpouring at music is a beautiful gift. I've been given given given the Psalms for example, those are lyrics but music is a tool that we can use to help engage our hearts. We know that music is powerful, you know, if you you here at the first whiff of a certain song and takes you back right? There's a country song that talks about to get Clint Black ain't it? Funny how a Melody can bring back a memory, right? Sorry. No AC DC today guys that you got Clint Black your time of it earlier, but some So music is powerful but music is only a a a tool and so music is a meditative way for us to engage the lyrics of a song today. There's there's some Reedus really good songs today that they're really bring you in that can lift the heart up to God but it's a way for us. I see about that this week when I was doing when I was worshiping and listening to a song it was the lyrics of the song that were important. It was the music that kind of Drew Me In but it was the lyrics and where there's a danger is often times we can begin to enjoy the tune more than we understand her enjoy the lyrics and so music is not worship and praise itself is not working phrases in Avenue Richard Foster in this book uses that that prayed Praises in Avenue in to worship or better yet. Praise is a piece of a bit of worship. We got but worship is the totality of it all that they the all-encompassing. It includes praise Thanksgiving as we saw here into his presence with Thanksgiving adoration worship covers all of these things, but that praise adoration Thanksgiving. Those are not worship themselves. Like for instance that song see I have this guy almost thought about having Shelly do it this week, but I just thought I'd let it see where it went. But when I consider all the worlds they hands of me right when I consider all the world, then you consider that meditative idea when I think on these things how does the chorus go then sings my soul my savior God to thee how great thou art as so you have this response and that's what we're ship is worship is the the response the heart. Response to what God has done in the end. That's what we see here in verse 3. So we have that prays in 1 and 2 that call to praise Everest 3/4 because he says for the Lord is a great God and the King above all gods in whose hands are the depths of the earth and the peaks of the mountains are his also the sea is his for he grew was he who made it and His Hands formed the dry land. So here you have and have a slide for this the first part of worship what it is and what it isn't what it is. The first part is recognition worship His recognition in here you have any knowledge of who he is and in verses 3 through 5 and acknowledgement of who he is and acknowledging of his worth. Recognizing acknowledging who he is and all that. He's worth and earin verse one. That's how it began. Let us shout. Joyfully to who the rock of our Salvation healing first one the psalmist acknowledges who God is he is our salvation, but here we have a recognition of his sovereignty as well. Right? He he made everything basically that's what he said that said verses 3 through 5 because he made everything so that acknowledgement of who he is the recognition of his sovereignty and his place is sort of does like we talked with prayer when you recognize who he is The Lord's Prayer begins Our Father Who Art in Heaven a recognition of who he is. What did we talk about that doing to us? It's situates us. In relationship to him by recognizing who he is. It puts us in a relationship. They may help us recognize where we are and so here with worship you begin with this recognition and its situates Us in response to that and now over 6, we're going to have a response to that it and it's going to be interesting cuz you're going to see if it's sort of cyclical in the beginning you have this praise. And then verse 3 y 4 the Lord is a great God the great king above all gods. So let us worship your versus wanted to for who he is and they're verse for says so let us worship Him sober 6 come let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker. Now we get to worship. We have this praise. We have a recognition or who he is and then we have a response that response to who he is and what he's done and that is worship worship is reverence not just acknowledging his worth and everything that he is but now we get to the part of rendering. What is do So this response in verse 6 come let us worship and bow down. This is our response our reverence giving him rendering to him what his do. Worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker. Now it's funny in this verse I should have put up there so you can visualize it but the other Bibles you can see it when he says your worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our maker. But the funny thing is worship. The word itself means to kneel to bow down before in fact, we see this Hebrew word a lot of times in the Old Testament and it doesn't just mean worship. In-N-Outs in its most basic sense we have in Genesis chapter 22 verse 5 Abraham and Isaac go and he kneels before God, he said we're going to go kneel before God Genesis 18 when the visitors came to him and Sarah Abraham bow down. He worshipped if you want to put it that way these Angelic creatures, but he was not fully giving himself over to the full definition of worship. Like I'm talking about in a minute. He did not worship them as God, but he bow down to him in 1st Samuel 24 David prostrate himself before before Saul same word. And then here with Jacob Joseph Brothers they come and they kneel before him that that same word of bowing down now, they are not worshiping him as God, of course, but this is the picture of worship is It's a bowing down. It is a kneeling before it is a reference and a rendering what is do so it says come let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker. So this is very important because And this is I mean this is pulled onto this this tells us that worship is about posture and not physical posture and kneeling like here kneeling is not an act of recognizing someone is God. Okay, but it tells us that it is about posture the posture of the hearts worship is not song worship is a posture of your heart worship is the way that you approach God and the reason verse 7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture the Sheep of his hand. So we can you go back to this kind of sick lilac cyclical idea. You have the praise and the reason for the Lord is our great God you have the worship and then you have the reason for he is our God and we are his people so what do you have there? Yeah, that situating write the recognition of who God is and who we are in respect to God situating ourselves and worship to God and this becomes this act of worship. It becomes bowing down worship is a submission a reference a submission to God. And she have it over here. I've mentioned this time of time. I'm going to do this again in Romans here in a minute. But we've seen twice here that this worship is a response, right? It is a response to who God is and what he's done and we see this throughout scripture one of my favorite places. If you know if you heard me before, you know, this Ephesians is the perfect picture of this chapter 1 through 3, you have what God has done chapters 4 through 6 is our response, but I don't know if I've ever actually read this passage to you. I'm going to read a bit to you. I'm going to start in chapter 3 verses 1 through 13. I'm just going to skim it showing you how Paul tells us everything that God has done for us that I put this up here. Nope. I didn't will sit here really hurt for just a second really quickly. So he talks Galatians Galatians Ephesians chapter 3. He talks about all the things that God has done. He talks about us being stewardship of God's grace which was given to me for you. He talks about how Generations have not been made known to the sons of men or in other. Generations has not been made known to the sons of men but now has been revealed to His Holy Apostles and prophets in the spirit. He talks that we have been giving given given you for this really tiny print the we've been made Ministers of his grace to bring the Gentiles in and to the light so that we made so that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to us. This was important for the Eternal purpose which he carried out in Christ Our Lord in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith. So he's talking about all these things that God has done for sale Anchorage Marine chapter 3 read all of Ephesians 1 through 3, but then invoke vs. 14th and listen to Paul. You're going to hear 95 Echo and him he says for this reason I bow Call my knee before the father from whom every family in Heaven and Earth derives its name. So he goes on for three chapters about the goodness of God and then specifically in this chapter is a media response is for this reason for the Lord is our great God Lord Is Our God and we are his people for this reason. I bow my knees before the father and then he goes on a verse 28 here UPS into this Praise of worship now to him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all the way Oscar thing according to the power that works within us to him be the glory in a church and in Christ, Jesus to all generations forever and ever amen. Anybody even puts an amen on the end of it, even though we're not at the end of the book he comes to this end of the section of God's goodness, and he just erupts in pray is he worship is the natural response? I'm acknowledging what God has done to us and it is the reverence that which we give him and then the response he says therefore because all of this is true. I the prisoner of the Lord implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with what you have been called is he our responsibility is always a response to God's goodness. Worship is a response to God's goodness. They're returning to the psalm of her seven finishes today if you would hear his voice, so you have this call. They open the bidding come let us sing. Let us shout, but then there's this call today if you would hear his voice, and so we worship, but then there's a response back to us worship includes a call back to you to come in and finishing off the song today. If you would hear his voice do not Harden your hearts as at meribah in the days of massage in the wilderness when you Fathers tested me. They tried me, even though they'd seen my work for 40 years. I endured that generation and they reset and they said that they are a people who are in their heart and they do not know my ways therefore I swore my anger truly. They shall not enter into my rest. What a weird way to end a song of worship as I praise worship. Come is called worship great and they were stubborn so I let him die in the wilderness. What where did that come from? Well, we can see where is here. They are in their heart. They do not know my ways and you remember that they would complain against the Lord the mirror miraculous bread that you would provide them every day. They got to the place of saying that this is worthless bread worthless food provided from Heaven that tasted good scripture tells us they began calling it worthless bread. And so the people here we see they fought with God they were stiff neck. They were in pliable. They were inflexible. They were not surrendered and this is the third part of worship worship is surrender and sacrifice is surrender and sacrifice Warren wiersbe in his book real worship says worship is the Believers response of all that they are All that you are mine. Emotions will and body to what God is and says and does. Worship is a response of everything that we are it is surrender to him and it is sacrifice origin one of the church fathers in the 200s taught that all life offered to God all life offered to God is prayer and worship and so worship then and here's your story of a definition you wanted to hold on to it is a response V response the totality of our response of self gift back to God we often talked about him. I talked about Christ on the cross that that radical picture of God's love that picture of God's radical love of his self gift to us that is love is self GIF worship then is the gift the total surrender the totality of the person in surrender to God. So again, it's not just acknowledging his worth, but it's Reverend surrendering. What is due and if you wanted to I'm going to be in Romans chapter 12 going to start in chapter 11 actually though and verse 33 and did I put this up here? There you go. Does spoiler alert because you know this person I'm going to speak kind of set the stage Romans 12:1 says to present our bodies a living and holy sacrifice acceptable God to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. So what sets the stage that what do you think sets that up this outpouring of worship Romans 11:33. Oh the depths of the riches both of the wisdom in the knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgments and unfathomable his ways for who has known the mind of the Lord who became his counselor or who was first given to him that it might be paid back to him again for from him and through him and to him are all things to him be the glory forever. Amen. Ecco Paul erupting in this praise which was in it and is an expression of his worship answers in his worship acknowledging everything that God is and has done and then the response therefore I urge you Brothers by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice. Holy a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to God and this is your spiritual service of worship. So worship is a life offered to God if I can literally right thing about the sacrifices in the Old Testament. It literally was a a lamb a ram a bull a turtle dove or two. It was literally a life offered to God and all religions around the world all religions around the world across the space and time. What do you see? Universally you see sacrifice sacrifice is a part of all religions and even ours but we no longer offer physical sacrifices. So the question is The question becomes who is worship about and this is one thing where you talk about big time. We talk about praising the corporate Community worship is not about us and what I get out of it worship is not about what I want. Your orisha just had a birthday earlier this month and the kids asked what would she wanted for her birthday and mothers? Can you tell me what you think? She said she wanted for her birthday. Give me one what a day off and a house. Exactly. That's what they want is what mothers want for their birthday the day off and a clean house but that response. That's great. What do you really know? What what can I really get you? What what you really want is a well maybe and she would say that the weeds pulled out of the garden. Yeah. Can I just buy you something right? She has she told them on her birthday what she wanted but they we went out and we bought her stuff anyway, so tell me this friends the gifts that we brought. Who were they really for? The Guess Who we brought her work for her they were for us. She told us what she wanted on her birthday, but we gave her what we want cuz it was easier. It wasn't a sacrifice to go down to the so we know somewhere and buy something for her but to clean the house, Missy and and that's what I did right now. See why the good beautiful husband build her a fence around her garden and did all kinds of wonderful thing. But really for her birthday. We we got her any of the kids got her presence until in those movements. It wasn't about Mom for me when I was a kid is the same thing. It wasn't about Mom. It was about me and we do the same thing with worship. Yo, we we come and we we we say Hey, you want this you want this music I want you but that's great. You want to song He's like I want you is like yeah, but she worship is sacrifice. I forgot to do this it is that sacrifice of yourself. And so worship is nothing at all about what we get out of it worship is not a feeling. It's not a good feeling that we get cuz not about us worship is about what we can give God by Hebrews 13. I think it is talking about that. We bring a sacrifice of praise. It is a sacrifice. And so what do we give God? What do we give him and worship the very best where to give him the very best and that which he asked for that which is most precious. The greatest sacrifice and that's us. That's the highest form of worship now giving him not coming in because of what we want to give. It's not about us. It's about him until we give ourselves and as we place ourselves on the altar we say please receive this please receive me like we read in Romans 12. and so yeah, I'll jump in his real quick. We have the time John chapter 4 and you know this for chat John chapter 4 verse 23 through 24 Jesus says but an hour is coming and now is when the worshippers the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth. For such people the father seeks to be his worshippers. God is spirit. And those who worship Him must Worship in spirit and in truth. And so here this to full definition to fold aspect of worship that Jesus gives spirit and in truth kind of encapsulate what we've been talking about with the sacrifice because we enter into the presence of God and we offer ourselves to God and His Spirit reaches down and touches our spirit Spirit. Did I write this down somewhere? I don't I didn't I don't need little phrase it but it's Spirit touches spirit and we commune with God whom we offer him ourselves. And that's what you see in the Old Testament sacrifices. That was the point of the temple for God would meet with people. And and sacrifices near theirs once a year. There's a burnt offering the sacrifice is normal. You bring them in the Dupree still of the butcher. He would butcher the meat you would offer it and then you took it and he would bring it down and you would have a meal it wasn't like it just brought an entire aux and let the thing on fire. That wasn't that was Al sacrifices were you would eat it and Portia would go to the priests and they would eat it and you would be eating there in the presence of God and we talked about the significance of eating in the Old Testament because we were inviting the same exact elements. We became one in a sense. That's why Jews didn't eat with Gentiles. It wasn't because you like to go down to a McDonald's in it and he has a Big Mac meal of a quarter pounder and you're sitting there having lunch know it was sharing the exact same elements and that which was building his building you and in the act of eating you became one. So tell me how important the sacrifices were in the temple. Because it was a sweet Aroma to the Lord. It was sacrifice to the Lord and you and the Lord you and the priests are partaking of the same elements you in the in sacrifice in the temple. You were literally you were becoming one with God you were eating with God and so you had the most deepest place Spirit touching spirit and then in truth no, with the South Park true worship. It's not a song. It's not it's not sing in a few song. That's not our time of of what we we can call it our time of worship, but you can come in here and you can sing songs. You can even come in here sing songs and getting emotional feeling without ever entering into worship cuz worship true worship Worship in spirit and truth true worship is offering yourself. It's it's so much more than high than emotional feeling. It is truth a friend of mine said this I'm just going to read this to you because it's awesome worship is the complete and lifelong dedication of one's essential self to the object of worship. This is why you don't commit idolatry. This is why you do not worship idols cuz you're giving yourself your tire to give your life to this Idol. Okay. So it's the complete in lifelong dedication of one's essential self to the object of worship. What should we got worship doesn't need to move the heart. It can also bring it to a place of Stillness from which it becomes possible to hear God and suddenly aware of the stark contrast between God's holiness and our lack of we can sustain a life of repentance emotions are as fine as as they are. They are a part of human nature. They are part of who we are emotions are fine as they are but they are fickle the life of Faith must rest on a deeper Foundation. And that that deeper Foundation is are giving ourselves to him now. That is awesome. You know what that was the Facebook post that deserves to be that my friend needs to write a book but true worship. It is not music worship is content submission and surrender. It's an act of the will that that captures and raptures the heart draws it up into the presence of God. And so it is time for us also to return to the Heart of Worship. I'm coming back to the Heart of Worship where it's all about you. I'm sorry Lord for the things I've made it. When it's all about you, it's all about you Jesus. I didn't bring my bolts and up here. But I would encourage you to look through that bulletin and and maybe grab the lyrics of some of those songs and use those to help you understand worship this week to help help facilitate your own time of worship in like we talked about we're on a journey together. These things are are meant to push us deeper to the Lord to help us learn how we can participate in the Divine life to its fullest and so I'm walking with you and hopefully you're walking this week as well. So this week as you have learned more about worship you've entered in worship take those songs. You can grab the lyrics off of Google. You don't have an internet server or something. Let me know how we can print out the lyrics for you, but it's time for us to return to the Heart of Worship cuz our hearts were created for worship. This is what we are created for our hearts desire it our hearts long for it. And so are you providing that are you providing that encounter with the Lord for your heart to worship? Are you just coming on Sunday singing in a few songs, you know it quietly and maybe off key and and carrying on your way. Are you worshiping the Lord your God? Review some of these passages this week and see how you can get your heart back to that place of worship cuz not about a location. It's not about here not about a music style. It's because it's about the with the words in the content. The style is the vehicle to dry as the content. It's not about location about music style or our own Comfort to surrender to the lord of the posture that kneeling got surrender before the Lord and I think we're often missing it and in the in an effective Christian Life is worship. And I know I've got I go in and out I go in and out of this and have for years. Do I have great times that are more passionate than others and then something you decline or something. I'm still reading reading God's word. I'm still doing my daily devotions, but I look back in. My life is just like it's been a little mad for a few months what's going on and I realized Not been worshipping I'm not been entering into his presence and sitting and dwelling with them and giving myself to him daily Leigh Anne Neal Paul talks about a living sacrifice for Batali Bears repeating talks about being a Living Sacrifice. What's the problem with putting a Living Sacrifice on the altar? Nick crawls right back off of their you know, you've been a Living Sacrifice and he's like, I don't want no part of this. I'm out of here. We are be living sacrifices, but the problem is we tend to crawl down right off that alter and so we need to revisit this and so I'm going to say this again, what's often missing from an effective Christian Life is personal worship what you get is not just seen but it's an acknowledgement of who he is rendering what is due and then offering one's self there. Now in your bulletin there is a little hand out. It's from Foster's book at the end of his book. He gives 7 tips on on entering into to worship and this will eat you have all his words there. But just from here I will tell you the seven ways seven of the house. You can do this as learn to practice the presence of God daily learn to pray without ceasing to going to put them up here. I think I forgot I'm sorry to have many different experiences of worship and I get on the hand out at tells more 3 find ways to really prepare for corporate worship on Sunday for be aware of the power of corporate worship five develop a dependency upon God 6 absorb distractions with gratitude. I love them babies cry to me babies are here. I love babies. So rather than we are on front of worship. Shut up kid. You accept it you love it you smile. Absorb distractions of gratitude and 7 learn to offer a sacrifice of praise. And so that's the Practical part. I'm always trying to leave you with something to go do and last week. I forgot to tell you to go to lexio Divina go read your your scripture try this for we do these four things. But so remind you do that and this week, I'm go out and do that. You'll find it has a cyclical type of effect. Like we talked about the beginning of Psalm 95 cuz we worship this morning. Hopefully you were shift and then we're going to go out. We're going to practice worship this weekend. We are going to prepare for our time of corporate worship on Sunday and still having prepared ourselves were to come back and we're going to worship again. And I will draw our hearts up to God and we'll go out and in the next week worshiping God throughout the week on our own and together. So I haven't heard this today live this throughout the week listening for his voice obeying his call and enter into that worship. And so I says we've heard this morning do this this week. We'll come back next week and worship together.

Lord we thank you for the call to worship for calling us to come.