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Introduction
Worthy worship.
What is this?
How do we discover whether we are worshipping God in a worthy manner?
Do we know this at all, or is it something we just pray on and hope we are doing it correctly?
These are all important questions.
They speak into something that I am sure many struggle with.
I know that I do sometimes.
The answer, though, is not all that far from us.
We can know how we are to worship.
We can know if we are worshipping correctly.
We can know if we are doing it worthily.
I have a quote from a Dallas Willard book, Life Without Lack, that may be of assistance.
Willard is quoting a man named Paternus:
“First of all, my child, think magnificently of God.
Magnify His Providence; adore His power, pray to Him frequently and incessantly.
Bear Him always in your mind.
Teach your thoughts to reverence Him in every place for there is no place where He is not.
Therefore, my child, fear and worship and love God; first and last, think magnificently of Him!” (Willard 24).
I know that this was just a man writing this but it has some force behind it.
It speaks into us about a passion to have.
This advice is something we all need to take to heart as we prepare to worship God.
To worship God is much more than singing.
It is much more than a sermon.
It is much more than prayer.
It is all of these but so much more.
Singing is great it opens us up to God.
It makes us turn our hearts to God.
It sparks an emotion in us and we open our hearts to God.
Sermons spark something in us.
They make us look at ourselves and see us for who we are.
They make us to be open to God.
Whether for good or bad.
Prayer is how we communicate to God and deliver what we feel.
It is also how we ask for strength and wisdom.
We go to Him because He is worthy to go too.
We go to Him because we are not worthy to go too.
When we have ourselves in the proper place and God in His, we will worship Him and nothing else.
This is worship.
It is us bowing our hearts, and selves, before an all holy God.
He is so much more than we are.
He is so far above us.
He is the creator all-powerful God.
It is He who is worthy of everything we can give and so much more than we cannot.
He is the mighty one from everlasting to everlasting.
He is the one who formed you.
He made you and all other things around us.
We must give Him the honor due Him.
And this honor is not just a few songs and a short message once a week.
No, it is so much more than all of this.
It is more than what Paternus said.
It is all of that, plus more.
We must center and focus completely on God.
We must always place Him in His rightful place.
He is all-powerful, but He is all-loving.
He is the one who created you.
He created you, let that soak a moment.
You are here because of Him.
You, He created.
This means He wanted you here.
You are no accident.
You are no mere chance.
You are here because God the Father wanted you here.
This is worthy of praise and heart bent worship.
Not only this but He sent Jesus the second person of the Trinity the Son to die for you and me.
Again, not only this but Jesus has gone to prepare a place for all who have believed upon Him ().
He has not only created you but sent Christ to die in your stead not only this but now Christ is preparing a place for you.
This is amazing and worthy of so much more than we can ever give.
This is amazing grace.
This is unfailing love.
This is why we worship.
It is this amazing glory that God has offered us.
This amazing gift He has offered to all.
Let us turn now to and see this amazing place, those who are there, and what they do.
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The Why of our Worship:
(Verses 1-3; 5-6a)
In these first three verses we see the why of our worship.
It is because of the place.
Not just that of heaven But that of God’s place.
His place of authority above all things.
We see His authority when He says “Come up here” and John was “at once” there in the Throne room of God.
There was no “I will be there in a minute.”
No, it was immediately.
He was there as soon as the words were said.
It does not matter that it was in the spirit what matters is that it was immediate.
Although, him being the spirit there shows forth the authority of God even more.
He summoned John there in the spirit.
He made the inner man of John be present and not the physical man.
This is true power and authority.
No man or thing on earth can do this.
It is only God who can.
Only the one true living God can make you be at once before Him.
He and only He can summon you to be before Him and you are there regardless of your thoughts.
Not only do we see this power exerted but we see other indicators.
Look at the stones and the throne and the rainbow.
The flashes of lightning and thunder.
The seven spirits of God.
The see of glass that is like a crystal.
What do all of these have to do with God and His worthiness of worship?
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