Time to Shine 2 – Revelation through Worship

Jeffrey Burkhardt

Oasis Bethany Church

Time to Shine • Sermon • Submitted 4 years ago • 52:38

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Ephesians 1:18

It's time to shine!

Bible Verse

Ephesians 1:15-23 (NIV)

15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people,

16I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.

17I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

18I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

19and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength

20he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,

21far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

22And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,

23which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

New International Version (NIV)

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1:17 a spirit of wisdom and revelation The Greek text here may refer to an attitude or disposition that the Holy Spirit brings to a person’s life: one willing to receive and communicate the things of God. Alternatively, the text may refer to the Holy Spirit and attributes that characterize the Spirit.

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1:18 hope The Greek word used here, elpis, refers in this context to the fullness of salvation that believers will experience at Christ’s return (see Eph 1:14 and note). Paul highlights three blessings the believers can expect: hope for the future, God’s claim on them as His inheritance, and the great power of God Himself at work on their behalf.

1. Worship brings a new persepctive

Bible Verse

1 Samuel 17:30-36 (NIV)

30He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before.

31What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.

32David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”

33Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

34But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,

35I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it.

36Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God.

New International Version (NIV)

Bible Verse

Psalms 23 (KJV)

Psalm 23 A Psalm of David.

1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

5Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

2. Real Worship is the Giving of Ourselves

Bible Verse

Romans 12:1-2 (NIV)

1Therefore, 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.

2Do 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.

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Romans 12:1-2 (ESV)

1I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

3. The Fire of Worship Lifts Us from the Earthly Into the Heavenly

Bible Verse

Judges 13 (ESV)

1And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children.

3And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

4Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,

5for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

6Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,

7but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

8Then Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born.”

9And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.

10So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.”

11And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.”

12And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, what is to be the child’s manner of life, and what is his mission?”

13And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.

14She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.”

15Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you.”

16And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.)

17And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?”

18And the angel of the Lord said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”

19So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.

20And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.

21The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.

22And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.”

23But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”

24And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the Lord blessed him.

25And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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Too often we mingle the Word of God with the doctrines of the world:

Everyone becomes and Angel in Heaven

Many Paths leading to the the same place

Individual Ethics – Which is really just putting yourself in the place of God. You are better, wiser, smarter than Him. It’s the tree of knowledge – we know better than God – all over again.

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