Difference Makers: Its More Than Music
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Skillful Musicians and Singers
Skillful Musicians and Singers
Pastor Sherry Comments about our difference makers
In worship human beings recognize God for his attributes and express this through adoration, praise, thanksgiving, service, and living holy lives. Worship constitutes the primary calling of humans. Systematic Theology
The Purpose of Praise & Worship
The Purpose of Praise & Worship
When Seth grew up, he had a son and named him Enosh. At that time people first began to worship the Lord by name.
Seth was Abels replacement after his death. Enosh could means man (frailty)
To worship meant to, call, shout; name, appoint, summon, proclaim, announce; recite, read in Hebrew.
Name: name, reputation, renown, presence.
Yahweh: The Lord
All to often in the lives of God’s covenant people when a crisis or a failure or a tragedy occurs, the ensuing hardship, offense or repercussion will seperate people from their devitional practice of authentic worship. Authentic worship is when our words match the condition or position of our hearts. Notice it took time for Adams Grandson’s generation for people to begin to worship the Lord by name. What took so long? we may never know but what we do know is that if we do not demonstrate authentic worship in our own lives we teach those around us the the Lord is not impotant. Inauthentic worship is is identified by passages such as,
Isa 29:13 And so the Lord says,
“These people say they are mine.
They honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
And their worship of me
is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote. Jesus quoted Isaiah in His day because gving lip service to God is a perpetual danger to truthfull worship!
A. Praise A Celebration of Joy about the greatness of our God!
B. Worship Adoration of God’s Fullness in
New Living Translation (Neh Chapter 12)
27 For the dedication of the new wall of Jerusalem, the Levites throughout the land were asked to come to Jerusalem to assist in the ceremonies. They were to take part in the joyous occasion with their songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps, and lyres.
New Testament Clarity
But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way. For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
Psalm 145:18 (NLT)
The Lord is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him in truth.
So let’s get closer to God this morning. Our skilled and anointed team will enter into His courts and we will follow. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way, let’s not disappoint Him.