THE HEART OF WORSHIP
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And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?
There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
What is worship? Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and overpowering love in the presence of that most ancient Mystery, that Majesty which philosophers call the First Cause, but which we call Our Father Which Are in Heaven.
True biblical worship so satisfies our total personality that we don't have to shop around for man-made substitutes.
God seeks and values the gifts we bring Him--gifts of praise, thanksgiving, service, and material offerings.
In all such giving at the altar we enter into the highest experiences of fellowship.
But the gift is acceptable to God in the measure to which the one who offers it is in fellowship with Him in character and conduct; and the test of this is in our relationships with our fellow men.
We are thus charged to postpone giving to God until right relationships are established with others.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Could the neglect of this be the explanation of the barrenness of our worship?
Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
I. One Came Back To Worship
There is I suppose many explanations for why the other nine did not come back.
a. Can’t wait to get back in fellowship with the world, or maybe they thought it was owed to them.
b. Maybe a outward change is not good enough for true worship.
II. Was Jesus Waiting For Them To Return?
Was the father waiting on the prodigal son to come back?
a. Sometimes our true desire to worship is tested.
b. Joshua made the statement chose you this day, not tomorrow or next week but now, who you will worship.
III. Unquestionable Worship
And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
a. The reward of our crowns are greater our worship to the King.