Spiritual Disciplines (6)
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Worship continued
Worship continued
Why is it so important to worship the Lord? Why is it important to worship the Lord together with God’s people?
He inhabits our praise
Psalm 22:3
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
God enjoys our worship. He created us to worship Him, but our worship is about God’s worth and the fact that He is worthy.
We recognize that. We sing songs of praise and worship. We praise His name, but God is complete in and of Himself and yet it’s His will for us to worship Him.
John saw a vision of the throne room in Heaven.
He describes it in
Revelation 4:1-11
After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”
At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it.
And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne.
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads.
From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. In front of the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God.
Also in front of the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.
The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.
Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “ ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come.”
Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever,
the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”
We can only imagine what Heaven will be like.
John 1:18
No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
1 Corinthians 13 speaks of seeing a reflection as in a mirror. The mirrors of that day were not the quality of today.
1 Corinthians 13:8-13
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 John 3:1-3
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
We really don’t know how we are going to react when we see Jesus face to face, but we do know that we will see Him in all His beauty and majesty. We know that the 24 elders fell down and worshipped.
We can’t begin to fathom His greatness, and yet He longs for us to worship Him. He is worthy of our praise, our worship, and our adoration. He is no earthly king. He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
Psalm 100
A Psalm of Thanksgiving.
Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.
Know that the Lord, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, And His truth endures to all generations.
When we worship, we don’t have to come up with words that we can’t understand, but we can give Him thanksgiving and praise.
Let’s tell Him how we love Him. Let’s lift up His Holy name.
What are some of the attributes or characteristics that we know about the Lord?
(Charles Hodge)
- He is holy - set apart. He has no equal.
He is good
He is righteous/just
He is omnipotent
He is omnipresent
He is omniscient
He doesn’t change
He is truthful, He doesn’t lie
He is love. He is merciful and compassionate
He is eternal - He has no beginning and no end
He is the creator of all things
Let’s praise Him
Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.
Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.