Real worship is Heart Worship

Opening & Intro

I am a heart surgeon!

Don’t believe me?

Let me tell you how I would replace a valve, step by step.

First I would put a breathing tube through your mouth into your lungs and connect you to a ventilator, a machine that will breathe for you during the surgery.

place a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) probe into your esophagus (swallowing tube) so I can monitor the function of the valves.

A soft, flexible tube (called a Foley catheter) will be put into your bladder to drain urine.

A tube will be put through your mouth or nose into your stomach to drain stomach fluids.

Someone on the surgical team will clean the skin over your chest with an antiseptic solution. If there is a lot of hair at the surgical site, it may be shaved off.

If you are having an open-heart surgery, I will make an incision (cut) down the center of the chest from just below the Adam's apple to just above the navel. If you are having a less invasive procedure it may require smaller incisions.

The sternum (breastbone) will be cut in half lengthwise. I will separates the halves of the breastbone and spread them apart to expose your heart.

To do the valve repair or replacement, I must stop your heart. I will then put tubes into the heart so that the blood can be pumped through your body by a heart-lung bypass machine while your heart is stopped.

Once the blood has been completely diverted into the bypass machine for pumping, I will stop your heart by injecting it with a cold solution.

When the heart has stopped, I will remove the diseased valve and put in the artificial valve, in the case of a valve replacement. For a valve repair, the procedure done will depend on the type of valve problem you have, for example, I may separate fused valve leaflets, repair torn leaflets, or reshape valve parts to ensure better function.

Once the surgery is done, I will shock your heart with small paddles to restart your heartbeat. Next, I will allow blood circulating through the bypass machine to re-enter your heart and remove the tubes to the machine.

Once your heart is beating again, Iwill watch it to see how well the heart and valves are working and be sure that there are no leaks from the surgery.

I may put wires for pacing into your heart. I can attach these wires to a pacemaker outside your body for a short time and your heart can be paced, if needed, during the initial recovery period.

I will then rejoin the sternum sewing it together with small wires (like those sometimes used to repair a broken bone).

I will put tubes into your chest to drain blood and other fluids from around the heart.

I will sew the skin over the sternum back together and close the incision with sutures or surgical staples.

A member of the surgical team will apply a sterile bandage or dressing.

There you have it!

Step by step! there it is I know everything I need to know. I have sown things before and I have great knife skills. I even watched it be performed on youtube and about a hundred times on about 4 different tv shows. How hard can it be?

Main Point

Do we give God our best and represent Him the way He deserves? Is our heart in it?

Why Does it Matter

We are meant to be the messengers of His Gospel. Are we taking that resomsibility seriously?

If we say one thing but do another do we really represent who we claim to love?

Scripture

Malachi is the last prophetic message from God before the close of the Old Testament period This small book captures the essential message of the Old Testament and shows the reader the nature of God and our relationship and responsibility to him and to others in the covenant community

1 - This came from Malachi

2 - God's loves us; How has he Loved us?; God has loved Israel (Jacob)

3 - God has not love Edom (Esau); He has laid them to waste.

4 - They will not prosper on the backs of their brother.

5 - God is LORD of All not just those who love Him.

Do we believe that God Loves us?

Sincere worship

6 - Why do you disrespect me if you know who I am?

7 - You do the bare minimum

8 - You treat me like anyone else in authority. But I am the authority of the authority.

9 - Then you ask God to forgive you and to be merciful? What do you think He will say?

Is God LORD of your life?

Genuine Faith

2 Corinthians 13:5 NIV

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?

I am a Nascar driver! I drive nascar. I know all about nascar! I drive everyday. I even make right hand turns. How hard can it be?

We can’t just say we are something just because we understand it and think we know what we are doing. We have to test ourselves.

Would you want to go to a doctor who never was tested? Or fly with a pilot who only read the books and played in the simulator? Right. FOr important things we expect something to prove a genuine skill or achievement.

10 - I wish someone would stand up and stop this disrespect

11 - My name should be great and everyone should see that

12 - But you make me look so bad.

13 - You act like loving me is a burden. Somethign to moan about.

14 - What does that say about the person who has the right offering but chooses to Cheat God?

Are we bringing him our best?

Humility.

We need to humble ourselves before God and the people around us. That way we show the best of God.

We have to be willing to risk rejection. Share His word and our lives.

Application

Matthew 28:19–20 NIV

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

2 Corinthians 5:20–21 NIV

We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Matthew 5:13–16 NIV

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

What is the so what? Do we represent Christ?

Closing

What changes have we made in our lives to reflect the commitment we made when we accepted His gift of life?