Worship call 0730

do you like puzzles? Here's one for you. 1 Corinthians 12:12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. As members of the body of Messiah, we can be compared to pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. Each piece has protrusions and indentations. The protrusions represent our strengths (gifts, talents, abilities), and the indentations represent our weaknesses (faults, limitations, shortcomings, undeveloped areas). The beautiful thing is that the pieces complement one another and produce a beautiful whole. Just as each piece of a puzzle is important, so each member of the body is important and can minister to the other members of the body. And just as when one piece is missing from a puzzle, it’s absence is very obvious and damages the picture, so also is the whole weakened when we are absent from the body of Messiah. we have the privilege of being a little part of God's big picture! Let's not shy away from being a piece! Go forth and serve the Lord in wonderful ways this week. Your family in the Lord with much agape love, George & Obadiah (in Baltimore), Baht Rivka (in Israel) and Elianna (in Texas)

And this is another fine day in the Lord

Our Father who is in the Heavens

Question: Is God the Father the Father of Just the Jews?

Just the Christians?

Just the Jews and the Christians?

or is God the Father of all?

Well, in one sense, as Jesus identifies those who are the offspring of Satan in that context no. One has only one father.

But in another sense dealing in view of Creation the best of us and the worst, the saved and the sinners origins go back to the creator God.

There are no two origins and while many unbelievers profess their origins coming from some kind of premortal soup some millions of years ago, it is God who created man in his own image.

Repentance is turning back to the one who created us and calling God Father the one who created us and breathed into the first man the breath of life.

When I give the gospel to others, I am not inviting someone to join me in the worship my father God. I am making a plea to my brother to turn to the Creator of us all.

Father constitutes a relationship. God is Sovereign, and thus there is the relationship between King and His subjects. But there remains a relationship between God as he condescends Himself to a Father child relationship. And when the Church comes, the Father Child relationship deepens even further a Bride and bridegroom relationship.

It was a bold statement for Jesus to say the things that He said such as;

I and the father are one (John 10:28)

No one goes to father but through me (John 14:6)

Before Abraham was born, I am (John 8:58)

Destroy this temple, and In three days I will raise it up (John 2 19)

But it is a bold thing that we are granted to Call the one enthroned in Heaven, the maker of heavens and the earth, the one who rules over every existing thing both visible and invisible to call His majesty our Father.

Who was Jesus but God who made such bold statements.

Who are we in relationship with God when we can call Him Father?

Do you think possible this is just another thing that fuels the hatred of Satan against God and His elect?

Our Father who is in Heaven

οὐρανός [ouranos /oo·ran·os/] n

Is a plural Noun better translated interestingly as Heavens. ( more than One)

Our father who is in the heavens

Heavens might not only the sky, stellar space and the throne room of God but it may include multiple dimensions of creation. God is not just a man upstairs in only one place, but God is omnipresent everywhere at all time. Though the Kingdom of heaven is a future reality there is no place that God is not already there.

Psalm 139:7–9 (NASB95) — 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. 9 If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

Our creator dwells every place that his hand has created.

Genesis 1:1 (NASB95) — 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

God made the heavens. Both visible and invisible it is God who holds every created realm under his sovereignty. And though the creature in his rebellion thinks that he himself is like the highest God, The arrogant creatures view of self will come to acknowledge otherwise.

Philippians 2:10–11 (NASB95) — 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Here once again Heaven is plural.

Those who are in the Heavens. Every dimensional universe.

And while there is coming a time when the rebellion against God will be put down and every knee will bow, and that just doesn’t mean that all have repent it merely means that even the god haters will have to come and acknowledge God. Their confession will not constitute repentance. That is that they know God and they acknowledge his sovereignty they do so grudgingly.

The Grace Commodity of Time gives man the opportunity to turn to His creator in acknowledgement of who he is bowing a knee volitionally declaring one’s heart to God the sovereign king of us all.

IN the model of the disciple’s prayer in worship we are declaring God as our King set apart from all else in our worship of him.

Hallowed be your name

ἁγιάζω, ἀνασῴζω [hagiazo/hag·ee·ad·zo/] v[1]= Holy, revered, worthy of worship.

From the Louw-Nida

88.27 ἁγιάζωc: to feel reverence for or to honor as holy—‘to hallow, to regard as holy, to honor as holy.’ ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου ‘hallowed be your name’ or ‘may your name be honored as holy’ Mt 6:9. In a number of languages it is impossible to employ an expression such as ‘your name’ as a reference for God himself. Therefore, it may be necessary to translate this expression in Mt 6:9 as ‘may you be reverenced as holy’ or even ‘may you be acknowledged as God.’[2]

He is the God of the heavens over all created things and it is in those heavens that worship is already being conducted.

Isaiah 6:1–4 (NASB95) — 1 In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called out to another and said, “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.” 4 And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke.

IN this created realm the rebellion is under way against God who incidentally sits and heaven and laughs (Ps 2) There is order in Heaven. That order is reflected in the right orientation to who and what God is. Among the angels there is the acknowledgement that God is Holy. He is worthy of praise and glorification. There is none like Him.

IN our prayer we come in our own souls while living within and among rebellious man (we live among those with unclean lips) we profess the Lord God as Holy. We are in agreement with Heaven and while there remains rebellion those who profess has chosen to serve and honor the Lord.

Romans 10:9–10 (NASB95) — 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

Yet again the other day, a man says to me, “You know, I work real hard through the week, Sunday is my only day to sleep in, so I don’t go to church.”

I mockingly (maybe, I shouldn’t have) not abusively but in a friendly note,

“So when you are standing before His holiness you will say…’ Lord, you only gave me one day off, so I ain’t going to worship you, I’m just going to sleep in!”

In our lives, we spend much time doing and going and being this and that. and we acknowledge God.

Yes.

We say grace at our meals. WE are better than others by our conduct. We go to church as we go about our lives we kind enough to include God in our lives.

When we pray

Our Father who is in the heavens, Holy is your name

If we declaring his name if in reality we are standing before a Holy God in our hearts, is our lives itself consecrated set apart as holy?

I mean are we simply sharing our lives with God or have surrendered our lives to God? Every thing we do every thing we say every thing we are we surrendered to the sovereignty of the Universe wholly or are we only giving him our 10% and moving on?

Are we tithing our lives. Giving God 10 and keeping for ourselves 90.

As we aknowledge the name of the Lord

[1]Strong, J. (1995). In Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon. Woodside Bible Fellowship. [2]Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). In Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, pp. 744–745). United Bible Societies.

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