God’s worship and Praise
To Him belongs all of the Glory!
God’s Expressed intention in praise and worship—like clearing the path of trees. Praise and worship clears us of the pride and self-centeredness that is a hindrance to seeing the true and exalted position of God in relation to us. Before we learn the value of praise and worship, we are still thinking that God is here for our benefit and not we, for His glory. Like the wife that says, I just want my husband to do what I said. Wrong. God made us for the purpose of assisting the husband not visa versa. When we do it the other way we are upside down. If you don’t want to be made for God’s glory don’t enter into worship. If you don’t want to be a helper, don’t get married. (an aside)
God’s Expressed invitation to praise and worship-- Enter into His Presence—With thanks giving
God’s Expressed inclusion in praise and worship Words of worth and increasing our vocabulary to improve our verbal adoration of him. Music that is worthy of His presence. Inviting and praying that God would accept our praise and worship. Study and looking in the Word at the times when God declined His people’s sacrifices and worship. Use of God’s Word to worship Him with. Prayer of protection and help to those who lead us in worship and praise. Prayers of protection over those whose families and praise make up the substance of praise. Those whose vows are attempting to be kept are those who make up the mass of praise for God to inhabit. Keeping short accounts with one another.
God’s Expressed habitation of praise and worship
God’s Expressed insertion into praise and worship
1. The difference between Saul and David—praise and worship--- There is so much that imitates the sacred that is merely superstition. There are paintings and music that can evoke tremendous emotion and exaltation and these are not all bad but that is not always glorifying to God. Saul made up a very religious reason for the stuff that he did. I wanted to sacrifice these animals to the Lord, that is why I disobeyed. I wanted to talk to Samuel, that’s why I went to the witch. Excuses for disobedience are not blessed. David messed up massively and cost many lives in numbering the people and killing Uriah, God had mercy because he wasn’t full of excuses. He fessed up to God thoroughly. We can’t know when we are fully fessed up to God, only He can. Presumptuous sin is a hinderance to worship as an initial sign that we are grieving the Holy Spirit. God is straight up in His relations with us and gives us clear evidences of His pleasure and displeasure and that was Annanias and Saphira in the NT and Uzzah in the OT. God’s presence is awesome in His pleasure with us and in His wrath to us also. God is present in Mercy or in Wrath. God is a consuming fire. Obed Edom’s family could live with the expressed presence of God in their house because they were obedient to the Lord in their interaction. No small task for a large family. 325 mighty men of God were in Obed Edom’s lineage. Obedience and maybe even the word obedience came from the testimony of obedience that Obed –Edom’s family exuded. (look up Gittites)
I. Examples of Worship and Praise in Scripture-
II. Examples of worship and praise in relationship with you-
III. Ambition to better preparation for worship and praise.
IV. Ambition to being a better worshiper
True worshipers are who the Father seeks to worship Him-
Seeing what Jesus was referring to when He discussed this with the Samaritan woman and what He was inferring through this. How God blessed her holy ambition for the salvation of her entire city.
Jesus placed this appetite upon her.
She was bereft of this before meeting Christ. He cut to the chase, so to speak and paralleled the filling of her need with the Filling of the Father. God doesn’t have to seek anything. But she got it. The Father seeks such to worship Him. What is God the Father thirsty for? An unnecessary question. He who needs nothing would discuss with us that He seeks such to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth
Expecting God to inhabit our praise and make us better worshippers of Him. The Father seeks such to worship Him. Spirit-----Truth----Help us Lord to become better worshippers. As God has promised from Jeremiah and all of the prophets to make all of the nations into worshippers of Himself by the cleansing of water by the word. He takes the time to show us our faults before Him and that which He has engaged Himself to clean us up in. Moab being the wash pot! The last, it seems from scripture is the coming of the washpot for the all to come and become cleaned. All of the other people groups having had reformations and that is what we see in the history of the world. Great reformations and great changes of life and all the former idolaters of the world turning their cultural attention to the policies of Jesus. That seemed to be how the Lord looks at the world not as individuals, although He is personal and particular, but as groups with portions of His image and portions of dirt and grime pressed into their cultural persuasions. As we bang against eachother the masses of us knock off the wicked prejudices and particularities and we can see, as it were the image of Christ being
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