I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello, friends, and
welcome to 3ABN Family Worship,
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where we worship the
Lord in spirit and in truth.
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And that's actually what we're
gonna be talking about tonight
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during our study time together.
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Our title is worship
and then the subtitle,
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of course, in spirit and truth.
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We're gonna be looking
at, you know, what is worship?
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What's the
importance of worship?
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And there's a lot of things
you can say about worship.
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You know, there's so
many different avenues
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and subheadings and
things you can take it
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into a certain direction,
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but tonight
we're just gonna focus
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in on what does the Bible say?
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How did Jesus describe
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what it means to
properly worship?
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And so, again, we just
wanna thank you for joining us
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because we know you
could be anywhere else
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doing anything else,
but you are joining us here
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on this Sabbath evening,
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and praise the Lord
for the Sabbath, right?
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Amen to that.
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I love this time where
we can be around the table,
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just like family 'cause
that's what we are, right?
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We're family
literally, you know,
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literally to a certain extent,
but you guys also at home
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watching all over the
world, you are our family
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and we praise the
Lord for your love,
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your prayers and support
of this ministry as the gospel
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through 3ABN is going all
around the world right now.
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And so praise God for that.
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Well, I'm gonna go
ahead and take the time
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to introduce our guests.
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It gets kind of weird for
me to say that because usually
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I'm on the guest side of things,
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and Greg and Jill are usually
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the ones hosting,
but without further ado.
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We just all family
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We are, Brother Ryan.
Yeah, we are all family.
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So, Brother Greg Morikone,
for those who may be watching
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for the first time, you
are the President of 3ABN,
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and we're so
grateful to have you here
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joining us today.
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It's a blessing, you know,
and I like Family Worship time.
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I mean, this is great,
you know, spend the time,
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you know, it's
usually been a busy week.
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And so to spend
this time, like you said,
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together as
family, and then of course
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with you at home
and it's a blessing.
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So thank you for the invitation.
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Amen. And great topic too.
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I know. I love it.
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It's gonna be good. Thank you.
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We'll hope we'll get everything
in one in one hour, right?
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That's true.
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And, of course,
Miss Jill Morikone,
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Vice President, COO and we are
so blessed to have you as well.
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And I know you've
got some lists for us
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because I told you to make one,
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and I know you've got
a lot to share with us.
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I was kind of relaxing thinking,
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okay, well, Ryan's,
you know, he's hosting.
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So we're just kicking back
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and get to
enjoy the Word of God.
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He said, "No, I know
you're gonna have a list."
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So I thought I
better kick in gear.
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Praise the Lord. Amen.
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And across the table, we've
got little brother Dakota Day,
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and we're only about
four and a half years apart.
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I say little brother
because he is my little brother,
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but it's always a
blessing to have you,
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Amazing Facts evangelist,
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you travel
full-time on the road.
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Literally like you live in an RV
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and your home is
where you park it.
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That's right. Yeah.
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We travel full time
with the administrative
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of Amazing Facts and we do
public evangelistic campaigns
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all over the world.
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And it's just always a blessing
and privilege to be here
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with our 3ABN family,
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just to do awesome
Bible study together.
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So, yeah, thank
you guys for having us.
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Praise the Lord.
It's good to have you.
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That has been nice you
know, because I know COVID
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kind of caused a
little bit of a challenge
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with all the travel
and things a little bit.
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So to have you and your
wife, you know, close by,
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I'm sure it's been nice to you.
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Oh, man. You and
Stephanie to have...
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It's been a blessing,
you know, about many years
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I was on the road
with Amazing Facts.
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And we didn't get to see
family as much as you'd like.
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And so it's kind of been a
blessing during these times.
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It's good. It has.
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It's blessing
having you guys here too.
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Well, thank you
guys for having us.
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It really is truly a
blessing to come here
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and get to visit my bigger bro
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and just get to see all
of you guys and worship here
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at the Thompsonville Church.
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Amen. Absolutely.
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Praise the Lord.
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Well, we're here to
talk about literally
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on 3ABN Family Worship.
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We're gonna talk about worship
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because worship is
extremely important to God
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and it should be
extremely important
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to us as Christians.
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But before we dive
deep into this topic,
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I'm gonna ask Miss Jill,
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if you would
have a prayer for us.
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Sure.
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Holy Father, we come
before You in the name of Jesus.
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We're grateful for Your
gifts, the gift of Sabbath,
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the gift of salvation
by grace through faith,
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the gift of Your
Spirit that gives us
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insight into Your Word.
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And right now we
just ask for that.
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We ask for the
anointing of Your Holy Spirit.
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We pray that You would
open our minds and hearts
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to receive the
truth in Your Word.
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And that, Lord, we
wouldn't just study and go away,
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but we would be study.
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We would study
and be changed. Amen.
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Because of what You are going
to do in our hearts and lives.
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We give you this
time, we give You ourselves
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and we thank You in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Thank you so much.
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Oxford's online dictionary.
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I just wanna go right there.
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Let's define what worship is
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from kind of a
secular perspective.
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That's always
interesting to know
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because we know
the Bible is very clear
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on what worship is and we're
gonna talk a lot about that,
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but I found this to
be very interesting,
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very quick, very
simple, very easy.
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Oxford online
dictionary says that
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"Worship is the
feeling or expression
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of reverends and
adoration for a deity."
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That's the general
kind of secular definition.
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And I think that
there's a lot of accuracy
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in that definition to
them for the most part.
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But I want to
start just kind of,
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let's start
with the Brother Greg
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and Sister Jill here.
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What is your concept of worship?
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What is worship to you?
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Yeah, that's great.
That's a great question.
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You know what
first comes to mind?
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Well, three things,
one would be family worship
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as in at home.
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When I think of worship,
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I'm thinking,
okay, family worship.
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I grew up, I was
blessed to have a family
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that had family worship.
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I also think of
worship as in going to church.
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You know, my parents
very much took us to church.
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So I think of like a
worship center, a sanctuary,
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but then I also think
of worship as a one-on-one.
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My parents were
very strong with that.
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Like, okay, son, make sure
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you have your
own time of worship.
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So that's when I
think of worship.
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When you ask that question,
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that's what comes
to mind, those three.
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That's awesome. Praise the Lord.
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That's important.
And worshiping the Lord.
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That's right.
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'Cause you know
what I talk about.
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Okay, there are other things
that you can worship, you know,
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money, you know, sports
figures or other things,
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but remember to keep,
you know, God number one.
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Absolutely wonderful. Jill?
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I think of Romans 12,
when I think of worship,
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that's where my mind goes.
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So if we could go
Romans 12. Yeah, absolutely.
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Romans 12:1.
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Yeah, that's
beautiful. I love this.
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"I beseech you
therefore brethren...
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by the mercies of God
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that you present your bodies
a living sacrifice or in Greek,
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it could be offering.
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So wait a minute,
we're supposed to sacrifice.
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We're supposed to be an
offering, a living offering,
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holy, that word means
set apart, adios, set apart.
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Holy acceptable to God,
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which is your reasonable service
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or which you could translate,
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which is your
spiritual act of worship.
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So when I think of
worship, I think of surrender.
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It's about me coming
before God with the offering
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of myself and
saying, "God, all I have,
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everything I have,
everything I am is Yours.
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And I'm not holding
on to some other idol
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that maybe wants to
come between me and God
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or I'm not holding
on to something else.
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God, I am yours.
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Make me holy.
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God, as I give myself to You,
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would You work Your
character in my life?
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That's worship to me. Wow.
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Is that surrender to God.
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A quote, I just yesterday
found this is sometimes
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you have to lay your dream
down to pick up God's best.
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Wow.
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And to me, that's worship. Yes.
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You lay down what
you think you want,
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what you think
your life is all about.
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This spiritual act of worship,
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giving it to God and
picking up what's His best.
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Wow. That is so awesome.
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What He has for
us is incredible.
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So that's, to me
worship is allowing God
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is that surrender and
allowing Him to come in.
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That is beautiful.
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As you were saying
that, I thought to myself,
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that picture of Christ in
Gethsemane came to my mind,
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you know, nevertheless,
not My will, but Your be done.
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What an awesome scene
of worship there, right?
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That's awesome.
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Dakota, what's
your concept, your idea?
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What is worship to you?
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So worship to me
when I first initially saw
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the question for this
study, what is worship?
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My first initial
thought went to, you know,
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to be completely in awe
and in adoration of God.
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And it's funny
because the adoration
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is the same word that they used
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in the dictionary
there that you looked up.
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But what's interesting
though, too, is, you know,
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when I was looking
into the Old Testament
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and New
Testament terms of worship,
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I found something very beautiful
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that I could relate
to every single day.
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And the Old Testament definition
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or Old Testament word
for worship is shachah,
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which is very interesting word.
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It's a Hebrew,
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but it means to
prostrate oneself
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or to put your
nose to the ground.
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That's good.
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And so literally like
it's a like complete awe
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and realizing
like, if we were before
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the presence of God
right now, how would we act?
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Yeah. Right.
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We would just be
like, boom, you know?
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And then the New
Testament where it came to mind
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and this one was a really
one that I could relate to.
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And when I said
being in adoration of God
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is the New
Testament word is proskuneo.
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And that means very interesting.
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Listen to this,
to kiss like a dog
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licking his master's hand.
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Wow.
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Now I have a golden retriever.
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All right?
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And I love my golden retriever.
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Her name is honey,
but I call her honey bun.
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Okay.
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And every single
morning of my life.
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And I'm sure many
of the viewer's here
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can probably relate.
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Every single
morning, if you have a pet,
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dog especially.
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She comes to me
and wants to wake me up
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by the bedside of our RV,
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you know, where
our bed is in our RV.
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She wants to come
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and she'll want
to link my hands.
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And even if I
raise her from the chair,
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she just wants to lick my hands.
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She wants to be there.
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And I love that, to kiss
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like a dog licking
his master's hands.
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And that means to
reverence and adore.
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And I just, when I saw
that, I thought, you know,
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that's what true worship is too.
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Amen. That is awesome.
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That's an awesome illustration,
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you know... taking
consideration a dog,
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you know, they're very
loyal to their masters.
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You know, animal pets can
be very loyal to their masters
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and we could learn
a lot from the way,
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especially because
I've seen the attentiveness
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and the obedience
and the humbleness
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that his dog shows to him
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as he has trained her very well.
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And, you know, they
love her and care for her
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and take care of her.
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And it's just amazing.
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And sometimes
when I see that scene,
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I'm just like, wow,
that's how we should be
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with the Lord,
yet even more, right?
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Because God is our master.
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Right. Absolutely.
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I have to read this
'cause I found an article
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from 2012 Christianity Today.
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And I just
wanna read these words
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'cause I thought
it was worded so well
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just to kind of encapsulates
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what it is that
we're discussing today
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as to what worship is.
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And then in a few minutes,
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we're gonna get into
what Jesus said about worship,
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which is, you know, it's
kind of a, it's a dual thing.
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We have to worship
Him in spirit and truth.
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And we're gonna get
into that in just a moment.
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But I want to read
this from a 2012 article
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in Christianity Today.
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And this is what they say.
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"Worship is not the slow
song that the choir sings.
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Worship is not
the amount you place
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in the offering basket.
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Worship is not volunteering
in children's church.
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Yes, these may be acts
or expressions of worship,
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but they do not define
what true worship really is.
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There are numerous
definitions of the word worship
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yet one in
particular encapsulates
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the priority we
should give to worship
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as a spiritual discipline."
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And in the article,
they go to that definition.
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And it's a beautiful definition,
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which you probably won't
find in any dictionary today
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'cause this actually
comes from Webster's dictionary,
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the 1828 edition.
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And this is the
definition of worship
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in Webster's dictionary 1828,
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"Worship is to honor
with extravagant love
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and extreme submission.
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And sometimes we
don't like that word extreme
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because it sounds just
a little extreme, right?
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It does.
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But yet, you know,
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when it comes to
your love for God,
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does it sometimes appear
to some, to others as extreme.
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It can, depending on
how devoted you are to Him,
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but the article goes on
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and this is what
really caught my attention.
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It go on to say,
"True worship in other words
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is defined by the priority
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we place on who
God is in our lives
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and where God is on
our list of priorities.
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And then I
highlighted this next line
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because it really just
identifies it very clearly.
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True worship is a
matter of the heart expressed
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through a lifestyle of holiness.
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It's an attitude of the heart.
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I remember taking
a class, you know,
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in seminary program at Andrews,
worship, word and music.
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And we talked about how worship
is the attitude of the heart.
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It's almost an, a lifestyle,
it's a state of being.
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It's not
necessarily what you do.
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Those are expressions.
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Those actions are
expressions of it.
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But this goes on to say,
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"Thus, if your
lifestyle does not express
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the beauty of
holiness through an extravagant
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and exaggerated love for God,
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and you do not live in extreme
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or excessive submission to God,"
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again, that kind of
sounds a little extreme,
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but they, their word,
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their usage of words
here I think are accurate.
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"Then I invite you,
they say, to make worship
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a non-negotiable
priority in your life."
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That was really, really...
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I thought it really
caught my attention.
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And so what is worship?
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Dakota, I wanna go
to 1 Chronicles 16.
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Okay.
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And we're just
gonna kind of start here
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because a lot of people,
when they think of worship,
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they think of, you know,
their mind automatically goes
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to like a church
scene perhaps maybe.
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You're in church
and you're participating
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in a worship service, right?
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We call that our
worship experience
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or the divine worship hour.
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And so a lot of
people in their mind,
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they have the concept of worship
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as things that they do.
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And as we have
clearly said, more than once
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that worship can be expressed.
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Those are expressions or actions
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and the correct
term in many cases,
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as far as what's going
on in the worship service,
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with the liturgy, you know,
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you do this at this time
is an expression of this,
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your worship and
your homage to God.
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And you do this at this time.
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And it kinda seems
like our worship services
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are organized in that way.
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This is the time
for the offering.
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And this is the time to sing
the opening hymn, the children.
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People get upset if
you change the order.
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Right.
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You know, like, well, no,
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the offering
needs to come this time.
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No, the children's stories here.
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So, yeah, absolutely. Right.
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And then there's
others who absolutely despise
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the way we, our
worship services are organized.
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And, but again, I think
this 1 Chronicle 16:23-31
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kind of encapsulates
what many people's ideas
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are as far as how you express
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or declare that
worship unto God.
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So, Dakota, why don't you
read 1 Chronicles 16:23-31?
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All right.
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It says, "Sing unto
the Lord, all the earth,
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shew forth from day
to day his salvation.
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Declare his glory
among the heathen,
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his marvelous
works among all nations.
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For great is the Lord,
and greatly to be praised:
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he also is to be
feared above all gods.
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For all the gods of
the people are idols:
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but the Lord made the heavens.
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Glory and honor
are in his presence,
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strength and
gladness are in his place.
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Give unto the Lord, ye
kindreds of the people,
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give unto the Lord
glory and strength.
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Give unto the Lord the
glory due unto his name:
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bring an offering,
and come before him:
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worship the Lord in
the beauty of holiness.
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Fear before him, all the earth:
the world also shall be stable,
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that it may not be moved.
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Let the heavens be glad,
and let the earth rejoice:
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and let men say
among the nations,
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the Lord reigneth."
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Amen. Beautiful.
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It's kind of a beautiful poetic
expression of worship, right?
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Tremble before Him.
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I kind of, you know,
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those words kind
of don't fit our idea
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right of standing in
the presence of the Lord.
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But I don't think that this
is necessarily talking about
00:17:14.43\00:17:16.77
trembling in the sense of,
00:17:16.80\00:17:18.13
you know, shaking in
your jeans and then, you know,
00:17:18.17\00:17:20.84
running the opposite
way from the Lord riding
00:17:20.87\00:17:22.80
as in fear or, but this
is talking about more of a,
00:17:22.84\00:17:25.51
an homage of respect and awe,
00:17:25.54\00:17:27.94
a reverential awe for the Lord.
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This is talking about a
response of true worship.
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And so, as I was
reading through this,
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it took me to the
Book of Revelation.
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And I know that you had
prepared something, Jill,
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I think, from the
Book of Revelation here,
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but I would like
to go to Revelation 4
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and, Brother Greg,
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I'm going to let you
read Revelation chapter 4.
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This is that
beautiful throne room scene,
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where we see
worship taking place,
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the actions, the expressions
of worship taking place
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right there in
the presence of God.
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This is, of
course, within the context
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of the 24 elders and
the living creatures.
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Revelation 4:10-11.
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Go ahead and
read that for us. Yes.
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Revelation 4:10-11 says,
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" The twenty-four
elders fall down before Him
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who sits on the
throne and worship Him
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who lives forever and ever,
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and cast their crowns
before the throne, saying:
00:18:17.46\00:18:21.26
'You are worthy, O Lord,
00:18:21.30\00:18:22.93
to receive glory
and honor and power,
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for You created all things,
and by Your will they exist
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and were created.' "
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Amen.
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Yeah. That's powerful, isn't it?
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I love that, right?
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Because not only does
this give us kind of an image,
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a mental picture of
these heavenly beings,
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just kind of
prostrate in front of the Lord,
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casting their crowns before God,
00:18:45.05\00:18:46.96
giving their awe in
this kind of proskuneo,
00:18:46.99\00:18:50.16
you know, nose to the floor,
00:18:50.19\00:18:51.69
you know, kind
of humble situation,
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but it also answers an
important question here.
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And, Jill, I'm gonna
let you kind of take us
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into your Revelation
study here on worship.
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But it also, I
believe, really identifies
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why God is worthy of worship.
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You know, from a
secular minded perspective,
00:19:09.68\00:19:12.68
someone who may
not be very religious,
00:19:12.71\00:19:14.15
someone who may even be,
you know, atheist or agnostic,
00:19:14.18\00:19:16.72
they may look, you know,
at the concept of worshiping
00:19:16.75\00:19:19.45
this one Christian God, and say,
00:19:19.49\00:19:21.42
"Isn't there many
gods in the world?"
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Right?
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What makes this
God worthy of worship?
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What makes Him stand out?
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And I love the fact
that in this verse here,
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it says that you are worthy Lord
00:19:30.00\00:19:31.73
to receive glory
and honor and power.
00:19:31.77\00:19:33.34
Why?
00:19:33.37\00:19:34.70
For You created all things
and by Your will they exist
00:19:34.74\00:19:39.04
and were created.
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We serve a mighty God.
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We worship the
creator of all things.
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That's powerful
too because He created,
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but then also this
word exists, right?
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Yes. Staining,
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Right. That's huge.
00:19:48.75\00:19:50.09
Lots of people
cannot create living things,
00:19:50.12\00:19:51.95
but to keep it going.
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I mean, that's powerful.
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Amen. It really is.
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Yeah. Amen.
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To me, it's just amazing.
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I love what you said,
Ryan, because why do we worship?
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Yeah. We have to
know who we worship.
00:20:00.83\00:20:02.70
That's right. Right?
00:20:02.73\00:20:04.07
Because if you
don't understand God,
00:20:04.10\00:20:06.07
we recently studied Isaiah
00:20:06.10\00:20:08.14
for Sabbath
School Panel is Isaiah.
00:20:08.17\00:20:10.24
And it reminds me of
when we got to Isaiah 40,
00:20:10.27\00:20:12.61
I was just, I was undone.
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Who is this guy
that we worship this God,
00:20:14.71\00:20:18.45
our God is omnipotent.
00:20:18.48\00:20:20.52
Our God is eternal.
00:20:20.55\00:20:22.15
Our God is the creator.
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That's why we worship.
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And when I read
here in Revelation 45,
00:20:25.22\00:20:28.02
that's what I see.
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The reasons why we worship.
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So I wanna look at
just a couple of verses.
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Sure.
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If we pick up in verse
8, the middle of verse 8,
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these were the four
living creatures crying out,
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we're in Revelation 4:8.
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What did they cry out?
00:20:42.44\00:20:43.77
"Holy Holy,
Holy." Why do we worship?
00:20:43.81\00:20:46.74
Because our God is Holy. Right.
00:20:46.78\00:20:50.08
"Lord, God almighty, who
was and is and is to come."
00:20:50.11\00:20:54.68
Why do we worship?
00:20:54.72\00:20:56.05
Our God is
internal. That's right.
00:20:56.08\00:20:58.65
He always existed
00:20:58.69\00:21:00.32
from eternity
past to the future.
00:21:00.36\00:21:02.26
Our God is eternal.
00:21:02.29\00:21:03.63
Then jumping down to what
Greg just read in verse 11,
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"You are worthy, oh Lord,
00:21:06.29\00:21:07.70
to receive glory
and honor and power,
00:21:07.73\00:21:09.93
for You created all things."
00:21:09.96\00:21:12.23
Our God is not just holy,
we worship because He's holy.
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We worship
because He is eternal.
00:21:15.40\00:21:17.11
We worship
because He is our creator.
00:21:17.14\00:21:21.48
For You created all things,
00:21:21.51\00:21:22.88
and by Your will they
exist and were created.
00:21:22.91\00:21:25.41
We worship because
He is our sustainer.
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Right.
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Then we get to Revelation 5.
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And Jesus, the lion
of the tribe of Judah,
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the lamb slain shows up, right?
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Peter references
this in Acts Chapter 2.
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Remember that Pentecostal sermon
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and saying after
Jesus resurrected.
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He ascended to the
right hand of the Father.
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That's right.
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And so we see Jesus is
worthy to open the scroll,
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but then the living creatures
and the elders fall down
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and worship Jesus.
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And this is in verse
9, they sing a new song,
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we're in Revelation 5:9,
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"You are worthy
to take the scroll
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and open its seals,
for you were slain."
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Why do we worship?
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Because He's not just
holy, He's not just eternal.
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He's not just our creator.
00:22:10.79\00:22:12.79
He's not just our
sustainer. He is our redeemer.
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Wow. Amen.
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And have redeemed us.
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You were slain
and have redeemed us
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to God by Your blood.
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Amen.
00:22:22.44\00:22:23.77
Out of every tribe and
tongue and people and nation,
00:22:23.81\00:22:28.08
salvation is for
everyone, not just one group.
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Salvation is for everyone.
00:22:31.61\00:22:33.25
Have made us kings
and priests to our God,
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and we shall reign on the earth.
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He's made us kings and priests.
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So we worship God.
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I love Him because of who He is.
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That's right.
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That's what worship is
about, recognizing God.
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Praise the Lord. Yeah.
00:22:48.13\00:22:49.46
You know, Brother
Ryan, I wanna go back to,
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I was just thinking
about why we worship
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and going back to
what you're talking about
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those definitions and
thank you for putting them
00:22:54.24\00:22:56.00
in here in the notes here.
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Going back to the Webster's one.
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Worship is to honor
with extravagant love.
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So I think we worship,
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we don't, I don't
think I know we worship
00:23:05.45\00:23:06.78
because we love God.
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That's how we should worship,
right, because we love God.
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You had here too.
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This one from the
Christianity Today.
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I like that with extravagant
or exaggerated love for God.
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So I think of
Mark 12:13, it says,
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"Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart,
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with all thy
soul, with all thy mind.
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Right.
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You know, Dakota, I'm
going back to your dog.
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You know, your dog
is not a human being,
00:23:31.34\00:23:32.67
but I believe your
dog is licking you because
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for one thing, you know,
00:23:34.31\00:23:35.64
you feed her
and stuff like that.
00:23:35.68\00:23:37.01
But I also believe,
however dog can love somebody.
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There's some type of
connection that's there.
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Absolutely, yeah.
00:23:41.25\00:23:42.58
You know, so I
think about us with God.
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Why do I worship God?
00:23:43.99\00:23:45.32
Why I even want to worship
God, I can be afraid of God,
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but that's not very fun.
00:23:48.12\00:23:49.46
Yeah. Right.
00:23:49.49\00:23:50.83
But if I love God, that's huge.
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Absolutely, yeah.
00:23:52.53\00:23:53.86
You know, I love my
wife while I love my wife,
00:23:53.90\00:23:55.70
there's a
relationship that's there.
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So I think for me, the
reason for worshiping God,
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because I love God.
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He created me.
00:24:01.47\00:24:02.80
He sustains me.
That's the motivation.
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It's the motivation. Thank you.
00:24:04.61\00:24:06.11
That's the key
word. Praise the Lord.
00:24:06.14\00:24:07.78
I love what you said
there because we love God.
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We express our worship to Him
00:24:12.68\00:24:14.92
and it's based on
that extravagant love.
00:24:14.95\00:24:16.38
That's right.
00:24:16.42\00:24:17.75
It's great that you read
here, yeah But it's powerful.
00:24:17.79\00:24:19.39
We love Him
because He first loved us.
00:24:19.42\00:24:20.76
Yes, exactly what
I was thinking of.
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That's right.
00:24:22.16\00:24:23.49
God doesn't expect
us to just worship Him.
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You know, like, you know,
you don't know Me, worship Me.
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He extends Himself first.
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He gives us a reason.
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That's beautiful. Why
we want to worship Him.
00:24:30.90\00:24:32.47
And I think of my
dog, you know, like
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the Bible says in
Genesis that God gave us,
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you know, Adam and
Eve and humanity dominion
00:24:36.47\00:24:39.37
over the beast
of the earth, right?
00:24:39.41\00:24:41.34
And so when you
think about it that way,
00:24:41.38\00:24:42.71
like we have dominion over
all the beasts of the earth,
00:24:42.74\00:24:44.78
but what's amazing
though is like to think about
00:24:44.81\00:24:47.32
the beast of the earth
and the animals of the earth
00:24:47.35\00:24:49.32
will not show us
love and affection
00:24:49.35\00:24:51.32
if we do not first show
them love and affection.
00:24:51.35\00:24:53.49
Yeah.
00:24:53.52\00:24:54.86
You see some
people who have animals,
00:24:54.89\00:24:56.22
you go to like
the humane society
00:24:56.26\00:24:57.59
or something like
that, where they do,
00:24:57.63\00:25:00.56
you know they have
pets that have been abused
00:25:00.60\00:25:02.30
and all these different things,
animal shelters and stuff.
00:25:02.33\00:25:06.23
And you see these
dogs that will like,
00:25:06.27\00:25:07.70
when you walk up to the cage,
00:25:07.74\00:25:09.07
they'll walk to
the back of the cage.
00:25:09.10\00:25:10.61
They don't wanna
be around humans,
00:25:10.64\00:25:12.21
because of the way
they've been treated.
00:25:12.24\00:25:14.01
But my dog is not that
way, like she runs to humans
00:25:14.04\00:25:17.08
because of how
we've treated her.
00:25:17.11\00:25:19.11
She just thinks
humans are the grandest thing
00:25:19.15\00:25:21.42
that's ever
happened in the world.
00:25:21.45\00:25:23.49
And she wants to show
her love and affection
00:25:23.52\00:25:25.95
to each human she comes to.
00:25:25.99\00:25:27.32
And if you guys
have pets, you know
00:25:27.36\00:25:28.69
what I'm talking about?
00:25:28.72\00:25:30.06
I mean, it's such
a beautiful thing.
00:25:30.09\00:25:31.43
It is.
00:25:31.46\00:25:32.79
But I think it really,
00:25:32.83\00:25:34.16
it kind of really
encapsulates the idea of,
00:25:34.20\00:25:35.76
of why we should love God.
00:25:35.80\00:25:37.43
It's because when we
see what He's done for us,
00:25:37.47\00:25:39.70
as you mentioned,
Jill, He redeemed us.
00:25:39.73\00:25:42.47
When we see the love of...
00:25:42.50\00:25:44.27
that it was
displayed on Calvary,
00:25:44.31\00:25:45.81
it gives us an awe.
00:25:45.84\00:25:47.38
It's just like, wow.
00:25:47.41\00:25:48.74
And we like a dog, we
just wanna come to Jesus
00:25:48.78\00:25:51.25
and we just wanna wag our tails,
00:25:51.28\00:25:52.61
you know, and just...
00:25:52.65\00:25:54.82
We just wanna be happy.
00:25:54.85\00:25:56.18
And we want to like my dog,
honey, she lives to please me.
00:25:56.22\00:26:01.39
She really does, like,
she lives to please me.
00:26:01.42\00:26:04.23
Everything that she
does and her entire life's
00:26:04.26\00:26:06.63
existence is to just,
she's always staring at me.
00:26:06.66\00:26:10.13
If I get up to go to
the kitchen or whatever,
00:26:10.17\00:26:11.70
it doesn't matter.
00:26:11.73\00:26:13.07
She's always there
and she's just willing.
00:26:13.10\00:26:15.07
And you know, I
think of the scripture
00:26:15.10\00:26:16.60
where Jesus was
speaking to the woman,
00:26:16.64\00:26:19.24
who come to Him and He was,
00:26:19.27\00:26:21.24
she was asking
for a healing, right?
00:26:21.28\00:26:22.84
And he says what?
00:26:22.88\00:26:24.68
I should not throw what
is holding on to the dogs.
00:26:24.71\00:26:27.18
Right. Yeah.
00:26:27.22\00:26:28.55
But then what does she say?
00:26:28.58\00:26:29.92
She says, even the
dogs eat the crumbs,
00:26:29.95\00:26:32.12
which fall from
their master's table.
00:26:32.15\00:26:35.29
She compared herself to a dog.
00:26:35.32\00:26:37.46
Right?
00:26:37.49\00:26:38.83
In a sense, or he
compared her to, so to speak,
00:26:38.86\00:26:41.83
or she compares
herself to a dog.
00:26:41.86\00:26:43.20
I almost got that backwards,
but basically in a sense that
00:26:43.23\00:26:46.30
that she's saying, yeah, but
00:26:46.33\00:26:47.80
I'm willing to take
anything from your table.
00:26:47.84\00:26:50.67
I'm willing to come to you
00:26:50.71\00:26:52.04
and just soak up
everything you have.
00:26:52.07\00:26:54.78
And I think that if we
would be like that with God,
00:26:54.81\00:26:56.85
we would understand
what true worship really is.
00:26:56.88\00:26:58.45
Absolutely. That's good.
00:26:58.48\00:26:59.81
I like John 3:16 too. Yeah.
00:26:59.85\00:27:01.18
Yes, Ryan, for God
so loved the world.
00:27:01.22\00:27:03.28
Yeah. Amen
00:27:03.32\00:27:04.65
That's powerful. It is, man.
00:27:04.69\00:27:06.02
He gave us the
most precious gift.
00:27:06.05\00:27:07.39
Yeah.
00:27:07.42\00:27:08.76
Praise the Lord. Yeah.
00:27:08.79\00:27:10.13
So it was great.
I love this topic.
00:27:10.16\00:27:11.49
It goes to so many
directions. Absolutely.
00:27:11.53\00:27:12.86
Yeah, you could, we
could dissect this for
00:27:12.89\00:27:14.50
two or three
more family worships
00:27:14.53\00:27:16.43
if we wanted to, but you
know, it's just powerful.
00:27:16.46\00:27:18.77
And I have to make
mention, I can't help,
00:27:18.80\00:27:20.24
but my musical mind
00:27:20.27\00:27:21.80
picks this up
there in Revelation 5,
00:27:21.84\00:27:23.51
where you took us earlier.
00:27:23.54\00:27:25.04
You know, you can
sense and this was almost
00:27:25.07\00:27:28.21
come across as comedic here
00:27:28.24\00:27:29.84
or facetious, but
that's not the point.
00:27:29.88\00:27:32.25
I just, it's amazing.
00:27:32.28\00:27:33.62
You can see,
you can almost sense
00:27:33.65\00:27:35.85
God's worthiness of worship.
00:27:35.88\00:27:38.55
And the fact
that these brothers,
00:27:38.59\00:27:40.16
they sing a new
song the Bible says.
00:27:40.19\00:27:42.16
They freestyled a brand new song
00:27:42.19\00:27:44.13
that nobody else
had ever seen before.
00:27:44.16\00:27:46.36
That's how much love
and how much connectivity
00:27:46.39\00:27:50.33
that these brothers had,
00:27:50.37\00:27:52.10
you know, to the
Lord in the sense that
00:27:52.13\00:27:53.64
on the spot, they were able,
00:27:53.67\00:27:55.30
but I'm sure, the
leading and guiding power
00:27:55.34\00:27:56.97
of the Holy Spirit
to sing a new song,
00:27:57.01\00:27:59.47
to bring worship
and honor to Christ.
00:27:59.51\00:28:01.54
And that's powerful.
00:28:01.58\00:28:02.91
Then there should be a kind
00:28:02.94\00:28:04.28
of a reflection
of our life as well,
00:28:04.31\00:28:06.31
that our life
should be a reflection
00:28:06.35\00:28:08.72
of being able to always
come up with a new, fresh way
00:28:08.75\00:28:12.55
to worship the Lord.
00:28:12.59\00:28:13.92
And we're going to get
into in just a moment of,
00:28:13.96\00:28:16.49
you know, how not
to worship, right?
00:28:16.52\00:28:18.09
You know, because
we're not gonna spend
00:28:18.13\00:28:19.53
a lot of time on
that, but you know,
00:28:19.56\00:28:20.96
there's, we're gonna
talk about how to worship,
00:28:21.00\00:28:22.70
you know, from a
biblical perspective,
00:28:22.73\00:28:24.30
but how not to worship.
00:28:24.33\00:28:25.93
Before we transition to
that, is there anything that
00:28:25.97\00:28:27.90
you guys want to say
on this, on this part?
00:28:27.94\00:28:29.40
So I'm going to kick
this to Dakota right now.
00:28:29.44\00:28:31.31
Dakota, we're about
to go into answering
00:28:31.34\00:28:33.71
the question
that's on our outline here
00:28:33.74\00:28:35.08
which is, how does
the Bible instruct us
00:28:35.11\00:28:37.81
to worship the Lord?
00:28:37.85\00:28:39.18
We're gonna be
looking at what Jesus said
00:28:39.21\00:28:40.55
and how to worship the Lord.
00:28:40.58\00:28:41.92
But you, you brought this to me
as we were preparing for this.
00:28:41.95\00:28:44.59
And you said you know what?
00:28:44.62\00:28:45.95
Someone may
have the question of,
00:28:45.99\00:28:47.32
you know, how do we make sure
00:28:47.36\00:28:49.16
how we worship
the Lord correctly?
00:28:49.19\00:28:52.49
There's gotta be
ways, perspectives, mindset,
00:28:52.53\00:28:56.77
concepts of worship
that is not appropriate,
00:28:56.80\00:28:59.43
or that, you know, ways
that we should not worship.
00:28:59.47\00:29:02.04
Kind of take us
down a little bit of that
00:29:02.07\00:29:03.91
just for a period?
00:29:03.94\00:29:05.61
We as human beings,
we're born into this world
00:29:05.64\00:29:07.44
with a very sinful
and self-centered nature,
00:29:07.48\00:29:10.28
and we tend to
make worship sometimes,
00:29:10.31\00:29:12.98
let's just say it
this way, let's be frank.
00:29:13.01\00:29:14.35
A lot of times we tend to
make worship about ourselves.
00:29:14.38\00:29:17.52
Yeah.
00:29:17.55\00:29:18.89
And I'm not talking
about necessarily just,
00:29:18.92\00:29:20.59
you know,
day-to-day activities per se.
00:29:20.62\00:29:22.32
I'm even talking
about some people
00:29:22.36\00:29:24.46
who mean well, but yet
worship even in God's house,
00:29:24.49\00:29:27.90
even in church
sometimes turns into a worship
00:29:27.93\00:29:31.03
that is self-centered about
00:29:31.07\00:29:33.54
what I do rather than what,
00:29:33.57\00:29:36.00
yes, performance, rather
than what about God, right?
00:29:36.04\00:29:39.24
Worship should be not
about us, but about God.
00:29:39.27\00:29:42.14
And I was thinking about
that, a wrong ways to worship
00:29:42.18\00:29:44.78
and just centering on that.
00:29:44.81\00:29:46.28
So true worship is about who?
00:29:46.31\00:29:48.65
God. It's about God.
00:29:48.68\00:29:50.02
It's about the true God, right?
00:29:50.05\00:29:51.39
So, the first instance
00:29:51.42\00:29:54.06
that I was
thinking about in Scripture,
00:29:54.09\00:29:55.42
where we see like two ideas
of worship being introduced
00:29:55.46\00:29:59.16
is in Genesis 4,
between Cain and Abel.
00:29:59.19\00:30:01.00
Right?
00:30:01.03\00:30:02.36
You mentioned
offering earlier, Jill,
00:30:02.40\00:30:04.20
when you were quoting Romans 12.
00:30:04.23\00:30:06.10
And we see these
00:30:06.13\00:30:07.84
two dichotomous ideas of worship
00:30:07.87\00:30:09.30
first presented at
Genesis 4, Cain and Abel.
00:30:09.34\00:30:11.47
You know, the story, Cain brings
00:30:11.51\00:30:13.41
an offering unto God,
00:30:13.44\00:30:15.44
but his offering consisted
of fruits and vegetables.
00:30:15.48\00:30:19.05
How did he get that?
00:30:19.08\00:30:20.48
His own work.
His own work, right?
00:30:20.52\00:30:21.85
It was his own work, you know?
00:30:21.88\00:30:23.22
And I think many of you guys
00:30:23.25\00:30:24.59
would be able to relate to this.
00:30:24.62\00:30:25.95
Maybe you've been to a potluck
and the church member walks in
00:30:25.99\00:30:27.62
and they're so
excited about their tomatoes.
00:30:27.66\00:30:30.69
Ooh, look at my tomatoes.
00:30:30.73\00:30:32.06
I have the most
beautiful tomatoes,
00:30:32.09\00:30:34.60
you know, in all
of the area, right?
00:30:34.63\00:30:36.63
And if you guys
have seen this too,
00:30:36.67\00:30:38.23
and sometimes we can
become proud about that.
00:30:38.27\00:30:39.93
Look at what I did.
00:30:39.97\00:30:41.30
You know, I got the
soil right and I measured it.
00:30:41.34\00:30:43.10
And so it all becomes about us.
00:30:43.14\00:30:45.07
And so Cain's offering
was more centered on him
00:30:45.11\00:30:48.24
and it was his worship to
God, but it was all about him.
00:30:48.28\00:30:50.65
Right.
00:30:50.68\00:30:52.01
The idea of him presenting,
it was like, okay, now
00:30:52.05\00:30:54.48
what do you
think about that, God?
00:30:54.52\00:30:55.85
You know, look at
what I'd done, you know?
00:30:55.88\00:30:58.59
And Abel just
brings what God done.
00:30:58.62\00:31:02.22
Yeah. Right.
00:31:02.26\00:31:03.59
The lamb. Right.
00:31:03.63\00:31:04.96
And he makes it all about God.
00:31:04.99\00:31:06.36
And so obviously
Abel's offering was accepted.
00:31:06.39\00:31:08.90
Cain's offering was rejected.
00:31:08.93\00:31:10.53
Now some people come to
church and they have this idea.
00:31:10.57\00:31:13.47
They wanna go to church.
00:31:13.50\00:31:14.84
And me and Ryan, you
and I've talked about this,
00:31:14.87\00:31:16.20
you've even preached about
this many times, I've heard it.
00:31:16.24\00:31:17.84
And I love the sermons
that you did years ago on this,
00:31:17.87\00:31:20.24
where people come to
church with their hand held out.
00:31:20.28\00:31:23.75
You know, and they're
like, what can I get today
00:31:23.78\00:31:26.68
from this service?
00:31:26.72\00:31:28.05
And maybe you've
been in church before
00:31:28.08\00:31:29.42
and you've walked
away from a service
00:31:29.45\00:31:30.79
or a sermon perhaps,
00:31:30.82\00:31:32.79
and you go, well, I
didn't get much out of that.
00:31:32.82\00:31:35.49
Well, that's not the purpose.
That's not the point per se.
00:31:35.52\00:31:38.03
The point is what
did God get out of it?
00:31:38.06\00:31:40.33
Did God get loved?
00:31:40.36\00:31:42.03
Did God get adored?
00:31:42.06\00:31:43.83
Did God get praised?
00:31:43.87\00:31:46.94
And so sometimes we
tend to make it all about us.
00:31:46.97\00:31:49.50
And the other thing I
wanted to share on this was,
00:31:49.54\00:31:51.71
it was really beautiful, altars.
00:31:51.74\00:31:54.54
That's good. So
what are altars for?
00:31:54.58\00:31:57.45
For a sacrifice. They
are for sacrifice, right?
00:31:57.48\00:31:59.35
Altars are for sacrifice,
and they are for worship.
00:31:59.38\00:32:02.25
Altars is all about what?
00:32:02.28\00:32:05.92
What's the purpose?
00:32:05.95\00:32:07.29
Like, what's the
main purpose of the altar?
00:32:07.32\00:32:08.66
Surrender.
00:32:08.69\00:32:10.03
It's all about the
sacrifice that's on the altar.
00:32:10.06\00:32:11.83
Okay. Now I get you.
00:32:11.86\00:32:13.19
Right. Okay.
00:32:13.23\00:32:14.56
So the altar is
for a sacrifice, right?
00:32:14.60\00:32:16.06
You make an altar
in the Old Testament
00:32:16.10\00:32:17.43
for a sacrifice.
00:32:17.47\00:32:18.80
So it's all about the
all caps, the Sacrifice.
00:32:18.83\00:32:22.70
Sacrifice, right.
00:32:22.74\00:32:24.47
And sometimes there is that,
00:32:24.51\00:32:26.71
I guess you can say
that tendency again,
00:32:26.74\00:32:28.74
self-centeredness
and our sinful nature
00:32:28.78\00:32:30.55
to make it all about us.
00:32:30.58\00:32:31.91
And as I was reading in Exodus,
00:32:31.95\00:32:33.45
I was reminded of God's
command concerning the altars.
00:32:33.48\00:32:36.92
This is beautiful because
in Exodus 20 it's right after
00:32:36.95\00:32:39.25
the Ten Commandments.
00:32:39.29\00:32:40.62
Yeah. Right.
00:32:40.66\00:32:42.06
You see, God's
command concerning altars.
00:32:42.09\00:32:44.13
And He says this
in Exodus 20:24- 26,
00:32:44.16\00:32:48.66
he says, "An altar of
earth thou shalt make unto me,
00:32:48.70\00:32:52.37
and shalt sacrifice
thereon thy burnt offerings,
00:32:52.40\00:32:54.90
and thy peace
offerings, thy sheep,
00:32:54.94\00:32:56.67
and thine oxen: in all places
00:32:56.71\00:32:58.41
where I record my name
I will come unto thee."
00:32:58.44\00:33:00.64
So notice what God's
saying now what He will do?
00:33:00.68\00:33:02.28
I will come unto thee. Right.
00:33:02.31\00:33:03.81
"I will bless thee
00:33:03.85\00:33:05.38
and if thou will
make me an altar of stone,
00:33:05.41\00:33:08.48
thou shalt not
build it of hewn stone."
00:33:08.52\00:33:11.72
And then he says this,
00:33:11.75\00:33:13.09
"For if you lift
your tool upon it,
00:33:13.12\00:33:15.19
you have polluted it."
00:33:15.22\00:33:17.06
And then he says,
00:33:17.09\00:33:18.43
"Neither shalt thou go
up by steps unto mine altar,
00:33:18.46\00:33:21.20
that thy nakedness be
not discovered there upon."
00:33:21.23\00:33:24.30
And so we see here
is God saying, listen,
00:33:24.33\00:33:26.97
if you make Me an altar,
00:33:27.00\00:33:28.70
you better not lift
a tool upon that altar.
00:33:28.74\00:33:31.14
Because if you lift a
tool, tool meaning work.
00:33:31.17\00:33:33.61
If you add to the altar,
00:33:33.64\00:33:35.38
then the sacrifice will not be
the focus on the, on your part.
00:33:35.41\00:33:40.92
It'll be, look at this
great altar that I have built.
00:33:40.95\00:33:43.99
Right?
00:33:44.02\00:33:45.35
And God's saying, "Listen,
it's not about what you do.
00:33:45.39\00:33:47.72
The altar's about the
sacrifice there upon."
00:33:47.76\00:33:49.82
Right. Yeah.
00:33:49.86\00:33:51.19
And so, and he says, don't,
00:33:51.23\00:33:52.56
you don't make steps
up to that altar either,
00:33:52.59\00:33:54.66
because you don't get closer
to God based on what you do.
00:33:54.70\00:33:56.97
Right.
00:33:57.00\00:33:58.33
That's beautiful. Right?
00:33:58.37\00:33:59.70
The altar is
supposed to be made of earth.
00:33:59.73\00:34:01.07
And so I thought
that was really meaningful
00:34:01.10\00:34:02.54
in relation to worship
that we're not to do what
00:34:02.57\00:34:06.34
we think we can add
to what God has done,
00:34:06.37\00:34:08.31
or even think that
we can, in any way.
00:34:08.34\00:34:12.11
I guess you can say,
that we can not only add,
00:34:12.15\00:34:16.38
but I guess that
we can make worship
00:34:16.42\00:34:18.65
about ourselves in
a kind of a slide way,
00:34:18.69\00:34:20.76
taking the attention off of God.
00:34:20.79\00:34:22.22
And sometimes that happens
00:34:22.26\00:34:23.59
that people
don't even realize it.
00:34:23.63\00:34:24.96
Yeah, absolutely.
00:34:24.99\00:34:26.33
I can relate to
the concept of going,
00:34:26.36\00:34:27.76
you know, as he brought up,
00:34:27.80\00:34:29.13
you know, and I've
spoken on this a few times.
00:34:29.16\00:34:30.77
My idea for many years
was going to church was,
00:34:30.80\00:34:33.27
I go to church to
get something from it.
00:34:33.30\00:34:35.80
And that's not to
say that we don't,
00:34:35.84\00:34:37.37
there's not an
aspect that we go,
00:34:37.41\00:34:39.84
you know, to
receive a blessing, right?
00:34:39.87\00:34:41.58
God wants to
bestow a blessing upon us
00:34:41.61\00:34:43.88
in those worship atmospheres.
00:34:43.91\00:34:46.11
But we certainly have
to have the right mindset
00:34:46.15\00:34:47.92
to approach the Lord, to
appear before the Lord, not in,
00:34:47.95\00:34:51.32
Lord, what can I receive
from You, but rather, Lord,
00:34:51.35\00:34:53.89
what can I give to You today?
00:34:53.92\00:34:55.82
Myself, my worship, my
offering my tithe, my time,
00:34:55.86\00:34:59.53
my love, my worship, you
know, all those are important
00:34:59.56\00:35:02.33
as we approach
the Lord in worship.
00:35:02.36\00:35:04.47
And so, yeah go ahead.
00:35:04.50\00:35:05.83
I was just gonna say,
that's really powerful
00:35:05.87\00:35:07.20
what you shared, Dakota.
00:35:07.24\00:35:08.57
I liked that
because we think, okay,
00:35:08.60\00:35:10.47
I'm not in the world, I'm
not doing all those things.
00:35:10.51\00:35:13.68
I'm a Christian.
00:35:13.71\00:35:15.44
I'm supposed to
be following God.
00:35:15.48\00:35:18.01
And yet in my
quest to follow God,
00:35:18.05\00:35:21.08
it can still be all about me.
00:35:21.12\00:35:22.95
That's just
deep what you shared,
00:35:22.98\00:35:24.55
you know, to come
back to that purpose.
00:35:24.59\00:35:27.06
Yeah. That's good.
00:35:27.09\00:35:28.42
And it's so subtle,
we don't even recognize.
00:35:28.46\00:35:29.79
I mean, I've done that for years
00:35:29.82\00:35:31.33
and in my previous
years and I used to make it
00:35:31.36\00:35:33.70
all about me
and not even realize
00:35:33.73\00:35:35.06
I was making it all about me.
00:35:35.10\00:35:36.43
And then you,
sometimes you wake up one day
00:35:36.46\00:35:37.83
and you don't even,
00:35:37.87\00:35:39.43
you feel like
you're far from God.
00:35:39.47\00:35:40.80
You know what I mean?
00:35:40.84\00:35:42.17
And maybe some of
you guys can relate.
00:35:42.20\00:35:43.54
I know that we used
to be my experiences.
00:35:43.57\00:35:45.17
And now when I look
to God and His love,
00:35:45.21\00:35:47.68
and I look to the
sacrifice, like you said.
00:35:47.71\00:35:50.91
That's beautiful. It's good.
00:35:50.95\00:35:52.28
It's totally
revolutionizes your idea of it.
00:35:52.31\00:35:54.78
Yeah. Great illustration.
00:35:54.82\00:35:57.32
So let's go to John 4.
00:35:57.35\00:35:59.15
Brother Greg, I'm gonna
ask you to read this for us.
00:35:59.19\00:36:01.46
This is kind of the foundation.
00:36:01.49\00:36:02.82
This is kind of where
this whole conversation
00:36:02.86\00:36:05.59
has been leading to because
we're talking about worship
00:36:05.63\00:36:08.46
and so we talked.
00:36:08.50\00:36:09.83
Dakota brought out
beautifully of things
00:36:09.86\00:36:11.50
that we must consider
00:36:11.53\00:36:12.87
and how not to approach worship.
00:36:12.90\00:36:14.74
But rather now we're
gonna ask the question of
00:36:14.77\00:36:16.67
how does the Bible
instruct us to worship the Lord?
00:36:16.71\00:36:19.67
And, of course, these
are the words of Christ
00:36:19.71\00:36:22.01
and what better person
to receive this instruction
00:36:22.04\00:36:24.55
from than from the
Son of God Himself.
00:36:24.58\00:36:26.82
And so Brother
Greg, this is, of course,
00:36:26.85\00:36:28.28
is within the
context of the conversation
00:36:28.32\00:36:29.98
that Jesus is having
with a woman at the well.
00:36:30.02\00:36:32.65
And so, you know, she
brings to his attention,
00:36:32.69\00:36:34.96
you know what?
00:36:34.99\00:36:36.32
You know, Jerusalem,
there's worship in Jerusalem
00:36:36.36\00:36:38.96
there at the temple.
00:36:38.99\00:36:40.33
And, you know, we
don't really worship here
00:36:40.36\00:36:42.03
in Samaria because,
because true worship
00:36:42.06\00:36:44.63
is of the Jews
and all this stuff.
00:36:44.67\00:36:46.13
And they're having
this conversation about
00:36:46.17\00:36:47.67
how there's so much emphasis
00:36:47.70\00:36:49.07
on worshiping
God on that mountain,
00:36:49.10\00:36:51.27
on that temple, because
that's where true worship is.
00:36:51.31\00:36:53.88
But then Jesus kind of flips
the script and He brings us
00:36:53.91\00:36:57.18
to John 4:23-24.
00:36:57.21\00:36:59.38
Read that for us. Yes.
00:36:59.41\00:37:00.75
And it says, "But
the hour is coming,
00:37:00.78\00:37:02.15
and now is, when
the true worshipers
00:37:02.18\00:37:05.02
will worship the
Father in spirit and truth;
00:37:05.05\00:37:09.22
for the Father is
seeking such to worship Him."
00:37:09.26\00:37:13.70
Verse 24 says, "God is Spirit,
00:37:13.73\00:37:15.70
and those who worship Him
00:37:15.73\00:37:17.07
must worship in
spirit and truth."
00:37:17.10\00:37:20.04
Absolutely.
00:37:20.07\00:37:21.40
This is Beautiful.
00:37:21.44\00:37:22.97
For a long time I
wondered why he said,
00:37:23.00\00:37:25.64
God is Spirit and
those who worship Him.
00:37:25.67\00:37:28.48
If you read the
context of this story,
00:37:28.51\00:37:30.65
she's putting emphasis
00:37:30.68\00:37:32.01
as everyone did
during that time.
00:37:32.05\00:37:33.38
And as many
people still do today,
00:37:33.42\00:37:35.32
where's God found?
00:37:35.35\00:37:36.69
He's found at the church,
00:37:36.72\00:37:38.05
you know, He's
found in the building,
00:37:38.09\00:37:39.42
He's found in the
temple right at the synagogue,
00:37:39.45\00:37:41.72
but wherever it is you worship.
00:37:41.76\00:37:43.16
Many people's idea is
that worship can only be done
00:37:43.19\00:37:46.53
within four walls of a building,
00:37:46.56\00:37:48.46
some type of holy
site of some kind,
00:37:48.50\00:37:50.57
but Jesus completely
revolutionizes this concept.
00:37:50.60\00:37:53.10
He says, look, we got
to get out of this idea
00:37:53.13\00:37:55.64
that somehow God is combined
to a box or confined to a box.
00:37:55.67\00:38:00.18
You know, He's not
just in one little place.
00:38:00.21\00:38:02.31
God is Spirit, right?
00:38:02.34\00:38:03.95
And those who
worship Him must worship Him
00:38:03.98\00:38:05.71
in spirit and in truth.
00:38:05.75\00:38:07.52
So the question I have to ask
00:38:07.55\00:38:09.15
question of the
hour, spirit, truth.
00:38:09.18\00:38:13.82
Let's focus on in
the time we have here.
00:38:13.86\00:38:16.73
What does it mean to worship
the Lord in spirit and truth?
00:38:16.76\00:38:20.26
Because many people have
this idea of what it means
00:38:20.30\00:38:23.16
to worship God,
worship God in spirit.
00:38:23.20\00:38:25.47
And, of course, many
people have their own idea
00:38:25.50\00:38:27.20
of what it means to
worship the Lord in truth.
00:38:27.24\00:38:29.34
But let's talk
about what does it mean
00:38:29.37\00:38:31.61
to worship God in spirit?
00:38:31.64\00:38:34.18
Just kind of off the cuff here.
00:38:34.21\00:38:36.21
When you think of
worshiping the Lord in spirit,
00:38:36.24\00:38:38.08
what comes to your mind?
00:38:38.11\00:38:41.42
Well, I think the word
spirit also has a translation
00:38:41.45\00:38:45.45
in the original
Greek to the word life.
00:38:45.49\00:38:48.52
And so when you're
worshiping God in spirit,
00:38:48.56\00:38:50.76
you worship God with your life.
00:38:50.79\00:38:52.73
And I mentioned earlier, I
think it was in Christianity
00:38:52.76\00:38:54.43
Today that the
quote that you read about
00:38:54.46\00:38:56.20
how it's a lifestyle.
00:38:56.23\00:38:58.40
I liked that too,
that is really good.
00:38:58.43\00:38:59.77
It's a lifestyle.
00:38:59.80\00:39:01.14
Yeah, that stuck out to
me because too oftentimes
00:39:01.17\00:39:02.60
we think of worship or
church as like an event
00:39:02.64\00:39:07.51
where we go and we
participate in this event
00:39:07.54\00:39:09.71
and then we go home
and we go back to watching,
00:39:09.74\00:39:12.38
you know, our programs
00:39:12.41\00:39:13.75
that we shouldn't
watch or whatever.
00:39:13.78\00:39:15.22
And so, yeah, I think
that it's a lifestyle.
00:39:15.25\00:39:17.55
Absolutely.
00:39:17.59\00:39:18.92
I like how you
brought that about,
00:39:18.95\00:39:20.29
because you know,
00:39:20.32\00:39:21.99
we do not, as we
clearly have studied here
00:39:22.02\00:39:24.96
many times on 3ABN.
00:39:24.99\00:39:26.33
And if you're new
to this, study it out,
00:39:26.36\00:39:28.80
continue to watch 3ABN
00:39:28.83\00:39:30.17
'cause we do
programs all the time on,
00:39:30.20\00:39:32.03
you know, what is, what
about the concept of death
00:39:32.07\00:39:35.04
and, you know, a person,
you know, do we have a spirit?
00:39:35.07\00:39:37.94
You know, are we a
soul or do we have a spirit?
00:39:37.97\00:39:40.58
Is it some kind of,
you know, inner substance,
00:39:40.61\00:39:42.71
you know, ghost
like, you know, apparition
00:39:42.74\00:39:44.51
or whatever that's in us.
00:39:44.55\00:39:45.88
Many people have
this kind of twisted idea
00:39:45.91\00:39:48.02
that there's this
spiritual ghost within us.
00:39:48.05\00:39:50.09
But yet in scripture,
00:39:50.12\00:39:51.45
the Bible says that
when God created, man,
00:39:51.49\00:39:53.32
He breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life
00:39:53.36\00:39:56.16
and man became a living soul.
00:39:56.19\00:39:58.13
So that's what you
were highlighting here
00:39:58.16\00:40:00.10
is the fact that
there's kind of a...
00:40:00.13\00:40:01.90
I see this in kind
of a double application
00:40:01.93\00:40:03.83
and we can unpack
this here in a moment.
00:40:03.87\00:40:06.10
When we worship
the Lord in spirit,
00:40:06.13\00:40:07.60
I think it's kind
of a double application
00:40:07.64\00:40:09.10
in the sense that
we must worship Him
00:40:09.14\00:40:10.77
as Dakota brought
out with all of our life,
00:40:10.81\00:40:13.38
with all of our
very living being,
00:40:13.41\00:40:15.84
with all of our
spirit, that spirit of life
00:40:15.88\00:40:18.28
that God has given us.
00:40:18.31\00:40:19.81
We should be an open
book of worship unto the Lord.
00:40:19.85\00:40:24.19
On the other side, I believe
that there is an application
00:40:24.22\00:40:27.69
clearly here that we
should be led by the spirit,
00:40:27.72\00:40:31.59
the Holy Spirit of the Lord.
00:40:31.63\00:40:33.63
And, of course, my
mind immediately goes
00:40:33.66\00:40:35.26
to that conversation
that Jesus had with Nicodemus.
00:40:35.30\00:40:38.80
Go ahead.
00:40:38.83\00:40:40.17
Yeah, I was just
going there. Yeah, go ahead.
00:40:40.20\00:40:41.90
I was thinking that
and Jesus conversation
00:40:41.94\00:40:44.11
with Nicodemus, comparing
it to the wind, the breath.
00:40:44.14\00:40:46.51
Yes.
00:40:46.54\00:40:48.18
And, you know,
worship can degenerate.
00:40:48.21\00:40:53.35
I don't even
like to use that word,
00:40:53.38\00:40:54.75
but it can
degenerate into only rules,
00:40:54.78\00:40:59.19
only formalism, only the truth.
00:40:59.22\00:41:03.96
And we hit people
over the head with them.
00:41:03.99\00:41:06.09
If we don't have
the life giving spirit,
00:41:06.13\00:41:10.17
the breath of God is
it were in our hearts
00:41:10.20\00:41:13.03
and in our lives,
everything else means nothing.
00:41:13.07\00:41:15.60
Absolutely.
00:41:15.64\00:41:16.97
You know, so to experience
that with being born again
00:41:17.01\00:41:21.08
and having the spirit,
having the Holy Spirit.
00:41:21.11\00:41:24.41
If we don't have that, you know,
00:41:24.45\00:41:26.18
I remember I was 19 and
I had grown up in a home.
00:41:26.21\00:41:31.22
This is no criticism.
00:41:31.25\00:41:32.59
I have the best
parents in the world,
00:41:32.62\00:41:35.22
but they did not know Jesus.
00:41:35.26\00:41:37.39
That's just the honest fact.
00:41:37.43\00:41:39.56
And religion was all about
00:41:39.59\00:41:42.23
what you did and
what you couldn't do
00:41:42.26\00:41:44.43
and that's what
my experience was.
00:41:44.47\00:41:46.33
And I remember
being 19 in church.
00:41:46.37\00:41:49.00
So this was in church
00:41:49.04\00:41:50.47
and the organ
playing my life of scarlet,
00:41:50.51\00:41:54.04
my sin and woe covered
with his life whiter than snow.
00:41:54.08\00:41:58.35
And I remember thinking,
00:41:58.38\00:41:59.71
you mean, it's not
all what I have to do.
00:41:59.75\00:42:02.78
You mean, I, my
salvation is not dependent on me
00:42:02.82\00:42:06.96
doing this and doing that.
00:42:06.99\00:42:08.32
It's leaning on
the blood of Jesus
00:42:08.36\00:42:10.23
and the spirit working in
me to equip and empower me
00:42:10.26\00:42:16.43
'cause clearly we
are to walk in obedience,
00:42:16.46\00:42:19.83
but that's
because of the spirit.
00:42:19.87\00:42:21.20
That's right. Amen.
00:42:21.24\00:42:22.57
So to me that whole
sense of worship is...
00:42:22.60\00:42:25.34
that joy in His presence,
00:42:25.37\00:42:29.14
walking in that
combined with the truth.
00:42:29.18\00:42:32.91
Praise the Lord.
00:42:32.95\00:42:34.92
You know, I
found this quote here
00:42:34.95\00:42:37.52
and we're gonna get to John 3.
00:42:37.55\00:42:38.89
Actually, this is
based upon the conversation
00:42:38.92\00:42:41.12
that Jesus had with
Nicodemus in John Chapter 3.
00:42:41.16\00:42:44.66
And as Jill
brought up beautifully,
00:42:44.69\00:42:46.26
you know, he
reverences the wind.
00:42:46.29\00:42:48.03
And, of course,
this conversation
00:42:48.06\00:42:49.40
is one of my favorites.
00:42:49.43\00:42:50.77
One of my favorite, probably my,
00:42:50.80\00:42:52.13
one of my favorite
chapters in all the Bible.
00:42:52.17\00:42:53.77
In fact, Mrs. White
says in her writings
00:42:53.80\00:42:56.17
that salvation is
probably made no clearer
00:42:56.20\00:42:59.84
in any other part of scripture
00:42:59.87\00:43:01.44
than right there
in John Chapter 3
00:43:01.48\00:43:02.98
in that conversation
between Jesus and Nicodemus.
00:43:03.01\00:43:05.61
And, of course, you can imagine,
00:43:05.65\00:43:06.98
you know,
Nicodemus this Pharisee,
00:43:07.02\00:43:08.45
he's got all
this head knowledge,
00:43:08.48\00:43:10.09
he's got the Scripture
tucked away in his mind.
00:43:10.12\00:43:11.92
I mean, this guy was,
was a scholar of the highest,
00:43:11.95\00:43:14.92
and he's coming to Jesus again
00:43:14.96\00:43:16.29
with this kind of
mentality of, you know,
00:43:16.32\00:43:18.49
I think I got it figured
out, but I just wanna know
00:43:18.53\00:43:20.40
who you are and
what you're doing here
00:43:20.43\00:43:22.06
and what your purpose is?
00:43:22.10\00:43:23.43
And Jesus just drops
a bomb on him and says,
00:43:23.47\00:43:25.33
yeah, look man, you
can't enter the kingdom of God
00:43:25.37\00:43:28.04
unless you're born again.
00:43:28.07\00:43:30.44
And, of course, this
brother's mind as probably
00:43:30.47\00:43:32.81
many people would go to,
00:43:32.84\00:43:34.18
his goes immediately to
the flesh, to the carnal,
00:43:34.21\00:43:37.95
to the physical, to the literal.
00:43:37.98\00:43:39.38
And he immediately
went, well, wait a second.
00:43:39.41\00:43:40.92
I got to go get back in my
mother's womb and be reborn.
00:43:40.95\00:43:44.12
That's impossible.
00:43:44.15\00:43:45.49
And Jesus is like,
no, now, wait a second.
00:43:45.52\00:43:47.76
You're talking
about literal things,
00:43:47.79\00:43:49.29
the fleshly things, I'm
talking about spiritual things.
00:43:49.32\00:43:53.26
And so, this
beautiful conversation
00:43:53.29\00:43:55.13
when Jesus says, you know,
00:43:55.16\00:43:56.50
consider the wind, you
know, you don't see it.
00:43:56.53\00:43:58.47
You know, you may hear it.
00:43:58.50\00:44:00.70
You may feel it,
but you don't know
00:44:00.74\00:44:02.07
where it's coming
and where it's going.
00:44:02.10\00:44:03.44
So also is the
work of the Holy Spirit
00:44:03.47\00:44:05.97
when it comes and blows
through your heart, right?
00:44:06.01\00:44:08.38
It just makes a
beautiful transformation
00:44:08.41\00:44:10.11
in your life.
00:44:10.15\00:44:11.48
And so I found this
quote from Homeward Bound,
00:44:11.51\00:44:14.08
page 88, based on
the concept of Jesus
00:44:14.12\00:44:17.79
presenting this being born again
00:44:17.82\00:44:19.75
from a spiritual perspective.
00:44:19.79\00:44:21.56
Again, we're talking about
worshiping the Lord in spirit.
00:44:21.59\00:44:24.23
So keep that in mind
when I read this quote here,
00:44:24.26\00:44:26.13
Homeward Bound,
page 88, beautiful.
00:44:26.16\00:44:29.53
Speaking of Nicodemus
and Jesus conversation
00:44:29.56\00:44:32.23
in John 3, she says,
00:44:32.27\00:44:33.70
"Here is declared
the same truth that Jesus
00:44:33.74\00:44:36.37
had revealed to
Nicodemus when He said,
00:44:36.40\00:44:38.67
'Except a man
be born from above,
00:44:38.71\00:44:40.51
he cannot see
the kingdom of God.'
00:44:40.54\00:44:43.75
Not by seeking a holy
mountain or a sacred temple
00:44:43.78\00:44:47.65
are people brought
into communion with heaven.
00:44:47.68\00:44:50.55
Religion is not to be
confined to external forms
00:44:50.59\00:44:53.56
and ceremonies.
00:44:53.59\00:44:55.16
The religion that comes
from God is the only religion
00:44:55.19\00:44:58.16
that will lead to God.
00:44:58.19\00:45:00.16
In order to serve Him aright,
00:45:00.20\00:45:02.36
we must be born
of the divine Spirit.
00:45:02.40\00:45:06.43
This will purify the heart
and renew the mind, giving,
00:45:06.47\00:45:10.27
" so this Romans 12, "
00:45:10.31\00:45:11.64
renew the mind
giving us a new capacity
00:45:11.67\00:45:15.14
for knowing and loving God.
00:45:15.18\00:45:17.15
It will give us a
willing obedience,"
00:45:17.18\00:45:20.22
I think of Honey,
00:45:20.25\00:45:23.59
"It will give us
a willing obedience
00:45:23.62\00:45:25.55
to all His requirements.
00:45:25.59\00:45:27.99
This is true worship.
00:45:28.02\00:45:31.19
It is the fruit of the
working of the Holy Spirit.
00:45:31.23\00:45:35.76
By the Spirit every
sincere prayer is indited,
00:45:35.80\00:45:40.00
and such prayer
is acceptable to God.
00:45:40.04\00:45:42.70
Wherever a soul
reaches out after God,
00:45:42.74\00:45:45.47
there the Spirit's
working is manifest,
00:45:45.51\00:45:48.54
and God will reveal
Himself to that soul.
00:45:48.58\00:45:51.11
For such
worshipers He is seeking.
00:45:51.15\00:45:54.68
He waits to receive
them, and to make them His sons
00:45:54.72\00:45:58.49
and daughters
worshiping him in spirit."
00:45:58.52\00:46:02.22
Brother, Greg, you got
something to add to that?
00:46:02.26\00:46:03.59
You know, I was
just going back to this
00:46:03.63\00:46:04.96
'cause this is powerful to me.
00:46:04.99\00:46:06.33
I highlighted it, you
know, this, it's a great quote,
00:46:06.36\00:46:08.10
but it says, "Wherever a
soul reaches out after God,
00:46:08.13\00:46:11.60
that's worship to God."
00:46:11.63\00:46:13.23
I love that. Absolutely.
00:46:13.27\00:46:15.14
That is powerful.
00:46:15.17\00:46:16.50
You know, because
someone right now may be saying,
00:46:16.54\00:46:17.87
okay, I'm just a wreck.
00:46:17.91\00:46:19.24
I'm a mess.
00:46:19.27\00:46:20.61
This worship thing
00:46:20.64\00:46:21.98
I'm not
understanding all this stuff.
00:46:22.01\00:46:23.35
Okay, just reach out to God.
You know what you've just done?
00:46:23.38\00:46:24.71
You just worshiped God.
00:46:24.75\00:46:26.08
Love that, the simplicity.
00:46:26.11\00:46:27.45
You know, it's just,
00:46:27.48\00:46:28.82
that's powerful
and that's beautiful,
00:46:28.85\00:46:30.19
because when you think
of God, it's like, whoa,
00:46:30.22\00:46:31.55
that can get
kind of complicated.
00:46:31.59\00:46:32.92
I don't know,
God, I don't even know
00:46:32.95\00:46:34.46
how to get this
relationship going.
00:46:34.49\00:46:35.82
Well, just reach out to Him.
00:46:35.86\00:46:37.19
And then it says right
here, it's just beautiful.
00:46:37.23\00:46:38.56
It says, you can reach out,
there's a spirit of working.
00:46:38.59\00:46:39.93
Okay.
00:46:39.96\00:46:41.30
And then it says
for such worshipers He,
00:46:41.33\00:46:43.30
God is seeking for.
00:46:43.33\00:46:44.67
Wow. That's right.
00:46:44.70\00:46:46.03
So what we have to
do is reach out to Him
00:46:46.07\00:46:47.40
'cause then you start
to wonder, okay, lifestyle,
00:46:47.44\00:46:48.77
you talked about lifestyle.
00:46:48.80\00:46:50.14
Okay. Well, man,
what does that mean?
00:46:50.17\00:46:51.51
Just reach out to
God throughout the day.
00:46:51.54\00:46:53.11
You know, God, hey,
you know, I'm just...
00:46:53.14\00:46:54.54
dealing with little struggle,
little discouraged right now,
00:46:54.58\00:46:56.11
reach out to God.
00:46:56.14\00:46:57.48
And to him, that's like,
wow, that's the relationship,
00:46:57.51\00:47:00.08
then that's that love, right?
00:47:00.12\00:47:01.45
I got that love.
00:47:01.48\00:47:02.82
And it's just, wow,
what a great cycle circle.
00:47:02.85\00:47:04.19
That's so true.
00:47:04.22\00:47:05.55
And, you know, you
guys mentioned earlier
00:47:05.59\00:47:07.72
and Jill you
mentioned in your testimony
00:47:07.76\00:47:09.29
when you said when you was 19,
00:47:09.32\00:47:10.66
about how, you
know, you wanna do right
00:47:10.69\00:47:14.56
and you want to live right.
00:47:14.60\00:47:15.93
But it seems like
all these rules and stuff
00:47:15.96\00:47:17.30
were in the way.
00:47:17.33\00:47:18.67
And I think that's one
of the biggest problems
00:47:18.70\00:47:20.04
when it comes to worship
that a lot of people do allow
00:47:20.07\00:47:21.44
to get in the way and
they don't really know
00:47:21.47\00:47:23.10
how to get around it is that
they're seeking for the fruit
00:47:23.14\00:47:25.91
of the spirit without
first seeking for the spirit.
00:47:25.94\00:47:28.84
That's right.
Well, that's right.
00:47:28.88\00:47:30.21
We can't worship God in spirit,
00:47:30.25\00:47:33.68
if we don't
first have the spirit.
00:47:33.72\00:47:35.72
That's good.
00:47:35.75\00:47:37.09
And so like, we oftentimes
seek for the fruit first,
00:47:37.12\00:47:40.16
before we seek for the spirit,
00:47:40.19\00:47:41.52
but it's called the
fruit of the spirit.
00:47:41.56\00:47:43.06
If you have the spirit,
then you'll have the fruit.
00:47:43.09\00:47:45.19
Well, we get it backwards
and we wanna have the fruit
00:47:45.23\00:47:46.93
before having the spirit.
00:47:46.96\00:47:48.30
And we think we get the fruit,
00:47:48.33\00:47:49.66
and then God will
give us the spirit.
00:47:49.70\00:47:51.03
That's not how it works.
00:47:51.07\00:47:52.43
I love that.
00:47:52.47\00:47:53.80
It makes me think of Romans 8:1.
00:47:53.84\00:47:55.50
And Romans 7 is that
whole conflict between...
00:47:55.54\00:47:58.91
That's good. Okay.
00:47:58.94\00:48:00.31
I wanna do this
and I wanna do right,
00:48:00.34\00:48:01.91
but yet I ended up
doing this over here.
00:48:01.94\00:48:04.15
And yet the things
I don't want to do,
00:48:04.18\00:48:06.15
those are the
things I end up doing.
00:48:06.18\00:48:08.02
And Roman 7 ends with.
00:48:08.05\00:48:10.02
So then, "Oh, wretched
man who shall deliver me
00:48:10.05\00:48:13.76
from this body of death."
00:48:13.79\00:48:15.12
Almost at the end of Romans 7.
00:48:15.16\00:48:16.49
And then Romans 8:1 says,
00:48:16.52\00:48:18.79
"There is
therefore now no condemnation
00:48:18.83\00:48:20.60
to those who are
in Christ Jesus."
00:48:20.63\00:48:22.00
If you stop there, you
think, okay, wait a minute.
00:48:22.03\00:48:24.43
But it doesn't end
there. It continues.
00:48:24.47\00:48:26.57
It says, "There
is no condemnation
00:48:26.60\00:48:29.10
to those who
are in Christ Jesus,
00:48:29.14\00:48:30.47
who do not walk
according to the flesh,
00:48:30.51\00:48:32.71
but according to the spirit,
00:48:32.74\00:48:35.08
for the law of the
spirit of life in Christ Jesus
00:48:35.11\00:48:37.51
has made me free from
the law of sin and death.
00:48:37.55\00:48:39.98
That's inviting
the spirit first,
00:48:40.02\00:48:42.75
then the fruit come.
00:48:42.78\00:48:44.45
That's right.
Says the spirit first.
00:48:44.49\00:48:46.86
Amen. That is
beautiful, wonderful.
00:48:46.89\00:48:48.62
I love this.
00:48:48.66\00:48:50.53
You know, we
being led by the spirit
00:48:50.56\00:48:52.26
when we worship
the Lord in spirit.
00:48:52.29\00:48:54.26
It's simply saying,
God, Jesus is simply saying
00:48:54.30\00:48:56.33
to the woman at the
well there, that you know,
00:48:56.36\00:48:58.13
you have to open yourself
up completely to the leading
00:48:58.17\00:49:00.74
and guiding
power of God's Spirit.
00:49:00.77\00:49:03.27
And I just kind of compiled
a really quick list here
00:49:03.30\00:49:06.44
of the attributes,
the powerful working
00:49:06.47\00:49:08.74
of the Holy Spirit in your life
from a biblical perspective.
00:49:08.78\00:49:11.51
And this comes
from John Chapter 14
00:49:11.55\00:49:13.62
and also John Chapter 16.
00:49:13.65\00:49:15.08
So if you go and
read those chapters,
00:49:15.12\00:49:16.55
you can find these
texts and these points there.
00:49:16.58\00:49:19.29
But Jesus makes it very
clear that the Holy Spirit
00:49:19.32\00:49:21.52
will come to
teach you all things.
00:49:21.56\00:49:23.32
According to John 14:26,
00:49:23.36\00:49:25.49
he will bring all
things to your memory, right?
00:49:25.53\00:49:28.06
He wants to remind
you of all of His holiness
00:49:28.10\00:49:31.13
and His
beautiful loving character
00:49:31.17\00:49:33.13
at all times, John 14: 26.
00:49:33.17\00:49:35.30
Also, he will
reprove the world of sin.
00:49:35.34\00:49:38.24
This is a
spiritual thing, right?
00:49:38.27\00:49:40.21
John 16:8.
00:49:40.24\00:49:41.61
And, of course, he
will guide you into,
00:49:41.64\00:49:43.95
and this sets us
up for our next point
00:49:43.98\00:49:45.31
with the remaining time
00:49:45.35\00:49:46.68
we have left that
pray for that clock,
00:49:46.72\00:49:48.05
it's ticking away right now.
00:49:48.08\00:49:49.65
He says, "He will
guide you into all truth."
00:49:49.68\00:49:52.85
Yes. Read John 16:13.
00:49:52.89\00:49:54.96
So notice the relationship.
00:49:54.99\00:49:57.96
He says, "You need to
worship Him in spirit."
00:49:57.99\00:50:00.13
Wait a second.
00:50:00.16\00:50:01.63
But you also have to
worship Him in truth,
00:50:01.66\00:50:03.83
but yet they're all so connected
00:50:03.87\00:50:05.50
because Jesus
refers to in John 16:13.
00:50:05.53\00:50:09.24
He says, "However, when he,
the spirit of truth has come,
00:50:09.27\00:50:13.31
he will guide
you into all truth."
00:50:13.34\00:50:16.14
So let's kind of go
into that before about,
00:50:16.18\00:50:18.21
I don't know we have about
six or so minutes left here.
00:50:18.25\00:50:21.48
Worship Him in spirit.
00:50:21.52\00:50:23.08
That means I give
Him my whole living life
00:50:23.12\00:50:26.15
to be led by the Spirit of God.
00:50:26.19\00:50:28.36
I want my whole life to
be a reflection of that,
00:50:28.39\00:50:30.99
of the character
of Jesus as expressed
00:50:31.03\00:50:33.23
and worked through
me by the Holy Spirit.
00:50:33.26\00:50:35.43
But in order for us
to be led by the spirit,
00:50:35.46\00:50:37.57
and if we're
truly led by the spirit,
00:50:37.60\00:50:39.53
we will be led into all truth.
00:50:39.57\00:50:41.00
That's where Jesus says,
"You must worship Him in truth.
00:50:41.04\00:50:44.27
So what does it mean
to worship Him in truth?
00:50:44.31\00:50:47.64
And I think as
Seventh-day Adventists,
00:50:47.68\00:50:49.38
we're kind of
champions of this one, right?
00:50:49.41\00:50:50.85
We're proud of this one.
00:50:50.88\00:50:52.81
We love the truth and
we love to share the truth.
00:50:52.85\00:50:56.92
And so what, what
do you guys think of
00:50:56.95\00:50:58.62
when you think of
worshiping Him in truth?
00:50:58.65\00:51:02.52
All right.
00:51:02.56\00:51:03.89
I guess I'll start
and I go real first.
00:51:03.93\00:51:05.59
So, you know,
when I think of this,
00:51:05.63\00:51:07.33
I think of, when we
worship the Lord in truth,
00:51:07.36\00:51:10.37
we have to stick, make
sure that we're worshiping Him
00:51:10.40\00:51:12.80
according to His
Word, John 17:17,
00:51:12.83\00:51:15.87
Jesus prayer to the
Father, sanctify them,
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that is make them
holy through thy truth.
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Thy word is truth.
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And so we have to worship
God according to His Word.
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And you know,
this was the problem
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with the Pharisees and
all of the people of the day
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that followed Jesus
around all the time.
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Mark 7:6-7, it says,
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"He answered and said unto them,
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Well hath Esaias
prophesied of you hypocrites,
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as it is written,
the people honoreth me
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with their lips,
but their heart,"
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there it is, "is far from me.
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Howbeit in vain
do they worship me."
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Hold on a second.
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You mean to tell me
we can spend our life
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or worship God in spirit.
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But if we don't
worship Him in truth,
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it's considered vain worship.
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Wow. That's really deep.
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And this is what
Jesus was communicating.
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He says, howbeit in vain
do they worship me teaching
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for doctrines, the
commandments of men?
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And I think that's
what separates true worship
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from false worship is that
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if we're following
just mere traditions of men,
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commandments of men
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and not the truth of God's Word,
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then our worship, although
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we may be sincere about
worshiping God with our life,
00:52:19.47\00:52:22.70
like Nadab and
Abihu and many others
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who were sincere
about building that fire,
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that worship is rejected by God.
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And I think we
need to be very careful
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that we worship God in spirit
and in truth through His Word.
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Amen.
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That's a good point,
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worshiping God
in spirit and truth.
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You guys wanna
add something to that,
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worshiping Him in truth?
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I'm just thinking
about the truth aspect.
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You know, that's
like the doctrine.
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Sure. Absolutely.
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I like how, you know,
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you're focusing on
this family worship,
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but combining the two together.
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I mean, that is
key. I mean, that's key.
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'Cause you know, we can
say just like in Nicodemus,
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you know, we,
hey, we got the truth.
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We know we've got
all this head knowledge
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and everything, but to combine,
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you know, the two together,
because truth is powerful.
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I mean, we all
want to know the truth
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that is in God's Word,
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but to combine it
with the spirit and truth,
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making true
worship and that's powerful
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what you're reading
about in vain, right?
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I mean, my word
that's, that's serious.
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Absolutely serious.
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So to combine the two
together, it's fantastic.
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Yeah. Amen.
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It's beautiful. It is beautiful.
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I think of this
is scripture you had,
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but I love the scripture.
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This is 2 Timothy 4.
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So Paul's writing to
his son in the faith, right?
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And this is, of
course, right before he died.
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And what does he
say in 2 Timothy 4,
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"I charge you
therefore before God
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and the Lord Jesus Christ,
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who would judge
the living and the dead
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at his
appearing in his kingdom."
00:53:33.31\00:53:34.91
So this would be Paul.
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You can say his
last will in Testament
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right at the end of his life.
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And he wants to
express to his son,
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Timothy saying, preach the word.
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Verse 2, "Be ready or
instant" King James says,
00:53:45.52\00:53:49.52
"in season and out of
season, convince, rebuke,
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exhort with all long
suffering and teaching,
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for the time will come
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when they will not
endure sound doctrine,
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but according to
their own desires,
00:53:59.20\00:54:00.77
because they have itching ears,
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they will heap up
for themselves teachers,
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and they will turn
their ears away from the truth
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and be turned aside to fables."
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I think just as it
is vitally important
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that we invite the
spirit into our worship,
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into our hearts, into
our presentation of truth,
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it is just as important,
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that we do not
substitute manmade traditions,
00:54:22.89\00:54:27.50
manmade commandments,
manmade philosophies
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for the truth
and the Word of God.
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That's right. We can
soft pedal the truth.
00:54:34.37\00:54:37.57
We can try to water it down.
00:54:37.61\00:54:40.31
We can try to say,
I'm afraid to share this.
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And so I'm going this direction,
00:54:42.74\00:54:44.75
but it is vitally
important that we are authentic
00:54:44.78\00:54:49.05
in what we present,
00:54:49.08\00:54:50.62
that everything
in the Word of God,
00:54:50.65\00:54:52.82
all scripture is
given by inspiration of God.
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Amen.
00:54:55.36\00:54:56.69
And is profitable
for doctrine, correction,
00:54:56.73\00:54:58.46
instruction and righteousness.
00:54:58.49\00:54:59.83
Why?
00:54:59.86\00:55:01.20
That the man of
God may be perfect,
00:55:01.23\00:55:02.80
thoroughly equipped
for every good work.
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So what an
important message and mission
00:55:04.67\00:55:08.00
to present the
truth, but always in love.
00:55:08.04\00:55:10.67
Oh, that's wonderful.
00:55:10.71\00:55:12.04
You know, going through this,
00:55:12.07\00:55:13.41
we have like a
couple of minutes left here
00:55:13.44\00:55:14.91
in our study together.
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I just feel that at
this time, you know,
00:55:16.38\00:55:17.91
there may be someone
watching at home right now
00:55:17.95\00:55:19.31
that says, you know what?
00:55:19.35\00:55:20.68
I want to
worship God not in vain,
00:55:20.72\00:55:23.39
but in spirit and in truth.
00:55:23.42\00:55:25.19
You know what? Jesus
can give you the power.
00:55:25.22\00:55:27.59
He can give you the guidance,
00:55:27.62\00:55:28.96
the leadership that you
need to worship Him genuinely
00:55:28.99\00:55:32.09
and spirit and in truth.
00:55:32.13\00:55:33.46
So, Brother Greg,
why don't we have a...
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We have about two minutes here.
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Why don't you take about
a minute and a half or so
00:55:36.30\00:55:37.63
and just offer up a
prayer for all of us here,
00:55:37.67\00:55:39.67
for those at home watching
that need to have that true,
00:55:39.70\00:55:43.07
genuine worshipful experience?
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Father in
heaven, what a blessing
00:55:46.31\00:55:47.64
it is to open Your Word.
00:55:47.68\00:55:49.71
And, Father, we truly
want to worship You...
00:55:49.74\00:55:53.31
in spirit and in truth.
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It's easy
sometimes when we say, hey,
00:55:55.68\00:55:57.05
we've got truth and
we're examples for you.
00:55:57.09\00:56:00.62
We're supposed to be,
and we're beating people
00:56:00.66\00:56:01.99
over the head with
truth and doctrine.
00:56:02.02\00:56:04.96
But, Father, we want to be able
to have Your love in our hearts
00:56:04.99\00:56:09.16
to be able to share
that with other people,
00:56:09.20\00:56:10.63
because You have loved us first
00:56:10.67\00:56:13.37
and You sent Your
Son Jesus to die for us.
00:56:13.40\00:56:16.24
So as we're worshiping You,
00:56:16.27\00:56:18.51
we can reach out to
You and say, "Jesus,
00:56:18.54\00:56:21.04
I need you right now."
00:56:21.08\00:56:22.64
So I just pray right now that
if someone is, is struggling,
00:56:22.68\00:56:27.68
trying to figure out
which direction to go,
00:56:27.72\00:56:29.68
not understanding even
maybe how to worship You.
00:56:29.72\00:56:32.45
All that they have to
do is just say, Jesus,
00:56:32.49\00:56:35.12
I invite You into
my heart right now.
00:56:35.16\00:56:37.09
And that's the
start of the worship.
00:56:37.13\00:56:38.93
And, Father, that You
will lead us into all truth.
00:56:38.96\00:56:42.70
So, Father, thank
You for this topic today.
00:56:42.73\00:56:44.43
Thank you that
we can worship You.
00:56:44.47\00:56:45.80
Thank You for
being the Almighty God,
00:56:45.83\00:56:47.40
the creator, the
sustainer of each one of us.
00:56:47.44\00:56:50.41
And, Father, thank You
that we have this opportunity
00:56:50.44\00:56:52.94
of opening Your Word
today, in Jesus' name we pray.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
00:56:56.41\00:56:58.15
We are truly living
in interesting times.
00:56:58.18\00:57:00.15
Times we need to make sure that
our vessels are full of oil.
00:57:00.18\00:57:03.49
The oil of the spirit,
worshiping Him in spirit,
00:57:03.52\00:57:06.99
worshiping Him in truth.
00:57:07.02\00:57:08.39
It's a package deal.
00:57:08.42\00:57:10.03
And in these last
days, we need to make sure
00:57:10.06\00:57:12.09
that we are balanced,
00:57:12.13\00:57:13.63
that we are being led
by the spirit of truth
00:57:13.66\00:57:16.06
and that we have
the truth within us,
00:57:16.10\00:57:17.63
so that we can be prepared
00:57:17.67\00:57:19.17
for the times
that are coming ahead.
00:57:19.20\00:57:20.77
And so that we
can see each other
00:57:20.80\00:57:22.40
in the kingdom of
heaven and be with our savior.
00:57:22.44\00:57:24.74
We're so
thankful that you've been
00:57:24.77\00:57:26.11
able to join us
during this hour.
00:57:26.14\00:57:27.48
It went by quick,
but you know what?
00:57:27.51\00:57:28.94
We're gonna continue to
worship the Lord together.
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God bless you all.
00:57:31.11\00:57:32.45
Have a wonderful day.
00:57:32.48\00:57:33.82
And until next time, God bless.
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