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Okay, let's talk about worship What is worship and how does it relate to us last night?
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I was putting together Well had all this stuff put together. I went to print it out and Well, I'm out of paper too late to get paper now
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So I don't have handouts as I normally might but we can work through this together. So I'm using my laptop here this morning
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You have ten questions. We'll make it interactive. So let's look at what is worship and how it relates to us as a body
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Okay number one So since you don't have your handout you got to pay attention Worship is and I have four options a
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B C and D worship is a what Mark Schaefer and Charlie Crane do be singing in church
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See a way of life or D hymns, but not praise choruses
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Which one is it? Did I have he has an option Becky She said all of the above where does he all of you love?
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Okay. She said all of the above anybody else See, okay Okay. Yeah, it could be all of the above but I had
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C. Yes It's a way of life one of the things That I've been doing the last couple of years after the
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Shepherds Conference. They give you so many books So I make a commitment to go through those books, but I have to you have to start somewhere
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So I always pick the first book. I'm going to read after I come back from the conference Two years ago was a book on church discipline because I was helping a friend through that at a church
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He was at but this year I picked a book Entitled worship by John MacArthur the ultimate priority and I'm so grateful very young in my
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Christian life I was taught by my teachers my mentors and those who discipled me that first and foremost in my
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Christian life is the Bible The scripture But I was also taught that it's good to read solid
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Christian works by solid authors Because that can help enhance my
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Christian faith So worship, what is worship in the Greek so I'll have a lot to quote from here as we go through this in the
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Greek New Testament, there's a lot of words for worship, but the two primary ones are these proskynel galat
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Revo Proskynel literally means it literally means to kiss toward To kiss toward it really has the idea of bowing down falling prostrate
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Revelation like the elders did that we read this morning before the lamb that was slain.
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It has the idea of humble adoration I Mean, how else can you adore and worship
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God other than in? Humility you can't come arrogantly That's the word proskynel the other key word that's used typically in the
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New Testament is a word like the devil it has to do with rendering Honor or paying homage it refers in the book of Hebrews as a word that's used
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When the writer of Hebrews describes the Levitical priests in their service to God The word service is a word like the devil which we render worship in the
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English Bible it comes from the word Latrice, which is really a hired servant in contrast to a doulos a slave
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So in other words, it's something that is done not under compulsion The idea is something that you do willingly not by coercion
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Okay, that's the whole idea behind that New Testament word This is how pastor
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MacArthur talks about what worship is we said it's a way of life and involves all that other stuff
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But it is a way of life. He says the following Worship is honor and adoration directed toward God When we talk about worship, we are talking about something we give to God Modern Christianity seems committed instead to the idea that God should be giving to us
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That consuming selfless desire to give to God is the defining element of all genuine worship
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It begins with the giving first of ourselves Then of our attitudes and third of our possessions
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Until worship is here. It is a way of life Worship he continues is not merely an activity to be injected into our schedules at certain intervals
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Rather worship is itself a whole life commitment and all -encompassing response to a holy
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God Worship is life lived in the presence of an infinitely righteous and omnipresent God by one who is utterly aware of his holiness and Consequently overwhelmed with a sense of his or own unholiness
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So notice he he mentions there that worship has to do much with Understanding who the character of God and his attributes.
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Is it not true? He continues and says if you have never worshipped God with a broken and contrite spirit watch this
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You've never fully worshipped God If you've never worshipped
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God with a broken and contrite spirit ie Psalm 51 you've never fully worshipped God Why?
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Because that is the only appropriate response to entering the presence of a holy God our relationship to God has become too casual in The modern mind
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God has become almost human so affable and ordinary that we don't understand his holy indignation
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Against sin we have lost our sense of that fear and too many people this hits me hard Too many people approach
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God with casual familiarity that borders on Blasphemy Not true.
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It's not the writer of Hebrew tells us that we have our great high priest Jesus Christ that we can enter the throne room of grace with boldness and confidence
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Yes, but boldness and confidence does not mean crassly So we have to remember that as we worship
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Okay question number two if someone just simply wants to worship. They don't really need theology true or false
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Okay, you think I'm gonna let you just answer that why? Tom you said false Okay, you have to stint.
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Okay Okay, good
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So your theology has to be a God -centered theology understanding who God is versus a man -centered theology Bruce.
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Very good Very good.
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Good point. Excellent. Bob. Very good.
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Yes Excellent to Christ himself said John for right the Samaritan woman.
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We must worship in spirit and in truth. Yes Turn with me to Romans 12, let's look at this a little deeply deeper deeply so the connection between theology and worship and when you get to that, it's a familiar verse you can
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Have I can have somebody read it. So worship first of all is a way of life as we discussed It's entering into the presence of God.
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Yes first Understanding that we can call him our Abba father because of our great high priest, but we don't enter casually
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Before God we understand who he is and as we're seeing here in number two for those of you Who just walking in that you can't just simply want to worship
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God without desiring theology because theology we understand who God is And that's whom we worship
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So let's look at for some biblical support for that. Somebody read Romans 12 1 if you have it. Yes, Tom Thank you, which is your reasonable service?
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Greek word let 3 I remember I said in Hebrews the Greek word that's rendered worship in that case is rendered service
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It's used for service like the Levitical priests other translation says your reasonable worship, correct?
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The ESV says your spiritual worship. So here Paul's making an appeal. Therefore.
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He just spent 11 chapters discussing theology How we deserve to be condemned chapters 1 through 3 because of our total depravity before God Chapters 4 through 5 how
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God has justified us in Christ He has declared us righteous in Christ because of the imputed righteousness of Christ chapter 6 through 8 about our sanctification
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Then he goes on to chapters 9 to 11 discussing Jews and Gentiles and he says based upon the mercies of God verse 1
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Therefore I have making this appeal to you Offer your bodies as living sacrifices, which is what your spiritual service your spiritual worship.
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So based upon Theology understanding what God has done for you
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Who you were who he is and how he's worked in your life salvation all the way from condemnation salvation
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Justification sanctification therefore, I want you to offer your bodies because this is true worship
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So worship has to be based upon theology number three
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You can have the right theology Yet still not be fervent in your worship you can have the right theology and yet still not be fervent in your worship true or false
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True Okay. Why how is that possible? If it's true
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Yes Christian, okay
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Letter to the church in Ephesus. Yeah in Revelation excellent point Ezra. Oh, very good.
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Satan's theology is on the ball. Very good So therefore I exhort you come to IBS so you can have the same theology as Satan.
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I'm just kidding No, we don't want that. But but that's a very good point Theologically, he's right
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Satan is but yet we know where he stands. Yes, Peggy. Yes Exactly you can have a little head knowledge, but it's not connected to a heart change
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God has to give you of course first from a heart of stone to a heart of flesh now watch this first Peter 2 2 says grow
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Long for the pure milk of the word or crave the pure milk of the word that by you may grow in respect to salvation now you can know and Not grow, but you can't grow without knowing
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So yeah, you can have theology and not and still not be fervent in worship, but yet at the same time as we said that's why
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I Backed them up two and three together those questions But in order to worship God properly in spirit and truth, you have to have theology right in order to know who he is
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MacArthur puts it this way He says the following about the fervency in our worship.
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There are those who hold firmly to sound doctrine But have lost all the fervor of true faith.
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They know the truth, but they can't get excited about it And I love how he puts is
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I really like this Enthusiastic heresy is heat without light Barren orthodoxy is light without the heat
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Enthusiastic heresy is heat without light But barren orthodoxy is light without heat
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So if we truly understand our theology and who
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God is what he has done How can we not worship when fervor and with enthusiasm and excitement?
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If you have any how many of you have gotten the CD together for the gospel live a couple.
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Yeah the rest of you pagans I Encourage you to get it's very very encouraging pastor
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Mike mentioned this morning and Steve's been pushing in it rightly So I mean I wouldn't sometimes now when I'm studying during the week my
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Bible I'll put that on his background and I have to stop studying Because I get overwhelmed by what they're singing about Powerful pick it up today.
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Okay. Next question. Just a question. There's no true or false or ABCD Let's discuss this.
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Why is worship a priority for the Christian? Why is worship a priority for the
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Christian? The question assumes that it is a priority obviously, okay
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Very good point by nature. We're creatures of worship. So we'll worship something or someone So for the
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Christian it is a priority to worship Hmm That's a reason why we were saved
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The reason why we were saved I like that Hmm.
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Okay. So to piggyback on what Wes said, whatever we're putting first shouldn't go first before God because he's
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That's that's who we're worshiping. Yes. No, that's what we're worshiping. If it's not God exactly the object of our worship Bruce Yes, because it's simply of who he is.
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Yes, great points Tom. Okay Okay Okay, good.
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So it puts us in a rightful place of realizing who he is in him in his transcendence. Very good point So that's very important worship is a definite priority for for the believer
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And again, we describe keep in mind though that worship is not just something as I highlighted the first question I try to it so it's a way of life.
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It's not some okay, you know, we describe in our evangelical culture We have a worship service and we'll get talking about that a little bit more about what happens here on Sunday And we have worship leaders, you know
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But we describe worship as a way of life for us as believers, okay the next question
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Worship is God -centered Whereas evangelism is man -centered true or false false strong false
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What why is that false? So worship is not God's What's false about it peg
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Okay, so when you evangelize just for those who didn't hear it and just have it on tape when you evangelize
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It doesn't matter the results. The point is you're doing it to give God the glory. I saw a hand back there Jonathan Oh, very good in evangelism
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You're pointing people to who they are to worship and they are said earlier that we're saved for worship So if God does save them by his grace, then they know who they are to worship.
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Very good point anybody else Turn to Romans 9 not gonna go into an in -depth exposition of it
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But we're going to go to the latter half of the passage Romans 9 is one of the two central passages on total the proud one of sovereign election.
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Sorry sovereign election Of course, he goes back to the
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Old Testament just to give you a little background He goes back to Jacob and Esau and before they were born before Either of them had done anything good or bad in order that God's purpose in the election might stand
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But then he goes on in in as Paul as he does typically in Romans That as he lays out his argument, he knows that his audience is going to have questions
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So he asked those questions for example in Romans 5 where he says That we're sin increase grace increased all the more right?
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So he knows his readers are gonna say. Oh great if When I sin God's grace increases all the more therefore, let me just sin more
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That's why he begins 6 chapter 6 verse 1 with a question What shall we say then are we to continue in sin that grace might increase so he does the same thing here his readers
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He asked the questions that he knows his readers are gonna ask and they're saying questions like well He asked is
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God unjust to save some by his sovereign election and they ask another question and here is his answer
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Let's read from verses 20 to 24. If somebody can read that for us verse 20 of Romans 9 to 24
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Jonathan nice and loud Thank you
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This is really the clincher of the passage as he builds up in a climax Responding to those questions that he lays out and I love he goes back to the
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Old Testament Illustration does he not the Potter and the clay? I remember walking a friend through this and he was really struggling with the idea of unconditional sovereign election
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Well, I just present the word to him and allow the Holy Spirit to work in his heart to open his eyes
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And this is when we got to this part of Romans 9 the light just went on Who are you
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You're the clay he's the Potter And notice what he says in verse 23
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What is the purpose? Verse 22 if God desiring to show his wrath to make known his power has endured much patient with much patience vessels of wrath
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Versus vessels of mercy why verse 23 in order to make known the riches of what?
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His glory so both worship and both evangelism and if we want to add on top of to that anything else we do as Believers individually and as a body is for what the glory of God So that is a false statement both evangelism and worship are both to be
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God -centered Unfortunately in the history of the church some people didn't think evangelism should be
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God -centered men like Charles Finney So they came up with man -made concoctions to make sure they could bring in the fold bring in the sheep on their own
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But when we do evangelism as we do worship, that's God -centered will give God the ultimate glory
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Okay, here's an option question Worship is a for Sundays only
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Be not for home groups See for the mature believers who have put away their binkies.
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I Don't know what's going on Well, is that you know? Or D for all the believers
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D Pretty obvious it's for all the believers Now as you mature in the faith and become more knowledgeable of who
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God is in this character Of course, you can worship on a deeper level But yet once you're once God saves you we're saved for the purpose of worship.
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You can begin to worship Almighty God, so it's not be so use it for home groups and for Sundays not for Sundays only alright, here's another one a
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Non -believer cannot truly worship a non -believer cannot truly worship true or false
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Why they don't know who God is at all Hebrews 11 6 which says help me out here faith chapter.
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Okay. Did you take my class now?
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Hebrews 11 6 without faith is impossible to what? Please God because the person has to believe that God what?
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exists and he rewards those who Diligently seek him. So yeah good good answers to both
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Non -believer cannot truly worship turn. Let me give you another reference to that Philippians chapter 3 verse 3 Let's turn to that Philippians chapter 3 verse 3.
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This is the Preface of Paul's testimony in Philippians chapter 3 as he outlines his testimony to the
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Philippians the church in Philippi And just to give you the context before we read this verse
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This is the lot of part after this verse where Paul says, you know He used to have a righteousness of his own by obeying the law and actually it's in this passage where he lists his religious credentials
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Hebrew of Hebrews of the tribe of Benjamin right on and on and on he said but I what I have counted gain
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I now count as loss for the sake of what of knowing Christ But before he says all that notice what he says in verse 3 if somebody can read that Philippians chapter 3 verse 3
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Well, go ahead Thank you.
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So you see the term worship there who worship in the Spirit of God? He says we are the emphasis in the
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Greek is the circumcision. That's why the New American Standard says we are the true
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Circumcision we are true believers versus somebody who's just been circumcised physically We have been circumcised of the heart.
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Therefore because God has done a circumcision of our heart. We can worship the Lord Bruce Yes Excellent.
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Proverbs 15 verses 18 through 19. Very good Sacrifices of the wicked. So yeah non -believer cannot truly worship
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God so you can have you know Unbelievers walking into not again that worship is just what happens
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Sunday morning It should be a way of life for us as as believers, but you can have an unbeliever walks into a
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Sunday morning service They could just be you know, lipping the the hymns or the choruses
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Sometimes we can be doing that too, right just going through the motions But they're not truly worshiping
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God because they haven't been saved yet If God is intention to do that Okay, number eight
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These are options and I haven't all of the above so Becky you might like this one During the
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Sunday service. We worship God when we a sing We worship
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God be when we give we worship God see when we pray D when we hear the word or e all of the above II Okay, help me out.
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How do we worship God when we? Sing that's usually what's talked about as just worship
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We just relegate it to the singing portion, but we seeing that it's more than just that but how do we worship God when we sing?
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Making a joyful noise unto the Lord. Yes Very good. Somebody else how you worship in God when we sing
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It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for me. We sang this morning How do you worship
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God when you're singing a hymn or a praise chorus? You make a joyful noise Jonathan. Sorry, okay
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We're highlighting characteristics about God in the songs good to focus on his character. Very good. Did I see a hand here?
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How about when we give when we give offering how we how is that worship
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Common, okay, very good.
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So it's a sacrifice. We're giving back to God what he's given to us And we're not we're not holding on to it just to piggyback on that right naked and I was sharing at my uncle's funeral
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Job Naked I came from the womb and naked. I shall return right everything you have and I have is not ours
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It's on loan. So it's good to worship God by giving very good
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Good very good a point the perspective So what we give to the ministry of the church and everything the church doesn't ministries evangelism preaching the gospel
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We're supporting that because it brings glory to God. How about when we pray? Pastoral prayer up there elder
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Scott Brown was praying this morning. I hope you're also praying too. How do we worship God when we pray? Whether it's on a
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Sunday morning or when you're in your closet Matthew 6 praying, how is that worship? Okay, very good because he's the focus
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Okay Of course a lot of times a lot of church will say when it comes to the hearing of the word
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The reading of Scripture the preaching of Scripture say well now now we finish with our worship, which they really mean singing
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Now we're going to focus on the word But preaching the word reading the word hearing the word is also worship
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Listen to what John Stott says in his book between two worlds about this He says and I quote word and worship
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Belong indissolubly to each other all worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God Because it is the adoration of his name
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Therefore acceptable worship is impossible without preaching For preaching is making known the name of the
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Lord and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known Far from being an alien intrusion into worship the reading and preaching of the word are actually indispensable to it
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The two cannot be divorced So everything that we do on Sunday in our service is totally about worship
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When it's preaching hearing the word Praying giving everything
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Okay, next question What are some hindrances to worship what are some hindrances some things that can hinder our worship good question
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Our own sin I had that listed yes our own sin well We all still sin even as mature believers, right?
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We have a growing awareness that we've discussed of our sinfulness, but a growing hatred of our sin
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But I wouldn't say just our own sin. I would say Unconfessed and unrepentant sin the issue is what are you gonna do with it?
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You're gonna confess it first John 1 9 and repent of it forsake it as Proverbs 28 13 says so it's unconfessed and unrepentant
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Sin, did I see a hand somewhere back there? Yes Insufficient what?
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Insufficient view of God very good. So it goes back to Theology you have the right theology though you can have the right theology and yet not worship
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God in spirit and truth But you need the right theology to worship him in spirit and in truth. Yes Somebody else.
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What are the hindrances? I Had that listed to Unforgiveness of others turn to Matthew 5 this can hinder your worship
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Not having a forgiving heart. So I confessed unrepentant sin having an inadequate
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View of God as Linton mentioned which takes us back to knowing our theology So we know
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God himself personally, so we know who we're worshiping and an unforgiveness of others You want you want to read that do you have it
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Matthew 5? I'm sorry 23 to 24 Sermon on the Mount. Thank you
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Note, there are a couple of things my uncle
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Who had passed away as I mentioned? There were some issues with some close friends of his and had it he had a hard time forgiving
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And when I visited him back a couple months ago in the hospital One of his close friends who they they had blacklisted each other.
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They don't want to talk to each other see each other anything his friend came to visit him in the hospital and they hadn't talked for a number of years and That made a quite an impact on my uncle
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Don't know if how God and if he used it to save him his friend came and started giving him scripture
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But this whole issue Greeks typically say that's why maybe
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I love how Jesus puts it here There remember you're offering your gift at the other and there remember that he doesn't say that you have something against your brother
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Greeks will say well if he has something against me let him come to me Now remember
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Matthew 18 the onus is always on you Always Matthew 18 if your brother sins against you go and talk to him in private
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So you're the offended one. He's the offending party in this case. You're the one who's caused the offense, correct?
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Because it says Jesus says if you remember that your brother has something against you meaning that you've offended him
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Jesus says you stop your worship go and first first be reconciled
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To your brother So an unforgiving heart and unreconciled Relationship is definite hindrance to worship and the others that we might have missed
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Tom Lack of biblical study Very good.
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Someone 19 verse 11 your word. I've hidden in my heart. So the study of God's Word continuous is very important.
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Very good Okay, next one worship on Sunday True or false worship on Sunday is not affected by our lives
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Monday through Saturday I'm pretty simple answer, right?
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It's obvious So which helps us understand what we started out at the beginning that worship is more than just what happens on Sunday morning
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More than what happens when we sing It's something that happens as a way of life for the believer
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Romans 12 1 your spiritual act of worship. How is it affected?
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Let's discuss it a little bit. How is worship affected with what goes on in our lives during the week?
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How can worship on Sunday be affected? Yes Mmm, that's good dragging your mind off of dragging your mind on earthly things
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Which takes your focus off the Lord and heavenly things, which is what we were exhorted to this morning, right?
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pastor Mike Maturity is not focusing on the temporal but focusing on that which is eternal a very good point
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And of course when we're going through our week day in and day out We can have a tendency to focus on that which is earthly and temporal and not eternal.
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Very good. Anybody else? Yes, Peg, okay
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Okay Good. So trusting the Lord throughout your week
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Focusing on his promises and on his faithfulness to his promises that will help cultivate ultimately your worship as you come
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Sunday Wes Well, very good well you took from the previous
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Sunday Wes is saying if you take it and Apply and follow it and learn it you can take that with you throughout the week and as you come to service for worship again
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Very good that way we making it a way of life John says this about this aspect of worship.
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I quote music and liturgy can perhaps assist or express a worshiping heart but They cannot make a non -worshipping heart into a worshiping one
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The danger is that they can give a non -worshipping heart the sense of having worshipped
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So the crucial factor for worship in the church is not the form of worship. I repeat or John repeats
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I repeat John the crucial factor is not the form of worship He says but the state of the hearts of the
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Saints If our corporate worship isn't the expression of our individual worshiping lives it is unacceptable if you think you can live any way you please and then go to church on Sunday morning and Turn on worship with the
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Saints You're wrong John says he continues worship does not occur in a vacuum as believers
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We are responsible to the rest of the church to maintain a consistent lifestyle of genuine acceptable worship
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Our failure to do so will adversely affect the rest of the body of Christ What we do throughout the week will affect the members of the church with whom we worship on Sunday So nothing is ever in a vacuum.
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We don't want to dichotomize and put everything like that We have to look at our Christian life as the
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Bible looks at it. So worship is a way of life Any thoughts or questions on that?
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Okay. Yes That's right. Yes Yes Yes Yes, we're also ambassadors for Christ.
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Yeah, so during the week That's what we are people are watching and we need to continue to proclaim the gospel. Very good Tom. Did I see your hand?
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No, okay What I want to do in the last six minutes, I want to now again worship
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We talked about is not just the music, but I do want to take a few moments to talk about the music Who knows?
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Who is considered back in the late 19th century the end of the 19th century
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Hymns were being written. We sing here hymns and we sing choruses, but hymns are being written consistently
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But around the end of the 19th century hymns just suddenly stopped being written and what replaced hymns was what was called gospel songs
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Does anyone know who the who is considered the father of the gospel song? by many
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Very good Bob Ira Sanky tell us who he was just briefly He worked with Moody.
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It was relevant for the day relevancy is the cry, right? They wanted to drop people. Yes, because Moody was an evangelist and in his evangelistic campaigns right in Britain in America So in contrast to him which him focused the audience in hymns was directed towards God whereas those gospel songs that Ira started to write for Moody because they were written for Evangelistic campaigns that were written even to draw an audience that was written for the people.
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So yeah, he is the father of that They were obviously lighter in doctrinal content than hymns
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And they expressed personal testimony many times because they had a certain purpose for that was to draw people in an evangelistic meeting
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Well gospel songs hung around and in the next century the late 20th century
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Gospel songs were replaced by the praise chorus Hill song now as you notice a lot of times praise choruses there
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There's a lot of repetition a lot of repetition a lot of repetition
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I can't recall how many youth conferences I've been to where it's just okay. Let's go to the next one You know, it's a lot of repetition
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That was the whole point of a praise course unlike hymns though Rather unlike gospel songs where gospel songs were directed towards the people praise courses were directed towards praising
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God So in that sense they are like hymns But they have no didactic purpose no
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Teaching you doctrinal content or anything like that turn with me for a moment to Colossians chapter 3
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We have a three more minutes Colossians chapter 3 if somebody can read verse 16 Colossians 3 16 and again, you'll notice the connection between the word and The musical aspect of worship here
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Colossians 3 16. Well, you got it great Very good.
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So we see at the at the outset. Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly So we see the word they're teaching and admonishing one another how?
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singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs So as we worship with the musical portion because that's not just that worship is as we said that there to be some teaching in that and some admonishing and Praise courses sometimes don't necessarily always have that.
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I was at a church recently where I was preaching and Couple months ago
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I preached there also and they asked me they do just they basically do courses They don't do hymns. So they asked me if at the end
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I would like a hymn So I said sure so I chose a hymn and I was cringing they didn't even know the hymn
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Even the person who was playing it. I was like, I shouldn't have picked that but they just don't know and it's not because I'm an
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Old fogey, and I just want hymns but You some of the courses that are sung today there.
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Unfortunately, there are some courses that have that have rich biblical truth
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How deep the Father's love for us? verses shine
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Jesus shine Or as I was listening to the
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CD last night, I I couldn't help but stop my study I had to pause and Can it be?
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That I should gain a lot of times what I do with the hymns. I'll I'll read through them I won't sing him, but I'll read through them and I'll pray through them
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You know you get to verse 4. I mean if that's not total depravity Long my imprisoned spirit lay fast bound in sin in nature's night
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Then I diffused a quickening ray. I woke the dungeon flamed with light my chains fell off My heart was free.
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I rose went forth and followed thee so as you're singing even that Aspect of our worship as we're singing the hymns here as we're singing the choruses that are on a deeper level
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It helps you those lyrics help us to focus on God in his character
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And that's why it's important to remember that as we sing Any final comments or questions you might have on this aspect of worship or any aspect of it?
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Yes Exactly. Exactly.
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Exactly. Amen. Amen. It's very true. Yes Yes, yes
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Yes Exactly. Amen the character and attributes of God.
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That's true. Well, let's pray Lord we do bow down with humble hearts before you this morning and We do say as the psalmist said not to us
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Oh Lord not to us But to your name be the glory because of your love and faithfulness help us to worship more as believers more deeply and to see worship not as just a
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Segment of what we do on Sunday morning even just to sing But it's a way of life that We would offer our bodies as living sacrifice in view of what you have done for us in view of your mercy
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For our lives that we would get to know you more and more deeper and deeper in terms of your attributes in your character
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So that we would be able to worship you individually and as a corporate body so that ultimately we give you all the glory