How Worship Transforms You — Shane Idleman

The World's Distractions and Addictions

I want you guys to picture this, this is the world. This is all the junk, all the distractions, all the addictions, all the fear, the anxiety. This is the world, this is what we carry around. This is how most people walk around, don't they?

Just full of the world, full of the junk, full of all this. And I'm talking about worship. They don't wanna hear worship. They're full, they don't love this, but they're full of this, the unhealthy desires.

Everything you can think of that you just don't like, from lust and addictions, everything. This is the world, fear and anxiety. So this is the world, this is worship, right? I'm trying to get you to worship, but junk.

Worship Pushes the Junk Out

So what happens when, again, let's hope this works. When we begin to pour worship in, it should begin to push all these other things upward and out of our lives. So see, as we worship, well, hold on. As we're worshiping, this is what should happen.

All the junk, all that just comes out, you're worshiping, you're worshiping, you're worshiping, you're worshiping, you're worshiping, you're worshiping. That's what happens. You just keep worshiping and worshiping God.

Worship and the Remnants of the Sinful Nature

All the junk has to fall out, and it cannot dwell in the same place as worship. It can't. Sure, there's a little junk in the trunk. There's a little leftover. That's our sinful nature. It's not all going.

It's not all leaving on this side of heaven. There's a little bit of stuff in there, but as you start to worship, what happens? What happens? There's my doubt, there's my guilt, there's my shame, there's my lust, there's my addiction, there's my fear, there's my anxiety.

Worship forces it out. It cannot stay in the same vessel. That's the same with us. Worship, worship cannot stay in the same vessel. When you worship, all these things have to come out. They can't stay there.

Worship Requires Letting Go of Sin

So I told my wife, I hope I preach just as good tonight as I did this morning in the garage when God was breaking me and getting all this junk out of my life. Let the bitterness go, let the gossip, let the slander, let the addiction, everything must go.

You cannot worship God and hold on to addictions at the same time. It's not possible. You're either loving one or the other. People would have problems with addictions. I always say, get into worship like you never have before.

You cannot sing, worthy is the lamb and down a 40. It's not possible. You can't. You can't. You can't toke it up and put on worthy is the lamb. It's not possible. You can't sit there and click on porn and have Hillsong on the other side.

You can't. Worship overcrowds all of that and pushes it out. That's why I'm so passionate about this because that's what it does to the mess in your life. It takes it out, it gets rid of it. That's worship.

A Call to Worship for Transformation

That's why we need a call to worship. That's why I want to worship. That's why I have to worship. Ask my wife, my whole day is centered around, guess what? My kids, my family, my job, nope. Worship. Worship in the morning because that's how I become a better father.

That's how you become a better mother. You don't need more books. You don't need more CDs. You need to worship. Get on your hands and face and break before almighty God.