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worship is
NOT about showmanship
It is about God.
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📣 Is your church worshipping biblically? How do you know? 🤔
Although most Christians might agree on what worship is, we don’t seem to agree on what it should look like and involve. With the myriad of faces of public worship and church life available to Christians today, how do we know which one is, in fact, pleases God? How do you discern which church God is leading you to worship at, or which practice to engage in or withdraw from?
In this sermon, Ps Paul unfolds a few underlying principles God gave to the Israelites concerning their worship of Him, and then seeks to apply this to our modern context so you can worship the Lord with such an understanding in your own local church.
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📍 Sermon Outline 00:00 Trailer 01:36 Introduction 03:16 I. THEY SAW, AND THEY BELIEVED 09:29 II. THEY BELIEVED, AND THEY WORSHIPPED 16:34 III. THEY WORSHIP ACCORDING TO GOD’S INSTRUCTION 37:28 Closing Prayer 40:09 Reflection Questions
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Highlights
is God real to you?
we do not put anything beside him. he alone… he must be the absolute of our lives.
is there anything that we have placed alongside him?
worship is about God and He alone has the right to determine how we should worship.
why did God not want them to use earth and rough stones? why not raise the altar on steps? because he did not want them to worship like the pagans.
he wanted his people to worship creator rather than creation.
true biblical worship is characterised by simplicity and purity.
worship is about what people want, not what God wants
they spend a lot of time thinking about…
to make the people feel good…
basically they are conforming the church into the pattern of the world.
he is telling us: “do not pattern your worship after the pattern of this lost and dying world.”
worship is not about showmanship. it is about God. we want God to accept our worship.
wherever God’s Word is faithfully preached, where worship is conducted… THAT is the church we want to worship. if bethel bpc is such a church, then this is the place we want to come together to worship God and be blessed. and if for any other reasons we can go to another bible believing church!
today there is no need forus to offer a sacrifice because it was already paid.
today if there is any sacrifice for you and i to make, it is to present our lives as a living sacrifice to God
if you have seen and believed, it must lead you to the worship of God, not just worshipping any way you want but according to His instructions