DEEPER WALK
WORSHIP
Introduction - “To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.” William Temple - Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. (John 4:23-24) - Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. - The word ‘worship’ comes from the Saxon word which became worthship. To worship God is to ascribe the proper worth to God, to magnify His worthiness of praise, or better, to approach and address God as he is worthy. (Whitney, p. 87) THE OBJECT OF OUR WORSHIP 1. Matthew 4:10 “You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.” 2. Exodus 20:3 “You shall have no other gods before me.” 3. “The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.” (A. W. Tozer) 4. To see who the Lord is brings us to confession. “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” (Isaiah 6:5) 5. God has revealed Himself that we might focus on Him. (Whitney, p. 88) a. Through Creation (Romans 1:20) b. Through His Word (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21) c. Through Jesus Christ (John 1:1, 14; Hebrews 1:1-2) d. We are not worshiping if we are not thinking about God!
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