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WHY WORSHIP?
ISAIAH 1:11-17
When you heard that we shall explore together today the theme of WORSHIP
many of you perhaps are saying: "What do you think we have been doing all morning?"
Our bulletin even calls this time 'MORNING WORSHIP SERVICE."
We say we have been worshipping, but what may appear as worship to us, visibly successful in the eyes of men, may not be worship in the eyes of God.
He sees and hears much more than we do.
Let me read to you a description of God's reaction to a worship service held some years ago.
It is recorded in:
READ ISAIAH 1:11-17
These words indicate that God looks at a worship service differently than we do because he reads our hearts.
These words reveal that WORSHIP IS NOT SOMETHING WE
Worship does not deal with what we make our bodies do, (either singing, kneeling or praying), but WORSHIP CONSISTS of who we OUR HEART IS FEELING.
This is the aspect of worship I want to explore with you.
The heart is the mind, emotion & will.
PEOPLE a worship service by one standard:
1.
If the MUSIC MY STYLE was professional outstanding, pleasing to the ear then it was good worship.
2. If the SERMON was outstanding, Then it was a good worship service.
A visiting minister was substituting for the famed Pastor
Henry Ward Beecher.
A large audience had assembled to hear
the popular pastor.
At the appointed hour.
the visiting
minister entered the pulpit.
Learning that Beecher was not
to preach, several began to move toward the doors.
The
visiting minister stood and called out, "All who have come
here today to worship Henry Ward Beecher may now withdraw
from the church!
All who have come to worship God, keep your
seats!"
No one then left!
3.
If you enjoyed being there, then it was a good worship service.
We judge a worship service by how WE FEEL.
If our mind was challenged or if we were made to feel good.
Or if the speaker made us laugh or cry, then we say that was a 10, that was a good worship service.
attending church with his father one Sunday morning, before
getting into bed that evening a little boy kneeled at his
bedside and prayed, "Dear God, we had a good time at church
today, but I wish you had been there."
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But if the music was poor and the preaching was poor & boring, or the preacher went too long then it is a poor worship service!
~*BUT THAT IS NOT HOW GOD JUDGES.
What people may say is a 10, But God judges as idolatry.
No worship of Him.
It is startling to realize that everyone worships!
Everybody!
Everywhere! Worship is fundamental drive of life.
Atheists worship.
Infidels worship.
Skeptics worship.
Communist worship.
Even Republicans and Democrats worship.
Lawyers, insurance agents and even Internal Revenue Service agents worship!
All people worship for worship is the fundamental difference between humans and animals.
Animals do not worship.
They have no sense of the beyond or of the Holy.
But God has placed eternity in man's heart, as the book of Ecclesiastes tell us.
This urge causes men everywhere to worship.
If they are not worshipping the true God, they are worshipping a god of their own composition.
Worship, therefore, is a universal phenomenon.
The word comes from the old English 'WORTH-SHIP" which means to ascribe worth or value to something or someone.
If I tell you how great someone is =that is education.
But if I tell that person how great they are - worship!
Clearly there are of worship.
From the Christian point of view there is true worship and there is false.
The worship of all the people on earth fall into these two categories.
TRUE WORSHIP is to attribute worth to a real Being, one who is truly there and who is truly worthy.
Dr. Francis Schaeffer wrote a book called "THE GOD WHO IS THERE".
To make the point that although God is invisible to our eyes he is actually there.
The function of believers is to learn what God is like and to acknowledge him- to ascribe worth to him, to reflect upon the value, beauty and character of God.
This is true worship.
A.W.Tozer.
We're here to be worshippers first and workers only second.
We take a convert and immediately make a worker of of him.
God never meant it to be so.
God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshipper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshipper will have enternity in it.
The story from the life of Louis XIV of France demonstrates this:
One Sunday when he and his royal party arrived at church, no one was
there except Archbishop Fenelon, the court preacher.
Surprised to see all the vacant seats, the King inquired, "Where is everybody?
Why isn't anyone else present this morning?"
The minister answered, "I announced that Your Majesty would not be here today, because I wanted you to see who came to the service just to flatter you and who came to worship God."
FALSE WORSHIP, on the other hand, is to attribute worth to an illusion which is not really there, or which is not worthy.
It is not worthy of worship because it is merely imaginary.
FALSE WORSHIP usually took the form of bowing before IDOLS OR IMAGES.
People created representations of gods, usually in the form of a human being or animal.
Then they ascribed worth to it and regarded it as extremely valuable in their lives.
They thought the god either helped them in causing their crops to grow or it protected them from some danger or evil.
It kept their children from getting sick.
Thus they ascribed great worth to speechless images and idols.
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Sometimes they worshipped DECEITFUL SPIRITS, DEMONS.
Without the help of a visible image, they worshipped an invisible spirit-being.
~*~*The American Indians did this.
You may have seen the picture of the three Blackfoot Indians on
horseback worshipping the rising sun with their arms outstretched
and their faces turned upward.
They saw the sun as a spirit-
being, and they also worshipped other spirits such as those of
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