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Worship That Pleases God
2 Samuel 6
*Thesis: *Biblical worship must be characterized by balance
The problem with the first try at bringing the ark out was not the worship and singing and celebration, it was the ignoring of God's specific commands on transporting the ark.
(1Chronicles 15:13-15)
Worship must be characterized by a degree of seriousness and sobriety in handling the word of God.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-5 "think before you open your mouth.
The most important considering in worship is: what does God want?
What does God think?
This is for Him.
He is the primary audience of our worship.
How does he think?
What does he feel?
So giving serious consideration to God's Word, God's character and God's holiness when we worship is absolutely essential.
These dramatic events are mirrored in the NT.
Worship for God must be characterized by reverence and respect.
This is evidenced by studying 1Corinthians 11 and the Lord's Supper.
He lovingly rebukes them for their carelessness in observing the Lord's Supper.
We are reminded that when we don't treat the observance of the Lord's Supper worthily.
When we carelessly approach the observance of the Lord's Supper and our attitude is not one that is as heavy or serious as it is then it is not worthy.
That is why a person needs to examine himself.
God helped them out by saying the reason some of you died recently is that your observation of the Lord's Supper was careless.
You didn't take time to examine the Word of God and give it weight.
On a practical level, when it comes to public worship a lot of times not only we don't take it serious spiritually, but we do not take it serious practically.
In the sense of seriously giving thought and plan, more often churches tend to wing it.
When it comes to the planning and preparation of public worship it should demand great seriousness of thought.
I don't mean "depressed" I mean we take it seriously.
We plan we think we pray we work with other people.
That is why I think we need to have a worship team.
By worship team I don't mean two women and one guy with guitars and tambourines.
I mean a group of men and women who are gifted, where there is thought and process and conversation, where there's creativity, where the whole process is taken seriously.
So you actually plan.
Those of us who take preaching seriously, often make fun of the guy who opens his Bible to a random passage on Sunday morning and just wings it.
He should be made fun of.
Not only should he be made fun of, he ought to be promptly rebuked, because it really is a disgraceful disregard for God's Word.
You ought to read and meditate and consult.
By consult I mean look at commentaries, so there is a collaboration more than your or my little brain on the passage.
This should be done with cohesiveness so that there is scope and sequence in preaching and teaching, rather than the topic of the day.
When it comes to all that happens in this auditorium on a Sunday morning, there ought to be Biblical integrity and there ought to be a practical integrity.
There ought to be honor given to God through prayer, planning and collaboration, so that what results on a Sunday morning has been given weight.
So it shouldn't be that only the sermon is carefully planned, because that is not where worship starts.
Although in the NT there is a centrality to the preaching of God's word.
It starts when you walk into the door.
So there should be thought, and prayer, and research and collaboration given to the whole deal, from beginning to end.
We should take the practice of worship seriously; God does.
In the beginning of this story, David didn't.
Because He didn’t God was angry.
There were a lot of people responsible.
Obviously the priests knew, but they didn’t tell David.
I don’t know if they were afraid of him.
But the blame rises up in leadership, and rightly so.
David just said, “I’m going to go do this; bring the ark to Jerusalem.”
He was full of vim, vigor and himself.
He was winning battles, he was all pumped up, and he was finally king now.
He’s glorying in God’s blessing to him.
What God said would happen, finally happened.
It is easy to get carried away and just forget God’s regulations.
I don’t think he intentionally disregarded God’s command.
But because this public process of worship for the Jewish people was not taken seriously, and it was not characterized by respect and sobriety.
And again “sobriety” just simply means that you have your whit’s about  you not that you look like you are in a coma.
We’re not talking about sober as in stoic, dead and unpleasant to be around.
We are talking about eyes open, heart open, ready, aware and eager.
So that’s the first half of the story.
While we conservatives at times we need correction, rebuke, and encouragement to be sober about the process, the other side of the process is where we as fundamentalists tend to do worse.
So let’s look at the second half of this story (Read verse 12-23).
Clearly, worship must be characterized by sobriety and respect, and clearly worship must be characterized by joy and celebration.
I gotta tell you that I think most independent Baptists stink at this part.
Look at some of these words here.
/David worshipped the Lord with gladness/ (12).
It means rejoicing, they made merry, they celebrated, they were beaming with happiness.
Not religious “joy.”
This morning while we were singing, was anybody beaming with happiness?
You were serious, you were sober, that’s good.
We got that down.
I think we are really good at that, but we really fail at the positive side.
This word was used when meeting a loved one.
It is the genuine emotional response of “I haven’t seen you in a really long time, and I really love you!”
But when you haven’t seen someone in a long time, maybe a soldier coming back from Iraq.
Was anyone here happy as in meeting a loved one, as in getting great news?
The word “gladness” was used when the children of Israel were about to be killed; were surrounded by the enemy and God delivered them.
They were glad.
So what does that look like?
Worship is to be characterized by gladness, like when you get good news or great news!
Like being released from prison.
Completing the wall in Nehemiah.
The joy of a wedding.
That is how this word was used in the OT.
That is how David felt, and it showed.
When you sang this morning was there any flavor of that joy?
Was there any response to the singing other than what every Baptist is allowed to say, “And all God’s people said: ‘Amen.’”
Even after David learned his lesson, his worship was characterized by exuberant joy and happiness that could be seen and felt.
You didn’t have to wonder if they were happy or not.
Worship must be characterized by joy and happiness.
/Here’s one: David played in worship/ (5, 21).
The root idea is to laugh, play, celebrate, make sport.
It was used in Genesis 26:8 in the passage where they saw Isaac sporting with his wife.
It is the word laughing, horsing around, interacting, visible expressions of joy and delight that included touch.
David played in worship.
/David danced before the Lord,/ literally to whirl about with vigor and enthusiasm.
Here’s the idea.
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