WORSHIPALWAYS

Important Questions!

•What is true Worship which is acceptable to

God?

•How can we do it ‘always’?

WHAT IS WORSHIP?

WORD STUDY

TWO WORDS

•Proskuneo

•Latreuo

PROSKUNEO• an expression of profound reverence

• in the NT by kneeling or prostration to do homage (to one) or make obeisance,

whether in order to express respect or to make supplication

• used of homage shown to men and beings of superior rank

• to the Jewish high priests

• to God

• to Christ

• to heavenly beings

• to demons

LATREUO• to serve for hire

• to serve, minister to, either to the gods or men and used alike of slaves and freemen

• in the NT, to render religious service or homage, to worship

• to perform sacred services

TRINITY OBJECT OF WORSHIP

3 essentials of worship

•Motive – Love

•Attitude – humility and submission

•Action – Obedience to teachings of

Christ and the Apostles

WORSHIP ASRESPONSE

• Worship is the response of the people of God to His Character (Holiness, love, mercy, grace); works of creation, redeeming love, organization, consummation, judgments and interventions in history and individual lives.

• Responding by both prostrating (motive,attitude) and serving (action) = lifestyle = new life

• Response of sacred unconditional love to God’s sacred unconditional love

• Praise

• Thanksgiving

• Wholehearted and sincere

• Reverence and awe

• Spirit (inside) and truth

WORSHIP AS OFFERING OURSELVES• ROMANS 12:1,2

• In response to God’s mercy

• Offering ourselves as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God

• We are the offering we give God – Sacrificing self will, sin and worldliness

• Giving up sinful thought patterns, habitual sins of the thought life

• Giving up sinful habits, sinful pleasures and sinful treasures

• Following the way of Christ – Holiness – Being transformed

• Giving up sinful wastage of time

• Giving up bad company, wrong relationships

• SELF – DENIAL

• Giving up idols – family above God, greed for money, career above calling

• All these sacrifices and more are acts of worship

WORSHIP AS obedience• 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him,

and we will come to him and make our home with him. 24 Whoever does not love me does not

keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.” John 14

• Loving God with all your being and loving neighbour (others) as yourself

• Obedience as an expression of love for God

• Obedience as submission or prostration

• Obedience as service in using our time, talents, treasure, Spiritual gifts and relationship

• Restructuring our lives according to the teachings of Christ

• Developing a theology or biblical NT philosophy of every area of life – How to

work/study/relate/rest/be steward etc

ALWAYSHow to Worship Always ?

ALL TO JESUS• MIND – SORTING OUT DOCTRINES• EMOTIONS – TRUTHS OF GOD CONTROL EMOTIONS• BODY – STEWARDSHIP OF BODY AND USE IT FOR COOMON GOOD AND GLORY OF GOD• SPIRIT – COMMUNE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND ALLOW HIM TO GUIDE US DAILY

WORSHIP AS LIFESTYLEOFFERING EVERYTHING

SACRIFICE OF SELF- WILL AND SELFISH AMBITION

WHEN EVERYTHING WE DO IS OFFERED TO GOD THEN ALL OF LIFE BECOMES AN ACT OF

WORSHIP

Doing everything in motive, attitude and action in accordance with NT teachings

WORSHIPPING ALWAYS• Offering ourselves daily, moment by moment in the power of the Holy Spirit to be living

sacrifices

• Offering ourselves daily, moment by moment to love God through obedience in all areas of life

• Offering each and everything we do as an offering to God – Speech, eating, work/study, rest, relationship – by doing it for God and doing it His way

• Offering praise continually Hebrews 13

• Rejoicing always – opposed to grumbling/complaining

• Offering thanks continually 1Thessalonians 5: In everything give thanks

• Offering prayers – supplication and intercession 1Thessalonians 5:

• Developing a theology or biblical philosophy of every area of life – How to work/study/relate/rest/be steward etc

“A CHRISTIAN SHOULD USE THESE ARTS TO THE GLORY OF GOD, NOT JUST AS TRACTS, MIND YOU, BUT AS THINGS OF BEAUTY TO THE PRAISE

OF GOD. AN ART WORK CAN BE A DOXOLOGY IN ITSELF.” ― FRANCIS AUGUST SCHAEFFER, ART & THE BIBLE

• Hebrews 13:15 Through him then let us continually offer up ta sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

• Offering praise continually

• 1 Thessalonians 5:16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances;

• Rejoicing always – opposed to grumbling/complaining

• Offering thanks continually 1Thessalonians 5: In everything give thanks

• Offering prayers – supplication and intercession 1Thessalonians 5:

Offering Our Life•Offering our work – career

•Offering our study – work – future career

• If called – give up and go into full time ministry

•Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it

heartily, as to the Lord, and not to men;

•So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do,

do it all for the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31

LEARNING TO ‘WORSHIP ALWAYS’ -

SPIRITUAL AMBITION

THE END•Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose—all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable. - William Temple