Worship

Worship in the OT

The TabernacleExodus 25 - 30

Exodus 25:8,98 Then have them make a sanctuary for me and I will dwell among them. 9 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishing EXACTLY like the pattern I will show you

Exodus 26

The Lampstand

The Ark

The Altar of Incense

The Table of ShewbreadExo 25:31-40

Exo 25:10-24

Exo 30:1-5

Exo 25:23-30

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The Priestly Garment

Exodus 28

God was specific about how He should be worshipped. WHY?

1) God desires : - ORDER in worship (1 Corinth 11:17-22 : Lord’s Supper; 14:11-17,23: Tongues)

- OBEDIENCE in worship

God was specific about how He should be worshipped. WHY?

2) The way God setup worship for the Israelites symbolizes something – “shadows”

Col 2: 17 ”These are the shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however is found in Christ”

God was specific about how He should be worshipped. WHY?

2) The way God setup worship for the Israelites symbolizes something – “shadow”

- Heb 10:1-10 Realization of Sin and Christ in Relationship to Worship

- Col 2:16,17 “The reality is in Christ”

Luke 18:9-14

The OT arrangement (the shadow) is done away with in the future

Rev 21:22-2522 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.

Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings

Psalm 51:16,17

You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heartyou, God, will not despise.

Isaiah 1:11I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats

16 Wash and make yourselves clean.Take your evil deeds out of my sight;stop doing wrong.

17 Learn to do right; seek justice.Defend the oppressed.Take up the cause of the fatherless;plead the case of the widow.

The act of WORSHIP goes beyond

the Tabernacle or the Temple.

It include pleasing God in our lives

Our LIVES is part of our WORSHIP

ROMANS 12:1-2 c.f. Romans 6:11-14

John 4:19-25 “Worship in spirit and truth”

The Samaritans.

1 Kings 12: Israel split to North and South Kingdom. 12: 28,29

Jerusalem

Mount Gerizim

John 4:19-25“Worship in spirit and truth”

John 4 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

“Worship in spirit and truth”Roman 8:1-165 Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Living and worshipping in the Spirit involves the MIND

“Worship in spirit and truth”

God’s Spirit works together with our spiritV16 “ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children”

Roman 8:1-16To worship in the Spirit involves: - live in accordance with what the Spirit desire v 5- having the Spirit of God v 9