BIBLE VERSES on WORSHIP
WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING PASSAGES HAVE TO SAY ABOUT WORSHIP?
EX. 7:16 16 Then say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the desert.
EX.23:25-26 25 Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you, 26 and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.
ROM. 12:1-2 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God this is your spiritual act of worship.
PS. 29;2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name; worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness.
John 4:23-24 But a time is coming—and now is here—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. 24 God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
Jonah 2:8 Those who worship worthless idols forfeit the mercy that could be theirs.
Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
2 Timothy 1:3 I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you in my prayers as I do constantly night and day.
Hebrews 10:2 For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have no further consciousness of sin?
Matthew 15:9 15:8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, 9 and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
Revelation 15:4 Who will not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name, because you alone are holy? All nations will come and worship before you for your righteous acts have been revealed.
Acts 7:42 But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?
Acts 17:23 17:22 So Paul stood before the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects. 23 For as I went around and observed closely your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: ‘To an unknown god.’ Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you.
John 14:6 ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’
Matthew 15:8&9‘All of you praise me with your words, but you never really think about me. It is useless to worship me, when you teach rules made up by humans.’
Amos 5:21-24, 6:5-7‘I, the Lord, hate and despise your religious celebrations and your times of worship. I won’t accept your offerings or animal sacrifices - not even your very best. No more of your noisy songs! I won’t listen when you play your harps. But let justice and fairness flow like a river that never runs dry.... You sing foolish songs to the music of harps, and you make up new tunes, just as David used to do. You drink all the wine you want and wear expensive perfume, but you don’t care about the ruin of your nation. So you will be the first to be dragged off as captives; your good times will end.’
Isaiah 1:11-17‘Your sacrifices mean nothing to me. I am sick of your offerings of rams and choice cattle, I don’t like the blood of bulls or lambs or goats. Who asked you to bring all this when you come to worship me? Stay out of my temple! Your sacrifices are worthless, and incense is disgusting. I can’t stand the evil you do on your New Moon Festivals or on your Sabbaths and other times of worship. I hate your New Moon Festivals and all others as well. They are a heavy burden I am tired of carrying. No matter how much you pray, I won’t listen. You are too violent. Wash yourselves clean! I am disgusted with your filthy deeds. Stop doing wrong and learn to live right. See that justice is done. Defend widows and orphans and help those in need.’
What is Worship?
Contemplative Worship is:
● To take time to remember the great price Jesus paid to make us His own
● To consider the awfulness of our sins
● To consider that the suffering of Christ on the cross was for our sins
● To consider what we owe the Lord for all that He has done for us
● To consider what acts of love and devotion He is calling us to do for Him
● To recommit to Christ our absolute surrender to His will for us
● He asks us to present ourselves to Him, as we are, so He can make us into what we were created to be
Celebrative Worship is:
● Rejoicing because of all that the Lord has done for us
● Rejoicing because of all the promises of God that are ours through Christ
● Rejoicing because we will be with Him forever in a place without sin
● Rejoicing because He is always with us
● Rejoicing because of who God is and that we can know Him
● Declaring to the Lord that thinking about Him thrills our hearts more than any other thoughts
Personal Worship is:
● Adding time to our daily schedules to both contemplate and celebrate with the Lord all by ourselves
●Worship is not primarily what we do, it encompasses every moment of a believer’s life
● Isaiah 6:1-8 In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. 2 Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 3 And one called out to another and said, "Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory." 4 And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke. 5 Then I said, "Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts." 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. 7 He touched my mouth {with it} and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven." 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?" Then I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
Oh, how our worship at church with others is DIMINISHED because of our lack of personal worship all week long!
Group Worship is:
● Adding time to our schedules to both contemplate and celebrate with the Lord and with our brothers and sisters in Christ
●1 Corinthians 14:26 ‘What should we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. All of these must be done for the strengthening of the church.’