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The Nature Of Worship

The Nature Of Worship. The ECI Conference Oct. 7-8, 2013. Jn. 4:19-24.

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The Nature Of Worship

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  1. The Nature Of Worship The ECI Conference Oct. 7-8, 2013 Kevin Kay

  2. Jn. 4:19-24 19The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is Kevin Kay

  3. Jn. 4:19-24 coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” Kevin Kay

  4. Jn. 4:21-24 • NT worship is not associated with a particular place (v. 20-21) • Worship what you do not know (v. 22a) • Samaritan worship was ignorant, and Jewish worship was informed • Samaritans were wrong; Jews were right Kevin Kay

  5. The Wrong Object • Host of heaven (Dt. 4:19) • Idols (2 Ki. 21:21; Isa. 2:8) • gods (Ex. 34:14; Psa. 81:9; Dan. 3:28) • Satan (Mt. 4:8-10 // Lk. 4:5-8; Rev. 13:4) • Demons (Rev. 9:20) • Angels (Col. 2:18; Rev. 19:9-10; 22:8-9) • Men (Acts 10:25-26) • Government (Rev. 13:4, 8, 12; 14:9, 11; 16:2) Kevin Kay

  6. Wrong Worship • Dt. 12:3-4: 3And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. 4You shall not worship the Lord your God with such things. Kevin Kay

  7. “Worship Is Right” Given O. Blakely: “You cannot worship wrongly. That is like saying there is an angelic devil. You cannot do that. You cannot – worship is right! It is never wrong. It can be vain, but not wrong.” (Bold emphasis added, The Highers-Blakely Debate, 1988, 106) Kevin Kay

  8. Different Kinds Of Worship • Vain Worship(Mt. 15:8-9) • Ignorant Worship (Acts 17:23) • Will-Worship (Col. 2:20-23) • True Worship (Jn. 4:23-25) Kevin Kay

  9. Wrong Worshipers • Cain(Gen. 4:3-7) • Nadab & Abihu (Lev. 10:1-3) • Israelites(Ex. 32:1-9) • King Saul (1 Sam. 13:8-14) • Uzziah(2 Chr. 26:16-23) • Athenians(Acts 17:22-23) Kevin Kay

  10. Unacceptable Worship • Wrong God(Ex. 20:1-3; 32:8; 1 Cor. 10:20) • Wrong Way (Mt. 15:8-9; Jn. 4:23-24; 1 Pet. 2:5) • Wrong Relationship (Eph. 3:21) • Wrong Heart (Mt. 15:8-9; Jn. 4:23-24) • Wrong Life (Isa. 1:10-20; Amos 8:4-7) Kevin Kay

  11. Jn. 4:21-24 • Know what you worship (v. 22b) • True worshipers implies false worshipers (v. 23a) • Worship the Father (v. 23a) Kevin Kay

  12. Worship:Not ME But HIM • 2 Ki. 17:36: 36 but the LORD, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, Him you shall worship, and to Him you shall offer sacrifice. • 1 Chr. 16:29: 29Give to the LORD the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the LORDin the beauty of holiness! Kevin Kay

  13. Worship:Not ME But HIM • Psa. 5:7: 7But as for me, I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy; In fear of You I will worship toward Your holy temple. • Psa. 29:2: 2Give unto the Lordthe glory due to His name; Worship the Lordin the beauty of holiness. Kevin Kay

  14. Worship:Not ME But HIM • Rev. 4:9-11: 9Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: 11 “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.” Kevin Kay

  15. Worship:Not ME But HIM • Rev. 15:3–4: 3They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints! 4 Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, For Your judgments have been manifested.” Kevin Kay

  16. Jn. 4:21-24 • Father is seeking true worshipers (v. 23b) • A “must” to worship (v. 24) • Worship in spirit and truth (v. 24) Kevin Kay

  17. Worship In Spirit • With the right attitude • With the inner man • In the new realm God has revealed • Through the Holy Spirit • In substance as opposed to shadow Kevin Kay

  18. Worship In Truth • In keeping with God’s revealed will (Jn. 17:17) • With proper motives (Phil. 1:18) • Through Jesus (Jn. 14:6) • In substance as opposed to shadow • “Spirit and truth” are one concept Kevin Kay

  19. What Is Worship? Kevin Kay

  20. “Worship” • The Zondervan Pictorial Bible Dictionary: “...the honor, reverence, and homage paid to superior beingsor powers, whether men, angels, or God. The English word means ‘worthship,’and denotes the worthiness of the individual receiving the special honor due to his worth.” (Bold emphasis added, p. 899) Kevin Kay

  21. Worship In The NT • A personal act (Jn. 4:23) • A conscious act (Jn. 4:22; Mt. 28:9) • A selfless act Kevin Kay

  22. Adoring Reverence Rev. 4:9–11: 9Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: 11 “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.” Kevin Kay

  23. Self Abasement • Neh. 8:6: 6And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. Then all the people answered, “Amen, Amen!” while lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. • Psa. 95:6: 6Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. Kevin Kay

  24. Giving Not Receiving 2 Sam. 24:22-24: 22Now Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up whatever seems good to him. Look, here are oxen for burnt sacrifice, and threshing implements and the yokes of the oxen for wood. 23 All these, O king, Araunah has given to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.” 24 Then the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God with that which costs me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. Kevin Kay

  25. Giving The Best Mal. 1:7–8: 7“You offer defiled food on My altar, But say, ‘In what way have we defiled You?’ By saying, ‘The table of the Lord is contemptible.’ 8 And when you offer the blind as a sacrifice, Is it not evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, Is it not evil? Offer it then to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you favorably?” Says the Lord of hosts. Kevin Kay

  26. What Is Worship? • The adoring reverence of the creature for the Creator (Rev. 4:8-11) • A selfless act of self-abasement (Rev. 1:10-18) • An emphasis on giving, not receiving • An emphasis on giving the best we have, not the left-overs (2 Sam. 24:24; Mal. 1:7-8, 10; cf. Amos 5:21; Hosea 6:4-6; Isa. 1:11-15) Kevin Kay

  27. Questions To Ask Kevin Kay

  28. Is All Of Life Worship? Kevin Kay

  29. All Of Life Is Worship Mike Root: “Worship is a life given in obedience to God. It’s not a when or where proposition, but a what. It’s what we are. You can’t go to it or leave it, dress for it or from it, and you can’t start it or stop it. It’s not formal or informal, horizonal [sic] or vertical, and it’s also not high or low, or contemporary or traditional. It doesn’t open and close with a prayer, and it doesn’t have a human leader or a special day. Kevin Kay

  30. All Of Life Is Worship Worship is not corporate or private, and it isn’t ‘five acts,’ and it’s not so much what we do to God as what we do for (in the name of) God.” (Bold emphasis added, Unbroken Bread, 115) Mike Root: “The kind of worship God wants is a living sacrifice that manifests itself through unselfishness and compassion. Every act of ‘doing good’ and every act of ‘sharing’ is a real, biblical act of worship.” (Bold emphasis added, Unbroken Bread, 21-22) Kevin Kay

  31. All Of Life Is Worship Mike Root: “Worship is a life given in obedience to Christ. At one time worship was the act of going to the temple and making a sacrifice, but in Christ, we sacrifice ourselves. Our lives become worship to God.” (Bold emphasis added, Spilt Grape Juice, 20) Kevin Kay

  32. All Of Life Is Worship Mike Root: “We have done a terrible disservice to worship when we confine it to a passive, localized and selective gathering and time. Worship is a ‘living sacrifice’ and that life is constant. With every beat of a heart that is living for God, He is glorified and worshiped.” (Bold emphasis added, Spilt Grape Juice, 23) Kevin Kay

  33. All Of Life Is Worship Mike Root: “When we think of worship, we should think of living for Godand not have mental pictures of buildings, reverent atmospheres, long faces and structured acts. Worship is synonymous with sacrifice, praise, obedience and service. Worship is the person we help who has been left for dead by the roadside, and not just the three hours at ‘church’ on Sunday. Worship is the cup of cold water given on Tuesday Kevin Kay

  34. All Of Life Is Worship as well as the cup of grape juice taken on the first day of the week. Worship comes from a heart that houses God and not just from what tradition calls ‘the house of God.’” (Bold emphasis added, Spilt Grape Juice, 25) Kevin Kay

  35. The Christian Must… • Present his body as a “living sacrifice” (Rom. 12:1-2) • Do everything in the name of the Lord (Col. 3:17) • Do all to the glory of God (1 Cor. 10:31) The Christian can and should worship God apart from “worship assemblies” (Acts 16:25; Heb. 13:15; Jas. 5:13) Kevin Kay

  36. Is All Of Life Worship?Questions To Consider • What do we mean by “worship”? • Is all “worship” the same? • What Hebrew or Greek word are we considering? • Can something be “worship” in one sense and not in another? Kevin Kay

  37. Worship Can Begin • Gen. 22:5: 5And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.” • 1 Sam. 1:3: 3This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh…. Kevin Kay

  38. Worship Can Begin • 2 Sam. 12:20: 20So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house; and when he requested, they set food before him, and he ate. Kevin Kay

  39. Worship Can Begin • 2 Chr. 29:28: 28So all the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished. • 2 Chr. 29:29: 29And when they had finished offering, the king and all who were present with him bowed and worshiped. Kevin Kay

  40. Worship Can Begin • Acts 24:11: 11because you may ascertain that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship. • Rev. 19:10: 10And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Kevin Kay

  41. Worship Can End • 1 Sam. 1:19: 19Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. Kevin Kay

  42. Worship Can End • 2 Sam. 12:20: 20So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house; and when he requested, they set food before him, and he ate. • Lk. 24:52: 52And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, Kevin Kay

  43. Worship Can End • Acts 8:27-28: 27So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, 28was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. Kevin Kay

  44. Worship: When & Where • Abraham went over yonder (Gen. 22:5) • Eli worshiped God in Shiloh (1 Sam. 1:3) • David went into the house of the Lord to worship (2 Sam. 12:20) • The Ethiopian eunuch “had come to Jerusalem to worship” (Acts 8:27) • Paul “went up to Jerusalem to worship” (Acts 24:11) Kevin Kay

  45. Is Everything Worship? Ray Hawk: “When I sin or if I reject God, then I would no longer be bowing before him in service when I am engaged in that sin or rejection. My imperfections are not presenting my ‘body as a living sacrifice.’” (Bold emphasis added, personal correspondence: “Ray Hawk’s 5th Response, p. 2) • Household chores? • Mowing the lawn? • Conjugal duties? • Spanking a disobedient child? • Sleeping? • Dreaming? • Sin? Kevin Kay

  46. Worship = Praise = Glorify Mike Root: “For all practical purposes, worship and praise are synonymous words in the New Testament when applied to what the child of God is and does. Another synonym of both these terms is glory or glorify. To glorify is to magnify, extol, praise, or ascribe honor to someone. When we worship, praise, and glorify God, we are exalting Him. This means that we are reflecting positively on Him and showing His preeminence in our lives.” (Bold emphasis added, Unbroken Bread, 141) Kevin Kay

  47. Glorifying ≠ Worshipping Rev. 14:6–7: 6Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people— 7 saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.” Kevin Kay

  48. Glorifying God • Achan’sconfession of sin (Josh. 7:19-20) • Judgment on Sidon (Ezek. 28:22) • Christ’s obedience (Jn. 14:13) • Christians’ fruit-bearing (Jn. 15:8) • HS revealing God’s will (Jn. 16:14) • Father to glorifythe Son (Jn. 17:1, 5) • Jesus finishing His work (Jn. 17:4) • Peter’s death (Jn. 21:18-19) • Avoiding sin (1 Cor. 6:18-20) Did the Father “worship” the Son when He glorified Him? Kevin Kay

  49. Praising God • Words of praise (Lk. 1:64; 2:13-14; 19:37-38; 1 Pet. 2:9) • Songs of praise (Heb. 2:12) • Giving thanks (Heb. 13:15-16) • Genuine faith tested by fire (1 Pet. 1:7) • Is this praise for God or the faithful Christian? • Fruits of righteousness (Phil. 1:11) Kevin Kay

  50. Rom. 12:1 • NKJV: 1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. Kevin Kay

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