INDOOR LECTURES@ CHURCH OF CHRIST IKEJA.

• THEME: OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WORD

• SPEAKER: BROTHER GODWIN ISAAC

DATE: 9TH NOVEMBER 2013

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TOPIC: THE WAY YOU WORSHIP, DOES IT PLEASE GOD?

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TEXT: JOHN 4: 20 – 24“God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth”

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Outline:• Intoduction• What is worship?• Types of worship• What makes worship acceptable??• The right object of worship – God• The right motive of worship – In spirit• The right acts of worship –In truth• Elements of worship… 4

INTRODUCTION

• Many people today have in their thinking liken God to things and what they believe it is pleasing to man sight and they term this to be 'worship'! Some worship wealth, images, tree, animals, birds etc etc.-

**Athens was known for idols worship   5

WHAT IS WORSHIP?

• Reverent devotion and allegiance pledged to God; the rituals or ceremonies by which this reverence is expressed. The English word worship comes from the Old English word worthship, a word which denotes the worthiness of the one receiving the special honor or devotion.

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TYPES OF WORSHIP

•IGNORANT WORSHIP: Worshipping God not according to His revealed Wisdom Romans 10:1

 

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VAIN WORSHIP:

• Worshipping God through teachings and commandment of men. Matthew 15:7-9; Mark 7:7-9

TRUE WORSHIP: John 4:24• Nevertheless, all these categories

will be judged in the last day desperately (2 Thess 1:7-10).

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WHAT MAKES WORSHIP ACCEPTABLE?

The first worship recorded in the Bible was that of Cain and Abel (Gen. 4:1-)

Abel offered acceptable worship by faith (Heb.11:4) But that of Cain was rejected because it was done not according to the commandments of God!

Many worshippers today choose their method of worship

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WHAT MAKES WORSHIP ACCEPTABLE?

True worship occurred under the inspiration of God’s spirit (Amos 3:7)

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The Right Object of Worship - God

• When Jesus was tempted by the devil to fall down and worship Satan, with the promise that all kingdoms of the world be His, Jesus replied: “Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thy serve” (Matt. 4:10) No one on earth is worthy of our reverence and devotion as is God.

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The Right Motive for Worship – In Spirit.

• Jesus named the right motive for worship, “In spirit” God never intended that people go through formalities of empty ritualism. Even under the Law of Moses, when Israel worshiped according to God’s revealed will, the mere empty observance of rites and ceremonies was not God’s purpose for their worship!

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Matt. 6: 6-7•True worshipers ‘must’ worship from the heart.

•1Cor. 5:8

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The Right Acts of Worship – In Truth -

• If our worship is to be “in truth” – and it is (John 4:24) – then it must be according to God’s word, for Jesus prayed to the Father, “Thy word is truth” (John 17:17). And, as noted in the very definition of the word, worship is “acts of reverence and adoration .” Worship is not something we simply feel, but something we do.

John 4: 23-24 “But the hour cometh, and now is,

when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him is spirit and in truth”

Philip. 3:3

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ELEMENTS OF TRUE WORSHIP:

• PREACHING/TEACHING (Acts 2:42-47)Upon the first day of the week when the

disciples come together for worship, they learn from the scripture.

SINGING (Eph. 5:18-19; Col.3:16 Heb.13:15) They were commanded to sing with the fruit of their lips and make melody in their heart to the Lord. 16

PRAYERS (1Tim.2:8) Christians were

commanded to pray without season (1Thes.5:17)

• GIVING Christians were commanded to give to God as they were bless.(1Cor.16:1-4; LK. 6:38)

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We have seen…

•LORD’S SUPPER: (Matt. 26:26- 29; 1Cor.11:23-26; Acts 20:7) Here we see how they were commanded to remember the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.

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THE ONLY WORSHIP THAT PLEASES GOD, IS THE ONE DONE ACCORDING TO THE COMMAND OF GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST… (REV. 3:22; JOHN13:17)!!

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