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Bible Secrets To Worship
What Is Worship?
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers (proskynētēs) shall worship (proskyneō) the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship (proskyneō) him
God is a Spirit: and they that worship (proskyneō) him must worship (proskyneō) him in spirit and in truth – John 4: 23 & 24
WHO WE WORSHIP
God is a spirit – pneuma385 times in 350 versesGod wants to direct and lead us in worship
Does not want worship to be scripted
God is a spiritual being Leads Empowers
WHO WE WORSHIP
God is a spirit – pneuma
Speaks and reveals Casts out devils Is holy Fills the believer Teaches the believerQuickens the believer
LAW OF DIVINE ORDER - CREATION
Genesis 1: 1 & 2 – Creation –
Moving - Speaking
The purpose of God in worship is
to create order out of our disorder
To bring beauty out of
formlessness and emptiness
To bring us out of oppression
LAW OF DIVINE ORDER - CREATION
Genesis 1: 1 & 2 – Creation – Moving - Speaking
To water our lives, nations – Jesus told the Samariatan woman that she was dry and needed water
Worshippers must allow the Spirit of God to FIRST MOVE AND SPEAK Worship teams
WE WORSHIP TO ASCRIBE GLORY TO GOD
Revelation 4 Throne – God 24 Elders lead worship in heaven They have status The 24 elders join the angels Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive
glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created – Revelation 4: 11
WE WORSHIP - TO DWELL
in the Presence of Holy God To Experience a Divine, Lifelong, Eternal Encounter with God
Church of the Firstborn is our heavenly pattern
Spirits of just men made perfect – Hebrews 12: 22 & 23
WE WORSHIPFOR TRANSFORMATION – slides 3 & 4
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord - 2 Corinthians 3: 17 & 18
WORSHIPPERS (proskynētēs) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND
Proskynētēs occurs once – John 4: 23
Root word – proskyneōWise men
… are come to worship him – Matthew 2: 3
… they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him… - Matthew 2: 11
…if thou wilt fall down and worship G4352 me - Matthew 4: 9
The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped G4352 him – Matthew 18: 26
…they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped G4352 him – Matthew 28: 9
WORSHIPPERS (proskynētēs) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND
Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped G4352 him – Acts 10: 25
the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped G4352 him that liveth for ever and ever – Revelation 5: 14
And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped G4352 God – Revelation 7: 11
WORSHIPPERS (proskynētēs) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND
…the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped G4352 God – Revelation 11: 16
the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped G4352 God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia – Revelation 19: 4
WORSHIPPERS (proskynētēs) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND
I fell at his feet to worship G4352 him – Revelation 19: 10
I fell down to worship G4352 before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things - Revelation 22: 8
Worship in heaven – the elders fall down with faces to the ground
WORSHIPPERS (proskynētēs) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND
and bowing their knees worshipped G4352 him – Matthew 15: 19
WORSHIPPERS (proskynētēs) KNEEL
Under the control/guidance/unction of the Holy Spirit
Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost G4151
Jesus was led by the Spirit – Matthew 4: 1
immediately the Spirit G4151 driveth him into the wilderness – Mark 1: 12
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)
Under the control/guidance/unction of the Holy Spirit
the Spirit G4151 of your Father which speaketh in you - Matthew 10: 20
I will put my spirit G4151 upon him - Matthew 12: 18
… cast out devils by the Spirit G4151 of God - Matthew 12: 28
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)
Under the control/guidance/unction of the Holy Spirit
and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost … And she spake out with a loud voice, and said… - Luke 1: 42 & 43
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)
By the revelation and not by own interpretation
Scribes said Christ is the son of David
Jesus replied, “David in spirit G4151 call (ed) him Lord” – Matthew 22: 43
David himself said by the Holy Ghost G4151 - Mark 12: 36
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)
By the revelation and not by own interpretation
worship under the instruction of the Holy Spirit
God is the choreographer it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost G4151 - Mark 13: 11
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)
Worship from your spirit and not by external forms and rituals of the flesh or religious orders and scripts
the spirit G4151 indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak – Matthew 26: 41
Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit G4151 truly is ready, but the flesh is weak - Mark 14: 38
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)
Worship from your spirit and not by external forms and rituals of the flesh
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost G4151 - Matthew 27: 50
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)
Worship from your spirit and not by external forms and rituals of the flesh
Jesus perceived in his spirit G4151 - Mark 2: 8
And he sighed deeply in his spirit, G4151
- Mark 8: 12
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)
God rejects forms and rituals and requires honesty and confession – Psalm 50 & 51
God rejected the forms and requires broken and contrite spirits
Jesus warned the Scribes and Pharisees about their pretense – Matthew 23
WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)
Worship honestly before God, with no pretense, fearlessly, confessing, no corruption
we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, G225 neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men – Matthew 22: 16
WORSHIP IN TRUTH (alētheia)
Worship honestly before God, with no pretense, fearlessly, confessing, no corruption
Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly: G225 - Luke 20: 21
WORSHIP IN TRUTH (alētheia)
Worship honestly before God, with no pretense, fearlessly, confessing, no corruption
the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth G225 - Mark 5: 33
WORSHIP IN TRUTH (alētheia)
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