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Exodus 20:1-6
You are invited to join us each Sunday morning for worship at 9:30. There is a popular song that has the phrase “getting back to the heart of worship – it’s all about You…” That is a very Biblical statement. God is at the heart of worship. In order to worship as God intends a Christian’s heart must be God-centered and God-focused. We have allowed life to get in the way and turns our hearts to busy-ness and worldliness, causing us to mistake church attendance for worship. For true Christians, worship is not a Sunday morning experience that is turned on when they come through the doors and turned off when they leave. For the true Christian, worship is a way of life 24/7/365! God gives us a very clear picture of worship in this passage.
- WORSHIP RECOGNIZES OUR REDEMPTION BY GOD. The most amazing event in any person’s life is their redemption. Only through redemption can any person have a relationship with God. Once a person is redeemed they must submit to His mighty power allowing Him to work through them to accomplish His perfect will for us. Verse 2 clearly tells us God is responsible for our redemption when He says “I AM the One Who brought you out of slavery.” In order to be set free from any kind of slavery, the power of the Deliverer must be greater than the power of the captor! To free Israel God had to destroy Egypt’s idolatrous gods and its military. To free you and me God had to sacrifice His Only Son! If that was all God ever did, it would be enough to cause us to worship Him continually!
- WORSHIP RECOGNIZES OUR RELATIONSHIP TO GOD! God uses the name Jehovah-Eloheka for Himself meaning The LORD YOUR God. It is one of the most personal names God uses in reference to Himself. At our salvation, God establishes an eternal relationship with us as His children. Since God establishes the covenant, He alone is responsible for holding it in place. Our relationship with God is more intimate, more personal , more dedicated than our relationship to any other person! We take our relationship to God far to casually today unless we see
- WORSHIP RECOGNIZES OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD! After reading verses 2-11 most Christians would say “at least I’ve got that much under control.” To see if that’s true in your life answer these questions: Do you fit worship into your schedule, or do you fit your schedule into your worship? Did you have quiet time, prayer time, Bible study, Scripture memory every day this past week? Whatever you might use as a “reason” you didn’t is really an idol in God’s eyes! Did you know every act of a Christian’s life is to be an act of worship? Did you worship this week by sharing the saving grace and mercy of God with someone who is still dead in sin? Did you worship every day with your spouse, children, grandchildren? Worship is not a once-a-week event that is a routine or liturgy in a building called “church!” Worship is a way of life that puts, and keeps, God at the center of life. Now, here is a question for you! Where you find yourself short in worship, what are you going to do about it? It is one thing to recognize a short-coming, and quite another to do something about it. If you live a life of worship before God, keep it up because it is a testimony God will use in a powerful way. If you need to change some things – DO IT!
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