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OUTLINE:
THE WHYS
OF WORSHIP
Exodus
3:1-5 “Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his
father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the
desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from
the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire,
but the bush was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, ‘I will now turn aside and see this great
sight, why the bush does not burn.’ 4 So
when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from
the midst of the bush and said, ‘Moses, Moses!’
And he said, ‘Here I am.’ 5 Then He said, ‘Do not
draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you
stand is holy ground.’”
Big
Question: How does worship change
my life?
LOOK
Worshipping is turning aside from everything else and to gaze
at God.
5 Reasons
to Worship When You Don’t Feel Like It
5. We
worship by faith, not by feelings.
4. We
worship according to the principle of it.
3. We
worship in response to the commands of God.
2. We
worship to be true to who we really are.
1. He is worthy.
Numbers
21:16-17 “From there they went to Beer, which is the well where the Lord said to Moses, ‘Gather the people
together, and I will give them water.’ 17 Then Israel sang this song: ‘Spring up, O well! All
of you sing to it—‘”
LISTEN
God often waits until he has our attention to speak.
Psalm
100:2 “Serve the Lord with gladness; come
before His presence with singing.”
Psalm 9:3 “When my enemies turn back, they shall
fall and perish at Your presence.”
Psalm
16:11 “You will
show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness on joy;
at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”
Psalm
68:8 “The earth shook; the
heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God.
Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of
Israel.”
Acts 3:19 “Repent
therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of
refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.”
LEARN
When we focus on God and listen to his voice, we learn; our
perspective is changed by the presence of God.
Psalm
103:7 “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts
to the children of Israel.”
Exodus
33:7-11 “7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside
the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it
came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting
which was outside the camp. 8 So it was, whenever Moses went out to the
tabernacle, that all the people rose, and
each man stood at his tent door and watched
Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle. 9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered
the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the
tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud
standing at the tabernacle door, and
all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door. 11 So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man
speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua
the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.”
John
15:15 “15 No longer do I call you servants, for a
servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends,
for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.”
ACTION: Worship with the expectation of
connecting with and receiving from God.