Restoring Your Life Through Worship

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Restoring Your Life Through Worship

• Isaiah 61-8

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Remember What Worship Is?

• The main Hebrew word
• Shacah to bow down in obedient reverence
• The main Greek Word
• Proskuneo to bow down and kiss the hand of

• The Old English
• Derived from the word worth-ship.
• Meaning to denote worthiness to the one receiving
  the honor or devotion.

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Why Change Worship?
Has worship become an amusement service or a
service in reverence to God?

• Have you heard?
• Worship is boring.
• We need to spice up our worship.
• I never get anything out of worship.

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What about Gods Words for Worship?
One God and one guide. (2 Timothy 316-17)

• Authority is vital
• not beyond the things that are written. (1
  Corinthians 46)
• Abide in the doctrine of Christ. (2 John 9)
• Spirit and truth (John 424)
• Do not transgress. (1 John 34)

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Are We Ashamed of Our Worship?
Do we make worship us-centered instead of
God-centered?

• Who does God seel true worshippers to worship?
• John 424
• Is worship a self-seeking act or a selflessness
  act?

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Worshipping like Isaiah
Isaiahs closeness to the Father Isaiah 61-8

• Notice Isaiahs encounter
• Isaiah encounters the presence of God. (Isaiah
  61-4)
• Isaiah looked inwardly. (Isaiah 65)
• Isaiah was cleansed. (Isaiah 67-8)
• Isaiah was recommitted because of his reverence
  to the Lord. (Isaiah 68)

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Worshipping like Isaiah
Isaiahs closeness to the Father Isaiah 61-8

• Notice Isaiahs encounter
• Isaiah encounters the presence of God. (Isaiah
  61-4)
• Isaiah looked inwardly. (Isaiah 65)
• Isaiah was cleansed. (Isaiah 67-8)
• Isaiah was recommitted because of his reverence
  to the Lord. (Isaiah 68)