Preparing and Focusing Our Minds through Song

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Worship A Life Changing Experience
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What is Worship?

• Worship to bow down before
• Worship worth ship
• Humbling ourselves before the God of Heaven

Worship humbles us because it allows us to
concentrate on who He is in contrast to who we
are.
Thoughts that focus on how well we are doing and
who is not doing it as well as we are will
destroy our own worship.
Worship is the major threat to Satan for it
demands we crucify the central feature of his
power, pride.
Worship is a humbling act that can only be fully
done by a humble person.
Nothing destroys worship any more than sideward
glances.
If worship does not humble us, it is not worship.
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Worship A Life Changing Experience

• Worship to bow down before
• Worship worth ship
• Humbling ourselves before the God of Heaven
• Is it changing our lives?

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Time Devoted to Assembly Worship

• 1 week 4 hours
• 1 year 200 hours
• 20 work days
• 5 years 100 work days
• 10 years 200 work days
• 40 years 800 work days

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Worship A Life Changing Experience

• Worship to bow down before
• Worship worth ship
• Humbling ourselves before the God of Heaven
• Is it changing our lives?
• If our lives are not changing, we are not
  worshipping.

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Worship A Life Changing Experience

• Sunday AM Song Worship Preparing
  Focusing Our Minds
• Sunday AM Behold the Lamb of God
• Sunday PM Song Worship What Is It?
• Monday PM The Sacrifice of Our Lips
• Tuesday PM When We Sin What Then?
• Wednesday PM Peters Story From Failure to
  Faithfulness
• Thursday PM Joseph Divine Providence
• Friday PM Questions at the Judgment

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Preparing and Focusing Our Minds through Song
Song Worship

• The Lords Supper

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Our Mind

• Constantly capable of scanning the universe

• It must be devoted to choosing what it thinks
  about.

• When the mind's energy and time are consumed with
  everything, it loses its power to change or
  improve anything.

a marvelous and monstrous thing
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1 Thessalonians 521
But examine everything carefully hold fast to
that which is good NASU
a marvelous and monstrous thing
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Our Mind In Worship Lords Supper

• Matter of the mind.

• Physical elements/acts very simple

• Value is only reached via a focused and narrowed
  mind

• Problem No instant spiritual concentration
  switch

a marvelous and monstrous thing
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Singing to Sharpen the Calvary Image

• What we understand, feel and decide about the
  cross is at the heart of Christianity.

• The Cross gives us both the meaning and the power
  for our desire to live transformed lives.

• We want to see Him who was perfected through
  suffering.

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Hebrews 58-9

• Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from
  the things which He suffered. And having been
  made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him
  the source of eternal salvation, NASU

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2 Corinthians 318

• But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in
  a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
  transformed into the same image from glory to
  glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. NASU

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Worship Wheel

• Thought Christ/Cross

Response Sorrow
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Worship Wheel

• Thought Christ/Cross

- Love
Response Sorrow
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Worship Wheel

• Thought Christ/Cross

- Love
Response Sorrow
- Gratitude
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Worship Wheel

• Thought Christ/Cross

- Love
- Remember
Response Sorrow
- Gratitude
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Worship Wheel

• Thought Christ/Cross

- Love
- Remember
Response Sorrow
- Gratitude
- Joy
Humility
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1 Corinthians 1014-22
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I
speak as to wise men you judge what I say.16 Is
not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing
in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread which we
break a sharing in the body of Christ?
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1 Corinthians 1014-22
17 Since there is one bread, we who are many are
one body for we all partake of the one bread. 18
Look at the nation Israel are not those who eat
the sacrifices sharers in the altar?
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1 Corinthians 1014-22
19 What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed
to idols is anything, or that an idol is
anything? 20 No, but I say that the things which
the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons
and not to God and I do not want you to become
sharers in demons.
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1 Corinthians 1014-22
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the
cup of demons you cannot partake of the table of
the Lord and the table of demons. 22 Or do we
provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger
than He, are we? NASU
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1 Corinthians 1014-22

• Thought - Flee from Idolatry
• Response Song
• Live for Jesus 335

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Live for Jesus 335

• Live for Jesus O my brother,
• His disciple ever be
• Render not to any other,
• What alone the Lords should be.

Live for Jesus, wandering sinner, Under Satan
serve no more Of the promised prize a
winner Thou mayst be when life is ore .
Live for Jesus in lifes morning At the
noon-tide hour be His, And at eve when day is
turning, And inherit end-less bliss .
Live for Jesus live for Jesus Give Him all thou
hast to give On the cross the worlds
Redeemer, Gave His life that thou mightst live .
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1 Corinthians 1014-22

• Thought - Cup of blessing which we bless (bless
  eulogize, praise or give thanks)
• Response - Songs
• I Stand Amazed 186

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I Stand Amazed 186

• I stand amazed in the presence
• Of Jesus the Nazarene,
• And wonder how He could love me,
• A sinner condemned, unclean.

When with the ransomed in glory His face I at
last shall see, Twill be my joy thro the ages To
sing of His love for me .
He took my sins and my sorrows, He made them His
very own He bore the burden to Calvry, And
suffered, and died alone.
For me it was in the garden He prayed, Not my
will but Thine, He cried with tears in His
sorrow, And sweat-drops of blood for mine .
How marvelous! how wonderful! And my song shall
ever be How marvelous! how wonderful Is my
Saviors love for me!
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Malachi 16-14
O priests who despise My name. But you say, 'How
have we despised Your name?' 7 "You are
presenting defiled food upon My altar. But you
say, 'How have we defiled You?' In that you say,
'The table of the LORD is to be despised.'
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Malachi 16-14
8 "But when you present the blind for sacrifice,
is it not evil? And when you present the lame and
sick, is it not evil? Why not offer it to your
governor? Would he be pleased with you? Or would
he receive you kindly?" says the LORD of hosts.
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Malachi 16-14
11 "For from the rising of the sun even to its
setting, My name will be great among the
nations, and in every place incense is going to
be offered to My name, and a grain offering that
is pure for My name will be great among the
nations," says the LORD of hosts.
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Malachi 16-14
13 "You also say, ' My, how tiresome it is!' And
you disdainfully sniff at it," says the LORD of
hosts, "and you bring what was taken by robbery
and what is lame or sick so you bring the
offering!
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Malachi 16-14
14 "But cursed be the swindler who has a male in
his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished
animal to the Lord, for I am a great King," says
the LORD of hosts, "and My name is feared among
the nations." NASU
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Conclusion

• Let us remember that to despise the table of the
  Lord is to offer that which is not our best.
• Our best can only be that which flows freely from
  our loving hearts guided by His will.

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Where He Leads Me I Will Follow 334

• Where He leads me I will follow,
• Ill go with Him, with Him all the way .

Ill go with Him thru the judgment, Ill go with
Him, with Him all the way .
Ill go with Him thru the garden, Ill go with
Him, with Him all the way .
I can hear my Savior calling, Take thy cross and
follow, follow me .
He will give me grace and glory, And go with me,
with me all the way.
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Do this in remembrance of Me. Jesus