WORSHIP

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WORSHIP
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Have You Seen Monkeys Worshipping?
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Do Elephants Worship??
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What Distinguishes Man from Animals?
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Only Humans Worship!
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Even Primitive Humans Worship
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Everywhere People Worship In Everyway
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Innate Human Desire To Worship!
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• Satan Desires To Be Worshipped

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2 Thess 23-4

• 3 Dont let anyone deceive you in any way, for
  that day will not come until the rebellion occurs
  and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man
  doomed to destruction.
• 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over
  everything that is called God or is worshipped,
  so that he sets himself up in Gods temple,
  proclaiming himself to be God.

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2 Thess 29 -11

• 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in
  accordance with the work of Satan displayed in
  all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and
  wonders,
• 10 and in every sort of evil that deceives
  those who are perishing. They perish because
  they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
• 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful
  delusion so that they will believe the lie

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Man Desires To Be Worshipped

• Eve in the Garden of Eden to be like God (Gen
  3)
• Man wants attention praise absolute power
  corrupts absolutely

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John 419 - 21

• The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You
  are a prophet.
• Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you
  Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one
  ought to worship.
• Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour
  is coming when you will neither on this mountain,
  nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.

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John 419 - 21

• "You worship what you do not know we know what
  we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
• "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the
  true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
  and truth for the Father is seeking such to
  worship Him.
• "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must
  worship in spirit and truth."

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WHATWe Worship Things

• Form/Style
• Tradition Ceremony
• Place
• Facilities
• Type of Leaders/church
• Environment/Situation

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WHOWe Worship God The Father

• Through the Son
• (Truth)
• By (the help of)
• the Holy Spirit

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Worship In Spirit

• Sing with the spirit (vs. with
  understanding/mind)
• Pray with the spirit
• So what shall I do? I will pray with my
  spirit, but I will also pray with my mind I will
  sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my
  mind
• 1 Cor 1415

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Worship In Truth

• Be real
• Be transparent
• Be changed or aligned to His truth
• Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts,
  And in the hidden part You will make me to know
  wisdom. Psalms 516

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Definition of Worship
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Worship in Hebrew - shachah

• to bow down, prostrate oneself
• before superior (Master or Lord)
• in homage
• before God in worship
• before false gods
• before angel

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Worship in Greek - proskuneo

• Meaning to kiss, like a dog licking his
  masters hand
• 1) to kiss the hand in token of reverence
• 2) among the Orientals, esp. the Persians, to
  fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the
  forehead as an expression of profound reverence
• 3) in the NT by kneeling or prostration to do
  homage or make obeisance, whether in order to
  express respect or to make supplication - to God

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Romans 121

• Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of
  Gods mercy, to offer your bodies as living
  sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Godthis is your
  spiritual act of worship

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True Meaning of Worship

• Worship is a constant attitude of our heart
  towards God, acknowledging Him as Lord
• Live life as a living sacrifice, dying to self
  and serving God in full obedience
• Singing, praising and making melody aloud or in
  our hearts to God with or without musical
  instruments, bowing down before Him

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• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE TRULY WORSHIP GOD?

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TRANSFORMED

• 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 by the Spirit of the Lord.
• 2 Cor 318

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FULLNESS OF JOY AND LIFE

• You will show me the path of life In Your
  presence is fullness of joy At Your right hand
  are pleasures forevermore.
• Psalms 1611

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BREAKTHROUGH VICTORY

• And when he had consulted with the people, he
  appointed those who should sing to the LORD, and
  who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they
  went out before the army and were saying "Praise
  the LORD, For His mercy endures forever."
• 2 Chron 2021

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2 Chron 2022-23

• 22 Now when they began to sing and to praise,
  the LORD set ambushes against the people of
  Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against
  Judah and they were defeated.
• 23 For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up
  against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly
  kill and destroy them. And when they had made an
  end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to
  destroy one another.