Come let us worship and bow down

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Come let us worship and bow down

• A study on worship
• Lesson 1

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• Controversies over worship have occurred for
  centuries among various groups in various
  locations
• Raising issues over the manner of worship, the
  character of worship, and who should participate
  in that worship

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• Our study will seek to increase our understanding
  of the nature, purpose and expression of worship
• In addition to looking at the particular acts of
  worship, we will try to appreciate the spirit
  with which we are to approach worship

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• Our study will follow this outline
• Part I. The Nature and Purpose of Worship
• God as the object of worship, including His
  nature as being worthy of worship
• Gods desire for worship
• The spirit to be given in worship
• The purpose of worship in the Old Testament and
  New Testament

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• Our study will follow this outline
• Part II The Expression of Worship
• The word in worship
• Song in worship
• Prayer in worship
• The Lords Supper

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• Guiding principles for our study
• God is the center and object of worship
• The preeminent purpose of worship is to
  reverence Almighty God in accordance with His
  holy nature.

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• Guiding principles for our study
• Only God is worthy of worship
• Because of His holy and divine nature, expressed
  in three persons, God alone is worthy of worship.

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• Guiding principles for our study
• God alone determines proper worship
• Because He is its object and alone is worthy of
  it. Our worship must, therefore, be what God has
  determined.

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• Guiding scriptures
• Leviticus 103
• Shows Gods desire for worship.
• That He reveals His nature that man may worship
  him
• That worship is given to Him because of His holy
  nature
• And proper worship is to set God apart as holy
  and honor him for His holiness

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• Guiding scriptures
• 1 Samuel 1522
• Teaches that true worship must follow a proper
  spirit before God.
• That man must have a spirit of humility and
  submission before God
• That Gods first desire is to receive the spirit
  or heart of men

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• Guiding scriptures
• 1 Chronicles 1629
• God is due glory and worship from men.
• Men should seek the presence of God and to be in
  the presence of God
• Worship is given to God recognizing His divine
  and holy nature

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• Guiding scriptures
• Psalm 897
• Gods people are to reverence Him
• To keep Him holy and set apart among themselves
• This requires a recognition by His people of who
  God is, His divine nature

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• Guiding scriptures
• Hosea 66
• Gods first concern is that His people have a
  proper spirit toward Him
• That they seek to know Him
• That they are true in their service to Him, not
  hypocritical
• He rejects worship from a false spirit

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• Guiding scriptures
• John 424
• God desires that men may worship Him in His
  Spirit and His truth
• Without the hindrance of sin
• Through Christ, God provides that men may do
  this
• God brings a new covenant to permit all men to
  worship Him in this way

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• Guiding scriptures
• Philippians 33
• God has created in Christ a true covenant people
  to worship Him in His Spirit
• The New Covenant in Christ permits men to
  worship God in the Spirit as the OT did not allow
  the Jews
• Worship under the New Covenant differs in kind
  from worship under the OT because it is in the
  Spirit of God

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• Guiding scriptures
• Hebrews 1228-29
• Christians are to serve God in a manner that He
  accepts
• We serve him acceptably because of the
  salvation we receive from Him
• Gods divine and holy nature demands that men
  submit to His will and serve Him in the way He
  accepts

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• Definition of worship in the OT
• Shachah (saw-khaw)
• to depress, fall down
• do reverence
• (Genesis 225, Abraham and Isaac at the altar 1
  Sam 1525, 30, Saul pleads for Samuel help to
  worship God 1 Chron 1629, Davids instruction
  for worship)

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• Definition of worship in the NT
• Proskuneo
• to prostrate oneself in homage
• to kiss the hand
• (Matthew 410, Jesus rebuke of Satan John 423,
  Jesus declaration of true worship under his
  covenant)

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• Definition of worship in the NT
• Proskuneo
• to prostrate oneself in homage
• to kiss the hand
• (Matthew 410, Jesus rebuke of Satan John 423,
  Jesus declaration of true worship under his
  covenant)