WORSHIP: Isolated Acts or Lifestyle? - Adrian Brink -

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WORSHIPIsolated Acts or Lifestyle?-
Adrian Brink -
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The reason we exist is to worship God.Weve
been- created to worship God (Is. 437)-
chosen to worship God (1 Pet. 29)- called
to worship God (Ps. 956)- commanded to
worship God (Rev. 146,7)
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Worship is NOT just singing!Many people think of
worship as a kind of music style Its much more
than that!Worship in bible is 2-fold- Old
Testament its outward (Actions of
service)- New Testament its internal
(Attitude of the Heart)
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Definition by Ralph P. Martin "Worship is the
dramatic celebration of God in his supreme worth
in such a manner that His worthiness becomes
the norm and inspiration of human living."
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More definitions of worshipWilliam Temple
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the
holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth
of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of
God, to open the heart to the love of God, to
devote the will to the purpose of god. All this
is gathered up in that emotion which most
cleanses us from selfishness because it is the
most selfless of all emotions adoration.
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Bruce Leafblad Worship is that process in
which we make God first in our lives.Graham
Kendrick Worship is Gods enjoyment of us and
our enjoyment of Him.
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Rom. 1136 Rom.122 (NIV)36For from him and
through him and to him are all things. To him be
the glory forever! Amen.1Therefore, I urge you,
brothers, in view of God's mercy, to
offer/dedicate your bodies as living sacrifices,
holy and pleasing to Godthis is your spiritual
act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to
the pattern of this world, but be transformed by
the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able
to test and approve what God's will ishis good,
pleasing and perfect will.
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(The Message) 1-2 So here's what I want you to
do, God helping you Take your everyday, ordinary
lifeyour sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and
walking-around lifeand place it before God as an
offering. Embracing what God does for you is the
best thing you can do for him. Don't become so
well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into
it without even thinking. Instead, fix your
attention on God. You'll be changed from the
inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from
you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the
culture around you, always dragging you down to
its level of immaturity, God brings the best out
of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
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• Worship 3 things
• Glory
• Dedication
• Sacrifice

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1. Glory

• organizing centre
• most significant or profound in your life
• Person/thing that you honor or cherish above all
  else
• guiding principle of
• - decisions you make
• - values that you hold and
• - experiences you partake in

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2. Dedication

• Present or dedicate yourself to that person/thing
  
• Devote commit ourselves to it
• wear the T-shirt, we get the bumper sticker, we
  join an online chat community, etc.
• We publicly declare which team we are on

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3. Sacrifice

• use your Time, Talents, Treasure to do certain
  things and you choose not to do certain other
  things
• limited resources take our TTT and we make
  sacrifices
• give our schedule, budget, time, interest
  energy to, what is for us, MOST GLORIOUS

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• religion is not the only place that worship
  occurs
• for many people, different things are a religion
• For example Sport
• political parties, lifestyles, causes, groups and
  even such things as a pet or a child or a spouse
  can become a religion
• Someone or something is in a place of Glory, you
  dedicate yourself to it and you sacrifice for
  them

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• we are all worshippers religion is not the only
  place where worship is occurring
• If we are made in the image and likeness of God
  for the purpose of worshipping, then every human
  being is by definition a worshipper
• So all the habitual sins in our lives are
  actually worship issues. Because somehow God is
  not in the position of Glory, so He doesnt get
  our dedication or sacrifices. Something or
  someone else does.

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• John 423 says that True worshippers will worship
  God in Spirit and in Truth.
• Matthew 516 says "Let your light so shine before
  men that they may see your good deeds and give
  glory to your father in heaven".
• All of life is the outshining of what you truly
  value and cherish and treasure.
• Therefore all of life is worship
• Either of God, or something else

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• 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this
  world, but be transformed by the
• renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to
  test and approve what God's will ishis good,
  pleasing and perfect will.
• Be transformed!
• present tense, on-going, continual growth in
  un-conforming yourself to the world

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• The focus is not first on getting the outside of
  the cup cleaned up, but on getting the inside
  cleaned up.
• In other words, transformation and non-conformity
  on the outside must flow from the inside.
• Be transformed in the renewing of your mind

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• "prove what the will of God is."
• two implications
• - testing and proving
• - assess it and approve
• "Then you will be able to test and approve what
  God's will is."
• Ex Diamonds
• The root issue is more than right thinking. It is
  right valuing. Not just right proving, but right
  approving. Not just right testing, but treasuring.

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• renewed mind first and foremost perceives, and
  approves and treasures and cherishes God
• God gets placed into a position of Glory
• we will then dedicate our Time, Talents and
  Treasure to God
• end result is that we will sacrifice for God and
  Gods will
• Worship is continuous Worship is a Lifestyle

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• Matt.158 says This people honors me with their
  lips, but their hearts are far from me.
• Worship is a real, authentic experience in the
  heart with God.
• 24/7 worshippers, bringing a living and
  breathing, holy sacrifice to God
• cherish God in all His works and all His ways
• reckon the old mind dead
• offer ourselves to God as a living sacrifice

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• WORSHIP GOD WITH YOUR LIFE !!