We can always

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• We can always
• find a reason to
• praise God!

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• When you come through the doors of church on
  Sunday, what are you bringing as your offering to
  God?
• Mike Pilavachi

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• Heres the unAmerican part
• worship is not meant to be about us or our
  career or our fame. Its all about God and His
  glory.
• Chris Tomlin

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• Sometimes the things that pull us away from the
  feet of Jesus are in themselves good things.
• Matt Redman

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• When we cant tell what God is up to, and we
  cant see Him working around in our circumstances
  we can still praise Him simply for who we know
  Him to be.
• Louie Giglio

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• So often when my worship has dried up, its
  because I havent been fueling the fire.

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• Worship is
• Our response,
• Both personal and corporate,
• To God
• For who He is!
• And what He has done!
• Expressed in and by the things we say and the way
  we live.

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• Its not the words I sing, but me I bring
• Im the offering laid at Your feet,
• My steps the melody, oh so sweet,
• All of me in praise of Thee

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All worship is a response to a revelation
its only as we breathe in more of the wonders of
God that we can breathe out a fuller response to
Him.
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Why Worship?

• Magnificent God

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What is Worship?

• FirstTrue worship is extremely important to God
  (Romans 1.25)
• There are many hebrew and greek words used to
  render the words worship and worshipper
• Three primary elements of worship
• Humility/submission
• Reverence
• Service

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Humility

• shaha and proskuneo
• the act of bowing or prostrating oneself in
  submissiveness and reverence
• An outward act of an inward attitude
• Realizing mans imperfection and lack of
  greatness in light of Gods perfection and
  greatness
• Genesis 22.5 and Matthew 10.9

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Reverence

• yare and sebomai
• Fear (not just dread and terror), but wonder and
  awe at majesty and greatness of the infinite God
• Focus is outward upon God
• Who God is
• What God is capable of
• What God has done
• Deuteronomy 6.13 and Acts 16.14

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Service

• Abad and latreuo
• to work, to labor, or to serve
• In the O.T. service was more performed by
  priests, in the N.T., we are a priestly nation so
  this is aimed at the congregation of Christ
• Satan tempted Jesus to surrender to Him, and
  Jesus replied, You shall worship the Lord your
  God and serve Him only. Matt 4.10
• Our service rendered to Him

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Working definition

• Worship is
• Our response,
• Both personal and corporate,
• To God
• For who He is!
• And what He has done!
• Expressed in and by the things we say and the way
  we live.

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The Application

• Why do you worship God?
• You do your good deed
• Sunday is a day of worship
• It makes me feel better about myself and my place
  with God, because I know it makes Him happy
• That is what I have always done during a Sunday
  service
• That is what you do during a Sunday service
• Because God said to
• Because you are enamored with who God is and what
  He does

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Crab Nebula
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Spiral Galaxy m100
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Supernova 1994D in Galaxy NGC4526
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Star Cluster NGC 290
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Star Cluster NGC 265
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Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae, Home to 35,000 stars
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• In the beginning, God created the heavens and the
  earth.
• Genesis 1.1
• He counts the stars and calls them all by name.
• Psalm 147.4

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• In the beginning, God created the heavens and the
  earth.
• Genesis 1.1

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• Come here and listen, O nations of the earth. Let
  the world and everything in it hear my words. For
  the Lord is enraged against the nations. His fury
  is against all their armies. He will completely
  destroy them, bringing about their
  slaughter. Their dead will be left unburied, and
  the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land.
  The mountains will flow with their blood. The
  heavens above will melt away and disappear like a
  rolled-up scroll. The stars will fall from the
  sky, just as withered leaves and fruit fall from
  a tree. Isaiah 34.1-4

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Why is worship important?

• God deserves our worship
• Creator, Savior, gives grace, gives truth, Holy

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Why is worship important?

• God deserves our worship
• Creator, Savior, gives grace, gives truth, Holy
• God requires our worship
• Romans 12.1, 1 Peter 2.9

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Why is worship important?

• God deserves our worship
• Creator, Savior, gives grace, gives truth, Holy
• God requires our worship
• Romans 12.1, 1 Peter 2.9
• God enables our worship
• 2 Corinthians 5.17-21
• He opened up a way for us to be able to have a
  relationship with God so that we can worship by
  the Spirit of God

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God is
Just Kind Loving Majestic Merciful Omnipotent Omn
ipresent Omniscient Patient Perfect

• Compassionate
• Faithful
• Forgiving
• Gentle
• Glorious
• Holy
• Immense
• Immutable
• Infinite
• jealous

Powerful Sovereign Strong Transcendent True Wise
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• Sovereign
• Infinite, perfect, and eternal He reigns above
  all else
• Deut 4.39 10.17
• Ephesians 1.20-22
• Jude 1.25
• All powerful
• Lift up your heads, O you gates be lifted up,
  you ancient doors, that the King of glory may
  come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord
  strong and mighty Psalm 24.7-8
• God is able to do immeasurably more than all we
  ask or imagine. Ephesians 3.20

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• Holy
• God is light in Him there is no darkness at
  all. John 1.5
• Exalt the Lord our God and worship at His holy
  mountain, for the Lord our God is holy. Psalm
  99.9
• Revelation 4.8
• Gracious
• Romans 3.24we are saved through grace
• God accepts us into his family because of His
  glorious grace, which He has freely given us
  Ephesians 1.6
• Isaiah 30.18wants to give us grace

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• Loving
• 1 John 3.1He bestowed love upon us
• Romans 8.38-39nothing can separate us
• John 3.16
• Compassionate
• The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to
  anger, abounding in love Psalm
  103.8
• Isaiah 63.9when we hurt, God hurts
• The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a
  stronghold in times of trouble Psalm 9.9

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• Mercy
• The Lord is full of compassion and mercy
  James 5.11
• He saved us, not because of righteous things we
  had done, but because of His mercy Titus 3.5
• 1 Peter 1.3He gave us new birth
• Wise
• Psalm 147.5His understanding has no limit
• Isaiah 55.8-9His ways are greater

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• Faithful
• God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son
  of man, that he should change His mind. Does He
  speak and then not act? Does He promise and not
  fulfill? Numbers 23.19
• The Lord is faithful to all His promises
  Psalm 145.13
• He is faithful and just and will forgive us our
  sins and purify us from all unrighteousness
  1 John 1.9

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The Application

• Even if God never does another thing for us,
  should we stop worshipping? Is there still
  reason to keep worshipping?
• We often praise God for the things He does for
  us. But, do we praise Him because of who He is,
  not just what He does?