What is worship?
We are born to worship. The question is what or who we worship.
Worship is love
Deuteronomy 11:1, 13, 22 - we need to love God first of all. God gives love
Deuteronomy 30:6 - Love grows. Love leaks.
Ephesians 6 - the devil will try to get to us - idols in our lives.
Worship is love expressed.
Genesis 4:25-26 - first reference to people calling name of the Lord.
Seth - holy seed from which Jesus could come.
We are created to love and be loved.
Women communicate by listening and speaking.
Men communicate by watching and doing.
Worship is encounter with God.
Matthew 2:1-2, 11-12
- They were warned in worship.
- Worship includes an offering.
- God sees the heart behind the gift.
- Takes faith.
- Brought best gifts.
- Magi were pagans magicians, astrologers, scientists, astronomers.
Do you give God your best when you worship Him?
Gold - divinity
Frankincense -
Myrrh - humanity
Worship is about attitude, not act.
Bring gift to altar.
Be reconciled to brother.
Giving tears down greed, selfishness.
Not giving to get.
God blesses heart behind giving.
Money either has God's spirit or mammon - when we give God our tithe, he redeems the rest of our money
2 keys: Live below your means and give generously.
Worship brings a reward.
Before worship, they had to ask others.
After worship, they heard from God directly.
Divinely warned - God protected them.
Giving sacrificially allows God to bless and increase us.
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