The nation was divided, so he told his people in the north, Oh, it is so far to go to Jerusalem. ), canceling evening services, doing away with prayer meeting, casual kinds of services, dressing down, changing the times of services so that they will not conflict with all our pleasure and all of our fun, and bringing in the easy listening music. As if dative case of kuklos; i.e. It does not matter if the preacher’s sermon is a thoroughly mediocre, or if the choir goes a little sour, their only job is to point men to Christ. In Malachi 1:13, God is rebuking the priests and the way the system of worship had degenerated in Israel. I am a beautiful being too. They were not to come lifeless, with an empty heart, and with no zeal for God. They do that at football games. As we come together for worship there ought to be a sense of awe and wonder in our worship too. What else can you do in the presence of God? There was no disorder there. They were not there to show off their talents or their beautiful wings. (II Sam. If we love Him, we will love to worship Him. The very essence of worship is bowing down before the Creator. Worship is a very simple thing. It is not that our inner man is to blow up whenever we feel like it. And we loved God with all our heart and were thankful to Him. It is possible to worship God unacceptably. We see the very same spirit in our churches across the country today, exemplified in changing the worship service from Sunday to Thursday, (why interrupt our weekend? 5:8). Worship at its essence is to sacrifice – giving to God, giving praise and ascribing glory unto Him. It is a sense of unworthiness of being in His presence. Let us worship God on this. The whole psalm is about zeal and excitement for God. It is not something that we can whip up. Here was a king, who had already been given a pattern from God, handed to Moses and recorded in the Bible as to how the altars were to be constructed and exactly how God was to be worshipped through the priesthood. Angels do it unceasingly – holy, holy, holy, day and night, year after year, after year. It is the name of God. Do you think you would be bored? I have to confess that it not always that clear when I sing. So, he sent the blueprints down and had one built in Israel. Why don’t we worship God on this? The answer is not to bring in a big band. That is the responsibility of all of us. In Genesis 18:14 it us used in the sentence “Is any thing too hard for the LORD?” Literally it means: is anything too wonderful for the Lord? (Lev.10:1-2) It is possible to worship God & be weary of it. Are we trying to please men or God? The Creator us the universe can be pleased by a little hunk of clay and dust like me and you! He looked at the way the pagans in Assyria were worshipping God and he liked their style. It is not the responsibility of the church leaders to rearrange the way we “do worship.” It is the responsibility of each of us to rearrange the priorities of our hearts. Then, every little morsel was new and sweet and exciting. If it is, the problem is our hearts. (Isa.1:11-15) It is possible to worship God and actually  anger God! You see it really is not the preacher. He is much bigger than we are. He saw the world doing it. It clicks and they now understand that the exalted, resurrected, and glorified Lord Jesus (the God-Man!) They were there for one reason. That is not why they came to worship. It just is not the church or the church leader’s responsibility to try to make worship exciting. It was so big that it just took my breath away. What we are seeing today is a change in the way worship is taking place. “they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. As majestic as we might envision the angels to be, they see themselves as quite small before God. It is all about God and nothing else. That is the way the book of Psalms ends, on a loud and wonderful note of praise and worship for the Lord. It is thrilling because we are in a room full of people that all love God. And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.” He thought he was really worshipping God, but it made the Lord sick! the ark on either side of the Mercy Seat, and the stance of the golden cherubim was that of worship (Exodus 25:18 to 22). That is all the song leader is here for. Our English word for worship comes from an old English word that means worth-ship. They got tired of that. He said, “Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! We do not need a nationally known speaker. Maybe it would stir up a real love for God in their hearts. The angels loved worshipping God. When it comes to knowing God in a saving way, Jesus said the very same thing, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (Jn. They wanted to follow their own ways.  Oh, all these rituals and ceremonies, and sacrifices, why kill all these good animals? God said, if you will turn your foot around from your ways, from pleasing yourself on the worship day, doing your own thing on the worship day, and call it holy and recognize that it is My time, not your time, God said then “I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth.” The Sabbath day had degenerated into a time to please men. Keep that in mind as we look at Hebrews 13:15 which states, “By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.” Here we discover from the book of Hebrews that as we as Christians, as we gather together to worship, we are also to bring an offering unto God. The excitement and the enthusiasm we see when God is worshipped in the Scriptures, is a heart that loves God and wants to offer that love, praise, worship, and adoration to Him. Anything that diminishes or detracts from this sense of awe before His holiness ought to be removed entirely from our worship. How can we possibly mumble the words, “How great Thou art?” We noted earlier, when the angels of God were watching God create the universe (in Job 38) it says they shouted loudly. It was an attractive altar. We are not coming prepared. 8. 4:16) He made it His habit. The angels ascribe blessedness, holiness, majesty, might, power, wisdom, honor, and glory to God because of who God is. It is not the preacher’s responsibility to stir people up and to try to conjure up a man-made enthusiasm. That ought to characterize our worship. Men attempt to stir up emotions to the point where men seem unable to constrain themselves. Worship by its very nature, (if we know Who God is), already exciting. (Matt.15:7-8) It is possible to worship God half-heartedly. The filling and fruit of the Spirit, will give us perfect self control by God’s power, and also a joyous expression of praise and worship and adoration. (cf. It is a great psalm of praise where they praised God with a loud voice. The Lord Jesus took on a human body to die for mankind. But to lovers of God it is delight! They stood there and observed, and their breath was taken away from them. They worshipped the Son of God intelligently. Revelation 19:4 And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. There is only ONE way to approach Him. Scripture names three categories of heavenly beings … Looking at I Kings 12:27, why did this king want to make worship more convenient for his people? Psalm 96:8 says, “Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.” Notice again, when the worshippers came into the courts of the Lord they were to have something with them. The Lord Jesus said, here is how I want to be worshipped, “in spirit and in truth” (Jn. God is not going to be as exciting, the spiritual life is not going to be as thrilling as it used to be when I first got saved. They did it with a single mind and a single eye. God said to the Jewish people, “If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.” Do you see what had happened in Israel? Why? It is right for us to have some zeal and life and emotion and feeling as we sing these songs. In Revelation chapter four we find another characteristic of angelic worship. We say, God, this is for You. prostrate oneself in homage. He is the Creator and they know it. Unthinkable, when you come to worship God! And all the angels were standing round the throne, and the elders, and the four living beings. We are never going to change the tidal wave of change in worship that crossing the country. (Lk. When it comes to worship, Paul says, there ought to be that same kind of intensity between the Church and Christ. We do not bring an animal and sprinkle the blood. We would not be bored if we were right in God’s presence… not if we were standing in the presence of Almighty God! Why shouldn’t we worship angels? Nor is it a learned or a cultural response that varies from place to place. If we have the right concept of God, (that He is infinite in His understanding, He is omnipotent, He is everywhere, He is Almighty God), then we are going to stand in awe and wonder before our Creator. Maybe some find morning worship, evening worship, prayer meeting, our quiet times to be burdensome. It is so inconvenient. When that takes place, God is delighted with our worship. It isn’t the choreography. Being right there in His presence thrilled them and it caused them to have zeal and enthusiasm in their worship. It has to be found in our hearts when we arrive at church, or it is not going to happen. Worship is not about getting. A circle, ring. Angels are worshipping God every second, of every minute, of every day and night. 2:22). When the angels worshipped God there was no rivalry among them. God is worthy of your worship because he created you. The very heart of worship has been surgically removed today. 13:17). This is what we offer to God. Worship at its very essence is the creature bowing before the Creator. That is how the angels worshipped the Lord. He sensed that he had seen God, and he said, what is your name? They do not need to have all kinds of loud noises around them to get them stirred up. In the very closing book of the Bible, in Revelation chapter one, there is that vision of the risen, glorified, Lord Jesus Christ. The text says they just fell on their face before Him. Arise from your sleep! Uzziah was smitten with leprosy for attempting to offer a sacrifice to God (II Chron.26:16-20) Nadab & Abihu were burned with fire for offering strange fire (Lev.10:1-2) It is possible to worship God and actually be despising God! They do not need all kinds of external trappings. Revelation 4:8 says, “they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.” Here we see that the angels round about God’s throne never stop. And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. (Eph. That is exactly how we see God worshipped in the Scriptures. When we lose our sense of wonder and awe in our worship there can be only one reason. Revelation 4:8 says, “they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.” Here we see that the angels round about God’s throne never stop. The trend is to make worship more comfortable, casual, easy and convenient. In Isaiah 9:6 we read of the Son of God: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful.” The very first characteristic that Isaiah gives us of this God/Man child that was to be born into the world is that He is full of wonder. If God is not exciting to us any more, if the Bible does not thrill our hearts like it used to, if worship does not thrill our soul, then our hearts have changed. And the Angel said, “Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?” (Jud. That is what we see in the Scriptures when believing men gather to worship the Lord. '” (Revelation 22:9). In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.” They were offering sacrifices that were polluted. This will include worship alongside angels as well as believers from all ages and locations, from every nation and people on earth. But, if we come to worship God in order to get a good feeling, we are going to walk away very disappointed, because the whole purpose and emphasis is wrong. It was a festive occasion. A reduplicated and contracted form of peto; probably akin to petomai through the idea of alighting; to fall. They worship God with a single eye, completely focused upon Him and nothing else. You know, when we sing, it is right for us to be enthusiastic. Some of them as toddlers have come into prayer meeting and they slept through the whole thing. Neuter of a derivative of zao; a live thing, i.e. They were to come into the courts, the place they were to worship, already prepared for worship. I could not imagine one of the angels standing before the throne of God and leaving disappointed.  Oh, I have been here for nine days now, and nobody shook my hand. We ought to be expressing that. Depending on what the pronoun is here, (they) it appears that the angels join in with them, although they have never experienced redemption. “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.” That is a lot of angels! He “saw an altar that was at Damascus,” (a really nice altar), “and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar.” He sent a blueprint down “and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof. When Job finally understood Who he was dealing with, he said “Wherefore I abhor myself” (Job 42:6). They came singing and praising God all the way there. Peter writes in I Peter 2:9, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people;” (and here is why God chose us and made us priests unto Himself, made us unique people), “that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.” God saved us that we might praise Him. It is not about being ministered unto. The Hebrew Bible strictly prohibits worship of idols made in the likeness of anything in heaven, according to the first commandment found in Exodus 20:4. It is a heart that is sold out and loves God. Just think about whose presence we are coming into. They praised Him with great enthusiasm. But God Sent A Heroic Rescue From … Neuter of a compound of en and a derivative of optanomai; in the face of. That word for secret is wonderful. When Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up (in chapter six), he said, “Woe is me!” (Isa. Their worship is with a sense of awe and of wonder and it is also unceasing. They serve him day and night in his temple. When they came into the courts to worship God, they were to come with that praise in their hearts already. I can remember a few years back standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon. God made the decision to create all things and to have all things exist. In their worship, the angels in God’s heavenly throne room cry out, “Holy, holy, holy” (v. 3), with the threefold repetition of this attribute indicating how it defines His very essence. That love is where the excitement comes from. What happened in Israel’s history? “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain” (Rev. There are four activities that take place … Do not just babble on. And you know God is still pretty exciting. Section 3 – Activities Around the Throne (verses 5-11) a. But, if our hearts have been weaned away from the things of God all week long and we have been just feasting on the things of the world, spiritually, we are going to be “out of it” when we come here to worship. There could be sense of worship when believers gather together to worship in a grass hut in a jungle. Worshipping God is important to mom and dad. Verb - Pluperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural. It was despicable to God that Lucifer wanted attention for himself. It is fascinating. We could learn from the holy angels! I would like to suggest that worship that is based on the convenience of the worshipper is missing the most essential ingredient in worship – and that is sacrifice. The Lord of our longing has conquered the night. We would be so thrilled to see Him, to be there. It has caught on as wild fire. As He was seated at the right hand of God, angels worshipped the Son. He did not get that pattern from studying the Scriptures. He is kind. Yet we see them joining in when the Body of Christ is around the throne praising God as their Redeemer. 4:24). Maybe our hearts need to be shaken up a little bit. These are angelic beings seen around the throne of God who join in with the twenty-four elders, picturing the Church. Four. It is not the physical bowing down that God commands us to do. The Bible and Torah describe love as "a blazing fire, like a mighty flame" (Song of Solomon 8:6). Coming into His presence is an exciting thing. Change is not always good. We see, in Revelation chapters four and five, living creatures called beasts. Worship has become little more than a religious entertainment center. There ought to be that sense of wonder and of awe, when we come into His presence to worship. Psalm 91:11-12 “For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. Two people that really love each other can have a thrilling time at McDonalds. He made it His custom. 6:3). It was as if the wind was just knocked out of him. The angel had a sense of wonder and awe at the mighty works of God. Revelation 12:9 Context. (Mal.1:13). That is basically the main gist of that psalm. The main reason is because only God is worthy of our worship, and nothing else must be allowed to take His place. Music, more than anything, creates a sense of atmosphere. From pros and a probable derivative of kuon; to fawn or crouch to, i.e. That is a sign of the Holy Spirit. 37:36). We see in Revelation chapter five, they finally understand it. As soon as we really stop and think, and meditate on the majesty of Almighty God, we are humbled. It took the breath out of him. Angels are faster than humans. We are coming before God! It is Christ and nothing else. That is exactly what the angels are doing in Heaven. In II Samuel 24, a plague had struck the nation Israel because of David’s sin. Their focus was entirely on God. When they went into God’s presence it was to worship Him. Now, one of the benefits of worshipping God with all our heart and all our might is a complete, inner satisfaction. Preaching is to point us in the right direction. It is not to get Michael Jordan to come here and say a few nice things about Jesus. They began to change things and began to spice up the Sabbath a little bit to make it more convenient, to make it more satisfying for themselves. There is only one way to worship God – it is God’s way. If we are going to worship God it has to be with the understanding. Our position as Christians is in the heavenlies. Another way the angels praise the Lord was with great enthusiasm. The king said, “If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.” Do you see what this apostate king of Israel was thinking? And we ought to do the same. When our hearts a flooded and filled with the things of the world, there is not much room for God there. It is good to express praise and adoration and worship and thanksgiving, but when we do it, our spirits need to be controlled. The creature is abased and the Creator is exalted. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. It is not the pastor’s job. Worship God! It is an interesting word that is used here. And then even a formerly boring little church which meets in a grass hut (with no celebrities; no big bands; no gimmicks; no exciting programs) will be a thrilling place to be. The Sabbath for the Jew was the day of worship. We need to come here as like-minded believers to worship God with one united voice. God was not going to accept their worship. “For I am the LORD, I change not” (Mal. It was wearisome. As the angels worshipped before the throne and God and chant holy, holy, holy, there was no one snapping bubble gum in the background or sipping a cup of coffee. In the Scriptures, God is worshipped with a sense of humility. Good grief, we stand in awe of a computer! When he saw how immense the creation was, he thought how immense the Creator must be. What we are seeing instead in a change in the way that God is worshipped based on a study of the television talk shows, the foot ball stadium, Hollywood and the entertainment world. As “the priesthood of all believers” we must make sure to seek God at night. They worship God (Rev. Two people in love can have a thrilling, exciting time just being together. Biblical Usage of the Term Dispensation. So whatever we do in our worship time it should enhance our appreciation of God’s holiness and our reverence for Him. They watched God create and they did so in wonder and awe. We are to come here all prepared to worship God. Christ loved the Church and He gave Himself for the Church. This fits the picture in the Old Testament that we find in Job (1:6). They praised Him with sounding cymbals. Let us build the city of God May our tears be turned into dancing! It is exalting God for Who He is. They are the same as the living creatures of the book of Ezekiel.

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