Title: Let's Have a Blessed Worship
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Let's worship blessings (John 4:23-24)
On the way home from the early morning service on Friday morning, I was moved by the sermon about the worship service of the Far East Broadcasting Station, and I thought that I should preach about the worship service, that is, the worship service for blessing. Worship doesn't come to receive grace, but worship is to give everything to God, and we misunderstand it.
It is said that there are many fathers of geese these days. In order to educate their children, mothers and children go abroad, and fathers are left alone to earn money to support them. Why? It is for your child to do well. I want to preach today in order for the saints to do well.
What kind of worship is pleasing to God? In other words, what kind of worship deserves blessings. We need to give proper worship to receive blessings. I will tell you what that worship is, and I hope that you will receive blessings in your life by performing a blessed worship.
There is one thing we need to point out here. We do not know when it started, but it is the fact that worship is expressed in terms of “seeing” in the language of Christians, especially around us. Worship is expressed by using the verb ‘to see’, such as “going to worship,” “let’s go to worship,” “come to worship,” etc. Some theologians say about these expressions, “To say that we see worship is an indigenous shaman religion. It is the influence of the rite of worship,” he said, pointing out that in order to get out of the poverty of worship theology, we need to learn to use the terminology for worship correctly. This means that the Christian worship service has become popular with the phrase ‘going to worship.’ However, worship is not to watch, but to offer.
When we talk about worship in English, we usually say “Worship”, which means “worth”, which is a compound word of “worth” and “ship” and “status”. This word means "recognition of those worthy of respect and honour." To make this more concrete, "to ascribe Him supreme worth" (to ascribe Him supreme worth) is worship.
Then, how do you and I have to worship in order to receive blessings?
1. Have a worship service at the designated church (Deut 12:13)
[Deuteronomy 12:13] Be careful not to offer burnt offerings anywhere that you can see."
This is what happened when I did Express or Moving Center in the past. I thought I did a good job, but when I couldn't move the long farm as the owner wanted, there was a case where I did the job in the end but didn't get compliments. It is said that things worked well when they were moved according to the owner's wishes. Likewise, worship is also welcomed when the Lord asks for a service.
[Genesis 22:2] Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, says the LORD, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on a mountain as far as I will show you.
Where did God command you to worship today? Church. God is omnipresent. No, there is no place for you. However, I want you to remember that worship is accepted when you give it where God wants you to. Didn't Abraham too?
Dear saints,
I hope you believe that it is God's will and designated place for worship at Suwon Ark Church today.
2. Longing for the Word, give your body and mind (Romans 12:1)
[Romans 12:1] Therefore, I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
First, we must offer a clean body.
We must give our bodies. How do I give it to you? It must be presented in a clean body. So, on Sundays, it is polite to worship the Lord to have your hair trimmed a little, paint your hair a little, and wear the finest clothes.
Do you know the difference between Mary Magdalene and Martha? You have to lean close to the Lord and listen to the Word. Come to the front of the pulpit. The person behind the thought is questionable.
Second, we must give all of our pure hearts.
[Ex 29:18] And all of the ram shall be burned on the altar, for it is a burnt offering to the LORD, and it is a fragrant smell, a fire offering to the LORD.
There should not be any complaints or resentment in the heart.
Matthew 15:8 "This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."
I praise the Lord with my lips and make it cool, but my heart is somewhere else. It is false hypocrisy. The spirit is the form of being of God. Then, it is really referring to the personality of God and the disposition of God.
3. Worship with thanksgiving (Leviticus 22:29, Psalm 50:14)
[Leviticus 22:29] When you offer sacrifices of thanksgiving to the LORD, you shall offer them acceptable.
[Psalm 50:14] Offer sacrifices to God with thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.
[Psalm 54:6] I will sacrifice to you as a free offering; I give thanks to your name, O LORD, for your name is good.
If we worship God with joy, receive grace, and have the thrill of meeting, take that joy with us. I'm sure there will be an impact in the home in moments I don't know.
4. Do not miss Sunday worship (Numbers 28:10)
[Numbers 28:10] This is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, except for the regular burnt offering and its drink offerings.
God rested on the 7th day of creation for 6 days
Exodus 20:8-11 says, “Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor to do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God, and you shall not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male or your female servant, your livestock, or the stranger who sojourns in your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and everything in them, and on the seventh day rested. Therefore I the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.” In this way, because God rested, we rest, and because God works, we work.
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5. Look and worship only Christ (John 14:6)
The word to worship truly means to worship only looking at Jesus Christ. Who is the center of worship? Jesus Christ. because? Worship is meaningful in meeting God. The Lord has spoken. “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me.”
Does God want to see you? See the Lord first. Do you want to meet God? Meet God first. Do you want to get life? First, meet the Lord. The heart of worship is only in Jesus Christ. The word to truly worship means to worship only in Jesus Christ based on the Word with all sincerity.
[1 Peter 2:5] You also, like living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Dear saints,
If you despise worship, you die.
Korean Translation [1 Samuel 2:17] The sins of these young men (Hophni and Phinehas the sons of Eli's priest) were exceedingly great before the Lord, because they despised the Lord's sacrifice. But true worship is the blessing of meeting God.
[Ex 29:42] This is the burnt offering that you shall offer from generation to generation at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD; there I will meet you and speak to you.
Also, good worshipers are sure to receive blessings
[Exodus 20:24] Build me an altar of earth, and on it offer your burnt offerings and peace offerings of your sheep and oxen, and I will come and bless you wherever I do my name.
If there is one thing that can distinguish between beasts and humans, it is called 'worship'. It is said that being able to worship in spirit and in truth is a duty and privilege that only human beings have.
There is a saying that the church 'exists by worship'. We enjoy God's grace through worship. We experience the power of God through worship.
Someone once said, "Worship is our key. It's the key to life." He said that if we lose worship, it is not just that we have lost worship, but that we have lost the key to live life. We worship for an hour like this and think of it as a religious ceremony, but that's not it.
Commentator Hendrickson said that "worship in spirit and truth"
The first is to worship God enough to put your whole heart into action.
The second is to act in perfect harmony with the truth of God revealed in the Word of God,
Third, it says that worship should be inward and directed to God. This means that we should make godliness a lifestyle while we worship. It is our belief that we must turn it into our life. If you are receiving grace and living your life as it is, then you have not received grace, and you have not been worshiping properly.
Dear saints, Martin Luther famously said, "Let God be God." It is our worship that makes God the most God and makes man the most human. This is the time when we meet God, who is the Spirit, through the spirit and receive God's blessings the most.
Jesus Christ is our worshiper. He is our Savior. He is the Lord of the Sabbath. He alone will guide you to peace and solve all your problems. Your hearts who worship Him today, worship as the Word of God in the future, I prophesy. The person who did this will meet God and receive the blessings that this world lacks---
I bless you that we, the Bishops of Suwon Bang, who worship these blessings.