This document discusses true worship versus false worship. It provides reasons for worshipping God including obedience, faithfulness and keeping a covenant with Him. True worship must be done in spirit and in truth, through knowing God and obeying His commands. The contents of worship should focus on God's redemptive love as shown through the sanctuary and plan of salvation. While God accepts sincere worship, it is important to learn how He wants to be worshipped to offer Him the best worship.
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Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
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Slide 7: Incorporating Mindfulness into Daily Life
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3. Reasons to worship
Worship in education
How to worship
The contents of our worship
False worship
God once showed Ezekiel the elders of Israel
worshipping images of reptiles, women
worshipping Tammuz, and the priests
worshipping the sun (Ezekiel 8).
God called those false worship acts
“abominations.” He even condemned some
worship acts that seemed right by saying, “I
cannot endure them.” (Isaiah 1:13)
God cares about what we worship, how we
worship, and why we worship. Therefore, it’s
important to know the foundation of true
worship.
4. “My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord; my
heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” (Psalm 84:2)
God put a desire for eternity in our hearts (Ecclesiastes 3:11), and He also put a
desire for worship.
Human beings got away from God and looked for other ways to fulfill that desire.
In antiquity, they usually ended worshipping objects or created beings (like the
sun, the stars, birds, reptiles…).
Nowadays, people worship subtler
things: money, power, sex, athletes,
singers, politicians, spiritual leaders,
themselves…
The story of Shadrach, Meshach and
Abed-Nego in Daniel 3 is a good
example of how God cares for a correct
worship: “You shall worship the Lord
your God, and Him only you shall serve.”
(Luke 4:8)
5. “We will not hide them from their children, telling
to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
and His strength and His wonderful works that He
has done.” (Psalm 78:4)
God gave the people of Israel a special book for them
to learn how to worship, the Psalms.
Psalm 78 is a good example:
•By telling the power,
wonders and laws of
God
•By singing this in
praise
How to worship
•So that the next
generations may
know God and praise
Him
•So that they don’t
repeat the mistakes
of their ancestors
Reasons to
worship
• Trust in God
• Obedience to His
Commandments
• Avoidance of
rebelliousness
• Faithfulness
• Keeping the covenant
• Remaining connected
to God
What worship
brings
6. “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24)
In His conversation with the Samaritan
woman, Jesus mentioned two main and
necessary ways to worship God:
• Our worship is a result of our love to
God and a personal experience with
Him. It’s the fruit of the Holy Spirit’s
work (Ephesians 2:18)
In spirit
• Properly knowing God and what He
wants from us (John 4:22)
In truth
True worship is a result of
knowing and obeying God
and studying the truths
that have been revealed
about Him.
7. THE CONTENTS OF OUR WORSHIP
“Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; worship
the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” (Psalm 29:2)
One of the more joyful scenes of
worship is found in 1 Chronicles
16. David was joyfully dancing
before the ark and giving food
to the people!
David found the greatest reason for joy in worshipping
God in His Sanctuary (Psalm 84:2).
The Sanctuary contains the true reason of our worship.
The plan of Salvation is prefigured in every inch of it.
We are a holy people that worships a
Holy God (1 Peter 2:9). The sacrifice of
Christ makes this holiness possible.
This is the main contents of our
worship, meditating in God’s
redeeming love.
8. Many people are seeking subtle ways of worship that
are based on human philosophies, like the old
Pharisees did (Mark 7:1-13).
This is not a petty matter. Worship will divide the world
in two sides before the Second Coming of Jesus: those
who will worship God as He wants us to, and those who
will not (Revelation 13).
Obviously, God accepts every sincere worship as long
as the worshipper offers it according to their
knowledge (Acts 10:34-35).
However, God is worthy of
the best worship we can
offer. Therefore, it’s
important to never stop
learning about true worship.
9. “Our house of worship may be very
humble, but it is none the less
acknowledged by God. If we worship in
spirit and in truth and in the beauty of
holiness, it will be to us the very gate of
heaven. As lessons of the wondrous
works of God are repeated, and as the
heart’s gratitude is expressed in prayer
and song, angels from heaven take up
the strain and unite in praise and
thanksgiving to God.”
E.G.W. (In Heavenly Places, October 8)