December/24/ 2016
Come to Worship
Part 5
Worship is Our Identity
Galatians 4:6-7 “And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.” Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.”
1. We are _SONS__not____SERVANTS__.
John 15:15 “I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.”
Romans 6:18 “Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become servants to righteous living.”
2. We become what _YOU THINK GOD THINKS YOU ARE .
You are not what you think you are
You are not what others think you are
You become what you think the most important person in your life thinks you are. John Maxwell
Genesis 1:26-27 “Then God said, “Let us make human beings[b] in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth,[c] and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”So God created human beings in his own image.”
1 John 4:8-10 “But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
1 John 4:18 “Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.”
3. Satan knows your____NAME____ and calls you by your ___SIN_____, God knows your____SIN______ and calls you by your_____NAME________.
Luke 15:11-32
December/18/ 2016
Come to Worship
Part 4
Worship is Pleasing Someone
Matthew 2:1-2 “Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea during the time when Herod was king. When Jesus was born, some wise men from the east came to Jerusalem. 2 They asked, “Where is the baby who was born to be the king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”
Worship is…
Doing something
Giving something
Pleasing someone
We please God when we…
1. Follow his lead.
Matthew 2:9 “After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was…”
Isaiah 9:6 “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor…”
Ps 23:3 (NLT) “He guides me along right paths…”
Ps 16:11 “You will show me the way of life.”
Hebrews 4:14-16 NCV “Since we have a great high priest, Jesus the Son of God, who has gone into heaven, let us hold on to the faith we have. 15 For our high priest is able to understand our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but he did not sin. 16 Let us, then, feel very sure that we can come before God’s throne where there is grace. There we can receive mercy and grace to help us when we need it.”
Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
2. Express our love.
Matthew 2:10 “When they saw the star they were overjoyed.”
The problem with some Christians today is they are underjoyed.
3. Surrender our lives.
Matthew 2:10 “On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.”
Romans 6:13 (NLT) "Give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God."
Romans 12:1-2 NCV "So brothers and sisters, since God has shown us great mercy, I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him, which is the spiritual way for you to worship."
Luke 6:46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?…”
Matthew 2:12 “And having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their country by another route.”
January/01/ 2016
Come to Worship
Part 3
Worship is Giving Something
Matthew 2:1-2 “Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judea during the time when Herod was king. When Jesus was born, some wise men from the east came to Jerusalem. 2 They asked, “Where is the baby who was born to be the king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him.”
Mark 12:29-30 ““The most important one…is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
We worship God by giving Him 3 things.
1. We worship God when we give Him all our affection.
verse 28 “Love the Lord with all your heart and soul.”
Jeremiah 2:11 “Look closely. Has this ever happened before, That a nation has traded in its gods for gods that aren’t even close to gods? But my people have traded my Glory for empty god-dreams and silly god-schemes.”
2. We worship God when we give Him all our attention.
verse 28 “love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and with all your mind…”
Romans 12:2 (MSG) “Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God.”
Hebrews 12:1 “let us fix our eyes of Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.”
3. We worship God when we give Him all our abilities.
verse 28 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.”
Romans 12:1 (MSG) “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.”
Colossians 3:23 (CEV) “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as though you were working for the Lord and not for people.”
John 4:23 “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.”
