Reality of Worship | First Wednesday | Ps. Jonas Alday
The Reality of Worship
“ if you can change the meaning of a word you can change the reality of a people”
What is Praise?
““Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.”
Hebrews 13:15 NKJV
Praise – (ainesis) praise
“Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name.” Psalms 100:4 HCSB
But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.”
John 4:23 HCSB
Worship – ( proskuneō ) this is in spirit
Spirit – (pneuma) breath or breeze, refers to spirit of a man
“Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’”
Matthew 22:37 NKJV
But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.”
John 4:23 HCSB
Truth – (Aletheia) truth, reality, anything pertaining to God and the duties of man
“Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.”
Romans 12:1-2 HCSB
What does it look like to be a living sacrifice?
“as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
II Peter 1:3-4 NKJV
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