Christ Wesleyan Church
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John 4:24 ESV
A. Worship is...
John 4:23-24 NLT
1. Worship is to be experienced in Spirit.
John 1:14 NLT
1 Corinthians 6:19 NLT
2. Worship is to be experienced in Truth.
“To truly worship God, we must understand who He is and what He has done, and the only place He has fully revealed Himself is in the Bible. Worship is an expression of praise from the depths of our hearts toward a God who is understood through His Word. If we do not have the truth of the Bible, we do not know God and we cannot be truly worshiping.” – F Bittner
John 17:17 NLT
John 8:32 NLT
3. We are made up of three parts: body, soul, and spirit. The body being our external shell. The soul being our mind, will, and emotions. The spirit is our inner part of us that connects directly with God’s Spirit.
Psalms 146:1-2 NLT
Psalms 84:2 NLT
B. Worship is not...
Matthew 15:8-9 NLT
Malachi 1:10 NLT
1 Samuel 16:7 NLT
1. Worship is not one day a week.
“If you’re not worshiping God on Monday the way you did the day before, perhaps you’re not worshiping Him at all.” A.W. Tozer
Psalms 1:2 NLT
2. Worship is not a single method of bodily expression. There is no rule for worship. We could sit, stand, fall down, be quiet, or sing praises loudly.
Psalms 96:1 NLT
Psalms 141:2 NLT
Psalms 95:6 NLT
Psalms 146:1-2 NLT
3. Worship is not in one place.
Revelation 1:17 NLT
4. Worship comes directly from the heart and is evident to God.
“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become ‘unity’ conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.” - A.W. Tozer
“I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.” A.W. Tozer
Romans 12:1-2 NLT
C. We were made to worship...
John 12:32 NLT
“We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.” A.W. Tozer
1. We must worship in all we do and wherever we are.
1 Corinthians 10:31 NLT
“Jesus taught essentially that we are portable sanctuaries, and if we are worshiping in spirit and truth, we can take our sanctuary around with us. Jesus said, ‘Don’t you see that if God is Spirit, worship is spiritual, and anything spiritual has no location in space and it has no location in time?’ You do not get up in the morning, look at your calendar and say this is the time to worship. You do not get up, go out, look around and say, this is the place to worship. You worship God now, anywhere, any place, any time, because worship is spiritual…” A.W. Tozer
2. True worship will lead to a complete experience in Christ.
Colossians 3:17 NLT
“Without doubt the emphasis in Christian teaching today should be on worship. There is little danger that we shall become merely worshipers and neglect the practical implications of the gospel. No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Fellowship with God leads straight to obedience and good works. That is the divine order and it can never be reversed.” A.W. Tozer
3. True worship is a wholehearted celebration, a dialogue, and an offering.
Jeremiah 24:7 NLT
“When we worship God, we celebrate Him: We extol Him, we sound His praises, we boast in Him.” — Ronald Allen
4. We find our greatest joy when we discover how to fully worship.
“The Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross that He might make His people worshipers of God. That is why we were born, that we might show forth the excellencies of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. ‘He is your Lord, worship Him.’ And we see that purpose-worship—when it is all over and the consummation has taken place and been fulfilled. The beasts, the elders and the creatures under the sea, above the earth, in the earth, and in the heavens are all crying aloud. ‘Holy, holy, holy to the Lord God Almighty, which was, and is. And is to come.’ The purpose of God is that He might redeem us, (to restore us again to the divine imperative of worship), to put us all in the heavenly choir and keep us there singing His praises and showing forth His excellencies while the ages roll. This is the purpose of God in redemption.’” - A.W. Tozer
“William Booth the founder of the Salvation Army used to say: ‘If a church was on fire for God, people for miles would come to watch it burn.’ To paraphrase Booth: If believers experience the fire of God's worship then lost people would be drawn to God like a moth to the flames.” -F. Bittner
Matthew 22:37-38 NLT