Sermon Notes 3.1.15

Hello!
I've been lacking on posting my sermon notes, so here is one from a couple of weeks ago. We've started a sermon series called Simply Worship, so without further ado, here are my notes:
*1 Peter 2:9
Exodus 9:1
Worship does not just necessarily mean songs

*Worship = "worth-shape"
To worship something means to be shaped by something of worth

*Each one of us has a trail and an altar. A trail of what we worship (money, success, ourselves) that leads to an altar/throne
The issue is not the quality of our worship, but the object of our worship

*Col. 1:16
We've been created for the most glorious and greatest being
The ultimate gift of God, is Himself
For God to give anything less would be unloving

*Psalm 96:1-4
Psalm 145:1-3
When you see something glorious, you praise it
Praise doesn't express the enjoyment, it completes it - C.S. Lewis

*We are going to spend the rest of our lives worshipping something, shouldn't we make sure it's something of value?

*John 4:21-24
If you get what is on the altar wrong, you get yourself wrong
What's important is not where you worship, but the how and who

*John 3:5-6
Unless God's spirit touches our spirit with the flame of life, we are incapable of worship

*Hebrews 13:15
True worship happens through Jesus, who opens the door to the everlasting God
I don't come to worship God through me, but through Jesus
Condemnation and guilt stifles our worship
Worship is based on a true and accurate description of God

*Psalm 95:1-7
Worship is our response to God
If we pick and chose what parts of God we like, that God will never change our hearts

*Psalm 90:2
Psalm 113:5-6
When God is not greatly praised it is because we don't think He is that great of a God
We go worshipping to church. We don't get to church and then start worshipping
The Holy Spirit is the wind. A good sailor can't generate the wind, but when it comes they know what to do with it

love,
ktv