2020.04.08 - Worship

2020.04.08 - Worship 

Wednesday, April 08, 2020

12:23 PM

1.     What Worship Is

a.     Genesis 22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. 2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. 3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship , and come again to you, 6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together. 7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? 8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. KJV

                              i.         Worship - OT:7812 shachah (shaw-khaw'); a primitive root; to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God): KJV - bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship. 

1.     First time the word used in the OT had nothing at all to do w/ music.

2.     Worship is what we do from our heart, from our mind

a.     Music is a tool we use to worship

b.     Abraham was taking Isaac to give him to The Lord - Isaac was not worship but a tool that Abraham was to use in his act of worship.  Worship came when Abraham was willing to make sacrifice - to give what really meant something to him.

                                                                      i.         Worship is 

1.     Sacrifice

2.     Self denial 

3.     Lifting up God - above all things 

4.     Conditional on our heart status

1.     Matthew 5:23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift . KJV

1.     The gift was not what was focused upon but rather what was inside the heart.

2.     Objects Of Our Affection

a.     Numbers 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent , and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. KJV

                              i.         The thing that God sent as a help became more important to the people than The God that sent it

b.     2 Kings 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did. 4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. KJV

                              i.         Nehushtan - OT:5180 Nechushtan (nekh-oosh-tawn'); from OT:5178; something made of copper, i.e. the copper serpent of the Desert: KJV - Nehushtan. 

1.     OT:5178 nechosheth (nekh-o'-sheth); for OT:5154; copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver): KJV - brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel. 

3.     Style VS Savior

a.     Michal - 2 Samuel 6:14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might ; and David was girded with a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. 16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing  before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. KJV

                              i.         2 Samuel 6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself! 21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD. 22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour. 23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death. KJV

                            ii.         Her name literally means who is God?