Made to Worship

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Made to Worship

• Satisfaction and Purpose in
• Our Identity as Worshippers

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Worship

• The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity,
  an idol, or a sacred object
• dictionary.com

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Made to Worship

• Worship is Satisfaction
• Worship is Obedience
• Worship is Participation
• Worship is Unlimited

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Worship is Satisfaction

• A Thirsty People
• Isaiah 551-3a

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Isaiah 551-3a

• 1 Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the
  waters And you who have no money come, buy and
  eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and
  without cost. 2 Why do you spend money for what
  is not bread, And your wages for what does not
  satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is
  good, And delight yourself in abundance. 3
  Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that
  you may live

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Worship is Satisfaction

• A Thirsty People
• Broken Cisterns
• Jeremiah 213

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Jeremiah 213

• For My people have committed two evils They
  have forsaken Me, The fountain of living waters,
  To hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns,
  That can hold no water.

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Worship is Satisfaction

• A Thirsty People
• Broken Cisterns
• God as the Satisfier
• John 737-39

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John 737-39a

• 37 Now on the last day, the great day of the
  feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If any
  man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
  38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said,
  From his innermost being shall flow rivers of
  living water. 39 But this He spoke of the
  Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to
  receive

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Worship is Satisfaction

• A Thirsty People
• Broken Cisterns
• God as the Satisfier
• Psalm 631-5

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Psalm 631-5

• 1 O God, You are my God I shall seek You
  earnestly My soul thirsts for You, my flesh
  yearns for You, In a dry and weary land where
  there is no water, 2 Thus I have beheld You in
  the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory.
  3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than
  life, My lips will praise You. 4 So I will bless
  You as long as I live I will lift up my hands in
  Your name. 5 My soul is satisfied as with marrow
  and fatness, and my mouth offers praises with
  joyful lips.

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Made to Worship

• Worship is Satisfaction
• Worship is Obedience

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Worship is Obedience

• Requiring holiness
• 1 Peter 114-16

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1 Peter 114-16

• 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed
  to the former lusts which were yours in your
  ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called
  you, be holy yourselves also in all your
  behavior 16 because it is written, YOU SHALL BE
  HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.

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Worship is Obedience

• Requiring Holiness
• Commissioned
• Matthew 2819-20

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Matthew 2819-20

• 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the
  nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
  and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20
  teaching them to observe all that I commanded
  you and lo, I am with you always, even to the
  end of the age.

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Made to Worship

• Worship is Satisfaction
• Worship is Obedience
• Worship is Participation

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Worship is Participation

• Knowing God and Making Him Known
• Psalm 7328
• But as for me, the nearness of God is my
  good I have made the Lord God my refuge, That I
  may tell of all Your works

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Worship is Participation

• - Knowing God and Making Him Known
• Psalm 7328
• 2 Timothy 17
• For God has not given us a spirit of
  timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

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Made to Worship

• Worship is Satisfaction
• Worship is Obedience
• Worship is Participation
• Worship is Unlimited

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Worship is Unlimited

• WHATEVER You Do
• Colossians 317
• And whatever you do in word or deed, do all
  in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
  through Him to God the Father.

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• If I find in myself a desire which no
  experience in this world can satisfy, the most
  probable explanation is that I was made for
  another world -C.S. Lewis