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Honor Praise
gifts of gratitude appreciation to those we
love and respect. The obvious goal Please the
recipient. We are successful when we know their
needs and desires. Success is measured by the
pleasure of the one we seek to honor.
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• Receiving sincere gratitude, appreciation, love,
  honor and respect are the most sought after
  things in the human race.
• Parents / Children
• Husbands / Wives
• Co-workers / Employers
• Entire industries created to fill this need.
• Greeting Cards
• Flowers
• Jewelry Stores

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What about God?

• You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and
  honor and power For You created all things And
  by Your will they exist and were created. Rev
  411
• Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
  above, and comes down from the Father of lights,
  with whom there is no variation or shadow of
  turning. Jas 117-18

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What about God?

• How do we gain the knowledge necessary to
  properly honor him?
• For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are
  your ways My ways, says the LORD. 9 For as the
  heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways
  higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your
  thoughts. Isa 558-9
• It will have to come from Scriptures

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The Teaching of Christ

• But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true
  worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
  truth for the Father is seeking such to worship
  Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him
  must worship in spirit and truth." John 423-24
• Genuine Worshipers Spirit Truth
• The Father seeks such to worship him
• Must Worship in Spirit and Truth

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The Teaching of Christ

• These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
  And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is
  far from Me. 9 And in vain they worship Me,
  Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.
  Mt 158-9
• Worship is vain if not in truth.
• Can draw near with mouth!
• Can honor God with lips!
• But Cant draw near without truth.

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• And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain
  brought of the fruit of the ground an offering
  unto Jehovah. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the
  firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
  And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his
  offering 5 but unto Cain and to his offering he
  had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his
  countenance fell. Gen 43
• Both brought offerings
• God respected Abel his offering.
• God did not respect Cain his offering
• ???WHY???

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The Missing Ingredient?

• By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent
  sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness
  borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing
  witness in respect of his gifts and through it
  he being dead yet speaketh. Heb 114
• God identifies faith as the issue!
• So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by
  the word of God. Rom 1017
• God Spoke to Both Abel heard Cain didnt

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A Universal Principle

• And Samuel said, Hath Jehovah as great delight in
  burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the
  voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than
  sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 1
  Sam 1522
• Cains disobedience not only made his worship
  vain(no respect) but an evil work
• not as Cain who was of the wicked one and
  murdered his brother. And why did he murder him?
  Because his works were evil and his brother's
  righteous. 1Jn 312

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Can this happen today?

• Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of
  Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam
  for profit, and perished in the rebellion of
  Korah. Jude 11
• If we are not worshipping in Spirit and Truth
  then we are following the commands of men. Those
  who do so are going in the way of Cain.
• Think of all the times God has tried to get his
  people to see this truth.

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• Nadab Abihu struck dead failed to sanctify and
  glorify God
• Nadab and Abihu offered strange fire before
  Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.
• they died before Jehovah.
• Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke,
  I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me,
  and before all the people I will be glorified.
  And Aaron held his peace. Lev 101-3

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• David consulted with the captains of thousands
  and of hundreds, even with every leader.
• the thing was right in the eyes of all the
  people.
• And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart
• David and all Israel played before God with all
  their might
• Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark for the
  oxen stumbled. The anger of Jehovah was kindled
  against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put
  forth his hand to the ark
• David was displeased, because Jehovah had broken
  forth upon Uzza
• David was afraid of God that day, saying, How
  shall I bring the ark of God home to me? 2Sam
  61-8

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• David went home and began to study the
  Scriptures.
• He soon found the passage he needed
• when Aaron and his sons have made an end of
  covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of
  the sanctuary, as the camp is set forward after
  that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it
  Num 415
• David knew exactly what they had done wrong. They
  had made the same mistake as Cain.
• For because ye (bare it) not at the first,
  Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that
  we sought him not according to the ordinance. 1
  Chr 1513

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God is serious about these warnings

• God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must
  worship in spirit and truth."
• in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines
  the commandments of men.
• For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are
  your ways My ways, says the LORD.
• Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to
  hearken than the fat of rams.
• I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me,
  and before all the people I will be glorified.

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What About Today?
Is God Pleased?
Is Worship now for Us?
Can we follow Cain?
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God is Spirit
They that Worship
MUST WORSHIP
in SPIRIT TRUTH
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What About Instrumental Music?

• The truth or a commandment of men?
• speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and
  spiritual songs, singing and making melody with
  your heart to the Lord 20 giving thanks always
  for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus
  Christ to God, even the Father Eph 518-20
• Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in
  all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another
  with psalms (and) hymns (and) spiritual songs,
  singing with grace in your hearts unto God. Col
  316

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What About Instrumental Music?

• The truth or a commandment of men?
• Not one time in the NT Scriptures do the
  teachings of Christ authorize anything but
  singing.
• They did it in the Old Testament?
• And I testify again to every man who becomes
  circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole
  law. 4 You have become estranged from Christ, you
  who attempt to be justified by law you have
  fallen from grace Gal 52-4

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What About Instrumental Music?

• The truth or a commandment of men?
• We are commanded to sing Psalms and the Psalms
  are to be sung with instruments.
• The Psalms also speak of entering Gods temple,
  offering animals, etc. We do not sing any psalm
  that asks us to do what we are not authorized to
  do

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What About Instrumental Music?

• The truth or a commandment of men?
• Not mentioned in any writings for the first five
  centuries
• Sought to be used about 600 but rejected as a
  liberal idea.
• Greek Orthodox church never used it at all.
• Roman Catholic church started after 700 ad.

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• ... I further believe that the use of such
  instruments of music in the Christian church is
  without the sanction and against the will of God,
  that they are subversive of the spirit of true
  devotion and that they are sinful... I am an old
  man and an old minister and I here declare that I
  never knew them productive of any good in the
  worship of God and have had reason to believe
  that they were productive of much evil. Music as
  a science I esteem and admire, but instruments of
  music in the house of God I abominate and abhor.
  Adam Clark - Methodist Preacher

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• Musical instruments in celebrating the praises of
  God would be no more suitable than the burning of
  incense, the lighting up of lamps, and the
  restoration of the other shadows of the law. The
  Papist, therefore, have foolishly borrowed this,
  as well as many other things from the Jews John
  Calvin - Founder - Presbyterian Church
• I have no objection to instruments of music in
  our chapels provided they are neither seen nor
  heard. John Wesley - founder - Methodist Church

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• The early Reformers, when they came out of Rome,
  removed them as the monuments of idolatry. Luther
  called the organ an ensign of Baal Calvin said
  that instrumental music was not fitter to be
  adopted into the Christian Church than the
  incense and the candlestick Knox called the
  organ a kist chest of whistles. The Church of
  England revived them, against a very strong
  protest, and the English dissenters would not
  touch them. (from McClintock and Strong
  Encyclopedia,

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