Living a Life of Genuine Worship
September 14, 2015 | by: Lee Murray | 0 Comments
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Sermon: Living a Life of Genuine Worship, September 13th, 2015
Series: Nehemiah: Building for the Future
Speaker: Pastor Anthony Orzo
Primary Passage: Nehemiah 12:43
Cross Referenced Passage: Nehemihah 12, John 4, John 4:21-24
Sermon Questions:
1. Do you feel the joy you experience today is circumstantial joy or joy that is rooted in Christ? Please explain.
2. Has there ever been a time in your life when you didn’t look to God for joy or didn’t drink from the well of Christ? (i.e. “you traded God’s true and endless living water for a dirty puddle… and started to worship something that isn’t God”).
- How does finding ultimate satifaciton in the well of Christ change this? Be specific in your life.
3. In Pastor Anthony’s message he says that “for the Christian, worship never stops and it takes place in here and out there.” (i.e. on Sunday’s and throughout the week.) According to Jesus true worship has two indivisible traits:
a) It’s made possible by the Spirit of God… the Holy Spirit in New Testament terms.
b) It’s expressed by living our lives in accordance to His truth, God’s word.
- Can you point to a time when you didn’t worship God with all you are (in here and our there)? Why?
4. Since true worship only happens when we seek to live out and submit every area of our lives in accordance to the truth of Jesus.
- How does this change your hearts desire to drink from the eternal spring of life God gives?
5. Pastor Anthony quotes John Piper on genuine worship saying:
“Worship must be vital and real in the heart, and worship must rest on a true perception of God. There must be spirit and there must be truth… Truth without emotion produces dead orthodoxy and a church full (or half-full) of artificial admirers.. On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought. But true worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in truth are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.” Desiring God, Pgs. 81-82
- Have you ever thought about worship in this way?
- What has been your view of worship and has it changed after hearing this message?
Conclusion Discussion:
In the conclusion of the message, it was said that “anytime you do anything for God, you’re worshiping God and genuinly worshiping God is not about the place… it’s about the posture of your heart, the love you display to others on behalf of your God.”
- How can we create the sound of the Grace of God where He’s placed us by worshiping Him through our words and deeds? In here and out there?
