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Does It Matter
What You Believe
Regarding Worship
As Long As You
“Worship Correctly”?
Beliefs and Behavior
(Matthew 15:18-20) "But those things which
proceed out of the mouth come from the
heart, and they defile a man. For out of the
heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies. These are the things which
defile a man…"
(Proverbs 23:7) “For as he thinks in his heart,
so is he”
Acceptable Worship
(John 4:23-24)
"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. God is
Spirit, and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit and truth ."
TRUTH
(1 Peter 2:5) you also, as living stones, are
being built up a spiritual house, a holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
(NKJV)
(Colossians 3:17) And whatever you do in
word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord
Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father
through Him. (NKJV)
Acceptable Worship
Lessons Learned
–Nadab and Abihu (Lev. 10)
–King Saul (1 Sam. 15:22)
–King David (1 Chron. 13:7-10;
15:13)
–King Jeroboam (1Kings 12:33)
Acceptable Worship
“Will-Worship” condemned (Col. 2:22-23)
– “worship which one devises and
prescribes for himself, contrary to the
contents and nature of the faith which
ought to be directed to Christ” (Thayer,
p. 168).
Acceptable Worship
(John 4:23-24)
"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. "God is
Spirit, and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit and truth ."
SPIRIT
More Than Formality
(Matthew 15:8) 'These
people draw near to
Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with
their lips, But their
heart is far from Me.
(NKJV)
More Than Formality
(1 Corinthians 11:27-28)
Therefore whoever eats this
bread or drinks this cup of
the Lord in an unworthy
manner will be guilty of the
body and blood of the Lord.
But let a man examine
himself, and so let him eat
of the bread and drink of
the cup. (NKJV)
More Than Formality
(1 Corinthians 14:15) “… I
will pray with the spirit,
and I will also pray with
the understanding. I will
sing with the spirit, and I
will also sing with the
understanding.”
More Than Formality
(Psalms 119:10-11)
With my whole Heart I have
sought You; Oh, let me not
wander from Your
commandments!
Your word I have hidden in my
heart, That I might not sin
against You!
More Than Formality
(Romans 6:17)
But God be thanked that
though you were slaves of
sin, yet you obeyed from the
heart that form of doctrine to
which you were delivered.
What is in our hearts
matters to God.
Our outward conformity should
be a sign of an inward
compliance.
Factors To Consider
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Factors To Consider
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Conditions of Fellowship
Limited Opportunity
Maturity Level?
Lack of Effort
(Hebrews
5:12-14)
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Factors To Consider
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Lack of Effort
(2 Timothy 2:2) And the
things that you have heard
from me among many
witnesses, commit these
to faithful men who will
be able to teach others
also. (NKJV)
Factors To Consider
Matters of the Heart
Conditions of Fellowship
(1 Corinthians 2:11) “For
(Acts
8:22-23)
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if perhaps the
thought of your heart
may be forgiven you. For
I see that you are
poisoned by bitterness
and bound by iniquity."
Factors To Consider
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the good treasure of his
heart brings forth good;
and an evil man out of the
evil treasure of his heart
brings forth evil. For out
of the abundance of the
heart his mouth speaks.
(NKJV)
Factors To Consider
Conditions of Fellowship
Maturity Level?
How Vocal?
Fruit Inspectors
Balance
 Encourage Bible
discussion
Who is talking?
Who are they talking to?
Why are they talking?
 Guard against
false teachers
False Teachers
(2 Peter 16:17-18)
2:1-2)
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people, even as there will be false teachers
(Matthew
7:15) and offenses, contrary to the
cause
divisions
among you, who will secretly bring in
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the hearts of the simple.
Unity!
(1 Corinthians 1:10)
Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak
the same thing, and that there be no
divisions among you, but that you be
perfectly joined together in the same mind
and in the same judgment.
(Ephesians 4:11-15) And He Himself gave some to
be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and
some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the
saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of
the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of
the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of
God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the
stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no
longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery
of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful
plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow
up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ-(NKJV)