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Bible Secrets To Worship

What Is Worship?

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers (proskynētēs) shall worship (proskyneō) the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship (proskyneō) him

God is a Spirit: and they that worship (proskyneō) him must worship (proskyneō) him in spirit and in truth – John 4: 23 & 24

WHO WE WORSHIP

God is a spirit – pneuma385 times in 350 versesGod wants to direct and lead us in worship

Does not want worship to be scripted

God is a spiritual being Leads Empowers

WHO WE WORSHIP

God is a spirit – pneuma

Speaks and reveals Casts out devils Is holy Fills the believer Teaches the believerQuickens the believer

LAW OF DIVINE ORDER - CREATION

Genesis 1: 1 & 2 – Creation –

Moving - Speaking

The purpose of God in worship is

to create order out of our disorder

To bring beauty out of

formlessness and emptiness

To bring us out of oppression

LAW OF DIVINE ORDER - CREATION

Genesis 1: 1 & 2 – Creation – Moving - Speaking

To water our lives, nations – Jesus told the Samariatan woman that she was dry and needed water

Worshippers must allow the Spirit of God to FIRST MOVE AND SPEAK Worship teams

WE WORSHIP TO ASCRIBE GLORY TO GOD

Revelation 4 Throne – God 24 Elders lead worship in heaven They have status The 24 elders join the angels Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive

glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created – Revelation 4: 11

WE WORSHIP - TO DWELL

in the Presence of Holy God To Experience a Divine, Lifelong, Eternal Encounter with God

Church of the Firstborn is our heavenly pattern

Spirits of just men made perfect – Hebrews 12: 22 & 23

WE WORSHIPFOR TRANSFORMATION – slides 3 & 4

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord - 2 Corinthians 3: 17 & 18

WORSHIPPERS (proskynētēs) FALL WITH FACES TO THE GROUND

Proskynētēs occurs once – John 4: 23

Root word – proskyneōWise men

… are come to worship him – Matthew 2: 3

… they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him… - Matthew 2: 11

…if thou wilt fall down and worship G4352 me - Matthew 4: 9

The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped G4352 him – Matthew 18: 26

…they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped G4352 him – Matthew 28: 9


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Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped G4352 him – Acts 10: 25

the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped G4352 him that liveth for ever and ever – Revelation 5: 14

And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped G4352 God – Revelation 7: 11





…the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped G4352 God – Revelation 11: 16

the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped G4352 God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia – Revelation 19: 4




I fell at his feet to worship G4352 him – Revelation 19: 10

I fell down to worship G4352 before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things - Revelation 22: 8

Worship in heaven – the elders fall down with faces to the ground




and bowing their knees worshipped G4352 him – Matthew 15: 19

WORSHIPPERS (proskynētēs) KNEEL


Friendship

Obedience

Surrender

Alliegance

Versus worshipping the beast

MEANING OF WORSHIP

Under the control/guidance/unction of the Holy Spirit

Mary conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost G4151

Jesus was led by the Spirit – Matthew 4: 1

immediately the Spirit G4151 driveth him into the wilderness – Mark 1: 12

WORSHIP IN SPIRIT (pneuma)




the Spirit G4151 of your Father which speaketh in you - Matthew 10: 20

I will put my spirit G4151 upon him - Matthew 12: 18

… cast out devils by the Spirit G4151 of God - Matthew 12: 28






and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost … And she spake out with a loud voice, and said… - Luke 1: 42 & 43


By the revelation and not by own interpretation

Scribes said Christ is the son of David

Jesus replied, “David in spirit G4151 call (ed) him Lord” – Matthew 22: 43

David himself said by the Holy Ghost G4151 - Mark 12: 36




By the revelation and not by own interpretation

worship under the instruction of the Holy Spirit

God is the choreographer it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost G4151 - Mark 13: 11



Worship from your spirit and not by external forms and rituals of the flesh or religious orders and scripts

the spirit G4151 indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak – Matthew 26: 41

Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit G4151 truly is ready, but the flesh is weak - Mark 14: 38




Worship from your spirit and not by external forms and rituals of the flesh

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the ghost G4151 - Matthew 27: 50



Worship from your spirit and not by external forms and rituals of the flesh

Jesus perceived in his spirit G4151 - Mark 2: 8

And he sighed deeply in his spirit, G4151

- Mark 8: 12




God rejects forms and rituals and requires honesty and confession – Psalm 50 & 51

God rejected the forms and requires broken and contrite spirits

Jesus warned the Scribes and Pharisees about their pretense – Matthew 23


Worship honestly before God, with no pretense, fearlessly, confessing, no corruption

we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, G225 neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men – Matthew 22: 16

WORSHIP IN TRUTH (alētheia)



Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly: G225 - Luke 20: 21




the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth G225 - Mark 5: 33



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