9 20 09 HT PM Worship Series 3 – The Sacredness of Worship
Worship Series Part 3 – The Sacredness of Worship
9 20 09 HT PM
Psalm 100:1-5
Tonight we continue and bring to a close our short series on Worship – the last two weeks we have found the worship will always bring us out from where we are to His presence. Last week we found that the seed of worship is the Word of God and that we worship best from the foundation of the Word.
Tonight we will close out our time with some conversation about the Sacredness of Worship. Lets kick off with the very first Psalm I ever memorized – somewhere around the 2nd grade I learned this and put it to memory.
Psalm 100:1 NKJV
Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
Psalm 100:2
Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing.
Psalm 100:3
Know that the Lord, He is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Psalm 100:4
Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,
And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
Psalm 100:5
For the Lord is good;
His mercy is everlasting,
And His truth endures to all generations.
I. Mindset of a worshiper –
1. Serve –
Literally – this word establishes worshipers should be in the mindset of a slave or laborer of God- we are Servants of the Most High God. Our status as servants place us at the “disposal” of the one we serve.
Our worship is to serve Him, not ourselves.
Notice verse 3
2. Enter –
We are to see ourselves as literally moving from our location to His location, from our places of worship to His presence.
There is a huge challenge here in that our worship environments naturally take on a sense of “tradition”, “routine” and even “monotony”. Yet every time we come to a place or time of worship we need to consciously work against the natural mindsets that tell us this is “just another church service” to a mind set that tells us this is an “ ENTRANCE” into the very Presence of the Almighty – thus the SACREDNESS of Worship.
- II. Vantage point of a worshiper –
Psalm 99:1 NKJV
The Lord reigns;
Let the peoples tremble!
He dwells between the cherubim;
Let the earth be moved!
Psalm 99:2
The Lord is great in Zion,
And He is high above all the peoples.
Psalm 99:3
Let them praise Your great and awesome name—
He is holy.
Psalm 99:4
The King’s strength also loves justice;
You have established equity;
You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Psalm 99:5
Exalt the Lord our God,
And worship at His footstool—
He is holy.
A worshiper is looking;
- Upward not outward (those around us)
- Upward not inward (ourselves)
- III. Seeking the sacred –
Psalm 95:6 NKJV
Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
Psalm 95:7
For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you will hear His voice:
There must be a desire to enter into the presence of God – yet a total awareness of the Sacredness of His Presence.
Hebrews 10:19 NKJV
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Hebrews 10:20
by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,
Hebrews 10:21
and having a High Priest over the house of God,
Hebrews 10:22
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:24
And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
Hebrews 10:25
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.