1 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,400 It's good to see you guys today. My name is Kyle. 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:09,500 Service lead. Pastor here. 3 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:13,600 I want to welcome, you grateful that you've shown up today for 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:18,500 worship with the Lord, you have your Bible with you. 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:23,300 Please turn to Hebrews the book of Hebrews and the New 6 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:27,500 Testaments going to look at chapter 10 of Hebrews today. 7 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:33,100 Just a few verses there. We are jumping back into a 8 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:39,400 series on on worship now, as we talked about, You know months 9 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,300 ago. So this was a series that I had 10 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:45,000 begun just before when he had passed away. 11 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,100 And so we're going to jump back into this now because I do think 12 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:51,200 it's very important for us to go through this. 13 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:55,800 I think it's really needed and our day and time to understand 14 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,600 what happens when we come together for worship. 15 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:02,200 When I say worship, I want to establish as we did, then I want 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,300 to re-establish. Now, we say worship, we're not 17 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:08,800 just talking about singing. That is part of worship singing 18 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:11,800 as part of worship, but praying is part of worship. 19 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,600 Obedience is part of worship. Giving might be part of your 20 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,400 worship hearing. The word taught is part of 21 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,300 worship, reading. The word is part of worship. 22 00:01:23,300 --> 00:01:26,600 So, so much of everything, we do really everything, we do in our 23 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:31,000 Christian Life is worship. And then, but what happens when 24 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,300 we come together in the service, we call a worship service for a 25 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:38,100 reason or stains that are taking In place that are Supernatural 26 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,500 just to be frank with you that there's things that happen in 27 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:44,000 here that won't happen anywhere else. 28 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,300 We establish this Thursday night in our men's group, we were 29 00:01:47,308 --> 00:01:52,300 talking about the discipline of church and the why do we do 30 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,300 church? And some of the things we talked 31 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:58,100 about was just that it's good one to have Brotherhood, right? 32 00:01:58,100 --> 00:02:02,400 It's good to experience a Brotherhood, a common bond with 33 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,700 brothers and sisters in the Lord, as we strive for the Name 34 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:09,800 Mission and there's a shared experience in that, that's a 35 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,200 good thing. But one of the things we pointed 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:19,600 out that night is that that alone is not enough to transform 37 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:24,400 or to inspire someone because you see Brotherhood and other 38 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,300 forms. You see it and country clubs you 39 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:32,800 see it on football teams, you see it in work, right? 40 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,900 There's a, there's a common bond that brings people together. 41 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:40,600 But it's not transformative at least spiritually transformative 42 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,400 in nature and might transform you physically. 43 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,900 You might do some good things but in worship when we come 44 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:51,000 together, there's something spiritual in nature, that's 45 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,700 taking place and that's what this series seeks to show us and 46 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:56,900 then it's going to show us in the coming weeks. 47 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:00,500 I think why we do what we do. Why do we sing? 48 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,200 Why do we pray? Why do we take communion? 49 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,400 Why do we baptize people? Why do we Preach the word. 50 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:09,400 What's happening in these things? 51 00:03:10,100 --> 00:03:13,800 Today is really a good. The Lord is always, he's always 52 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,000 providential. Today's a really good one, it's 53 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,500 the next sermon. It would have been the next 54 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:22,000 sermon in the series of this, is not a recap sermon, but it's a 55 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,900 very good one for continuing building, the foundation, for 56 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:28,200 what it is that we're looking at. 57 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,400 And so series is what happens when we worship. 58 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:36,800 I want to make it known as I did, then that That I took a 59 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,300 class in the summer through Grace Bible Theological Seminary 60 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:46,800 where I attend on worship. And so in one sense I am trying 61 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,900 to help myself right, as I study things, I want to be able to 62 00:03:49,900 --> 00:03:53,500 teach things and I'm trying not to be overloaded. 63 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:56,200 So there will be some things. I study that we won't have 64 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,200 sermon series on and then there's things that I study 65 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,800 that, I think, man, we need to learn these things together. 66 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,300 We need to teach this together so that class but also Book by a 67 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,000 man named. Jonathan Cruz has been really 68 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,900 helpful in putting this series together. 69 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,000 And so many of the thoughts come from my studies and from this 70 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,899 book anyway. So, in week one, we looked at we 71 00:04:19,899 --> 00:04:22,900 were created to worship. We just looked at Genesis 1. 72 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:24,600 Why did God put man and woman in the garden? 73 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:27,200 What were they created to do? They were created to be 74 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:30,600 worshipers of God. Now, they chose instead to 75 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,500 worship themselves, right. That's the Temptation Of Satan 76 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:36,800 is that you would be God. And if you're God And then you 77 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,500 are worshipping yourself. And so they fell in second 78 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:42,600 Corinthians 3. The second week, we looked at 79 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,100 how we become what we behold. You were all because you were 80 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:49,300 created to worship your always worshipping something and you're 81 00:04:49,308 --> 00:04:51,800 becoming whatever it is, that you are beholding. 82 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:57,600 And so, in Christian worship, we behold nothing less and nothing 83 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:02,700 more than Christ and we become like him in so doing. 84 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:05,300 All right? And then in the final week that 85 00:05:05,300 --> 00:05:09,100 I was able to She goes, we looked at Hebrews 12 and we 86 00:05:09,108 --> 00:05:11,000 talked about how we meet with God. 87 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,400 When we come together, we are literally physically spiritually 88 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:21,500 meeting with God. And so we looked at that from 89 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:26,400 Hebrews 12, James did a recap sermon looking at Isaiah 6, 90 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:28,900 which kind of showed some of those steps that we see. 91 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:33,200 And then here we are today and then today I want to talk to you 92 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:37,100 about how Worship Christian. Worship is all about the 93 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:40,900 Covenant, faithfulness of God. It's about his covenants. 94 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,300 We draw near to God, so it's my big idea for you. 95 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:49,200 Today, we draw near to God, In Worship by his Covenant, 'l. 96 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:53,900 Grace, we draw near to God, In Worship by his Covenant soil, 97 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,400 Grace. So when they examine four parts 98 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,100 of weekly worship, what's taking place in weekly worship? 99 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:03,900 The first thing is that we see our covenant relationship. 100 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:05,900 We see our covenant relationship and I'll go through. 101 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,300 Oh these as I'm preaching, I'm just trying to give you a 102 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:11,000 roadmap for we're headed this morning. 103 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:13,500 We share our covenant relationship. 104 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:16,800 We experience Covenant 'l. Sorry we experience Covenant. 105 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,500 Renewal we encounter the Covenant Redeemer. 106 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:26,500 And we conclude by offering Covenant response, our covenant 107 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:29,700 response. So when I ask that you stand, as 108 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:34,800 I read Hebrews 10:19 through 23 when I'm finished reading, I'll 109 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,500 say this is the word of the Lord. 110 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,800 I ask that you respond. Thanks be to God men. 111 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:45,200 He was 10 verse 19. Therefore Brothers, since we 112 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,100 have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of 113 00:06:48,108 --> 00:06:52,500 Jesus by the New and Living Way that he opened for us through 114 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:54,900 the curtain that is through his flesh. 115 00:06:54,900 --> 00:07:01,300 And since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us 116 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:06,000 draw near with a True Heart in full Assurance of Faith with our 117 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,600 hearts sprinkled clean, from an evil conscience and our bodies 118 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,200 washed with pure water. Let us hold fast, the 119 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,400 confession. Action of Our Hope without 120 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,300 wavering for he, who promised is faithful. 121 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:22,500 This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 122 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,400 We pray Heavenly Father, we love you. 123 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:30,600 We thank you Lord for your word. We ask Lord that you be near to 124 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:35,300 us and how he's being as we've heard from it and now I attempt 125 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:38,900 to preach it, Lord, may it be your word and your word alone 126 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:43,100 that transforms our hearts and Minds today made the thoughts 127 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:47,700 that come from My mouse, the your thoughts and things that 128 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:50,900 are clear and your word and nothing less Lord. 129 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:53,300 Would you open our hearts and Minds today to receive your 130 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:55,100 word? Help us to receive it with 131 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:59,700 gladness hopes to receive it with a desire to obey it. 132 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:02,900 We love you. We thank you that you're working 133 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:09,500 and even now in ways that we may not even see us but we know that 134 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:11,600 you are near, it's in the Name of Christ. 135 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:12,800 We pray. Amen. 136 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,800 Amen. So a sermon on meeting with God 137 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,600 and then one of those things that we talked about is how it's 138 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,700 kind of a terrifying thing to think about meeting with God. 139 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:29,200 If you think about meeting with God, it's kind of a terrifying 140 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:34,299 Endeavor. The writer of Hebrews here says 141 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:39,700 that we can come to worship with confidence and we should, he's 142 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:43,400 imploring, his people come to worship with confidence. 143 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:48,100 Come before him with confidence but that's not naturally. 144 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:52,100 The case naturally, we're separated from God. 145 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:56,000 And if it were not for Christ, we would possess nothing to 146 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:03,400 bring to God with confidence except our sin and guilt again 147 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,400 right out of the gate in the Garden of Eden after Adam and 148 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,700 Eve have sinned. The Lord comes in the cool of 149 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:11,000 the day and he calls out to the man. 150 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,300 And the Man Comes running to God with joy. 151 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,900 Wrong. The man does what he hides. 152 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:24,900 Why? Because meeting with God in your 153 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:32,000 sin and guilt is terrified, he's holy he's perfect and we're not 154 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 and we recognize this. However, what we see in Hebrews 155 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:41,000 10 is that we can draw near with a True Heart in full Assurance 156 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,600 of Faith. How is that possible? 157 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,400 Well, Cruz says this, I thought this hopefully says, because in 158 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,400 Christian worship, God doesn't meet with us. 159 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:55,500 In our guilts, he meets with us. Sorry, he meets us with his 160 00:09:55,500 --> 00:09:57,300 grace. He doesn't meet with us in our 161 00:09:57,300 --> 00:09:59,400 guilt. He meets us with his grace. 162 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:07,000 God calls to Adam in the garden and Adam finally comes and he's 163 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:11,800 at the verdict is pronounced. Adam is guilty, but God meets 164 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,400 him with Grace, there will come one. 165 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,500 Who will crush the Serpent's. Here's some clothes from animal 166 00:10:17,500 --> 00:10:20,900 skins, which were sacrifices, which was a Prelude or 167 00:10:20,900 --> 00:10:23,200 foreshadowing to the sacrifices that would come in the Old 168 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,600 Testament, which were a Prelude or a foreshadowing to the 169 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,800 sacrifice. Ultimately of Christ, there's 170 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:34,100 grace, even in the garden. In a minson and drastic 171 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:38,200 Rebellion against the perfect Creator, God shows Grace. 172 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,000 We draw near to God In Worship by his Covenant of Grace. 173 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,200 This is what we will see today. As I mentioned, a moment ago, we 174 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:55,300 meet with God and Christian worship, he He is present with 175 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:59,400 us and Hebrews 12, we looked at how you don't come to Mount 176 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,100 Sinai, you don't come to what may be touched, but you come to 177 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:08,100 the New Jerusalem, the holy city of God, to a new to assure 178 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:12,600 mediator to Christ himself. You come to meet with God. 179 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:17,400 When you meet When we come together, we meet with him. 180 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,400 Now, if you were curious about the implications of that, then I 181 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,700 encourage you to check out that sermon from August. 182 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:29,300 But one fascinating wonderful truth of this, is that in 183 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:33,300 Christian worship. God is condescending to his 184 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:37,700 people. He's coming down to us and he's 185 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:41,900 restoring us to him self. This is why the Incarnation of 186 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:44,900 Christ is so wonderful. It's the condescension of the 187 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:49,800 very Son of God to become like us so that he might die a death. 188 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,800 Pay a price that you and I should have died and should have 189 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,200 paid. So that we might go scot-free in 190 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,500 his righteousness. Be clean forever. 191 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:06,300 And so, we're worthy of God's Wrath throughout the week. 192 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:10,400 We commit many sins and when we come to worship and some sense 193 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,600 it ought to terrify us that we were going to meet with God in 194 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:18,500 our sinfulness and yet in weekly worship God is reminding us of 195 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:22,500 his Covenant faithfulness. Our covenant with him is founded 196 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:29,300 on and it's perpetuated by his faithful commitment to us not by 197 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:32,000 our lacking performance before him. 198 00:12:32,100 --> 00:12:37,900 Amen. And he ordains, he gives to US 199 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:43,000 Weekly worship out of his kindness for the purpose of 200 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,900 reminding of his Covenant faithfulness. 201 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:50,800 And so, when weekly worship is at least four things taking 202 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,800 place that I want to show you today first, we see our covenant 203 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,900 relationship and weekly worship. We have on display for us, our 204 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:02,700 covenant relationship with God. Hebrews 10:19, we have 205 00:13:02,700 --> 00:13:07,500 confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus. 206 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:14,600 The Bible is clear that we have a relationship with God. 207 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:19,200 And this relationship comes to us now through the blood of 208 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:23,000 Christ and worship. We see this Covenant 209 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:27,000 relationship firsthand 1st Corinthians 11:25 says this in 210 00:13:27,008 --> 00:13:29,000 the same way. He also took the cup after 211 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,100 supper saying this cup and this is Christ speaking to his 212 00:13:32,100 --> 00:13:34,900 disciples. This cup is the New Covenant in 213 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:38,000 my blood do this, as often as you drink it in remembrance of 214 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:38,800 me. What's he saying? 215 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:44,400 He said, Here is the New Covenant according to my blood. 216 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,100 What is covenant? If it's not relationship? 217 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:50,800 Covenant is all about relationship. 218 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:55,900 God relates to his creatures in covenants. 219 00:13:56,500 --> 00:14:01,200 Those are relationships that are based on binding promises 220 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:05,300 between at least two parties and typically one of those parties 221 00:14:05,300 --> 00:14:11,200 is greater than the other. I have the wonderful call of 222 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,200 walking through premarital counseling with couples who are 223 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,700 engaged to be married. And this week, I was looking at 224 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:21,700 the Covenant of marriage with Alan and Sarah as they prepare 225 00:14:21,700 --> 00:14:26,000 to be married in February and in it, what we were talking about 226 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,700 is just the Covenant of God, God. 227 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:32,300 Grants to man, The Covenant of marriage, but the Covenant of 228 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:35,100 marriage is not simply between a man and a woman. 229 00:14:35,700 --> 00:14:37,300 Amen. It's between a man and a woman 230 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:41,200 who are becoming One flesh and who are in relationship with God 231 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,800 or who should be in relationship with God. 232 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,900 So even the Covenant of marriage is perpetuated, is founded on 233 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:54,200 God, his grace, his mercy. And when to come together under 234 00:14:54,200 --> 00:15:00,000 that, they're coming together to God with one another, And so in 235 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,200 relate in covenants, what's happening? 236 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,400 Is God is condescending, he's stooping down. 237 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:11,500 If you will to us And in this Covenant, what we see as we see 238 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:14,600 throughout the Old Testament of those covenants, he is promising 239 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,100 salvation to all who will call on the name of his son, by his 240 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:22,800 grace through faith. And this is his Covenant of 241 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:27,400 Grace and buy it. Buy it alone, you might enjoy 242 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:31,800 fellowship with God, once again, but apart from it, apart from 243 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,500 the grace of God and his Covenant, you can have no 244 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:40,300 fellowship with God. In the garden, which is really 245 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:45,300 just the first Worship Center as we looked at in that first 246 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:47,500 sermon of how you were created to worship. 247 00:15:47,700 --> 00:15:51,300 God began a covenant with the man and the woman. 248 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,700 When he created them, he creates them and then he gives them a 249 00:15:54,708 --> 00:15:57,800 command. And he tells them that they 250 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,700 would have everlasting life if they would obey the command, 251 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,800 because if they disobeyed it, they would surely die. 252 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:08,300 It means if they obeyed it, they would surely not die in the sign 253 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:10,400 of their everlasting life would be a feast. 254 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:13,800 They would get to eat from a tree that was in the middle of 255 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,600 the garden called the Tree of Life. 256 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:23,900 And they would live forever. Genesis 3, shows us A quote from 257 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:27,200 Cruz's book says this for Adam and all his descendants. 258 00:16:28,700 --> 00:16:33,300 A worship order was fixed stitched into the very order and 259 00:16:33,300 --> 00:16:40,000 fabric of human life on Earth. God gives a call, man gives a 260 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,400 response responsible be tiant's and then there is a meal there 261 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,800 is communion with God. There's a call to worship 262 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,200 through God's word. There's a response from Man by 263 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,100 faith and obedience by love and devotion. 264 00:16:55,700 --> 00:16:59,100 And there's a fellowship meal, there's Union and communion with 265 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:02,900 God. In short Worship in Eden was 266 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:08,500 familial Covenant, 'l communion However, we know already that 267 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:14,300 Adam and Eve failed right we are where we're at today because 268 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:18,099 they have failed. I failed to obey God it took of 269 00:17:18,099 --> 00:17:21,099 the fruit which he commanded them not to eat and so they were 270 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:24,099 kicked out of the garden by their treason they were in 271 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:28,800 rebellion. And so they were kicked out this 272 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,900 and this should have been Doom for all of their descendants. 273 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:37,200 All of their descendants should have been them and all their 274 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:40,000 descendants should have been doomed to the same fate. 275 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:48,100 damnation forever they should have had nothing but a sinful 276 00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:51,100 life without any hope of fellowship with God. 277 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,100 But again, I've already told you earlier. 278 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:55,600 This is not what we see in Genesis 3, right God makes a 279 00:17:55,608 --> 00:18:03,300 promise God provides sacrifice God intends to remain in 280 00:18:03,300 --> 00:18:06,300 fellowship with his people in spite of their sins. 281 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,300 God maintains his Covenant relationship with his people. 282 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:13,200 He overcomes our sin by his Amazing Grace by his astounding 283 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:18,100 Mercy through Jesus Christ and so as a result, there's two 284 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:20,600 things that are added there's two elements added to the 285 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,400 original call response Mill structure of Covenant 286 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,100 relationship. So again, I set the the original 287 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:29,200 structures that there's a call from God. 288 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:32,300 There's a response from man and then there's a communion meal 289 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:37,900 that shared But now things had to change. 290 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:41,300 The first thing we see is that a cleansing must be added. 291 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,500 We can no longer answer God's call because we are defiled by 292 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:50,400 sin, we are in pure and so we cannot approach him again. 293 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:55,800 He is Holy, we are not Therefore God's covenant faithfulness 294 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:00,000 requires Bloodshed. Now that's what the author of 295 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,600 Hebrews is writing and Hebrews 9:22 where he says, indeed under 296 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:09,500 the law, almost everything is purified with blood and without 297 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:13,200 the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins. 298 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:19,300 There must be a cleansing and to enter Covenant relationship with 299 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:24,600 God, you must be cleansed and so he makes cleansing Oil in 300 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,300 Christ. The second thing we see that's 301 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:31,700 added is commissioning. It used to be that the Covenant 302 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:34,900 will Feast was the culmination of worship. 303 00:19:35,300 --> 00:19:38,200 That's the the mill of worship if you will, for us. 304 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:42,200 It's now the Lord's supper. And it used to be that, that 305 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,700 would be the end of it that you would Feast with God, you would 306 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:49,500 commune with him. But once the fall happened, 307 00:19:49,500 --> 00:19:54,500 there's now a commissioning, there's a going and the mill is 308 00:19:54,500 --> 00:19:57,900 now just simply meant to remind you of future things to come 309 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:01,400 that you will enjoy one day, the marriage supper of the Lamb. 310 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:07,000 One day in the fullness of Glory, you'll dwell with Christ 311 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,800 and with the Saints and with Angelic beings and you will 312 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:20,000 Feast together. Amen. but, until then, Your 313 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,600 commission. Your commission until. 314 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,100 Then, God commission's us with work to do. 315 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,100 What's the work? What's the good work of 316 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:33,500 gathering more worshippers? It's the good work of taking the 317 00:20:33,500 --> 00:20:37,500 gospel into the nation's and proclaiming Christ to also that 318 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:40,500 more might become worshipers of God. 319 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,400 It's the good work of training, your children to love the Lord, 320 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:50,700 some of us are more adamant about Warning here, this is 321 00:20:50,700 --> 00:20:53,100 going to hurt. Some of us are more adamant 322 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:57,000 about the teams that our children will root for. 323 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,600 And we are about the God. They will serve. 324 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:05,200 We need to be careful. We'll give them a choice on 325 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,400 which God they serve, but we won't give them a choice on 326 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,700 which sports team, they have to root for what's wrong with us. 327 00:21:12,100 --> 00:21:14,000 Let's say us. I just mean the Christian world 328 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,500 not necessarily you. This was God's intention with 329 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:21,500 Israel. He saved Israel, we read in 330 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:24,200 Joshua 424. So that all the peoples of the 331 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:25,800 earth. May know that the hand of the 332 00:21:25,808 --> 00:21:30,100 Lord is mighty that you may fear the lord, your God forever so he 333 00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:31,100 saved Israel. Why? 334 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,000 So that all the nations of the world might see and know and 335 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:41,200 fear God. Amazing Deuteronomy 46. 336 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,900 We see that Israel was saved. So that other nations would 337 00:21:43,900 --> 00:21:46,900 Marvel at their wisdom and blessing, they would look at 338 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:51,900 them and say, wow, they were not Mighty, now they're Mighty, they 339 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:54,800 didn't know things. Now they have all wisdom. 340 00:21:55,300 --> 00:22:04,400 God is surely in their midst. God intended to use Israel, to 341 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:08,700 declare his glory among the nation's his Wonder among all 342 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:12,300 peoples, as first chronicles 16, 24 cents. 343 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,600 So now we have the basic Covenant, all the basic 344 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,900 structure for the Covenant or relationship that God has with 345 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:25,000 his people and he intends for us to see it weekly and our worship 346 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,600 service. And so I'll go over the steps. 347 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:33,500 Just kind of all together here. God calls his people to the task 348 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:38,400 of glorifying and praising him. God cleanses his people making 349 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,000 them fit to receive his word and truly be consecrated or set 350 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:46,000 apart as those who respond in faith and obedience God, shares 351 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,200 a meal with his people as a symbol of their communion. 352 00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:53,000 Finally God blesses, his people and he sends them out into the 353 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,600 world to declare his glory, to all people. 354 00:22:56,900 --> 00:23:00,400 This is what's happening in the worship service, the worship. 355 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,700 Gathering. We draw near to God and worship 356 00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:06,700 by his Covenant of Grace, and that relationship is formed in 357 00:23:06,700 --> 00:23:10,100 US. The second thing happens in 358 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:12,600 weekly worship is that we experienced covenants. 359 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:17,300 Renewal God renews his Covenant with us, Hebrews 10:22, let us 360 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:21,500 draw near with a heart with a True Heart in full Assurance of 361 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:26,400 Faith with our hearts sprinkled clean, from an evil conscience, 362 00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:29,700 and our bodies washed with pure water. 363 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:33,100 This is what the writer of Hebrews is, describing is a 364 00:23:33,100 --> 00:23:36,000 renewal of the Covenant of the covenants. 365 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,200 It's a cleansing that's taking place. 366 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:41,600 Time and time. Again Israel. 367 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:46,600 In the Old Testament does their dead level best to lose forever 368 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:50,200 their Covenant with God. How many times have you been 369 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,200 reading the scriptures or sitting in Sunday school? 370 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:57,400 Even and thinking to yourself, Israel, what are you doing? 371 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:04,600 How could you be so foolish? Yet, the irony is we are Israel. 372 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:10,800 We are they they are us. Time and Time and Time. 373 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,800 Again they're trying to mess it up. 374 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:15,800 And in fact if it were up to them to keep their Covenant 375 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,000 relationship with God, they would have lost it long ago and 376 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,700 the same way is that if it were up to you to keep your salvation 377 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:29,500 you would have lost it long ago. They underwent chastisement from 378 00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:33,900 God. Write me God dealt harshly with 379 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:36,500 Israel. They lost the promised land. 380 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,800 They dwelt under harsh captivity, there were many other 381 00:24:40,900 --> 00:24:44,700 judgments both individual judgments and corporate 382 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:49,500 judgments if you will. The all of that happened, they 383 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:54,400 never lost their Covenant or relationship with God because he 384 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,600 is faithful in his Covenant of Grace is greater than their sins 385 00:24:59,300 --> 00:25:03,600 in Exodus. We see this a bit more clearly 386 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,400 playing out after God calls them out of Egypt out of their old 387 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,600 place. He calls them to a new place 388 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:15,400 where Mount Sinai and there he meets with them. 389 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:19,700 God calls us to meet. That's the first step, right? 390 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:22,200 And immediately, he cleanses them. 391 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,300 God would have he constantly throughout the Old. 392 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:30,100 Testament is reminding them and he begins here at Mount Sinai of 393 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:31,800 his Redemption. He reminds them of his 394 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,300 Redemption. He says I am the Lord your God 395 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:37,400 who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of 396 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:40,400 bondage. That sounds like a history 397 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,600 lesson, but what it is, is he replaying for them, he's 398 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,800 rehearsing for them. His Redemption. 399 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,300 Their history is marked by constant Redemption. 400 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:56,700 If it weren't so then they would have no relationship with him at 401 00:25:56,700 --> 00:25:59,300 all. So what was the Redemption that 402 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:02,500 got them out of Egypt? What was it? 403 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:04,400 That took place? What was the sacrifice that 404 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,600 happened? Was nothing less than the 405 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,200 Passover Lamb, right? Take these Lambs. 406 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:16,100 Kill these Lambs, spread the blood over your door post 407 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:19,500 because the angel of death is coming through and anyone who 408 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:22,400 doesn't have this Mark, is going to lose the first, their 409 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:31,000 firstborn son. and so, all of the Israelites, Take the blood 410 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,400 of the Lamb, wipe it across the doorpost of their home. 411 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,300 And when the angel of death comes, he passes by But all of 412 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,600 the Egyptian firstborn sons and we tend to think, right used to 413 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:49,200 of infants what is the firstborn son of every family? 414 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,600 Is destroyed in one night. One night. 415 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:05,500 And all of it foreshadows the coming of the Son of God, who 416 00:27:05,500 --> 00:27:09,500 would become the lamb, who was slain so that you and I might 417 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:12,600 take the blood of the lamb. And so to speak, wipe it across 418 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,700 the doorpost of our home by faith. 419 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,100 And be free from the wrath of God. 420 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:25,100 Hidden in him. And so, when he says, I brought 421 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:26,900 you out of the land of Egypt, I brought you out of the house of 422 00:27:26,900 --> 00:27:29,300 bondage, it's a reminder of his Redemption. 423 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,300 I redeemed you. It's a cleansing next, he 424 00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:35,600 consecrates them. It gives them his word, 425 00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:39,100 literally, they receive the Ten Commandments, and the people are 426 00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:42,000 supposed to respond. And what faith and obedience to 427 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:47,100 the Ten Commandments. Exodus 24:3 Moses came, and he 428 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:50,200 told the people, all the words of the Lord and all the rules 429 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,800 that God had given and all the people answered with one voice 430 00:27:53,800 --> 00:28:01,700 and said, all the words that the Lord has spoken, we will do Boy, 431 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:06,800 they had good intentions. And then they commune with God. 432 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,900 And exodus 24 9 through 11. We see that there was a feast. 433 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,300 They ate and they drank they beheld, God together. 434 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,200 A proper Covenant relationship with God. 435 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,200 Always leads to communion. This is the blessing of 436 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,200 Covenant, is that we get to commune with God. 437 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,400 This is the joy of him condescending to us. 438 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,600 Is that we are brought back into fellowship with him and surely, 439 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,700 surely, we will gladly submit to, we will gladly worship him 440 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:42,500 alone. Surely. 441 00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:44,500 That's what the Israelites did, right? 442 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,700 No, you know, the rest of the story after they made this great 443 00:28:50,700 --> 00:28:54,600 Proclamation, we will do all the law says we will. 444 00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:58,700 Do we commit to it? It's only a few chapters later 445 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:02,700 that we find the making an idol a golden calf to worship. 446 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,600 And to the calf, they are saying this is the Lord who brought us 447 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:15,000 out of Egypt, what a tragedy. Now, that should have been the 448 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:20,000 end for Israel. And for many, it was, there was 449 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,600 a great Reckoning for those sins. 450 00:29:23,900 --> 00:29:27,500 However, God does the whole thing all over again. 451 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:33,800 And again, and again, throughout the Old Testament, he is 452 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:39,100 constantly coming to Israel and renewing his covenants that they 453 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:43,100 continue to break and this is good news of great joy for you. 454 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:46,600 And I, and all of the worship Services of the Old Testament, 455 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,700 we see that there is a cleansing, there are sacrifices 456 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:54,300 that are being made, why? Because God is renewing his 457 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:58,400 Covenant with his people that they broke, but for him to do 458 00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:02,200 that, There must be a cleansing and so he renews his 459 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:07,700 relationship with his people who definitely don't deserve it but 460 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:13,000 yet he is kind. Don't think Cruz says in the 461 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,800 worship service, God gives his people the very proof that he 462 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:20,500 has not left them. He shows that his faithfulness 463 00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:25,700 never comes to an end and that his Mercy is new every morning. 464 00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:31,800 We draw near to God and worship by his Covenant tool Grace, the 465 00:30:31,808 --> 00:30:34,500 third thing that happens in a worship services that we 466 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:39,200 encounter the Covenant Redeemer. We encounter the Covenant 467 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,200 Redeemer. I'm going to read to you, 468 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:44,600 Hebrews 10:19 through 21. Therefore Brothers, since we 469 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,600 have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of 470 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,000 Jesus. This is Our Redeemer by the New 471 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,500 and Living Way that he opened for us through the curtain that 472 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:57,600 is through his flesh. And since we have a great priest 473 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:03,400 over the house of God, he is our covenant Redeemer. 474 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:10,300 Amen. we may ask, why doesn't God Just hand as people over to 475 00:31:10,308 --> 00:31:13,500 their sins. Why doesn't God just give people 476 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:20,200 over to unfettered Rebellion? The answer is Jesus Christ. 477 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,500 The great high priest in heaven. The one who is over the house of 478 00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:29,000 God. Our sin doesn't destroy God's 479 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,300 covenant with us because the plan was always for God to keep 480 00:31:34,300 --> 00:31:39,800 the covenant not us. He returns to Israel over and 481 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:50,900 over and over and over and over again. because one day, And 482 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:54,000 their future in our past, but one day and their future, their 483 00:31:54,000 --> 00:32:00,800 sin would be ultimately laid upon his own son on the cross in 484 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:07,200 perfect Redemption. Christ is on every page of the 485 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,400 Old Testament because every bit of it looks forward to the day 486 00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:16,000 where he would be the guarantor of a better Covenant, a Covenant 487 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:20,500 of Grace, a covenant that sealed by his own blood and so God 488 00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:24,400 renews the Covenant over and over and over and over again 489 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:30,700 because of the Covenant Redeemer his own son Christ is the head 490 00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:32,900 crusher of the Dragon in Genesis 3. 491 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:37,600 The one who tried to steal Covenant relationship with God 492 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,100 Christ. Restores it Satan tried to be 493 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:44,300 God himself. And so God the sun destroys 494 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,600 Satan by his own death on a cross. 495 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:53,200 A sacrifice once for all time Christ is the link between Old 496 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,600 Testament Covenant of worship and our worship today. 497 00:32:57,100 --> 00:33:02,100 Covenant is extremely important for understanding our worship. 498 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,300 It helps us understand what? We're doing here week in and 499 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:08,500 week out. Why do we show up and sing 500 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:10,700 songs? That rehearse the gospel? 501 00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:12,600 Why do we show up in here or word? 502 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,900 Preach. That rehearses the gospel. 503 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:19,000 Why do we show up and confess sins that we hope will bring 504 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,300 about the cleansing because it rehearses the gospel. 505 00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:26,300 We are in every way from beginning to end of this 506 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:30,000 service. Placing our faith in Christ our 507 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,800 covenant Redeemer because he alone saves us. 508 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:39,900 Us. and we are by faith every single Sunday morning coming 509 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:47,200 together and saying in Christ, I hope In Christ. 510 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:53,800 Why? Because the worship service is 511 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,000 where God renews his Covenant with us. 512 00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:01,700 When a worship service is done the way God has written in his 513 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:03,600 word for a worship service to be done. 514 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,800 And there are that I'm not saying that there's a worship 515 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,199 service in here that you look at he's like oh he's got to be that 516 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:11,500 way and it's not that way. Then you're in sin. 517 00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:15,699 But there are things in the word that should be in a worship 518 00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:17,500 service. And there are things not in 519 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:20,900 worship services that are added to worship Services throughout 520 00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:24,400 church history. Including today, it shouldn't be 521 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:29,900 But when you do worship, the way God has instructed worship to 522 00:34:29,900 --> 00:34:35,400 happen, it's a renewal of his Covenant, it's discipleship. 523 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:41,400 It's discipling, you end the gospel message, the Covenant, 524 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:47,500 that the Covenant that we have broken is on display for us and 525 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:49,900 just as he did for ancient Israel, he does for his people. 526 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:54,500 Now, he comes to us to renew this Covenant and when we come 527 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:59,000 to worship we come as Hebrews, 12 says, to Jesus the mediator 528 00:34:59,100 --> 00:35:02,600 of the New Covenant and so Jesus doesn't abolish the old 529 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,200 Covenant. He perfectly. 530 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,200 Fulfills it on behalf of God's people. 531 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,700 Our worship is still coven until today. 532 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,300 God calls us into a relationship with him. 533 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:13,900 This is why we begin the service with a call to worship. 534 00:35:13,900 --> 00:35:17,300 It's calling you to Worship. The Lord is showing you who is 535 00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:25,000 calling you Our worship Services still require responses in faith 536 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,300 and obedience. Worship services today come with 537 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:34,200 Promises of life and salvation because God is a covenant alone. 538 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,000 He's forming, Covenant relationship with his people. 539 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:40,000 So the basic shape of our worship should be that of 540 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,400 Covenant to worship. There's a call, there's a 541 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,100 pronouncement of cleansing and consecration. 542 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,500 There's communion. And then there's commissioning. 543 00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:51,800 We should go through these same steps week in and week out in 544 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,200 some way. Because by them God is still 545 00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,100 renewing. His Covenant with his people 546 00:35:57,100 --> 00:36:00,400 today. He is faithful but we are not. 547 00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:04,400 He doesn't renew it with us because he forgets it. 548 00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:08,500 God is Not forgetful. God has not forgotten. 549 00:36:08,500 --> 00:36:11,800 His Covenant, the reminder is for you. 550 00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:16,900 The reminder is for me, the renewal is for our benefits. 551 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:22,100 He shows us week in, and week out that his faithfulness never 552 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:27,200 runs dry. It's a cup that overflows. 553 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,900 And so when we draw near to God and worship, we do so, by his 554 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:36,700 covenants will Grace And so this is how it works. 555 00:36:36,900 --> 00:36:41,300 Now again this comes from cruises but we are called to 556 00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:47,200 worship God in the name of the son Jesus said in John 14:6. 557 00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:49,100 I am the way, the truth and the life. 558 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:51,400 No one comes to the father, except through me. 559 00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:54,800 So we're called to come to the father but we come through who 560 00:36:55,100 --> 00:36:59,600 Christ. We are cleansed not buy anything 561 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,900 or hands of done. Not by any sacrifices we offer. 562 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:05,100 You won't come in here On Any Sunday ever. 563 00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:08,300 You have my word and see us butcher a cow in front of you. 564 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,800 All right. It's my guarantee to you. 565 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,200 You can eat breakfast before you show up, all right. 566 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,200 But you come and you are cleansed by the once for all 567 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,300 sacrifice of Christ on the cross. 568 00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,000 Hebrew 7:27, he has no need Christ. 569 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,200 Has no need like those High priests to offer sacrifices 570 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,900 daily first for his own sins. And then for those of the 571 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:38,300 people, since he did this once for all when he offered up 572 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:45,200 himself, what a word. Third, we are consecrated as 573 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:50,200 God's people by the preaching of Christ, gospel Colossians 128, 574 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,600 Paul writes him. We Proclaim Christ, we Proclaim 575 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,800 warning, everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom that we 576 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,700 may present every one mature in Christ. 577 00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:04,800 You are consecrated by the word of Christ. 578 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:10,200 Fourth. We commune with God as we 579 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,500 partake of the body and the blood of his son in communion, 580 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:17,100 we commune with God for strength, Ian's 10:16. 581 00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:22,800 The cup of blessing that we bless it is not sorry, is it not 582 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,500 a participation in the blood of Christ, the bread, the bread 583 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:29,200 that we break? Is it not a participation in the 584 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,000 body of Christ? Absolutely they are. 585 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,500 And then finally we were commissioned to serve God In The 586 00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:39,000 Name of Christ. Is those who bear the name. 587 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:44,500 Christian Colossians 129 talks about the power and the strength 588 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,000 which you are commissioned in for this. 589 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,800 I toil struggling with all God's energy, his energy that he 590 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,300 powerfully works Within Me. Another verse that may be 591 00:38:56,300 --> 00:38:58,800 helpful for that is one that Jasper use last week. 592 00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,300 Ephesians 2:10, we are his workmanship created in Christ 593 00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:06,000 Jesus. For good works which God 594 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,600 prepared beforehand. Amen. 595 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:15,400 And so finally, we offer our covenant response. 596 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:19,900 You have nothing to bring to the Lord, but once you have been 597 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:26,500 called and cleansed and consecrated and fellowship has 598 00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:30,800 been restored, you may now offer your response. 599 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:37,500 You respond to God. Hebrews 10:23 shows us a great 600 00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:42,000 response at the very well, I only want to call it the very 601 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:47,900 least the central responds to all Christian Living is found in 602 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:51,100 Hebrews 10:23. Let us hold fast. 603 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,800 The confession of Our Hope without wavering. 604 00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:02,600 For he who promised is faithful. This is our confidence. 605 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,600 Amen. This is how we confidently come 606 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,200 before the Lord. This is how we respond Covenant 607 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:13,800 Ali with God. It's to say, I am going to hold 608 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:18,400 fast to the confession of My Hope, and I'm going to do it 609 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:23,400 without wavering. I'm going to stand on Christ 610 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,400 because he who promised is the only one whose Faith? 611 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:31,300 He is faithful, I am not. And so the elements of worship 612 00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:34,700 have been radically changed by the addition of cleansing and 613 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:38,800 commission but it is Christ. Who does both Christ cleanses 614 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,400 Christ? Commissions in Christian 615 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,300 worship. We are being formed into the 616 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:46,600 image of the invisible. God through Christ. 617 00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:49,900 We are no longer stuck in the rebellion of Adam, we have been 618 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:51,600 freed by Christ. To worship. 619 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:57,600 God, Arise to worship him a new as brand new Creations, even we 620 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:01,200 have been freed by Christ to fellowship with God. 621 00:41:01,300 --> 00:41:05,500 Fully in Christ. You are transformed from sinner 622 00:41:06,100 --> 00:41:10,100 into a saint. You'd be receive a new name. 623 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:15,300 And so now what? Well the proper response to all 624 00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:19,800 of this, to all of this Covenant work of God to all of his 625 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,400 Covenant faithfulness toward us, the proper response. 626 00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:29,900 Worship. Still worship him and him alone 627 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,500 is to glorify God in all things, and to enjoy him forever, it's 628 00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:37,100 to worship him. We praise God. 629 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:39,700 For his Covenant will faithfulness toward us. 630 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:44,500 We worship him for it because we know that we are of those who 631 00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:49,800 least deserve it. And so, therefore in our 632 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:56,100 worship, we decide we commit, we place ourselves by faith on 633 00:41:56,100 --> 00:42:02,100 Christ and we say I am holding fast to this confession of Hope 634 00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:05,300 without wavering for God who promised is faithful? 635 00:42:07,500 --> 00:42:10,000 See Christ is the mediator between us and God. 636 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,400 God speaks to us through Christ. We speak back to God through 637 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,700 Christ, you cannot draw near to God in any other way. 638 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:20,000 But through Christ Christ is the mediator. 639 00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:25,800 Because of this truth Christ is the center of your worship. 640 00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:30,000 We rehearse, the Covenant relationship with God that he 641 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,400 has with us through his son, we rehearse, the gospel, every 642 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:39,400 week. Without Christ, when God calls, 643 00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:42,000 you could do nothing but run and hide. 644 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:49,400 But in Christ, you can come running to God, you can come 645 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,800 boldly before him. You can come confidently to him 646 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,100 in all of your need and know that he hears. 647 00:42:57,100 --> 00:43:00,700 You know that he's with, you know, that he's near to, you 648 00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:06,200 know, that he has not left you nor will he ever forsake you You 649 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,100 can know those things confidently as you hide yourself 650 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:15,200 in Christ. The sins of your week, those 651 00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:20,200 vain thoughts. Those foul words, those corrupt 652 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:25,700 actions, all of your sins the ones are fully aware of the ones 653 00:43:25,700 --> 00:43:28,400 you don't yet. See all of your sins bear 654 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:35,000 witness against you my friend they scream out with the voice 655 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:40,400 that You shouldn't be able to silence that you cannot come to 656 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:47,100 God today. However, you don't come on your 657 00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:52,900 own, do you? You come by faith. 658 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,400 In Christ, don't you? And consequently. 659 00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,000 Hebrews 7:25 consequently. He is able Christ. 660 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:08,500 Is able to save to the uttermost Those who draw near to God 661 00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:12,200 through him. Since he always lives to make 662 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:16,300 intercession for them. Woohoo. 663 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,400 And so when your sins scream at you when the accuser comes to 664 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:29,100 you and says you are not worthy, you cannot enter into that 665 00:44:29,100 --> 00:44:31,600 church today with any confidence. 666 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:39,200 You say you are right? You are right? 667 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,000 And there's far more truth to your statement of my accusation 668 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:51,300 than I want to admit, but Christ in me bids me, come and so I go 669 00:44:53,300 --> 00:44:58,900 you come through Christ every week and he will renew. 670 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,300 God, will renew through Christ his Covenant with you. 671 00:45:03,500 --> 00:45:07,600 You'll be reminded of it. You have the word of myself and 672 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,600 the elders here. That every time you come in 673 00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,100 these doors on a Sunday morning, you're going to be reminded of 674 00:45:13,100 --> 00:45:16,000 the wonderful Covenant with Christ that you have. 675 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:25,200 Amen. So come Come to worship, come 676 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:29,800 weekend, come week out, come to see God's covenant, faithfulness 677 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,800 towards you. Come on Christmas. 678 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,100 Come, when the electricity is out. 679 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:42,100 Come. Every first day of the week. 680 00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:50,300 Amen you are weak but Christ is mighty to save and so draw near 681 00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:54,900 to him I want to end with a doxology that comes from Romans 682 00:45:54,900 --> 00:45:59,100 11. Paul has spent eleven chapters 683 00:45:59,700 --> 00:46:07,300 looking at the beauty of God's salvation in Christ. 684 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,900 Apart, from works for anyone who calls on the name of the Lord. 685 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:17,000 The salvation of Grace and Paul just writes this, he says oh the 686 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:21,800 depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God, how 687 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:27,700 unsearchable are his judgments? How inscrutable his ways for who 688 00:46:27,700 --> 00:46:32,700 has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor or 689 00:46:32,700 --> 00:46:36,400 who has been given a gift to him that he might be repaid? 690 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:42,700 For from him and through him and to him are all things to him, be 691 00:46:42,700 --> 00:46:46,000 glory forever. Amen. 692 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,200 Let me pray for you. Heavenly Father, we praise you 693 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:54,300 today. What a gift? 694 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:59,400 What a gift. Your Covenant faithfulness is us 695 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,100 though. We are weak. 696 00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:06,800 You have been so strong. Through the Ages. 697 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:12,200 Lord, as we look at ancient Israel, As we look back, even 698 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:17,000 further than that to Adam. And we progress forward from him 699 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,400 all the way to the day that Christ is born. 700 00:47:19,500 --> 00:47:26,200 What we see is Covenant faithfulness over and again. and 701 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,700 Lord the pride and US wants to look at it and say, look how 702 00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:38,500 faithful man is But Lord, we can look at our own Hearts today and 703 00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:41,500 see how foolish we would be to utter such words. 704 00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:47,900 And so in Covenant with you father, what we're able to say 705 00:47:48,700 --> 00:47:54,700 is look how faithful you are. Look how faithful you are. 706 00:47:57,300 --> 00:48:01,600 Psalm 100, remind us reminds us that you are good. 707 00:48:03,100 --> 00:48:06,500 That you are steadfast in love and that your faithfulness 708 00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:14,500 endures to all generations. We thank you for that. 709 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,600 We thank you for those truths, Lord, we thank you for saving us 710 00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:23,200 in Christ that didn't him. You made a way where there was 711 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,100 no way. You've given us righteousness 712 00:48:26,100 --> 00:48:29,100 where there was no way to have righteousness, you freed us from 713 00:48:29,100 --> 00:48:31,800 the bondage of sin where there was no way to have freedom. 714 00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:36,100 In Christ, We Are Forever redeemed. 715 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,200 And so Lord, I pray that you would make us. 716 00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:46,800 A people. A people for your own, holy 717 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:51,900 possession. That we would be steadfast. 718 00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:58,900 That we would hold tight. The confidence that we have that 719 00:48:58,900 --> 00:49:05,500 is ours in Christ. We would know Lord. 720 00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:10,800 When the storm rages all around us. 721 00:49:13,300 --> 00:49:16,600 When it seems as though, maybe he's forgotten me. 722 00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:22,700 Lord help us to know, in the pit of our being. 723 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,000 From the depth of our. So, Lord help us to know that. 724 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:34,600 He who promised is faithful. Your faithful. 725 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:43,900 And so Lord, our Salvation hinges on nothing more, nothing 726 00:49:43,900 --> 00:49:50,800 less than your own faithfulness. And I am so grateful for that. 727 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:57,000 Lord. Would you commission us? 728 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,800 Now as we get ready to sing and to leave this place and few 729 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:05,400 moments, help us to be men and women again, boys and girls who 730 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:10,200 love the Lord so much That we submit to him. 731 00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:18,600 We obey that we abide in him. That we know your love father. 732 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:29,800 And father may, but may it be that by our our relationship 733 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:34,200 with you are being transformed into the likeness of Christ by 734 00:50:34,207 --> 00:50:38,400 the power of your spirit may be by our good works. 735 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:47,400 Even that people see God. And they glorify may worshipers 736 00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:49,800 come from every corner of Columbia County. 737 00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:55,800 Lord help us to be these kind of men and women. 738 00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:02,700 This kind of people who love the Lord so much And we're purging 739 00:51:02,700 --> 00:51:07,900 sin and we are working towards faithfulness, but we're doing it 740 00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:11,000 in the strength of Christ. We're toiling with your strength 741 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,000 and your energy that you give us nothing else. 742 00:51:16,900 --> 00:51:19,800 We love you, Lord. Father, if there's anyone in 743 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:22,100 here who doesn't know you, would you save them today? 744 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,200 Would you extend to them your grace? 745 00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,900 And your mercy? Would you regenerate, their 746 00:51:27,900 --> 00:51:31,300 heart, call them to yourself and may they come today? 747 00:51:32,900 --> 00:51:34,900 We love you, lord. It's in the Name of Christ. 748 00:51:34,900 --> 00:51:36,600 I pray. Amen.