1 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,200 Give you a minute to find your seats while you're doing that, 2 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,000 if you're visiting, thank you for being here today. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,200 My name is Kyle and I serve as lead, Pastor here. 4 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,300 And today, we're continuing in a series we began last week. 5 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:21,600 The series title is what happens when we worship. 6 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:24,900 And so, we're just building over the next several weeks. 7 00:00:25,100 --> 00:00:30,300 A theology, if you will on what is worship, what's happening 8 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:33,600 when we worship? And then after we do that for a 9 00:00:33,608 --> 00:00:37,600 few weeks, we'll get it into a specific elements of a worship 10 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,200 service. What are they for? 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,100 Why do we do them? Are they for our good or they 12 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,000 commanded by God? Is there some thing about them 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 that God has specifically given us? 14 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:49,700 And then we'll talk about from there. 15 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:53,100 Where do we go from here? And how do we obey? 16 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:55,200 The Lord, and those things. So, if you have your Bible, I 17 00:00:55,300 --> 00:00:58,700 ask you to turn to Second Corinthians chapter 3, that's 18 00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:02,800 where we'll be today. Looking at is a passage here in 19 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:07,200 second Corinthians 3. Um, last week in the series, 20 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,800 what we did is we said that worshiping God his way is the 21 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,100 most important thing you will ever do. 22 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:17,200 Worshiping God his way is, the most important thing you will 23 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,200 ever do. And so, we went back to the 24 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,000 creation events. We went back to the fall of Man, 25 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:26,600 and we saw that in that we were separated from God. 26 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,600 Our sin separates us from the Lord. 27 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:33,000 We're made known of our sin made aware Adam and Eve become aware 28 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,200 that they have sinned. They're hiding themselves from 29 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,600 God and then God comes to them. But while they're in that 30 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:43,000 separation, Godly worship is impossible. 31 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:46,600 They cannot do anything to get themselves back to God. 32 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:50,000 They can't do anything to return to God on their own. 33 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,800 And so God calls out to Adam. And and so what we said is that 34 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:57,900 we are created to reflect the glory of God in the world. 35 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:01,800 As as image bearers were told in Genesis 1 that were created in 36 00:02:01,808 --> 00:02:04,300 the image of God that is were created in His image and his 37 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:06,300 likeness. Likeness to Bear His Image in 38 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:09,800 the world. But what happens from sin as it 39 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,500 were broken image, bearers created to be mirrors, were 40 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:18,900 broken mirrors if you will, but God intervenes God makes 41 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:21,100 atonement. He promised atonement in Genesis 42 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:25,400 chapter 3 and ultimately makes atonement in his son Christ 43 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,500 Jesus which not only gives us now fellowship with God. 44 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,000 If will come to the god through Christ, we have fellowship with 45 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,700 God again, it also what we see and what we saw in Genesis, is 46 00:02:36,700 --> 00:02:39,700 it Ed's the pattern for Godly worship. 47 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:42,100 We got to see the pattern for that, and here's what we laid 48 00:02:42,100 --> 00:02:44,300 out. If you don't have these things 49 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:46,200 in your notes, I encourage you to write them down because their 50 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,800 importance of what we'll be discussing over the next several 51 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,200 weeks. But the pattern for Godly 52 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,800 worship is this number one, God initiates. 53 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:58,100 God, initiates, he comes to us. He invites us, he calls us. 54 00:02:58,100 --> 00:03:00,900 He is the initiator of Godly worship. 55 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,400 The second thing is that we see our sin, as you. 56 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:09,100 Look at a holy God, you can't help but see how Unholy you are. 57 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:12,700 And so your sin you're made aware of your sin, a judgment is 58 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:15,400 pronounced. You see that you are no longer 59 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,800 in Fellowship of the holy God, that you cannot be in fellowship 60 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,000 with this. Holy God, and then God, number 61 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,500 three, God provides atonements. God makes a way for there to be 62 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:27,000 Fellowship again. There's atonement for sins. 63 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,200 The fourth thing is after we've received this atonement, we are 64 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,800 committing ourselves to God through Christ committing 65 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,800 ourselves to him. And as we're committing 66 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,200 ourselves to him were welcomed back into Fellowship. 67 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,400 So by faith, in Christ by faith in his death and Resurrection, 68 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:47,100 we are. Welcome back into the 69 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:50,400 fellowship. Back into fellowship with God. 70 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:55,200 And so communion number five, communion with God is restored. 71 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,100 In other words, our fellowship is restored. 72 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,200 And there's a literal feasting that goes on with that 73 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:03,400 fellowship. And we talked a little about 74 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,400 that last week, as we took the Lord's supper together, and 75 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,100 then, finally number six, God commission's, are God's sins us. 76 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:16,600 God commission's us, he gives us a purpose in life and it is to 77 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:21,200 reflect his glory and all the Earth as we obey him and teach 78 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:23,300 others to do the same. Amen. 79 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:25,600 So we looked at those things. Now, today, I want to talk to 80 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,900 you a little bit about how the worship service itself. 81 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:34,200 Shapes us how it creates this kind of Christianity where it's 82 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:39,200 a weekly thing that we come and do and you were being shaped in 83 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,600 it. And here's kind of the one of 84 00:04:41,608 --> 00:04:44,000 the main ideas that will run throughout this sermon is this 85 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,100 is that you become what you behold. 86 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:52,400 You become what you behold. And so today, the Siri or the 87 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,200 message title is becoming what we behold? 88 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,400 When I ask that you stand with me now for the reading of God's 89 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:07,500 holy word, Second Corinthians 3. I'll start in verse 12 read 90 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:12,300 through 18. Since we have such a hope. 91 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:18,600 We are very bold, not like Moses who would put a veil over his 92 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,700 face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of 93 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:24,700 what was being brought to an end. 94 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,700 But their minds were hardened for to this day when they read 95 00:05:29,700 --> 00:05:34,100 the old Covenant, that same Veil remains unlifted because only 96 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:36,300 through Christ. Is it taken away? 97 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:39,800 Yes. To this day whenever Moses is 98 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:45,000 read, Read a veil Lies over their hearts, but when one turns 99 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,000 to the Lord, the veil is removed. 100 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,800 Now, the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is 101 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,300 there is freedom. And we all with unveiled face 102 00:05:56,300 --> 00:06:00,600 beholding, the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the 103 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,800 same image from one degree of Glory to another. 104 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:11,000 This comes from the Lord who is a spirits This is God's. 105 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,300 Holy word. Thanks be to God. 106 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:17,000 Let's pray Heavenly Father. We thank you for your word. 107 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:22,600 We thank you that. We have it as a As a source of 108 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,700 Truth, absolute truth. That when we look into it, we 109 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:32,400 see the glory of yourself. Or that by it. 110 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:38,600 We might know. Truly know who God is and it's 111 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,700 only by the special Revelation that we have in your word that 112 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:46,100 we can know who you are. It's only by this, that we are 113 00:06:46,100 --> 00:06:50,000 called into fellowship with you. Once again, it's only about this 114 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,700 word that we are redeemed and able to worship you. 115 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:58,200 And so father, would you help us today to Behold The Glory of 116 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:03,800 Christ in your word that we too might be transformed from one 117 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:09,900 degree of Glory to another May your spirit be among us today, 118 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:14,100 may your spirit move on our hearts and our minds today. 119 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,500 May your spirit sanctify us. Make us more like Christ. 120 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:22,500 The name of Jesus, we pray these prayers. 121 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:28,400 Amen. And then you may be seated, So 122 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,200 again, last week what we looked at is that you are created to 123 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,800 worship. You are a worshipper from the 124 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,100 womb, right? From the womb to the tomb from 125 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:41,700 life to death, you are worshipping something. 126 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:45,500 Always, now, I want to develop that thought a little bit 127 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:50,600 further today, what? Whatever you worship shapes, you 128 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:56,300 whatever, you're worshipping it forms, you and you form habits 129 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,600 around what you worship, right? Right, like whatever you find, 130 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,400 most important, whatever your heart desires, whatever your 131 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,000 heart longs for. What do you do you order your 132 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,300 day after that thing, right? You shape your life around it? 133 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:11,500 You form your life around those things. 134 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:14,900 And so what you worship influences, your thoughts, it 135 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:19,600 influences, your decision decisions each day at impacts 136 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:22,000 you. And this is true. 137 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,100 No matter what your worshiping, whether you're worshiping the 138 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:27,900 one true Living God or you're worshipping. 139 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,700 False gods in the form of idolatry what you worship. 140 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:35,900 Either prepares you for eternally worshipping your 141 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:40,400 creator or It prepares you to meet the Eternal Judgment of 142 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,500 that same Creator but you are worshipping. 143 00:08:44,500 --> 00:08:48,100 There is no neutrality, you are a worshiper who is worshipping 144 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:51,600 and your worship either gives glory to God and is therefore 145 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:55,800 righteous worship. Or it gives Glory To Creation 146 00:08:55,900 --> 00:08:59,200 and does therefore idolatrous. There's no neutrality here. 147 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,700 There's no neutral ground. There's no gray areas. 148 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,100 It's black and white. You are worshipping something. 149 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,800 Always, Additionally, you become what you worship. 150 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,200 I'm going to use the word behold because that's the word that are 151 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:16,900 passages using today. You become what you behold, the 152 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:18,700 behold. Something means to look into a 153 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,400 mirror at it, typically, it's talking about how you gaze at 154 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,500 yourself in a mirror. It's to gaze at something and 155 00:09:24,500 --> 00:09:27,300 you're becoming what you behold, whatever you're looking at 156 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:31,600 another way to word. Be maybe that not literally, 157 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,100 it's not like your hands have eyes, but with your eyes, you're 158 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:36,400 taking hold of something and holding onto it. 159 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:40,600 You behold that thing where you become what you worship, you 160 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:45,000 become what you behold, and you are a natural-born Beholder. 161 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:49,000 You were created with the Longing To behold something, 162 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,900 your created with the longing, the desire to worship something. 163 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,900 Therefore you must be aware of how the things that you worship. 164 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,300 Are shaping how the things that you're beholding, are forming 165 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:05,100 you and we need to recognize the ways in which we have been 166 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:08,800 shaped by beholding the wrong things. 167 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:12,100 This would be misplaced worship or a better word. 168 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:15,400 Probably, a more straight down, the line. 169 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:19,800 Word would be idolatry this place worship is idolatry is 170 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,000 putting worship on something other than the Creator. 171 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,200 We're worshipping creation instead and this is idolatry. 172 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,700 Listen to the psalmist in Psalm 135, is he talks about the idol 173 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:34,400 worshippers in his day. He said the idols of the nations 174 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,900 are silver and gold. The work of human hands. 175 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:41,400 They have mouths but do not speak. 176 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:46,600 They have eyes, but do not see. They have ears but do not hear 177 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,800 nor is there any breath in their mouths? 178 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,400 Those who make them become like them. 179 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,200 So do all who Trust. Them, that last line is crucial, 180 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:03,000 those who make these idols, and worship these idols and give 181 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,300 themselves to be holding these Idols become like them. 182 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:12,600 They become dumb. They become stupid. 183 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,300 They become foolish. Why would you worship something 184 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:20,000 that you can create with human hands? 185 00:11:20,500 --> 00:11:24,200 Why submit to something that you have ultimate authority over 186 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:27,400 something you've created or something that someone else has 187 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,500 created something that bends to your will and to your ideals 188 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,400 Lord, condemns idolatry here in Psalm 135 and he's essentially 189 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:38,900 making the case that it's foolish. 190 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:47,100 You become what you behold and then idolatry this is not a good 191 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:49,800 thing. It's not a good thing to become 192 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:53,100 like your Idols. It's not a good thing to pattern 193 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:55,400 your life. After the things you most 194 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:59,700 desire, if those things that you most desire are not Christ 195 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:03,600 himself. Misplaced beholding forms. 196 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,800 The wrong kinds of loves in US. It forms Desires in you. 197 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:12,000 It is therefore idolatrous. Jesus said you cannot serve two 198 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,700 masters that you will either love the one and hate the other 199 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:16,500 or hate the one and love the other. 200 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:20,400 No one can serve two Gods crisis. 201 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,600 Therefore, it's crucial. It's absolutely crucial to the 202 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:31,500 Salvation of your soul. That you find True North, so to 203 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:35,800 speak. That you correct, your course 204 00:12:36,300 --> 00:12:40,700 less you continue and idolatry or less you as a Christian maybe 205 00:12:40,700 --> 00:12:45,200 not continuing in idolatry but having idolatrous practices in 206 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,800 your life, a heart that is divided at times a heart that is 207 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:56,700 prone to wander. And True North is found in Godly 208 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:02,400 pure true. Regular Christian, corporate 209 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:06,500 worship. At least it should be. 210 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:12,400 This is the way to overcome and defeat idolatrous beliefs and 211 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,600 each one of us. Jonathan Cruz. 212 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,000 Wrote a book on worship and he talks about this. 213 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,600 He says worship takes what we love and trains us to love it 214 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:25,800 more. Worship both reflects what 215 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:30,700 matters to us and shapes, what matters to us worship. 216 00:13:30,700 --> 00:13:36,500 Trains us, and transforms us. This is could be idol worship as 217 00:13:36,500 --> 00:13:40,300 we saw in Psalm 135, as you see throughout the Old Testament and 218 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:44,000 the New Testament or could be Godly worship as we see in 219 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,500 second Corinthians 3. That what you behold you become 220 00:13:49,300 --> 00:13:52,700 And so the thing I want to lay before you today is this and 221 00:13:52,700 --> 00:13:54,100 write this down, should be on the screen. 222 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:59,900 God forms and shapes you as you behold the glory of Christ and 223 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:03,900 regular corporate worship, God forms and shapes you as you 224 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:08,700 behold the glory of Christ and regular corporate worship. 225 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:16,600 Now what's happening in second Corinthians 3 is, Paul is 226 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,800 writing and he's remembering an event that took place among 227 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,700 Moses and the Israelites and exodus and Exodus chapter 32, 228 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:31,000 chapter 32 and 34 we have the story of Moses and Mount Sinai. 229 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:38,100 And those idolatrous Israelites we find the Israelites in these 230 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:42,100 passages are in these chapters worshiping a golden calf. 231 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:44,300 Moses has gone up to Mount Sinai. 232 00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:47,200 Got his called him up to Mount Sinai to meet with him, is 233 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,500 ultimately going to deliver to him the way that you properly 234 00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:52,200 worship, Radisson, The Ten Commandments. 235 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,400 This is the way you order your life. 236 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,400 He's going to ultimately deliver to him that so that he can take 237 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,500 it to the people, but the people become Restless. 238 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:04,500 I don't want to wait on his return. 239 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:07,900 I don't want to wait on what God has. 240 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:13,800 And so they convince Aaron Moses's brother to make a golden 241 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:19,100 calf for them to worship and when Moses returns he sees the 242 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:24,000 madness and he is angry, he rebukes the people and he uses 243 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:27,200 terms that are really fitting for worshiping a cow. 244 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:31,000 He says that you are stiff-necked people. 245 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:33,900 If you ever tried to Wrangle a cow before but there's 246 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:38,600 stiff-necked right? He says you are a stiff-necked. 247 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,300 People who have turned aside quickly out of the way. 248 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:46,900 Also something cattle or prone to do They have become like 249 00:15:46,900 --> 00:15:50,700 cattle themselves, they have busted out of their pastures. 250 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:56,400 They need to be rounded up right there, following the desires of 251 00:15:56,400 --> 00:16:01,500 Their Own idolatrous Parts. And afterwards Moses goes back 252 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:04,400 up to the mountain to speak with God and while he's with God he 253 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,900 is also transformed he to undergoes a transformation is 254 00:16:08,900 --> 00:16:12,600 he's beholding something altogether different, he's 255 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:17,500 become beholding, God. As he communes with the one true 256 00:16:17,500 --> 00:16:22,800 living holy glorious God he is transformed to reflect the glory 257 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,600 of God. Listen to Exodus 34 29 as it 258 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:30,000 describes, what happens to Moses when Moses came down from Mount 259 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,200 Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, that 260 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,600 is The Ten Commandments as he came down from the mountain. 261 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:42,000 Moses did not know that the skin of his face shown because he had 262 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:47,800 been talking with God. Moses is literally shining from 263 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:52,800 the glory of the Lord of a supernatural event that we 264 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:54,700 should not ever expect to happen again. 265 00:16:54,900 --> 00:16:56,900 But it happened to the prophet here. 266 00:16:56,900 --> 00:17:04,099 Most and happens as a way of judgments on the Israelites but 267 00:17:04,099 --> 00:17:07,599 they beheld something shiny, something created in their own 268 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:11,500 image, a glory that could was made with their own human hands. 269 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:17,500 And became like it but Moses beheld, the glory of God and was 270 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:21,400 transformed into that same image in a way. 271 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:25,599 While the Israelites became like their Idols Moses became like 272 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:30,600 his God, simply by beholding simply by communing. 273 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,900 God graciously, conformed, Moses to reflect his glory. 274 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,600 Now in the New Covenant, what we have now, post Christ Christ has 275 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,600 died and he's been resurrected. He sits enthroned in heaven. 276 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:46,100 Now, we await his return, he's the king of kings, the Lord of 277 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:50,600 lords, Satan is bound, right? What we have now is the ability 278 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:55,600 to worship the Lord, Hebrews tells us that we can come boldly 279 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,900 before the throne of grace and receive mercy and Grace and our 280 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:02,100 time of need, because we have a high priest in heaven who is 281 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:07,200 sympathetic in our weaknesses to our weaknesses but being like us 282 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,900 being created as a man and enduring Temptation, he endured 283 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:15,700 it to the end and was without sin and so he is able to 284 00:18:15,700 --> 00:18:17,300 sympathize with us in our weaknesses. 285 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:23,200 He invites us to come boldly to the throne Some worship is 286 00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:28,300 restored worship. No longer requires a priest or a 287 00:18:28,300 --> 00:18:32,100 prophet or King. As we see throughout the Old 288 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:36,000 Testament. Christ is the priest Christ is 289 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:40,800 the prophet Christ is the king Christ is also the sacrificial 290 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,900 lamb. He became exactly what we 291 00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:47,100 needed. So that worship might be 292 00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:51,200 restored so that we might be in fellowship with God again. 293 00:18:52,500 --> 00:18:55,900 And our passage today is unveiling the new covenants. 294 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,300 We lived in a time where we can Behold The Glory of Christ in 295 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:03,600 worship because his death and Resurrection has torn the veil 296 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:12,900 between God and man. if you come to the father through Christ, I 297 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:16,700 might say through faith in Christ or by faith in Christ, 298 00:19:16,900 --> 00:19:20,100 then you will have restored fellowship with God. 299 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:26,200 The spirit of God who dwells in you frees, you from the bondage 300 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:31,400 of sin enabling you to cry out, Abba Father. 301 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:36,700 As Romans 8 says, And you are able to truly worship him. 302 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:39,900 Listen to Second Corinthians 3, 16 through 18 again. 303 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:45,100 But when one turns to the Lord The veil is removed. 304 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:49,900 Now, the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is 305 00:19:49,900 --> 00:19:54,500 there is freedom. And we all with unveiled face 306 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,900 beholding, the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the 307 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:05,300 same image from one degree of Glory to another for this comes 308 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:09,500 from the Lord who is Spirit Amen. 309 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:15,000 So the purpose of God in corporate worship is that we 310 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:19,700 Behold Him through his son by the Holy Spirit. 311 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:25,800 If you will behold God In Worship, You Will resemble him 312 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,200 as His Image Bearer. You are redeemed and beholding 313 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,500 Christ, you were redeemed and turning to him spirit of God. 314 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:41,100 Creates a new a new heart. You live now by faith in Christ. 315 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:47,700 And now you were able to Bear the image of your maker, your 316 00:20:47,700 --> 00:20:51,500 bear, you're able to Bear the glory of the Lord in your life. 317 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:55,300 It's a corporate worship matters. 318 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,800 You know, we were told just a few years ago, a couple years 319 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,600 ago, I guess that corporate worship was non-essential. 320 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,700 Corporate worship was non-essential. 321 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:12,500 And many people. As I talked to pastors and 322 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:17,800 friends, and we've seen it here, even many people bought the lie 323 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:19,700 that corporate worship was non-essential. 324 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,500 It's totally removed themselves from corporate worship for the 325 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:28,700 last two-plus years. Created new habits. 326 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:37,900 They were formed and shaped by these new habits. and now, in 327 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:42,200 many ways, they've turned their heart from God, not to God, 328 00:21:43,300 --> 00:21:45,700 They're following their own stomachs. 329 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:52,400 But corporate worship is necessary. 330 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:58,600 Corporate worship is necessary because we easily forget. 331 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,600 Corporate worship matters because it helps us behold 332 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,800 Christ in a weekly liturgical or explain that term in a moment. 333 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:13,900 Liturgical practice. So that we become like Christ 334 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,600 bearing, the image of his glory as we are being transformed from 335 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,600 one degree of Glory into the same image of Christ. 336 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,200 So if the goal is to become like Christ through beholding, his 337 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,200 glory and regular corporate worship, then corporate worship 338 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,400 must be designed to tell that old story of the Gospel that we 339 00:22:35,408 --> 00:22:39,100 sang about earlier, it must be designed so that we see the 340 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:43,500 Redemption that we have from God through Christ by the holy 341 00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:51,000 spirit's and to reflect the glory of God, we talk to you 342 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,700 about what liturgy is for. Just a second, just kind of as a 343 00:22:53,700 --> 00:22:56,400 side. Note liturgy just means a work 344 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,700 of the people or a public service that people come 345 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:03,900 together and do. All right, so if we think about 346 00:23:03,900 --> 00:23:06,800 liturgy that way, liturgy exist everywhere. 347 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:10,500 The way we typically hear liturgy is the order of a 348 00:23:10,508 --> 00:23:15,300 corporate worship service. What happens in the service and 349 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:21,500 so in that way, every church has a liturgy but not every liturgy 350 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:26,300 is good for regularly. That is Week in and week out 351 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:31,500 beholding the glory of Christ just because a church says their 352 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:34,500 Church doesn't mean they practice a god glorifying 353 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,100 liturgy. Amen. 354 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:41,600 Much of it is man-centered the word liturgy might make you 355 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,300 think of more traditional worship experiences. 356 00:23:44,900 --> 00:23:48,300 You know that maybe a word that's used in in some circles 357 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:51,200 that you grew up in depending on what your church history is. 358 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:55,300 But the truth is that every church has a liturgy because 359 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,400 every church is coming together and performing a service, right? 360 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,800 It's coming together for some kind of a work and the Order of 361 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,600 a worship service is the Liturgy of that service. 362 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,900 So the way you order your life also is a liturgy, right? 363 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:14,200 Your your daily habits, your weekly habits, your monthly 364 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:19,500 routines, those things are shaping you Write it, you are 365 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:24,100 shaped by those habits. Maybe even in ways, you don't 366 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:28,000 realize, you may not realize what social media does to your 367 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,400 anxiety. But yet you spend a ton of time 368 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,900 on it not wanting to be left out, right? 369 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:36,700 Not wanting to miss out on something. 370 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:43,700 You might not realize how TV or time with certain people shapes 371 00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:47,600 your life but those things shape you absolutely. 372 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:50,200 And so being with surgical in our approach to corporate 373 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,500 worship happens, whether we acknowledge it or not, we have 374 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:58,400 habits, we have things we do. And so we must therefore think 375 00:24:58,500 --> 00:25:00,900 through the Liturgy of our corporate worship service. 376 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:03,100 What are we doing? Why do we do it? 377 00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:06,600 We must search the scriptures and see has God commanded us to 378 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:12,800 worship him in a certain way. Has God commanded us to do 379 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:15,000 certain things when we're together? 380 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,800 Spoiler alert? He has, we must discover ways 381 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:25,600 that we can better Behold The Glory of Christ each week and 382 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,100 our service from the call to worship to the songs. 383 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:31,400 We sing to the way we announce things to preaching to the 384 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:36,100 dismissal and everything in between everything matters, 385 00:25:36,100 --> 00:25:40,000 because everything must come under the microscope of God's 386 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:43,600 word. Are we worshiping the way he has 387 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,800 commanded us to do. In the same way, it's wise to 388 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,900 Think Through Your Daily habits. It's wise to think through your 389 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:53,400 morning, you know, don't just think about a day as a whole 390 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:54,800 think about the hours of your day. 391 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,100 You really want to freak yourself out. 392 00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:00,100 Think about the minutes of your day like 15 minute blocks. 393 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:04,700 Track your time. See, how do you spend your day? 394 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,600 Do you devote yourself weekly or monthly to practicing things 395 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,300 that will help you intentionally Behold The Glory of Christ? 396 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:20,200 And all that you do? Why do these things even matter? 397 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:25,000 Well, because the way that a liturgy is shaped will determine 398 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,400 the way that you are being shaped. 399 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:32,600 Determines how your formed and God forms and shapes you as you 400 00:26:32,608 --> 00:26:36,300 behold the glory of Christ in corporate worship. 401 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,500 And so, therefore, we must shape the Liturgy in such a way that 402 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:45,800 we all walk away each week. Knowing that we beheld Christ in 403 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:50,800 our worship service that we saw the Lord in his word and then 404 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,900 the songs we sang and then the prayers that were prayed in the 405 00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:57,500 things that were studied. and the way that we encouraged one 406 00:26:57,500 --> 00:27:03,100 another, we can walk away knowing that God is forming us 407 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:06,700 that he's shaping Us by these regular practices from one 408 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:11,300 degree of Glory to another, because we're rightly worshiping 409 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:16,800 the Lord I said, a moment ago that everything has a liturgy, 410 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,500 it literally does mean, you can think about this and anything 411 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:22,400 you do, our world is full of liturgies and these liturgies 412 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,300 are seeking to shape, your thoughts to form you to think 413 00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:30,700 about whatever they determined, the good life is and to get you 414 00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:34,600 to pursue that same thing to get you to yearn for it. 415 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,700 So Monday through Saturday, you were flooded with various 416 00:27:38,900 --> 00:27:42,100 liturgies. These things are shaping you at 417 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:46,100 an unconscious level. Retail stores social media 418 00:27:46,100 --> 00:27:50,300 schools universities, so on. He's saying shape, you your own 419 00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:53,600 practices in your household shape, you do? 420 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,700 We yell a lot. We scream at one another. 421 00:27:56,700 --> 00:27:58,600 Do we fight a lot? Well, guess what? 422 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,600 That shaping here. And it's shaping the children in 423 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:05,800 your home as well. Write these things shape and 424 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:08,200 form. But let's take retail stores. 425 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,000 For example, this is an example that's used by Cruise. 426 00:28:14,100 --> 00:28:20,400 Retail stores preach to you the reality of your sin and thinking 427 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,300 that what you have is not enough. 428 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:26,600 And so, therefore, your sinner, you're broken, we don't have the 429 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,300 newest and best thing. My life is broken, but if I'll 430 00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:34,000 get that thing, That promises salvation. 431 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,200 And so then you were presented with a gospel, right? 432 00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:41,600 If you'll buy this, you won't feel broken anymore as a 433 00:28:41,608 --> 00:28:44,800 marketing major. We were told that well mention 434 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,600 one, you can probably guess the other but it's like of children. 435 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,800 I won't mention it. There's two things that help you 436 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,900 sell a product one will go unnamed. 437 00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:56,900 The second is to create a fear in someone that they're missing 438 00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:00,200 out. But they need your product for 439 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,500 their life, to be whole. and so Monday, through Saturday, you're 440 00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:08,500 being flooded with these liturgies, And you're presented 441 00:29:08,500 --> 00:29:11,600 with the gospel, we can have the newest and best thing if will 442 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:16,200 come to their store and Shop. This is the hope of redemption 443 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,500 through consumption. We present our offerings. 444 00:29:19,500 --> 00:29:23,100 That is our merchandise. We pick it up on the shelves, we 445 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:28,100 take it to the altar or the counter, and the priest, or the 446 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:31,900 cashier, right? Gratefully, accepts them sends 447 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:35,000 us off with a benediction and a reminder to come again and 448 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:39,200 worship soon. The liturgy. 449 00:29:41,300 --> 00:29:44,600 However, you know, and I know that the good life that we are, 450 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:50,400 promised never comes through the things that we purchase, the 451 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:55,100 things we buy become obsolete, they go out of style, we get 452 00:29:55,100 --> 00:29:59,200 bored with it, all right, that's typically the one that gets all 453 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,600 of us is just boredom with it. So we want more and more. 454 00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:07,200 And we're telling ourselves once for more and more really needs 455 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,800 right? Or mind begins to rationalize 456 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:11,800 the things. We One is things. 457 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,800 We need because the messages are working. 458 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,000 We're hearing the gospel of consumerism loud and clear. 459 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:22,600 And so we've been trained in this worship of consumerism. 460 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,100 There are many other examples of how we might be involved in 461 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:30,400 Daily liturgies from someone else teaching us to Behold The 462 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:38,000 Glory of their promised, good life, their version of that, And 463 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,400 all of those things would have you behold something other than 464 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,500 your creator, they would have you behold creation and that you 465 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,800 would become more like the world than like Christ. 466 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,100 We all want the good life I mentioned earlier. 467 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:57,400 You're born with this innate. Desire for something good. 468 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:03,800 For something bigger than yourself Ecclesiastes 3:11. 469 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,300 I just remind myself of this often that in each one of us, 470 00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:10,700 God says that he has put eternity in the heart into the 471 00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:16,000 heart of every man. But so that he cannot find out 472 00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:20,000 what God is up to. There's a desire in us but the 473 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,900 desire we can't come to ourselves. 474 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:26,500 We can't figure this out on our own because we're unable to were 475 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:29,800 broken by sin. But there is a desire and 476 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,700 everyone to take, hold of the good life. 477 00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:38,100 And so we fall into the lies of false promises, whatever 478 00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:42,000 promises us the good life and we desperately longed for it. 479 00:31:42,008 --> 00:31:45,200 So we fall into it, whatever those things are. 480 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:51,300 But there is only one who has promised to give you the truly 481 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,500 good life. He's promised to do so, in 482 00:31:55,500 --> 00:32:00,500 abundance, even in John 10:10 Christ warns those who are 483 00:32:00,500 --> 00:32:03,400 standing there listening, and he says this, he says, the thief 484 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:09,000 comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy, but I have come 485 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:12,800 that they may have life and have it abundantly. 486 00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:20,400 Thief has an agenda. The way that he's going to 487 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,900 plunder, you is not by making it obvious that you are being 488 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:31,200 plundered, until it's too late. He's going to tempt you with 489 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:35,000 anything that looks like something better than it is and 490 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:39,400 as you give yourself to it, you realize I've been duped, I'm 491 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:44,100 being plundered. And so you see this play out in 492 00:32:44,100 --> 00:32:45,700 people's lives. You see it play out in your own 493 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:49,900 life probably at times. You bought the LIE. 494 00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:53,300 And now you're reaping the benefits. 495 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:59,000 The curse of the LIE. Christ says, I've come to give 496 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,600 you life and life. Most abundant are more abundant 497 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:06,200 And so in Desiring, taking hold of the things of this world, you 498 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,800 were moving farther away from The Good Life Satan tempts. 499 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,500 You, if you will just consume this thing that I'm offering 500 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:16,200 you, then you will be like, God just as he tempted Eve in 501 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:22,100 Genesis chapter 2 or 3, sorry. And so you give in to his lies, 502 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:26,000 you behold his offerings and you think man that looks good and in 503 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,300 doing so you become what Ephesians 2 describes as a son 504 00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:33,900 or daughter of Disobedience. You become a child of Wrath like 505 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:39,900 the rest of mankind, So how do you attain the good life? 506 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,800 How do you reflect the image of the glory of God? 507 00:33:43,700 --> 00:33:47,700 Let's by beholding, the glory of Christ Jesus again, but when 508 00:33:47,700 --> 00:33:50,500 someone turns the Lord, the veil is removed. 509 00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:53,500 Now, the spirit, the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of 510 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:59,500 the Lord is, there is freedom and we all with unveiled face 511 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:02,200 now, because we've turned from our sins turned to the Lord. 512 00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:05,300 We all with unveiled face beholding, the glory of the Lord 513 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:11,000 are being transformed into. To the same image from one 514 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:16,500 degree of glory to the next. And this comes from the Lord, 515 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:21,800 who is the spirit. So again, when one turns to the 516 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,400 Lord, the veil is removed, that's repentance and Faith. 517 00:34:25,699 --> 00:34:29,800 Repenting of your sins exercising faith in Christ 518 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,100 Jesus. A veil is removed. 519 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,500 Beholding here again means to gaze at something to take hold 520 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:43,100 of something with your eyes. It's like looking into a mirror 521 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:45,800 at yourself, except in beholding Christ. 522 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,699 We aren't staring at ourselves hoping to be more like Christ as 523 00:34:49,699 --> 00:34:52,199 His Image. Bearers were looking at Christ 524 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,600 to become better image Bears. We're looking at the one to whom 525 00:34:55,600 --> 00:35:02,500 we want to become like, Here's the really difficult part of 526 00:35:02,508 --> 00:35:04,900 this. We know like if you grew up in 527 00:35:04,900 --> 00:35:07,600 church, if you experience, you've tasted and seen this 528 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,200 yourself, like you know, that there are great blessings and 529 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:16,600 beholding Christ. We Face a conflict every day in 530 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,600 almost every situation, everything that we do, there's 531 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,200 this conflict and it's a conflict of worship. 532 00:35:23,300 --> 00:35:29,500 Are you going to behold? The world and therefore worship 533 00:35:29,500 --> 00:35:31,500 the world. Are you going to behold Christ? 534 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:36,500 And therefore worship Christ. And so when you're liturgy and 535 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:38,900 your habits, these things are shaping. 536 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:42,600 You inform you your your loves are being cultivated through 537 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:47,600 patterns and repetitions. One man said this. 538 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,400 He said what the heart loves the will chooses and then the Mind 539 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,200 justifies. Really powerful what what the 540 00:35:55,200 --> 00:36:00,100 heart loves the will chooses and then the Mind justifies, in 541 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:04,300 other words, what happens is we do what we love and our brains 542 00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:08,700 catch up later. It's really kind of a scary 543 00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:12,000 thought. There's not always reason that 544 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,600 goes into what you're doing. You're acting out of Desire, 545 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:18,700 you're acting out of passion for something and so, it's 546 00:36:18,700 --> 00:36:23,000 imperative that you get your passions correct that you get 547 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:28,100 this your desires right. Again, this isn't really a bad 548 00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:32,100 thing to be this way. We're created this way. 549 00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:36,000 And so it's not a bad thing. If what we love is what God 550 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,900 loves, amen. If you love what God loves and 551 00:36:39,900 --> 00:36:44,400 you're pursuing the things that he loves, but what if you desire 552 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:49,000 sinful lust, what if you desire sinful passions or sinful ideals 553 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:52,700 of what the good life must be? Well then guess what? 554 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:54,800 You're going to become like them. 555 00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:59,000 Just like the idolaters and Psalm 135. 556 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:06,000 And so you need to be retrained. It's hard for us to admit. 557 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,200 I'd be even harder to hear at first, but you need to be 558 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,800 retrained. And that's what Sunday worship 559 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:19,900 is. All about, Sunday worship is the 560 00:37:19,900 --> 00:37:23,800 time of the week when we are told or we're reminded or we're 561 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,800 trained. And what living for God looks 562 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:31,800 like amen. But and how this is the really 563 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,500 good life. We cannot plan the worship 564 00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:38,300 service. However, we want, we can't come 565 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:41,000 in and say, well, let's just try this today and see if it helps 566 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,600 us behold the Lord. Let's do this today and see if 567 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,300 it helps behold the Lord. We must be intentional. 568 00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:51,100 We must plan it according to God's instruction so that we 569 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:55,200 become the kind of people that we are meant to be the kind of 570 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,800 people that God is creating us to be. 571 00:37:58,700 --> 00:38:02,400 And if we do not, if we plan our services the way we want, 572 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,900 according to our own desires according to what the world 573 00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:09,000 says, will help attract the most people which is happening in 574 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,100 churches. Everywhere I have fallen into 575 00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:16,800 this myself. Then our services will look like 576 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,100 the world. Our services. 577 00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:26,100 Are marked by a Dollar Tree. Our worship has become man 578 00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:29,300 centered rather than Christ centered on we plan and 579 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:33,400 according to our desires, and not the commands of God and you 580 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,200 become what you behold. So, that's a really bad thing. 581 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,100 Christian worship is offensive offensive, not offensive. 582 00:38:42,100 --> 00:38:43,500 Sorry. Christian worship is both 583 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:48,700 offensive and defensive. When we worship according to 584 00:38:48,700 --> 00:38:54,400 God's standards for worship. We truly behold Christ and 585 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:59,400 therefore, we are shaped and formed into the image of Christ, 586 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,400 beholding Christ, not only matures Us. 587 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,400 By addition, it adds things to our lives, adds things of value, 588 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,900 helps us see what we need to pursue, but it matures You by 589 00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:13,600 subtraction. The things that you're pursuing 590 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,000 that are not godly, the things that are you pursuing that are 591 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,000 according to your own desires for sinfulness, those things are 592 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:25,300 exposed in, right? Christian worship you come up 593 00:39:25,300 --> 00:39:28,700 against the law of God and is James describes, the law. 594 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:31,200 He says that the law is like a mirror for us. 595 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,900 When we look into the law, we see ourselves as we truly are 596 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,800 and that the man who sees himself as he truly is, and does 597 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,700 not change. He walks away without want to 598 00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:41,900 change, anything that that man is a fool. 599 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:48,500 Koosh. Our desires are transformed in 600 00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:51,100 weekly worship. We are becoming what we behold. 601 00:39:51,500 --> 00:39:54,900 And so, we put off the old man. We put on the new man, that is 602 00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:58,800 ours in Christ, and we need that reminder each week. 603 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,100 There's the author by the name of Michael Horton. 604 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:04,600 He says, this, he says, even if we are lifelong Christians, we 605 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,600 forget why we came to church this Sunday until it all happens 606 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,000 again. This is so true. 607 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:13,200 We come in with our shallow scripts, things that have 608 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,200 happened to us over the week, only to be inch reintroduced to 609 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,800 the real script and to find ourselves by losing ourselves 610 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,900 all over again. Amen, he goes on. 611 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,700 It is as God. The spirit works on us through 612 00:40:25,700 --> 00:40:29,300 the proclamation of the word that we are re scripted. 613 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:34,300 Our Lives purposes identities, and hopes, conform to that new 614 00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:38,300 world into which the word and spirit, Give us new birth. 615 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:41,300 Earth instead of the other way around. 616 00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:45,600 Finally he says this, he says, instead of remaking, instead of 617 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,800 our remaking God and His word in terms of our experience and 618 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,600 reason we end up being remade caught up in the action of the 619 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,400 Divine drama. Amen. 620 00:40:58,100 --> 00:41:01,700 This is what happens in worship. That is truly for your good and 621 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:06,900 for the glory of the Lord, we come to be Sanctified by God. 622 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,000 That is we come to be reformed, we come to be reshaped, we come 623 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:16,700 to be re made we come to worship so that we might truly put on 624 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,900 the Lord. Jesus Christ and reflect. 625 00:41:18,900 --> 00:41:22,400 His glory in the world brothers and sisters. 626 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,100 We cannot approach Sunday worship. 627 00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:29,500 As though we are merely wasting an hour or two of our weekend, 628 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,500 even if you cannot quite see the effects week-to-week of what 629 00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:37,300 regular Christian worship does in. 630 00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:41,400 Your life, you are being reshaped, you are being 631 00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:45,600 reformed, you are being remade by the spirit of Christ Jesus 632 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:49,000 and we can trust us because second Corinthians 3 says, as 633 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,400 much God forms you and he shapes you, as you behold, the glory of 634 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:58,500 Christ in corporate worship. So this has to be what we are 635 00:41:58,500 --> 00:42:01,200 pursuing in our weekly worship Services. 636 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,600 A liturgy that is rooted in the gospel story. 637 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,400 God's Redemption of Mankind, through his own son, Jesus 638 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:13,200 Christ, by the power of the spirit, a service, like this 639 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:18,300 will simultaneously form within us a desire for the holy or for 640 00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:21,600 a holy life and it will shape us to attain it. 641 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:26,100 The gospel is not merely a message to be heard, but it's a 642 00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:30,500 life to be lived. Weekly worship should be the 643 00:42:30,500 --> 00:42:37,200 time where we are LED in that lifestyle Forming Us in shaping 644 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,900 us to live as God's children in the land. 645 00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:44,000 Gospel-centered worship services will help us. 646 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:49,400 See all the ways that God is true and good, and faithful and 647 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:55,400 steadfast in his love worship. Like, that will set the proper 648 00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,600 course for the rest of your week. 649 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:03,100 You become what you behold and you can either become like the 650 00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:05,400 World by beholding worldly things. 651 00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:10,600 Practicing their liturgy for your life or you can become like 652 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:14,300 Christ by beholding Christ. Practicing, the Liturgy that God 653 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:19,100 meant for you to practice. I'll read it again. 654 00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:23,400 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed of the Lord, 655 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,100 is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is 656 00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:29,800 freedom. And we all with unveiled face 657 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:34,300 beholding, the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the 658 00:43:34,300 --> 00:43:39,700 same image from one degree of Glory to another. 659 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:46,800 But this comes from the Lord, who is Spirit The spirit then is 660 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:52,300 present in our worship. Because the spirit is present in 661 00:43:52,300 --> 00:43:58,300 each believer, you behold Christ himself by the word and spirit. 662 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:03,100 We'll talk about this in this series at some point, but in 663 00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:05,900 John 4, Jesus tells the woman from Samaria. 664 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:11,400 That the father is seeking worshipers, Who will worship in 665 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:16,600 spirit and Truth. And when you do that, you become 666 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:20,000 like Christ. You were formed and shaped by 667 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:25,200 God to be more and more like the Eternal Son of God in this. 668 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,200 You were redeemed from the curse of the Fall. 669 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,200 You were made into the image of God once again. 670 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,200 And so I ask you brothers and sisters. 671 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:38,800 Do you approach Worship in such a way as to be shaped like your 672 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:43,400 creator? Or do you Worship in such a way 673 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:49,800 as to be shaped like creation? You come to worship seeking. 674 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,700 What you prefer? What you like best? 675 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,400 Maybe it's the songs, maybe it's the style of preaching. 676 00:44:58,900 --> 00:45:02,900 Maybe it's whatever Sunday school experience, May whatever 677 00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:05,800 it is, right? If we come saying that worship 678 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,700 has to align to my desires for me to fit in, or for me to enjoy 679 00:45:09,700 --> 00:45:12,300 that service. You're not worshipping, God, 680 00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:16,400 you're worshiping yourself. And we need to be very careful 681 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:20,800 of preferences and worship, especially if those preferences 682 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:25,400 are ungodly. So I asked, are you being 683 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:30,800 fashion for heaven or you being fashion for Earth in your daily 684 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:36,400 and weekly practices? I encourage you to Behold The 685 00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:41,200 Glory of Christ to be transformed into the same image 686 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:47,400 of Christ from one degree of Glory to another In a moment 687 00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,900 we're going to sing and just second actually I'm going to 688 00:45:49,900 --> 00:45:51,700 read some lines from it and then pray for you. 689 00:45:51,700 --> 00:45:53,800 But we're going to sing, is he Worthy? 690 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,600 And I want to read just a few lines from this before, I pray 691 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,200 for you. And the team comes up and leads 692 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,600 us. I want to read verse 23 and the 693 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,500 bridge. I think it aligns very well with 694 00:46:07,500 --> 00:46:10,300 what we're talking about in our worship. 695 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:18,300 Is all creation groaning. Is a new creation coming. 696 00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,300 Is the glory of the Lord to be the lights within our midst. 697 00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:27,700 Is it good that we remind ourselves of this? 698 00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:36,900 Does the father truly love us. Does the spirit move Among Us 699 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:41,700 and does Jesus, our Messiah hold forever? 700 00:46:42,100 --> 00:46:48,700 Those he loves those are God intend to dwell again with us. 701 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:56,400 From every people and tribe every nation and tongue. 702 00:46:56,700 --> 00:47:03,000 He has made us a kingdom and Priests to God to reign with the 703 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,800 son. Amen. 704 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,500 Me pray for you and then we'll sing together. 705 00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:12,100 Heavenly Father, we praise you. We praise you for your word and 706 00:47:12,100 --> 00:47:14,800 your kindness toward us today and receiving your word. 707 00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:21,800 We thank you. Lord, that we have Direction for 708 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:27,100 how to become more and more christ-like that we have 709 00:47:27,100 --> 00:47:31,000 direction that when you commanded your people to be holy 710 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,200 As You Are Holy, you did not just say that and leave them 711 00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,100 without any direction. But you've shown us clearly 712 00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:39,500 Lord. How we become holy As You Are 713 00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:42,800 Holy and it's Bobby holding your son Christ. 714 00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:48,900 Or Hebrews reminds us that there was a time where you spoke 715 00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:51,400 through the prophets and the priest. 716 00:47:51,900 --> 00:47:56,200 But now you have spoken to us by your own son and that your own 717 00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:01,400 son is the radiance of the glory, the only true image of 718 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:05,900 the father for us. And so Lord help us to worship 719 00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:10,700 Christ. Help us to commit ourselves to 720 00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:15,000 him. Or we thank you that you were 721 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:19,900 altogether different than us. We could not fashion in our own 722 00:48:19,900 --> 00:48:24,500 minds that God, like you, that you far exceed, our thoughts, 723 00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:33,600 your ways are nothing like our ways. or if we had your power, 724 00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:38,400 if we had your character in your, if we were like, you 725 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,800 truly, we would We would mess everything up. 726 00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,800 We would misuse the power. We would bend it to our own. 727 00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,900 Will we would make others miserable in it. 728 00:48:51,100 --> 00:48:53,100 The father, not you. You were perfect. 729 00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:56,300 You were good. And you were holy and righteous. 730 00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:01,500 Sin will not go on judged, but Lord and Christ. 731 00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:03,800 You have made a way for Sinners to come to you. 732 00:49:04,500 --> 00:49:06,400 We don't have to sit in our sin anymore. 733 00:49:06,900 --> 00:49:09,500 We don't have to wonder, how worship can be restored. 734 00:49:09,500 --> 00:49:12,300 How Fellowship can be had again with the father? 735 00:49:12,300 --> 00:49:15,900 We can come to you through Christ. 736 00:49:17,300 --> 00:49:22,300 Saves us to the uttermost. And so, Lord, I pray today that 737 00:49:22,300 --> 00:49:26,900 if there's anyone in here who doesn't know Jesus as the Lord, 738 00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:30,000 Anyone in here who's not repented of their sins and 739 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:35,100 committed themselves to Christ by faith believing that he died 740 00:49:35,100 --> 00:49:38,800 and rose again, trusting in their heart that he saves them 741 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:40,900 from their sins. If there's anyone like that in 742 00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:43,800 here, Lord, would you call them to yourself now? 743 00:49:45,900 --> 00:49:53,900 Would you save them, Lord? Help them to respond in faith. 744 00:49:54,900 --> 00:49:56,600 By your spirit who gives New Life. 745 00:49:59,700 --> 00:50:01,800 And Lord for us, that are believers in here. 746 00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:07,500 We thank you for weekly Worship in the reminder to gaze at you 747 00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,200 again because we are so prone to forget. 748 00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:16,600 We're so prone to wonder. And so Lord help us to glorify 749 00:50:16,700 --> 00:50:19,500 your name and all that. We do whatever we put our hands 750 00:50:19,500 --> 00:50:22,400 to let us do it for the glory of the Lord alone. 751 00:50:24,700 --> 00:50:29,000 Lord, would you help us to see Christ and All His glory? 752 00:50:31,100 --> 00:50:34,600 Help our hearts too long for him, above anything that this 753 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,500 world has fashioned for us or anything else. 754 00:50:37,500 --> 00:50:43,200 We might make for ourselves. Was to worship him for who he 755 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:47,700 is. Lord. 756 00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:51,800 Now as we sing, help us to be repentance, help us to be Christ 757 00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,500 seeking Help us to devote ourselves to you. 758 00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:59,100 Now Jesus name I pray. Amen. 759 00:50:53,900 --> 00:50:55,500 Help us to devote ourselves to you. 760 00:50:55,500 --> 00:50:59,100 Now Jesus name I pray. Amen.