1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:02,800 We're going to talk about the idea of worship and then we're 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,400 going to talk about two different practices that are 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:11,200 often used or often done in the religious world and one is the 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,500 elevation of hands or lifting up holy hands and the other is 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,900 clapping in the assembly. What we want to notice is are 6 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:23,300 these things appropriate or are they not? 7 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:25,000 And if they're right, why are they right? 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,600 If they're wrong, why are they wrong? 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,900 So we want to notice these things for a little while today. 10 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:31,900 Day. But first of all, our text is 11 00:00:31,900 --> 00:00:37,400 taken from the words of Jesus in John chapter 4 and verses 23 and 12 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,500 24 where Jesus said, but the hour is coming. 13 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:45,100 And now is when the true worshipers will worship the 14 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:50,200 father in spirit, and in truth, for the father is seeking such 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,800 to worship him. God is a spirit and those who 16 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,500 worship Him must worship Him in spirit. 17 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,400 And in truth, may I just say, At the very beginning of this 18 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:06,100 lesson worshipping God in spirit and in truth is of utmost 19 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:10,200 importance and it is greatly significant. 20 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,400 In fact, the word of God is very clear on the subject. 21 00:01:13,500 --> 00:01:16,600 Many things are taught about the aspect of worship. 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Jesus himself, preached about Worship in our passage in John 23 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:26,900 Chapter 4, verses, 23 and 24, the Apostle Paul on Mars Hill. 24 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:32,800 Preached on worship Acts chapter 17, So the question is, what is 25 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:34,800 worship? What is it? 26 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:38,400 Well you know when God says something one time in the Bible 27 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:42,400 it's really necessary for us to understand that it's greatly 28 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,300 significant. Even if God says it one time, 29 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,900 after all everything, in the word of God is inspired by God. 30 00:01:50,100 --> 00:01:54,400 Therefore they are words that are god-breathed and even though 31 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,300 inspired writers inspired by the Holy Spirit, pinned these things 32 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:02,500 for us, these were Birds literal words that came directly from 33 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:05,800 God. All that being said, if God says 34 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:10,699 something one time, it's enough. But the word worship or the 35 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:16,200 concept of worship is mentioned in the God's word 119 times. 36 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:22,300 If something is mentioned by God 119 times I would imagine it is 37 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:26,000 something that is greatly significant for us today. 38 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:29,100 I think there needs to be more preaching and teaching on the 39 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:32,600 subject of worship. And may I say this too? 40 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,000 I think it's extremely important that we talk about the items of 41 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,900 worship or as they afraid as they used under the law of Moses 42 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:46,800 ordinances of divine service. Every aspect of our worship 43 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,000 needs to be in truth as we'll get to in just a moment. 44 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:53,500 But the items of worship and the emblems of worship are very 45 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:57,100 significant so it's important that we deal with those things. 46 00:02:57,100 --> 00:03:00,400 Absolutely. But sometimes in dealing with 47 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,500 the items of worship, we neglect other things, too. 48 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:08,800 Like Like the reason for worship and how we worship the spirit or 49 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,100 the motivation behind our worship. 50 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:15,400 Sometimes we just sometimes perhaps go robotically and 51 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,500 methodically through the service, never really thinking 52 00:03:18,500 --> 00:03:23,500 about the aspects of them, or their significance or the heart 53 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:27,600 and spirit behind them. Now I'm going to ask you 54 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,700 questions, the general question, answer this question to 55 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:35,600 yourself. How important is worship to you? 56 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:41,700 I mean, sometimes people talk about going to church and by the 57 00:03:41,700 --> 00:03:44,400 way, I want to make a point about going to church saying the 58 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:49,100 phrase going to church. It's not wrong to say going to 59 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:53,400 church because in the word of God, even though the church is 60 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,400 not the building and the church is the ekklesia the called out 61 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,200 the people even though that's true when the Bible talks about 62 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:05,100 in the phrase, like for example, women are to be silent in the 63 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:08,400 church. It means their to be silent in 64 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,200 the assembly. So if you say I'm going to 65 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,300 church, it's not unscriptural. You're saying, I'm going to the 66 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:16,200 assembly, but let me ask you this. 67 00:04:16,700 --> 00:04:18,899 How important is worship in your life? 68 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,900 Is it of utmost importance? Is it significant to you? 69 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:26,300 Do you look forward to the day? Do you prepare your mind for the 70 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:28,400 Lord's day? Let me just ask the following 71 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:30,600 questions. These are General and I'll just 72 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,000 present them like this in answering the question. 73 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:39,900 Do you enjoy it? Do you actually enjoy worship? 74 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,800 Are you late coming in? Are you early to leave? 75 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,500 Are you bored? Are these questions that 76 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:53,600 sometimes can prick our own conscience? 77 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:55,600 Here's another one. And we're going to get back to 78 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:57,200 this. So, I've highlighted this in 79 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:00,800 another color, Do you participate? 80 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,500 Now, the reason that we're going to get back to that is it's very 81 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:08,400 significant because worshippers are not observers, we are not 82 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:13,200 the audience and every one of you that is under my the sound 83 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:17,500 of my voice. You are not a spectator, you are 84 00:05:17,500 --> 00:05:24,300 a participant In Worship. God is the audience we are the 85 00:05:24,300 --> 00:05:27,000 participant. So let me ask you, how important 86 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,400 is it to you? Do you participate or do you 87 00:05:29,407 --> 00:05:32,300 just go through the motions questions for all of us? 88 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,000 Perhaps to consider somebody said one time that too many 89 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,800 times people show up the church at 10:30 dull. 90 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,400 Begin a dull service. And then by noon, the church 91 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,500 gives up her dead. I think that's really true. 92 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,300 Sometimes that's not be that though. 93 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:53,000 Let's take a passage that is found in John chapter 4 again. 94 00:05:54,300 --> 00:05:57,000 And in this, classic texts on worship. 95 00:05:57,300 --> 00:06:02,400 We have in the analysis of it, we have the following, we have, 96 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,300 with regards to worship. We have an absolute. 97 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:09,500 We have an action. We have a name, we have an 98 00:06:09,500 --> 00:06:14,700 attitude, and We have a standard all found in this worship. 99 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,600 In this passage, God is a spirit and those who worship Him must 100 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,100 worship Him in spirit and in truth, the first thing I want to 101 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:25,600 talk about is the absolute. And that's the word must. 102 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:30,200 Must is a modifier and may I say this. 103 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:36,500 Also, sometimes people in looking for things religiously 104 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:41,000 are looking for a church instead of looking for the truth. 105 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:43,800 And I think there's more people in the world that are looking 106 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,500 for a church. Then looking for the truth. 107 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:47,400 Let me give you a little example, Tina. 108 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,300 And I were driving down the road the other day. 109 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,000 And there was a great big billboard and it was from a 110 00:06:53,008 --> 00:06:55,100 local church and it was an advertisement. 111 00:06:55,100 --> 00:07:00,200 I'd get that. But it said why not try Church? 112 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:04,600 I think that's the mindset of people in the religious World. 113 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,500 Why not try Church? In other words, you have your 114 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:10,600 life. You like your life, maybe you 115 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:12,700 have challenges in your life. I got an idea. 116 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,100 What you try to church, you know, there's nothing in the 117 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:18,600 word of God that says trying Church. 118 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:22,600 In fact, it talks about worshippers and the modifier is 119 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:26,200 an absolute and that's the word must. 120 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,700 Can I say this to you? Now I'm going to be as direct as 121 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:31,500 I can. All of you sit? 122 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:36,800 Being here in this building. Today, must be here to worship 123 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,800 God. You must be in the assembly 124 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,100 somewhere of God's people on the Lord's day. 125 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:46,800 It's the appointment that we have with our Lord must as a 126 00:07:46,808 --> 00:07:49,200 modifier. And by the way, when I say 127 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,800 modifier, what I'm talking about is I'm talking about something 128 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:56,200 that is clarifying or qualifying, something else to 129 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,300 subject. So the Bible talks about a must 130 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:05,200 in other things to write like faith And Hebrews 11 and verse 131 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:08,000 6. It says without faith, it's 132 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,300 impossible to please God, for he, that comes to God, must 133 00:08:13,300 --> 00:08:16,400 believe that he is, and that he is, a rewarder of them that 134 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:20,800 diligently seek him. So, we understand that we must 135 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,000 have faith. Number two, we must be baptized 136 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,900 in order to be saved. Jesus said that in Mark 16:16. 137 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. 138 00:08:33,100 --> 00:08:35,200 He that believeth not shall be damned. 139 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:39,900 We understand that. So faith is a must baptism is a 140 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:48,100 must but worship is also a must. It's a must There's no greater 141 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:50,000 appointment that we have in our life. 142 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:52,800 In fact, you're the word must is the strongest word in the 143 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,600 English language. One scholar called it like this. 144 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,300 He said, must is Heavens imperative. 145 00:09:01,100 --> 00:09:05,700 It is the Masters mandate, we must worship. 146 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:08,600 The word. Must also modifies, three 147 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,700 elements that constitute worship. 148 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:18,900 Here's our passage, again must modifies the object or the aim 149 00:09:18,900 --> 00:09:23,900 and that is God. Must modifies the attitude. 150 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:29,300 It must be in spirit must also modifies the standard and that 151 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:31,600 is truth. So notice, here we go. 152 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:35,900 Must is the Divine mandate. You got no choice if you want to 153 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:41,200 be a servant of God, you must what worship who God, you must 154 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,600 have the proper attitude and it must be by the proper standard, 155 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,400 which is truth, or that, which is in accordance with revealed 156 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,400 truth. So the object. 157 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:55,400 Attitude and standard of our worship is vital, but I want to 158 00:09:55,408 --> 00:09:59,300 talk about worship itself sometimes, I don't think we 159 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:03,200 realized that worship. I don't mean to insult anyone's 160 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:07,900 intelligence, by saying this, but let me just say, worship is 161 00:10:07,900 --> 00:10:11,600 an action word. It's an action. 162 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:18,200 It requires doing something. Worship by according to mr. 163 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:20,800 Webster defines worship like this. 164 00:10:21,700 --> 00:10:25,700 It is courtesy or reverence to worth hence. 165 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:29,700 It is honor and respect. It's an act. 166 00:10:29,700 --> 00:10:33,300 That's an action word of paying Divine honors to deity. 167 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:36,900 That's God, religious reverence or homage? 168 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,100 That's what mr. Webster says, about the word 169 00:10:40,100 --> 00:10:43,100 worship. Now the English word Worship in 170 00:10:43,100 --> 00:10:46,000 the scriptures is translated in the New Testament. 171 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,700 Estimate from several different Greek words, three of which are 172 00:10:49,700 --> 00:10:53,600 used more than once. The first ones found in our 173 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,100 passage in John chapter 4 and verse 24. 174 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,400 This is the Greek word and it appears 60 times in the New 175 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:03,400 Testament, and this is what it means. 176 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,000 Means to kiss the hand to or towards one, in token of 177 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,800 reverence to fall upon the knees and touch the ground, with the 178 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:20,500 forehead, as an expression of profound, reverence, what else? 179 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:23,800 Here's another word. It's found 10 times in the New 180 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,700 Testament and it means this it means to stand in awe to 181 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:32,800 venerate to, reverence, to worship, to adore and one more, 182 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:36,900 one more It's this word here the true. 183 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:40,500 Oh, it's found 21 times in the New Testament and that word, by 184 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:45,500 the way, translated 17 times in English as service and four 185 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:50,100 times its translated as worship. And this is what that means. 186 00:11:50,300 --> 00:11:55,000 It means to render religious service of homage to worship God 187 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:00,200 in the observance of Rights instituted for worship. 188 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:04,900 So, From these words studies it's very clear that true 189 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:09,700 worship entails participation, we must be the participants not 190 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:13,600 the spectators. As I've said, worship is an 191 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,900 action word and we are the participants of that and God is 192 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:20,000 the audience. Let me ask you a question. 193 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,200 Do you realize when you came to worship today? 194 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:29,300 That you were doing something that was to bow in the reverence 195 00:12:29,300 --> 00:12:33,300 of God, and you are doing something in honor and all of 196 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:41,500 God, and God was watching. God is watching this worship 197 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:44,300 service is not for me and it's not for you. 198 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:49,300 It's for us to be participants for the audience, the object, 199 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:53,500 the aim, and that's God. He's watching. 200 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:57,900 And we must worship Him in spirit and in truth, you've 201 00:12:57,900 --> 00:13:00,000 heard people say this, I'm not going to, I'm not going to beat 202 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,200 this dead horse. You've heard people say this 203 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:04,700 many times. I'm sure. 204 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:06,900 Have you ever heard somebody say, I'm just not getting 205 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:09,900 anything out of it. I'm not going to go down that 206 00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:11,600 road very long, but I must say this. 207 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,600 We all know what the answer to that is if you're not getting 208 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,600 anything out of it, You're not putting anything in it. 209 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:24,700 And, you know, even if a Speaker gets up, maybe he's not the best 210 00:13:24,700 --> 00:13:26,800 speaker. So what? 211 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:33,100 Maybe he's not the best speaker. The emphasis is not to say. 212 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:36,600 Oh, what a speaker, the emphasis afterwards is to say, Oh, What A 213 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,900 Savior. So the message is what's 214 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,400 important? Not the messenger, or the 215 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,400 speaker. So there are things that we can 216 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,100 all get from a lesson from any lesson. 217 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:52,400 Now, I will tell you this, it is of utmost importance for the one 218 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:56,600 that stands up here and teaching from the word of God to study 219 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,400 and be prepared and do the best that he can. 220 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,000 It's an awesome responsibility. Absolutely. 221 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:06,300 But it's also the responsibility of those that are in the 222 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:10,300 audience and participating in worship to listen, and be 223 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:13,200 encouraged and edified by the message. 224 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,000 So, if somebody says, well, I'm just not getting anything out of 225 00:14:17,008 --> 00:14:20,000 it these days. Well, maybe it's because we're 226 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,200 not putting enough in it. Mere attendance must never be 227 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,500 equated with worship punching a Time Clock. 228 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:32,300 Check in, in warming, a seat that must never be equated with 229 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:34,800 worship. Worship is a drawing nigh to 230 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,700 God. Not drawing nigh to a church 231 00:14:37,700 --> 00:14:39,900 building. All right. 232 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:47,700 Notice in Matthew, 15:8. These people draw near to me 233 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:51,600 with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their heart 234 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:53,700 is far from me. Do you know what's absolutely 235 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:57,300 sobering about this passage if you apply it practically today? 236 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,500 If you apply this practice this, this passage practically today, 237 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,900 then you would say this. It's entirely possible for 238 00:15:05,900 --> 00:15:11,800 somebody sitting right here in this assembly today and going 239 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:15,800 through the motions and check it off the list and all that 240 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:18,400 punching in your clock, put your time in. 241 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,700 And God doesn't have your heart at all. 242 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:25,100 And your heart is somewhere else. 243 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,500 It's entirely possible. What the Lord say, these people 244 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:33,500 draw near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, 245 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:36,000 but their heart is far from me. You know what God wants your 246 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,800 heart And by the way, may I also extend that not just in worship. 247 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:42,800 He wants your heart and worship absolutely. 248 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:48,100 But he wants your heart in your life, he wants you every day. 249 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:51,600 He wants everything that you have to serve him, that's what 250 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:56,300 God wants from you. That's the purpose of your life, 251 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:58,400 to give him everything that we have. 252 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:01,200 All right, so the action part is worship. 253 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,700 We get that. So, the object though, the 254 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:09,900 object of worship is him or it's God. 255 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:13,800 You know the Bible brilliant brilliantly teaches us that God 256 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,800 is to be the sole object of worship. 257 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,600 In fact, in Matthew chapter 4, when the devil tempted, Jesus, 258 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,300 the Bible says when Jesus, neither ate nor drank, and for 259 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:29,300 those 40 days and he was tempted of the devil, the Bible says, 260 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:32,100 the devil took him up on an exceeding high mountain and 261 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:34,200 showed him all the kingdoms of the world. 262 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:38,700 And the devil said to the Lord Sid, you can have every bit of 263 00:16:38,700 --> 00:16:40,600 it. All you got to do is Fall Down 264 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,500 and Worship me. And the King James says Jesus is 265 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:48,900 response. He says it like this, get down 266 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:53,500 behind me, Satan for it. Is written, Thou shalt Worship 267 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:59,600 the Lord God, the Lord your God and him only shalt thou serve. 268 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,000 We came here today to worship God. 269 00:17:05,099 --> 00:17:07,900 He's the exclusive object of our worship. 270 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:12,700 Every other objects are off the table. 271 00:17:14,099 --> 00:17:15,900 Wednesday night. We were studying about 272 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,700 Colossians chapter 2 and really there's some deep meat that are 273 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:25,900 found in those passages. And one of the phraseology is 274 00:17:25,900 --> 00:17:30,300 that were given and one of the things condemned that Paul was 275 00:17:30,300 --> 00:17:34,900 condemning among the false teachers in colossi was a phrase 276 00:17:34,900 --> 00:17:38,700 called the worship of angels. Now what they were actually 277 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:41,600 doing is there were people that were false teachers that entered 278 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,900 in and what they were doing is they were trying to get people 279 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:46,500 to understand, God cannot be touched. 280 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,600 T', wouldn't that be awful? If God could not be approached? 281 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:54,000 If he really wasn't Abba, Father, he really wasn't our 282 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,900 heavenly father and we have a relationship with him, wouldn't 283 00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:00,100 be a terrible thing. Well, false teachers came into 284 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:04,000 the flock and what they try to do is they try to teach people, 285 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:07,700 you can't approach God. So, what you do is you approach 286 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:12,000 something that is subordinate to God or lesser than God like 287 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:16,900 angels and you pray to the angels, who are messengers They 288 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:21,700 convey your message to God, absolutely false and wrong and 289 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:26,300 unscriptural. Now, prayer is a form of 290 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:28,800 worship. So, Paul condemned the worship 291 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,100 of angels, it is always been condemned the worship of 292 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:36,100 anything else. Other than God, Jesus himself. 293 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:39,600 Even said and him only shalt thou serve. 294 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,000 When we assemble here is the body of Christ. 295 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:45,500 We are worshipping one. Being we are worshipping God. 296 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,600 Oh, what about Jesus? What about Jesus? 297 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,800 Don't we have the communion? Absolutely absolutely. 298 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,700 But we are worshiping God and in the worship of God, who is the 299 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:04,800 only being that we worship? We honor his son. 300 00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:10,400 We remember his son, we commemorate, the death burial, 301 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,200 and resurrection of his son in the communion. 302 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:20,800 But the worship is only to God. Something else. 303 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:25,400 And by the way I'll just say quickly, you know, people today 304 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:29,700 that want to reverence people And they want to give people 305 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:32,000 positions of Honor that they don't. 306 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:35,600 Well, they don't deserve and they should not have. 307 00:19:37,300 --> 00:19:41,700 In fact, other religions have beings that are supposed to be 308 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,700 like God and so forth, but let me just make one reference to 309 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:51,300 one Passage. If that's the case then why in 310 00:19:51,300 --> 00:19:57,700 Acts chapter 10 when Peter goes to the household of Cornelius, 311 00:19:58,500 --> 00:20:01,500 do you remember what Cornelius does when Peter comes in? 312 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:08,700 The Bible says, they fell down or Cornelius boughs down before 313 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:13,300 him to worship Him. Do you know what Peter does? 314 00:20:13,300 --> 00:20:16,000 Does he accept the worship? No, he says, get up. 315 00:20:16,100 --> 00:20:18,300 I'm a man. Just like you. 316 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,500 I myself the King James says, and also a man. 317 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:27,100 We don't worship men. We don't worship angels, we 318 00:20:27,100 --> 00:20:32,200 don't worship anything, but god Jehovah himself, and we must do 319 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:35,300 that in spirit and in truth. And that's the next Point, 320 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,400 that's the attitude and that is the standard. 321 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,200 I put these things together. And and instead of breaking them 322 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:42,100 down. Early. 323 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:45,100 Because this absolutely has to go together. 324 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:49,000 You cannot do one without the other be acceptable to God. 325 00:20:49,700 --> 00:20:53,500 You have to have the spirit part connected to the truth part, you 326 00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:56,100 have to have both, so I just put them together. 327 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,700 The attitude is has to be right, one scholar, wrote it this 328 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:02,700 night. I thought it was interesting. 329 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:09,600 He said worship to God as being a spiritual being must be from a 330 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,000 spiritual nature. In fact, he said a spiritual 331 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:17,600 being like God can only be pleased with worship that comes 332 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:22,300 from the heart and that which is Guided by the truth. 333 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,500 Okay, that's Worship in a nutshell. 334 00:21:25,900 --> 00:21:27,500 That's what we're trying to do today. 335 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,900 We're trying to Worship in spirit and in truth, meaning the 336 00:21:30,900 --> 00:21:33,000 emblems are the items of worship. 337 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,800 The ordinances of divine service. 338 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,300 We cannot change that. We have to do that according to 339 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:40,600 the Divine pattern, but we're going to put all of our spirit 340 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:41,800 in it. We're going to do. 341 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,100 So from a A heart from the right motive and all of that. 342 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:47,400 All right. What about this? 343 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,700 What about the lifting up of? Holy hands? 344 00:21:52,500 --> 00:21:56,900 What's that mean? One of the latest practices in 345 00:21:56,900 --> 00:22:01,500 the religious world. Is the practice of holding one's 346 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:06,000 arms up. And perhaps, I don't know, maybe 347 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:11,700 swaying to the music with elevated hands in the assembly 348 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:16,800 as some worshipful posture. That's very common in the 349 00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:20,200 religious world today, and one of the things, one of the 350 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:25,100 reasons about the actual literal elevation of hamp's is because 351 00:22:25,100 --> 00:22:29,900 of in large part, the mission turp rotation of one passage of 352 00:22:29,900 --> 00:22:33,200 scripture that's found in first, Timothy Chapter 2, and verse 353 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:38,900 Verse 8 where Paul said I desire therefore that men pray 354 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:43,400 everywhere lifting up, holy hands without wrath and doubting 355 00:22:43,700 --> 00:22:48,300 just a little side note. Before we go any further, this 356 00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:53,800 is not exclusive, it's not saying in worship only, it says 357 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,600 men everywhere. So, whatever is being meant 358 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,300 there in that passage, it means for men to do it everywhere. 359 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,200 Stay with me, I will be back on that. 360 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:07,600 All right. So giving credit, where it's due 361 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,200 this command. In this passage does seem to 362 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,900 allude to the Old Testament. Practice of uplifted hands in 363 00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:19,300 respectful petition to God. It was actually done in the Old 364 00:23:19,300 --> 00:23:24,900 Testament Nehemiah chapter 8 and verse 6 and Ezra blessed the 365 00:23:24,900 --> 00:23:28,300 Lord, the great God, then all the people answered. 366 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,000 Amen. Amen. 367 00:23:30,300 --> 00:23:35,000 While lifting up their hands and they bowed their heads and 368 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,400 worshiped. Worship the Lord with their 369 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,200 faces to the ground. Second Passage. 370 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:46,800 Psalm 141 and to let my prayer be set before you as incense the 371 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:51,000 lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. 372 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,200 One final passage the book of Lamentations chapter 3 and verse 373 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,700 41. Let us lift up our hearts and 374 00:23:58,700 --> 00:24:03,400 hands to God in heaven. All right? 375 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,100 Was lifting up their arms. Lifting up their hands toward 376 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:10,300 the heavens. A prayer posture. 377 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:16,400 Yes. But so were six others. 378 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:23,200 It wasn't exclusive six others you don't, they were six. 379 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:29,200 Other postures are mentioned kneeling with head bowed arms 380 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,600 raised knees on the ground under the body. 381 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,600 With the forehead touching the ground standing, with head 382 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,500 bowed, low with eyes uplifted with arms, raised toward the 383 00:24:40,500 --> 00:24:45,400 heavens and also lying face down on the ground. 384 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,000 So today, the The lifting up of hands comes more from a 385 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,700 following, the fads of today, rather than a serious Bible 386 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:56,600 study. In fact, while various prayer, 387 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:58,400 postures are mentioned in passing. 388 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,600 In the Bible. The overwhelming emphasis is 389 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,900 clearly on the attitude and thought of the one that's doing 390 00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:06,900 the prayer. In other words, it is the 391 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:10,200 posture of the heart that really matters. 392 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:15,300 You may be a man that kneels down when you pray in the 393 00:25:15,300 --> 00:25:19,100 assembly, you may walk up here and speak into the microphone to 394 00:25:19,100 --> 00:25:22,000 be heard standing. That's all right kneeling. 395 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,200 That's alright standing. That's all right. 396 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:27,400 The whole idea, is the posture doesn't matter. 397 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,500 What matters is the posture of the heart. 398 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,400 That's what matters. Not a literal posture. 399 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:40,600 All right, so In 1st Timothy Chapter 2 and verse 8. 400 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:46,500 In In this passage, it is not a demand for any particular 401 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:51,400 posture in prayer or even the physical lifting of hand and may 402 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,800 I just say this, is it okay for somebody to lift their hands? 403 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,000 Yeah, that's fine. That's nothing unscriptural 404 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,700 about that. But in this passage, it's not 405 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:05,900 giving a directive to do that, literally with your hands. 406 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:10,400 What it is, is this it's actually a figure of speech 407 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,900 known as metonymy in which the writer substitutes an 408 00:26:14,900 --> 00:26:18,600 association word for what is actually meant. 409 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:23,400 What I'm saying is this, holy hands means holy life. 410 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,800 That's the simplest way to put that what he was saying is I 411 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,000 would that all men everywhere. Then, I think the King James 412 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,100 says, all men everywhere and that would include both Jewish 413 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:40,700 and Gentile Christians that when they pray here, talking about 414 00:26:40,700 --> 00:26:44,900 men that have a holy life or living a holy life, that's the 415 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:47,100 picture. They're not the literal 416 00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:51,400 elevation of your hands. Paul teaches that men who lead 417 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,600 in prayer should possess a character of purity. 418 00:26:54,800 --> 00:27:00,300 And holiness. 1st Peter, chapter 1. 419 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:06,100 In verse 15 and 16. But as he who called you is, 420 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:10,100 Holy you also be holy in all your conduct because it is 421 00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:14,700 written be holy for. I am Holy again, holy hands 422 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,800 means holy life. That's what that means. 423 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,000 It's a metonymy. It's a figure of speech. 424 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:25,100 All right, but let me just say this while lifting up one's 425 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:30,900 hands is not wrong in itself. It's not wrong to have your 426 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:34,400 hands up. When you pray to God, let me 427 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,000 Consider with you, the following. 428 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:40,100 Nowhere in the scripture. Are we allowed to have anything 429 00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:42,100 that is potentially self-serving? 430 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,700 And designed to impress, the participants rather than focus 431 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:51,100 on God. Nothing is about us. 432 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,100 It's not to impress someone outwardly by our own posture. 433 00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,800 It's for the focus of God. As a matter of fact, Jesus 434 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,400 criticized religious leaders in his day, for their persistent 435 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:09,900 attention to external displays, appearances, shows and hype. 436 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,600 Jesus said this in Matthew 16 verse 5. 437 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,400 When you pray, you shall not be like the Hypocrites for. 438 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,700 They love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the 439 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:24,000 corners of the streets. That they may be seen of men, 440 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,400 assuredly, I say to you. They have their reward. 441 00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:31,800 I guess what I'm saying is this what's the motive behind it? 442 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,400 If the motive is to look a certain way while you pray that 443 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,600 motive is wrong, has nothing to do with how you look has 444 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,500 everything to do with what your heart looks like. 445 00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,600 That's what God's looking at God's looking at the heart. 446 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,400 That's all that matters. That's the posture that God 447 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,400 wants. So, ask yourself the following 448 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:55,000 if I elevate my hands in prayer, what's the motive behind it to 449 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,700 be seen? Can't do that, that's bad. 450 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:01,900 But it is something that you do on your own, whatever, it 451 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:04,400 doesn't matter. It doesn't matter, the motive 452 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,000 behind it is everything. All right? 453 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:09,400 I'll just say this to you remember when you've heard me 454 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:13,800 preach many times and others too, but when Jesus spoke of the 455 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,700 Pharisee and the Publican, I just want to make this one 456 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:20,300 point. I have said this, I have said, 457 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,500 in my mind's eye, I picture a man that perhaps a standing 458 00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:27,900 there with elevated hands and eyes up toward the heavens. 459 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,900 Yeah, that was probably literal, he probably was doing something 460 00:29:31,900 --> 00:29:34,600 like that. It fit what they did, it fit the 461 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:36,900 prayer posture of the Old Testament. 462 00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:39,800 It fits some of those things. Some of those customs of the day 463 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:45,100 and maybe he was doing solo because he wanted to be seen by 464 00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:47,200 others. Like the Pharisees that went to 465 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,400 the street corner. They want to be known for their 466 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:56,500 long prayers and much speaking. The heart was wrong, not the 467 00:29:56,500 --> 00:30:03,900 hands, but also The last point. Is what about hand clapping? 468 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,600 So, let me just summarize. What I've just said is it wrong 469 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:13,000 to elevate your hands in prayer? No, it's not ask yourself the 470 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,700 question though. What's the motive behind it? 471 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:15,900 All right. What about hand clap? 472 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,200 What about clapping? That's a different subject 473 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,200 altogether. There's two reasons. 474 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:29,100 Why people clap two reasons? Number one is to keep the beat 475 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:32,300 of the song. In other words to keep up with 476 00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:35,600 the song you've seen it, a guy goes to hold a concert or he's 477 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,100 performing somewhere and then all of a sudden during the song 478 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:42,700 gets to the course and starts clapping his hands for everybody 479 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,600 to clap along with him you're keeping the beat of the song by 480 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,200 the Clapping of hands. That's the one reason. 481 00:30:50,300 --> 00:30:53,500 The only other reason that you would clap and I'm going to get 482 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:57,000 back to this but the only other reason you would clap is for the 483 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,000 purpose of applause. Okay, let's talk about the first 484 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,200 one though. Let's talk about musical 485 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:12,000 accompaniment. This is clearly unscriptural on 486 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,400 the grounds that it is parallel to a mechanical device, that 487 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,100 might be used to supplement vocal music. 488 00:31:20,300 --> 00:31:24,400 Clapping our hands along with the music is no different than 489 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,800 beating a drum playing a piano or playing a guitar. 490 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:34,000 For example, clapping of hands is a non-vocal natural 491 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,800 instrument. While a piano is a non-vocal 492 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,400 mechanical instrument, it's the same thing and both of those are 493 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,100 unauthorized because God demands vocal verbal articulation in 494 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:52,900 music, only Ephesians 5 and Teen speaking to one another in 495 00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:56,800 Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. 496 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:03,800 Singing. And making melody in your heart. 497 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,900 To the Lord. The only two instruments 498 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:13,000 authorized are the vocal cords and the Heart. 499 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:18,000 That's what God wants, not the accompaniment of anything else, 500 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,600 so you can have a piano and it's going along the beat of the song 501 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,400 in the tune of the song. You're adding something to what 502 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:29,600 God has not authorized. And by this passage here by the 503 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,200 laws of exclusion. It excludes, all other manners 504 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,400 are all other methods. One final thing about this 505 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,200 though. Don't ever let somebody say, 506 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:42,200 well, what about a song book? It's just an expedient like a 507 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:43,300 songbook. No it's not. 508 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:46,800 Instrumental music is not an expedient and inexpedient 509 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,500 expedites the process of that which is commanded, what's 510 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:54,400 commanded is to sing. So if we add musical instruments 511 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,600 to the assembly to the worship, we add something to what God is 512 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,700 not authorized. When we have a songbook, the 513 00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:07,600 songbook expedites the process of singing, the notes, the words 514 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:12,800 and so forth and so on. And that Is scriptural. 515 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:18,800 All right. What about clapping for 516 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,900 Applause? I got to tell you I've been in 517 00:33:22,908 --> 00:33:25,700 the Philippines and there's and there's a lot of folks that show 518 00:33:25,700 --> 00:33:28,000 up and they're not members of the church and they hear that 519 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,800 the Americans are coming people. Invite them, there are times 520 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,100 when the when the assemblies are really large even in small 521 00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:40,200 confined areas packed and sometimes because they don't 522 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,100 know any different if we get up and give a lesson. 523 00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:48,600 They just feel compelled to do what you do after somebody 524 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:52,700 performs and start clapping start, banging your hands 525 00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:54,800 together. Start clapping and they just 526 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,400 don't know any better. That brings me to my point about 527 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,100 what hand-clapping really is. It's for Applause. 528 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,100 The proponents though of hand clapping today in the religious 529 00:34:06,100 --> 00:34:11,300 World, say it's just a modern form of the word. 530 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:15,000 Amen. Well, no, it's not and consider 531 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,800 the following. I looked this up, I looked up 532 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,699 clapping as used in American culture, okay? 533 00:34:22,100 --> 00:34:25,400 So this is a response to somebody saying that clapping 534 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,500 your hands after a sermon is the same thing as saying. 535 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:32,800 Amen. All right, Clapping Your Hands 536 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,199 in an American culture. Number one, the primary function 537 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,199 of Applause is to indicate personal approval of a 538 00:34:40,207 --> 00:34:44,400 performance like at a football game, an actor or even a mute 539 00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:48,500 musician. To another function of Applause 540 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,600 is the showing of recognition of the performer. 541 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,800 We express our appreciation for their Skill 3. 542 00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:58,900 Another function of hand clapping is an expression of 543 00:34:58,900 --> 00:35:01,500 excitement for a fourth function. 544 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,300 Action of Applause is to manifest courtesy. 545 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:11,500 That's not saying, amen. That has all the emphasis on the 546 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:17,400 performer and the performance. I don't read that in the Bible 547 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:22,000 at all you You know, what's amazing is the Apostle Paul 548 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,300 divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit to write over two-thirds 549 00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:28,100 of the New Testament. He said this, neither he that 550 00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:32,900 plants is anything. Neither, he that Waters is 551 00:35:32,900 --> 00:35:35,600 anything, but God gives the increase. 552 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:39,400 There is never a time that I was stand before you that I am 553 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,800 worthy of your applause. It's not about that. 554 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,300 Difference though, between Applause and amen. 555 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:47,300 Let's talk about, amen, that's a great work. 556 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,600 Amen. As used in the Old Testament. 557 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:57,500 First, our English word, amen. Is a transliteration of a Hebrew 558 00:35:57,500 --> 00:35:59,700 word. That means firm. 559 00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:03,700 It is a term, meaning, certain and true. 560 00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:07,900 Now, a transliteration, a transliteration is something 561 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:12,400 that changes the letters from the words, original alphabet to 562 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,900 similar-sounding. Letters in a different alphabet. 563 00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:18,600 Here's the difference between a Action. 564 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,900 And a transliteration. A translation means the same in 565 00:36:22,900 --> 00:36:27,000 other words, m word, that means the same and a transliteration 566 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:31,000 sounds, the same, the English word. 567 00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:34,200 Amen. Is a transliteration of a Hebrew 568 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:39,800 word that means firm, or certain and true. 569 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:44,400 In the Old Testament. There were two uses for the 570 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,400 word. Amen. 571 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:50,300 Number one, it signified, the individuals acceptance of a 572 00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:54,600 statement. Numbers 5 and 22. 573 00:36:56,200 --> 00:37:01,200 Also indicated truthfulness. By the way you say, Amen, meant 574 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:06,600 this statement is true. First Kings, chapter 1 and verse 575 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,300 36. That's the Old Testament. 576 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:12,200 What about the New Testament? We're concerned about the New 577 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:16,900 Testament. The word is found 126 times in 578 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:21,600 the New Testament and it affirms that a statement is certain 579 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,800 true. And reliable to say, Amen, was 580 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,200 to confirm The Binding nature of those truths. 581 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,200 That was the purpose of the word, amen. 582 00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:35,000 In fact, Jesus often said that, Add this. 583 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:40,500 Jesus often said, verily, verily or truly, truly, as I said, just 584 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:42,600 a moment ago, Applause in our society. 585 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,500 Is a response to the entertaining Performance Based 586 00:37:47,500 --> 00:37:52,400 and it's emphasized on the performer saying, amen. 587 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,800 Focuses on the message rather than the giving of the mess from 588 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,500 the messenger. It focuses on the message. 589 00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:04,300 Somebody says, amen. What they're saying is? 590 00:38:04,300 --> 00:38:06,500 I agree with that. That is a true statement. 591 00:38:06,500 --> 00:38:09,900 That is a statement, of fact, not the preacher said it real 592 00:38:09,900 --> 00:38:12,400 nice and he needs to be applauded. 593 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,100 There's a difference folks there. 594 00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:19,000 Huge difference between clapping hands and saying, Amen, in 595 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,200 conclusion, and I'm just about finished now. 596 00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,700 This passage right here. What have we learned? 597 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:32,500 God is a spiritual being. So he's only going to be pleased 598 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:36,200 with us when our worship our service to him is done properly. 599 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:41,100 We've learned this to that must is a modifier. 600 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:44,600 Must is an absolute. We must worship. 601 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:49,200 God, God is the subject. He's the only object of our 602 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,800 worship. And when we assemble, we must 603 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,000 understand it is for God. We are the participants. 604 00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:01,000 God is the one as The Spectator, he is the one observing us. 605 00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:05,800 Worship means basically this to kiss the hand of or from a 606 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,400 spiritual perspective, we are Thoroughly saying how great God 607 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:14,700 Is by our actions in worship, we are bowing before him and always 608 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:18,400 in that way. But we also understand this, it 609 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,100 must be in spirit. And in truth, it must denote the 610 00:39:22,100 --> 00:39:25,800 proper attitude, the proper mindset and it has to be that 611 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,400 which is in accordance with revealed truth lifting up. 612 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,300 Holy hands. What's that mean means? 613 00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:34,800 Lifting up. Holy lives that the let the men 614 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:39,100 have holy lives. Those that are Ryan as simple 615 00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:42,300 and other passages, bear that out finally clapping. 616 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:44,800 That's clapping is not something that's appropriate in the 617 00:39:44,808 --> 00:39:47,400 assembly. That's a way to carry on a tune 618 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,600 and that's not authorized. And it's also a way to applaud 619 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,300 the speaker, and that is not authorized either. 620 00:39:55,700 --> 00:39:58,400 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 621 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:03,900 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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