Worship
Will McGee
Psalm 95
[1] Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
[2] Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
[3] For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
[4] In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.
[5] The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
[6] Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
[7] For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Today, if you hear his voice,
[8] do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
[9] when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
[10] For forty years I loathed that generation and said, ''They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.''
[11] Therefore I swore in my wrath, ''They shall not enter my rest.''
Introduction: I want us to consider the question. ''What is worship?'' What does it mean to be a worshipper of God?
Illus. Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian who moved to America to attend college.
But while he was in America, he was shocked with the way that Americans approached life. He felt Americans were superficial. The way that Americans approached the difficult/nagging existential questions of humanity. Americans seemed uninterested in the great philosophical questions--were more concerned with entertainment. Celebrities. Materialism.
He looked around and saw greed, violence, rampant sexual immorality. He was stunned. He thought America was supposed to be the place of greatness.
So he went to church... Hoping that in the Christian church he could find a remnant of Americans that weren't consumed with triviality. A place where people were devoted to worship of a transcendent Creator God. And ...
Will McGee
Psalm 95
[1] Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
[2] Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
[3] For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
[4] In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.
[5] The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
[6] Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
[7] For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Today, if you hear his voice,
[8] do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
[9] when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
[10] For forty years I loathed that generation and said, ''They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.''
[11] Therefore I swore in my wrath, ''They shall not enter my rest.''
Introduction: I want us to consider the question. ''What is worship?'' What does it mean to be a worshipper of God?
Illus. Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian who moved to America to attend college.
But while he was in America, he was shocked with the way that Americans approached life. He felt Americans were superficial. The way that Americans approached the difficult/nagging existential questions of humanity. Americans seemed uninterested in the great philosophical questions--were more concerned with entertainment. Celebrities. Materialism.
He looked around and saw greed, violence, rampant sexual immorality. He was stunned. He thought America was supposed to be the place of greatness.
So he went to church... Hoping that in the Christian church he could find a remnant of Americans that weren't consumed with triviality. A place where people were devoted to worship of a transcendent Creator God. And ...
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