Tuesday, April 7, 2009

WHEN WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD

Posted by George Soepboer Sr

When we come together as Christians to worship God then we may not allow anything to capture our attention beside God and Jesus the Son of God. If we do allow anything to capture our attention beside God and Jesus the Son of God then we sin against God, for that will hinder our worship to God and to Jesus the Son of God. Only God and the Son of God must have our attention at the worship place of God. Anything else is the work of satan to draw our attention away from God, for all of that is idol worship and is sin against God.
( Isaiah 2:12- 21 ).

We also may not allow people to provide us with entertainment in anyway or form when we come together to worship as the people of God. All of that draws our attention also away from God and Jesus the Son of God, for that leads our attention to the entertainment and to the people who bring the entertainment, not to God and the Son of God, then those people become our gods for then we worship those people instead of God.
( Isaiah 2:22 )

We may use music for worship as the people of God to help us to sing our songs to God, but that music must be in unity with the singing of all of the people of God who come to worship God. If the music stands out from the singing of the people of God then we do not worship God, for then the music captures our attention, not God and the Son of God.
The people who bring music in the assembly of the people of God may not receive our attention, for then we worship people, and then we do not worship God and the Son of God.
( Psalms 146:1-4 ).

We also may not draw attention to ourselves in anyway or form by the way we act or sing or speak at the worship place of God, for then we worship ourselves, not God.
( Matthew 6:1-7 ).

We also may not allow preachers and teachers to draw attention to them-selves by the way they speak to the people of God, for then those preachers and teachers hinder God’s people from worshiping God, for then they receive the attention, not God, all of that is idolatry and sin against God.
( Matthew 23:1-11 ).

We also may not place any icons of any sort within and outside the place where we worship God.
Any Icon capture the imagination of people all of that is idolatry and sin against God.
( Exodus 20:4 ).

We may not consider any people holy in a worship place of God we must only reverence God.
( Matthew 23:1-12 ).

We may not have any sort of altar or eucharistic elements in the worship place of God, for there is no altar and eucharistic that is holy in the eyes of God. It all draws our attention away from God and from Jesus the Son of God and places the attention on the things that people believe represents Jesus the Son of God. Noting on this world represents Jesus the Son of God, for Jesus the Son of God is not in the things of this world but He is in heaven with God.
( Hebrews 1:1-3 ).

The Lord’s Supper is also not holy. The Lord’s Supper must draw us to God through the sacrifice of the Son of God when He paid for sins by God to make us right with God. However, the Lord’s Supper is never holy it is only a tool to draw our attention to the work of God through Jesus Christ the Son of God. We may not place any emphasis on the food and drink at Lord’s Supper, for the food and drink that we take at Lord’s Supper are not holy. Christian must only keep that practice to remind us that Jesus paid for our sins by God. If we add anything to that practice by making it sound like the communion supper is holy then we do not only miss the meaning of communion supper but then we sin against God, for then our attention is on the communion supper and not on God and Jesus the Son of God.
( 1 Corinthians 11:23-36 ).

We must be respectfully dressed when we come together to worship God and the Son of God. However, we may not dress in a way that draws the attention of other people in the worship place of God. If we dress in a way that draws the attention of other people in the worship place of God then we draw the attention of people away from worshiping God and the Son of God. Then we take the place that only belongs to God and the Son of God in the worship place of God.
( Psalms 18:27 ).

When we come to worship as the people of God then we must have only one thing in mind that is to worship God and Jesus the Son of God, for that is the only way we can please God. Only God and Jesus must draw us to a worship place of God. Therefore our heart and mind must only be open to God and Jesus Christ the Son of God, for then we worship in power and truth and only that is of God.
( John 4:23-24 ).

If the fellowship of people draws us to a worship place of God then we come to the worship place of God to please ourselves not God, and if we are drawn to a worship place of God by well, spoken preachers then we seek to please ourselves instead of pleasing God.
If we need entertainment to draw us to a worship place of God then we also seek to please ourselves at the worship place of God, and then we do not please God. We can only please God if do not seek to please ourselves at the worship place of God, but we must seek to worship God.
( Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ).

Moreover we must honor the Jesus the Son of God as we honor God, for without the Son of God we can never please God, for the Son of God opened the way for us to God.
( John 5:23 ).

If we need anything else or anyone else to draw us to a place to worship God and the Son of God then our heart is not right with God, then we must repent of our sins by God and open our heart to God and to Jesus the Son of God.
( James 4:7-10 ).

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