1. Welcome! We’re happy to have you with us today!
“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name” (Psm. 100:4).

2. What Did You Bring?
Deut. 16:16-17; Matt. 5:23-24

3. Are your hands full?

4. Latreuo focuses on the act of worship, while proskuneo focuses on the attitude of worship.
God desires both. John 4:24

5. I. Worship perverted

6. Unacceptable worship:
Cain brought fruit. Gen. 4:2-7
Nadab and Abihu brought fire. Lev. 10:1-2
Jereboam brought calves.
1 Kgs. 12:28-32

7. God expects worship to be done as He has commanded.

8. II. Worship PRIZED

9. “When the NT uses proskuneo, the object is always something—truly or supposedly—divine.

10. . Peter refused worship from Cornelius. A. 10:23
. An angel refused worship from John. Rev. 19:10
. Paul and Barnabas refused worship from idolaters at Lystra. A. 14:11-15

11. The one and only object of worship is God!
Num. 21:8; 2 Kgs. 18:4; Matt. 4:10

12. III. Worship POSITIONED

13. Worship perversion involves not only external forms, but also the internal attitudes of the worshiper. Isa. 59:2

14. Attitudes
Submission:
. Jesus. Matt. 26:39ff
. Daniel. Dan. 10:12
. Publican. Lk. 18:9ff

15. Attitudes
Celebration:
. Psm. 100:1-3
. Jas. 5:13

16. Conclusion
True worship involves right actions.
True worship involves right attitudes.

17. What did you bring? Are your hands full?