2. Steve Petch Sunday 10 th November 2013 The Greatest Commandment Part 3 – Worship that Jesus loves

3. What is worship? The Greatest Commandment: Love God with … … all your heart … all your soul … all your strength … and all your mind Worship starts with loving God

4. What is ‘worship’? Old English:“Weorth” = worthy “Scipe”= shape Something that has the quality of being worthy, or of having great worth

5. What is ‘worship’? The act of worshipping To glorify, to honour, to express devotion, praise or thanksgiving

6. What is ‘worship’? Used 10 times in the New Testament “To be in reverence or awe” “To be God fearing and live a holy life” σέβωμαι Sebomai

7. What is ‘worship’? Used 21 times in the New Testament “To serve” “Serve like a priest in the temple” λατρεύω Latreou

8. What is ‘worship’? Used 59 times in the New Testament “To bow down, to kneel, to reverence, to kiss” “Submission before a king” προσκυνέω Proskuneo

9. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is ‘worship’? “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him” Matthew 2v2

10. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is ‘worship’? “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual act of worship ” Romans 12v1

11. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is ‘worship’? “This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men” Matthew 15v8-9

12. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is ‘worship’? “Paul left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshipper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue” Acts 18v7

13. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is ‘worship’? “She did not depart from the temple, worshipping with fasting and prayer night and day” Luke 2v37

14. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is ‘worship’? “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night in his temple” Rev 7v15 “No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him” Rev 22v3

15. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is ‘worship’? “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth” John 4v24

16. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is ‘worship’? And the devil said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve” Matthew 4v9-10

17. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is ‘worship’?

18. John 12 v 1 - 8

19. It is done with humility It is motivated by grace It is freely given It is intimate and personal It has a public expression It is generous and sacrificial Worship that Jesus loves

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22. It is done with humility It is motivated by grace It is freely given It is intimate and personal It has a public expression It is generous and sacrificial It is prophetic Worship that Jesus loves

23. Judas objected to it The disciples remembered it Jesus accepted it Worship that Jesus loves

24. Sebomai Reverence, awe, holy living Latreou Serve, serve like a priest Proskuneo Kneel, bow, kiss, reverence What is God calling you to do?