Seek my happiness. And now the question is: How does he think that happens? Here is what happens. My heart is a desire factory and every day it is producing bad ones that have to be killed — “put to death what is earthly” (Colossians 3:5). What is wrong with me? That was too fast. Go find a canyon to be moved by. He is thinking of the cross as virtually done. Strumming: Matt Redman - The Heart Of Worship (chords) Accepted on Nov 4, 2017. “Come on, let’s have a rousing service this morning so that at the end when I mention the children’s needs everybody will be primed to respond.” Oh, that is evil. That is me-centered.” But a lot of you know my favorite story to illustrate why this is not the case. This people honors me with their lips. Make me glorious in this moment of my death and in the resurrection. Every single breath! We don’t want that. Something that's of worth
He is everywhere. I just never heard anybody say that. It is out of their control. The film came out in 1957. If you look through the Bible, there’s a whole host of people who faced up to the glory of God and found themselves facedown in worship. I think I absorbed it because my father was so joyful as a person that I absorbed it, but I never heard anybody preaching to the effect: You must be happy. So if you want to flip a page, or maybe you don’t have to. That is not what the verse says. And I read dozens and dozens of ethicists who argued that if you have a view to any reward at all in your ethical behavior you are defective. Just go to 3:7–8 and we read this: “Whatever gain I had I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.” And right now he is in jail, so he has lost freedom. “Because their heart is far from me.” That is why I am asking this question. All of our resources exist to guide you toward everlasting joy in Jesus Christ. I mean the power of deadness. In Christ, we are no longer under the old covenant but now under the new. There are such worship services. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I might gain Christ.”. In fact, I have arranged for a babysitter because there is nothing I would rather do, Noël, than spend the evening with you tonight.” And not in a million years would she ever say or has she ever said, “‘Nothing you would rather do.’ You are so selfish. I am so ticked at myself, and I am discouraged. The Heart of Worship. Through the way things appear
I am saying that emotional experience is not a means to anything. This body in all that it does, is to be worship, which means is to act from a heart condition that magnifies Jesus, that makes Jesus look good, makes him look as glorious as he really is. And here is the reason I think: Jesus was there in the gospels physically and people could fall down in front of him and they did over and over again. I am not going to be happy. I love to tell this story. What does that mean? But you get the idea. And the way he explains it is I pray, hope, am expectant that in my body, in my death Christ will be magnified for to me to die is gain. If everybody comes to worship longing to be satisfied in him, he is the center. Christ is worthy. Now look at this. Eat pizza to the glory of God. It is, then, “all about” Jesus, not us. For a song in itself
It is hungry people. I have seen it. I know that I do!”. I have got six years of markings in this Bible. Here would be a way. Amazed by how God has since taken the song around the world for His purposes, the songwriter smiles in regard to his own lack of foresight. 1. I'll bring You more than a song
So I have just argued that Christ is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in him using the death piece and the life piece of Philippians 1:20–21, in order to show that the inner experience that in and of itself makes God magnificent is a being satisfied in him about everything else. So there is my textual support and now I am going to turn to the application. You can’t possibly have done what you just did.” That hurts. Artists and assemblies regularly perform “Let My Words Be Few” (Phillips, Craig & Dean), “Better Is One Day” (Rebecca St. James, Petra), and perhaps most of all, “The Heart of Worship” (Michael W. Smith, Sonic Flood, Passion), a beautifully simple, acoustic confessional ballad. Come, Now Is the Time: 2. Jesus is now the priest. Now lest anybody misunderstand, when that happens, when a worship service week in, week out happens as an end in itself, everything gets better. If that is shocking to us, we haven’t yet seen our sin in relation to God. In my Bible you don’t even have to. So my first application is the implication of saying God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him is that pursuing satisfaction in him is an obligation and is not a threat to your ethics in him. And it's all about You, it's all about You, Jesus
You can meet this Jesus in worship anywhere. And that word is gone. “I glorified you on the earth, having accomplished the work you gave me to do” (John 17:4). The experience that I have been saying is so massively important inside in order to turn all of life into worship, and the reason a worship service is not vain is the experience of satisfaction in all that God is for us in Christ. Marriages get better. God engages himself with infinite creative power to enable us in the new birth an ongoing illumination to see the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. He’s at the center. I want people to come to worship. Therefore, do you see how urgent it is to cultivate a people who are pursuing satisfaction with God, period? I am going to assume that you agree with me that the high priestly prayer of our Lord Jesus for his disciples and for us through them, as he says in verse 20, I am praying for those who will believe on me through their words. Now let me give you some biblical support. Duty is a good thing, but duty-given roses on an anniversary is not a good thing. Go find a sunset to be satisfied with. He wants his body animated by a heart of some kind to do that. Worship leaders should be really, really familiar with this verse. And as soon as you try to think of that delight as a means to something, it is not real anymore. Longing just to bring
The singing is vain. Emphasizing the inner experience of worship as being satisfied in God protects worship as an end in itself rather than a means to an end. I'll bring You more than a song. All is stripped away
Give glory to God. May God work that. That is my question. A biblical theology of worship will result in worship that produces a change of heart. Christ is most magnified in you in your moment of dying when in your moment of dying you are most satisfied in him. Christ is more valuable than anything. I have been blessed. Worship is not about music, although music is often used by worshipers. Forms will abide, hearts will not be what they ought to be. Christ will be shown to be magnificent in my dying if in my dying I experience it as gain. I am going to say something here that is earth shaking and life transforming. We must have misread. Say, “There is nothing I would rather do than spend an hour with you. It is love. All human “goodness” that does not spring from faith is sin. I just love buying things for you. When it's all about You, it's all about You, Jesus
Matthew 15:8. If you want to say being satisfied with Christ, or if you want to say being satisfied with all that God is for us in Christ, that is a good way to say it. Be satisfied in your reward. Here we are at the high priestly prayer. Heart of Worship - Heart of Worship, Volume 1 Album Lyrics; 1. That is the goal. He is going to be with me. And worship services and a life of worship has the potential of exposing people to what they were made for. You can hear abstract flourishes of languages, logical order, passionate engagement and like it and not give a rip about what is being said. I mean that is a small thing, a real small thing compared to what some of you face. We use it to evangelize the lost and so on. If it is not experiencing the right thing, this preaching is vain. The people of Christ cannot simply give up and walk away from each other in conflict, because we are a part of the same body. “It’s such a biblical posture in worship that speaks of reverence. But the key word, the operative emotional word is satisfy. Jesus, We Celebrate Your Victory: 9. Drink pop to the glory of God. You ruin worship. Something happens when the people of God gather together and play out the praises of God in the presence of God. The verse says, “When you do your good deeds, God gets admired.” And then my question is: How do you do your good deeds so that God gets admired and you don’t become the focus? It is like the analogy of the marriage would be if you look in your wife’s eyes and say, “You, you are my delight.” I guarantee you, the food will improve. This is a much-needed call for a return to the heart of worship. That will bless Your heart. What are we supposed to do with that? Christ, everything. So he said it now. “And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed” (John 17:5). Last quick, brief application. And it is deadly to corporate worship, absolutely deadly. I can’t make that happen. I said, “I want you to send six roses to 1801 11th Avenue South, okay?” “Fine.” “Get them there this afternoon.” “What do you want on the card?” “I want 6/6/66.” And the guy said, “That is the devil’s number.” I said, “Just put the dashes in the right place.” And I only mention that on the 40th anniversary that is 2006 — June sixth — we actually did this story and had it videoed by my daughter. I mean, you have got down to the threads and the colors of the threads and the tassels and days and months and seasons and endless detail of how to do it in that regime. Why are they crying? Oh, that we could forget ourselves and be into another in love and in delight, that would be joy, and you wouldn’t be thinking about feeling joy. 12 Scriptures to Fill Your Children's Hearts at Bedtime, This site is a proud member of the Salem Web Network, a subsidiary of, Copyright © 2021, Crosswalk.com. That is what verse 8 is about. In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” I am terrified as a pastor that God would write over our services, vain, empty. Why can’t I make them feel guilty? So there is an example of the outward life coming from a certain heart, the outward life making people admire God. To the degree that this ethic dominates your people, that their pursuit of their own joy is defective, your services will die. You come in here bankrupt. “You come here to get and not to give.” You should come here to give. Tell me things I can do, because if you tell me I have to experience something I can’t make happen, that is scary. Listen to The Heart of Worship by Matt Redman on Apple Music. I Could Sing of Your Love Forever: 6. I mean, these are two of the most important verses imaginable. So the first five verses of this prayer are a prayer for his own glory. I did this with daisies on our 40th meeting anniversary. Verse 19: “I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus, this imprisonment will turn out for my deliverance, as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not at all be ashamed but that with full courage, now as always, Christ will be honored.” So just get that clear now. You should not want them. This teaching of Christian Hedonism and the elevation of the importance of the emotion of satisfaction in God is so threatening to so many people. He will turn all those absolutely white blank un underlined pages into glory. The story of the rose is what I am talking about. Why? So we have got salt and we have got light flowing from “Rejoice in the day that you are persecuted because you can be satisfied not with that, but with your reward in heaven.” I would say: If you show me somebody like that, somebody who in the midst of suffering, in the midst of criticism, in the midst of conflict has a demeanor of inner, deep, quiet, strong, satisfaction in God and the rewards that are coming, I would say that is the saltiest, brightest thing I have ever seen in my life. He loves me. The answer is the experience of being satisfied with God. So now you have seen he is making the connection there so that he can unpack how in life and in death Christ is magnified. So don’t think I am minimizing Christ here. What is my heart supposed to be doing while we are doing these music things, these verbal things, this preaching thing? My body is to be moved — hugging, touching, giving, loving, rebuking, whatever this body does as it moves through the world — to be animated by the abundance of the heart. For me to live corresponds with life is Christ, and to die corresponds to death in verse 20. And here is what I have in mind. This is my favorite place to defend this point. I left my Bible on the plane yesterday. So it is not just in the air. The heart of worship is restricted. Friends, may grace and peace be yours in abundance in the knowledge of God and Christ Jesus our Lord. Look at verses 4 and 5. You would just be feeling joy. Lord, I Lift Your Name On High: 11. I'm coming back to the heart of worship
Ding, dong. It is needy people who come to worship. The heart of worship has boundaries. The music is vain, empty, useless, and it smells in God’s nose. The trademark tune soon became the title track for Matt Redman’s 1999 album, The Heart of Worship. Because that is the paradox. Son, everything you do, do to the glory of God. “He decided to get rid of the sound system and band for a season, and we gathered together with just our voices. "The Heart Of Worship". And I am just putting roses up there because they are beautiful and you are beautiful and I want to know you better an experience you more.” He wouldn’t say, “I, I, I. Christ is great. And I think the answer is found in the context flowing from verses 11–16. Comment and share your favourite lyrics. You are salt of the earth. And my question in this message is: What is the experience of the heart that in itself shows God is infinitely valuable and beautiful and worthy and produces acts in the body which also display how valuable God is and how infinitely worthy he is? That you are drinking her and not there, thank you. 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