Authentic Worship ISAIAH 1:10-18
“ Of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others … between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Frederick Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping … Douglass partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land … AUTHENTIC www.yourwebsite.com Slide / 01 WORSHIP
“ The man who wields the blood-[stained leather whip] during the week fills the pulpit on Sunday, and claims to be a minister of the meek and lowly Jesus. The man who robs me of my earnings at the end of the week meets me as a class-leader on Sunday morning, to show me the way of life, and the path of salvation. He who sells my sister, for purposes of prostitution, stands forth as the pious advocate Frederick of purity. He who proclaims it a religious duty to read the Bible denies me the right of Douglass learning to read the name of the God who made me. AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 www.yourwebsite.com WORSHIP
Isaiah Life of Authentic Worship AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
I. Recognize God’s Attitude Toward Hypocritical Worship Isaiah 1:10-15 10 Hear the word of the L O RD , You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the instruction of our God, You people of Gomorrah. 11 “What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?” Says the L O RD . “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats. 12 “When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts? AUTHENTIC www.yourwebsite.com WORSHIP
I. Recognize God’s Attitude Toward Hypocritical Worship Isaiah 1:10-15 13 “Bring your worthless offerings no longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies — I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly. 14 “I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them. 15 “So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. AUTHENTIC www.yourwebsite.com WORSHIP
I. Recognize God’s Attitude Toward Hypocritical Worship A. He was sickened by the worshippers’ animal sacrifices vv. 11-12 11 “What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?” Says the L O RD . “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I 85% take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats. 12 “When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts? AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 WORSHIP
I. Recognize God’s Attitude Toward Hypocritical Worship B. He abhorred the worshippers’ offerings and festivals vv. 13-14 13 “Bring your worthless offerings no longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies— I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly. AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
I. Recognize God’s Attitude Toward Hypocritical Worship B. He abhorred the worshippers’ offerings and festivals vv. 13-14 14 “I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them. AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
I. Recognize God’s Attitude Toward Hypocritical Worship C. He was unmoved by the worshippers’ prayer v. 15 15 “So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 www.yourwebsite.com WORSHIP
I S A I A H D E S C R I B E S T H E I R But your iniquities have made a S I N separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from ❑ They oppressed widow and orphan (1:16-17) you so that He does not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood and your ❑ They carried out injustice and bloodshed (5:7) fingers with iniquity; your lips have ❑ They tolerated bribery and injustice (5:23) spoken falsehood, your tongue mutters ❑ They deprived the needy, robbed the poor (10:1-2) wickedness. Is. 59:2-3 AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 WORSHIP
If someone says , “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a L I A R ; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he 1 John 4:20 has not seen.” AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 WORSHIP
“For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God the knowledge of God rather require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, than burnt offerings .” to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, Hosea 6:6 Deuteronomy 10:12 AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
God wants RIGHTEOUSNESS not religion. He wants what’s REAL not ritual . He wants FAITHFULNESS not fakeness. He wants INTEGRITY not insincerity. Worship is He wants H O N E S T Y not hypocrisy. more than an event. It’s a way of life. AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 www.yourwebsite.com WORSHIP
… if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. Matt. 5:23-24 AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 WORSHIP
Worship is more than an event. It is a way of life. AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 www.yourwebsite.com WORSHIP
A. PUT OFF and PUT ON vv. 16-17 II. Repent from Hypocritical Worship 16 “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; seek justice, reprove the ruthless, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Is. 1:16-17 AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 WORSHIP
II. Repent from Hypocritical Worship A. PUT OFF and PUT ON vv. 16-17 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. James 1:27 AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
“What good will it do to a man when he is in hell that others think he has gone to heaven?” Thomas Watson AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
II. Repent from Hypocritical Worship A. PUT OFF and PUT ON vv. 16-17 Pure and undefiled religion in the 16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are sight of our God and Father is this: not pleased with burnt offering. 17 to visit orphans and widows in their The sacrifices of God are a broken distress, and to keep oneself spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, unstained by the world. O God, You will not despise. James 1:27 Psalm 51:16 AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
II. Repent from Hypocritical Worship B. God’s promise of forgiveness v. 18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool” AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 WORSHIP
Forgiveness is never extended W I T H O U T true repentance and a R E S O L V E to trust in God. AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
HE WAS PIERCED THROUGH FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, HE WAS CRUSHED FOR OUR INIQUITIES…THE LORD HAS CAUSED THE INIQUITY OF US ALL TO FALL ON HIM … THE RIGHTEOUS ONE, MY SERVANT, WILL JUSTIFY THE MANY, AS HE WILL BEAR THEIR INIQUITIES … HE POURED OUT HIMSELF TO DEATH … HE HIMSELF BORE THE SIN OF MANY, AND INTERCEDED FOR THE TRANSGRESSORS. Isaiah 53 AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
Recognize God’s Attitude Toward Repent from Hypocritical Worship Hypocritical Worship AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
23 “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 “God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth .” III. Pursue a life of John 4:23 Authentic Worship AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 WORSHIP
III. Pursue a life of Authentic Worship Worship in Spirit One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord And to meditate in His temple. Psalm 27:4 AUTHENTIC www.yourwebsite.com Slide / 01 WORSHIP
this is the HEART of Authentic Worship AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
You cannot be an Authentic Worshipper of the TRUE GOD without a RIGHT UNDERSTANDING of Him. III. Pursue a life of Authentic Worship Worship in Truth AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 www.yourwebsite.com WORSHIP
III. Pursue a life of Authentic Worship Worship in Self-Sacrifice 1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:1-2 AUTHENTIC Slide / 01 WORSHIP
“ True worship is essentially … the human response to the divine Creator and Redeemer. For this reason the goal of authentic worship is the glory of God rather than the pleasure of human beings. Daniel Block AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
True Worship is a LIFESTYLE not an event. AUTHENTIC WORSHIP
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