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Worship: A Matter of Life and Death

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 1 Come, let us Come, let us Come, let us Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 1 Come, let us sing for joy let us sing for joy let us sing for joy let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. let us shout aloud let us shout aloud

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. 5 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 3 For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods King above all gods King above all gods. King above all gods

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Exodus 12:12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn—both men and animals—and I will bring judgment on all the gods judgment on all the gods judgment on all the gods judgment on all the gods of Egypt of Egypt of Egypt of Egypt. I am the LORD.”

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; 7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; 7 for he is our God he is our God he is our God he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; 7 for he is our God and we are the people of his we are the people of his we are the people of his we are the people of his pasture pasture pasture pasture, the flock under his care.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Psalm 23 Psalm 23 Psalm 23 Psalm 23 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 8 Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 8 Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me, me, me, me, though they had seen what I I I I did.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Exodus 17:3 But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst die of thirst die of thirst die of thirst?”

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Exodus 17:7 And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled quarreled quarreled and because they tested quarreled tested tested tested the LORD saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Exodus 5:21 …and they said, “May the LORD look upon you and judge you! You have made us a stench to Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us to kill us to kill us to kill us.”

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Exodus 14:11–12 “Was it because there were no graves graves graves in Egypt that you graves brought us to the desert to die to die to die to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert die in the desert!” die in the desert die in the desert

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Exodus 15:24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Exodus 16:3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died died died by the died LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire starve this entire starve this entire starve this entire assembly to death assembly to death.” assembly to death assembly to death

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Exodus 16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my see whether they will follow my see whether they will follow my see whether they will follow my instructions instructions.” instructions instructions

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.”

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.”

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Worship: A Matter of Life and Death Hebrews 3:12–13 See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

Worship: A Matter of Life and Death