Embracing Worship: Letting Go and Moving Forward
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Yes, in your own strength, you're going to be tired. You're going to be weary. You're going to run out. But he says, when you're connected to me and you put me at the center of your life, you're connected to the source of life, which is giving you everything that you need. You're daily bread for the task that is before you. Listen, for some of you this morning, the word is this. Don't give up. Don't give up on the good work that God has called you to. Some of you are tired. Some of you are weary. Some of you are like, I just need to do the other thing, not because God is calling you, but because it's easier. Don't go there because it's easier. You go where God calls you. Amen?" [01:02:22]
2. "Listen, we see in, in first John, the Bible says this perfect love cast out all what fear. And so one of the things that hinders our worship before God is that we get so consumed by the fear of the world and the fear of what's happening to us, or a lot of times the fear of what might happen to us, that we allow the things of this world to consume us to a degree that we no longer are able to worship God because we've become paralyzed by the things that we're facing and the things we're looking at." [01:03:23]
3. "It's been so easy to think about how do we go back to what was before? But sometimes God's not asking us to go back. He has a new future for us. And he wants to rearrange some things and some things in our lives in order that we live into the new vision of what God has for us." [01:09:03]
4. "Your past can deplete your worship, or the past can fuel your worship. The past can deplete it, or it can fill it. Let me explain. He asks us, he says, remember the former days. And what, sometimes what we do with nostalgia and the throwback of thinking of the past is sometimes what we begin to do is we begin to worship the past in such a way that we worship the past more than we worship God in the presence. He says, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't idolize the past and make it a God in your life." [01:06:56]
5. "The promise, see this is the problem we make with God's promises. The problem with the promises is that we make the promises all about us. We make us the center of God's promises as if God is orbiting around us as he fulfills his promises. But what the scriptures are saying is that, yes, you benefit and there is great blessing in God's promises, but the promises are all, all connected to a person who is a living temple who said, I will come and this temple will be raised, it will be destroyed, but in three days it will be raised up again. Who conquered death and who is alive and whose name is Jesus." [01:18:32]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Worship is more than just a place that you go to, but it is a people that you are with. And so I want to encourage you next week, come out, it's family friendly." [52:14]
2. "So, God is speaking through Haggai. And it's interesting that he calls these three leaders, and he calls them to live into their strength, to live into their identity. He tells them three different times to be strong. Be strong. Don't grow weary. Don't give up. Don't give up on the worship and the good work that God has called you to. Does anyone need to hear that this morning? Anybody need to hear that word this morning, that man, life is hard, and it can be draining. But God is speaking to you and where he's called you to work, in that work situation that's hard, that house situation that's hard, that marriage that is hard. God is saying to you, be strong. Don't grow weary. Don't grow tired. I know it's hard, but be strong, declares the Lord Almighty." [01:00:51]
3. "Remember Lot's wife because what she did is she was so fixated of wanting to think about the past rather than having a vision for where God was leading her. And so we see, Christine Kane says it this way. She says this about lingering in the past. She says if we linger in the past, we run the risk of becoming an idolized version of what really was. We linger in the past, we run the risk of becoming an idolized version of what really was. Let me ask you this morning, are you lingering in a place or longing for what was? Are you living so much in the past that it's keeping you from able to worship God in the future?" [01:10:13]
4. "Worship remembers the past in order to give you faith for the future. So there is a power in remembering. There is a power in, in recounting and retelling the story of God in your life. That is why it's so important that we remind ourselves of how God is faithful in our life because we see that the past, the past that you've lived, the history that you've gone through can give you faith to worship God in the present and even in the middle of a storm. Even in the hardship of life, you remember when God showed up in this story." [01:11:34]
5. "It's saying that God's promises that at the new temple that he will one day build are far greater than what was in the past. So that's part of why we have to let go of the past and not make it a God, is that God's promises for the future are even greater. And what we know because of Jesus is that the ultimate fulfillment of all of this is because of the person of Christ who embodies the ultimate temple and brings true peace. Therefore, worship is forward-looking, filled with hope and trust in God's promises. Worship is believing God for all that he has said he will do and trusting in his promises for your life." [01:14:38]
6. "The Westminster Catechism, the catechism had asked a question and a response. The first question of the Westminster Catechism is this, what is the chief end of people? Why do people exist? What is the purpose of it? That's the question. And the answer is this, to enjoy God and to worship him forever. Your purpose in your life is to bring glory to the one who created you. Your purpose in this life, in this world, is to reflect back to the creator how good and how great he is." [01:15:26]
7. "The same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead is alive in you. So, so the way that we have to do that is instead of being in fear of the things of this world, we have a healthy fear of reverence of a God who is able, a God who is willing, and a God who never, never ends. Amen?" [01:03:56]
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1. "Yes, in your own strength, you're going to be tired. You're going to be weary. You're going to run out. But he says, when you're connected to me and you put me at the center of your life, you're connected to the source of life, which is giving you everything that you need. You're daily bread for the task that is before you. Listen, for some of you this morning, the word is this. Don't give up. Don't give up on the good work that God has called you to. Some of you are tired. Some of you are weary. Some of you are like, I just need to do the other thing, not because God is calling you, but because it's easier. Don't go there because it's easier. You go where God calls you. Amen?" [01:02:22]
2. "Listen, we see in, in first John, the Bible says this perfect love cast out all what fear. And so one of the things that hinders our worship before God is that we get so consumed by the fear of the world and the fear of what's happening to us, or a lot of times the fear of what might happen to us, that we allow the things of this world to consume us to a degree that we no longer are able to worship God because we've become paralyzed by the things that we're facing and the things we're looking at." [01:03:23]
3. "It's been so easy to think about how do we go back to what was before? But sometimes God's not asking us to go back. He has a new future for us. And he wants to rearrange some things and some things in our lives in order that we live into the new vision of what God has for us." [01:09:03]
4. "Your past can deplete your worship, or the past can fuel your worship. The past can deplete it, or it can fill it. Let me explain. He asks us, he says, remember the former days. And what, sometimes what we do with nostalgia and the throwback of thinking of the past is sometimes what we begin to do is we begin to worship the past in such a way that we worship the past more than we worship God in the presence. He says, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't idolize the past and make it a God in your life." [01:06:56]
5. "The promise, see this is the problem we make with God's promises. The problem with the promises is that we make the promises all about us. We make us the center of God's promises as if God is orbiting around us as he fulfills his promises. But what the scriptures are saying is that, yes, you benefit and there is great blessing in God's promises, but the promises are all, all connected to a person who is a living temple who said, I will come and this temple will be raised, it will be destroyed, but in three days it will be raised up again. Who conquered death and who is alive and whose name is Jesus." [01:18:32]
### Quotes for Members
1. "Worship is more than just a place that you go to, but it is a people that you are with. And so I want to encourage you next week, come out, it's family friendly." [52:14]
2. "So, God is speaking through Haggai. And it's interesting that he calls these three leaders, and he calls them to live into their strength, to live into their identity. He tells them three different times to be strong. Be strong. Don't grow weary. Don't give up. Don't give up on the worship and the good work that God has called you to. Does anyone need to hear that this morning? Anybody need to hear that word this morning, that man, life is hard, and it can be draining. But God is speaking to you and where he's called you to work, in that work situation that's hard, that house situation that's hard, that marriage that is hard. God is saying to you, be strong. Don't grow weary. Don't grow tired. I know it's hard, but be strong, declares the Lord Almighty." [01:00:51]
3. "Remember Lot's wife because what she did is she was so fixated of wanting to think about the past rather than having a vision for where God was leading her. And so we see, Christine Kane says it this way. She says this about lingering in the past. She says if we linger in the past, we run the risk of becoming an idolized version of what really was. We linger in the past, we run the risk of becoming an idolized version of what really was. Let me ask you this morning, are you lingering in a place or longing for what was? Are you living so much in the past that it's keeping you from able to worship God in the future?" [01:10:13]
4. "Worship remembers the past in order to give you faith for the future. So there is a power in remembering. There is a power in, in recounting and retelling the story of God in your life. That is why it's so important that we remind ourselves of how God is faithful in our life because we see that the past, the past that you've lived, the history that you've gone through can give you faith to worship God in the present and even in the middle of a storm. Even in the hardship of life, you remember when God showed up in this story." [01:11:34]
5. "It's saying that God's promises that at the new temple that he will one day build are far greater than what was in the past. So that's part of why we have to let go of the past and not make it a God, is that God's promises for the future are even greater. And what we know because of Jesus is that the ultimate fulfillment of all of this is because of the person of Christ who embodies the ultimate temple and brings true peace. Therefore, worship is forward-looking, filled with hope and trust in God's promises. Worship is believing God for all that he has said he will do and trusting in his promises for your life." [01:14:38]
6. "The Westminster Catechism, the catechism had asked a question and a response. The first question of the Westminster Catechism is this, what is the chief end of people? Why do people exist? What is the purpose of it? That's the question. And the answer is this, to enjoy God and to worship him forever. Your purpose in your life is to bring glory to the one who created you. Your purpose in this life, in this world, is to reflect back to the creator how good and how great he is." [01:15:26]
7. "The same spirit that rose Jesus from the dead is alive in you. So, so the way that we have to do that is instead of being in fear of the things of this world, we have a healthy fear of reverence of a God who is able, a God who is willing, and a God who never, never ends. Amen?" [01:03:56]
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