True Worship: An Overflow of Love for God

1. "Worship is really a broad subject. It's too broad to talk about in one Sunday. Especially. A few minutes in a Sunday. And so I'm not really going to talk about worship as a like everything about worship. I can't. It's impossible. And we're talking about one particular subject, one one topic of of worship. And and I'll touch on a couple of things in other in other ways about worship. But mostly what I'm going to talk to you about today about is the very thing that worship is that worship with without it. Worship is not worship. If that makes any sense at all. And I'll tell you what it is here in a second. At the end of the message, I'm going to I'm going to give you a challenge or a task or a charge. Have you want to think about it of something that I want you to do throughout your week and in your life? And I think it'll I think it'll really affect you and help you in your life. So today, the title of the message is an overflow of love and overflow of love." ([00:35:23] (59 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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2. "You cannot have worship. You cannot have true worship without love. You cannot have true worship without love. There is a such thing as true worship and false worship. Did you guys know that there's a such thing as true worship and false worship? And so I'm going to read before we get to Matthew. There's this scripture that that'll kind of explain what I just said. John 423 says, But the time is coming. Indeed, it's here now when true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and in truth. The father is looking for those who will worship him that way." ([00:36:44] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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3. "To demonstrate our love for God. Our worship should be just as unashamed, just as authentic, worry -free, just as excited, just as passionate, just as physical, just as verbal, all the ways that a child that loves their daddy is, is the way that we're supposed to be with God. So to define what worship is for you, worship is love expressed God's way. Love expressed God's way. And I'll give you another definition that you can think of it as. Is that worship is giving back, giving God back the love that he gives to us." ([00:49:19] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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4. "Worship starts with God's love, not ours. So we read in Matthew 22, Jesus replied, you love, you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. That's the first and greatest commandment. First John 419 says we love because he first loved us. We love because he first loved us. Remember I said, worship starts with God's love. Not ours. And some people, some people tend to think that God only loves us because we chose or made the decision to follow him and, and to love him. And that's just not true. You know, God, God loved us way before we loved him. God found us way before we found him." ([00:50:59] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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5. "Worship is the only gift that we can give to God. It's the only gift that we can give to God. Worship is the only thing that has nothing to do with us. It's the only gift that you can give, and so many people, so many people unfortunately rob him every single day of the only thing that we can give to him. Have you ever thought about that? There's only one thing we can give him. We can't give him, we can give him our time, which you'll learn actually would be a form of worship. You can't give him your money. You can give it to the local church like you're supposed to, like he's asked you to do, but you can't take those things to heaven whenever you die." ([01:07:26] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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6. "Worship is the only thing we can give to him. Worship isn't a song. It's not a genre of music. It's not a style. It's not a buffer of time to get more people into the room or give the pastor that speaking or the pastor some time to breathe and kind of think and go over his notes. It's none of those things." ([01:08:32] (16 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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7. "Worship is an overflow of love. It's not singing. That's an expression of worship. But what happens is this. We came to church. You know, we maybe prayed on the way in. And then life happens. You stop at a gas station maybe and you go, I just want to get a Coke. A Coke, by the way, means any kind of soda in the South. I don't know how, but it's not like just Coca -Cola. What happens is, you know, you walk in and maybe the clerk goes, hey, you have to have a mask on. And you forgot your mask today. And you're just, I'm so thirsty. I just need a Coke. And so you're a little sad now and you get a hole. And oh, man. You start to leak." ([01:12:21] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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8. "So this is what happens. You come back to church on Sunday and God starts pouring into you again. But you've still got problems. That's okay, though. God's saying, I'm still going to pour into you. I'm still going to love you. I'm still going to give you everything. You know, He can pour a lot faster than you can take in and that you can leak. He can give you a lot more love than you can handle. Even though you've got problems, He'll still love you and He'll still continue to pour into you." ([01:14:29] (30 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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9. "And let me just tell you this about a life group. You would never, you'll never receive fully God's love without people that are in the same mindset and love God. You know, if they're around you at the same time, you can receive so much more. I tell you, I tell this story all the time about when we were back in Texas, we were a part of a life group and my wife had, I don't know, like nine or 12 or something picture frames that she wanted me to hang up. And I was like, okay, I can do this. And she wanted them spaced a particular way. And I'm like, I'm a little handy, but not that handy. They might be a little weird." ([01:15:35] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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10. "Worship him regularly. And this is what I told you I was going to give you a challenge or a task for your week. This is what I wanted you to do. As you worship, I think the rest of y 'all can come back. Go ahead and come up here so we can continue on with our worship. But as you live your life, as you go about your norm, which is a little weird right now, but your new norm for now, as you do anything that you do, whether it's work or you're at home with your kids, which is work, I mean anything that you're doing, going to the stores, think about how worship is reflected in everything that you do, in everything that you say. Your actions and your words." ([01:24:26] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


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