Worship: A Lifestyle of Surrender and Faith
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Good morning, church family. It's so good to hear everybody fellowshipping and chatting, and I hate to break it up, but break it up. What a wonderful way to start our service today, baptism. I love every Sunday, but I love the third Sunday of every month because that's the week that we schedule our baptisms. With me this morning, we have two candidates for baptism. The first, Miss Mia Hupp. [00:00:57] (26 seconds)
Mia is coming forward today to publicly identify with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And identify with his church as well. So, Mia, have you come to a place where you've asked Jesus to be your Lord and Savior? And in accordance to the commandments of Christ, I baptize you, my sister, in the name of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit. [00:01:24] (22 seconds)
Heavenly Father, we give you praise and thanks for this time. I thank you, God, for the love that you've demonstrated for us at Calvary's Cross, and I thank you for the love that you demonstrated through an empty tomb that tells the world that we serve a risen Savior and not a dead man. Lord, we thank you for your Holy Spirit. [00:02:43] (16 seconds)
And God, I thank you for the love that you've demonstrated for us at Calvary's Cross, and I give you praise and thanks for me and for Jacob and their testimonies today, publicly identifying with your death, burial, and resurrection through baptism. I pray that it would be an example to those here today who have said yes to Jesus, but have yet to take this step of obedience, Lord, that they would see the importance of it and the necessity of it in their lives, God. [00:03:23] (22 seconds)
We want to build one another up. But that's corporate worship. But what Jesus is talking about is individual worship. Everywhere that you go, you take Jesus with you. Remember that. Remember that before you go to that place that you shouldn't go, before you enter that website that you shouldn't enter. [00:54:45] (21 seconds)
As a child of God, we are the house and the temple of God, and wherever we go, we take the Lord with us. That's something that when I finally realized that, it changed the way I looked at life. It truly did. My grandmother used to say, boy, what you're doing right now, is that what you want to be doing when the Lord comes back? [00:55:12] (23 seconds)
But I think about that a lot. I think about that lesson. And do you know what this means? You don't come to church, you don't come to church, to worship. You should come to church with worship. I said that last week. And you should leave here with worship in your heart. You ought to come in here worshiping, and you ought to leave here worshiping. [00:55:32] (17 seconds)
So we're actually told that God is looking for those who will worship him the way he wants to be worshiped. There was an old French proverb that says a good meal ought to begin with hunger, because I think what he means is it's very difficult to enjoy a meal. If you're not hungry, but my father used to say, when you're hungry, everything tastes good. And he means that. When you develop a hunger, you want the best. [00:56:55] (28 seconds)
See, God is not just looking for worshipers. He is looking for true worshipers. Now, what that tells us is if there is true worshipers, then there are false worshipers. If there is true worship, there has to be false worship. So what is true worship? Well, true worship is a matter of worshiping the right God. [00:57:11] (20 seconds)
Jesus tells us that true worshipers will worship the Father. Now, that raises a question. Whose Father is to be worshiped? Well, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, what I'm going to say is going to be extremely intolerant to some people. It's definitely going to be politically correct. But if the God you worship is not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, you are not worshiping God. [00:57:28] (22 seconds)
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Mia is coming forward today to publicly identify with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And identify with his church as well. So, Mia, have you come to a place where you've asked Jesus to be your Lord and Savior? And in accordance to the commandments of Christ, I baptize you, my sister, in the name of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit. [00:01:24] (22 seconds)
Heavenly Father, we give you praise and thanks for this time. I thank you, God, for the love that you've demonstrated for us at Calvary's Cross, and I thank you for the love that you demonstrated through an empty tomb that tells the world that we serve a risen Savior and not a dead man. Lord, we thank you for your Holy Spirit. [00:02:43] (16 seconds)
And God, I thank you for the love that you've demonstrated for us at Calvary's Cross, and I give you praise and thanks for me and for Jacob and their testimonies today, publicly identifying with your death, burial, and resurrection through baptism. I pray that it would be an example to those here today who have said yes to Jesus, but have yet to take this step of obedience, Lord, that they would see the importance of it and the necessity of it in their lives, God. [00:03:23] (22 seconds)
We want to build one another up. But that's corporate worship. But what Jesus is talking about is individual worship. Everywhere that you go, you take Jesus with you. Remember that. Remember that before you go to that place that you shouldn't go, before you enter that website that you shouldn't enter. [00:54:45] (21 seconds)
As a child of God, we are the house and the temple of God, and wherever we go, we take the Lord with us. That's something that when I finally realized that, it changed the way I looked at life. It truly did. My grandmother used to say, boy, what you're doing right now, is that what you want to be doing when the Lord comes back? [00:55:12] (23 seconds)
But I think about that a lot. I think about that lesson. And do you know what this means? You don't come to church, you don't come to church, to worship. You should come to church with worship. I said that last week. And you should leave here with worship in your heart. You ought to come in here worshiping, and you ought to leave here worshiping. [00:55:32] (17 seconds)
So we're actually told that God is looking for those who will worship him the way he wants to be worshiped. There was an old French proverb that says a good meal ought to begin with hunger, because I think what he means is it's very difficult to enjoy a meal. If you're not hungry, but my father used to say, when you're hungry, everything tastes good. And he means that. When you develop a hunger, you want the best. [00:56:55] (28 seconds)
See, God is not just looking for worshipers. He is looking for true worshipers. Now, what that tells us is if there is true worshipers, then there are false worshipers. If there is true worship, there has to be false worship. So what is true worship? Well, true worship is a matter of worshiping the right God. [00:57:11] (20 seconds)
Jesus tells us that true worshipers will worship the Father. Now, that raises a question. Whose Father is to be worshiped? Well, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, what I'm going to say is going to be extremely intolerant to some people. It's definitely going to be politically correct. But if the God you worship is not the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, you are not worshiping God. [00:57:28] (22 seconds)
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