Worship Broken - What HE Likes
He is God. I am not.
What does HE LIKE?
It was said of redeemed Israel that they "turned back in their hears unto Egypt" (Acts 7:39). Someone has put it thus: "It was one thing to get the people out of Egypt, but quite another to get Egypt out of the people." Said the prophet, "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help ..; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord" (Isa. 31:1). This tendency of going back for assistance into the land from which we have come out, of borrowing from the world and its ways, is as evident today as ever. There are still too many who have more confidence in the working of the foot to produce results than in the bowing of the knee.
– Authur Wallis (In the Day of Thy Power.)
1 Peter 2:4-5 English Standard Version
4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Psalm 51:16-17
English Standard Version
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Nothing can more effectively bring a soul to that state of heart that God can revive than a vision of the cross. It is in such an experience of God that the heart is broken over its sin, its unbelief, its coldness and brought to repentance. The channel that God uses in revival is the channel of a broken heart.
– Authur Wallis (In the Day of Thy Power.)
1 Peter 2: 9-10 English Standard Version
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
SO THAT WE MIGHT PROCLAIM!
Romans 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
The Center of Worship for the first 300yrs of the Church was the Table.