WEBVTT 00:00:05.419 --> 00:00:08.599 For the same reason. Okay, so our agenda for 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:10.599 today is we are going to complete the worksheet 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:12.259 that you see before you. It is the one that says 00:00:12.259 --> 00:00:14.980 worship basics, like that. And you'll notice 00:00:14.980 --> 00:00:17.039 it's in my fancy -dancy artistic handwriting 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:20.699 and drawing. Yeah, that's me. Okay, the other 00:00:20.699 --> 00:00:23.000 one is for you. If we have time, we can do a 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:24.359 little bit of it just to kind of give people 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:25.960 a taste, but it's really for you to do on your 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.300 own. the there's answer blanks at the answers 00:00:28.300 --> 00:00:30.140 at the bottom you fill in the words not hard 00:00:30.140 --> 00:00:32.520 kind of a fun thing that you can learn a bit 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:33.859 more on top of what we're going to talk about 00:00:33.859 --> 00:00:37.039 tonight okay tonight we will not have any stunts 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.060 so those of you love stunts sorry today is not 00:00:39.060 --> 00:00:41.759 a stunt night okay but we will have trivia so 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:43.079 if you want to participate in trivia you can 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:46.079 do that also today is a big box night by that 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:47.659 i mean we're going to draw a name out of the 00:00:47.659 --> 00:00:49.600 big box and somebody's going to want to win a 00:00:49.600 --> 00:00:52.299 25 gift card to walmart which is in my puck puck 00:00:52.299 --> 00:00:56.000 right now i got it i did not forget it okay Alright, 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:57.780 so we are starting when you see the number 1 00:00:57.780 --> 00:01:01.509 under the big fat W there. See the number 1 under 00:01:01.509 --> 00:01:05.750 the W. So the first passage of scripture that 00:01:05.750 --> 00:01:07.670 we're going to look at is, and you can write 00:01:07.670 --> 00:01:14.629 it in the box, Psalm 95, verses 1 -7. Psalm 95, 00:01:14.909 --> 00:01:17.799 verses 1 -7. And we're going to look at three 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:19.959 passages of scripture before we're done. I want 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.099 you to know that there are literally hundreds, 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:25.519 if not thousands, of places that you could go 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:29.180 in Scripture to see about worship. So by no means 00:01:29.180 --> 00:01:34.480 is this the vast... Yes, ma 'am. It goes in the 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.750 box. In the box. There's a colon. So you write 00:01:38.750 --> 00:01:41.370 Psalm on the left, then 95, then colon, then 00:01:41.370 --> 00:01:45.840 1 to 7. Go in the box. So I'm going to read Psalm 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.060 95, 1 to 7, and then we'll do a little guessing 00:01:48.060 --> 00:01:50.079 game. We'll go through and see how much of it 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:52.090 we can get. I'll help you with that first part. 00:01:52.250 --> 00:01:53.790 But then after that, where you start, you have 00:01:53.790 --> 00:01:56.170 the first letter. We'll let people try to get 00:01:56.170 --> 00:01:59.590 them if they can. OK, so it's Psalm 95 and we're 00:01:59.590 --> 00:02:01.989 reading verses one to seven. Also, if you notice 00:02:01.989 --> 00:02:03.489 over on the right hand side there, it says one 00:02:03.489 --> 00:02:05.709 to two, three to five, six to seven. And we'll 00:02:05.709 --> 00:02:08.650 break those down as well. OK, so it says in Psalm 00:02:08.650 --> 00:02:11.870 95, verse one, come, let us shout joyfully to 00:02:11.870 --> 00:02:14.849 the Lord, shout triumphantly to the rock of our 00:02:14.849 --> 00:02:17.650 salvation. Let's enter his presence with thanksgiving. 00:02:18.030 --> 00:02:21.409 Let's shout triumphantly to him in song. So for 00:02:21.409 --> 00:02:23.310 starters, what do you think goes on the one to 00:02:23.310 --> 00:02:27.789 two? What word goes there? You could put shout 00:02:27.789 --> 00:02:31.509 there. You could say how to worship. You could 00:02:31.509 --> 00:02:34.289 say shout. You could say excited. You could say 00:02:34.289 --> 00:02:37.389 energy. Any of those things would probably work. 00:02:38.550 --> 00:02:41.819 This is your worksheet. So you put a word there. 00:02:42.789 --> 00:02:46.710 Shout, energy, excited, how. Don't put triumphantly. 00:02:46.750 --> 00:02:51.840 It's a very small line. Yes. All right. But do 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.879 worship triumphantly nonetheless. Okay. Perfect. 00:02:59.810 --> 00:03:04.289 Thank you very much. Okay. All right. Now we're 00:03:04.289 --> 00:03:06.669 going to three to five. For the Lord is a great 00:03:06.669 --> 00:03:09.969 God. Notice that for there. For the Lord is a 00:03:09.969 --> 00:03:13.349 great God, a great king. Above all gods. The 00:03:13.349 --> 00:03:15.710 depths of the earth are in his hands and the 00:03:15.710 --> 00:03:18.610 mountain peaks are his. The sea is his. He made 00:03:18.610 --> 00:03:23.270 it. His hands formed the dry land. There's two 00:03:23.270 --> 00:03:30.270 of them. You need the front one? Good job. Good 00:03:30.270 --> 00:03:34.340 job. Okay. So that was three to five. And what 00:03:34.340 --> 00:03:36.319 would you put on the next line? So now you've 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.000 got to sum up three to five with one word. What 00:03:38.000 --> 00:03:41.360 do you got? Praise. Okay. He likes praise. For 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:52.590 the Lord is a great God. What does that word 00:03:52.590 --> 00:03:54.229 for mean when you see it at the beginning of 00:03:54.229 --> 00:03:57.050 a verse like that? Do we know? Because, right? 00:03:57.169 --> 00:04:00.090 So these are the reasons why we praise the way. 00:04:00.150 --> 00:04:02.849 So the first part, one to two, was get excited, 00:04:02.990 --> 00:04:06.969 be triumphantly loud. How to praise the Lord. 00:04:07.300 --> 00:04:09.139 And then now you've got to, because the Lord 00:04:09.139 --> 00:04:11.560 is a great God, a great king above all gods, 00:04:11.659 --> 00:04:13.639 he is the depth of the earth. The depths of the 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:15.379 earth are in his hands and the mountain peaks 00:04:15.379 --> 00:04:17.879 are his and the sea is his. He made it. His hands 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.160 formed the dry land. That's all why we praise 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.279 triumphantly, excitedly, loudly, right? And now 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.180 we got two left. Come, let's worship and bow 00:04:26.180 --> 00:04:29.500 down. Let's kneel before the Lord, our maker, 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:32.180 for he is our God. And we are the people of his 00:04:32.180 --> 00:04:35.379 pasture, the sheep under his care. And so what 00:04:35.379 --> 00:04:38.100 word would you put there? Next to six to seven. 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:40.399 Bow. Somebody said bow. That would be pretty 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.899 good. Say it again. Submission would be a good 00:04:42.899 --> 00:04:44.639 word. Kind of a big one for that little line. 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.040 Say it again. Reverence. That would be an excellent 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:52.769 word. Also kind of a big word. Good. Humble. 00:04:53.430 --> 00:04:56.430 Submit. Kneel. Whatever you like there to realize 00:04:56.430 --> 00:04:58.470 that it's about the posture of worship, right? 00:04:58.569 --> 00:05:01.449 So really what we've got in this verse is the 00:05:01.449 --> 00:05:04.069 first two was about how to worship God, right? 00:05:04.189 --> 00:05:06.930 There should be energy. It's not saying you can't 00:05:06.930 --> 00:05:08.490 be sorrowful when you worship God, especially 00:05:08.490 --> 00:05:10.509 if you're crying out to God in need. Maybe somebody 00:05:10.509 --> 00:05:12.569 died or somebody's sick or somebody really needs 00:05:12.569 --> 00:05:14.870 help. And so you're begging God out of your need. 00:05:15.009 --> 00:05:17.810 It's not saying you can't be sad. But once you've 00:05:17.810 --> 00:05:20.970 begged God for your need, the idea is then to 00:05:20.970 --> 00:05:23.829 praise him for his response, right? If you still 00:05:23.829 --> 00:05:26.029 keep begging him like he has an answer and he's 00:05:26.029 --> 00:05:27.730 not given, then he's probably not given yet. 00:05:28.829 --> 00:05:30.790 You're supposed to respond in faith, right? So 00:05:30.790 --> 00:05:32.949 we should move on to where people say, well, 00:05:32.970 --> 00:05:34.769 I don't understand how I'm sad. I'm upset. People 00:05:34.769 --> 00:05:36.230 come in here and they're excited to praise Jesus. 00:05:36.290 --> 00:05:37.509 You don't understand that somebody that's sitting 00:05:37.509 --> 00:05:40.230 across the room from you has got it just in their 00:05:40.230 --> 00:05:41.970 life. They've got it just as bad as you've got 00:05:41.970 --> 00:05:44.470 it. And somehow, because the joy of the Lord 00:05:44.470 --> 00:05:46.350 in them, because the Spirit's filling them up, 00:05:46.449 --> 00:05:49.009 whatever, they're able to praise him. So we have 00:05:49.009 --> 00:05:51.649 to ask ourselves, the word says we praise him 00:05:51.649 --> 00:05:55.290 triumphantly, loud, with thanksgiving. Because 00:05:55.290 --> 00:05:58.879 he is God like that, we come to him humbly. So 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:02.759 how, why, humble, excited, whatever you want 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:04.740 to put in there in that middle. Amazing God. 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.980 I just put why. All right. Now, if you go over, 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:10.980 it says Psalm 95, 1 to 7, where you wrote the 00:06:10.980 --> 00:06:12.699 verse. You see those two little arrows in the 00:06:12.699 --> 00:06:17.959 middle. And the first line there is praise. P 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:26.990 -R -A -I -S -E, which is the idea. All right. 00:06:27.009 --> 00:06:30.449 And then the second is the free word. And I got 00:06:30.449 --> 00:06:31.990 this from the Beatles. I didn't come up with 00:06:31.990 --> 00:06:34.649 it on my own. All together now. All together 00:06:34.649 --> 00:06:37.430 now. So we are called to praise him all together 00:06:37.430 --> 00:06:40.389 now. I understand. Again, I understand that you're 00:06:40.389 --> 00:06:42.949 not necessarily in the same place that somebody 00:06:42.949 --> 00:06:45.310 else is. You could be having more of this healthier 00:06:45.310 --> 00:06:48.129 trouble than somebody else is. Whatever. But 00:06:48.129 --> 00:06:54.870 we're all praising him together. Okay. And you 00:06:54.870 --> 00:06:56.629 could. All right. I'll just leave that right 00:06:56.629 --> 00:06:58.089 there for a second as we look at this. All right. 00:06:58.089 --> 00:07:00.110 So now we've got four words going across the 00:07:00.110 --> 00:07:01.290 middle. This is where you get to start kind of 00:07:01.290 --> 00:07:03.029 guessing. You get the first letter. Based on 00:07:03.029 --> 00:07:06.220 what we have. So far done with praise. Starts 00:07:06.220 --> 00:07:09.839 with a C. Say it again. Come. It's a little more 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:12.319 complex than come, but that is a good word. Okay? 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:15.060 So what we've got is we talked about how to worship 00:07:15.060 --> 00:07:16.800 him, excitedly, whatever. We talked about why 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:18.139 we worship him, because of the kind of God he 00:07:18.139 --> 00:07:21.120 is. And we all come kneeling together. It's praise. 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:23.360 It's all together now. And it starts with a C, 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.040 and it's? Congregate. Okay, you could do congregate. 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:29.220 That would work, right? Or I put corporate. Okay? 00:07:29.480 --> 00:07:31.459 Corporate, congregate, either one would work. 00:07:32.019 --> 00:07:34.540 It's come together. I will let you have come, 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.379 but that's really two words because it's come 00:07:36.379 --> 00:07:40.180 together, right? Okay, how about T, not phrase? 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:43.339 Sorry, that would be the easy one. We already 00:07:43.339 --> 00:07:45.860 got that word. Say it again. Kind of. You're 00:07:45.860 --> 00:07:51.600 getting close. It's not bad. Kind of ties into 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:54.399 the idea of corporate. Okay, so it's physical. 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.439 Remember we kneel. You're raising your hands. 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:00.819 You're shouting, right? So people talk about, 00:08:00.860 --> 00:08:03.939 like, I worship God while I'm taking the garbage 00:08:03.939 --> 00:08:06.610 out. Now, that's not impossible, but if you're 00:08:06.610 --> 00:08:07.689 doing that, you better be taking the garbage 00:08:07.689 --> 00:08:10.610 out for God, right? It's a physical thing. People 00:08:10.610 --> 00:08:12.589 say, well, I don't need to go to worship. I'm 00:08:12.589 --> 00:08:14.149 going to worship with other people because I 00:08:14.149 --> 00:08:16.629 can worship at home by myself. That throws corporate 00:08:16.629 --> 00:08:19.089 out, and it becomes not really a physical thing 00:08:19.089 --> 00:08:22.350 anymore. Does that make sense? I don't need a 00:08:22.350 --> 00:08:24.550 pen. Oh, you're okay. I got one right here. I'll 00:08:24.550 --> 00:08:26.670 give you my pen. How about that? You got a special 00:08:26.670 --> 00:08:29.250 pen now. Don't write a whole book, or if you 00:08:29.250 --> 00:08:31.949 do, make sure I get a copy. Okay, corporate physical 00:08:31.949 --> 00:08:36.879 J. Joyous or joyful? Yep, that was absolutely 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:40.200 called for. Corporate, physical, joyful, and 00:08:40.200 --> 00:08:43.840 then the R. I don't really see reverent that 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:47.720 way. In the end, yes, but over the whole thing. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.769 Say it again? I don't think that's a word. I 00:08:50.769 --> 00:08:52.149 know what you're going for, but I don't think 00:08:52.149 --> 00:08:53.809 rejoiceful is actually a word. I'm not sure if 00:08:53.809 --> 00:08:58.549 it is or not. We got joyful or joyousness under 00:08:58.549 --> 00:09:01.690 J. So remember, you're sorrowful. You come to 00:09:01.690 --> 00:09:04.110 God and you entreat God. You beg God to do what 00:09:04.110 --> 00:09:06.809 you need. And then what? Repenting. Okay, repenting 00:09:06.809 --> 00:09:08.889 is good. That would be good. It's a response, 00:09:09.129 --> 00:09:11.429 right? Repenting or response, same thing. So 00:09:11.429 --> 00:09:13.889 repenting is turning to God. Response would be 00:09:13.889 --> 00:09:16.389 responding to what God is doing. Why do you think 00:09:16.389 --> 00:09:20.289 we always have an invitation? Because a worship 00:09:20.289 --> 00:09:23.389 cycle isn't completed until somebody's responding 00:09:23.389 --> 00:09:25.090 to God. Now, you can go to that really fast. 00:09:25.370 --> 00:09:27.710 Like, you can come into worship and you can go, 00:09:27.789 --> 00:09:30.009 man, I'm struggling. I'm in a bad way. get halfway 00:09:30.009 --> 00:09:32.009 through that first song, realize how good God 00:09:32.009 --> 00:09:34.070 is. Now I'm focused on God. I'm putting all that 00:09:34.070 --> 00:09:35.629 out of the way. And you're responding halfway 00:09:35.629 --> 00:09:37.669 through the first song. You can come to God and 00:09:37.669 --> 00:09:39.629 say, God, I need healing. And you're like, I 00:09:39.629 --> 00:09:41.490 don't feel like I've been healed, but God is 00:09:41.490 --> 00:09:43.289 so good. He knows better than I do. And now you're 00:09:43.289 --> 00:09:46.250 responding immediately, right? So worship is 00:09:46.250 --> 00:09:48.669 a response. It's a response to God's character. 00:09:48.889 --> 00:09:50.769 That's what the four was because of that. It's 00:09:50.769 --> 00:09:53.289 a response. And then the bowing and getting down, 00:09:53.470 --> 00:09:55.629 worshiping humbly, that kind of thing. That's 00:09:55.629 --> 00:09:57.889 a response to his holiness, right? So worship 00:09:57.889 --> 00:10:00.600 is a response. Okay, now we're on to number two. 00:10:00.820 --> 00:10:03.360 So we made it that far. Everybody keeping up 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:05.519 okay? And again, your answers do not have to 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:07.279 match my answers, but you do have to have answers. 00:10:07.580 --> 00:10:09.539 Get two tickets and you fill out the whole page. 00:10:12.870 --> 00:10:16.090 The big box is the Psalm 95, 1 to 7. I said that 00:10:16.090 --> 00:10:18.230 while you were still out of the room. So that's 00:10:18.230 --> 00:10:23.029 why. Psalm 95, 1 to 7. Okay, so now this is going 00:10:23.029 --> 00:10:25.850 to be a kind of classic New Testament passage 00:10:25.850 --> 00:10:30.700 scripture about worship. John 4, 19 to 24. So 00:10:30.700 --> 00:10:32.259 you're going to put John in there. You already 00:10:32.259 --> 00:10:34.559 got the four, should have. And then it's 19 to 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.759 24. Without looking, does anybody know what story 00:10:36.759 --> 00:10:39.360 this is? It's a classic passage about worship. 00:10:39.659 --> 00:10:41.759 And it's in John 4. What story is it? Without 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:44.820 looking. Anybody know? Going once and twice. 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:47.919 Okay. It's Jesus and the woman at the well. Jesus 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:50.679 and the Samaritan woman at the well. Okay. And 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:53.360 the reason it's a classic passage about scripture 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:56.899 is because by the time done, Jesus says, God... 00:10:57.110 --> 00:10:59.889 searches for worshipers in spirit and in truth, 00:11:00.049 --> 00:11:02.470 right? So the passage is really about worship. 00:11:02.610 --> 00:11:04.710 She asks him, well, we worship on the mountain 00:11:04.710 --> 00:11:06.509 and your people say we got to go over there to 00:11:06.509 --> 00:11:08.289 worship. And so there's a fight between my people 00:11:08.289 --> 00:11:10.029 and your people about where we can worship, right? 00:11:10.070 --> 00:11:11.570 That's the whole conversation that she has with 00:11:11.570 --> 00:11:14.450 Jesus. And then Jesus says, it's no longer going 00:11:14.450 --> 00:11:17.169 to be about, and there's the first box. Anybody 00:11:17.169 --> 00:11:18.690 know what goes in the first box based on what 00:11:18.690 --> 00:11:20.509 I just said? It's no longer going to be about 00:11:20.509 --> 00:11:22.789 where. It's no longer going to be about where 00:11:22.789 --> 00:11:24.470 you worship, right? It's no longer going to be 00:11:24.470 --> 00:11:26.269 about. Do you worship on the mountain or worship 00:11:26.269 --> 00:11:28.309 at the temple? It's no longer about where you 00:11:28.309 --> 00:11:31.990 worship. Now it's going to be about who you worship, 00:11:32.090 --> 00:11:34.250 but how is included. If you're a Christian, you've 00:11:34.250 --> 00:11:35.730 got to get the picture of how, but it's who. 00:11:38.049 --> 00:11:41.809 The reason that's a problem, back this truck 00:11:41.809 --> 00:11:43.429 up just for a second so everybody gets this picture. 00:11:43.509 --> 00:11:45.750 We might not all be on the same page. The kingdoms 00:11:45.750 --> 00:11:49.690 split. There was a southern kingdom, Judah, Benjamin, 00:11:49.990 --> 00:11:52.029 and a northern kingdom, the other ten tribes. 00:11:52.250 --> 00:11:55.600 When they split, the law remained saying that 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:57.820 when people came together to worship, they had 00:11:57.820 --> 00:12:00.759 to worship where? Say it again. Say it. The temple. 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:02.580 They had to come to the temple, which by that 00:12:02.580 --> 00:12:05.279 time was built in Jerusalem, right? So that meant 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:07.500 the people who lived in the northern ten tribes, 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:09.860 when they wanted to worship or give their offerings 00:12:09.860 --> 00:12:12.919 to God, they had to leave their country and go 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:15.159 down to Jerusalem to worship, which was a problem. 00:12:16.139 --> 00:12:17.860 Imagine if everybody in America had to go to 00:12:17.860 --> 00:12:19.559 Canada to worship, and they did their offerings 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:21.799 there. That's a real problem. It would be better 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:22.899 if it was the other way around. Wouldn't it be 00:12:22.899 --> 00:12:25.059 better if Canada came to America? But anyway, 00:12:25.299 --> 00:12:27.419 the point is, so what they did was they built 00:12:27.419 --> 00:12:30.320 two places of worship there. We talked about 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:31.799 this a little bit when we studied the book of 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:33.840 Judges a couple or three weeks back on Sunday. 00:12:33.980 --> 00:12:36.000 They built two places of worship there where 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.580 the people could worship instead. So now fast 00:12:38.580 --> 00:12:40.879 forward so that Jesus runs into the woman at 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:43.639 the well. She's one of those people that worships 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:45.879 at one of those two places. places, okay? She 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:47.860 doesn't go to the temple to worship. And so she 00:12:47.860 --> 00:12:49.559 says, well, you say, your people say we got to 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:51.379 go to the temple to worship, but our people say 00:12:51.379 --> 00:12:53.940 we can worship over here. Who's right? And Jesus 00:12:53.940 --> 00:12:55.700 basically tells her it ain't going to be about 00:12:55.700 --> 00:12:58.019 that no more. It's not about that anymore. Now 00:12:58.019 --> 00:13:00.779 it's going to be about who. And the who is not 00:13:00.779 --> 00:13:03.220 quote unquote God, because who gave the order 00:13:03.220 --> 00:13:05.799 to worship in Jerusalem? God did. When the people 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:07.399 are worshiping at those two other places, are 00:13:07.399 --> 00:13:10.179 they worshiping God? Debatably, because God gave 00:13:10.179 --> 00:13:12.379 the order to worship at the temple, right? And 00:13:12.379 --> 00:13:13.899 they're worshiping at those other places that 00:13:13.899 --> 00:13:16.559 God said they cannot worship. So are they worshiping 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:18.840 God? That is a big question. We don't know. They 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:20.639 could be going there intending to worship God. 00:13:20.700 --> 00:13:22.259 Like you could go to a church that doesn't love 00:13:22.259 --> 00:13:24.480 God, that isn't a Jesus church, whatever. But 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:26.799 you love Jesus and there you could worship Jesus, 00:13:26.940 --> 00:13:28.600 even though they're not worshiping God. You worship 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:30.940 a false God. You could worship Jesus nonetheless, 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.019 right? You probably shouldn't do that, by the 00:13:33.019 --> 00:13:35.220 way. Probably not a good idea. But you could 00:13:35.220 --> 00:13:36.879 theoretically do it. which is why there will 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:39.240 be people from every quote -unquote denomination 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:41.240 in heaven, because there will be Christians who 00:13:41.240 --> 00:13:43.919 are lost, essentially, not lost being unsaved, 00:13:43.940 --> 00:13:46.659 but I mean stuck in denominations that are unbiblical. 00:13:46.820 --> 00:13:49.279 Does that make sense? FYI, we are not a denomination. 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:50.299 I don't know if you know that or not. Southern 00:13:50.299 --> 00:13:51.639 Baptist is not a denomination. We'll talk about 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.539 that another day. Okay. All right. So now we're 00:13:54.539 --> 00:13:56.840 in the middle there. So we're looking at John 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:00.419 4, 19 through 24, and you're right in the middle. 00:14:00.740 --> 00:14:02.720 And I'm going to read verse 21 if I can find 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:05.179 it here. Jesus told her, believe me, woman, an 00:14:05.179 --> 00:14:07.419 hour is coming when you will worship the Father 00:14:07.419 --> 00:14:11.039 neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. So 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.899 Jesus is saying there will be an end to ritual 00:14:13.899 --> 00:14:16.360 or whatever other word you want to put there. 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:21.309 Tradition. You could put cult worship. There's 00:14:21.309 --> 00:14:23.809 an end to that for sure. But I put ritual. Jesus 00:14:23.809 --> 00:14:26.009 is saying there's an end to ritual. R -I -T -U 00:14:26.009 --> 00:14:30.649 -A -L. Okay, and then... 22 says, you Samaritans 00:14:30.649 --> 00:14:32.750 worship what you do not know. We worship what 00:14:32.750 --> 00:14:34.950 we do know because salvation is from the Jews, 00:14:35.149 --> 00:14:36.909 which is a reference to the fact that Jesus would 00:14:36.909 --> 00:14:39.809 be a Jew, right? And then in 23, which is your 00:14:39.809 --> 00:14:42.629 next line, but an hour is coming and is now here 00:14:42.629 --> 00:14:45.529 when the true worshipers will worship the Father 00:14:45.529 --> 00:14:49.090 in spirit and in truth. Yes, the Father wants 00:14:49.090 --> 00:14:52.470 such people to worship him. So God seeks what? 00:14:52.649 --> 00:14:56.210 True worshipers, right? That's the goal. So when 00:14:56.210 --> 00:14:58.350 we come together to worship, If I could say it 00:14:58.350 --> 00:15:01.049 this way, we just did worshiping God. Don't fake 00:15:01.049 --> 00:15:03.350 it. That's no good to nobody. It's not good for 00:15:03.350 --> 00:15:05.870 you or anybody else. Come in the room, turn off 00:15:05.870 --> 00:15:08.710 all the other stuff, put it away, have nothing 00:15:08.710 --> 00:15:11.049 else, and just focus on God and worship God. 00:15:11.330 --> 00:15:14.389 Okay? That's the key. God is looking for true 00:15:14.389 --> 00:15:17.809 worshipers. And part of what God is looking for 00:15:17.809 --> 00:15:23.639 is Jesus dying on a cross. I can get to that 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:28.620 a little later. Okay. So, Number two was John 00:15:28.620 --> 00:15:32.059 4, 19 to 24. Then in the box was no longer where, 00:15:32.220 --> 00:15:35.240 now it's about who. Number 21 there in the middle, 00:15:35.259 --> 00:15:37.460 verse 21 is an end to, and you put whatever you 00:15:37.460 --> 00:15:40.100 want, but it's an end to ritual. This would have 00:15:40.100 --> 00:15:41.320 been good too. I didn't think about this when 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:44.299 I wrote this, but an end to divisions would be 00:15:44.299 --> 00:15:46.879 good, right? So ultimately we will worship God 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:48.019 together in heaven. We don't want divisions. 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:51.279 That's pretty cool. Anyway, whatever you think. 00:15:51.700 --> 00:15:55.120 And then 23, God seeks true worshipers. And then 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:58.720 24, God is spirit. and those who worship him 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.179 must worship in spirit and in truth. Okay, so 00:16:02.179 --> 00:16:04.220 you've got some filled out here. You've got an 00:16:04.220 --> 00:16:07.639 E, a word that starts with an E, and then it's 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:10.659 a bi and a capital S. So what do you think? The 00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:13.220 capital S is a good clue. You see that in scripture. 00:16:13.299 --> 00:16:14.980 You always know, you always suspect something. 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:18.379 Say it again. Yep, so the S is spirit. So what's 00:16:18.379 --> 00:16:21.100 the E? Something by spirit. It starts with an 00:16:21.100 --> 00:16:24.690 E. Take a stab at it. That's not what I put, 00:16:24.730 --> 00:16:27.289 but I like it. Nope, not earth. Sorry, can't 00:16:27.289 --> 00:16:30.090 give you that one. Say it again. How about enabled? 00:16:30.110 --> 00:16:33.330 That's what I put. So the verse is talking about 00:16:33.330 --> 00:16:36.690 it's possible that we can do this because God 00:16:36.690 --> 00:16:38.990 makes it possible. God is spirit. Those who worship 00:16:38.990 --> 00:16:41.309 him must worship in spirit and truth. Enabled 00:16:41.309 --> 00:16:45.389 by spirit. Nope, not child. This is a hard word. 00:16:45.429 --> 00:16:47.830 I'll just give it to you. Conforming. So the 00:16:47.830 --> 00:16:50.009 word is conforming. Not one you would guess, 00:16:50.029 --> 00:16:53.009 I don't think. Conforming to the... Nope, not 00:16:53.009 --> 00:16:56.370 worship. It must be worshipers and... Say it 00:16:56.370 --> 00:16:59.110 again. Word is correct. Yep, worshipers in spirit 00:16:59.110 --> 00:17:01.429 and in truth. So it's not complicated. Everybody 00:17:01.429 --> 00:17:02.809 looks at that and goes, oh, that's really complicated. 00:17:02.950 --> 00:17:05.529 It's not. The Holy Spirit enables you to worship, 00:17:05.630 --> 00:17:08.829 but your worship must be conforming to the word 00:17:08.829 --> 00:17:11.250 of God, right? That's why it becomes a problem 00:17:11.250 --> 00:17:13.150 when people get into Holy Spirit worship and 00:17:13.150 --> 00:17:16.190 they're barking like a dog or they're stripping 00:17:16.190 --> 00:17:17.609 their clothes off and jumping around and they're 00:17:17.609 --> 00:17:20.329 bouncing like a chicken, right? That's not conforming 00:17:20.329 --> 00:17:24.380 to the word of God, coming to the shape of. allowing 00:17:24.380 --> 00:17:26.859 that thing to govern you, right? So God's Word 00:17:26.859 --> 00:17:29.140 tells us how we can do something. Like, you ever 00:17:29.140 --> 00:17:31.680 make a Christmas cookie? A cutout cookie? What 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:33.880 shape was it? You made a square Christmas cookie? 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:35.819 Okay, that's not a very exciting Christmas cookie. 00:17:37.470 --> 00:17:39.410 Oh, okay, so you cut it like into a tree, right? 00:17:39.529 --> 00:17:41.509 So when you put the cookie cutter there, and 00:17:41.509 --> 00:17:42.990 then you pulled it back, the cookie took the 00:17:42.990 --> 00:17:45.529 shape of the tree, that's conforming, okay? So 00:17:45.529 --> 00:17:48.230 the Word of God sets the parameters of how we 00:17:48.230 --> 00:17:51.470 can worship God, which makes false worship never 00:17:51.470 --> 00:17:54.789 right. This is the definition of it, right? Okay, 00:17:54.789 --> 00:17:58.309 so we can worship. So in other words, could we 00:17:58.309 --> 00:18:01.410 have a screamo worship? I mean, screaming. Everybody's 00:18:01.410 --> 00:18:02.789 screaming. We're screaming at the top of our 00:18:02.789 --> 00:18:05.430 lungs. Worship music. Could we do that? I can't 00:18:05.430 --> 00:18:06.970 do it. Somebody in this room might be able to 00:18:06.970 --> 00:18:08.869 do it. I can't do it, right? But somebody could 00:18:08.869 --> 00:18:11.670 do that, right? Or what else? Country Western. 00:18:11.970 --> 00:18:14.400 Do we have country Western worship? Sure. Could 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:16.819 we have worship with no word, no music at all, 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:18.720 no instruments? You better believe it, because 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:20.400 it was like that for like the longest time, right? 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:22.140 There was almost no instruments at all. And it 00:18:22.140 --> 00:18:24.000 didn't start with really having a lot of instruments 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.960 in worship until way later, right? So what kind 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:28.980 of worship would be ruled out? Based on what 00:18:28.980 --> 00:18:30.440 we just said, what kind of worship would be ruled 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:35.289 out? That's exactly it. Worship that doesn't 00:18:35.289 --> 00:18:36.869 line up with the Word of God. So we will not 00:18:36.869 --> 00:18:39.130 have adulterous worship. We will not have stealing 00:18:39.130 --> 00:18:41.710 worship. We will not have lying worship, right? 00:18:41.769 --> 00:18:43.849 We will not have lustful worship. Or worship 00:18:43.849 --> 00:18:46.690 that brings about lust in somebody, right? You 00:18:46.690 --> 00:18:48.789 can go on and on and on. We will not have worship 00:18:48.789 --> 00:18:50.869 that goes against the Word of God. And by the 00:18:50.869 --> 00:18:52.609 time you get that, you get a pretty good idea 00:18:52.609 --> 00:18:54.029 of what you can do and what you can't do. Does 00:18:54.029 --> 00:18:56.029 that make sense? And you can do a lot more than 00:18:56.029 --> 00:18:59.269 people are allowing in some cases. But you also 00:18:59.269 --> 00:19:01.730 can rule out a lot more of things that some people 00:19:01.730 --> 00:19:04.009 are allowing that just aren't allowed. Like worshiping 00:19:04.009 --> 00:19:06.589 something that's not God. Worshiping the pastor 00:19:06.589 --> 00:19:08.349 or the preacher or the worship leader. None of 00:19:08.349 --> 00:19:12.309 that is allowed in Scripture, right? Okay. So, 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:14.440 Now we have a summary sentence that goes across 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:17.140 the middle. The W, the first word, is worship. 00:19:17.259 --> 00:19:22.559 That was easy. So, it's worship is not a... Starts 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:25.579 with a P. Place. Beautiful. Who said that? He's 00:19:25.579 --> 00:19:27.720 paying attention back there. Okay? Worship is 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:33.440 not a place, but a... Capital S. Spiritual. Right? 00:19:33.619 --> 00:19:39.200 But it's spiritual. S -P -I -R -I -T -U -A -L. 00:19:39.299 --> 00:19:42.640 Spirit U -L. Okay? And if it's a Holy Spirit, 00:19:42.819 --> 00:19:45.400 it's a capital S. That's the name of God. You 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:47.500 capitalize the names of God. So you're talking 00:19:47.500 --> 00:19:50.500 about your spirit, that's a small S. God's spirit, 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:53.559 always big S. Okay? So worship is not a place, 00:19:53.619 --> 00:19:57.220 but a spiritual, this one's harder, A, kind of 00:19:57.220 --> 00:20:00.299 like activity or, I mean, remember, we're conforming 00:20:00.299 --> 00:20:02.559 to the word of God. So if you conform to something, 00:20:02.779 --> 00:20:04.960 it starts with an A, but you conform to it, what 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:06.680 do you do? You get this on your car when you're 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:10.990 tired so your tires don't go bald. Awareness. 00:20:10.990 --> 00:20:14.109 No, that's not it. What? Alignment. Yes. One 00:20:14.109 --> 00:20:16.650 mechanic in the room. Okay. Spiritual alignment. 00:20:17.130 --> 00:20:19.130 And then you know the rest. Come on. You got 00:20:19.130 --> 00:20:23.069 it. Spiritual alignment. W with God's truth. 00:20:23.309 --> 00:20:25.710 Whoever said it. Well done. That was a nice one. 00:20:25.730 --> 00:20:29.029 I heard you. Okay. So worship is not a place. 00:20:29.430 --> 00:20:32.630 So careful. That means when you invite your friends 00:20:32.630 --> 00:20:34.930 to worship, you better make sure that you explain 00:20:34.930 --> 00:20:37.230 what you're saying. It's like, you want to go 00:20:37.230 --> 00:20:39.369 to worship with me? Make sure that the emphasis 00:20:39.369 --> 00:20:42.410 is on the worship, not worship as a place, right? 00:20:42.690 --> 00:20:45.710 It's worship as a spiritual alignment with God's 00:20:45.710 --> 00:20:48.809 truth. Okay, number three. Passage three. Another 00:20:48.809 --> 00:20:51.829 classic New Testament passage about worship. 00:20:52.170 --> 00:20:55.690 Very short. Romans. Anybody got an idea what 00:20:55.690 --> 00:20:58.789 it could be? What if I said, this is your spiritual 00:20:58.789 --> 00:21:01.710 act of worship. Would that help you? What chapter 00:21:01.710 --> 00:21:03.750 is that in, in the book of Romans? Anybody know? 00:21:04.309 --> 00:21:08.680 It's Romans 12, 1 and 2. It's very short, but 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:11.240 I'll read it. Okay, Romans 12, 1 and 2. Therefore, 00:21:11.380 --> 00:21:14.779 brothers and sisters, in view, that means keeping 00:21:14.779 --> 00:21:18.599 in mind, of the mercies of God, I urge you to 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:22.279 present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:26.440 and pleasing to God. This is your true worship. 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:31.359 Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:34.619 by the renewing of your mind so that you may 00:21:34.619 --> 00:21:38.569 discern what is good. pleasing and perfect will 00:21:38.569 --> 00:21:42.670 of god okay so in there we have motivations start 00:21:42.670 --> 00:21:45.450 kind of starting in 1a so 1a was therefore brothers 00:21:45.450 --> 00:21:47.750 and sisters in view of the mercies of god so 00:21:47.750 --> 00:21:50.450 what are the motivations the mercies of god that 00:21:50.450 --> 00:21:55.349 was makes sense right and then we've got 1b offering 00:21:55.900 --> 00:22:01.960 yes perfect bodies as living sacrifices and this 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:04.539 is you know it proposes a pretty big problem 00:22:04.539 --> 00:22:06.960 right Because everyone has lust of the flesh, 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:08.720 lust of the eyes, and pride of life. So every 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:11.440 single person, saved and unsaved, still has the 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:14.119 pressure of their body to give in to what it 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:18.480 is their body wants. Right? And so offering your 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:20.519 body as a living sacrifice can be a challenge 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:22.559 when you're struggling with your personal desires. 00:22:23.259 --> 00:22:25.380 And yet, we are called to it by God. In fact, 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.259 if you're free, you can do it. You're offering 00:22:27.259 --> 00:22:28.380 your body as a living sacrifice. All right, number 00:22:28.380 --> 00:22:33.250 two, then, verse two. Renewing the mind. Yep. 00:22:34.250 --> 00:22:36.069 Ooh, that's good. That's not what I put, but 00:22:36.069 --> 00:22:38.349 I like that. But it's a little different, though, 00:22:38.390 --> 00:22:40.769 because we're talking about worship specifically, 00:22:40.869 --> 00:22:43.230 and worship does not... I'm going to say something. 00:22:43.329 --> 00:22:45.789 Don't misinterpret this now. Worship does not 00:22:45.789 --> 00:22:48.809 specifically align with Christ, right? It aligns 00:22:48.809 --> 00:22:50.829 with... We just studied this whole section from 00:22:50.829 --> 00:22:52.849 the previous verses. It aligns with the Word 00:22:52.849 --> 00:22:56.789 of God, right? So Jesus worshiped, right? Did 00:22:56.789 --> 00:22:58.990 Jesus worship himself while he was on earth? 00:22:59.130 --> 00:23:00.869 No, he did not. He worshiped God the Father. 00:23:01.009 --> 00:23:03.890 Did Jesus worship his own way? Some way that 00:23:03.890 --> 00:23:06.809 he invented? Some new way? Was he a new age worshiper? 00:23:06.930 --> 00:23:09.130 Started a new denomination? No. He worshipped 00:23:09.130 --> 00:23:11.609 God the Father the way God had ordained worship. 00:23:11.869 --> 00:23:15.910 So worship aligns with the word of God. And so 00:23:15.910 --> 00:23:18.029 in this case, we're renewing the mind to avoid. 00:23:18.269 --> 00:23:20.970 The A is avoid, not align. Remember the verse. 00:23:21.130 --> 00:23:26.349 I'll read the verse again. But do not be conformed 00:23:26.349 --> 00:23:28.930 to this age, but be transformed by the renewing 00:23:28.930 --> 00:23:34.230 of your mind. So avoiding worldly. So we're back 00:23:34.230 --> 00:23:36.410 to cookie cutters again. And believe me, if you 00:23:36.410 --> 00:23:37.809 ain't cookie cutter by God, you're going to be 00:23:37.809 --> 00:23:39.509 cookie cutter by the world. That's just the way 00:23:39.509 --> 00:23:41.789 it works. You only got two choices. You can think 00:23:41.789 --> 00:23:44.150 that you're unique. I remember when my girls 00:23:44.150 --> 00:23:47.150 were in high school, that there were some girls 00:23:47.150 --> 00:23:48.710 in their high school that decided to be God. 00:23:48.930 --> 00:23:52.230 And they told my daughter, I don't remember which 00:23:52.230 --> 00:23:53.309 one it was, at least I'm alive, I can't remember 00:23:53.309 --> 00:23:55.029 now, told them that they were doing that because 00:23:55.029 --> 00:23:57.410 they wanted to be individuals. They wanted to 00:23:57.410 --> 00:23:59.730 be unique. And I said, well, you do realize there 00:23:59.730 --> 00:24:02.130 are 12 million God. At that time, there were 00:24:02.130 --> 00:24:03.950 12 million goth people in the United States of 00:24:03.950 --> 00:24:06.630 America. It's not very unique. It's like I try 00:24:06.630 --> 00:24:08.470 harder to come up with something that actually 00:24:08.470 --> 00:24:12.710 is individual. But anyway, you can think that 00:24:12.710 --> 00:24:16.069 you're escaping the conforming to the world, 00:24:16.130 --> 00:24:18.670 but escaping one type of conforming just puts 00:24:18.670 --> 00:24:21.509 you in another one unless you are attached to 00:24:21.509 --> 00:24:24.650 Scripture or aligning with God's Word. So the 00:24:24.650 --> 00:24:27.470 idea is to renew the mind to avoid worldly conforming. 00:24:27.490 --> 00:24:30.109 And then true worship. So this one's a little 00:24:30.109 --> 00:24:32.769 tricky. Para S's. Want to take a stab at it? 00:24:32.829 --> 00:24:36.089 It's hard. So it's sacrificial. Sacrificial what? 00:24:36.589 --> 00:24:39.829 Sacrificial sacrifice? I like it. It's not what 00:24:39.829 --> 00:24:42.430 I put, but it's not terrible. What are we sacrificing? 00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:49.690 More. More than that. It's true, but it's more 00:24:49.690 --> 00:24:51.970 than that. It's surrender. It's your whole self. 00:24:52.089 --> 00:24:54.410 You can put sacrificial self or sacrificial surrender 00:24:54.410 --> 00:24:56.309 either way. Remember, that's what we're doing. 00:24:56.450 --> 00:25:00.349 It said we're... presenting our bodies as a living 00:25:00.349 --> 00:25:03.829 sacrifice. So it's this. It's a story about the 00:25:03.829 --> 00:25:05.769 little boy who come to worship and he had no 00:25:05.769 --> 00:25:07.549 money to put in the offering plate. And after 00:25:07.549 --> 00:25:09.470 they pass the offering plate and nothing, and 00:25:09.470 --> 00:25:11.589 he hadn't been put in it, he came up and he asked 00:25:11.589 --> 00:25:13.130 the deacon to put it on the floor and he put 00:25:13.130 --> 00:25:14.589 the offering plate on the floor and the little 00:25:14.589 --> 00:25:16.750 boy stood in the offering plate. And I suppose 00:25:16.750 --> 00:25:18.490 everybody cried. I don't know if that actually 00:25:18.490 --> 00:25:20.690 happened or not, but I would have. It's yourself. 00:25:21.130 --> 00:25:24.750 Put yourself in God's hands. Sacrificial surrender 00:25:24.750 --> 00:25:29.160 of one's, starts with an E. entire, and now it 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:33.599 starts with an L, life to God. Perfect. Sacrificial 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:35.359 surrender of one's entire life to God. If you 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:36.960 do not surrender your entire life to God, you 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:39.180 are not following God. It's certainly not worship 00:25:39.180 --> 00:25:43.339 anyway. Not worship of God. God's an all or nothing 00:25:43.339 --> 00:25:45.779 God because he can do everything with your all 00:25:45.779 --> 00:25:50.140 and he doesn't want your little bits. He wants 00:25:50.140 --> 00:25:52.380 all of you. Okay, seven principles to come out 00:25:52.380 --> 00:25:54.299 of this and we are rolling into the end here. 00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:55.819 Are we all caught up? Has everybody got their 00:25:55.819 --> 00:25:59.140 blanks? Check mark. For all your blanks? Okay. 00:25:59.500 --> 00:26:03.509 Seven principles. Number one. I Roman numeraled 00:26:03.509 --> 00:26:06.309 them. Got them all right. Okay. Number one. CC. 00:26:06.650 --> 00:26:09.430 What do you think? Carbon copy. That's it. Make 00:26:09.430 --> 00:26:11.190 your worship a carbon copy of somebody else's 00:26:11.190 --> 00:26:13.230 worship. Nope. That's not right. Sorry. You were 00:26:13.230 --> 00:26:16.269 being facetious. Which starts with an F. Christ 00:26:16.269 --> 00:26:18.890 -centered. Christ -centered. It's not Christ 00:26:18.890 --> 00:26:21.750 -centered in that we can only worship Jesus Christ, 00:26:21.849 --> 00:26:24.890 the man or the son of God. We worship God, the 00:26:24.890 --> 00:26:26.490 Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the 00:26:26.490 --> 00:26:28.569 Holy Spirit. It's Christ -centered in that it 00:26:28.569 --> 00:26:31.829 is only in him. And let me ask you this. We could 00:26:31.829 --> 00:26:33.470 have a little doctrinal debate here if we're 00:26:33.470 --> 00:26:36.390 not careful, but it's pretty easily proven scripturally. 00:26:36.569 --> 00:26:39.930 Can a person who does not know Jesus worship 00:26:39.930 --> 00:26:42.910 God rightly? That's the correct answer. Now can 00:26:42.910 --> 00:26:47.130 you tell me why that's true? The only way to 00:26:47.130 --> 00:26:50.789 get to God is through Jesus. That's what he said. 00:26:50.990 --> 00:26:52.970 I am the way and the truth and the life. No one 00:26:52.970 --> 00:26:55.829 cometh unto the Father but by me. John 14, 6. 00:26:56.029 --> 00:27:01.069 Go ahead. Exactly. Exactly. If you have not submitted 00:27:01.069 --> 00:27:03.410 to Christ, you cannot worship God. Which means 00:27:03.410 --> 00:27:05.450 there are a lot of churches in which there are 00:27:05.450 --> 00:27:06.910 a lot of people. And there may even be some of 00:27:06.910 --> 00:27:09.109 us. There might be somebody in this room. No 00:27:09.109 --> 00:27:12.529 harm done, right? But the truth is... If you're 00:27:12.529 --> 00:27:14.509 like, I come to worship, and I sing, and I love 00:27:14.509 --> 00:27:16.890 it, and I love the music, and I feel good, but 00:27:16.890 --> 00:27:19.089 I never really feel a connection with God. If 00:27:19.089 --> 00:27:20.430 you have not surrendered your life to Christ, 00:27:20.509 --> 00:27:21.990 you're never going to feel that connection with 00:27:21.990 --> 00:27:24.529 God. Or if you ever do, it will actually be a 00:27:24.529 --> 00:27:26.670 connection with someone or something substituting 00:27:26.670 --> 00:27:29.170 themselves for God, and that will be a bad day, 00:27:29.289 --> 00:27:31.789 right? It's through Jesus. Jesus said, no one 00:27:31.789 --> 00:27:33.890 cometh unto the Father except through me. Christ 00:27:33.890 --> 00:27:35.910 -centered, only in Christ. Okay, number two. 00:27:36.269 --> 00:27:39.049 VR, tricky. I worded it a little differently 00:27:39.049 --> 00:27:41.710 here. So if it's B, and we already said we have 00:27:41.710 --> 00:27:43.269 to conform to the Word of God, what would the 00:27:43.269 --> 00:27:48.630 B be? Him. I'm sorry. Yeah, only in Him. Yep. 00:27:48.829 --> 00:27:51.890 Only in Christ can we truly worship Him. Worship 00:27:51.890 --> 00:27:54.609 the Father. Okay? So now we've got a B, and we 00:27:54.609 --> 00:27:56.529 know we have to conform to the Word of God, so 00:27:56.529 --> 00:27:59.670 what's the B? When I tell you, that's not right 00:27:59.670 --> 00:28:02.490 by the book, how do I say that? It's not biblical. 00:28:02.769 --> 00:28:05.730 Right? Or biblically. In this case, it's biblically. 00:28:06.220 --> 00:28:07.940 And the word I used, and you might like something 00:28:07.940 --> 00:28:10.319 better, I don't know, is regulated, biblically 00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:13.220 regulated. So the Bible regulates our worship, 00:28:13.299 --> 00:28:14.740 just like we said, well, that's not acceptable. 00:28:14.920 --> 00:28:17.660 That is acceptable, right? But it's not my idea 00:28:17.660 --> 00:28:19.559 what's acceptable because I'm not going to ever 00:28:19.559 --> 00:28:22.200 worship. I'm not going to ever choose to worship 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:24.740 through hard rock unless God of heaven tells 00:28:24.740 --> 00:28:26.200 me specifically to do that. Then, of course, 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:28.700 I will submit. But I'm not going to do that by 00:28:28.700 --> 00:28:30.779 my own choice. But if the Lord leads me to do 00:28:30.779 --> 00:28:33.089 that, I'm going to do that. But if the Bible 00:28:33.089 --> 00:28:35.329 says no, then it's no. Biblically regulated, 00:28:35.609 --> 00:28:38.130 okay? And then this biblically regulated means 00:28:38.130 --> 00:28:41.250 it's what? Okay, aligned or according to the 00:28:41.250 --> 00:28:48.180 scriptures. Good. I submit to you, if you live 00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:49.859 long enough, you will go somewhere and someone 00:28:49.859 --> 00:28:52.039 will initiate unbiblical worship and you will 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:54.720 have to either confront it or leave. You'll have 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:56.259 to make a choice. It's going to happen, guaranteed. 00:28:56.579 --> 00:28:58.480 It's happened to me a bunch of times already. 00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:04.200 I'm like, ooh, okay. Number three, S -E. Capital 00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:05.759 S. Even though it's the beginning of the sentence, 00:29:05.819 --> 00:29:07.619 it would have been a capital S anyway. Spirit. 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:12.980 Spirit. Spiritually what? How about empowered? 00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:16.220 Spiritually empowered. Or spirit empowered. Okay? 00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:19.299 And then I gave you the other part. Indwelt acceptable 00:29:19.299 --> 00:29:21.380 worship. Right? So we're talking about the Holy 00:29:21.380 --> 00:29:24.240 Spirit in us making us able to worship. Spirit 00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:26.319 empowered worship. So just be aware that there 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:28.779 are a lot of other lesser spirits. They're far, 00:29:28.940 --> 00:29:30.900 far lesser. They're not even in the same field. 00:29:31.059 --> 00:29:34.039 But there are a lot of, you know, false, demonic, 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:36.039 and evil spirits that would like to mess with 00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:38.339 your worship. They would love to do that. Okay, 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.079 number four. Starts with an S. And it goes with 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:45.559 no autonomy, price paid. So it starts with an 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:48.319 S. What is it? No autonomy, price is paid. Say 00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:51.680 it again. Sacrificial or sacrificed. Sacrifice. 00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:56.630 The price has already been paid for you to worship. 00:29:57.750 --> 00:30:02.220 The price has already been paid. Right? Okay. 00:30:02.339 --> 00:30:05.990 Now we're on to a big C. Nope, it's not Christ. 00:30:06.130 --> 00:30:07.890 That would be great, but it's not in this case. 00:30:09.890 --> 00:30:12.990 We do it together. It's corporate or congregational. 00:30:13.190 --> 00:30:16.089 Now, I know that still there's people who are 00:30:16.089 --> 00:30:18.069 going to say that they worship on their own, 00:30:18.089 --> 00:30:20.269 and they're not wrong because it is a living 00:30:20.269 --> 00:30:23.509 sacrifice 24 hours a day, right? But it is commanded 00:30:23.509 --> 00:30:26.789 congregationally. Scripture commands it, that 00:30:26.789 --> 00:30:29.049 we do it together. And I think part of that is 00:30:29.049 --> 00:30:31.869 because we're all different. So when they say, 00:30:31.890 --> 00:30:34.309 God, we were made in the image of God, what they're 00:30:34.309 --> 00:30:35.910 talking about is we're made to represent God. 00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:37.319 I don't know if you noticed or not, but there 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:38.920 probably aren't any two people in this room that 00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:41.640 are the exact same height, same skin tone, same 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:45.380 hair color, same hobbies. We're all unique. Every 00:30:45.380 --> 00:30:47.279 one of us is unique. That's what makes us equal. 00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:49.400 We're equal because we're unique. And then when 00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:52.500 you put that unique equalness together, you get 00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:55.059 worship, right? I can worship God, but I will 00:30:55.059 --> 00:30:56.859 fail to worship God. I will set out to worship 00:30:56.859 --> 00:30:59.220 God in my house, in my prayer closet, in my backyard, 00:30:59.339 --> 00:31:01.460 but I will fail because there's things about 00:31:01.460 --> 00:31:03.079 me that aren't right that day or because I'm 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:05.079 distracted or I'll start to read the Bible and 00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:07.049 get... Oh, I'm going to watch TV instead or some 00:31:07.049 --> 00:31:09.049 dumb thing like that, right? You do the same 00:31:09.049 --> 00:31:11.049 thing. But together, when we all come together, 00:31:11.089 --> 00:31:13.869 look at the power of it, the unique equal us 00:31:13.869 --> 00:31:16.829 congregationally, right? And then the you then 00:31:16.829 --> 00:31:19.950 would be united, which is why it doesn't work 00:31:19.950 --> 00:31:21.390 when people come together and hate the person 00:31:21.390 --> 00:31:23.630 sitting next to them or hate the color of the 00:31:23.630 --> 00:31:26.049 carpet, right? Or hate the kind of music. That 00:31:26.049 --> 00:31:28.849 stuff doesn't work. It's united. And there's 00:31:28.849 --> 00:31:32.910 that our rejoicing body. So we are called as 00:31:32.910 --> 00:31:35.930 a church to be a united, rejoicing body. That's 00:31:35.930 --> 00:31:37.769 what we are. And to be a body, you've got to 00:31:37.769 --> 00:31:39.490 step out. You've got to step away from your job. 00:31:39.750 --> 00:31:41.549 You've got to step away from your family, the 00:31:41.549 --> 00:31:43.250 family that's not here anyway. You've got to 00:31:43.250 --> 00:31:45.769 step away from your money. You've got to step 00:31:45.769 --> 00:31:49.250 away from your house. My house is not part of 00:31:49.250 --> 00:31:51.460 my body. My hobbies are not part of my body. 00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:53.380 They might affect my body, especially like when 00:31:53.380 --> 00:31:55.119 you're playing softball or something. But the 00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:56.960 bottom line is you have to step away from everything 00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:59.559 else and unite with the body. And that's the 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:01.740 power of worship that God is looking for. That's 00:32:01.740 --> 00:32:03.559 worship in spirit and truth. Bless you. Okay. 00:32:03.619 --> 00:32:06.960 And then six. This is a really big word. Worship 00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:10.799 is, it goes back to Romans 12, transformational. 00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:13.720 I'll spell it. T -R -A -N -S. That part's easy. 00:32:13.900 --> 00:32:18.730 T -R -A -N -S. Form. F -O -R -M. Transform is 00:32:18.730 --> 00:32:21.009 to change the shape of something or the makeup 00:32:21.009 --> 00:32:25.190 of something. Transform. And it's A -T -I -O 00:32:25.190 --> 00:32:30.450 -N -A -L. Transformational. Transformational. 00:32:30.529 --> 00:32:34.589 Weird word, but perfect for this use. Okay. Now, 00:32:34.670 --> 00:32:36.390 can anybody finish the whole sentence in one 00:32:36.390 --> 00:32:38.690 swoop? Haley, you're the puzzle master. You got 00:32:38.690 --> 00:32:41.650 it. She didn't got it. Anybody else got it? Transformational. 00:32:41.730 --> 00:32:44.069 So that N is a not. Can we do it from there? 00:32:44.289 --> 00:32:50.369 Yep. Not just. Nope, not spiritual. It is another 00:32:50.369 --> 00:32:52.750 capital S though, but it's not spirit. What? 00:32:53.190 --> 00:32:57.009 Nope, not sin. It's not just Sunday. How about 00:32:57.009 --> 00:33:00.769 now? Not just Sunday, but Romans 12. Be transformed 00:33:00.769 --> 00:33:02.750 by the renewing of your mind so you may discern 00:33:02.750 --> 00:33:04.369 what is a good, pleasing, and perfect will of 00:33:04.369 --> 00:33:09.539 God. It's not just Sunday, but ongoing renewing 00:33:09.539 --> 00:33:13.359 or renewal of the mind. It's a little sticky 00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:16.960 here, but you can do it. Through the word. Got 00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:19.680 it. So this worship that God is calling us to 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:22.220 is transformational, changing us all the time 00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:24.740 through the renewal of the mind, through the 00:33:24.740 --> 00:33:27.480 word, right? Because if it's not happening that 00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:30.220 way, you will eventually get off course and find 00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:32.480 yourself not in biblical worship. Because all 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:34.480 your worship has to conform to the word of God. 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.299 So if you take the word of God out, even though 00:33:37.299 --> 00:33:38.900 I'm like, I'm a follower of Jesus, Holy Spirit 00:33:38.900 --> 00:33:40.559 of me, I'll never make a mistake. I'm just a 00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:42.319 follower of the Holy Spirit. It'll be fine, right? 00:33:42.710 --> 00:33:45.250 except one day you won't because you haven't 00:33:45.250 --> 00:33:47.710 renewed your mind enough to know better okay 00:33:47.710 --> 00:33:50.890 last one number seven and this one is sort of 00:33:50.890 --> 00:33:54.910 like an extension of it so it's mission minded 00:33:54.910 --> 00:33:59.039 mm mission minded so worship is mission minded 00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:00.900 i kind of gave you this illustration when i first 00:34:00.900 --> 00:34:02.519 talked when i said like we're going to talk about 00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:04.240 worship and now you just had one of the coolest 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:06.660 experiences to talk about worship which is worship 00:34:06.660 --> 00:34:09.239 being together we worship as a team and then 00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:11.750 we saw it Well, when people come who don't know 00:34:11.750 --> 00:34:13.869 Christ and they see the body really worshiping 00:34:13.869 --> 00:34:16.630 the way they are supposed to, that's cool. That's 00:34:16.630 --> 00:34:18.289 cool to them. They're like, wow, they're putting 00:34:18.289 --> 00:34:21.650 themselves aside to be together in worshiping 00:34:21.650 --> 00:34:23.389 this God. This God must be important, right? 00:34:23.530 --> 00:34:27.050 So it's mission -minded. Worship fuels, the word 00:34:27.050 --> 00:34:31.630 is fuels, the, that was two blanks, GC. If it's 00:34:31.630 --> 00:34:33.590 mission -minded, what's the greatest thing in 00:34:33.590 --> 00:34:36.690 the world for mission -mindedness? GC, fuels 00:34:36.690 --> 00:34:40.699 the great commission. That's Jesus' last words 00:34:40.699 --> 00:34:42.440 on earth. Go ye therefore and make disciples. 00:34:43.239 --> 00:34:45.300 That's the Great Commission. So worship fuels 00:34:45.300 --> 00:34:47.880 the Great Commission as we, and you see the rest 00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:50.360 of it, exalt. That means lift up God's glory 00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:52.880 among the nations. Now, did anybody notice we 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:54.539 missed a little something? On the whole page, 00:34:54.619 --> 00:34:57.539 where did we miss it? Top right. So what do you 00:34:57.539 --> 00:35:00.280 think the SD stands for? Beautiful. Spiritual 00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:03.940 discipline. All right. So worship, not only is 00:35:03.940 --> 00:35:05.599 it a command of God, and most of the spiritual 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.559 disciplines are, not only is it a... It's like 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:11.420 breathing. It's like eating. It's your bread 00:35:11.420 --> 00:35:13.440 and butter to be a follower of Christ. Because 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:16.039 if you let your worship conform to the word of 00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:19.039 God, you will become like Jesus who let his worship 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:20.820 conform to the word of God and so on, right? 00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:23.159 So you want that. You always want to worship 00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:25.420 the way God has led us to do that. But on top 00:35:25.420 --> 00:35:28.039 of that, it's also spiritual discipline. So spiritual 00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:30.760 discipline is a thing that God has said we can 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:33.659 do, we can choose to do to draw closer to him, 00:35:33.699 --> 00:35:36.119 right? You can't walk. physically to the throne 00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.420 of God from here. It's not in Google Maps. It's 00:35:38.420 --> 00:35:40.199 not on any star chart. You cannot physically 00:35:40.199 --> 00:35:42.920 get there with your body in your car or in a 00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:46.019 jet or in a spaceship, right? But the spiritual 00:35:46.019 --> 00:35:49.000 disciplines allow you to draw close to God of 00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:50.880 your own volition. You're choosing to do that. 00:35:50.980 --> 00:35:52.579 These are the things that God has given us to 00:35:52.579 --> 00:35:54.760 choose to do that. So worship is one of those, 00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:57.500 all right? So if worship is one of the things 00:35:57.500 --> 00:36:00.380 that we can choose to do to draw close to God, 00:36:00.460 --> 00:36:03.199 then what do you think that first C is? No, but 00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:05.840 that would have been good. It's choose. This 00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:09.460 is the pattern for how to do worship as a spiritual 00:36:09.460 --> 00:36:12.159 discipline. Or it could be how to do service. 00:36:12.380 --> 00:36:15.219 Or it could be how to pray as a spiritual discipline 00:36:15.219 --> 00:36:17.000 or whatever. The pattern is always the same. 00:36:17.059 --> 00:36:19.360 The first thing you do is choose it. And if you 00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:21.840 choose it and just do it, are you done? No. That 00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:23.579 would not be a spiritual discipline. This is 00:36:23.579 --> 00:36:26.000 a choice. Because in order to make it a discipline, 00:36:26.139 --> 00:36:27.659 there are some other steps that have to occur. 00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:30.000 So the first thing is you choose it. The next 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:32.940 thing is a P, and that is? Nope. We're not practicing 00:36:32.940 --> 00:36:35.309 it yet. No, we're not praying yet. We pray before 00:36:35.309 --> 00:36:36.929 we choose, probably. Actually, I could put that 00:36:36.929 --> 00:36:38.869 on there, but it's planets, right? Remember, 00:36:38.949 --> 00:36:40.969 spiritual disciplines. If I'm going to do 10 00:36:40.969 --> 00:36:43.230 push -ups a day, my plan is I'm going to do 10 00:36:43.230 --> 00:36:45.530 push -ups a day, right? I choose to do 10 push 00:36:45.530 --> 00:36:47.889 -ups a day. I plan to do 10 push -ups a day. 00:36:47.969 --> 00:36:49.730 Now, it's still not a spiritual discipline, is 00:36:49.730 --> 00:36:51.469 it? I've done the early steps, but it's still 00:36:51.469 --> 00:36:53.750 not a spiritual discipline. I chose it. I planned 00:36:53.750 --> 00:36:57.210 it. Now, the S is I must schedule it, right? 00:36:57.309 --> 00:36:58.969 So I'm going to do 10 push -ups a day. I choose 00:36:58.969 --> 00:37:01.369 to do 10 push -ups a day. I plan to do 10 push 00:37:01.369 --> 00:37:03.489 -ups a day. I'm going to do them in the morning. 00:37:04.190 --> 00:37:06.309 Or I'm going to do them at night or whatever. 00:37:06.530 --> 00:37:07.969 I'm going to do 10 in the morning and 10 at night 00:37:07.969 --> 00:37:09.710 or 5 in the morning and 5 at night. I plan it. 00:37:09.789 --> 00:37:12.449 So we've got choose, plan, schedule. Then the 00:37:12.449 --> 00:37:16.670 C is commit. That's right. So now I've done it. 00:37:16.690 --> 00:37:18.909 I've chosen to do it. I've planned it. I've scheduled 00:37:18.909 --> 00:37:21.309 it. I've committed to do it. Last night I went 00:37:21.309 --> 00:37:22.750 to bed saying this morning I'm going to do 10 00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:24.570 push -ups. And then I get up in the morning and 00:37:24.570 --> 00:37:27.849 I carry it out. That's the spirit of this one. 00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:32.719 Here is how you can do worship in the simplest 00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:35.320 form of the spiritual discipline. You can say, 00:37:35.460 --> 00:37:39.400 I will worship God every Sunday morning at 1130. 00:37:39.500 --> 00:37:41.840 You chose to do it. You planned it. You scheduled 00:37:41.840 --> 00:37:43.699 it. You commit to it. And if you show up, you 00:37:43.699 --> 00:37:46.039 carried it out. Easy. Now, if you're a worship 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:49.239 leader, not so easy. Because now the plan is 00:37:49.239 --> 00:37:52.440 you got to practice it. You got skills. You got 00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:53.920 decisions that you got to make. So now you got 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:56.199 additional things you got to do, right? But that's 00:37:56.199 --> 00:37:59.329 all in there still. In fact, probably our worship 00:37:59.329 --> 00:38:02.170 leaders give us the best model for what spiritual 00:38:02.170 --> 00:38:03.670 discipline of worship looks like because they 00:38:03.670 --> 00:38:05.469 have extra steps that they have to go through 00:38:05.469 --> 00:38:07.349 and they go through them. And if the time comes 00:38:07.349 --> 00:38:08.570 to start worship and they didn't go through them, 00:38:08.610 --> 00:38:10.130 we don't get to worship the way we had intended. 00:38:10.289 --> 00:38:13.369 So they're not only showing us worship when they're 00:38:13.369 --> 00:38:15.590 singing a song to lead us, as they all did up 00:38:15.590 --> 00:38:18.150 here today, but also they're showing us the spiritual 00:38:18.150 --> 00:38:20.489 discipline of worship as they are preparing for 00:38:20.489 --> 00:38:23.210 that moment in time. as we should too in fact 00:38:23.210 --> 00:38:25.610 i'll say this to you if you show up at 11 30 00:38:25.610 --> 00:38:28.550 in the morning on sunday to worship led by the 00:38:28.550 --> 00:38:30.409 praise team and you have not prepared yourself 00:38:30.409 --> 00:38:32.369 maybe you didn't go to bed on time and you didn't 00:38:32.369 --> 00:38:33.750 eat the right foods you skipped breakfast had 00:38:33.750 --> 00:38:35.929 too much coffee right you didn't go to the bathroom 00:38:35.929 --> 00:38:37.809 so now at 11 47 you got to go to the bathroom 00:38:37.809 --> 00:38:39.769 so you didn't go before you came in here whatever 00:38:39.769 --> 00:38:42.929 it's pretty much an insult to the worship leaders 00:38:42.929 --> 00:38:45.650 who have done the spiritual discipline of worship 00:38:45.650 --> 00:38:47.760 up to that point they're ready Same thing on 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:50.599 Tuesday night, for example. So they're setting 00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:53.679 that model for us. This is the model. You may 00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:55.420 not be somebody that loves worship, but it's 00:38:55.420 --> 00:38:56.900 a spiritual discipline. You may be somebody who 00:38:56.900 --> 00:38:58.820 wants to draw close to God. So what do you do? 00:38:59.019 --> 00:39:02.239 Choose to do it, plan to do it, schedule it, 00:39:02.300 --> 00:39:05.099 commit to it, and carry it out. And then you 00:39:05.099 --> 00:39:07.380 will draw close to God. That's what God promises. 00:39:07.900 --> 00:39:11.960 Now, again, John 14, 6, not unless you have Jesus 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:14.480 in you. Not unless you turn your life over to 00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:17.400 the Lord. All right. We're very low on time, 00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:19.539 but we have time. If you'd like to do a round 00:39:19.539 --> 00:39:22.940 of Bible trivia, it begins now. Everyone that 00:39:22.940 --> 00:39:25.739 completed their worksheet gets two tickets. Also, 00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:28.500 just FYI, the tickets for tonight that you earn 00:39:28.500 --> 00:39:31.320 tonight do not go in the big box to win the gift 00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:32.940 card. There's hundreds of tickets in there already. 00:39:33.099 --> 00:39:35.719 However, there is an empty cup. And so anybody 00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:37.760 who wants to, one of the things you can do with 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:39.059 the tickets that you earn tonight is put them 00:39:39.059 --> 00:39:41.019 in the empty cup. And if you do, they will go 00:39:41.019 --> 00:39:42.739 in the big box before we draw for the gift card. 00:39:43.420 --> 00:39:48.050 But you won't win anything else. That is to take 00:39:48.050 --> 00:39:49.929 home and do on your own. That's to do on your 00:39:49.929 --> 00:39:54.550 own. Okay. I have questions. They are randomized 00:39:54.550 --> 00:39:57.230 for... This is not the randomized list. One second. 00:39:57.389 --> 00:40:10.239 Let me go back. They're randomized for difficulty. 00:40:10.380 --> 00:40:13.900 75 questions. Some are harder than others. We've 00:40:13.900 --> 00:40:15.539 got quite a few folks standing. Zayden, we're 00:40:15.539 --> 00:40:17.440 starting with you, sir. Are you ready? Who was 00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:20.460 thrown into a den of lions? Daniel is correct. 00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:24.380 How many fish did Jesus use to feed the 5 ,000? 00:40:24.539 --> 00:40:28.219 Two is correct, sir. Chris. Oh my gosh. You get 00:40:28.219 --> 00:40:30.420 the first hard question. You get to sit down 00:40:30.420 --> 00:40:32.500 and keep your ticket if you want to. Who was 00:40:32.500 --> 00:40:34.739 the mother of Samuel? Did you sit down already? 00:40:34.900 --> 00:40:36.280 You didn't have to yet. I didn't tell you that 00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:39.340 question yet. No. Okay. He's going to pass on 00:40:39.340 --> 00:40:41.239 that one. That's a toughie. All right. But now 00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:43.260 Ace has stuck with it. Ace, who was the mother 00:40:43.260 --> 00:40:48.869 of Samuel? Researching. Wheels are spinning. 00:40:51.030 --> 00:41:01.340 Okay. Who was his mother? You can sit and keep 00:41:01.340 --> 00:41:03.300 your ticket, or you can take a guess and risk 00:41:03.300 --> 00:41:10.119 it. Definitely. Do you want to guess or not? 00:41:10.889 --> 00:41:13.449 All right, Adam, back to you. You'll be the final 00:41:13.449 --> 00:41:15.769 one to fall to the tough one. Okay, so the mother 00:41:15.769 --> 00:41:19.530 of Samuel was somebody? Hannah is correct, and 00:41:19.530 --> 00:41:21.429 Hannah is named after her, so now we won't forget 00:41:21.429 --> 00:41:25.889 it anymore. Okay. A .N., it's hard. Not really. 00:41:26.010 --> 00:41:27.949 What is the last book of the Bible? Careful. 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.780 Say it again. Revelation is correct. There's 00:41:31.780 --> 00:41:34.590 no S on the end. That would be wrong. Arden. 00:41:34.630 --> 00:41:40.119 Who built the ark? You got it. Abby. What river 00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:43.880 was Jesus baptized in? It's kind of a middle 00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:47.760 one. Middle difficulty. No helping. No helping. 00:41:49.530 --> 00:41:51.949 You can get it. You can guess or you can sit 00:41:51.949 --> 00:42:00.400 and keep your ticket. Not sure? Go sit down. 00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:03.579 Okay. Aaron. What river was Jesus baptized in? 00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:07.019 The Jordan River is correct. Jason. Who betrayed 00:42:07.019 --> 00:42:09.900 Jesus for 30 pieces of silver? Judas Iscariot. 00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:12.539 Judas Iscariot is correct. From the back. Jaden. 00:42:12.619 --> 00:42:14.679 How many books are there in the New Testament? 00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:16.559 We got caught on this one before. Somebody got 00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:19.289 caught on this one. New Testament. How many books? 00:42:19.690 --> 00:42:22.139 If you guess and get it wrong, you lose your 00:42:22.139 --> 00:42:27.469 ticket. Oh, he's down. Hannah. Anyone named after 00:42:27.469 --> 00:42:29.050 Samuel's mother should know the answer to that 00:42:29.050 --> 00:42:36.119 question. Okay. Haley. 27 is correct. Failed 00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:38.960 out the last second. Okay, Holly, who was the 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:42.099 first woman? You better know that one. That'd 00:42:42.099 --> 00:42:45.860 be rough. Okay, Chris, who climbed a tree to 00:42:45.860 --> 00:42:49.500 see Jesus? All the kids know this one. Does Chris 00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:52.579 know it? Can't remember? I won't blame you if 00:42:52.579 --> 00:42:59.659 you don't. Draw on a blank. Sit down, keep your 00:42:59.659 --> 00:43:01.840 ticket. All right, River, I put the pressure 00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:03.440 on you because I said all the kids know this. 00:43:03.539 --> 00:43:06.630 Do you know it? Who climbed a tree to see Jesus? 00:43:07.619 --> 00:43:13.329 It was a sycamore tree. Straddling around in 00:43:13.329 --> 00:43:18.030 there. Willing to take a risk or not. Nope. Down 00:43:18.030 --> 00:43:21.329 he goes. Down she goes. Sorry. All right. Natalie's 00:43:21.329 --> 00:43:23.750 down, too. Oh, my goodness. Okay. Who climbed 00:43:23.750 --> 00:43:26.980 a tree to see Jesus? Somebody over here. Not 00:43:26.980 --> 00:43:28.480 yet. I didn't. He's still up. That was three. 00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.599 You stay up. Say it again. Zacchaeus is correct. 00:43:32.179 --> 00:43:36.039 Okay. No. Michael. What city had its walls fall 00:43:36.039 --> 00:43:39.570 after Israel marched around it? I said this last 00:43:39.570 --> 00:43:51.550 time. Yes, you did. They marched around it, and 00:43:51.550 --> 00:43:57.989 the walls fell. Going once. Hey. Jericho? Jericho 00:43:57.989 --> 00:44:00.929 is correct. Okay, and then we're back to this 00:44:00.929 --> 00:44:04.539 side over here. Zayden. Who interpreted dreams 00:44:04.539 --> 00:44:10.130 in Egypt? What might be easy for somebody might 00:44:10.130 --> 00:44:12.010 be more difficult for somebody else. It all depends 00:44:12.010 --> 00:44:16.320 on how your wheels turn. Interpreted dreams in 00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:19.000 Egypt for Pharaoh. His name was... Going once. 00:44:19.619 --> 00:44:29.070 If you sit, you keep two tickets. No. Caleb's 00:44:29.070 --> 00:44:32.849 like, I'm about to get this question. All right. 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:38.079 Time's up. Sit or guess. Okay. Caleb, can you 00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:41.320 do it? Interpreted dreams in Egypt for Pharaoh. 00:44:42.389 --> 00:44:44.469 You will be kicking yourself after you don't 00:44:44.469 --> 00:44:48.250 get it. Down he goes for two tickets. A .N., 00:44:48.250 --> 00:44:50.829 that's you who interpreted dreams in Egypt for 00:44:50.829 --> 00:44:55.849 Pharaoh. All right. Somebody over here, name 00:44:55.849 --> 00:45:00.269 it. Joseph is correct. Okay. You also got to 00:45:00.269 --> 00:45:01.829 code him any colors. He's slightly more famous 00:45:01.829 --> 00:45:05.329 for that, I think. Arden. What was the name of 00:45:05.329 --> 00:45:11.150 Jesus' mother? That's a tough one. Aaron. Who 00:45:11.150 --> 00:45:17.250 was the first king of Israel? Saul. It's correct. 00:45:17.969 --> 00:45:21.070 Jason. What did God put in the sky as a sign 00:45:21.070 --> 00:45:24.349 of his covenant with Noah? Rainbow is correct. 00:45:24.550 --> 00:45:28.849 From the back row, it's Haley. Who denied Jesus 00:45:28.849 --> 00:45:31.809 three times? Say it again. Peter is correct. 00:45:32.130 --> 00:45:33.650 Jesus is going to be a tough contender today. 00:45:34.250 --> 00:45:37.250 Holly, how many loaves did Jesus use to feed 00:45:37.250 --> 00:45:41.809 the 5 ,000? Five is correct. Mike, who led Israel 00:45:41.809 --> 00:45:48.289 after Moses? Joshua is correct. He pulled it 00:45:48.289 --> 00:45:52.710 out at the last second. Well, he did sit through 00:45:52.710 --> 00:45:55.730 the whole book. Okay. Back to Arden. The whole 00:45:55.730 --> 00:46:00.610 right side is down. Arden. Come on. What was 00:46:00.610 --> 00:46:02.710 the name of the garden where Adam and Eve lived? 00:46:02.989 --> 00:46:07.469 Eden. Oh, my goodness. He's got crutches. Okay. 00:46:10.389 --> 00:46:15.699 Aaron. Who baptized Jesus? John the Baptist. 00:46:15.940 --> 00:46:18.760 Jason. How many years did Israel wander in the 00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:29.159 wilderness? 40. 40 years is correct. Haley, who 00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:32.219 was known for his great strength and long hair? 00:46:35.739 --> 00:46:40.639 I need your final answer. Who was known for great 00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:43.519 strength and long hair? Samson is correct. Holly, 00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:46.760 what book comes immediately after the four Gospels? 00:46:48.420 --> 00:46:52.239 Acts is correct. Mike, who was Abraham's wife? 00:46:54.860 --> 00:46:59.159 Don't help him. Are you guessing or do you want 00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:01.159 to sit? You sound like a question mark. I need 00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:03.699 a non -question mark if you want to guess. You're 00:47:03.699 --> 00:47:07.980 standing for three tickets? You sit for three 00:47:07.980 --> 00:47:15.280 tickets or guess? Three tickets. You'll be sticking 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.360 hard with this first difficult question if you 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:29.039 sit. Abraham's wife. Try it again. I don't think 00:47:29.039 --> 00:47:30.550 there's... FYI, I don't think there's anybody 00:47:30.550 --> 00:47:37.750 in the Bible named Sierra. He knows it, but he's 00:47:37.750 --> 00:47:41.969 not saying it. Three seconds. Two, one. Arden. 00:47:42.530 --> 00:47:44.909 Sarah is correct. You were so close, dude. But 00:47:44.909 --> 00:47:46.809 you got three tickets, so that was awesome. Aaron. 00:47:47.010 --> 00:47:49.489 What mountain was associated with Elijah's contest 00:47:49.489 --> 00:47:53.650 with the prophets of Baal? It is much harder. 00:48:02.780 --> 00:48:10.400 But it's four tickets. Mountain associated with 00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:12.460 Elijah's contest with the prophets of all. He's 00:48:12.460 --> 00:48:14.260 down. Jason, what is the name of the mountain? 00:48:14.300 --> 00:48:17.980 Down. Haley, what is the name of the mountain 00:48:17.980 --> 00:48:20.739 associated with the battle between Elijah and 00:48:20.739 --> 00:48:23.619 the prophets of all? She's down? Okay, she was 00:48:23.619 --> 00:48:27.010 the third. It is Mount Carmel. Holly, what was 00:48:27.010 --> 00:48:29.670 the name of the first martyr of the Christian 00:48:29.670 --> 00:48:33.449 church? Stephen is correct. Who do we got left? 00:48:33.530 --> 00:48:35.710 Just Arden and Holly? Okay, keep track of your 00:48:35.710 --> 00:48:38.010 tickets because I'm losing count. Okay, Arden, 00:48:38.070 --> 00:48:43.639 what town was Jesus raised in? I don't guess. 00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:48.800 It's like five tickets or something. Nazareth. 00:48:48.860 --> 00:48:53.099 Nazareth is correct. Holly, who was sold into 00:48:53.099 --> 00:48:58.219 slavery by his brothers? Joseph is correct. Arden? 00:48:58.570 --> 00:49:02.670 What did the wise men follow to find Jesus? It's 00:49:02.670 --> 00:49:07.670 random. The star is correct. Holly, who was Jesus' 00:49:07.929 --> 00:49:11.550 earthly legal father? Joseph is correct. I'm 00:49:11.550 --> 00:49:13.429 going to give you like seven tickets now, I think. 00:49:15.250 --> 00:49:17.590 Arden, who doubted Jesus' resurrection until 00:49:17.590 --> 00:49:25.750 he saw the evidence? Sit down, take all your 00:49:25.750 --> 00:49:28.309 tickets. You got to get it. What is it? That's 00:49:28.309 --> 00:49:32.239 correct. Well done. All right. Well done. Give 00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:35.380 them a round of applause. That was awesome. Nicely 00:49:35.380 --> 00:49:39.849 done. Okay. So remember how this video, everybody 00:49:39.849 --> 00:49:41.429 needs to get the number of tickets that they 00:49:41.429 --> 00:49:46.070 earned. Sue for your worksheet, and then how 00:49:46.070 --> 00:49:47.849 many have you got during trivia? No problem. 00:49:53.429 --> 00:49:55.349 As soon as I get these started, I'm going to 00:49:55.349 --> 00:50:01.610 pass it up. Thank you.