1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:15,240 Praise the Lord Church. Today's Church Service is all about when we let our emotions dictate 2 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:21,480 our worship. Our very first scripture today is John chapter 4 verse 24 and it says, God 3 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:29,520 is spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. So what is emotional 4 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:35,880 worship? Well it is when worship is less focused on Jesus and more focused on how we feel. It's 5 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:42,720 more focused on me and what I'm going through than God and who He is. We also don't feel the Holy 6 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:49,120 Spirit but it's deeper than a feeling. We experience Him. We don't feel Him. To worship in spirit 7 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:56,080 means to put away with our emotions. God wants us to worship in spirits because our feelings 8 00:00:56,080 --> 00:01:01,000 change like the weather and we may not always feel like worshiping and that's when your flesh tries 9 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:06,440 to go against your spirit. The spirit wants to do what God wants us to do but the flesh wants to 10 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:12,240 do the opposite. But when we decide to not have emotional worship and when we decide to have worship 11 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:18,240 focused on Jesus then we're tapping into our spirit and that's how we worship Him in spirit and in 12 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:26,000 truth. Our second scripture today is James chapter 5 verse 13 and it says, is anyone among you 13 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:33,040 suffering? Let Him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let Him sing praise. So we also have to tackle the 14 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:38,240 question what to do when you don't feel like worshiping. Well many scriptures in the Bible talk 15 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:43,400 about praying in all circumstances and worshiping in all circumstances but why does the Bible make 16 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:49,520 an emphasis on this? Well prayer leads us to look at God and not our circumstance or our emotions. 17 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:54,640 Take Paul and Silas. When they were thrown in prison they started singing praises to God and 18 00:01:54,640 --> 00:02:01,760 worshiping Him. How could they do that when they were changed in a dirty prison? Well they decided 19 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:07,960 to focus on God and not their situation and when they decided to focus on God, God changed their 20 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:16,040 perspective and then God changed their situation and made the whole prison shake and the doors 21 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:22,800 flew wide open. But we look at the story and what I just talked about and you might think why did 22 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:29,240 God even give us emotions to begin with? When we feel badly inside God wants us wants this to lead 23 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:35,520 us to Him. When we feel any type of emotion He wants our emotions to lead us to Him rather than 24 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:41,480 let our emotions lead our lives. God wants to be the leader of our lives and He uses our emotions 25 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:47,480 to try and get us to our needs but when we start to listen to our emotions we start to become people 26 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:53,240 who are very double-minded and people who nobody can rely on and when we start to follow our emotions 27 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:59,040 we start to rely on ourselves but we can't rely on ourselves we have to rely on God which is what 28 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:06,520 worship is all about giving everything back to God. In Matthew chapter 15 verse 8 it says this 29 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:14,480 people honors me with their lips but their hearts are far from me. This scripture really makes you 30 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:19,600 think it makes you think about what's on the inside and how we should let the outside reflect 31 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:25,560 what is on the inside. If there's bad and on the inside if there's evil on the inside then we're 32 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:30,800 gonna do evil things on the outside we are not going to represent Christ but if there's good on 33 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:36,440 the inside then we should be showing Jesus on the outside and when we worship it should be an 34 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:41,920 expression of our honor and humility unto the Lord. Jesus also wants our hearts and He wants us to 35 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:47,640 be devoted to Him as He is to us. When our hearts are far from Him then what we speak is an anointed 36 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:55,920 by the Holy Spirit but it's just intellect which brings me into our points. One when we let our 37 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:02,880 emotions lead our worship our worship becomes meaningless. Yes you heard me meaningless it 38 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:09,080 doesn't have any effect it doesn't even get to heaven because we are so focused on ourselves 39 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:15,600 instead of being focused on the Lord and two we need to always give God our first our best and 40 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:21,080 our all even when we don't feel like it because when we make it through those tests we become 41 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:28,320 stronger. Three let your praise be from the Spirit and from the heart worship in truth. When I say 42 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:32,440 the heart I don't mean your physical heart because that's following your emotions I mean the 43 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:38,600 spiritual heart the one that the Holy Spirit has filled because when we do that we worship in truth. 44 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:44,240 So if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ then this message will help you but if 45 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,440 you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ then I invite you to give your heart to 46 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:54,680 the Lord today. To receive Him into your heart go to Romans 10 9 through 10 it says that if you 47 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:58,720 confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the 48 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:03,400 dead you will be saved for with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth 49 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:08,840 confession is made unto salvation. If you said this prayer with sincerity you are saved and now 50 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:15,360 have eternal life with Jesus. You are saved from all your sins past present and future sins you may 51 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:21,560 commit. This truth is not a free past this in any time instead Jesus gives you power over all 52 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:28,400 wrong choices and empowers you to spread the gospel to others. You are saved forever and your name 53 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:39,720 is written in the book of life.