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Worship: Forming the Heart Toward God · Clay to Crown

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Clay to Crown podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, Amanda Hughes.
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  Speaker 1: And it is a beautiful day here in Beaufort, South Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: And I just, I love my settings for these. And
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm, you guys like, I can't see it.
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  Speaker 1: But I have a sunroom full of plants. And when
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  Speaker 1: I'm recording these podcasts, I'm actually sitting at my desk
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  Speaker 1: looking out the windows of my sunroom through my plants
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  Speaker 1: and out onto my back patio where I have some
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  Speaker 1: flowers blooming and all of that stuff. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: a nice, peaceful setting. And it reminds.
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  Speaker 2: Me today, you know, The Lord is the creator of everything, right?
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  Speaker 1: He is the living God. He spoke creation into existence.
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  Speaker 1: And the very plants that I'm looking at are here
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  Speaker 1: because of him. The trees, the sun, the beautiful blue sky,
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  Speaker 1: all of these things are here for us to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: and because he wanted us to be in relationship with
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  Speaker 1: him all those millennia ago, and he still does. And that,
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  Speaker 1: my friends, is the God that we worship. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to be talking about today is worship.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we use the word worship, you know, in Christian, uh,
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  Speaker 1: church experience, you know, as a worship experience, you know,
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  Speaker 1: or it's those first three songs or four songs or
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  Speaker 1: however many songs, you know, in a contemporary, uh, church
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  Speaker 1: service that, um, precedes, uh, the transition, you know, announcements
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  Speaker 1: and then into the sermon. Right. But what, what exactly
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  Speaker 1: is worship as we, um, you know, go forward today.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the ensuing weeks, as you guys may recall,
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  Speaker 1: I've just started a series in spiritual disciplines. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: I brought that in last week. It's spiritual disciplines. It's
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  Speaker 1: those habits and practices that help us build our faith. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and worship is one of those spiritual disciplines, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and many successful Christians state that the most intimate times
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  Speaker 1: that they've had with the Lord have been in private
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  Speaker 1: and corporate worship. And I think worship is essential for
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  Speaker 1: every Christian to learn, not just how to do it,
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  Speaker 1: but just learn the importance of it, the importance of
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  Speaker 1: it for entering into the presence of God.
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  Speaker 2: So, so what is worship? What is it?
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  Speaker 1: Um, I think worship can be described as a celebration
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  Speaker 1: of God's attributes. That's how I led this in, that
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  Speaker 1: he is creator, that he is, you know, all powerful
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  Speaker 1: and that he is living. So it's a celebration of
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  Speaker 1: God's attributes and a celebration of his actions. And those
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  Speaker 1: attributes and actions show us how he reveals himself to
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  Speaker 1: us In many different ways. It's a natural thing to
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  Speaker 1: respond to God's amazing character by praising and worshiping him.
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  Speaker 2: I think we don't do that enough.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we just go through our lives and we
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  Speaker 1: take for granted who God is and what he has
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  Speaker 1: done for us, and we don't worship him enough. So
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  Speaker 1: worship defined, you know, if we want to talk about worship,
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  Speaker 1: let's define it. We already said that it can be
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  Speaker 1: described as a celebration of God's attributes and actions.
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  Speaker 2: But the word worship itself.
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  Speaker 1: Is based on an ancient word that literally means worthiness.
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  Speaker 2: Respect, repute, like reputation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So sometimes you'll hear that worship is worth-ship.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: So technically the term worship means to ascribe to God,
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  Speaker 1: the worthiness, the respect and the reverence that is due
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  Speaker 1: to him, not only for what he has done, but
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  Speaker 1: also because of who he is as God of the universe.
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  Speaker 1: So that said, where then does worship begin? And I
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  Speaker 1: think many of us think that worship begins inside of us, right?
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  Speaker 1: We say things like, oh, I don't feel like it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't feel like worshiping today or I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to go to church today or whatever else, right?
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  Speaker 1: But worship doesn't even, it doesn't begin with how you feel.
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  Speaker 1: It begins with God, again, because we're worshiping who he is.
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  Speaker 1: Worship includes so much more than the actions of people.
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  Speaker 1: A true worship encounter begins with God because what we
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  Speaker 1: are doing, we are responding, recognizing, and receiving his unmerited grace.
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  Speaker 2: So what happens then? What happens in worship?
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  Speaker 1: The Bible teaches us that a person's intimacy with God
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  Speaker 1: is made more intense through worship. In fact, as you
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  Speaker 1: learn to express love to God with boldness and vulnerability,
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  Speaker 1: you will naturally become more obedient to him and to
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  Speaker 1: his will.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: As you grow in right relationship, you're growing in intimacy
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  Speaker 1: with God.
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  Speaker 2: You can learn to express that love back to him.
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  Speaker 2: with a boldness. So let's examine what the Bible teaches
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  Speaker 2: about worship.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to look at the prophet Isaiah, the
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  Speaker 1: book of Isaiah, and specifically in chapter six.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And the prophet Isaiah had a vision of worship in
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  Speaker 1: heaven when he prayed to God upon the death of
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  Speaker 1: the king Uzziah. And this is what it says in
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter six says in the year that King Uzziah died,
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  Speaker 1: I saw the Lord seated on a throne high and
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  Speaker 1: exalted and the train of his robe filled the temple.
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  Speaker 1: Above him were seraphs each with six wings. With two wings,
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  Speaker 1: they covered their faces. With two, they covered their feet.
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  Speaker 1: With two, they were flying. And they were calling to
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  Speaker 1: each other. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord almighty. The
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  Speaker 1: whole earth is full of his glory. At the sound
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  Speaker 1: of their voices, the doorposts and thresholds shook and the
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  Speaker 1: temple was filled with smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Woe to me, I cried, I.
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  Speaker 1: Am ruined, for I am a man of unclean lips,
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  Speaker 1: and I live among a people of unclean lips, and
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  Speaker 1: my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty. Then
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  Speaker 1: one of the seraphs flew to me with a live
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  Speaker 1: coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs
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  Speaker 1: from the altar. With it he touched my mouth and said, See?
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  Speaker 1: This has touched your lips. Your guilt is taken away
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  Speaker 1: and your sin atoned for. When I heard the voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and whom
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  Speaker 1: will go for us? And I said, here am I,
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  Speaker 1: send me. And that's Isaiah 6, 1 through 8. Now
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  Speaker 1: that here am I, send me little verse that has
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  Speaker 1: its own powerful meaning. preaching and teaching that I could
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  Speaker 1: land on for a little bit, but I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: move on.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'll put a pin in that and I'll come
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  Speaker 2: back to it. But that's powerful in itself.
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  Speaker 1: But from this passage in Isaiah, you can learn what
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  Speaker 1: happens to people when they enter a true worship experience
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  Speaker 1: with God. It creates a powerful encounter in which you
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  Speaker 1: will grow closer with God or to God each time.
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  Speaker 1: So I got like a step-by-step thing here based on
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah chapter six, verses one through eight. And the number
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  Speaker 1: one thing that worship does is that worship reveals God
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  Speaker 1: to you. The first thing that the prophet says in
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  Speaker 1: the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord
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  Speaker 1: seated on a throne. I saw the Lord seated on
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  Speaker 1: a throne. So, The king's death rightly brought insecurity to
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  Speaker 1: the nation. and to the prophet Isaiah. In your biblical history,
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  Speaker 1: you can read it. But Uzziah was a good king.
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  Speaker 1: But it was difficult to predict the actions and nature
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  Speaker 1: of his successor.
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  Speaker 2: The next king... could have had.
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  Speaker 1: Evil tendencies because a lot of them did. And Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: went before the Lord in worship with these heavy burdens.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he was entering in in the first place, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because the king had died and he was feeling vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: and alone and he was seeking the Lord like, what's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen to us? What should I do? What
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  Speaker 1: should we do as the nation of Israel? And so
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  Speaker 1: he's going to the Lord in prayer and then he
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  Speaker 1: sees this vision in prayer, and he sees the Lord
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  Speaker 1: sitting on a throne. So what this is telling us
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  Speaker 1: is that even with the serious concerns, these burdens on
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah's heart, he was able to focus on God and
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  Speaker 1: have a beautiful encounter with him.
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  Speaker 2: He actually saw the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: In heaven, and this revelation encouraged his spirit and revealed
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  Speaker 1: to him, the one who is actually in control.
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  Speaker 2: In worship, you may not.
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  Speaker 1: Physically see God, right? You probably won't. But you will
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  Speaker 1: experience his presence at times when you rightly respect, revere,
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  Speaker 1: and magnify his name. So what else does worship do?
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  Speaker 1: Worship helps you to realize God's holiness. The angels cried out, holy, holy.
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  Speaker 2: Holy is the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So isn't it interesting that when Isaiah saw God in
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  Speaker 1: this vision, he remembered how holy.
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  Speaker 2: He was in view of the angels. The angels weren't
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  Speaker 2: singing about God's power.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't singing about his strength or his achievements or
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  Speaker 1: anything else.
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  Speaker 2: In his character.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't singing about his wisdom, the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: is unchangeable, you know, none of the other things. The
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  Speaker 1: one attribute that the angels were singing about was his holiness.
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  Speaker 1: His holiness was more dominating than anything else. And so
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  Speaker 1: we must realize that we exist in an unholy world,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what makes God's holiness even more profound. So
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  Speaker 1: no matter what situation you find yourself in, God's holiness,
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  Speaker 1: when rightly established in your life, will move you to
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  Speaker 1: a position of happiness and joy. The third thing that
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  Speaker 1: worship helps us realize is our own sinfulness. Worship reveals
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  Speaker 1: God to us. Worship helps us realize God's holiness. And
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  Speaker 1: then it helps us realize our own sinfulness. What does
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah say? He says, woe to me, I am ruined.
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  Speaker 1: I am a man of unclean lips. Essentially saying, I
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  Speaker 1: am not worthy to be in this presence.
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  Speaker 2: I am unholy. I do not deserve to be here.
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  Speaker 2: All of that, right?
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  Speaker 1: So God's holiness will cause us to realize how unholy
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  Speaker 1: we are as a person. In worship, it may be
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  Speaker 1: humbling for you to realize that you are in the
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  Speaker 1: very presence of the creator of the universe. But it's
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  Speaker 1: comforting to know that your holy God will never leave
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  Speaker 1: you in a condition of despair. Yes, we are sinful.
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  Speaker 2: I can remember.
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  Speaker 1: Times when I've been in worship at church or at
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  Speaker 1: a conference or, you know, even in my own car
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  Speaker 1: sometimes that I'm just worshiping the Lord and I just
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  Speaker 1: start just crying and because I realize that his presence
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  Speaker 1: is near and I am not worthy. And yet he
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  Speaker 1: bends his ear and extends his arm and calls out
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  Speaker 1: for me and says through his son that I am worthy.
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  Speaker 1: And that is a profound revelation. And that itself is
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  Speaker 1: deserving of worship, right? Because once we realize our own sinfulness, again,
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  Speaker 1: woe to me, Isaiah says. That next step there is
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  Speaker 1: that we renew our relationship with God. Worship helps us
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  Speaker 1: do that. He'll never leave us in a condition of despair.
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  Speaker 1: He'll meet us where we are. Because what happened in
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah's vision? It says, then one of the seraphs flew
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  Speaker 1: to me with a live coal in his hand. And
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  Speaker 1: with it, he touched my mouth and said, see, this
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  Speaker 1: has touched your lips. Your guilt is taken away and
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  Speaker 1: your sin atoned for. So in these verses, an angel
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  Speaker 1: touched Isaiah and cleansed him. And this gives him a
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  Speaker 1: fresh perspective on life, especially his relationship with God. So
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  Speaker 1: after a worship experience, you will become aware of your
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  Speaker 1: own sinfulness, which should hasten the renewing of your life
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  Speaker 1: in Christ. The world in which you live constantly degenerates
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  Speaker 1: you as a person. You're getting all sorts of input
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  Speaker 1: from the world that is not good. But be encouraged
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  Speaker 1: to know that God will cleanse you During your worship,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the world thinks of you, right? It
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  Speaker 1: does not matter. God looks at you and he loves
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  Speaker 1: you and he bestows grace upon grace. So worship also
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  Speaker 1: then helps us respond to God's desire for your own life.
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  Speaker 1: And what was chapter or what was verse eight? Isaiah says,
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  Speaker 1: here am I, send me. So what worship does is
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  Speaker 1: it helps us become more committed to God's plan for
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  Speaker 1: in our life, right? Most people live their lives outside
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  Speaker 1: of God's will until they encounter him. And notice that
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah asked God to allow him to follow the plan
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  Speaker 1: that would most benefit the kingdom. When you encounter God,
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  Speaker 1: he transforms your heart. causing you to desire to please him.
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  Speaker 2: What did it, what did it say?
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  Speaker 1: You know, in verse seven and eight, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: seraphs just cleansed Isaiah's lips saying that your guilt is
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  Speaker 1: taken away and your sin atoned for.
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  Speaker 2: And then what?
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall
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  Speaker 1: I send and who will go for us? You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's asking the question. He's wanting to Isaiah aligning, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his will with the Lord's will. And Isaiah rightly responds
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  Speaker 1: in kind and says, yes, Lord, here I am.
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  Speaker 2: Here am I. Send me. Because Isaiah wanted to please him.
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  Speaker 2: after that. Who will go for us?
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  Speaker 1: I will.
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  Speaker 2: So worship is a necessity.
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  Speaker 1: It's important for you to understand that the necessity of worship,
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  Speaker 1: both privately and corporately, as a means of glorifying God.
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  Speaker 1: So throughout the Bible, worship is considered vital, therefore. It
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  Speaker 1: must be highly esteemed in churches and in every life
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  Speaker 1: of the Christian. And so what I'm saying that as
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  Speaker 1: this is a spiritual discipline, you know, a habit and
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  Speaker 1: practice that helps us build our faith, worship is simply
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  Speaker 1: a way of remembering and being thankful for God's saving action. Although,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like everyone else, you maybe did everything possible
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  Speaker 1: to isolate yourself from God and his love. He came
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  Speaker 1: to rescue and free you from the powers that controlled
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  Speaker 1: your life. And worship remembers and responds to God's victory
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  Speaker 1: over those powers of evil.
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  Speaker 2: Through Jesus Christ, you are victorious.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And it is up to us as his children to
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  Speaker 2: steward that victory well.
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  Speaker 1: One of the ways we do that is staying in
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  Speaker 1: worship remembering to put worthiness upon the Lord for who
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  Speaker 1: he is.
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  Speaker 2: Not just what he does.
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  Speaker 1: We are no longer subject to evil because of Jesus's life, death,
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  Speaker 1: and resurrection. We are free. So the truest form of
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  Speaker 1: worship is to live a pure life before him. What
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  Speaker 1: are some of the other things that worship does? Worship
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  Speaker 1: provides the context for God to demonstrate his healing power.
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  Speaker 1: Worship empowers God's people to do the work in building
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom. And worship gives the participants an eternal perspective
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  Speaker 1: on life so that they can better deal with the
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  Speaker 1: common issues that often upset us. Worship brings us into
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  Speaker 1: the holy of holies, into the presence of the living God.
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  Speaker 1: So how do we worship then? If worship does these things,
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  Speaker 1: how do we actually do it? If it's a habit
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  Speaker 1: and practice, and if you recall in the intro to
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  Speaker 1: spiritual disciplines episode, you know, it's a behavior, it's a practice,
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  Speaker 1: it's a habit. Those are all action verbs, right? Action words, right?
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  Speaker 1: What we don't want is to be passive in worship.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way to be passive in worship. So how
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  Speaker 1: do we do it? We need to learn to practice
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God daily. Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 5,
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  Speaker 1: to pray without ceasing. So realize that God is in
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  Speaker 1: every moment of every day. You know, and again, as
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  Speaker 1: I'm recording this, I see two little butterflies flitting around
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  Speaker 1: my backyard. God has animated those butterflies. He created them.
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  Speaker 1: Every moment of every day, he is in. Use different experiences. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you can worship alone in a home group. Offer sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: of praise. These impact and empower the larger Sunday gathering.
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  Speaker 1: If all you do is worship the Lord during the
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  Speaker 1: three or four songs that come first in the order
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  Speaker 1: of service on a Sunday morning, you are missing the mark.
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  Speaker 1: That is not enough. He is worthy of all praise
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  Speaker 1: every day. So find ways to prepare for the gathered
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  Speaker 1: worship experience, right? Prepare the night, the day before, the
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  Speaker 1: night before. Come with expectation.
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  Speaker 2: Come humble. Coming with expectation, I think, is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of it. If we come.
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  Speaker 1: Expecting to have an encounter with the Lord Jesus, then
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  Speaker 1: we can do that. We're going to do that. We
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  Speaker 1: need to be willing to be gathered in the power
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Again, let go of your agenda. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't like the way that song went. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: don't like this song. Oh, Sister Sally looked at me
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  Speaker 1: weird in the foyer. And now... All you're doing is
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  Speaker 1: focusing on Sister Sally, you know, or Brother Billy, and
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  Speaker 1: not focusing on the one that.
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  Speaker 2: Is the Savior of your soul and is the very
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  Speaker 2: air that you breathe.
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  Speaker 1: Right? So let go of your own agenda. Let go
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  Speaker 1: of the language that you come in with. The gathered experience,
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  Speaker 1: when we gather corporately as the body of Christ, it
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  Speaker 1: is we are here, not I am here. I think
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  Speaker 1: we also need to cultivate some holy dependency. Look forward
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  Speaker 1: to God moving and teaching and wooing and winning. The
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  Speaker 1: work is the Holy Spirit's, not ours. Should we partner
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  Speaker 1: with him? Wholeheartedly, yes. He wants us to. But it
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  Speaker 1: is by the power of the Holy Spirit living and
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  Speaker 1: breathing and moving inside of us.
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  Speaker 2: We are wholly dependent on him. And I mean W-H-O-L-L-Y
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  Speaker 2: at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Wholly. If there is distractions, absorb those with gratitude, not bitterness. Like,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Lord, that I am able to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be used in some way. Whatever this situation was, there's distractions.
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  Speaker 2: Abound, right?
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  Speaker 1: But refocus what those distractions mean with gratitude and not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, bitterness. And then learn to offer a sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: of worship. You may not feel like it, but do
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  Speaker 1: it anyway. And tell him, say, Lord, I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: like worshiping, but I desire to give you this time.
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  Speaker 2: It belongs to you. I will spend this time with you.
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  Speaker 2: And don't you.
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  Speaker 1: Know that he knows you don't feel like it anyway?
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  Speaker 1: That's why it's called a sacrifice. You're laying down your flesh,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: your desires in order to put him in his proper
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: place in your life. Worth ship. That's what God deserves.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And that's a spiritual discipline that can help us grow
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: our faith. In the year that King Uzziah died, I
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and the train of his robe filled the temple. Holy, holy,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: holy is the Lord God Almighty. The whole earth is
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: full of his glory.