We all worship something!

God doesn't mind other loves.  He minds us loving something more than Him.  

What we worship becomes an obsession.  Whatever I obsessed with is what I become.  

Here is the greatest commandment in the Bible. 

 

Mark 12:28-30

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28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”

29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 

 

God wants us to worship Him with all our affections.  Love is expressed. God expressed His love for us on the cross.  

God has a love language.  We must love Him like we are loved by Him.  

Let us express our love for Him with all that is within us. 

 

Psalm 150

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1 Praise the Lord.[a]

Praise God in his sanctuary;
    praise him in his mighty heavens.
2 Praise him for his acts of power;
    praise him for his surpassing greatness.
3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
    praise him with the harp and lyre,
4 praise him with timbrel and dancing,
    praise him with the strings and pipe,
5 praise him with the clash of cymbals,
    praise him with resounding cymbals.

6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord.

 

Pardon our noise.  It's the sound of freedom.  

God has forgiven us for sin's control over us and paid the penalty for our sin.  

God wants us to worship him with all of our attention.  

God wants to be on our schedule.  Let us have a preplanned time to be with God each day.   

 

Romans 12:2

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2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

 

God wants us to worship Him with all our abilities. Let us show our love for God by loving and doing good to others.  

Mark 12:28-30

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31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’] There is no commandment greater than these.”

 

Hebrews 13:15-16

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15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. 16 And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.