1. “Come, Let Us Worship And Bow Down” Ps. 95:6
Thoughts To Consider When We Assemble For Worship

2. Focuses on Who is being worshiped
“For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
“You shall not be terrified of them; for the LORD your God, the great and awesome God, is among you"
“You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell"
Proper Attitudes – 1. REVERENCE
Focuses on Who is being worshiped
God portrays Himself as among His people Num 5:3 Deut 7:21
He offers the same privilege today to N.T. Christians Matt 18:20

3. What am I doing during worship? Do I arrive on time?
Proper Attitudes – 1. REVERENCE
What do the following show about my Reverence?
What am I doing during worship?
Do I arrive on time?
Is my mind focused on worship?
Jews started Sabbath Friday night

4. Focuses on who is doing the worshiping
“Then He said, "Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”
Proper Attitudes - 2. REFLECTION
Focuses on who is doing the worshiping
No man has ever earned the right to be in God’s presence Ex 3:5 Isa 6:1-7

5. Proper Attitudes - 2. REFLECTION
“I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet. And one cried to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; The whole earth is full of His glory!“ And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke. So I said: "Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts.”
Isa. 6:1-7

6. Focuses on who is doing the worshiping
Proper Attitudes - 2. REFLECTION
Focuses on who is doing the worshiping
No man has ever earned the right to be in God’s presence Ex 3:5 Isa 6:1-7
Reflect on what a privilege it is to worship God

7. Focuses on what the worshipers offer
Proper Attitudes - 3. REMITTANCE
Focuses on what the worshipers offer
Despite this great separation, man is to offer God what He is due
As best we can, we are to praise, laud, honor and glorify Him

8. Our worship should have a sense of “cost” to us 2 Sam 24:24
"No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God with that which costs me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
“He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us”
Proper Attitudes - 3. REMITTANCE
Our worship should have a sense of “cost” to us 2 Sam 24:24
God seeks such worship Jn 4:23-24
God is not trying to be evasive, hard to find Acts 17:24-27

9. Focuses on what worshipers give other worshipers
“teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs”
“speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord”
Proper Attitudes - 4. RECIPROCITY
Focuses on what worshipers give other worshipers
Others present for the same purpose are to be encouraged, exhorted
Our singing Eph 5:19 Col 3:16

10. Others present for the same purpose are to be encouraged, exhorted
“The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread.”
“Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”
Proper Attitudes - 4. RECIPROCITY
Others present for the same purpose are to be encouraged, exhorted
Our praying Jas 5:16
Our eating of the Supper 1 Cor 10:16-17

11. Not trying to become the “Worship Police” to catch offenders
Applications
Not trying to become the “Worship Police” to catch offenders
Our purpose is to cause all of us to give serious thought about what we do when we come together for worship

12. Do we know why we are here? Do we participate in all the activities?
Applications
Do we know why we are here?
Do we participate in all the activities?
Do we sing all the hymns?
Do we follow along in the study?
Have we even brought a Bible?

13. Do we participate in all the activities?
Applications
Do we participate in all the activities?
Have we turned our minds off?
What about our children?
Are they old enough to participate… even in a limited capacity?

14. Do we participate in all the activities?
Applications
Do we participate in all the activities?
Worship is not the time to do homework, visit, pass notes, nap
We have all come together for one purpose, to worship God

15. Do we participate in all the activities?
Applications
Do we participate in all the activities?
We need to impress upon our children as early as possible the seriousness of the public worship of God

16. Conclusion
All too often, we do not realize the “preciousness” of something until we are forced to do without it
Health, other things taken for granted
Aged Christians know this all too well

17. “Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads. Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for one-fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the LORD their God.”
Conclusion
Perhaps this is the root of a problem… we’ve never been without the ability to worship God
Compare Israel Neh 9:1-3
They had been without
They knew this “preciousness”

19. Many will say, “That won’t happen” Yet, something does occur each week
Conclusion
Many will say, “That won’t happen”
Yet, something does occur each week
We are granted an audience to the throne room of One far greater than the any U.S. President

20. How do we conduct ourselves during worship?” Rev 4:8-11
“And they do not rest day or night, saying: "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!“ Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: "You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
Conclusion
How do we conduct ourselves during worship?”
Rev 4:8-11

21. Hear John 12:48
Believe John 8:24
Repent Luke 13:3
Confess Matt. 10:32-33
Baptized Mark 16:16
Faithful Matt. 24:13