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4. Worship Contents 1 Worship in Genesis: Two Classes of Worshipers 2 Worship and the Exodus: Understanding Who God Is 3 The Sabbath and Worship 4 Rejoicing Before the Lord: The Sanctuary and Worship 5 Happy Are You, O Israel! 6 Worship and Song and Praise 7 Worship in the Psalms 8 Conformity, Compromise and Crisis in Worship 9 “Trust Not in Deceptive Words”: The Prophets and Worship 10 Worship: From Exile to Restoration 11 In Spirit and in Truth 12 Worship in the Early Church 13 Worship in the Book of Revelation

5. Worship Our Goal {5} WITH worship as such a central component of “present truth,” we would do well to learn what it means to truly worship the only One in all creation who, by virtue of who He is, is worthy of that worship.

6. Worship Lesson 2, July 9 Worship Lesson 2, July 9 Worship and the Exodus: Understanding Who God Is

7. Exodus: Understanding Who God Is Key Text Exodus 20:2, 3 NKJV “ ‘I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.’ ”

8. Exodus: Understanding Who God Is Initial Words {19} IMAGINE, worshiping what you do not know. In a sense, that is what almost all the world has done, or perhaps is doing now. When you see someone bowing down and worshiping a block of stone, thinking it will answer their prayers, you are seeing people worshiping what they do not know.

9. Exodus: Understanding Who God Is Initial Words {19} THAT is, they are worshiping what they think can bring them salvation but cannot. In a more modern context, people who make gods out of power, money, fame, and self are, likewise, worshiping what they do not know. They are worshiping that which cannot save them.

10. Exodus: Understanding Who God Is Quick Look 1. The Deliverer God (Exodus 3:10, 14, 15) 2. The Only God (Exodus 20:1-7) 3. A Gracious God (Exodus 33:19)

11. Exodus: Understanding Who God Is 1. The Deliverer God Exodus 3:10, 14, 15 NKJV “I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people…out of Egypt. And God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM. … The L ORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob….’ ”

12. 1.The Deliverer God Holy Ground {20} RIGHT from the start, we see here something of the holiness of God and the attitude in which we need to approach Him. It was God who told Moses to take off his shoes, for this was holy ground. Reverence, awe, and fear—these are the attitudes that are crucial for us in order to engage in true worship.

13. 1.The Deliverer God Holy Ground {22} Another important point is the God- centeredness of this experience. How crucial that all worship centers on the Lord, not on ourselves. That leads to another crucial element in worship: that of salvation. God was appearing to him in order to let him know of the great work of deliverance that He was going to do for Israel.

14. 1.The Deliverer God Passover and Worship {22} Though the firstborn were spared here, in reality Christ “the firstborn” was to die, a death symbolized by the blood placed over the doors of the houses. This act stands as a powerful representation of the substitutionary death of Jesus. He died so that the “firstborn,” all God’s saved people would be spared the death they deserve. Christ “the firstborn”

15. Exodus: Understanding Who God Is 2. The Only God Exodus 20:2-7 NKJV “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt…. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall make for yourself any graven image…; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them…. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain….”

16. 2. The Only God No Other Gods {24} THE Ten Commandments begin with God’s reminder to the children of Israel of their deliverance. Only the Lord, the true God, the only God, could have done that for them. All other gods, such as the gods of Egypt, were false gods, human creations unable to save or deliver anyone.

17. 2. The Only God No Other Gods {24} Thus, after centuries of being immersed in the crude polytheism of a pagan culture, the children of Israel needed to know their Lord and God as the only God, especially now as they were entering into the covenant relationship with Him.

18. 2. The Only God No Other Gods {24} behaved like animals When they worshiped the true God, they did so in humility and reverence. Now, worshiping before this calf of gold, they behaved like animals. Notice how quickly and easily they compromised truth in their worship. How the local culture came in and turned them away from the true God.

19. “Whatever we cherish that tends to lessen our love for God or to interfere with the service due Him, of that do we make a god.” —Patriarchs and Prophets 305. 2. The Only God No Other Gods {24}

20. Exodus 33:19 NKJV “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the L ORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious….” Exodus: Understanding Who God Is 3. A Gracious God

21. “Show Me Your Glory” {28} MOSES’ desire to see God’s glory was not one of curiosity or presumption but came from a deep heart hunger to sense God’s presence after such blatant apostasy. Though Moses had not partaken of their sin, he was impacted by it. What impacts one impacts others.

22. 3. A Gracious God “Show Me Your Glory” {28} dependence on God He wanted to see the glory of God, something that would make him realize even more his own sinfulness and helplessness and, hence, his utter dependence upon the Lord. After all, look at what Moses had been called to do; look at the challenges he had to face. No wonder he felt this need to know God.

23. Exodus: Understanding Who God Is Final Words {28} HOW well do you know the Lord? More important, what choices can you make that will enable you to know Him better than you do? How can you learn to worship in a way that will give you a better appreciation of God and His glory?