1. Isaiah 29:13 lips The Lord says: "These people come near to Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, hearts rules taught by men but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is made up only of rules taught by men.”

2. Amos 5:21-24 "I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies. Even though you bring Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. noise of your songs justicerighteousness Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them. Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!”

3. Worship is not a slow song; True worship is a life of unconditional obedience unconditional obedience to God

4. Worship: It’s more than a slow song, More than goose bumps…

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6. Genesis 22:5 (page 14) worship “We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

7. Proverbs 17:4 tests The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the heart.

8. Deut. 8:2 test in order to know what was in your heart keep his commands. Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

9. Deut. 8:16 test it might go well with you He gave you manna to eat in the desert, something your fathers had never known, to humble and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you.

10. Hebrews 11:17-19 tested By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death.

11. 1 Samuel 15:22 obeying To obey is better than sacrifice Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the LORD? To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.

12. Psalm 51:16-17 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. broken spirit contrite heart The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

13. Hebrews 5:8 Although He [Jesus] was a son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.

14. Proverbs 3:7-8, 11-12 shun evilhealth Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones. discipline rebuke disciplinesthose He loves 11 My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline and do not resent His rebuke, because the LORD disciplines those He loves, as a father the son He delights in.

15. Hebrews 10:26 fearful expectation of judgment If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

16. John 14:21 obeys loves love showMyself to him “Whoever has My commands and obeys them, He is the one who loves Me. Whoever loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him.”