THEME The Test of True Worship: actively appreciating who God is and what He does.

INTRODUCTION True worship is the cure to doing really stupid things!

The Activities of Worship Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; 1a Let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.1b Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and 2a [Let us] extol Him with music & song. 2b

A. His Status For the LORD is the great God, 3a The great King above all gods. 3b

B. His Accomplishments In his hand are…

A. More Activities of Worship

B. More of His Accomplishments

1. His Care For His People For He is our God and… 7a

2. His Counsel To His People a. Listening Prescribed Today, if you hear his voice, b. Stubbornness To Be Resisted do not harden your hearts 8a as you did at Meribah, 8b as you did that day at Massah in the desert, 8c where your fathers tested and tried me, 9a though they had seen what I did. 9b

c. Consequences To Be Avoided For forty years I was angry with that generation; 10a I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and 10b They have not known my ways.” 10c So I declared on oath in my anger, “They shall never enter my rest.” 11

Warning for today, Hebrews 3:7-11… 7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert, 9 where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did. 10 That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ 11 So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”

THEME The Test of True Worship: actively appreciating who God is and what He does.