Praise and Worship

A study of the Lost Art of

Communication with God
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• Joh 4:21-24 KJVR Jesus saith unto her, Woman,
believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in
this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
(22) Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we
worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (23) But the hour
cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father
seeketh such to worship him. (24) God is a Spirit: and
they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth.
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• True worship bears fruit and is pleasing to
God.

• Before we can really study worship, we

have to take a careful look at our lives, the
lives we intend to put into Gods presence.

• It also requires an understanding of how

God looks at us
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• Isa 29:13 AMP And the Lord said,
Forasmuch as this people draw near
Me with their mouth and honor Me with
their lips but remove their hearts and
minds far from Me, and their fear and
reverence for Me are a commandment
of men that is learned by repetition
[without any thought as to the
meaning],
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• Worship is an incredibly awesome thing
that God looks on very diligently, it is
something extremely dear to him and he
does not mince words about people who
worship without understanding.

• We often make the mistake of trying to fit

things into a specific mold or pattern.
Worship is not that way.
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• 1 Sa 16:7 MSG But GOD told Samuel,
"Looks aren't everything. Don't be
impressed with his looks and stature.
I've already eliminated him. GOD
judges persons differently than
humans do. Men and women look at
the face; GOD looks into the heart."
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• Truth is based on Gods view point, not
ours.

• In order to be in truth, we have to take a

more careful look at ourselves.

• In order to look at ourselves, we need

help.
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• Joh 16:12-14 MSG "I still have many things to tell
you, but you can't handle them now. (13) But when
the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take
you by the hand and guide you into all the truth
there is. He won't draw attention to himself, but will
make sense out of what is about to happen and,
indeed, out of all that I have done and said.
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• In order for us to worship, it will require the
Holy Spirit. We have to rely on the Holy
Spirit to
– Take us by the hand
– Guide us into truth
– Make sense out of everything that is
happening
– Make sense out of the word
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• In order to worship in truth, it will require
the Holy Spirit to
– Help us understand all associated with the
scripture and
– Everything associated with the changes that
must occur in us
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• Psa 51:1-2 KJVR Have mercy upon me,
O God, according to thy
lovingkindness: according unto the
multitude of thy tender mercies blot out
my transgressions. (2) Wash me
throughly from mine iniquity, and
cleanse me from my sin.
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• Two important words – iniquity and sin

What do they mean?

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• Sin (Strong’s)

khat-taw-aw', khat-tawth'
• From H2398; an offence (sometimes habitual
sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or
expiation; also (concretely) an offender: - punishment (of
sin), purifying (-fication for sin), sin (-ner, offering).

• Notice that SIN is both the event and the purifying from –
the same word means both,
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• Iniquity

• Strong’s
‛avon
̂ ̂ ‛avon
̂ ̂
• aw-vone', aw-vone'
• From H5753; perversity, that is, (moral) evil: - fault,
iniquity, mischief, punishment (of iniquity),

• It is a completely different word. Notice

the lack of purification
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• Iniquity from Vine’s

– In Arabic this verb appears with the meaning "

to bend" or "to deviate from the way.“

– "Iniquity" as an offense to God's holiness is punishable. The

individual is warned that the Lord punishes man's transgression:

– Serious as "iniquity" is in the covenantal relationship between

the Lord and His people, the people are reminded that He is a
living God who willingly forgives "iniquity…but that will by no
means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to
the fourth generation" (Exo_34:7)
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• Are you seeing that iniquity is something
quite different from sin?

• Continuing in Vine’s
Isaiah 53 teaches that God put upon Jesus Christ our
"iniquities" (Isa_53:6), that He having been bruised for
our "iniquities"
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• 'Awen [iniquity] in a deeper sense characterizes
the way of life of those who are without God:
"For the vile person will speak villany, and his
heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and
to utter error against the Lord, to make empty
the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the
drink of the thirsty to fail" (Isa_32:6).
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• In short – iniquity is a hidden sin, a
believed lie

• How is it possible for anyone to be

forgiven of a sin they don’t know about?
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• 2Co 11:1-4 MSG Will you put up with a little foolish
aside from me? Please, just for a moment. (2) The
thing that has me so upset is that I care about you
so much--this is the passion of God burning inside
me! I promised your hand in marriage to Christ,
presented you as a pure virgin to her husband. (3)
And now I'm afraid that exactly as the Snake
seduced Eve with his smooth patter, you are being
lured away from the simple purity of your love for
Christ. (4) It seems that if someone shows up
preaching quite another Jesus than we preached--
different spirit, different message [a lie] -- you put up
with him quite nicely.
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• There are consequences according to the
word for believing a lie.

• 2Th 2:11-12 AMP Therefore God sends upon

them a misleading influence, a working of error
and a strong delusion to make them believe
what is false, (12) In order that all may be
judged and condemned who did not believe in
[who refused to adhere to, trust in, and rely on]
the Truth, but [instead] took pleasure in
unrighteousness
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• It is important that we sift out the lies from
the truth under the guidance of the holy
spirit!
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• Heb 2:1-3 MSG It's crucial that we keep a
firm grip on what we've heard so that we
don't drift off. (2) If the old message
delivered by the angels was valid and
nobody got away with anything, (3) do you
think we can risk neglecting this latest
message, this magnificent salvation? First of
all, it was delivered in person by the Master,
then accurately passed on to us by those
who heard it from him.
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• What does all of this have to do with
worship?
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• Mal 1:1-4 GNB This is the message that the
LORD gave Malachi to tell the people of Israel.
(2) The LORD says to his people, "I have
always loved you." But they reply, "How have
you shown your love for us?" The LORD
answers, "Esau and Jacob were brothers, but I
have loved Jacob and his descendants, (3) and
have hated Esau and his descendants. I have
devastated Esau's hill country and abandoned
the land to jackals."
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• You cannot show a disdain for the things
of God by believing a lie and then hope
that God will bless what you do.

• If you do, you have made yourself a

follower of Esau – more interested in what
makes you happy and not what makes
God happy.
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• Rev 3:14-19 KJVR And unto the angel of
the church of the Laodiceans write; These
things saith the Amen, the faithful and true
witness, the beginning of the creation of
God; (15) I know thy works, that thou art
neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold
or hot. (16) So then because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will
spue thee out of my mouth.
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• (17) Because thou sayest {BELIEVE A LIE}, I
am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art
wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind,
and naked: (18) I counsel thee to buy of me
gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich;
and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed,
and that the shame of thy nakedness do not
appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve,
that thou mayest see.
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• (19) As many as I love, I rebuke and
chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent
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• The first example of worship
•
Gen 4:4-7 GNB Then Abel brought the
first lamb born to one of his sheep, killed
it, and gave the best parts of it as an
offering. The LORD was pleased with Abel
and his offering, (5) but he rejected Cain
and his offering. Cain became furious, and
he scowled in anger.
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• (6) Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why
are you angry? Why that scowl on your
face? (7) If you had done the right thing,
you would be smiling; but because you
have done evil, sin is crouching at your
door. It wants to rule you, but you must
overcome it."
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• Do you believe that every offering you
bring is acceptable?

• If you do, then you will be angered when

what you bring is rejected,

• Why is it rejected? Because you believed

the wrong thing. Remember Is 29.13
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• Isa 29:13 AMP And the Lord said,
Forasmuch as this people draw near Me
with their mouth and honor Me with their
lips but remove their hearts and minds far
from Me, and their fear and reverence for
Me are a commandment of men that is
learned by repetition [without any thought
as to the meaning],
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• Jesus never attacked the Pharisees for
their lack of observances, but because
they taught what they believed to be true
even though it was a lie.

• Sin never bothered Jesus, lies did.

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• Joh 8:42-44 AMP Jesus said to them, If God were your
Father, you would love Me and respect Me and welcome
Me gladly, for I proceeded (came forth) from God [out of
His very presence]. I did not even come on My own
authority or of My own accord (as self-appointed); but He
sent Me. (43) Why do you misunderstand what I say? It
is because you are unable to hear what I am saying.
[You cannot bear to listen to My message; your ears are
shut to My teaching.]

• BELIEVING A LIE WILL CLOSE YOUR EARS

TO THE TRUTH!
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• Only the Holy Spirit is capable of revealing
the lies and taking you to Jesus

• Worship requires you to communicate with

God and unless you open yourself up to
the Holy Spirit you will forever be closed to
hear what he has to say.

• If you cannot hear, how will you worship?

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• If you choose to ignore what the Holy
Spirit is teaching then how will you ever
know Truth?

• If you hear the Holy Spirit calling to you

and you ignore the call, then you are in
rebellion – in the word, known as
transgression.
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• Psa 51:3-6 KJVR For I acknowledge my
transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
(4) Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and
done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be
justified when thou speakest, and be clear when
thou judgest. (5) Behold, I was shapen in
iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
(6) Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward
parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me
to know wisdom.
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• If you desire worship in truth, then you will
desire to be clean. To be clean is to be
pure before Him.
•
Mat 5:8 MSG "You're blessed when you
get your inside world--your mind and
heart--put right. Then you can see God in
the outside world.
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• Joh 3:20-21 MKJV For everyone who
does evil hates the Light, and does not
come to the Light, lest his deeds should
be exposed. (21) But he who practices
truth comes to the Light so that his works
may be revealed, that they exist, having
been worked in God.
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• Do you desire to know God in worship?
The you must desire a clean heart, a heart
purged from iniquity.

• Without this, there is no hope of knowing

Christ. Christ will chasten, he will hurt, he
will cause us to see our own painful
selves, but what is the reward.
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• Heb 12:11-12 KJVR Now no chastening
for the present seemeth to be joyous, but
grievous: nevertheless afterward it
yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby. (12) Wherefore lift up
the hands which hang down, and the
feeble knees