Summary
Pastor Safrit walks through Psalms 100, emphasizing that worship is a joyful response to knowing God and recognizing His goodness. He highlights that worship should be a lifestyle rather than a routine, encouraging believers to actively engage in joyful worship through their actions, voices, and service. The sermon calls for a deeper understanding of God's character and faithfulness, urging the congregation to share their worship and experiences of God's goodness with others.
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If you have your Bibles, if you'll turn to Psalms chapter 100. Psalms 100 is a joyful psalm.
It's a psalm of joy. And I believe we're looking at that a little bit this week as well. So I wanted to do this in helping us understand what worship is and how to have a joyful worship toward the Lord.
I am on my small pulpit this morning, so bear with me if things fall or things don't fit right. We'll make it work.
So if you found your place there or if not, the words will be on the screen. Let's stand as we read God's Word. Just these five verses and then we'll get started this morning in God's Word. It says this.
Let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before Him with joyful song. Acknowledge that the Lord is God. He made us and we are His, His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him and bless His name. For the Lord is good and His faithful love endures forever. For His faithfulness throughout all generations.
Father, we love you. Thank you for the reading of your Word. Thank you for what you've done and who you are this morning. In your name we pray. Amen.
You may be seated. As we go into this thought of worship and this thought of who the Lord is, oftentimes people think that worship is something that you do occasionally.
But worship is not something we do occasionally. Worship is a response, a joyful response to a people who know who God is, remember what He's done, and begin to declare their goodness for who God is.
Oftentimes, and I want you to ask this question as we go throughout this sermon, I see a lot of people fanning the air is on, but with this curtain up, it makes everything just a little bit hotter because the thermostat's behind the curtain.
So just so you know, it is on. But I want you to ask this question, what comes to your mind when you think of worship? When you begin to think of what worship is and what worship is in your life, what is that natural response? And hopefully it's the proper response.
We're going to walk through this today. But for some, worship is this.
I'm in my car, I've got K-Love, or I've got Joy FM, or I've got some song that I like, and I've got music, and so therefore I'm worshiping. Some it is this. My Sunday morning routine is worship.
Challenges of Worshiping with Kids
Some have kids in the home and they're like, that is not worship at all. Pastor James, the struggle of a 12-year-old, a 10-year-old, a 5-year-old getting ready in the morning, there's nothing worship about that.
Some are like, yeah, you know, I'm an empty nester. I've just got me and my wife, and we're just singing, and we're dancing every morning. On Sunday morning, we're getting ready. Like, that's my worship routine. Some, as we look at this Psalm 100,
paints a bigger picture, more than just service or music, but it's a lifestyle of joyful surrender.
It's an attitude of saying, I'm surrendering my life to worship the Lord because of what He's done for me. In 1945, there was this massive war that had just come to an end.
World War II was coming to an end, and if you look up pictures and videos, this is one of the scenes that you'll see in New York and California and in the streets and the towns all throughout America.
There were people that were rushing into the streets, not because they were told or the president got up and said, today is going to be a day of celebration. I want everybody to go into the streets. I want everybody to go and do great things. But everyone went into the streets.
They were hugging people they didn't even know. They were jumping around.
They were dancing out of celebration for the war of wars to come to an end. And you can see these pictures as you look through that. People were shouting. People were singing.
The red, white, and blue American flag was being waved in the streets. And no one got up and said, okay, at 12 o'clock today, let's all go out and let's celebrate what just happened. Everyone just naturally went out and did it.
Everyone wanted to get out, and they wanted to show the world, we have overcome this war, the war is over, and we are rejoicing because a great victory has been made.
It overflowed from them because what they knew had happened.
They knew that the Holocaust was coming to an end. And they knew that Russia and Germany and the Axis powers were defeated and that the world was on a no way of peace.
And all of a sudden, we begin to have this same idea that comes to us in Psalms 100. Psalms 100 is a victory song.
God's people are rejoicing because what God has done and who God is in their life.
The question we have to ask ourselves this morning is, has worship become a routine in our lives?
Or is it an overflow of what God has done in our lives, through our life throughout the week, and we get to stand up here on Sunday and praise the Lord for what he's done and what he's doing in our life? Or is it, you know, it's that Sunday again.
Anticipation for Worship
I got to go to church. Let's see what Pastor James has for me today. Let's see what my Sunday school teacher has for me today. Or is it,
oh my goodness, I can't wait to get to church. I can't wait to rejoice in what God has done.
I can't wait to share with my Sunday school class what God has done in my life this week. And this is what happens in Psalms 100 as we begin to look at Israel as they go through this psalm. The first is this, they rejoice in the Lord.
Verses 1 and 2 says, Let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord. Serve the Lord's gladness. Come before him with joyful song. The Psalms 100 here begins with a command.
It does not begin with a suggestion. It doesn't say, if you are feeling good, go and rejoice in the Lord.
If all of your bills are paid, go and rejoice in the Lord. If your kids are doing well and they're serving the Lord. If your marriage is put together right.
If all these things are the way they're supposed to be in your mind. Go ahead and go out and rejoice in the Lord. No, he commands us to go out and actively. There is this verb form of actively shouting for the Lord. Actively serving the Lord. Actively coming into his presence.
Actively serving the Lord. And a movement from where we're at to where God is at.
And as we begin to think through our life of worship. There are some things that we must attribute as we go through this passage. The first two verses give us five things that we're going to quickly look at. The first is this, our location.
Many people believe that the only way I can worship the Lord is by coming into a building.
And where I'm at in this location. And this is where I worship God. But look at the verbiage that it says here. Let the whole earth, the entire earth, shout for joy. Let the entire earth shout triumphantly.
Now the entire earth cannot fit in this building. I hope they would. I want the entire room of Clingman, the entire town of Clingman to come into this room. That would be wonderful if that happened. But that's feasibly not possible. So he says, listen, where you're at. And in that moment,
the location that you're at. Whether it be at work. Whether it be driving on the road.
Whatever the location may be for you. The entire earth is to worship the Lord universally. This extends beyond just Israel. David is not just writing this for Israel. He's writing this for us. And I love how one verse in Revelation says it like this.
Every tribe, every tongue, every nation, every generation to praise the Lord one day. When we praise the Lord in our location everywhere around everyone, we get a small picture of what heaven's going to look like one day. True worship destroys selfish Christianity. Selfish Christianity says I want to worship God my way on my terms.
And when we begin to truly worship the Lord, we get to strip back the things that we want. Because I want things a certain way.
I want things to be done a certain way. If you ask my wife, the other day we got home. And it was the end of school.
And she had this hair crazy brained idea to clean our room up. And she thought that she needed to go on my side of the room and clean all of my stuff up. And I got home and all of my things were not in the right proper place.
Me and Roy were talking about this morning. Pat will come in and move things. And all of a sudden he can't find them for years and years and years. And so I came home and all of a sudden she'll tell you, I got a little upset. Where's my stuff?
It was supposed to be right here. She's like, you haven't touched that in three years. Yeah, but that's where it's supposed to be.
And all of a sudden all of my stuff is moved and it's on the table and it's on the bed and it's everywhere.
And all of a sudden we can take this same idea and we can roll it over in our worship. God, I'm coming to your house and I'm going to worship the way I think it needs to be done. And if it's not done my way, God, I'm mad at you.
Active Participation in Worship
And God looks down from heaven and he says, when you begin to truly worship me, you'll strip away all of your selfishness and you'll begin to approach worship not as a spectator, but as a participant.
You'll begin to say, God, I don't want to just look on and be a part of worship. I want to be actively involved in worship and what that looks like. Think of a stadium. Think of a game.
Think of me and my sons. We like to go to different football games and I've never once been in the car with my kids as we're going to a Dolphins game or whatever it may be and say, you know, Brody, I really hope people don't get overly excited today.
I really hope that there's no fanatics that come in and no one gets too emotional. I really hope people are just really calm and quiet this whole time.
No, we're the ones that are being crazy. We're walking down the tunnel with all of our Dolphin gear on and we're walking through Pittsburgh at the last game and we're heckling the Pittsburgh people and they're heckling back at us. And it's exciting.
It's just what we're going to this game. And all of a sudden we get to the next point. We're like, yeah, but I'm coming into church. I shouldn't be like that.
But where's our passion at? Where's our passion for the Lord and how God has worked in our life? And all of a sudden one commentator said it like this, our enthusiasm in worship often reveals our estimation of who God is.
When we are less enthusiastic about what God has done for us on Monday through Saturday and we come into the house of the Lord and we just sit here, we're saying, God, I'm really not that entertained or I'm
really not that estimated of who you really are. You're not a huge God.
You're just a small God because you're not doing great things in my life. This is the idea that we are going to come together no matter where we're at and we're going to worship the Lord. I spent way too much time on that. But number two, our volume. Our volume. Worship is vocal.
You cannot worship the Lord without using your voice. You cannot worship the Lord without, the Bible says here, shout triumphantly. It doesn't say whisper triumphantly. It doesn't say write a note to your neighbor triumphantly. It says to shout triumphantly to the Lord.
Now, I am not up here saying that we need to make noise for the sake of making noise.
I grew up in a church, in an independent fundamental Baptist church where if I were to say some of the things I said here, there would be multiple people that would be get up running laps and shouting and
screaming and hollering. And they'd be waving their Bible and they'd be screaming. It would be obnoxious in my point of view. I'm not saying we make noise for the sake of making noise, but the Hebrew word here for this shout is simply this, a celebration, a triumph, or a jubilant acclaim for what God has done.
It is okay for us to raise our hand and to have a tear every once in a while and to say amen because God is working in and through our lives.
It is okay for us to say things and use volume of our voices to glorify the Lord and it should be an overflowing of what God has done in our life.
When was the last time that your gratitude turned into an overflowing of your voice saying, God, you are too good for me. God, you have done so much for me.
I don't deserve it. God, you are too good for me.
And we were worshiping the Lord and we were vocal. And if I was just whispering, I felt like God can't hear me over these people. I've got to be louder.
And so that may have been the reason I lost my voice. I don't know because I was just overwhelmed in the worship of what was going on. And we must have this excitement.
I'm not saying you come in with a Jesus flag on and you run laps and you scream. But I'm saying there must be a time where the Bible says, let the whole earth shout triumphantly to the Lord. And this is a vocal response to what God has done for us.
Our temporary victory should stir in us more about who God is than about our eternal salvation that God has purchased for us.
Service as Worship
So we look at our location, our volume, but also our service. Look at what it says, serve the Lord with gladness. Service is this worship of totality of who we are. Service and worship are connected.
That's why when we go through our core values where I say go and serve, that is part of worship. That is our core values of we must go and must serve other people.
Because the same God that we sing to on Sunday is the same God on Monday morning who helps us and helps our coworkers and helps the difficult things that we have going on in our life. Worship without obedience is just simply performance. This morning we looked at Elijah and Elijah coming to Elisha.
And Elisha, as he was called to come follow Elijah, this is what he did. He burned all 12 of his ox. He took the yoke and the steer, whatever it's called, the plow, and he broke them in half.
And it says that he boiled the ox, he cooked the meat, he used the plow and the ox and the yoke.
He used all of that to cook the meat. And then he served it to his brothers and sisters and he took a portion to Elijah. And he gave up everything that he had in order to follow Jesus, in order to follow Elijah.
And this is the same way for us. If we are going to follow the Lord, there must be obedience.
There must be a sense of sacrifice as we come to the Lord and say, God, I'm going to serve you on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday. I'm going to serve you in who you are and what you've done. Number four, our spirit. Look at what it says here. Serve the Lord with gladness.
Worship is glad. Worship is not just duty. Oftentimes we come in on a Sunday morning and routine happens.
I know routine. I'm all about routine. I love routine. If you throw my routine off, I do get upset. When we were at the, this past week, we were, the house we rented.
I've got two pastor friends that helped split the cost of that house that we rent while we go down there. And I made my coffee in the morning and I walked in and I love my son.
He's back in the back door in the sound booth. And one of the ladies that was with us, they wanted to be a blessing to me. They want to help me by making my coffee for me.
Well, when you don't make it the way I want it, I do get a little upset. I want things done my way.
And all of a sudden I come in and my coffee's not the right, not the right amount in it.
The creamer's not the right amount in it. I'm just like, oh, thank you. But I'm not really thankful for what you're doing right now.
And as that happened, this is what I thought. We come into the church house. We say, thank you, Lord, for what you're doing. But I'm not really thankful for what you're doing right now. And this is what happens when our spirit is not glad. We are coming to the Lord with obligation of,
yeah, I've got to get up and go to church on Sunday. I've got to be here on a Wednesday night or I've got to do these things. But where is the delight of coming to the Lord and worshiping the Lord for who he is?
One commentator said like this, joy is not produced by circumstances, but joy is produced by relationships.
You see, me and my wife, we've been married 15 years and I'm grateful for that.
But we've been through ups and downs and highs and lows.
And the joy that we had in our marriage was not because we were on a mountaintop experience, but it was because of our relationship together. It was because we love each other and we care about each other.
And because we were around each other and because we had each other, that produced the joy in our marriage. Not because we were going through a difficult trial.
Not because we were going through an exciting time in life. But because we had this one another that the Bible tells us to be a part of, that we get to love each other in through worship. And God is saying the same way, our spirit must be glad.
David repeatedly links worship with gladness because God himself is the source of joy in our life. And when we begin to have this joy in the Lord,
this gladness is a byproduct of it. And we get to see our spirit in gladness. Number five of this, our song. I'll be really quick on this one. Worship is personable. It says, come before him with a joyful song. Worship requires you to approach the Lord with your song that you have.
The beautiful thing about this is he doesn't say this specific song.
He doesn't say if you're only using I'll Fly Away, that's how you're going to get closer to Jesus. If you're only using Peace Be Still by the adage of saying that's the song that's going to get you closer to Jesus. This is what he says. Come before him with a joyful song.
A song in your heart. A song that's going to glorify you. And this is the idea. It says here, come before the Lord. You cannot come before the Lord if you're not close to the Lord.
If you come at a distance, you're not coming before the Lord.
If you say, God, I'm going to be as far away from you as I can spiritually and emotionally and physically that I can. The Lord says, come before me.
Come before me in this prayer, in this idea of worship and get close to me. Because nearness to God is nearness to that joy and gladness that we all want. He doesn't say come merely near a church.
He doesn't say come nearly before your pastor. He says, come near before the Lord and bring your song before him. This could be a song of lament.
God, I'm struggling right now. God, I don't know how I'm going to take the next breath. I don't know how I'm going to go forward tomorrow. But I'm bringing my song before you now. A song of rejoicing, a song of praise, whatever it may be.
Knowing the Lord
Your song before the Lord. Number two, not only do we rejoice in the Lord, but verses three and four, we should know the Lord. We should know who the Lord is. Acknowledge the Lord is God. He made us and we are his, his people, his sheep of his pasture.
Joyful worship flows from having the right knowledge of who God is. And when we understand who God is, we begin to deepen our relationship with who he is and what he has done for us. You cannot deepen your worship by barely knowing God.
This is a good example, right? When you begin to get married,
you, you, when you, not begin to get married, when you get married and you're beginning that relationship, you begin to know your spouse. And the more you know that person, the more you know what their likes and dislikes are, the more that, that relationship grows deeper and deeper and deeper.
And God is telling us, if we want to be close to him, we must know who he is. We cannot have this surface level of just barely knowing God and saying, God, you love me. That's true.
But God, who are you? What have you done in my life? How are you working in my life? And it begins to lay out there four things here, five things here of knowing who God is, knowing his position. Very quickly, he is God. The Lord is God.
Now, trust me, this sounds like super basic, like kindergarten, Hudson level. Who is God? He is God. This is basic. This is simple stuff. If God is God, this is what he is. He rules and I have to submit to him.
God is the ruler of my life. And if God says, James, I want you to go and do this and I'm going to follow God because he's God, I've got to step back and say, yes, God.
I'm not going to go against you because you're God. I have to submit. As God directs, I follow.
The question I want you to ask of this specific point is this. Who is on the throne of your life that's directing your intentions? God is telling us to do one thing.
God is directing us through his scripture to follow him a certain way. And yet when we don't submit, we are saying there is someone else that is sitting on the throne of my life. Because God, I don't really like what you're having me to do right now. And so therefore,
his position is not where it needs to be in our life. We must practically and functionally say, God, you are the God of my life. You're going to sit on the throne of my life. And whatever you say, I am going to do. Number two, we must know his power.
Look at what it says here. He made us. We belong to something greater. We belong to a creator. This is what culture today says. Create yourself.
Do whatever makes you happy. Go and live life to the fullest. And when you do that, you're going to understand the fullness of life. God created us.
And God's scripture says that he created us. And we are the ones that follow what he has done. Because he is the maker and the creator of us. And so we must know his power.
We must know that he is the one that determines what happens to that product that he has made. We must put ourselves in subjection to him and say, God, whatever you desire for me to do, by your power, I'm going to do it. Number three, know his possession.
Know his possession. Look at what it says here.
Belonging to God
We are his. We are his. We are his. If this is not one of the most comforting verses in all of scripture, I don't know what is. You belong to someone greater. When life isn't going the way you think it should be, you're his.
When David, I'm sure as he's writing this psalm, as he's running from Saul, as Saul is trying to kill him, as he has been anointed king, as he's done everything that God wants him to do. And now all of a sudden, he's writing this and he says, God, I'm yours.
You're in control of my life. You are someone and you are something greater. And so I'm going to submit to who I am to you. In the suffering that I'm going through, Lord, I'm yours. In the uncertainty of life, you get to look at God and say, God, I'm yours.
I don't know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow. And in the failures of what you've made, you get to look at God and you get to say, God, I am yours and you created me. Make me to know you better and to know you more.
So know that we are his possession. But also, number four, know that he has this protection on us. He uses this beautiful phrase.
And me and Stephen have had many, many conversations about this. He says that we are the sheep of his pasture.
Now, if you know anything about sheep, if you know anything about the animal of the sheep, they are very dumb creatures. Okay? I'm a very dumb creature. I can relate to sheep often. Okay?
I make mistakes over and over and again. And my wife's like, why did you make that mistake again? I don't know.
I just did. Right? We're dumb creatures. If you take a sheep and you put it into a beautiful field of grass that he can eat on for the rest of his life, he's going to find the one ditch that he can fall in and break
his leg to try to get to the piece of dirt on the other side of the field. Because that dirt looks really good to him.
And so this is the idea of a sheep. We are his sheep of his pasture.
Sheep survive because they have a good shepherd. Sheep do not survive because they are smart creatures. Jesus is saying here through the words of David, through Psalms 100, we are the sheep of his pasture.
And he is the good shepherd. And he leads and he guides us and he takes us through all of these areas of life because he is the one that is guiding us into what he knows is best.
Not what we want to be best for our life. One comment here said it like this, the image of a sheep emphasizes provision, guidance, and covenantial care over the sheep. Do you trust the shepherd this morning? Or are you trying to be the shepherd in your life?
As the pastor of this church, I understand and I know I am the under shepherd of this church. God, what do you want me to do?
How do you want me to do this? How do you want me to preach the word? How do you want me to lead? And I understand that I am subject to Christ and Christ alone.
And I must come before him and say, God, how do you want me to shepherd your people? Are we in return saying the same thing? God, you are my shepherd. How do you want me to live my life?
What is the actions that you want me to take? Last thing it says here in verse four is know his pathway. Enter with thanksgiving. Notice the progression here. Enter, thanksgiving, praise and bless.
As thanksgiving begins to open the door for us to worship who God is and what he's done for us. Complaining and worship rarely occupy the same heart.
You're either going to complain about what God's doing and you're not going to worship him. Or you're going to come to him with thanksgiving and joyfulness and worship.
And all of a sudden you're going to be close to the Lord because prayer for us is to go closer to him and to love him more than we ever have. We must know his pathway through thanksgiving and through understanding who he is.
One challenge that I would challenge you with is do this. Before the weekends, maybe you write on the backside of this paper,
write down five undeserved blessings that you have. Five things that the Lord has given you that you didn't deserve. It could be your family, your house, the provision God has given you.
And begin to, I like to use the word ruminate or meditate on what God has done. Because you didn't deserve them and yet God gave it to you.
And all of a sudden this can produce a way of thanksgiving to the Lord that's a mighty way. Let's look at the last thing here. Number verse five is share the Lord with others. For the Lord is good and his faithfulness endures forever, his faithfulness through all generations.
The psalm ends with a response. And I believe all of us as we begin to go through worship, we should walk away from worship with the response to do something. To worship God more, to share with others.
And what he is telling us here is to share or declare God's character with other people.
And begin to go out and say, I want to share with you what God has done for me. What are some things that he has wanted us to share? The first is this, share the goodness of the Lord. The Lord is good. God is not merely, not merely that God is good.
God, I'm sorry, not merely that God does good, but that God is good.
And share with others that if you want these good things, if you desire to have this good life that God has granted for us, we must share the goodness of what he has done. If someone were to look at your life, look at your attitude,
and look at the way you live your life, would they determine from that that you believe a good God?
Would all they hear from us is all the negative that goes on in life, and there's a time to share negative.
I'm not saying you always have to be positive, but there are times where we must be showing others by our attitude that God is a good God, and he has goodness in our life. Second thing we should share is his grace. Look at what it says here. His faithful love endures forever.
This word's faithful. The Hebrew word is chesed. And this simply means a covenantial love. A love that is steady. A love that is unfailing. A love that is persistent. And we translate this word over to faithfulness. Or a faithful love.
A love that is never ending. A love that goes on forever. As I explain this in a wedding, a wedding ring is a ring that goes on forever. There's no beginning, and there's no end.
And the same idea is with Jesus in our life.
It is a love that never ends, that never fails, that continually loves us even when we do wrong. Remember who wrote this psalm?
As Joe preached last week, Psalms 51, as David had sinned before God and got alone, he came before God and he says, create in me a clean heart. And we must be in the same way where we are saying, God, your love never fails. The world fails.
The systems that I'm in fail. But God, your covenantal love never expires.
And help me to know that faithful love that I need in my life. Share his generational faithfulness. Number three here. Says here, through all generations,
we must be sharing his love. God was faithful to Abraham. God was faithful to David. God was faithful to your grandparents. God was faithful to your parents.
Generational Faithfulness
God has been faithful to you sitting in this room today. And I'm here to say that God's faithfulness will be to the ones that will come after us. The question we have to ask ourself is seasons change,
cultures begin to shift. We've got words today that kids are saying that I don't even think are words, that I think they just put letters together and they're like, I'm gonna say this word and it's gonna mean this. And I am so confused when I talk to today's generation. Cultures change.
Change, but through all of that, God remains faithful. Will our generation, the one that's sitting in this room today, be the last to inherit the goodness and the grace of God? Or will we intentionally say, I don't want it to end with me. I don't want this faith, this goodness that God has given us, the worship that I have.
I don't want it to end with me. And so I've got to be intentional by sharing it with the next generation, by making sure that they're around me, that they know the Lord, that they see the goodness of God through my life and how I'm living.
Or are we gonna hold it to ourselves and be quiet about it and not come before the Lord shouting triumphantly so the next generation is like, you know what? That's not really exciting.
I don't really know what they're doing when they go to church. It's not exciting at all. Everybody just sort of sits there and hangs out and I just, I'm gonna go find something else.
Or are we gonna be so excited for the Lord is doing in our lives that they say, you know what? I can't wait for Sunday.
I can't wait for to go into, to hear what my Sunday school teacher is gonna tell me or to see what worship song the worship team is gonna play or whatever it may be.
I can't wait for that to happen. So sharing his generational faithfulness and the last thing here is share his glory. Every nation, every time, every generation. Psalms 100 starts with this, the whole earth and it ends with this, all generation.
The mission of worship stretches across all geography bounds and it stretches throughout all of eternity.
We must be a people who are glorifying the Lord and sharing in his glory with others, not just on Sunday morning when we come in here, but as we go throughout our week, as we go throughout our community events, that we are sharing what the Lord is doing in our life.
As Terry comes and we close the service today, I want to ask you three questions. The first is this, is your worship joyful?
It's a very simple question. It's not a difficult question at all. As you examine your life and your worship, are you joyful in your worship?
Number two, is your worship informed? Do you know God?
Are you so in tune with who God is that you're saying, God, I wanna know you more. I can't wait to wake up and read your scripture.
I can't wait to wake up and share something that's been in my word, that's coming to my heart now. And are you informed with who God is? Is your worship shared with others?
Are you intentional of saying, God, I want to know who you are. I want to share this same worship that I have with those that are around me. When you know who God is and you remember whose that you are,
worship stops being something that you just attend and it becomes an overflow of your life to where now you begin to wake up and it's not like I can't wait for Sunday to get here.
I can't wait for Tuesday to get here because I know on Tuesday I'm gonna worship the Lord then and I've got that person in my mind and my work that I'm gonna go and share the gospel with, that I'm gonna go and share the goodness of the Lord with. They may reject me.
They may say that I'm a fanatic. They may say that I'm crazy.
Trust me, as a Dolphins fan, people think that I'm crazy and think that I'm a fanatic and how can I continue to serve them and how can I continue to worship them and how can I continue to be a fan of them?
But the same attitude should be when we go before them with the Lord and we say, do you know just a man named Jesus who changed my life? They say, you're just one of those crazy religious fanatics, one of those crazy religious nuts.
Returning to Joyful Worship
Would worship stop just being something that we attend but be an overflow of our life?
Some this morning just need to return to joyful worship. You've lost your joy. You've lost your zeal that the Lord gave you. Some here need to know the shepherd more. You need to say, God, I need to know you more intimately today.
Some need to stop being spectators and begin to start surrendering your life to the Lord through worship. Joyful worship begins
when we have a right perspective of who God is. Lord, we love you. We thank you for what you've done for us. Help us this morning. Thank you again for taking your time to listen to the sermon audio of Pleasant Grove. Please subscribe to get our latest sermons each week. www.
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