Sunday Evening

Psalms 92:1-15 The Psalmist notes that worship involves adoration of who God is, and expectant hope.

Psalms 92:1-15 Psalm 92’s primary theme is worship and is an appropriate to glean perspective about worship. One important statement that it makes is that worship involves celebration.

When it comes to the intentional private and corporate times of worship, we find various components to worship as we examine various instances of worship. We see definite activities that make up intentional times of worship.

In the book of Romans, Paul shows how it is now possible for all to engage with God in a new way, on the basis of Christ’s sacrifice, offering the worship that is pleasing to Him. He suggests a radically new understanding of worship in terms of a right response to the gospel.

New Testament worship is decidedly Christocentric — loving and serving the Lord Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of all that Old Testament worship foreshadowed. The book of Acts has a lot to say about worship in the early church — a group distinct from Israel in God’s economy.

We see the biblical meaning behind the idea of “worship” when we look at key Greek terms in the Septuagint and the New Testament. These terms fall into three major categories: paying homage, service, and reverence.

We observe three more characteristics about Old Testament worship, including its basis in the reality and recognition of God’s presence and rule, and the role of external actions.

Worship of the living and true God is essentially an engagement with Him on the terms that He proposes and in the way that He alone makes possible. In the Old Testament, true worship depended on God’s self-revelation of Himself and His act of redemption.

Since God alone deserves honor and glory, He requires exclusive loyalty from His subjects. That loyalty is expressed in our worship first of all. There are at least five dangers to avoid so that we don’t provoke God’s jealousy.