Proper Worship (Part 1)

Well, good morning.

It's good to see you. Glad you're worshiping with us

this morning. If you have your bible's turned with me

the First Timothy, First Timothy chapter two. This morning, we're

going to start in verse eight, First Timothy Chapter two,

starting in verse eight. Over the last few weeks we've

been in this series with through Firs Timothy. And as

we've been working through Fir Timothy one, do we think

we understand about why Paul wrote to Timothy.

It was that false.

Teaching was spreading kind of in the Church of Ephesus,

and Paul writes to Timothy in order to confront the

false teaching there and urge Paul to confront the false teaching.

But if you think about the term.

False, if it's something is false, it means it's untrue. Right,

that's just the basic premise of what something is false.

It's something is true.

But if you think of it in terms of faith,

if someone has false faith, that means their faith is

not real.

Right, we will say their faith is not genuine. In short,

we would say they're fake.

Right. They may look to be real, they may be

perceived as might be real. They may act like they real,

They may talk like they're real, but they're fake. They're

not real, they're not genuine, they're fake, they're faith.

It's faults.

Now, if you think about it in a minute, if

you're for a minute, we really live in a world

of a lot of fakes, isn't there our world? Even

major like companies grocery stores really make a lot of

money off fakes. If you think about it throughout our lives.

There's the real thing and then there's the fake. Right,

there's Dr Pepper, which is the choice drink of our

worship leader Tanner, but Walmart has an alternative, Dtor thunder Right.

So there's the real thing, Doctor Pepper, and then there's

the fake Doctor thunder Right. You know, back a few

years ago, the Yetti cups came popular, right everybody Yetty

now at Stanley or Whatever's wallows changes year to year.

But when YETI came out, Walmart had the Ozark cup.

Right, you can't can't get the real thing, go to Walmart.

You can get seven for seven bucks, right.

You know, just the other day, my daughter's birthday, and

so we were going to buy her this new hair dryer,

and it's a Shark hairstylist one thousand, whatever it is.

We can afford that one. So we got the off brand. Right.

So with everything there is a there's the real thing

and then someone's made a.

Fake out there. But you know there's some things like

you know, doctor Thunder, you can you know, you can

go for the fake. It's really okay. I mean it

tastes a little different, but you can live with it.

You can really live with the Ozark cup. It's not

you don't really have to have the Yetty, right. You

could really live with the off brand hair dryer. You

don't really have to buy the Shark or the dice

and right. There's some things though that you can't settle

for the fake. Right in our family, and I think

I've ever told you this war. There is the real

thing in our home, and you cannot fake it, right,

It's got to be a one.

This off brand stuff it does not do.

I don't care how Public's bottles it, how much it

may look same bottle, same top, same outside cover, it's

not the same on the inside. And can I say

that we joke about that, but it's the same thing

when it comes to Christianity, right, we can't compromise from

being for the real thing, you know, in our world.

And as Paul writes to Timothy, and he writes throughout

the New Testament, one of his greatest tools to combat

false teaching is for within the church there be the

real thing.

You know, I said to you last week.

Sometimes when we think about false teaching and we think

about combating false teaching, many times we think, well, that's

the pastor's job. That's the job of the pastors and

the staff and the elders.

To battle false teaching.

But can I say to you, even in today's pastor

of Scripture, Paul understands one of the greatest tools that

got it's given the church is that believers would be

the real thing. And that's just not just the pastors,

it's those into congregation.

And so as he.

Writes this passage this morning, he's he's talking about church

members being the real thing.

You know. For something to be.

Faults, there have to be something that is true right.

For something to be godly, I mean something to be ungodly,

there's got to be the godly right for something. For

something to be unholy, there really needs to be something

does holy. And then this passage of Scripture, Paul is

charging them to live godly lives is actually the passage

we looked at that last week on Timothy two too,

for kings and all who are in high positions that

we listen that talking about church body, we may lead

a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignify in every way.

And then this morning's passage Paul is talking about you

and I and how we worship, and how our worship

is genuine, how it's true, how it's godly, how it's holy,

and how important that our worship be real, holy, true,

godly in contrast to the ungodly, the untruth and holy

ways of our world. And so this morning I want

you to consider today, are you the real thing? Is

your worship real?

Are you?

Would you would others consider your worship an example of

godly worship?

Would people consider?

Have you considered today how important it is that you

worship properly as an example to your children, to your grandchildren,

your friends, your coworkers, your classmates, as an example of

what is a godly and what is real, what is

true worship. Let's stand together and let's read God's word together.

It's First Timothy, first Timothy, chapter one, and we're gonna

start verse eight, and we're gonna stop in verse let

me see here verse ten. Don't get your hopes up on.

I know you think ten. There's no way we'll preach

a long Don't worry.

I can still do it, So don't get your hopes up. First.

Timothy Chapter two, starting verse eight, he says, I.

Desire then, that in every place men should pray, lifting

up holy hands, without anger and quarreling. Likewise, also that

women should adorn themselves in respectable appareil, with modesty, self control,

not braiding, not with braided hair and gold and pearls

and costly attire, but with what is proper for women

who profess godliness.

With good works. Let's pray it together. Lord. We thank

you Lord for this morning.

We thank you Lord that you call us to be

godly examples, godly examples of what is true, what is

true worship, what is proper worship? And so Lord, today

I pray you use this passage of scripture to speak

to our hearts as men, as women, as church members,

as believers. Lord, how important it is that we live

godly lives too, gimbat the false teaching of our world.

Lord. We love you, We thank you, Lord, for this word. Lord.

You know my heart. Lord, you know my struggles. Lord,

you know my desire to be faithful to you. So Lord,

I pray you'd cleanse me, you'd use me today.

Lord. I'm weak, I'm broken.

Lord, I need you. So Lord, feel me today. Use

me today, Lord as your instruments.

Lord that may this message not be my power my might.

But Lord, by your power and your might, may you

use your Holy Spirit to speak to us today your name,

we pray Amen be seated. So this morning, what is

proper worship? If we're going to look at Paul's command

for us to be godly and to have true worship,

and what is proper And that's really what Paul does here.

If you remember last week as we started this chapter,

Paul talks about he's been combating false teaching, and he's

really been. He kind of started in chapter two to

talk about what are we to do? What are's actuable

steps that we take to battle false teaching? And the

first one he looked at last week was he called

churches to pray. Look at that verse one first of all,

then I urged that supplication, prayers in a sessions and

thanksgiving be made.

For all people.

So he talks about prayer, actually four different ways to pray,

and he explained that you and I in combating false teaching,

in our war against false teaching.

That we used a tool of prayer.

So now in verse eight he talks about not only

that he's caused us to pray, but it's not just

we are to pray, but it's really how we are

to pray, and how we are to pray, and how

we are to worship properly. As you look at this passage,

he begins to look at verse eight. I desire this

is what Paul says. This is my desire for you, Timothy,

for the church, and listen to his desire. I desire

then that in every place, every place there we know

in the early first century church it would be houses

of worship, and we know there's records and history would

tell us that.

But also there would be at times as church was growing,

there would be many house churches.

And so in every place Paul is refer into the

House of God and the church there, but also places

of house churches that were would be in place. Listen

the way he says, I desire that in every place

churches and house churches that the men should pray. And

it's not just men, but here and by the way,

as we look at this passage, you're going to see him.

He speaks kind of two men and to women here

and we understand just very clear that in this passage scripture,

there are issues with the men and how they're worshiping.

There's some issues with women and how they're worship and

Paul addressed these issues to the church. And so he

really addresses the men first here in every place that

men should pray, and then he talks about how.

They should pray.

And this is in the first as we think about

proper worship, we must worship with proper posture. Number one,

we should worship with proper posture. He talks about the posture.

Of these men praying.

Listen to he says in every place that men should

pray lifting up holy hands without anger and quarreling.

And so he has this.

He talks about men and how they should pray, and

he says, in every place, it's my desire that men

should pray lifting up holy hands. We know that in

if you study history, that it was a common practice

among the Christians, but also the Jews, but also the

Pagans who worshiped other gods that when people would pray,

they would pray lifting up their hands. And Paul continues

that He's like, hey, I know, it's like the religious

practice that everybody when people pray, they pray.

With their hands lifted up to God. I think it's interesting.

As I was at studying this this week, I was

thinking about when do we do that? I mean, as

this was the common practice of the early Church, when

people pray and they'd lift up their hands, we rarely

ever do that. Think about we've prayed just a minute ago,

we prayed over the passage of Scripture, we prayed at

the beginning of service, when we didn't stop and lift

up our hands in prayer.

I didn't lift up my hands.

Why isn't that I don't know, if it's just common,

if practice just evolved through time. We didn't do that.

But there was this idea that when they would pray,

they'd lift up their hands to God and reach up

to God in heaven.

But it's not just a physical posture that Paul was

talking about.

Paul was talking about the posture of the heart. This

is what Paul says here. The issue for Paul is

not that men would just lift up their hands and pray.

He does ask them to lift up, but listen to

what he says, lifting up holy hands, holy hands. It's

not just that they were lift up their hands and

walk through the motions of prayer, but that when they pray,

their hands.

Would be holy. What does holy mean? Holy means unstained.

It means that their hands would be clean, right, And

he's not talking about that before they prayed, they got

some hand sanitizer and cleaned up their hands, went to

the bathroom, make sure their hands were clean, right, They

didn't have any left over breakfast.

On their hands.

Know what he's talking about there is spiritually that their

hands would be clean.

And he goes into that. He describes what has defiled

the hands of the men in the church. What is it? Fighting, quarreling?

He says, Listen to this lifting up holy hands without

anger and quarreling.

You know what's happened in the church. We do not

know the details, but we do know that Paul is

referencing something and whether it is that here there's men

in the church have been combating the false teaching, and

because of that, there's been some animosity that has risen

within the church, and because of that, there's some anger

between some of the men and the church, or maybe

the men quarreling of how things happen and how things

were done, and so there's quarreling in the church. And

Paul was saying, listen, you're standing before the church and

you're lifting up your hands in prayer, and I'm telling

you your hands are not clean before God. And the

reason why your hands are not clean before God because

although you act like you're right before God by raising

your hands to him, the reality is your heart's night

right before God because you're angry with your brother and

you've been arguing with your brother. And he's saying, I

then want you to have the proper proster. I mean

a posture before prayer, and that's when you pray that

you pray with holy hands that your heart would be

right with your brother before you lit your hands up

before your your God.

You know, I was thinking about all the times as

I was.

Thinking about this and sharing stories and thinking about illustrations

I could. I was just spanning through history of my

being a pastor, and the one thing I can say,

being a pastor of many churches, I've seen a lot

of church fights, a lot of quarreling within the church body.

I remember I went to one church and I was

a pastor. Is actually my first church I pastored at.

And then there was a neighborhood lived right behind the church,

and I lived in the parsonage and right behind the

parsons was a neighbor and he didn't go to the

church anymore, but he I mean literally his property like

would backed into the church property. So I mean, if

there's anybody you want to reach, he's like, you want

to reach him, right, he's literally right next.

Door to the church.

And so I was asking, I was like, did he

ever go to the church? Yeah, he used to be

a long time member of the church and and he went.

And I said, well, what happened? What caused him? He says, well,

him and the preacher got.

Into big argument, a big fight, and they were arguing

back and forth and back and forth. And one day

the preacher was walking around the church property and he

was walking around the driveway and the pastor came out

of his driveway and he kind of gunned it toward

the preacher, and the preacher jumped out of the way

and he called the police and put the church members

in jail, and Brady, his daddy was with me. He says, Now,

when did he stop going to the church? I said,

probably the day he got arrested from the preacher, you know.

And that's that's an extreme example. But there are examples

where there is conflict in the church. Right we don't

we get angry with the brother or way someone did something,

or way the church decided to do something, or whether

the pastors decided to do something, or we didn't like

the way that one person talked to us, or that

person didn't greet us as we came in the door,

and that person doesn't hasn't talked to us, or I

didn't like the what they said into some school class,

or I didn't whatever it may be, there becomes this

quarreling we can get over. Whether it's the color of

the carpet, or whether it's something the music style, or

whatever it may be. There can be this quarreling in

the church. And I have seen it too, so so

many times in the church where one church member sits

on one side of the church and the other church

member sits on the other side of the church and

they don't speak.

Because I remember that Day ten, fifteen, twenty.

Years ago when they did that, and I've never forgotten it.

I've heard those words from deacons, church members. Yet they

lift up their hands before God and pray, but their

hands are not clean.

I've told you the story before.

That, and I'm going to tell you again just because

I think it's such a vivid example. You know, used

to back when I was at church in South Carolina,

we had church softball leagues. We would play church softball,

and you know, good competitive men get aggravated because something

happens in the game and they'd be fighting and about

come to blows. Was the practice of this church softball

league that the end of every game, you would come

to the center of the mound and you would have prayer,

and together these two teams would come together and they

would cite the Lord's Prayer together. And I remember thinking,

that has got to be one of the worst things

we could ever do, because you have just almost thrown

blows at one another, and then you're standing right beside

one another, and you've never resolved your conflict with one another,

but you're standing in act like God's okay with you

or citing his prayer. I say that as a vivid

example of how awful that was in that moment. But

it's no different when we do the same thing in

the church house, whether it's on the softball field or

whether it's in the church pews, owners of conflict and

quarreling and anger toward a church member. Yet lifting up

holy hands in prayer doesn't honor God. And Paul says, listen,

you want to battle the false teaching, it starts with you.

It starts with your heart being right with one another.

Before you lift your hands up in prayer with me,

you remember the passage scripture I read it to you,

since avid passage, isn't it Matthew five twenty three. If

you're offering a gift at your altar, and there you

remember that a brother has something against you, leave your

gift there before the altar, go be reconciled with your brother.

Then come and offer your gift. In the imagery of

that passage scripture, we come to the Lord in prayer,

and we get off their prayer and we realize that

we've got something against a brother. We to leave what

we're going to offer to God and go reconcile with

our brother before.

We come back to the Lord.

That's how important it is for our hearts and our

hands to be clean before God before we pray.

There's a proper proster and prayer that we should have. Men.

I don't think it's just for us men, but I

also think it's for all of us in church body,

men and women. Is your posture and prayer right before

God here today? I'll ask you very bluntly, do you

have conflict between another brother here in church?

Have you resolved it? One of the hardest things I've

ever done.

Is go to a brother in the middle of a

service and say, I've been harboring hard feelings to you

and it's hindering my worship.

I've got to free it. His name was E. J. Rowse.

He had done some things to me, and I was

a student teenager college. He had said some things about me,

done some things to me, and I'd held on bitterness.

In the middle of a church service and the invitation,

I went to him and said, brother, I need your forgiveness.

I've held anger against you.

You ever done that?

You say today, I feel like God's distant every The

reason God's distant is because your hands are not clean

before God. You have not resolved conflict issues. And maybe

it is a brother sister here.

Maybe it's someone outside a brother and sister in Christ.

It's outside this church.

Maybe it's a family member, Maybe it's a neighbor, maybe

it's a coworker.

I don't know, but I tell you your worship is

important before God. God cares, and.

God wants you your posture to be proper and be

right before him.

Don't you love that God doesn't just want us.

To go through the motions. He wants to real worship.

He wants true worship.

Secondly, we must worship with proper motives.

Again, I've kind of alluded to the fact that he

kind of addresses men and then he addresses women, and

he does that. I don't want you to see that.

And verse aid he talks about the men. In verse nine,

he starts with the ladies. Likewise, also that women should

adorn themselves with respectable apperil, with modesty, with self control,

not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire,

but with what is proper for women who profess godliness,

with good world work.

There must have been again, we know there must have been.

Some issues between some men and some quarrelings, some anger

between some men and the church. Paul now addresses some

issues that must be happening within the church with the ladies.

And you have to understand, for Paul, he understands you're

battling the false teaching. But this testimony the people people know, right,

people know when there's conflict in the church, right, the

community knows that, right, it gets out, and the community

knew there was conflict between.

The men and the church.

Hey, you need to clear this up, brother, And he

knows that also there's there's some issues with the ladies

in the church that's creating, it's hurting the testimony of

the church outside. And so Paul addresses those things with

these ladies. He he he we we. By the way,

we see another evidence of something going on with the

ladies in the church. If you turn with me just

a few chapters term to chapter five with me of

first Timothy, Paul talked about some ladies, some young widows.

Here in verse eleven of chapter five, he says, but

I refused to but refuse to enroll younger women, for

when their passion strall them away from Christ, they desire

to marry. And so in cure condemnation for they have abandoned,

having abandoned their former faith. Besides that they learn to

be idlers going about house to house, and not only idlers,

but also gossips and busy bodies and saying what they

should not. And so we know that there's some ladies

in this church that are creating some issues. They're saying

some things that they're not they shouldn't say. Busy bodies

is the ideas of someone busy with their mouths but

not busy with their hands and saying and doing things

they shouldn't do. So we know there's some issues here.

And so Paul address some issues that he knows is

a problem. And here it comes in the former dress,

and he gives some instructions of how they are to

dress and how they are not to dress. He says

first how women are to dress, Women should dress modestly

and self control.

This is what says here.

Likewise, also as women should adorn themselves with respectable peril,

with modesty and self control. Again, here's the issue in

this passage. It goes back for what we said at

every beginning, the world is looking for the real thing,

right and who are they looking for? The real thing.

They're looking in the church for what is a real Christian?

What is a real believer? And he says you, men,

you need to set example what is real a real

man of God who prays with clean hands. Women, they

are also looking to you. And one of the examples

that you should set is.

How you dress.

And how you dress here is dressing modestly and within

self control. You to demonstrate Godliness in your dress. I

like what a one writer says is a woman's dress

is a mirror of her mind. A woman's dress is

a mirror of her mind. What you dress, how you

dress outside shows who you are on the inside. Paul

knows this and Paul's dresses. He then goes in secondly

in this passage scripture to tell them how they are

not to dress.

They were to dress modestly and self control.

But listen to this. Not with braided hair. Gold pearls

are costly attire. We know this time there was this

culture thing that was happening, and ladies would braid their hair,

and when they would braid their hair, they would take gold,

and they would take pearls, and within the braids they

were intertwined these golds and these pearls. It was seen

as very It was a form of luxury in the

Greco Roman world. It was someone who had the ability to,

if you can imagine, put gold or pearls in their hair.

They were a lady of wealth, of lady of means,

attracted attention. And Paul is saying, listen, you should dress

modestly and self control, but you should not dress in

a way that is flamboyant. We know also according to

Hellenistic and Jewish Hellenistic as Greek and Jewish culture, dressing

up on the part of a woman was seen as

being sexual, promiscuous. She was seeing someone who was in want,

and so this was something he was saying, you should

avoid being seen in that way. Lastly, he describes the

importance of her dressing and godliness. Listen to the passage here,

But what is proper for women who professed godliness with

good works dressed modestly, shouldn't dress for Paul, how they're

not to dress and should dress with gold pearls, the

costly attire. They should dress in godliness.

You see for the issue for.

Paul here, listen to this is very important. It's not

that you would say ladies may say today, you're saying

we shouldn't wear gold in church, we shouldn't wear pearls

in church. The issues for Paul here is that these

ladies were coming in and their their dress was distracting

from word. You can imagine in Kenya, as you may

not know, but Kenya, in Tanzania, in Africa, a lady

is not to wear pants in church when we go,

when we instruct our team members, we tell our ladies

and that you have to wear long dresses. For Kenyon's

If a lady to wear pants in church is against

their modesty is seen as not modest. So a woman

should wear that. Now, imagine, imagine if we went to

Kenya and we told our ladies that, and you trust

me when you go there and you go into a

church and everybody in that church, everybody in that church,

every woman.

In that church is going to have a long skirt him.

Imagine one lady in our church, in our team who

would go and she'd wear pants. Suddenly, what would happen?

Everybody in that church would know that one woman didn't

have a dress on woulden?

And what's happening in that moment? Right?

The attention is now on who her and worship, where

should be the attention the Lord? You see, that's the

issue here for these ladies in the church. In ephesis,

by adorning yourself with these things, you are coming to

church for the attention.

You're coming to be.

To gain attraction, to gain attention from those within the church.

And your goal in worship is that you to be

adorned instead of you adorning the Lord.

You see that?

And Paul is saying, listen, as we worship, we should

worship with the proper posture, but we should worship with

the proper motives that when we come to church, worship

is not about us and what attention that we should

get and what attentions we might want.

Our worship should be.

The motive of our worship is not to be that

anything would point to us, but everything would point to Him.

Do you see that? And that's the heart of Paul's

passage here.

Not to say women that you should not wear gold

or pearls, but women or men, there should nothing be

in your worship.

That leads people to you instead of leading people to Christ.

You under see that. I think this can come in

different forms. I think for us today in.

Church, I think it's I think I've seen it in

churches throughout time. There's there's times that we can we

can be if you lack a better term, we can

be showy in our worship, can't we Well, we can

worship in a way that draws attention to us and

that it draws tension away from Christ. I've seen it, right,

I've seen it. And people in praying, right, you ever

heard that person who prays and they sound like alreadio announcers,

dear father who are in heaven.

It's like nobody praise like that. You change your voice.

Let's not you don't talk like that normal.

But they change their voice to sound super spiritual. What

is that saying? It's drawing attention to that individual. I've

seen people who in worship, I mean they're they're showy

in their voice. There's there's those who worship in a

way that they sing and they sing to be heard.

I tell you, Brandy, and I knows this, Tanner and

I've talked about this something that as I sing and

very little, but I still have learned to sing. And

sometimes there's you're as of singing that my.

Voice can get loud. And I've been in youth.

Camp, especially where the music is super super loud, and

been singing and and just have sang really loud and

get louder and louder, and next thing I know, I'm

so loud that the people beside me are looking at

me instead of looking at worship. And I've told Tanner,

I've told Brandy is like, if I ever get to

a place where I'm singing so loud that I'm becoming

the attentions coming on me insteadying on Christ, tell me,

tell me.

You need to bring it down, and so listen.

Are we can We can make worship show we in

our prayers. We can make worship show we in our singing.

We can get we can get worship. And just how

we talk.

You ever talk to someone and they're like, hey, brother,

how are you doing? They don't normally talk.

I remember it was a guy college, and every time

he saw you as brother, brother, brother, brother, I'm like, man,

like you, you don't you're talking that way just to

sound godly, It's not how you're really talking.

And there's I've seen it in churches.

I remember there was a pastor's comforence we used to

go to in Conways, South Carolina, and there was this

it was to be two or three thousand people, and

they would have these different pastors from all over the

country come and preach, and and as a as a.

Pastor will be preaching, and there would be one guy.

He was there every year, help yourself brother, every time

the preacher said something, help yourself brother?

And what was that?

He was gotten to know on in the congression? Who

that was the man who says help yourself? And so

what he's getting attention for himself? Right instead of the

attention beyond on the Lord. We can we can be

showy in our worship where there it is what we say,

how we pray, how we sing. The focus of our

worship should never be drawn to us, It should always

draw other people to Him. So today I want to

ask you, is your worship proper? Is your posture proper?

Is there any conflict between you and one another? The

sun resolved and your hands are unclean?

Today?

Is your motives proper? You come into worship? What's the

motive of your worship? Is that God receive all the

praise from your worship, all the praise from what you say,

all the praise from.

What you do? Or is it the motive of I

want to be seen today.

I want to be heard. I want to be praised.

I want to be affirmed or saying the Lord. I

want to worship, and Lord, I want you to get

all the praise. I want you to get all the

glory as we finished this morning, I want you understand

this morning, your worship matters.

The Lord wants you to be the real thing.

And as the world is looking for a lot of

imitations in our world, they're looking to hear for the

real thing and how we demonstrate genuine worship.

Is important.

And and what our what our posture is, and our

relationship with one another, and what our motives are when

we worship.

And last Tanner the band to come.

You know, h it's interesting when you go to Kenya,

we are called maszoong goose.

Maszoong goose means he's everywhere. Mazoong Gou is spelled by

the way m z u n g u. The word

means he's everywhere. And that's what they did. That's what

they call us foreigners or Americans.

The term came from when early early on, when missionaries

began coming into Africa, they would see a mazoongu and

they would see one maybe in Nairobi, which is kind

of the city, and then they would see one in

our hero and they were like, you know, it looked

like the same. I just saw him in Naurubi. That's

eight hours away. The same mazungu is now in our hair,

is eight hours away. He's he's in Naurubi, he's in

our hair. I saw one in Kasimu, I saw one

in Tanzania. He's everywhere, He's everywhere. It's kind of like

Wally's world, you remember, he's everywhere.

It's kind of the idea.

But it's interesting to think the word Maszongu means he's everywhere,

which has come very close to the same ideas.

He's omnipresent, right.

You know what Mungu is in Swahili, He take the

z out Mungo. You see what I think is is

this idea of Maszoongu.

He's everywhere, and it's idea of who really God is.

You know what my hope is when people see me,

people see my worship, they see God in my worship.

How about you today?

Does God see does people see God in you? Does

people see God? And how you worship? Does your children

see God? And how you worship? And that you try

to listen. There's times where we're not all going to

see eye to eye when I always want to agree,

but you you let your anger go, you let your

quarrels go. You resolve those issues so that when you worship,

you can worship.

With clean hands.

Does your children and your friends, does your coworkers see

that the motives of your prayer is that God gets

all the glory, that you get none, that He receives

all the praise, all the glory from your worship.

And the motive of your heart is God, May you

get all the glory from my life? Does God see

your worship? Does others see God in your worship? Are

you real today? Would you pray with me? Father?

I thank you Lord that Lord, we know the Kenyans. Lord,

they're looking for people who display the image.

Of God and God. I know today. There are people

all outside this world.

There's neighbors, there's coworkers, there's family members, there's loved ones.

There's people right here in this church, and they're looking

for God in us. They're looking for God in our worship.

They're looking for real worship. They're looking for genuine worship God.

They're looking for true worship. They're looking for proper worship.

And God.

The responsibility lies on us to have the right posture,

to have the proper motives the Lord, that we might

be real Lord for those around us. So, Lord, today

I pray that this worship would be real, would be true,

would be proper. I pray that we would not lift

up our hands, Lord, unless our hearts are clean before you,

our hands are clean, or I pray we would our

motives would be pure and are lifting up our voices

that Lord, we want to praise and give you all

the worship and all the glory.

And all the praise. Lord.

May this time of worship, Lord, you be honored in

May you use this invitation.

Now, Lord, in your name, we pray amen

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