What Happens When We Worship | Week 1

It's good to see you guys this morning.

My name is Kyle service lead Pastor here.

If you're visiting today, I want to say thanks for being here.

Glad you're here, worship with us, I'm going to have you turn

to your Bibles to two places in your Bibles today.

First, we'll look at a verse in Romans 11.

We'll look at verse 36 here in a moment and then the bulk of our

reading really will come from Genesis chapter 3.

Genesis 3 · chapter mention

But you can look at, you know, you can kind of hold your finger

at one. If you want.

I'll read a couple of verses from there.

But largely will be in Genesis chapter 3 as we expound on what

Genesis 3 · chapter mention

we're going to see in Romans 11. So they were going to go

together. But today, what we're doing is

we're starting a new series series is called what happens

when we worship. And so, in this series of the

next 13 weeks, we're going to examine the Theology of worship,

the anatomy of worship, and what we should do in response to

those things that we see in God's word, going to look at How

do we worship? But what happens when we worship

today? Our topic is created to worship.

You have been created to worship.

You are created for worship, you are wired for worship.

And so I want to talk to you about the origin.

The purpose, the means of worship and and help that inform

the lives that we live. Hopefully in worship to the

Lord. And so if you would, would you

stand with me as we read a Romans 11:36?

Romans 11:36

It's allowed. God's word says, in Romans 11:36

Romans 11:36

for from him. That is from the Lord and

through him, and to him are all things to him, be glory forever.

Amen. This is God's.

Holy word. Thanks be to God.

Let me pray. Heavenly Father we praise you

for your word and a verse as simple as Only several words.

Says so much about why. We're here.

What our purpose is how we got here.

The Lord is my hope. It is my prayer that today, we

would see from your word that we were created for worship.

And in many ways we are always worshipping.

Father is you were well aware at times we get our worship wrong.

At times, we worship in ways that we, like, we worship things

that we think are worth worshiping.

And so, our worship is misplaced misunderstood at times.

It's sinful. So Lord, we ask that you would

help us to regain as we go through this series over the

next few weeks. We gain an understanding of what

Biblical worship is that you have not been silent on worship,

but that you have spoken clearly from your word on how we are to

worship. So Lord help us to grasp that

Vision, help us to understand your word, help us to apply it.

So Lord, we in that prayer, we are desperate for your Holy

Spirit to give us insight to give us understanding and

knowledge and wisdom on how to apply it.

Or we need you to sanctify, our hearts and Minds by your spirit,

through the washing of your word today.

We are dependent upon you as we open up your word as we read

from it, as we see it. So, Lord, I pray that you help

me along in this help me to proclaim the excellencies of

Christ today. It having heard today.

The people do not hear Kyle they hear Christ reach.

That his word is a bomb into their souls, that it's not me.

Lord help us to be devoted fully to your son, Jesus Christ, name

I pray. Amen.

Amen. You may be seated So when I say

worship, which I've said multiple times already, it's

most likely that you envisioned like the singing part of the

service, right? When we say worship often, we

think that worship is, its, are singing.

And that's really, by Design over the last several decades,

and depending on your church background, you may even

Envision like private singing to God in your home or maybe even

your in your chair at church, you know.

We're kind of raised at times to think that worship happen.

Right there in your seat or your Pew.

And it's just between you and the Lord.

And it's really, it's all about your experience.

These understandings are the result of what we might call the

Contemporary worship movements, which is really popular.

It's done a lot for church growth, it's done a lot for

modernizing things and not that everything that's come out of.

It has been wrong but much of it is misplaced by Design.

There's really a long history that we don't have time to get

into fully today. And so, I'd like to just provide

a brief explanation of the roots of contemporary worship.

Contemporary worship, the idea that it's about your singing and

that singing must move you to some emotional feeling kind of

stir you up in some way, the roots of that or Pentecostalism

and revivalism the birth out of those things of a goal and

Pentecostalism or Pentecostal worship is to provide the

worshipper with A personal experience with God, a personal

encounter with God. And so, you'll hear that

language often that you come and see the presence of God, come

experience the presence of God With Us, come experience, a move

of the spirit. God is on the move here.

God is doing great things in this worship service.

You know, you don't want to miss this.

And that's that is its purpose is to stir up the emotions of

the worshipper so much so that he or she feels like they have

worshipped God. There's Goose he's and there's

chills and there's palpitating heart beats and maybe sweat

revivalism is really much in the same vein.

They kind of entered the scene really around the same time as

in the 1800s and revivalism got its jump.

Start with a man named Charles Finney.

He's really kind of the founder of revivalism in the 1800's, a

finished purpose, Finney was a traveling preacher and he would

preach Revival services and his purpose for these.

Revival Services was to stir up the emotions of those in

attendance so much so that it forced them to make a decision

for Jesus. Am I call these salvations?

They might call them decisions but it was a decision is MM.

It's just largely based on their emotions.

He was playing on the emotions of the congregation in song.

How many of you know that song Moves you right like you hear a

song and you go back to moments in your life where you first

heard that song over that song is connected to some feeling or

something, right? For should I have a song that

you know, that we share? Air between us.

That's it's a, you know, a lot of songs so when I hear that

song played my mind is in raptured with just visions of

Patricia, like all the moments we've had in our life, right?

This is what music does? It moves people?

It's created by God to move people.

But it's like any tool that God gives us can be misused and so

Finney would play on the emotions of the congregation in

song. He would especially do this in

his preaching and most of all he would do it with emotionally

driven altar calls. Then he was quoted.

He wanted to find these quotes about this was he says, yes, the

spirit works, but we must work first.

Did you see how that is backwards?

Yes, the spirit works. But we must work first.

So, this makes God dependent upon us for all things

pertaining to our godliness. It puts man first, he must move

if God is going to move. And so, contemporary worship

takes shape in light of early Western Pentecostalism and

revivalism it has been a wide sweeping movement over the last

several decades. Now throughout church history,

worship has sorry, worship was understood as the entire Lord's

day service. We us why we call this our

worship service, over. When we come together to worship

God, it's not that we just come together to sing.

We come to seeing, yes, but we come to pray together.

We come to hear the word Todd. We come to preach the word.

We come to read the scriptures, we come to celebrate the Lord's

Supper like we'll do today. We come for baptisms when we

have those right? There's lots of things about.

There's several things that go into a worship service.

But the emphasis in contemporary worship is is on the worshipper.

it's on the the song part of the service, especially And so, the

emphasis is taken off of the one being worshipped.

And it's put on the one who is worshipping songs are written

and performed in such a way, as, to stir up, the emotions of the

worshipper to manipulate their feelings.

So that they feel like they have worship, which might lead to a

greater response during the altar call, if a church has one

and largely, it's emotional manipulation.

Most of us have been discipled in this most of us.

Just, this is learned behavior and so I don't really blame

congregations for this. I blame leaders for this blame

pastors for this. It happens in churches across

the globe, it happens in churches across our County, it's

happening right now. I've attended several of these

churches, in my time in Magnolia, which is a life.

The service starts large often with an upbeat song, the song of

praise and then it moves into a slower song and then oftentimes

an even more slower song which is called worship song.

The first song is a praise song, these songs are now worship

songs and before it might it'll finally wrap up with a fourth

song that is either another upbeat song or a slow song

depending on what is planned for the sermon that day.

So the transition to the sermon becomes easier based on what

kind of song you end with when the preacher is finished.

You sing something like just as I am 17 times until people

respond to the preachers call appropriately, right?

Until the spirit has moved. I can remember sitting in

worship services and the preachers saying, you know, at

12:15. After he's preached, after we've

seen more, more singing is happening.

More calling upon the holy spirit to move on us is

happening. And he's saying, we're not

leaving this place. Until we sense the presence of

the spirit. It's wrong.

It's false teaching. It's ungodly.

It's sacerdote ilysm really is what it is.

It's and and that means that it is.

It's all about the emotions of something and you're having to

sacrifice sacramentalism. Sorry, it's all about.

The things that are being performed to make the certain

experience happen. It's Roman Catholic and approach

is what it is. And so the service starts that

way and ends that way. And the result is an emotionally

manipulative people go away thinking that they have

experienced God possibly even responding and what they think

or they're told is Faith In Jesus because they raise their

hand and the preacher. Pray to congregational prayer

over them. And then what happens, these

people who have this emotional stirred up experience flame out

at some point, because Emotions, Don't Last, you can't carry that

emotional High into the rest of your life, that emotional high

was caused by everything happening in that service, that

force, that person to make that decision.

You can't maintain that in your daily lives, the Christian Life,

as we say, around here, as Eugene, Peterson wants to.

It's a long Ants in the same direction.

Right, it's day after day waking up and living for the lord, it's

showing up to worship services and worshiping god with the

congregation. It's not about stirring up.

Emotions are emotions that go into it.

Absolutely, absolutely. Their emotions that go into

Charles Finney also said this. He said a Revival is not a

miracle. What a Revival is not a miracle

or dependent on a miracle in any sense.

It is purely philosophic. That means it's scientific.

It can be figured out, it's the result of the right use of the

constituted means. What's he saying?

You get all the right elements together.

You'd all the right pieces together and you perform them in

the exact way. You will have Revival.

We see this today is churches still practiced planned.

Revivals weekly revivals? Who in the lot of the same

things that they would say they disagree with.

Emotions of such worship might be good the motivation.

Sorry, if such worship may be good, but there is a better way.

There's a far better way. There's God's way to doing this.

The problem with such worship is that man is the standard of

worship. He is the center of worship,

your starting with the congregation, and you're saying,

let's do what he or she needs to have an emotional experience.

You're starting with the leaders who are saying, we need to make

this. This happen, it's manipulated

for man's purposes, God's purposes.

These people are not truly trying to build the kingdom of

God, man cannot be the standard of Godly worship because Godly

worship is decided by God Alone. Jonathan Cruz wrote this in a

book he said worship is Meaningful, not because of what

we do, but because of what God is doing and in and through Us

by his spirit, Therefore, we must not only sanctify Our

Lives. We must sanctify our worship

also. But none of us disagrees that

our lives, should be Sanctified that we should be putting away,

sinful thoughts. If you got a problem with lust,

you should put that away, right? None of us is going to argue

that. If you got a problem with anger,

you're angry at a brother, you're angry at a sister.

You're like, you should put that away, you got a problem with

bitterness, you should be depending upon the Lord to help

you put that away, right? None of us is saying, we

shouldn't be sanctified But when it comes to our worship, we

often think there's no need to sanctify it.

But it's not true. Like, there's reason to grow in

what we understand about God, and how we worship God, and to

look into his word and see what it says about worship.

And to see is what we're doing aligning with what God's word

says about worship. The let him sanctify our

worship. So I want to put before you

today this really kind of basic big idea but worshiping God his

way is the most important thing you will ever do in your life.

Learning how to worship God. His way is, the most important

thing you will ever do in your life.

In fact, you were created to worship.

Why God created you was to be a worshipper?

Romans 11:36 again, says, for from him and through him, and to

Romans 11:36

him are all things to him, be glory forever.

Amen. First phrase, therefore from him

from him, are all things. The Apostle Paul here is telling

us that all things originated from God.

From him are all things. That means out of God, comes all

things. This is what happens in creation

will look a little more at that in a moment.

He is the source of all things. Amen.

Through him are all things for from him and through, him are

all things through him. Are all things, all things have

their life. and their function and they're being because of God

who created them, they came out of him and so therefore they

exist, what through him He decides their existence, they

have life because of him, for from him, and through him are

all things. And so if it's from him and it's

through him, then once it's in, it's to him, right?

To him are all things for from him and through him.

And to him are all things, all things, find their end in God.

A plant that grows. Sprouts up from a seed or from

something that was germinated, right?

This plant Springs forth out of the ground.

What is it doing? It's worshiping God.

It's doing exactly what it was created to do.

All right, it's living according to the will of God for its life.

And so it exists all creation exists unto God.

Only we might say it this way. Got us to Source the life.

And the end of all things is the source of life, in the end of

all things to him, alone belongs the glory.

No. See Apostle Paul says the glory

not Glory but the glory the apostles saying that Supreme

Glory belongs to God, that all the glory Belongs to the Lord.

And so all of creation and is shouting.

Fourth, the glory of God because all of creation has come from

God. All of creation is there for

worshiping God. If you'll pay attention, like if

you look around and notice creation, this is what creation

is doing. And your life is no different.

You were created to bring glory to God, who created to Worship

the Lord, you were created to be that to be bringing forth into

the world. Proper Godly worship as we see

in the scriptures. One man's definition of worship

is this he says it's Drawing Near to communion with God

through Christ in the spirit by faith.

That's important. You may write that down Drawing

Near to communion with God. Through Christ in the spirit by

faith. It's trinitarian and nature.

This is true worship, drove. Do we draw near to God through

Christ in the spirit by faith? It's not just that God said some

things about worship. It's not just, it's not just

that he's, you know, he might have some ideas about worship

and now we get to do kind of whatever we want with in worship

and we can call that worship because, you know, anything

that's done. In the name of the Lord must be

good, right? Oh, this is why there's false

teachers and false teaching, right?

It's not just false teaching is not just other religions.

It is false teaching. Sure.

But false teaching is that which looks Christian.

But, as false in nature, right, And the Christian world is far

more full of this than we might initially realize.

It's because something Bears, the name Christian.

Doesn't mean it's Christian, doesn't mean it's biblical, all

right. And so, in the creation event,

that we see in the beginning of Genesis, is the creation of

worship. It's the Genesis of worship,

it's the foundation for worshipers over and again,

throughout God's word, we see that the purpose of creation is

to proclaim the glory of God. What are you doing?

When you proclaim the glory of God, you're worshiping right?

Perhaps someone 48 which Alan preached on last month, is one

of the clearest pictures of this truth.

Let me just read some of the verses I probably won't read it

all just for time sake but praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord from the heavens, Praise Him in the

Heights, praise him all his angels, praise him.

All his hosts, Praise Him, sun and moon.

Praise him. All you shining stars.

Praise Him. You highest heavens and you

Waters above the heavens, let them praise the name of the Lord

for he commanded and they were created and he established him

forever and ever. And he gave a decree.

And it shall not pass away. Praise the Lord from the earth.

You great sea creatures and all beeps fire and he'll snow and

Mist, stormy, wind fulfilling his word mountains and all Hills

fruit trees, and all Cedars beasts, and all, livestock

creeping things and all Flying birds Kings of the earth, and

All Peoples, princes, and all rulers of the earth, young men

and maidens together old men and children.

Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name, alone is

exalted. His majesty is above heaven and

earth. He has raised up a horn for his

people. Praise for all his Saints, for

the people of Israel who are near to him.

Praise the Lord. So they wouldn't read it all,

but I got caught up in it, right?

Psalm 148. What's the point of the song?

Praise God. Why?

Because from him and through him and to him are all things to

him, be the glory forever. Amen.

Right. This is why we praise the Lord.

So worshiping God his way again is the most important thing you

will ever do. And so, when God makes Mankind,

we read this in Genesis 1:26 and 27.

Genesis 1:26

It says then God said Let us make man in our image.

So this is a trinitarian creation.

Let us make man in our own image after our likeness and let them

have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of

the heavens and over the livestock and over all the Earth

and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

So God has at day six, he's at the end of day 6.

Everything else in the Earth has been created and now he says,

here's the crown jewel of creation Mankind and our image.

Each male and female. For what purpose, the exercise

Dominion to be fruitful and multiply to subdue.

The earth. Does that mean to fill the Earth

with the glory of God? Does that mean to be worshippers

on the Earth? So God created, man in his own

image. In the image of God, he created

him male and female he created them.

So to be created in the image of God is to Bear the impress of

your creator. It's like the impress of the

idea here is like the impress of a president on a coin, right?

It Bears the image of the Creator but it's not the

Creator, right? That coin Bears, the impress of

a president but it's not the President, right?

Nobody's saying, hey, I'm hanging out with Abe Lincoln

today. All right no I got a penny in my

pocket. All right.

So you are not the Creator but you bear the image of the

Creator. You're not the one worth

worshiping but you were the one created to be a worshipper and

he gave them the purpose of fruitfulness.

Like you're meant to reflect the glory of God as a mirror

reflects, what's in its view right?

Again a mirror gives a reflection of what it sees, but

it is not what it's he's right. We wouldn't hold up a mirror and

say, hey, this has been Brigham just because Ben's image is in

it. All right, but that's not how

mirrors work. But it reflects the image of

been just as you were created to reflect the image of your

Creator. And so God made man to reflect

his glory in all the Earth, gives them the purpose of

fruitfulness Dominion to carry that throughout the Earth.

So that his glory would fill the Earth.

What does he do? When he calls Israel?

The nation of Israel was supposed to do.

What carry the glory of God? Into all the Earth was Israel.

Get it right? No.

And so the Old Testament is really all about the failure of

Israel. To carry into image, the glory

of God, there's pockets of hope, there's remnants of Hope, But

ultimately we're still looking for someone to do that.

And so Christ comes So when God places the man into the garden

God, so he created him outside the garden.

God takes Adam, always kind of imagine that.

He's like just picking him up and placing him but probably not

how it worked, right? Sounds good.

But he takes Adam and he puts him into the garden and the

Genesis 2:15, he gives him instructions.

Genesis 2:15

He says that he has to work it and keep it.

To work and keep the garden. And interesting thing about this

phrase in Genesis 2:15, is that Moses later uses it to describe

Genesis 2:15

the work of the Levites? Intending to Temple worship.

They were to work it and keep it.

I'm not even going to try to pronounce the Hebrew word for

you, but it's the same phrase. So what was Adam created to do?

He was created to be a priest on the earth to Bear the image of

God. And the same way that the priest

later on would carry the presence of God would tend to

his presence in to make sure that God's glory could be seen

properly. They could receive proper

worship. This is what Adam was supposed

to have done. And so in this God not only

created Adam to worship, but he told him how to worship here to

work and keep, he's giving him instructions for worship.

Like I've put you in my place, this is My Sanctuary so to

speak. I put you in my garden, but it's

for my purposes, your to work it and keep it your, to cultivate

it. You're to help it grow

throughout the Earth. It would happen through

cultivation and protection that Adam would Would do this.

And so in this God will be glorified as Adam reflected the

glory of God through his fruitful worship to God.

But what happens in Genesis chapter 3?

Genesis 3 · chapter mention

We got the man in the woman created in Genesis 1.

We see a close-up picture of what they were supposed to do

and how they came to be. We see Adam created from the

dust of the ground Eve's created from his rib to be a help me to

Adam in working and keeping, and they were both to be fruitful

multiply the exercise Dominion subdue, the Earth, and fill the

Earth with the glory of the Lord.

But in Genesis chapter 3, Our worship is disrupted by the

Genesis 3 · chapter mention

founder of Lies. The devil in the form of a

serpent comes to Eve Who's Adams wife and he Tim's Sir With The

Forbidden Fruit of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil.

So we got to place Adam in the garden.

He gives him the command to work and keep but he gives them a

command. Also, do not eat of the tree of

knowledge of Good and Evil. From the day that you eat of it,

you will surely die. She knows she's not supposed to

eat him. He even adds to the command.

I'm not supposed to eat it. Nor am I even supposed to touch

it? The vet, the devil convinces.

Her that this is simply the command of an egomaniac.

Oh God. this is a God who, Who doesn't want you to be like him,

but if you'll eat of that fruit, you'll be just like him and you

won't need him anymore. How many of us fall to the

temptation to be our own God daily?

Take control of our own lives to do what we think is best without

ever considering the commands of God in Scripture.

I'll raise my hand. Guilty of that.

The serpent says, to the woman. You will not surely die.

I mean, I can, I don't know if I'm getting the inflection,

right? But it just sounds like he's

appalled by the fact that she says, will truly dies.

He will surely die. For God knows.

This is him. He's goes on, forgotten knows

that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you'll

be more like God, you will be like him knowing Good and Evil.

Woman hears this and we read this as so when the woman saw

that the tree was good for food so she hears what he's saying

she turns and she looks at the fruits.

That's when she saw that the tree was good for food and that

it was a delight for the eyes tree was to be desired.

To make one wise, she took of its fruit and she ate.

And she also gave some to her husband who was with her, he ate

Again, this is the temptation of daily and struggles, you know,

you might know the commands of God and you might be saying to

yourself. No, I can't.

Can't act this way or can't do this thing, or can't pursue that

desire because it goes against God's command.

I know that I've heard that my whole life and then what

happens? The tempter comes right.

The father of Lies comes to you and he says you want surely die

if you do that. God's trying to keep you from

enjoyment, trying to keep you from being your own God.

He doesn't want you to be like him.

Like if you'll just pursue all the desires of your heart, guess

what? Your God.

Now, you're the god of your own life.

This is the LIE of the world. This is what there?

This is what they're falling into, so rapidly in our world.

So what we have here in Genesis chapter 3 is the origin of sin

Genesis 3 · chapter mention

in mankind. It's the beginning of it.

It's the Genesis of sin, this is where Godly worship gets

disrupted and so we read, we go on the reading the narrative,

then the eyes of both were opened and they knew that they

were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made

themselves loin cloths. And they heard the sound of the

lord of the Lord. God Walking In The Garden in the

cool of the day and the man and his wife, hid themselves from

the presence of the Lord God Among the Trees of the garden.

So what's happened? Their eyes are opened They were

once it's not that there were blind they were once pure.

Everyone's holy as God is. Holy There were once without sin

but now their eyes have been open to evil.

Why? Because they experienced evil,

they committed evil, they committed transgression against

God and now they know who it. And they knew that they were

naked. It says they were exposed before

God and so they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves

loin cloths, they heard the Lord coming the hid themselves.

From the presence of the Lord, among the Trees of the law, of

the garden of Lord. God Called To The Man.

He said to him, where are you? And he said I heard the sound of

you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I

hid myself. God said who told you that you

were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of

which I commanded you not to eat.

The man said, the woman whom you gave me to be with me.

She gave me fruit of the tree and I ate and then the Lord said

to the woman, what is this? That you have done?

And the woman said, the serpent deceived me and I ate.

So again, here we see the Genesis of things like shame and

regret and blame shifting, and deceit rights, which were also

well acquainted. With now, if we're honest were

very good at all of these things.

A chiral to us like we were born this way or Okay.

The man and the woman are no longer an unblemished image of

the glory of God as they were created.

Created to mirror the image of the glory of God and all the

Earth. They are now broken mirrors.

The Bible helps us see. This just two chapters later

after Adam and Eve are sent out of the garden.

We read this in Genesis chapter 5, this is the book of the

Genesis 5 · chapter mention

generations of Adam. This is verses 1, through 3,

when God created man, he made him in the likeness of God, male

and female. He created them and he blessed

them and name them. Man.

When they were created, when Adam had lived a hundred thirty

years, he fathered a son in his own likeness after his image and

named him. Seth You see the difference?

Is there when God created man, he made him in the likeness of

who God, then Adam fathered a son in whose likeness his own

likeness. After his own image, mankind,

still Bears, the image of their creator, but it's a broken

image. It's a it's marred by sin,

Romans 5:12 further clarifies this.

Romans 5:12

Therefore just as Sin came into the world through one man, which

is Adam, this chapter makes it clear that it's Adam Just a sin,

came into the world through one man, Adam and death through sin,

and so death, spread to all men, because all sinned, Romans 3:23

Romans 3:23

for all, have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.

None of us are bearing the image of God anymore perfectly

Especially so, as unbelievers, we are marred by our sinful

nature, which are inherited, which is inherited from our

first parents, Adam and Eve. We are broken mirrors.

We are guilty of sin Alan just mentioned last week that we're

all worshiping something. We're all devoted to something,

some may worship false gods of their own imaginations of their

own creations. And some may worship the one

true God of the Bible, but no one is indifferent, there's no

neutrality in this, you are worshipping something, everyone

lives, their life and Devotion to something and whatever that

is it is their God. You might be what you're devoted

to most and so you are your own God.

It might be something else. Maybe your spouse, maybe your

children, may be saying. Everything I do is for these

people. And while it's a noble concept,

you're making your wife or your spout, your husband, you're

making them God, you're making your children.

God, if it's your career, you think this is who I am.

You're making it God. Maybe it's your addictions.

Your sins struggles. I am a believer but I'm also a

whatever alcoholic recovering alcoholic or same-sex attracted.

But I'm a Christian, you know, like what you're doing, is

you're making those things God. Adam and Eve were created to

worship God. By eternally dwelling, in the

presence of God. Joyfully doing the will of God,

spreading the glory of God into all the Earth.

But their sin got them removed from the garden verses 22

through 24. There in Genesis 3 just a few

verses later we read this. Then the Lord God said, behold

the man has become like one of us and knowing good and evil.

Now lets you reach out his hand and take also of the tree of

life and eat and live forever. And God just breaks his thought

there. Therefore the Lord God sent him

out from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he

was taken, he drove out the man and that the east of the Garden

of Eden, he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned

every way to guard, the way to the Tree of Life.

They are forever barred from entering the place of God, that

God had given them Adam and Eve leave the fruitful garden and

embark on a new far, more difficult journey to become

image. Bearers for the glory of God in

the Earth. And if that were like the

totality of the historical Narrative of our first parents,

like this is all we had, we would be filled with

discouragements and hopelessness and rightfully.

So for in that existence and existence separated from the

presence of God. And that existence, where you're

in your sin, there is no way to return to God and proper

worship. They're barred forever.

There's no way for us to commune with him because of our sin.

Our sin also removes us from the presence of God.

And if that's true, if we've been forever removed from the

presence of God and why in the world are we gather together

right now at this place. And in this time Why do we

gather? Why do we show up for corporate

worship on the Lord's Day each week?

Because we know, we know brothers and sisters that God

did not leave us in our sin. He has not left us without a way

to return to him and proper worship.

Amen. The look-back with me at Genesis

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chapter 3. Let's look a little closer at

what happened here. Because I believe that here, God

has established for us. The outline for what happens in

worship from the very beginning of time.

But the true worship only happens in God's way.

Which he reveals here in his work and we'll see it over.

And again, throughout the scriptures as we go through the

series, we see the same pattern. The first thing we see is that

God initiates God, initiates worship.

Happens on God's terms after their sin, Adam and Eve are not

seeking. God, they're naked and ashamed.

Right? What are they doing?

Are they running for the Lord somewhere?

No, we're looking for ways to cover themselves with loin

cloths, right? They're trying to cover their

shame. They're trying to hide their

sin. Kind of make themselves

presentable instead of running to their creator, begging for

his forgiveness. And pardon they cover themselves

in fig leaves. I'm here to tell you.

This is the pattern of all of humanity, no one seeks God.

No one seeks. God, this is what Isaiah says.

This is what Romans chapter 3 is saying there is none righteous?

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No, not one. No one seeks after God.

It is God who seeks. So what does God do?

Look at verse 89 again, and they heard the sound of the Lord.

God Walking In The Garden. In the cool of the day.

And the man and his wife hid themselves.

From the presence of the Lord God Among the Trees of the

garden, but the Lord God. Did.

What ignore them? And just passed on by?

Oh, Lord, God Called To The Man. He said to him, where are you?

You see God seeks out the man and the woman.

The head. They have blasphemed, his name

have rebelled against him and true worship.

God comes to his people. The people do not first perform

for him and then he shows up as finny says rather.

They come because he calls them. This is why we begin the service

with a call to worship. The call isn't about us reciting

something out of dead, wrote religious activity.

It's about acknowledging that we are here, because God calls us

to worship him. We can come to worship because

God has called us to come. He draws Us in, and we respond

in obedience, we come. And though he calls us and we

come, this is not the end of it, we still cannot worship him

properly because our sin remains and he is perfectly, holy and

just and cannot approve of our sin. the second thing we see is

that we acknowledge our sin, I must acknowledge our sin.

What happens next in? The narrative is not a

restoration of Fellowship. God talking to the man saying,

where are you in the man? Answering back.

This is not Fellowship yet. This is not them dwelling

together in harmony. Yet this is not peace with God.

That's why the man's hiding and eventually is going to go on to

make excuses. He's not at peace with God yet.

He's still afraid of God because of his sin.

The Lord God Called To The Man and said him, where are you?

And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was

afraid because Cuz I was naked and I hid myself and he said,

God said, who told you that you were naked?

Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to

eat. And the man said no, no, the

woman who you whom you gave to be with me.

She gave me the fruit of the tree and I ate.

So who's at fault in Adams mind. Oh, the woman know.

God. He's accusing God of causing his

Misfortune right? The woman who gave you gave to

me. Sure.

Eve disobeyed Eve, offered the fruit Adam took of it, but who's

he blaming, right? He's not blaming the woman and

he is in a sense, but he's blaming God, the woman you gave

me. Did this?

Then the Lord God said to the woman?

What is this? That you have done in the woman

said, the serpent deceived me and I ate As noted earlier, this

is the beginning of regret and shame and blame Shifting.

The Regatta is the the origin of sin.

Really what's on display here is pride unchecked pride the woman.

You gave me It's your fault. God, you're the reason I'm in

sin here. It was better off.

I was better on my own. There's more than that happening

here though than just the regret and shame and the blame-shifting

that we see. This is more than a kid getting

caught with his hand in the cookie jar, right?

But I wasn't I was I was cleaning it.

Yeah just making sure there were cookies in it for later mom.

What God is doing here? Is he's asking what are you?

What's where are you, what have you done?

Got us pronouncing his righteous.

Judgement on the man and They were guilty of sin, and let me

tell you something, God means for them to understand it.

Deeply There is no good news of the Gospel here yet.

This is you are in Rebellion against my decree.

You have sinned against the holy God.

Why have you done this? We might all look at ourselves

in the mirror one day and asked the same things.

Because we're all guilty of treason against God, rebelling

against him. And so God is pronouncing his

righteous judgment. They're guilty of it.

He means from the sit, their hearts are foul, their sin has

blemished them forever. Have you eaten of the tree of

which I commanded you not to eat.

They got really have to ask. I mean, it's God, limited and

any kind of a way at all. Oh, you guys know this, right?

The one who created the heavens and the Earth out of nothing,

right. That he didn't have a substance

that he created these things out of him.

He spoke them into being by the power of His voice.

That he really need to know what happened.

Of course he didn't, he's an all-powerful all-knowing.

All presence. God from the depths of the

ocean, to the heights of the heavens, from the one corner of

creation to the Opposite corner of creation.

There is nothing hidden from the side, or the knowledge of God.

Everything, what exists from him, and through him, and to

him, it's all his nothing's hidden.

So he knew what Adam and Eve had done.

You know exactly what they did and he pronounces his verdict

and verses 16 and 19. The woman he said, I will surely

multiply your pain in childbearing and pain you shall

bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to

your husband but he shall rule over you and to Adam he said

because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have

eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, you shall not eat

of it. Cursed is the ground because of

you in pain, you shall eat of it all the days of your life thorns

and thistles it shall bring forth for you.

And you shall eat the plants of the field of the The sweat of

your face. You shall eat bread till you

return to the ground for out of it.

You were taken for. You are dust and to dust.

You shall return. Woo.

Sin, Sin marred, the very things that they were created to be

doing Eve, is creative, because God looks at him.

And says, it's not good for the man to be alone.

I'm going to create for him. I help meet Eve is created to

image the glory of God in creation.

Is she AIDS the man in fruitfulness?

As a help meet and mother. And she's now going to have

desires that are contrary to her design.

Namely, she will want to rule over him.

Her desire will be for him. By the way, we might say hello

to the foundation of the feminist movement, right?

That's what this is. Adam created to image the glory

of God and creation as he works, and keeps the fruitful guarding

the place that God gave to him. With the help of his wife will

now have to work against thorns and thistles by the sweat of his

brow until he returns to the dust that he was created from.

Adding insult to injury, God will send them out of the

garden, struggle and toil, and strife, will be their future

Decay destruction, and death will Mark creation for the rest

of time. The Earth exists.

This is the pronouncement of judgment and Adam and Eve have

heard clearly. The third thing that happens in

worship as that God provides atonement.

God provides atonement God initiates his Plan of Redemption

in his curse on the serpent. Which I intentionally did not

read yet but here you are verse 15.

I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your

Offspring and her Offspring. He shall bruise your head and

you shall bruise his heel. Though, the serpent deceived,

the woman, the serpent thinks I've won the day.

The victory is mine. I've caused the fall of God's

Crown, Jewel of creation, the ones who were meant to Bear His

Image. No longer bear His Image,

perfectly or marred by sin. They're like me.

They're liars. And deceivers.

But the victory we see here will ultimately belong to God because

God In The Offspring of the man and the woman will come in The

Offspring of the man. And the woman one will come who

will bruise the head of the serpent though.

He himself will be bruised in the process.

The bruise head of the serpent is a death blow dealt by the one

who's heel will be bruised in the process, but a bruised Hill

and a bruised head or not, the same thing.

Amen. You can stub your toe and that's

different than if something falls on your head, right?

Ultimately, there's going to be one who brings the death of

death. His heel will be bruised in the

process but he will deal the deathblow to death.

This verse is called the protoevangelium.

It is the first Proto pronouncement of the Gospel or

good news Evangelion. God is foreshadowing.

The provision of atonement. He's foreshadowing.

The coming of Christ by his Incarnation, through the seed of

the woman who the spirits conception and Merry Christ is

The Offspring who will cut off the head of the serpent, and he

does so on the cross. Amen.

On the cross Christ became sin for us who knew no sin.

Sorry he became sin who knew no sin for us.

So that by faith in him, we who knew nothing, but sin might

become the righteousness of God. Second Corinthians 5:21 all who

2 Corinthians 5:21

call on the name of the Lord, by faith in Christ death.

And his resurrection will be saved, Romans 10:9.

Romans 10:9

Genesis 3:21 says this and the Lord God made for a demand.

Genesis 3:21

For his wife, garments of skins and clothed.

Now them now, this is right before, so they're trying to

make fig leaves, which is what we do in our own righteousness.

Which is filthy rags right there.

Trying to sew together loincloth and like, cover themselves.

And God says, I do know where I'm sending you out there.

You're going to need a different kind of clothing, and so we

closed them in animal skins, which is really just a further

foreshadowing of believers who are ultimately, we being clothed

in the righteousness of Christ by faith.

Foreshadowing taking their awful clothing.

Removing it from them and giving them proper clothing, which is

what we see of those were worshipping.

At the end of Revelation there, dressed in the robes that Christ

has Adorn them with righteousness of him.

Fourth thing we see is that we commit ourselves to him, Adam

and Eve faced with their sin, but hearing the promise of God

to crush the serpent commit themselves to God.

Genesis 3:22 look what it says. The man called his wife's name

Genesis 3:22

Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Adam knew that life because of the promise that God made in the

curse of the serpent, he makes a promise to Mankind and because

of that promise Adam knows that my wife is now the mother of all

living like she is. The reason the seed that carries

on through her is going to be the reason That life is restored

to Mankind, we know death now but we will know life again

though they had sinned against God and received death that his

sin came into their life, it's death and that way but it's also

the end of life at some point. It would not last forever.

So he calls his name, wife eat, his wife's name, Eve, To

commemorate this. The fifth thing we see is that

we feast and communion with God and now have communion with God

again, though that was disrupted by Kane's murder of his brother

Abel. All hope is not lost, right?

We'll see this right here in Genesis chapter 4, which comes

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on the Tilt that these last few years, come on the telling of

the story of Cain and Abel. So, Adam.

And Eve had two sons, one gets jealous of the other because his

offering was received by the Lord because it was made in the

right way. Kane tried to Worship in the

wrong way. God didn't receive his offering

and he gets jealous. So what does he do?

Cousin, kills his brother. And in verses 25 through 26

after Cain is banished, he's gone.

Now to go do his thing and you read about all the destruction

that's going to come from him in the future verse 25.

It says in Adam knew his wife again, meaning they conceived

again, she bore a son and called his name Seth for she said, God

has appointed for me another Offspring.

She's holding onto this Hope Of The Offspring in Genesis 3:15,

Genesis 3:15

instead of Abel for Cain killed him. so and if you track it, you

trace it, and the genealogies, all those things, we Skip and

read Christ comes from the line of Seth I mean it's a whole long

line, but it's there and the same way.

Oh and then so and that says, to Seth also was born.

A son was born and he called his name enosh.

And at that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.

He is God God's in the cool of the day, wandering through the

garden. Adam and Eve sinned, what does

he do? He calls on them.

And now here we see the people calling on the name of the Lord

and proper worship restored Fellowship.

There in communion with God again by faith. we come to see

that fleshed out in Abraham chapters 12 and on in Genesis,

So in the same way we have communion with God today,

through faith in Christ of the pictures become clearer and

clearer Through The Years, through Revelation.

Because of the atonement that Christ, the see The Offspring of

who Christ is and how he dealt a death blow to Satan and so we

can dwell with God. Each day we can live for God.

When being communion with God, the sixth thing we see is that

he sends us We're kind of describing the flow of a worship

service. Prescribing, the flow of worship

in the Bible. The six elements of this six

part 2. This is that he sends us, God

sent a Adam and Eve out of the garden committed to God.

They would be able to live for him once again by faith.

We see this in their children and the fact that the people

began to call upon the name of the Lord in that day.

Or at that time, Adam and Eve must have been cultivating and

guarding a Devotion to God, that others were NG to do also

carried on through their son. It's a weekly worship is a

reenactment of this shape that God calls us.

The verdict is pronounced. Atonement is seen in Christ.

We commit ourselves to him and he sends us, amen.

It's a reenactment of this gospel shape that God provides

here in Genesis and we'll see it throughout the scriptures will

begin to see this take shape as we go through this.

So you see worship does not begin with man as the standard

man. Were the standard would get it

wrong, man, cannot be the standard because he is sinful

and corrodes God and His word are the standard for worship.

Everything we do and worship must be held accountable to

God's word. More than that.

Everything we do in worship must be derived from his Word and not

everything we do and worship just because we think it's good.

And right means that it's good. And right on the side of God.

In the coming weeks, we'll look more at the Theology and the

elements of a worship service, but for now, must understand

that worship is Drawing Near to communion with God through

Christ in the spirit by faith. That is to worship God's way and

it is the most important thing you will ever do.

So I ask you brothers and sisters and what ways does your

life, not reflect true Godly worship and what ways are your

heart is your heart devoted to your own desires of the desires

of others. And what ways have you ignored

God? Daily in your life.

And what ways have you like? The proverb said, become has

your belly become your God, meaning you go the way of your

own desires, your own appetites. I'm for you today.

To answer the call of God, to repent of your sins, to commit

yourself to Christ, centered worship, allow him to send you

out as you fellowship with him. Men, let me pray for you.

Heavenly father, I thank you. For these men and women.

I thank you, Lord, for your word and your faithfulness to us.

What would you help us to worship you correctly?

Help us worship you properly. The ways that you have designed

in the ways that you have made clear in your word.

Father, we recognize that you call us.

We call us. And so therefore we come we love

because you first loved us, you have called us out of darkness

and into Marvelous Light you have pulled us up from the Miry

clay and given us a rock to stand on.

We owe everything to you. If we are saved it is because of

Christ it is because of your call is because of your actions,

not our own. There is no way to fellowship

with you, apart from faith. So Lord, would you deepen our

faith? Would you strengthen our faith?

If we might Worship You More completely more fully, we might

exercise a deeper Devotion to you.

And we might not sin against you by going the way of our own

bellies. Seeking out our own desires.

Help us to depend on Christ Alone.

Lord, we love you, praise you for your word.

Thank you for your spirit, which convicted Spirit, which leads.

Spirit which teaches us by Your Word, trains Us by Your Word,

reproves us corrects Us by Your Word, so that we might grow in

faith. Help us to be Holy Father, as

you are holding. Thank you for your word Christ

name. I pray.

Amen. Thank you for your word Christ

name. I pray.

Amen.