No 2

(Acceptable true spiritual worship)

God has devoted more space in the Bible to worship than any other topic; so it goes without saying that we, as His people, should consider worship as top priority. We were saved for worship: (Heb 12:28, 29) "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear; For our God is a consuming fire." The key word in this passage is "acceptable" . So how do we go about doing this?

The Bible gives many examples of how to worship God in an acceptable, true, spiritual way. It all began in Leviticus and His people needed to have object lessons (slaughtered lambs) in order to worship God in a true manner; that has all changed now.

We are now able, because of Jesus Christ, to worship God in a true spiritual manner in our everyday lives and the Bible shows us how: a) Our treatment of fellow believers - Rom 14:18 b) Winning someone to Christ - Rom 15:16 c) Giving money to meet needs - Phil 4:18 d) Living a righteous life - Eph 5: 8 - 10 e) Being honest - 1 Tim 2:2, 3 f) Praising and glorifying His name - Heb 13:15, 16.

In all these verses, is the word "acceptable" is either directly stated or implied. Our lives must honor God and everything we do must be directed to Him; any deviation of this is either sin or uselessness; it's as simple as that.