WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.600 If you can keep John 17 open in front of you, we will get to that eventually. 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:12.200 We are embarking tonight on the first of a four-week series looking at the topic of worship. 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:18.600 You would be hard-pressed in modern churches to find a topic that is more divisive, 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.640 more loaded and more misunderstood than worship. 00:00:23.080 --> 00:00:27.780 In different circles, the word worship has come to mean completely different things. 00:00:27.780 --> 00:00:32.020 For some, it's as simple as music that we do at one part of the service. 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:37.000 For some, it might be something more personal and isolated and contemplative. 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:39.760 For others, it's a whole bunch of different things. 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:44.280 There is a level of fear and trepidation as we embark on this series 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:48.460 because I know that in a room this size and in a church as diverse as ours, 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:54.079 that there will be differences of opinion amongst us of what worship is and should look like. 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:59.960 But we're not actually going to talk about our church services today. 00:01:00.100 --> 00:01:03.799 We will get to that conversation because what we do when we gather is worship. 00:01:04.780 --> 00:01:09.179 But there's some foundations that we need to lay before we start to have those conversations. 00:01:10.019 --> 00:01:13.259 And even though I am a little bit nervous about this series, I am also excited 00:01:13.259 --> 00:01:16.920 because the Bible teaches us that worship is a gift from God. 00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.180 In fact, it's something he commands us to do. 00:01:19.659 --> 00:01:21.480 So we want to be able to do it well. 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:25.040 It's something that God has given us for our sake, for our joy. 00:01:25.160 --> 00:01:30.439 He's given it so that it can be a bit of a taste of the future bliss that we're going to know in heaven. 00:01:31.219 --> 00:01:35.020 And so whether we've been doing it for a week, a year or 80 years, 00:01:35.300 --> 00:01:38.500 it's something worth us thinking about and wrestling with together. 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:42.480 And it's important before we begin that we all commit to one another 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.939 that we will come to this series teachable. 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:46.560 I don't mean ignorant. 00:01:46.700 --> 00:01:48.560 I don't mean holding your convictions loosely. 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:53.820 But I mean eager to hear what God has to say about what worship should look like. 00:01:54.240 --> 00:01:57.439 So I'm going to pray to that end and then we're going to get stuck into it. 00:01:59.579 --> 00:02:02.740 Father God, we want to thank you that you are a God who loves us. 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.640 You're a God who wants to be known by us. 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.240 You're a God who has revealed yourself so that we can know you. 00:02:09.740 --> 00:02:16.080 And you're a God who gives yourself to us in such a way that we might find joy and contentment in you. 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:21.580 God, I pray that as we reflect on what it is to worship you over these next few weeks, 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:26.160 that you would give us hearts that yearn to be led by you and not by what is comfortable 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:28.360 or what is familiar or what we prefer. 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:34.980 I pray that the result of spending time thinking about this together will be that we are more unified, 00:02:34.980 --> 00:02:40.200 even as we disagree on how things might look or which way we like best, 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:41.960 that we might be unified in Jesus. 00:02:42.939 --> 00:02:43.340 Amen. 00:02:43.340 --> 00:02:49.219 So our question for today is the first one. 00:02:49.640 --> 00:02:50.860 What is worship? 00:02:51.659 --> 00:02:56.860 We need to know what we're talking about before we can talk about when we do it or how we should do it. 00:02:57.120 --> 00:02:59.699 So the question we will ask today is what is worship? 00:02:59.780 --> 00:03:03.020 Or maybe more importantly, what does the Bible say is worship? 00:03:03.599 --> 00:03:07.819 Now, we need to separate it out from being thought of as something that we do 00:03:07.819 --> 00:03:12.000 because worship is better understood as something that is relational. 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:18.120 It's a unique relationship and it's a special relationship because we're talking about worshipping God. 00:03:19.219 --> 00:03:26.280 But, and because it's a unique relationship, it has very specific parameters in terms of how we might relate to God. 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:32.659 So over the course of the series, we're going to think more specifically about what it might look like for you to worship 00:03:32.659 --> 00:03:34.620 and what it will look like for us to worship. 00:03:35.259 --> 00:03:40.180 But today we want to stay a bit broader and give ourselves a definition of worship 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:46.099 and to think what are the marks of true worship as opposed to maybe false worship or unhelpful worship. 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:49.680 And so today I want to focus on three particular markers. 00:03:50.039 --> 00:03:57.359 Having said that it's relational, the first one that we want to say is true worship is responsive. 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:06.060 So because worship is relational and because it's within the relationship between a creator and a creation, 00:04:06.300 --> 00:04:11.180 so a God who is infinite and a creature like us that is finite and limited, 00:04:11.780 --> 00:04:18.860 in that relationship God has full knowledge of us, but we only know what he reveals to us. 00:04:18.860 --> 00:04:26.720 We only know what he chooses to show to us, and so our relationship with him or our worship to him, 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:33.340 our worship of him, is limited to and defined by who he shows himself to be. 00:04:34.620 --> 00:04:41.920 It needs to be a response to who he has revealed himself as and not just how we think we should do it 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:43.860 or what we think might be appropriate. 00:04:43.860 --> 00:04:50.240 But we need to say even more than worship is responsive, because true worship is more specific than that. 00:04:50.939 --> 00:04:57.439 True worship is a right response to God, a right response to the creator who has revealed himself. 00:04:57.580 --> 00:05:01.400 And there is only one right response to the God who's revealed himself to us. 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:06.540 Because God has revealed himself in scripture as the creator, as the sustainer, 00:05:06.540 --> 00:05:12.960 as the holy and righteous judge over creation, as the jealous God who will not share his name and honour, 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:16.899 because that's who he is and who he's shown himself to be, 00:05:17.299 --> 00:05:23.739 the only response we can give to somebody like that who is infinitely worthy is everything. 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:30.139 Our worship must be a response to who he is and what he deserves, 00:05:30.259 --> 00:05:34.579 and so if we are to worship him rightly, if we are to respond to him rightly, 00:05:34.579 --> 00:05:40.099 we must give him all glory and honour and praise because he's worth that. 00:05:40.100 --> 00:05:46.860 And anything less than all glory and all honour and all praise is a wrong response to him. 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:50.980 Anything less than absolute submission and complete and perfect obedience 00:05:50.980 --> 00:05:56.520 is a wrong or at least inadequate response to the God who has revealed himself. 00:05:56.520 --> 00:06:00.740 And so worship that is half-hearted or worship that is exclusive 00:06:00.740 --> 00:06:05.320 falls short of the kind of worship that God demands from us. 00:06:05.319 --> 00:06:10.659 It's almost like I have made a marriage commitment to my wife. 00:06:11.180 --> 00:06:15.959 We have said vows, I have said that she is my wife and I will love her and care for her and do all those things. 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:19.959 Now imagine that I chose to make that same commitment to another woman. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:25.800 It doesn't actually matter how well I love and care for the two of them. 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:29.219 It actually doesn't matter whether or not they feel loved and cared for. 00:06:29.220 --> 00:06:35.120 If both of them feel loved and cared for, I've still failed in my relationship to them 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:41.080 because in our culture, given not everywhere, but in our culture, by definition, 00:06:41.860 --> 00:06:44.620 marriage is between one man and one woman. 00:06:45.580 --> 00:06:47.680 And so as soon as there is a second woman, 00:06:48.060 --> 00:06:54.060 I am not treating the wife with the exclusive commitment that is required from a husband. 00:06:54.060 --> 00:07:00.420 So sharing my allegiance like that becomes inadequate. 00:07:00.660 --> 00:07:04.060 And it doesn't matter how much effort I put into loving these two women. 00:07:04.339 --> 00:07:07.120 I have failed at the fundamental relationship. 00:07:07.300 --> 00:07:13.160 I have failed because by definition, a husband must love one wife exclusively as his wife. 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:24.100 And in the same way, the God who has revealed himself as all glorious and all powerful and worthy of all honour demands our exclusive allegiance. 00:07:25.380 --> 00:07:32.580 It doesn't matter how much effort we put into trying to worship him or pray to him or obey him, 00:07:32.700 --> 00:07:35.620 if we are also doing that in another direction as well. 00:07:36.140 --> 00:07:40.500 Because of who he is, our worship to him must be a right response. 00:07:40.500 --> 00:07:42.759 And that response is exclusive. 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:44.519 It is wholehearted. 00:07:44.699 --> 00:07:50.000 It is the giving of all honour, glory and praise because he's worthy of that and nothing less. 00:07:50.899 --> 00:07:57.959 Throughout the whole Old Testament, worship with God has always been in response to who God showed himself to be. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:05.259 So when God gave the Old Testament Israelites the sacrifices that would become part of the way that they worshipped him, 00:08:05.259 --> 00:08:09.680 that was a response to the holiness and justice of God. 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:14.980 When God gave them commands to give financially for tithes and giving, 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:20.439 that was a response to God revealing himself as the provider for all their needs. 00:08:20.620 --> 00:08:22.699 When God gave them the priestly system, 00:08:22.819 --> 00:08:28.759 that was a response to God showing themselves that he was holy and pure and perfect and they were not. 00:08:29.100 --> 00:08:30.680 Even when you go to the Ten Commandments, 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:38.100 which are kind of like the relational distinctives for what it looks like for Israel to have a relationship with God. 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:46.139 You could call the Ten Commandments the worship distinctives because they were defining what a right response to God was. 00:08:46.580 --> 00:08:48.919 Listen to how they open in Exodus 20. 00:08:48.980 --> 00:08:49.700 It'll be on the screen. 00:08:49.700 --> 00:08:56.020 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 00:08:56.660 --> 00:09:02.720 This is the preamble, if you like, to the instructions that God will give his people on how to relate to him. 00:09:03.780 --> 00:09:09.040 They must relate to him in light of who he has shown himself to be when he rescued them. 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.639 When he, with his mighty hand, took them out of slavery in Egypt, 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:17.839 God revealed himself as a God who is faithful to promise, 00:09:17.980 --> 00:09:24.099 as a God who is mighty, as a God who does not tolerate even Egyptian pharaohs belittling him. 00:09:24.779 --> 00:09:31.480 The relationship Israel has to have with God is to be defined by who God has shown himself to be. 00:09:32.059 --> 00:09:36.480 They can't just look around at what other cultures and people do when they want to worship something 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.139 and grab hold of that and copy. 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:44.159 Worship must be a response to who God has revealed himself to be 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:49.159 and specifically for them, who he revealed himself to be when he rescued them. 00:09:50.099 --> 00:09:57.959 And so, because he has shown himself to them and to us to be infinitely worthy of all honour and glory, 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:05.240 our worship of him must be exclusive, wholehearted, and defined by who he says he is and nothing less. 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:12.680 True worship is a right response to the God who's revealed himself and he does that in scripture. 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:18.159 Here at St Paul's we have a core value of Christ-centred Bible saturation. 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:23.360 We looked at this in our series at the end of last year, but let me read to you one paragraph from that core value. 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:24.360 It says, 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:29.480 And that paragraph and that core value is based on a few different passages of scripture, 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:31.480 but I want to take you to one in particular in 2 Corinthians 4. 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:33.600 It'll be on the screen and I'm going to read from a verse. 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:34.600 It says, 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:53.639 And that paragraph and that core value is based on a few different passages of scripture, 00:10:53.800 --> 00:10:56.720 but I want to take you to one in particular in 2 Corinthians 4. 00:10:57.220 --> 00:10:59.860 It'll be on the screen and I'm going to read from a verse earlier. 00:10:59.860 --> 00:11:29.840 In verse 2, it says, 00:11:29.860 --> 00:11:58.100 The revelation that God has given us, the way he has revealed us is in Jesus. 00:11:58.100 --> 00:12:03.000 Our core value of Christ-centred Bible saturation makes it explicit for us. 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:06.820 We don't want to be people who just know the Bible for the Bible's sake. 00:12:06.980 --> 00:12:12.620 We want to look at Jesus in scripture because that is the purpose of God's word to us. 00:12:14.040 --> 00:12:18.540 And it is clear in that 2 Corinthians passage that if the gospel is veiled, 00:12:18.539 --> 00:12:23.240 it is veiled to those who are perishing, 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:30.079 we cannot know God unless he reveals himself to us. 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:36.459 And so our worship must be a response to who he has revealed himself to be. 00:12:36.460 --> 00:12:41.500 If we have any other starting point, we start somewhere other than with God. 00:12:42.620 --> 00:12:48.480 And so our worship must be saturated by God's word and the message of the gospel of Jesus, 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.879 because that is where God has revealed himself in the person and work of Jesus. 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.340 So the first thing is true worship is responsive. 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:02.220 The second thing, for any true worship to be a right response, 00:13:02.860 --> 00:13:08.200 it needs to be gospel-shaped, which means at least three things. 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:11.659 Firstly, it means it's initiated by God. 00:13:11.659 --> 00:13:15.539 If we take the word worship away, because that's the bit where we get confused, 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:18.759 that's where we trip over when we try and think about the idea of worship. 00:13:18.860 --> 00:13:23.959 If we just think about the gospel, the shape of the gospel is it starts with God. 00:13:24.899 --> 00:13:28.519 God chooses to draw people into a relationship with himself. 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.299 It has nothing to do with the people who he's drawing in. 00:13:31.719 --> 00:13:33.299 Ephesians 1 says it like this. 00:13:33.699 --> 00:13:35.980 It says he chose us in him, in Jesus, 00:13:36.500 --> 00:13:40.639 before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:45.580 So before anyone had any chance to somehow endear themselves to God 00:13:45.580 --> 00:13:49.279 or convince him that he should choose them and invite them into a relationship, 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:51.220 God had already done the choosing. 00:13:52.259 --> 00:13:55.779 The amazing grace of the gospel message is God chose you 00:13:55.779 --> 00:13:58.080 before you had done anything good or bad, 00:13:58.659 --> 00:14:01.899 knowing that you were going to do bad things and be completely unworthy. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:07.559 The gospel clearly starts with God and then draws in unworthy people. 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:11.379 In the passage that Tom read out for us in John 17, 00:14:11.539 --> 00:14:12.459 if you've got it in front of you, 00:14:12.899 --> 00:14:15.079 and from verse 20, I want to read this last chunk. 00:14:16.539 --> 00:14:18.579 My prayer is not for them alone. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.199 This is Jesus praying just before he goes to the cross. 00:14:22.259 --> 00:14:25.719 He's about to be arrested, face his trial, and ultimately die. 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.100 My prayer is not for them alone. 00:14:28.700 --> 00:14:32.519 I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 00:14:32.800 --> 00:14:37.600 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:42.259 May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 00:14:42.700 --> 00:14:45.200 I have given them the glory that you gave me, 00:14:45.340 --> 00:14:47.360 that they may be one as we are one, 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:49.240 I in them and you in me, 00:14:49.540 --> 00:14:51.620 so that they may be brought to complete unity. 00:14:51.620 --> 00:14:55.440 Then the world will know that you sent me and you have loved them, 00:14:55.820 --> 00:14:57.019 even as you have loved me. 00:14:57.560 --> 00:15:01.360 Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.060 and to see my glory, 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.179 the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 00:15:07.860 --> 00:15:10.340 Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, 00:15:10.820 --> 00:15:13.419 I know you and they know that you have sent me. 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.139 I have made you known to them and will continue to make you known 00:15:17.139 --> 00:15:21.100 in order that the love you have for me may be in them 00:15:21.100 --> 00:15:24.100 and that I myself may be in them. 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.199 This is one of the most glorious passages of Scripture, 00:15:28.740 --> 00:15:31.740 but it's also difficult when you first glance at it. 00:15:31.799 --> 00:15:34.679 It feels like John is maybe walking around in circles as he's talking, 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.980 but let's try and follow what Jesus is praying here. 00:15:38.580 --> 00:15:40.799 The message of this passage in John 17 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:45.879 is that God sent Jesus so that we might be one 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:50.000 just as Jesus and the Father are one. 00:15:50.339 --> 00:15:54.740 In fact, Jesus says he wants us to be with him where he is 00:15:54.740 --> 00:15:57.979 so that we can see the glory that the Father has given him. 00:15:58.539 --> 00:16:02.479 Jesus wants us to be able to see the Father in the way that he sees him. 00:16:03.279 --> 00:16:06.839 Unhindered, he wants us to get the full vision of God the Father 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.840 so that we can respond, so that we can know the same love 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:12.440 that the Father has for the Son. 00:16:13.100 --> 00:16:13.879 Did you catch that? 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.920 Jesus wants us to experience the same love 00:16:17.920 --> 00:16:19.780 that God the Father had for him. 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:23.540 The relationship that we're drawn into 00:16:23.540 --> 00:16:26.700 when we place our faith in Jesus and we become Christians 00:16:26.700 --> 00:16:31.900 is the love and service and mutual honour and worship 00:16:31.900 --> 00:16:33.220 of the Father and the Son. 00:16:33.220 --> 00:16:37.860 When we place our trust in Jesus, 00:16:38.019 --> 00:16:43.320 we are drawn into that unhindered, incredible response to God. 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:48.080 We're drawn into Jesus' perfect adoration of his heavenly Father, 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:49.980 perfect service and obedience. 00:16:50.379 --> 00:16:51.820 And what all of that means, 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:55.560 the reason Jesus prays that, the reason that matters, 00:16:55.560 --> 00:16:59.620 is that the only acceptable response to the Father, 00:16:59.620 --> 00:17:02.060 the only right response to God, 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:04.819 the only true worship, 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:08.059 is that of Jesus himself. 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:13.799 The only one who sees God in all his majesty and power 00:17:13.799 --> 00:17:16.640 and responds appropriately is Jesus, 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:20.859 who gives his life in obedience to the Father's will. 00:17:21.660 --> 00:17:24.519 No worship that is self-generated, 00:17:24.619 --> 00:17:27.380 no matter how skilfully or well-intentioned 00:17:27.380 --> 00:17:28.740 or theologically correct, 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:31.640 is acceptable to God. 00:17:32.840 --> 00:17:37.140 It doesn't matter how much you want to bring your worship. 00:17:37.360 --> 00:17:40.180 It doesn't matter how earnest you are in doing it. 00:17:41.820 --> 00:17:43.320 It is unacceptable 00:17:43.320 --> 00:17:48.440 unless it is the perfect love and service 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:50.980 shown by Jesus to his Father. 00:17:50.980 --> 00:17:55.039 This is why true worship has to be gospel-shaped. 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:57.140 Because in the gospel, 00:17:57.299 --> 00:18:00.200 we recognise that it's about God drawing us in 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:02.180 and not us pushing into God. 00:18:03.259 --> 00:18:05.519 We realise that it's about God's initiative 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:06.740 and in the gospel, 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:10.420 we find the means by which our attempts to worship 00:18:10.420 --> 00:18:15.079 can be transformed into true and God-honouring worship. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:18.480 The gospel-shaped worship is God-initiated 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:20.620 and it's Jesus-focused and empowered. 00:18:20.900 --> 00:18:23.019 Have a look at Hebrews 7 on the screen with me here. 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.319 This is talking about priests in the Old Testament. 00:18:27.000 --> 00:18:27.279 It says, 00:18:27.420 --> 00:18:29.000 There have been many of those priests 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:31.799 since death prevented them from continuing in office. 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:34.420 But because Jesus lives forever, 00:18:34.900 --> 00:18:36.620 he has a permanent priesthood. 00:18:37.339 --> 00:18:39.599 Therefore, he is able to save completely 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:41.740 those who come to God through him 00:18:41.740 --> 00:18:44.500 because he always lives to intercede for them. 00:18:44.500 --> 00:18:47.660 Such a high priest truly meets our need, 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:50.640 one who is holy, blameless, pure, 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:52.140 set apart from sinners, 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:54.019 exalted above the heavens. 00:18:55.019 --> 00:18:56.339 Unlike the other high priests, 00:18:56.579 --> 00:18:59.700 he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:01.019 first for his own sins 00:19:01.019 --> 00:19:02.779 and then for the sins of the people. 00:19:03.380 --> 00:19:06.559 He sacrificed for their sins once for all 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:08.319 when he offered himself. 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:13.099 If worship is relating to God rightly, 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:16.799 then for any worship to be possible, 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:20.119 the barriers that stand between us and God 00:19:20.119 --> 00:19:22.899 having a relationship have to be dealt with. 00:19:23.439 --> 00:19:25.679 Our inadequacy, our sin, 00:19:26.099 --> 00:19:27.859 God's justice, his purity, 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:30.399 and the only place they can be drawn together 00:19:30.399 --> 00:19:32.500 is in the life and death 00:19:32.500 --> 00:19:34.119 and resurrection of Jesus. 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:38.939 In his once for all sacrifice, 00:19:39.379 --> 00:19:41.179 in his forever priesthood, 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:45.059 unworthy, unacceptable people like us 00:19:45.059 --> 00:19:48.119 can come to know God as our heavenly father. 00:19:48.500 --> 00:19:49.979 Jesus rose from the dead 00:19:49.979 --> 00:19:51.259 and the passage in Hebrew says 00:19:51.259 --> 00:19:54.899 he now lives forever to be our priest. 00:19:55.859 --> 00:19:58.279 That means when we bring our inadequate, 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:00.599 half-baked attempts at obedience 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:02.559 and praise and honour, 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:05.960 he takes them and transforms them 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:09.299 and instead presents his perfect life of obedience 00:20:09.299 --> 00:20:10.579 to God the Father 00:20:10.579 --> 00:20:14.179 so that our failure to honour God as he deserves 00:20:14.179 --> 00:20:18.379 is transformed by Jesus, 00:20:18.779 --> 00:20:20.639 is replaced by Jesus. 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:24.240 He is the only sufficient priest, 00:20:25.059 --> 00:20:27.059 the only suitable worshipper. 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:29.740 He's holy, he's blameless, he's pure 00:20:29.740 --> 00:20:31.319 and his worship of God 00:20:31.319 --> 00:20:33.500 is the only right response. 00:20:34.140 --> 00:20:35.440 What the gospel does 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:37.339 is draws us into Jesus. 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:40.500 We get to share in his perfect obedience. 00:20:41.019 --> 00:20:43.059 We get to share in his perfect worship. 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:45.240 We become fellow sons and daughters. 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:46.859 We become co-heirs. 00:20:47.220 --> 00:20:48.519 We are washed by his blood 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:50.299 and we are given access to God 00:20:50.299 --> 00:20:52.059 even though we don't deserve it. 00:20:52.059 --> 00:20:57.559 What that means is worship is not just about Jesus. 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:02.559 Jesus is our worship. 00:21:06.159 --> 00:21:10.240 Worship is not actually something that we do or bring. 00:21:10.980 --> 00:21:14.039 He is our response to God. 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:18.500 His perfect life and obedience and sacrifice 00:21:18.500 --> 00:21:20.319 are our response to God 00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:21.960 and it is by faith in him, 00:21:23.019 --> 00:21:24.180 independence on him, 00:21:24.539 --> 00:21:28.259 that we can offer acceptable worship to God. 00:21:28.839 --> 00:21:30.299 It is through faith in him 00:21:30.299 --> 00:21:31.359 and dependence on him 00:21:31.359 --> 00:21:34.339 that we can have a relationship with God. 00:21:35.159 --> 00:21:37.359 What that means is that all true worship 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:40.460 has to begin with a gospel-shaped response. 00:21:40.460 --> 00:21:43.480 It has to begin with inadequacy and confession. 00:21:44.299 --> 00:21:46.559 We don't show up with this fantastic prayer 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:47.299 that we've prepared. 00:21:47.740 --> 00:21:49.160 We don't show up before God 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:51.380 with this amazing day of service and obedience 00:21:51.380 --> 00:21:52.840 that we've managed to put together. 00:21:53.700 --> 00:21:56.220 We show up with empty hands 00:21:56.220 --> 00:22:01.160 in desperate need of help and forgiveness. 00:22:02.579 --> 00:22:04.600 Any worship that comes to God 00:22:04.600 --> 00:22:07.240 apart from utter helplessness 00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:09.279 is false worship. 00:22:10.460 --> 00:22:12.100 Because nothing you can do 00:22:12.100 --> 00:22:13.360 is ever going to be acceptable 00:22:13.360 --> 00:22:16.100 for a God who is infinitely valuable. 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:20.819 It's unacceptable because even your best 00:22:20.819 --> 00:22:23.759 falls so far short of what God is worthy of. 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:27.500 True worship is all about Jesus 00:22:27.500 --> 00:22:29.340 and faith in him. 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:32.440 Jesus is both the object of our worship. 00:22:32.620 --> 00:22:35.079 He's the thing that makes us want to worship. 00:22:35.220 --> 00:22:38.079 He's the revelation of God that we respond to. 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:42.579 But he is also the means by which we can worship. 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:45.579 He is what we respond to 00:22:45.579 --> 00:22:48.000 and faith in him is the response that's required. 00:22:49.339 --> 00:22:51.139 Our worship must be marked 00:22:51.139 --> 00:22:53.079 by a humble awareness of our sin 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:56.599 and a confidence and a boldness to approach God. 00:22:56.759 --> 00:22:58.439 That is the gospel paradox. 00:22:58.639 --> 00:23:00.379 That's the challenge or the tension 00:23:00.379 --> 00:23:01.480 of the Christian life 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:03.879 is that we live every day conscious 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:06.860 of our sin and our failure before God 00:23:06.860 --> 00:23:09.040 but comforted and confident 00:23:09.040 --> 00:23:12.100 in the death and resurrection of Jesus 00:23:12.100 --> 00:23:13.340 to deal with that problem. 00:23:14.100 --> 00:23:15.980 The same is true when we worship. 00:23:17.740 --> 00:23:19.960 We need to be always conscious 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:21.220 of our inadequacy 00:23:21.220 --> 00:23:24.380 so that we might fully depend on 00:23:24.380 --> 00:23:26.120 our sufficient saviour, 00:23:26.860 --> 00:23:28.220 our sufficient substitute. 00:23:28.220 --> 00:23:32.000 Gospel-shaped worship is initiated by God. 00:23:32.120 --> 00:23:32.819 It's about Jesus 00:23:32.819 --> 00:23:33.839 and it's forward-looking. 00:23:34.360 --> 00:23:36.420 One of the things that the gospel does for us 00:23:36.420 --> 00:23:37.000 as Christians, 00:23:37.120 --> 00:23:38.059 as followers of Jesus, 00:23:38.360 --> 00:23:39.980 is it places us in the tension 00:23:39.980 --> 00:23:41.980 of what we already have as Christians 00:23:41.980 --> 00:23:44.120 and what we're looking forward to in the future. 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:47.200 So we know that we have been forgiven by God, 00:23:47.259 --> 00:23:48.660 that it's been done by Jesus 00:23:48.660 --> 00:23:50.039 but it's one day 00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:51.799 that we will actually go to be with him. 00:23:52.259 --> 00:23:53.720 It's one day that our sin 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:55.440 will finally and fully be washed 00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:56.360 and cleansed 00:23:56.360 --> 00:23:58.519 and we will spend eternity with God. 00:23:58.700 --> 00:24:00.320 We need to approach worship 00:24:00.320 --> 00:24:02.200 conscious of that same tension. 00:24:03.299 --> 00:24:05.360 Worship is relating to the God 00:24:05.360 --> 00:24:06.160 who has drawn us 00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:07.720 into a relationship with himself 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:10.880 but the relationship that we have now 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:13.019 is just a shadow of the one 00:24:13.019 --> 00:24:14.039 that we're looking forward to. 00:24:14.620 --> 00:24:15.860 The New Testament says, 00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:18.220 you know, now we know just slightly. 00:24:18.460 --> 00:24:20.080 We have a stunted relationship. 00:24:20.259 --> 00:24:22.420 It's like looking in a mirror dimly 00:24:22.420 --> 00:24:25.279 and the heavenly picture 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:28.259 is one where we will know God fully, 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:30.519 even face to face, 00:24:30.899 --> 00:24:32.200 where we will know him intimately 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:33.660 and enjoy him incredibly, 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:35.379 where all of our sinful desires 00:24:35.379 --> 00:24:37.660 will be fully and completely washed away 00:24:37.660 --> 00:24:38.779 so that there will be nothing 00:24:38.779 --> 00:24:41.139 hindering us from worshipping him 00:24:41.139 --> 00:24:42.299 and loving him 00:24:42.299 --> 00:24:43.599 and being loved by him. 00:24:44.099 --> 00:24:46.279 And the reason this matters for worship 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:49.660 is that because our experience of worship now 00:24:49.660 --> 00:24:50.859 is not what it will be, 00:24:50.859 --> 00:24:53.740 you need to expect 00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:55.679 that it will be imperfect. 00:24:57.219 --> 00:24:58.639 You need to assume 00:24:58.639 --> 00:24:59.559 that your worship 00:24:59.559 --> 00:25:01.839 will not be what it could be. 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:04.099 Our ability to obey, 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:05.899 our ability to focus on Jesus 00:25:05.899 --> 00:25:07.000 when things are difficult, 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:08.679 our ability to trust him 00:25:08.679 --> 00:25:11.279 will be a wrestle day to day. 00:25:13.159 --> 00:25:15.399 Jesus will be an amazing blessing. 00:25:15.719 --> 00:25:16.559 Worship is a gift 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:17.579 where we get to celebrate 00:25:17.579 --> 00:25:19.500 and respond to what God has shown us, 00:25:20.059 --> 00:25:22.460 but there's so much more in store. 00:25:23.439 --> 00:25:24.379 See, the flip side 00:25:24.379 --> 00:25:26.259 to worship not being what it will be 00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:29.559 is that even now, 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:32.259 it's a taste of what's to come. 00:25:34.039 --> 00:25:35.359 Worship is God's gift 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:36.819 to spur us on. 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:39.039 It's the little taste test, 00:25:39.139 --> 00:25:40.319 the entree, if you like, 00:25:40.399 --> 00:25:42.179 for the feast of joy 00:25:42.179 --> 00:25:42.899 and satisfaction 00:25:42.899 --> 00:25:44.579 that we will experience in heaven 00:25:44.579 --> 00:25:46.139 when we get to relate to God 00:25:46.139 --> 00:25:47.839 freely and fully. 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:49.980 Sometimes we talk about 00:25:49.980 --> 00:25:52.359 church being the shot in the arm 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:53.779 that we need to get through the week. 00:25:54.220 --> 00:25:55.500 It's the spiritual kind of 00:25:55.500 --> 00:25:56.759 pick-me-up that we need, 00:25:56.839 --> 00:25:58.439 so our weeks are shaped like this. 00:25:58.859 --> 00:25:59.939 And it's actually not 00:25:59.939 --> 00:26:01.859 completely wrong to say that. 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:04.759 When we gather for worship like this, 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:05.699 which is what we do, 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:07.419 we do worship when we gather together, 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:09.000 it's good and right 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:10.220 that this should feed you 00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:11.059 and encourage you 00:26:11.059 --> 00:26:11.960 and spur you on 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:12.819 and energize you 00:26:12.819 --> 00:26:13.680 because this 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:15.680 is a taste of heaven. 00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:18.059 Heaven will be 00:26:18.059 --> 00:26:19.680 infinitely better than this, 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:21.480 but this is God 00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:22.799 just giving you a little teaser 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:24.340 of what it will be like 00:26:24.340 --> 00:26:26.059 to reflect on his majesty, 00:26:26.819 --> 00:26:28.160 to reflect on his grace 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:28.900 and love 00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:30.720 and mercy. 00:26:33.019 --> 00:26:33.960 Now next week, 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:34.559 we're going to wrestle 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:35.460 with the question of 00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:36.559 so when do we worship? 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:38.400 Is there a set time? 00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:39.400 Is there... 00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:40.740 You stew on that for a week 00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:41.720 and we'll come back to it. 00:26:42.259 --> 00:26:43.380 But just one last thing 00:26:43.380 --> 00:26:44.079 to finish tonight. 00:26:44.180 --> 00:26:44.819 I said there was three. 00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:45.700 The first one is that 00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:46.960 true worship is a response. 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:48.440 The second one is that 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:49.400 true worship needs to be 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:50.120 gospel-shaped. 00:26:50.839 --> 00:26:51.900 And the third one 00:26:51.900 --> 00:26:53.759 is that true worship 00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:55.359 needs to be both 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:56.240 adoration 00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.039 and action. 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:00.720 It needs to be both 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:01.680 affection 00:27:01.680 --> 00:27:03.740 and obedience. 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:05.779 You can't actually have 00:27:05.779 --> 00:27:07.200 one without the other. 00:27:07.299 --> 00:27:08.059 To the one who 00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:09.639 sings wholeheartedly 00:27:09.639 --> 00:27:10.679 and is overcome 00:27:10.679 --> 00:27:11.419 with emotion 00:27:11.419 --> 00:27:12.440 at the mere mention 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:13.379 of Jesus 00:27:13.379 --> 00:27:14.519 or the cross 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:15.720 and yet 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:17.039 does not wrestle 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:17.599 with sin, 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:19.339 does not see it 00:27:19.339 --> 00:27:19.879 as important 00:27:19.879 --> 00:27:20.619 to live a life 00:27:20.619 --> 00:27:21.179 of obedience, 00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:22.079 there is a disconnect 00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:22.539 there. 00:27:22.779 --> 00:27:23.779 There is a misunderstanding 00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:24.799 of the gospel. 00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:26.919 And equally, 00:27:27.059 --> 00:27:27.740 to the one who 00:27:27.740 --> 00:27:28.659 fiercely wrestles 00:27:28.659 --> 00:27:29.200 with sin 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:30.259 and is militantly 00:27:30.259 --> 00:27:30.839 disciplined 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:31.819 in their day-to-day 00:27:31.819 --> 00:27:32.299 routine 00:27:32.299 --> 00:27:33.480 but has no love 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:34.039 for Jesus, 00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:36.379 there is a disconnect 00:27:36.380 --> 00:27:36.840 there. 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:38.540 There is a misunderstanding 00:27:38.540 --> 00:27:39.520 of the gospel 00:27:39.520 --> 00:27:40.740 and what you are 00:27:40.740 --> 00:27:41.220 flirting with 00:27:41.220 --> 00:27:42.000 is legalism 00:27:42.000 --> 00:27:42.940 rather than worship. 00:27:45.840 --> 00:27:46.400 Worship 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.780 is a response 00:27:47.780 --> 00:27:48.460 to who God 00:27:48.460 --> 00:27:49.420 has revealed himself 00:27:49.420 --> 00:27:50.780 to be in the gospel. 00:27:51.700 --> 00:27:52.440 That means 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:53.500 that in worship 00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:54.980 we serve 00:27:54.980 --> 00:27:55.760 and we obey 00:27:55.760 --> 00:27:57.040 because of what God 00:27:57.040 --> 00:27:58.140 has done for us. 00:27:58.400 --> 00:27:59.460 Out of love 00:27:59.460 --> 00:28:00.260 and adoration 00:28:00.260 --> 00:28:01.340 it needs to be 00:28:01.340 --> 00:28:02.600 that sense of awe 00:28:02.600 --> 00:28:03.640 and affection 00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:04.700 and love 00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:05.500 for the God 00:28:05.500 --> 00:28:06.500 who gave his son 00:28:06.500 --> 00:28:07.200 so that you could 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:07.720 know him. 00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:10.460 And that awe 00:28:10.460 --> 00:28:11.100 and love 00:28:11.100 --> 00:28:11.840 and affection 00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:12.840 and adoration 00:28:12.840 --> 00:28:14.300 needs to express itself 00:28:14.300 --> 00:28:15.340 in obedience. 00:28:17.040 --> 00:28:17.600 Now, 00:28:17.800 --> 00:28:19.540 this whole message 00:28:19.540 --> 00:28:20.680 might feel a bit 00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:21.240 overwhelming. 00:28:22.800 --> 00:28:23.660 You might wish 00:28:23.660 --> 00:28:24.860 that we could just 00:28:24.860 --> 00:28:26.300 erase the last 25 minutes, 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:27.020 you had a much 00:28:27.020 --> 00:28:28.120 more simple 00:28:28.120 --> 00:28:29.660 and handleable 00:28:29.660 --> 00:28:30.720 understanding 00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:31.180 of worship 00:28:31.180 --> 00:28:32.100 before we began. 00:28:32.099 --> 00:28:33.599 you might now 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:34.399 be more nervous 00:28:34.399 --> 00:28:35.159 about worship 00:28:35.159 --> 00:28:35.519 thinking, 00:28:35.699 --> 00:28:36.379 what if I do it wrong? 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:39.119 But I want you 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:39.639 to remember 00:28:39.639 --> 00:28:41.500 worship, 00:28:42.219 --> 00:28:43.759 this is the one thing 00:28:43.759 --> 00:28:44.599 you pick up tonight, 00:28:45.439 --> 00:28:46.599 worship is not 00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:47.480 about you. 00:28:48.699 --> 00:28:49.619 It's not about 00:28:49.619 --> 00:28:50.219 if you do it 00:28:50.219 --> 00:28:50.779 right or wrong. 00:28:51.639 --> 00:28:52.579 It's a response 00:28:52.579 --> 00:28:53.740 to who God is 00:28:53.740 --> 00:28:55.419 and it's a response 00:28:55.419 --> 00:28:56.299 that he's provided 00:28:56.299 --> 00:28:57.139 in his son. 00:28:58.980 --> 00:28:59.339 Worship, 00:28:59.939 --> 00:29:00.579 true worship 00:29:00.579 --> 00:29:01.919 is all about 00:29:01.919 --> 00:29:02.599 Jesus. 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:05.779 It's all about 00:29:05.779 --> 00:29:06.799 trusting that God 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:07.519 has provided 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:08.779 all that you require. 00:29:10.279 --> 00:29:11.179 Worship is meant 00:29:11.179 --> 00:29:12.220 to be a delight 00:29:12.220 --> 00:29:13.500 and a joy for us, 00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:15.119 not because we like 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:15.720 the music, 00:29:16.679 --> 00:29:19.199 but because the God 00:29:19.199 --> 00:29:20.099 who we worship 00:29:20.099 --> 00:29:21.939 in each and every day 00:29:21.939 --> 00:29:23.579 is utterly delightful 00:29:23.579 --> 00:29:25.059 and completely 00:29:25.059 --> 00:29:26.179 satisfying. 00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:29.740 true worship 00:29:29.740 --> 00:29:31.600 is a response 00:29:31.600 --> 00:29:32.220 to the God 00:29:32.220 --> 00:29:33.220 who reveals himself 00:29:33.220 --> 00:29:36.340 and that response 00:29:36.340 --> 00:29:37.299 is faith 00:29:37.299 --> 00:29:38.120 in his son 00:29:38.120 --> 00:29:39.580 who lived 00:29:39.580 --> 00:29:40.759 the perfect life, 00:29:41.320 --> 00:29:42.680 died the substitute's 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:43.039 death 00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:44.360 and now lives 00:29:44.360 --> 00:29:44.920 forever 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:46.340 interceding for us. 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:48.900 True worship 00:29:48.900 --> 00:29:49.940 is both 00:29:49.940 --> 00:29:50.560 adoration 00:29:50.560 --> 00:29:51.279 and action 00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:52.920 because our God 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:53.640 is worth 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:54.920 that and more. 00:29:57.060 --> 00:29:57.759 Let's pray. 00:30:02.420 --> 00:30:03.200 Father God, 00:30:03.280 --> 00:30:04.420 we want to 00:30:04.420 --> 00:30:05.140 confess 00:30:05.140 --> 00:30:05.980 that there is 00:30:05.980 --> 00:30:07.160 some part of us 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:07.700 that needs 00:30:07.700 --> 00:30:08.140 to be able 00:30:08.140 --> 00:30:08.759 to contribute. 00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:10.460 There is some 00:30:10.460 --> 00:30:11.300 part of us 00:30:11.300 --> 00:30:11.680 that wants 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:12.100 to be able 00:30:12.100 --> 00:30:13.040 to do something 00:30:13.040 --> 00:30:14.240 to worship you. 00:30:15.820 --> 00:30:16.520 There is some 00:30:16.520 --> 00:30:17.020 part of us 00:30:17.020 --> 00:30:17.420 that needs 00:30:17.420 --> 00:30:17.980 to still be 00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:18.680 in control. 00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:20.480 Help us 00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:20.880 to be able 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:21.460 to recognize 00:30:21.460 --> 00:30:23.180 that we 00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:23.700 can't be 00:30:23.700 --> 00:30:24.279 in control, 00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:25.120 that we 00:30:25.120 --> 00:30:25.680 are helpless 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:27.059 within ourselves, 00:30:27.180 --> 00:30:27.440 that we 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:28.140 need you. 00:30:29.860 --> 00:30:30.340 God, 00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:30.840 help us 00:30:30.840 --> 00:30:31.480 to be people 00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:32.079 who seek 00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:32.380 you and 00:30:32.380 --> 00:30:32.960 find you 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:33.259 in your 00:30:33.259 --> 00:30:33.600 word. 00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:35.440 Help us 00:30:35.440 --> 00:30:36.000 to be people 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:36.759 who delight 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:37.319 in our 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:38.019 inadequacy 00:30:38.019 --> 00:30:38.420 and our 00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:38.799 weakness 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:39.220 and our 00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:39.860 hopelessness 00:30:39.860 --> 00:30:40.880 because there 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:41.299 is hope 00:30:41.299 --> 00:30:41.620 in the 00:30:41.620 --> 00:30:42.000 gospel. 00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:44.500 Help us 00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:45.079 to be people 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:45.799 who rejoice 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:46.420 in depending 00:30:46.420 --> 00:30:47.100 on Jesus, 00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:49.120 not just 00:30:49.120 --> 00:30:49.740 for forgiveness 00:30:49.740 --> 00:30:50.319 but for 00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:50.920 everything. 00:30:51.460 --> 00:30:53.840 help us 00:30:53.840 --> 00:30:54.240 to know 00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:54.819 the joy 00:30:54.819 --> 00:30:55.819 and satisfaction 00:30:55.819 --> 00:30:56.279 that are 00:30:56.279 --> 00:30:56.740 found in 00:30:56.740 --> 00:30:57.019 you 00:30:57.019 --> 00:30:59.059 as we 00:30:59.059 --> 00:30:59.500 adore 00:30:59.500 --> 00:30:59.799 you, 00:31:00.019 --> 00:31:00.440 as we 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:01.120 obey you, 00:31:01.660 --> 00:31:02.180 as we 00:31:02.180 --> 00:31:02.880 live lives 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:03.759 of wholehearted 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:04.240 worship. 00:31:05.840 --> 00:31:06.440 Amen.