#3: Realize Your Role
Part of "The Pursuit"
August 16, 2020

> God is in His love for me, and my is worship.

> The best gift I can bring to God is my .

> I play a key in our worship gatherings.

What is the point of our worship gatherings?

1) To

believers together for worship

Psalm 95:6-7
6 Come, let’s worship and bow down;
let’s kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For He is our God, and we are the people of his pasture,
the sheep under his care.

2) To build

between us

Hebrews 10:24-25
24 And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, 25 not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.

3) To

us

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom- teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

Gr. plousiōs – “richly, abundantly”

“You can count the seeds in a single apple, but you can’t count the apples in a single seed.”
- a very smart guy named Anonymous

4) To

us out

Your role in our gatherings:

1)

big things

Psalm 122:1
I rejoiced with those who said to me,
“Let’s go to the house of the Lord.”

“Our churches would be different places if congregations would only remember that they preach far more than half the sermon. In an atmosphere of expectancy, the poorest effort can catch fire. In an atmosphere of critical coldness or bland indifference, the most spirit-packed utterance can fall lifeless to the earth.”
- William Barclay

2)

your heart

Psalm 24:3-4
3 Who may ascend the mountain of the LORD?
Who may stand in His holy place?
4 The one who has clean hands and a pure heart…

3)

to the Lord

Psalm 96:1-3
1 Sing a new song to the Lord;
let the whole earth sing to the Lord.
2 Sing to the Lord, bless His name;
proclaim His salvation from day to day.
3 Declare His glory among the nations,
His wondrous works among all peoples.

4)

His beauty

Psalm 96:6
Splendor and majesty are before Him;
strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.

John 17:24-26
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation. 25 Righteous Father, the world has not known you. However, I have known you, and they have known that you sent me. 26 I made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them and I may be in them.”

5)

an offering

Psalm 96:8
Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name;
bring an offering and enter His courts.

2 Corinthians 8:7 NIV
But since you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

2 Corinthians 9:15
Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!

6) Worship with

Psalm 96:9
Worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness;
let the whole earth tremble before Him.

Psalm 2:11
Serve the Lord with reverential awe
and rejoice with trembling.

7)

what you’ve experienced

Psalm 96:10
Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”