A People of Worship

15 Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. 16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?” 17 And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.” —Exodus 33:15-17 (NIV)

• The distinguishing mark of God’s people is his

in us and among us.
• Being people of the presence is our

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calling because that’s what was

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through the fall.
• Worship was at the heart of the temptation in the Garden of Eden because worship is at the

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of being people of the presence.

• Worship

us and

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us as sons and daughters of the Father.
• Worship re-stories us by reminding us that we are living in the

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of what God has done and is doing to save, heal, and restore our world.

• Worship

us.
• As we worship we experience God’s

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, renewing, transformative presence in our lives.
• What you worship, you

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(cf. Psalm 115:4-8).

18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. —2 Corinthians 3:18 (ESV)

• We must learn to

in worship for the presence of God.

31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. —Isaiah 40:31 (TLB)