Sermon oct 16 worship pt 3- living it out Colossians 3:1-17
Series sat-539
Prepare your heart
Engage and participate
Living it out
1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b] 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
What we think about worship………….its here, it sit, I sing, I pray, I listen, I leave. Worship is over
If this is true then the rest of our life belongs to us
This is like a mafia buy off, protection money……..god we do our thing with you, so that I then get to spend the rest of my life doing whatever I want.
There is another choice……instead of living the human way, live for God. This is worship
Set your hearts on things above, not on these so human behaviors
The guilty list
The purpose of the guilty list- was never to guilt you but to point you toward the positive list- we just haven’t spend enough time talking about the positive list
Luke 17 the ten lepers – how many of them stop to say thanks? 1. When we live our worship, we are the one. God thank you for my wife. Thank you for my car. Thank you for my mean boss. Thank you for breath.
whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus
Worship is noT strange. It is the most normal thing that you do. Joy from cooking- thank god. Joy from driving a car? Thank god
Do you ever look at an airplane in flight and wonder wha thtey are doing?
Do you ever fly and look down from 4k feet…….look at the little cars……
He knows more about what we are doing than we know about what he is doing
Is our world dominated by work, shopping, hobbies, hurrying from one place to the next-
How can you do these things to the glory of god?
I cant always – often like peter in the garden..couldnt you watch w me one hr?
But I can do better, we all can do better at simply paying attention
Being aware, thinking about it.
First experience of worship- moving from kc to calif at age 12. God help me to make a better start, to make some friends. A 12 year old boy took a very mundane moment and made it holy.
To sing- my mom was a singer. Roamed the kitchen singing.
Fernando Ortega
Psalm 100- enter his gates
1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. 2 Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. 3 Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his[a]; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. 5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
God shows up where ever he is honored, welcomed, loved, acknowledged.
This is really good stuff, but it gets even better when times are tough
Put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness-Is 61
1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,[a]
2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn, 3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair
In worship we join the cosmos in praising God. The whole cosmos, every living being sings, the Psalmists insist.
The heavens declare the glory of God…ps 19
Do you like to go fishing, canoing, to the beach? To the redwoods? To burr oak woods? To the lake? To your back yard? Why? Nature declares Gods glory
250 ad pottery shard
May none of gods wonderful works Keep silence, night or morning.
Bright stars, high mountains, the depths of the seas, Sources of rushing rivers,
May all these break into song as we sing To father, son and holy spirit
May all the angels in the heavens reply- Amen, amen, amen
Power, praise, honour, eternal glory-To god the only giver of grace,
Amen, amen, amen
Harold and Maude -Maude describes the imprisonment of Alfred Dreyfus on Devil’s Island, where he was “thrilled to watch the ‘most beautiful birds’.
“Later on in Brittany,” she said, “he realized they had only been seagulls.” The Cat Stevens music swells a bit, and then Maude explains to Harold, “for me they will always be glorious birds.”
conclusion
The giants of spiritual life are not so designed by the great moments of their life, but in the small routine seemingly begnin moments. Its not that oral roberts built a unitersity, its not that 30 k go to hear joel Osteen preach, its that you and me, we are stopping to acknowledge God
To take an act of your free will and turn yourself towards god, this is an act of worship
God is involved in changing the world, in changing our world. That begins when you notice that what you do, and how you do it matters. I am no longer doing something, I am doing something as unto the lord.
And life is filled with love and joy, and god is celebrated, and we live the life so intended for us.
We all have a deep hunger. What do we hunger for- the presence of God. How do we find it? Acknowledge him
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