GOD SEEKS PROPER WORSHIP–God Cares About What We Use To Worship Him

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Biblical Worship Always
Has Three Elements

Think about everything you know from the Bible about worship.

Every time worship is portrayed in the Bible it always has three elements: first, the person that is offering the worship; second, the offering that they are bringing; and third, the One they are giving that offering to.

Those three perspectives are always present in the Bible. And all three elements had to be RIGHT or the worship was WRONG.

The first worship scene in the Bible is in Genesis 4. The two characters are Cain & Abel. We all know the story. They bring their offerings to God, one offering of worship (Abel’s) is accepted, the other offering of worship (Cain’s), is rejected. Did you notice three parts to the scene of worship?

1. God was the One they worshipped.
2. They were the ones bringing the worship.
3. They presented offerings to God.

All three elements had to be RIGHT: The Right God, the Right offering, and the Right way they offered it. We know the story: Cain brought the Wrong offering (un-bloody produce), the Wrong way (self-styled, and un-submissive), to the Right God. Even though one element was right the worship was rejected.

All three elements must be Right, or the whole process is rejected. That could be a summary of the entire Old Testament, as each chapter of the Old Testament is about whether: people lived the right way, offering the right thing, to the right God.

With that three-part grid in mind, you could analyze and organize much of the Old Testament.