- True spiritual worship is a duty.
- True spiritual worship focuses on God, not us.
- True spiritual worship is rewarding true submission.
Ceremonial Law series
- Spiritual worship doesn’t follow the requirements of ceremonial law.
- Spiritual worship requires a change of reliance.
- Spiritual worship provides more rewards than ceremonial law did.
- Spiritual worship is all about having a heart that is right with God.
- Neither do the ceremonial laws don’t change our hearts nor do they purify our consciences like spiritual worship does.
- Ceremonial law does not cleanse as spiritual worship does.
- Because ceremonial law doesn’t work, we need to focus on spiritual worship rather than today’s equivalent.
- The ceremonial laws could take us only so far because Jesus hadn’t completed the Plan of Salvation, and we didn’t understand that.
- God didn’t see the sacrifices being offered to worship Him.
- God wants us to perform sacrifices His way, not the way we want to do.
- God always intended that His People would expand from just being the Jews to being all mankind.
- God intended that each of us change from what we were to be more like Him.
- We put spiritual worship into practice when we live our lives totally committed to God.
- Putting spiritual worship into practice entails the right motives.
- We worship God with our bodies as we carry out the actions associated with our choices.
- Body, soul, and spirit are all connected.
- We are to imitate Jesus, Who gave His body as a sacrifice for God.
Identifying Spiritual Worship series
- Spiritual worship can only come after we have been made a new creation.
- It is only through the influence of the Holy Spirit that we engage in spiritual worship.
- The Holy Spirit assists us in our spiritual worship.
- We should continually worship God in the Spirit.
- We are to be sincere, but sincerely alone isn’t what we are talking about.
- We should worship God in spirit and truth because of our love for Him.
- Spiritual worship contains elements of praise and obedience.
- Spiritual worship contains elements of faith.
- We unite our hearts with God when we walk with Him.
- We unite our hearts with God when we are sincere.
- We unite our hearts with God when we separate ourselves to be with God.
- We cannot be united with God if we do not spend time with Him.
Spiritual Habits in Spiritual Worship series
- In order to worship spiritually, we need to get our hearts involved.
- In order to worship spiritually, we need to build spiritual habits.
- Our worship should flow out of our faith for God because He wants us to simply believe in Him.
- Our worship should flow out of our love for God because He has adopted us as His children to remove our bondage.
- God calls us to evaluate our faith so that we know that we are worshiping God correctly and determine where our weaknesses are.
- Desire should be fueled by spiritual motivation, resulting in spiritual worship.
- Desire leading to spiritual worship should be intense.
- Desire leading to spiritual worship should focus on seeking God.
- We will be worshiping God in thanksgiving and adoration through all eternity.
- We were created to worship God.
- Every creature in Heaven is going to worship God.
- Our spiritual worship must be offered because we want to worship God.
- Our spiritual worship must be offered because we understand what God wants us to understand.
- We have to pay attention to how we worship and the motivation to do so.
- Worship isn’t about what we receive; it is about honoring God with holy fear and awe.
- We are to humbly worship God because we are sinners saved by grace.
- We are to worship God humbly because He is King, and we aren’t.
- We are to worship God humbly because He is Sovereign God.
- We can confidently worship God because He is holy and unchanging.
- We can confidently worship God because of Jesus’ sacrifice.
- We must be holy as God is to worship Him.
- We must have faith to engage in spiritual worship for spiritual ends.
- Our worship needs to affect us so much that we have a physical reaction.
- When our motivations are wrong, we need to correct them to focus on God.
- We are to collectively and individually be priests offering living sacrifices to God.
- The attitude we have in prayer should be one of sacrificial offering.
- Our worship must stem from God’s worthiness.
- God gives us specific instructions regarding what is and isn’t acceptable ways to worship Him.
- God requires spiritual worship to be performed His way rather than the world’s way.
- Animals provide for mankind.
- God provides His best for mankind by offering us the Plan of Salvation.
- God provides His best for mankind by offering us eternity.
- Our spiritual worship must stem from our quest for godly wisdom and understanding.
- Our spiritual worship must stem from Who God is and His difference from us.
- If we don’t use the talents and gifts God has given us, we sin and do not worship Him.
- True spiritual worship means we are not formalists or nominalists.
- God has no problem coming to us.
- We must prepare to be in His presence for all eternity.
- Jesus suffered in order to provide mankind redemption.
- Jesus could provide redemption for us because He never sinned.
- Jesus suffered physical death, but the spirit is more important than the physical body.
- We must go through a refining process in order to worship God.
- God will only accept genuine spiritual worship.
- It is our duty, obligation, and privilege to worship God.
- When we do not worship God – when we don’t even acknowledge Him – our sinful nature reigns unchallenged.
- When we don’t use our knowledge to worship God, we live far away from Him.
- Our spiritual graces show how we use or morals to worship God.
- We must diligently worship the right way.
- We prepare our hearts for worship by seeking Him.
- Spiritual worship shows us where our hearts and thoughts fail God.
- Spiritual worship starts with our purity.