TRUE WORSHIP!!!!!

Psalm chapter 95










Today we are walking in: True Worship







Today we look to the word-WORSHIP- H7812 shachah--to bow down; prostrate oneself before superior in homage; before the Most High in worship







The Torah testifies.........……





Exodus 4:31

And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. H7812






Exodus 34:14

For thou shalt worship H7812 no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:







The prophets proclaim..................




Nehemiah 8:6

And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped H7812 the LORD with their faces to the ground.





Jeremiah 25:6

And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship H7812 them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.





The writings bear witness............



Joshua 5:14

And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, H7812 and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?






2 Chronicles 7:3

And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, H7812 and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever







True Worship of The Most High

We are going to focus on worshiping The Most High. I want you to listen carefully to why much of our so-called worship does not attract The Most High. First of all we want to note the importance of separating the means from the end. This statement is important to write down. When more worth is placed on the means than the end, then the means becomes an idol. It's like worshipping the hose instead of the water that's coming through it. The means for most of us has become our end. Number two any other worship than The Most High, is idolatry. Do you know what was Saul's failure? He worshipped, worship. Then he told The Most High how important worship was to him and he actually told The Most High that worship was more important to him than The Most High. He told The Most High that. Could you imagine telling The Most High I disobeyed you so I could use my disobedience to worship you. That's what Saul told The Most High. You told me to kill all the animals but I kept some, I disobeyed you so I could worship you with it. The Most High says are you crazy? You think that the sacrifice is more important than The Most High you are sacrificing to? He never survived his throne, he lost his kingdom. The Most High is not interested in your song if it's not to him. We sing to audiences, not to The Most High. Do you know how difficult it is to dance before the Lord with people watching? That's tough because you become people conscious. So you start wondering how does my dress look, wondering how this thing flows, am I keeping the beat? In other words, you got all this going on and you're trying to focus on The Most High and all these people are watching. How do you sing to The Most High while everybody's watching and suddenly the song becomes more important than The Most High you're singing to. The people who are listening to the song become more important than The Most High you’re singing to. So the song under the people have become an idol. When the means becomes more important than the end you have an idol and your first memory is I wonder if that was a good sound. I wonder if I did well. I wonder what people think. I mean when you finish the song, it's not I wonder how The Most High thinks, it's not I wonder how The Most High received me tonight. It is I wonder how they received me tonight. It's a tough thing. It happens even when you're teaching the Word of The Most High as a teacher. Many times I have to keep begging The Most High please don't make me say that, because I like to be liked by these people. He says if you don't say it you and I will have a private talk afterwards. I don't like The Most High's private talks because it’s always a one-way talk. You're laughing. You don't understand what it is to be in my position. It's easy to criticize people like me but you have never been in my shoes. That's why Moses had a lot of criticism from his people even his closest people, but they didn't understand what Moses went through. The Most High didn't tolerate anything from Moses. Nothing! That's why he never made it to the promised land. The Most High says you knew better. You shouldn't have cursed that rock. You’re too close to me. They could curse it and I still will take them in but not you. See it's a different relationship. The closer you get to The Most High the less leverage you have. Write it down please. Some of you want to get close to The Most High, you don't know what you're talking about. 37 years of trying to understand The Most High makes me more afraid of The Most High. Matter of fact the fear of The Most High is not just being scared of The Most High. The fear of The Most High is being aware of how dangerous it is to get close to Him. Getting close to The Most High leaves you no room for maneuvering. And you don't need no one to judge you when you are close to The Most High. The Most High does it himself. Write this down please. The Most High detests idolatry. Psalm 78 verse 58 says they angered the Lord with their high places, they aroused his jealousy with their idols. Two things about The Most High in this verse that normally is not associated with The Most High. What are they? Hatred and jealousy. These two things The Most High hates. The Most High hates for you to hate and he hates for you to be jealous. But here The Most High is expressing that he has these two experiences in his own experience when it comes to idols.Verse nine of Isaiah 44 write it down it says all who make idols are nothing and the things they treasure our worthless. 1st John 5 verse 21 says dear children keep yourselves from idols. He's not talking about the statues that you think. Some of you think of idols and all of a sudden you think about these big statues, that people are bowing down to or you know these big Buddha's or something. No, he's talking about a car that you worship, that you shine for hours but never read the Bible. He's talking about those five hours of television time and no time in prayer. He's talking about anything that becomes more worthy than The Most High is an idol. So our battle is between the Creator and the creation, that's our battle. In relationship with The Most High we have to constantly battle between keeping the priorities right. The Creator is more important than the creation. The Creator is more important than the creation, that's a tough battle. When the creation becomes more important than the Creator the result is misplaced worship. Let me tell you something and this is very very heavy but you are always worshipping. The only difficulty is identifying who you are worshipping. We are always making something more valuable all the time. When it becomes more important than The Most High you are a worshipper of whatever that thing is. That may even be a worship conference like this, it might be a song, it might be a dance, it might be an instrument, it might be a group that you're part of, it might be a dance performance or whatever. These can become more important than The Most High. Here's something you may want to remember. The greatest temptation in human experience is the elevation, the distraction by and the preoccupation with the creation more than the Creator. That's our greatest difficulty in life. I'm telling you this is not just for all of us it's for everybody. We are struggling with this. The value of all things are summed up in the manufacture of that thing. In other words, everything that exists gets its value from the one who made it. It is as valuable as the one who produced it. The value that they have in that, that's what it's worth. The source therefore is more important than the resource. Everybody said it aloud with me. The source is more important than the resource. When the resource becomes more important than the source you have an idol. Very important, when we acknowledge the source then that's when we begin to worship. Worship does not begin when you start singing. Worship does not begin when you start dancing or when you start making music on an instrument. That's not worship. True worship begins when you acknowledge the source. What is the word worship? It means first of all from our concept of worth-ship putting worth on someone. That's where the concept, the root word comes from, but it has a number of meanings in the Greek and the Hebrew language. The Hebrew word for worship actually means to esteem with worth, secondly it means to honor, thirdly it means to place the highest value on. When you place the highest value on something it's called worship. So you can put a high value on a TV show you won't miss any time. You placed high value on this TV show every week it has become now an idol. See, you can apply this list to anything. The worship means to bow down. To bow down means to bend yourself right? Okay so worship means you bend yourself towards something. You bend yourself toward your car instead of going to service. You've got to clean your car today so you bend your life toward the car. See that's why it's called bowing. You can bend yourself toward how good you sound rather than bend yourself to The Most High, who you sing it to. So now the song has become the idol that you worship, not The Most High that you plan to sing to. Whatever you bend yourself to, you are worshipping. Another meaning of the word is to acknowledge in all things. The word worship means to acknowledge in all things. Please write this one down. This is the center of worship, to acknowledge in all things. The next concept the word worship is the word perpetual gratitude. What is worship? Perpetual gratitude. How long is perpetual? All the time, constantly, everywhere, every time, all the time. You wonder why David says bless The Lord oh my soul and his praise shall continually be within my mouth?. Now the only way for that to be possible is for something else to cause it. You and I are struggling with praising The Most High every day. We even find a certain day that focus on him. We have some problems. We call that, you know, worship. According to scripture the weekly day to gather before the Most High is on Saturday. What did David discover that made him praise the Lord continually? See that's the issue. The word worship also means to prostate yourself. It also means to mingle. It's a deep word. When you worship your TV, you mingling with it. Whatever you worship, you like to do it in quietness. You know they require focus. Some people got secret sins that are idols and when they do that sin, they don't want nobody around. Am I talking to anybody here? Private deep intermingling, it's worship. Maybe the reality is you can't worship corporately. Maybe the reality is you can praise corporately. The best way to describe worship is like this. When a husband and a wife are apart in a small distance and the husband says, honey you are beautiful, you are lovely, you are glorious, you are kind, you are wonderful. Now what is he doing to her? Praising her. See but he’s far away, so praise is a sign that you aren’t close yet. The louder your praise is, is proof that you're still farther away than you think. Worship means to submit yourself to the person. The highest level of praise is the word tehila in Hebrew and it actually means spirit song. Now tehila is not a song you sing to him. Tehila is the song that he begins to sing with you, it's a spirit song. Barach is always right before tehila in the ascending praise. There are seven levels and the sixth level is Barach in Hebrew and it means to be quiet. Hallel is noise, hallel means to jump around wildly and make noise. Shabach means to shout. All those are lower levels. The higher you get, the quieter you get because you're going into the chamber. Barach is the last one before the song tehila and it means to be quiet. That means he's about to make love, you don't want to talk. David says, the Lord is in his holy temple. In other words, all the activity before that point was noisy and loud trying to get him there. When he arises and says now shut up. Come on, let the earth keep silent. When he shows up, he comes for intimacy. When we have a loud musical and worship experience, we think we had a big time. You can't quite go out dancing if there's a chamber experience. You go out pregnant. You can never get pregnant with The Most High's presence in the outer courts. You flirt with The Most High out there. Praise describes The Most High. Worship is to submit to The Most High. Intimacy. What does it mean to worship? To ascribe credit of all things to. It is not describe. Describe is praise. Ascribe is worship. When you describe someone, you talk about them. When you ascribe you always have to use the word too afterwards. I just said something so deep you got to hear it again. When you use the word describe you cannot use the word too afterwards but when you use the word ascribe you have to use the word too and that's where worship begins. Worship begins when you finally figure out everything is His. Ascribe is the key to understanding worship because when you ascribe to someone you are giving them credit. When you describe someone you are telling them how they look or how they are. Great is the Lord... That's not worship that's description. Oh Lord you are beautiful. That is not worship, that's description. The Lord is powerful, that's not worship yet, that's description. Thou are awesome, thou art worthy. No, no that is still praise. You're describing Him. Write this down please. Praise is what we do but worship is what The Most High receives and allows and accepts. If you get this you'll understand humility. Let me tell you what The Most High hates the most. The Most High hates idols. Anyone who you ascribe anything on earth to and they receive it, allow it and accept it, they are competing with The Most High. They are in danger immediately. I hope you hear me. If someone says you sing well, you better be careful how you respond. The Most High made Nebuchadnezzar king. The Most High told him I will bless your kingdom but Nebuchadnezzar began to think it was him. You know The Most High was fine with him until he started thinking, I am The Most High. The Most High says now you see I was being so nice with you let me tell you something, follow me carefully please. It's okay for people to praise you but don't receive it, don't accept it. Keep passing it on. That is called worship. You are ascribing your success to someone else. If you study Yahusha who was the most perfect human that ever lived on earth, what made him so distinctive was these statements. I can only do what I see my father do. I only speak the words I hear my father say. I only can do the work that my father does. He kept on transferring the credit to The Most High and that protected him and kept him in power. The power flow is tied to credit transfer. The danger of success is you receiving the credit and allowing others to give it to you and accepting it as if you deserve it. You are now in trouble with The Most High because now the people are worshipping you. Now don't get me wrong you should, Yahusha praised a lot of people he praised the Centurion. He praised a lot of people but you keep transferring it. You know what made David successful with Goliath? These words, you come to me with a sword and a shield and a spear but I come to you not in my expertise with a sling. See you could be a good singer, an expert on the piano, but you better be careful when you start talking. I don't come to you with a sling but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Israel. The Most High says that's what I want to hear son. I'm going to take care of this. I'm going to fix this sling good. Write this down please. Worship is only possible through the knowledge of the one being worshipped. You cannot worship beyond what you know about the person, your worship is limited to your knowledge of the person. I believe that's why we end up worshipping things. We know our talent real good but we don't know The Most High who gave it to us real good, so we worship what we know. You cannot worship what you don't know, so whatever you know you worship. The reason why The Most High keeps making you go through experiences so that you could have material to worship Him with. The Most High will bring you out of the fire because he wants you to know he's a fire surviving The Most High. So when you come out of the fire, you have something to say that's new about him. Again that's worship. You ascribe to him, my The Most High is inflammable. How did you know that? I've been through the fire. See he allows you to go through the difficulty to introduce himself to you in a new way again and every area he takes, it's a new introduction of The Most High. So now you see if you haven’t had an experience with The Most High, you can't worship Him. People say you don't know what I've been through so you don't know why I'm singing or dancing. That's important. When The Most High began to talk to an individual, he always brought up their past. Every time he rebuked them he'd say, don't you remember what I did? I brought you out of Egypt, I provide the food for you, I fed you in the desert, I gave you clothes, I gave you water out the rock. I gave you food from heaven. He said in other words, he began to say, look you've got enough material to keep ascribing the credit to me. There's a scripture in the Bible that you should even be singing. The scripture goes like this, sing to the Lord a new song. That is not a song, that is a command. The way you got what they call the song for the Lord is from experience. So if you had no experience with The Most High you couldn't sing to the Lord a new song. So they kept singing old songs. So you can tell where people are at by the songs they're singing. So if you sing a sixteenth-century song, which are great songs don't get me wrong, but if that's all the songs you are singing, that's the only experience you had. David says Sing the Lord a new song. Go get some new experiences, go through some more hell. Now that's an interesting request. Don’t sing someone else's song. You are supposed to sing to him based on what you just came out of. You don't need no worship leaders to get anything started. Worship is only possible based on the knowledge of the one you are worshiping. You cannot call great The Most High if he had never showed his greatness to you.