Volume 1 Lesson 6 Worship

A Story of Worship
John 4:1-26
What is worship?
Romans 12:1-2
1 Chronicles 16:29

To “worship” in the original Greek language is the word “proskuneo,”

Why do I worship the Lord?
Luke 4:5-8
Psalm 29:2
How do I worship the Lord?
Psalm 66:1-4
John 4:23-24

SECTION 2:
The Study of Worship
John 4:23-24
John 4:23-24
SECTION 3:
The Discussion about Worship
Go Further
Here are some optional readings for you as you live a lifestyle of
worship:
There is a kind of worshipper who "always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres" ( 1 Corinthians 13:7 ), and who gets through the
storms of life with a heart still blazing. Sometimes it comes down to a
simple choice. We may be hard-pressed on every side, weary and not
able to sense God. But then a choice faces us to fix our eyes on the
circumstances or cling to God and choose to worship Him, even when
it hurts. The heart of God loves the offerings of a persevering
worshipper. Though overwhelmed by many troubles, they are even
more overwhelmed by the beauty of God
Worship brings ever deepening and expanding dimensions of God-at work
in our world. Worship, in a very real sense of the word, opens a
doorway to the power of His presence, confounding dark powers and
overthrowing sin's destructive operations. In Paul's words of
expressed spiritual warfare, worship and praise exalt God and cast
down those facts and forces that seek to exalt themselves above Him.
Essentially, it is God's presence: the raw dynamic of His Being and
Person stepping into a setting-that gives place to His transforming,
redeeming, delivering power.

The Unquenchable Worshipper, Matt Redman, Regal Books from Gospel Light,
Ventura, CA 2001, p.24

The Unquenchable Worshipper by Matt Redman

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Worship is the believer's response of all that he is--mind, emotions,
will, and body--to all that God is and says and does. This response has
its [spiritual] side in subjective experience, and its practical side in
objective obedience to God's revealed truth. It is a loving response that
is balanced by the fear of the Lord, and it is a deepening response as
the believer comes to know God better.
The Reward of Worship, Jack Hayford, Chosen Books, Grand Rapids, MI 2005,
p.27

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"The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same
delight in God which made David dance." ~ C.S. Lewis

Real Worship, Warren Wiersbe, Oliver Nelson, Nashville, TN 1986, p.27

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"As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape
from the pressing needs of modern life." ~ Richard Foster


www.experiencingworship.com, Great Quotes on Worship¦

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1 Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2010. www.merriam-webster.com

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Volume 1 Lesson 5 Love

Lesson 5
LESSON 5 “Love”
SECTION 1:
Luke 10:25-37
Mark 12:30-31
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The Bible uses three Greek words to describe the English word for “love.” “Phileo” is the love between friends or brothers;

“eros” is the passionate, romantic love which is to be shared by a husband and wife;

and “agape” is the highest form of love

John 3:16
1 John 4:7-11
John 15:12-14
Galatians 5:13-14 1
1 John 4:8
John 5:19
1 John 4:7-11

1 John 4:7-11

Go Further
Here are some optional readings for you as you walk in obedience:
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3–7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.

Love cares more for others than for self.

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.

Love doesn’t strut,

Doesn’t have a swelled head,

Doesn’t force itself on others,

Isn’t always “me first,”

Doesn’t fly off the handle,

Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,

Doesn’t revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always,

Always looks for the best,

Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.

8–10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

The Message Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Divine love in the Greek language refers to a love that wholly sacrifices itself for the object of its love, realizing the precious value of it. For example, man and woman betrayed God and fell into deep sin resulting in an abominable life, which ultimately led to eternal destruction. In spite of this betrayal, God lovingly sacrificed Himself on Calvary to save mankind. Why? Because each individual soul is priceless to Him. This is divine love!
The Holy Spirit My Senior Partner, David Yonggi Cho, Charisma House, Lake Mary, FL 1989, p.12

The Holy Spirit, My Senior Partner

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"Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals." ~ E.M. Bounds
www.christianquotes.org, Edward McKendree Bounds, Clergyman and Author, 1835-1913 

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"Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life----come poverty, come wealth, in death---come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'" ~ Charles H. Spurgeon
www.christianquotes.org, Charles H. Spurgeon, Baptist Pastor, 1834 - 1992

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"To love is to be vulnerable." ~ C.S. Lewis
www.christianquotes.org, Clive Staples Lewis, Novelist/Christian Apologist, 1898-1963 

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