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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Volume 1 Lesson 4 Obey

Lesson 4 Obey

A Story of Obedience
Numbers 13
Numbers 14
The Definition of Obedience
1 John 2:3-6

“Obey” in the original Greek language is the word "Hupakouo," which means to listen to something, hearken, give heed to and follow

John 15:9-17
Romans 8:293 4
John 14:23-24
Philippians 2:8
Hebrews 13:17
John 14:26
John 14:23-26
John 14:23-26

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“The cross is laid on every Christian. It begins with the call to abandon
the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is
the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon
discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with His death...
we give over our lives to death. Since this happens at the beginning of
the Christian life, the cross can never be merely a tragic ending to an
otherwise happy religious life. When Christ calls a man, He bids him
come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had
to leave home and work to follow Him, or it may be a death like
Luther's, who had to leave the monastery and go out into the world.
But it is the same death every time... death in Jesus Christ, the death of
the old man at His call. That is why the rich young man was so loath
to follow Jesus, for the cost of his following was the death of his will.
In fact, every command of Jesus is a call to die, with all our affections
and lusts.  But we do not want to die, and therefore Jesus Christ and
His call are necessarily our death and our life.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
6

6
www.christianquotes.org, Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German Lutheran
Pastor/Theologian, 1906-1945

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“The natural people  – those whose minds have not been enlightened
by the Holy Spirit  – scoff at us. What we do doesn't always seem
logical to them. But then, who says our actions have to be logical? The
Bible tells us the natural or carnal mind doesn't understand spiritual
things (see 1 Corinthians 2:14). Too often, we push aside thoughts,
saying, ‘This doesn't make sense,’ and we actually ignore divine
guidance. It's true of course, the devil can flood our minds with wild
thoughts that we do need to ignore, but if we pray and open ourselves
to the Spirit, we soon know the difference. This is an important
principle of obedience we must grasp: obeying instead of reasoning, or
as one of my friends calls it, ‘The Nevertheless Principle.' She says
sometimes she feels God leading her to do things that don't always
make a lot of sense. When she hears herself expressing that sentiment,
she quickly adds, ‘Nevertheless.’ Then she obeys. That is really all
God asks of us: to obey instead of reasoning against something He is
telling us to do. The best policy is to check with your spirit and see if
you have peace rather than checking with your mind to see if what
God is asking is reasonable.” Joyce Meyer
7
7

Start Your New Life Today

Start Your New Life Today, pages 118-119, FaithWords Hachette Group USA

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"Just as a servant knows that he must first obey his master in all
things, so the surrender to an implicit and unquestionable obedience
must become the essential characteristic of our lives." Andrew
Murray
8
8
http://christianquotes.org/author/quotes/51


"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."
Augustine
9
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http://christianquotes.org/author/quotes/19/23/1

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Volume 1 Lesson 3: A Story of Baptism

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Lesson 3
“Be Baptized”

Mark 1:4-8,
Acts 2:1-4
1 Corinthians 12:13
Colossians 2:11-12
Mark 1:8
Acts 1:8
Acts 2:38-39
Matthew 28:18-20
John 14:26
Acts 8:14-17
Matthew 3:11
Acts 2:4
1 Corinthians 14:2
Acts 4:31
Acts 6:3-8
Acts 9:17-22
Galatians 5:22-23
Galatians 5:22-26
Galatians 5:22-26
Acts 1:8
Galatians 5:22-25
1 Corinthians 12:7-11
Optional readings for you as you walk in the obedienceof baptism:

"The Holy Spirit is sent to regenerate men, to give them a new nature,
a new mind, a new outlook, a new everything. There is no hope apart
from that.”
1
~ D. Martyn-Lloyd-Jones

1

Life in the Spirit in Marriage, Home & Work: An Exposition of Ephesians 5:18 - to Ephesians 6:9; Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1973

“Wise leaders should know that the human heart cannot exist in a
vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they
will turn to the wine of the flesh…Christ died for our hearts and the
Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.”
2
~ A.W. Tozer

2

The Works of A.W. Tozer, http://dailychristianquote.com  http://twitter.com/#!/TozerAW

So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I
should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how
can we still live in our old house there? Or didn't you realize we
packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism.
When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind;
when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of
grace—a new life in a new land! That's what baptism into the life of
Jesus means. When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial
of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the
resurrection  of Jesus. Our Father raises each of us into a light-filled
world so that we can see where we're going in our new gracesovereign country.
3
  ~ Romans 6:1-5

3

Romans 6:1-5, The Message Bible, found at http://biblegateway.com

"Just as the person being baptized is saying, 'Lord Jesus Who died for
me, I acknowledge You as my Savior,' so let each one say, 'Jesus Who
was buried for me, I want to leave behind, in this watery grave of
baptism's waters, my sinful practices, my selfishness, all clutching
ambitions-all to be left behind. They remain in the tomb, and I want to
rise to newness of Your life by the power of Your Spirit!' So baptism
is intended to be a moment of our saying, 'I'm dying to my old ways'
(doubts, fears, passivity, pride, argumentativeness, rebellion, etc.) and
one of declaring our entrance into the new life dimensions of 'burial
and resurrection' from power of our past."
4
~ Jack Hayford

4
Grounds for Living, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 2001, page 131

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Volume 1 Lesson 2 A Story of Faith

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 Lesson 2 

Romans 4:1-25

Romans 4:3

Genesis 15:1-2)

Matthew 9:27-29

John 9:35-38

Hebrews 11:6 1

Thessalonians 2:13

www.blueletterbible.org, Strong’s G4102

Romans 14:23

Romans 10:9-10, 17

John 20:30-31

Hebrews 3:18-19

Romans 10:17

Hebrews 11:3-6

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“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.”5 
~ C.S. Lewis (British Scholar and Novelist, 1898-1963)   
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“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”6
 ~ Oswald Chambers (Scottish Protestant Christian Minister, Teacher and Author, 1874 – 1917)   
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“Faith in God constitutes the highest worship, the prime duty, the first obedience, and the foremost sacrifice. Without faith God forfeits His glory, wisdom, truth, and mercy in us. The first duty of man is to believe in God and to honor Him with his faith. Faith is truly the height of wisdom, the right kind of righteousness, the only real religion….Faith says to God: ‘I believe what you say.’”7 
~ Martin Luther (Priest and Professor of Theology, 1483 – 1546)
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Here we have, I. A definition or description of the grace of faith in two    parts. 1. It is the substance of things hoped for. Faith and hope go together; and the same things that are the object of our hope are the object of our faith. It is a firm persuasion and expectation that God will perform all that he has promised to us in Christ; and this persuasion is so strong that it gives the soul a kind of possession and present fruition of those things, gives them a subsistence in the soul, by the first-fruits and foretastes of them: so that believers in the exercise of faith are filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Christ dwells in the soul by faith, and the soul is filled with the fullness of God, as far as his present measure will admit; he experiences a substantial reality in the objects of faith. 2. It is the evidence of things not seen. Faith demonstrates to the eye of the mind the reality of those things that cannot be discerned by the eye of the body. Faith is the firm assent of the soul to the divine revelation and every part of it, and sets to its seal that God is true. It is a full approbation of all that God has revealed as holy, just, and good; it helps the soul to make application of all to itself with suitable affections and endeavors; and so it is designed to serve the believer instead of sight, and to be to the soul all that the senses are to the body.8
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8 Henry, Matthew. "Commentary on Hebrews 11." Blue Letter Bible. 1 Mar 1996. 19

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Supplemental information to go with Lesson 1 Volume 1

Lesson 1

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II Samuel 12:1-13

Psalm 51:1-6

The Definition of Repentance 
What is repentance? 

Read Romans 2:4 and II Corinthians 7:9-10 
Repentance involves turning away from something and turning towards something else. In your case as a disciple, you turn from sin to God. God’s kindness leads you to repentance, but godly sorrow produces repentance. The Holy Spirit, whom God gave you at salvation, is at work in this process as He reveals the truth of the Gospel, your sinful condition, and the need for Jesus’ gift of salvation. He convicts you in your heart and draws you to God. Repentance begins upon entering into relationship with Jesus, and should be practiced as a lifestyle to maintain intimacy with Him.  

Repent in the Greek Language is“Metanoeo” (met-an-o-eh-o), a decision that results in a change of mind, which in turn leads to a change of purpose and action. It also means to think differently afterwards, to reconsider. Genuine repentance is not about having regret due to consequences, but instead involves a true change of heart toward God. It results in a wiser view of the past, present and future.

In order for true transformation to take place, you must acknowledge each wrong thought, word, attitude and action as sin. Repentance is not just a change in your outward actions. It is a heart response that will result in clean, undefiled thinking. It is a mindset that honors, reveres, and embraces the truth of the Bible, and the will and the ways of God. [1]

Go Further

“The cross is laid on every Christian. It begins with the call to abandon the attachments of this world. It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ. As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ in union with His death... we give over our lives to death. Since this happens at the beginning of the Christian life, the cross can never be merely a tragic ending to an otherwise happy religious life. When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die. It may be a death like that of the first disciples who had to leave home and work to follow Him, or it may be a death like Luther's, who had to leave the monastery and go out into the world. But it is the same death every time... death in Jesus Christ, the death of the old man at His call. That is why the rich young man was so loath to follow Jesus, for the cost of his following was the death of his will. In fact, every command of Jesus is a call to die, with all our affections and lusts.  But we do not want to die, and therefore Jesus Christ and

His call are necessarily our death and our life.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer [2] 

I John 1:6-9

The Murder of Jesus by John MacArthur

This quote is from the section of the book about Repentance:

The third paragraph

"Tears of repentance can in no way atone for sins. But genuine sorrow is nonetheless an important sign of true repentance, signifying that a change of mind and heart have truly taken place. Not all sorrow signifies true repentance, however. Judas was remorseful over what he had done and tried to return the blood money to the ruling priests. His guilt over what he had done finally even motivated him to go out and kill himself. But that kind of sorrow is a worldly sorrow that only leads to death. It may involve sincere remorse over the consequences of one's sin—regret over the loss of prestige or friends or influence. But it reflects no true change of heart, and thus no true grief over the sin itself. Peter's sorrow was of a different sort. It was the deepest possible sorrow of heart—mingled with shame over his sinful behavior, hatred of the sin itself, and a desperate longing to be restored to a right relationship with Christ" John MacArthur [3]

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The Message Bible,

Psalm 51:1-6 MESSAGE

1–3 51 Generous in love—God, give grace!

Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record.

Scrub away my guilt,

soak out my sins in your laundry.

I know how bad I’ve been;

my sins are staring me down.

4–6 You’re the One I’ve violated, and you’ve seen

it all, seen the full extent of my evil.

You have all the facts before you;

whatever you decide about me is fair.

I’ve been out of step with you for a long time,

in the wrong since before I was born.

What you’re after is truth from the inside out.

Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.

7–15 Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean,

scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life.

Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,

set these once-broken bones to dancing.

Don’t look too close for blemishes,

give me a clean bill of health.

God, make a fresh start in me,

shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.

Don’t throw me out with the trash,

or fail to breathe holiness in me.

Bring me back from gray exile,

put a fresh wind in my sails!

Give me a job teaching rebels your ways

so the lost can find their way home.

Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God,

and I’ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways.

Unbutton my lips, dear God;

I’ll let loose with your praise.

16–17 Going through the motions doesn’t please you,

a flawless performance is nothing to you.

I learned God-worship

when my pride was shattered.

Heart-shattered lives ready for love

don’t for a moment escape God’s notice.

18–19 Make Zion the place you delight in,

repair Jerusalem’s broken-down walls.

Then you’ll get real worship from us,

acts of worship small and large,

Including all the bulls

they can heave onto your altar! [4]

The Message  

                              

Appendix Bibliography

[1] Disciple's Handbook: Volume 1 
Copyright 2016 New Song Christian Fellowship www.crownedimage.com 
First Edition, 2016 ISBN: 978-0692693049
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[2]  www.christianquotes.com, Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German Lutheran

Pastor/Theologian, 1906-1945

[3] The Murder of Jesus by John MacArthur Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville

[4] The Message 2002 Eugene H Peterson Database, Navpress, 2008 WORDsearch Corp.

                                                                                                                                                                                                 

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