How can we Worship the Holy God?
Introduction: ‘Come just as you are to Worship’?
1) The awesome requirements for acceptable worship
Worship rejected because of the worshiper
Gen 4:3–5, 6–8, 16; Amos 5:21–24; Mal 2:13–14
The Necessity of ritual purity
Lev 15:31; Num 4:15, 20; 8:5–22
Lev 12:1–8; 15:1–32
The necessity of moral perfection
Isa 1:10–17
Ps 15: 1–5; 24:1–10
2) Jesus as the accepted worshiper
Ritually Pure
Heb 8:1–2; 9:12;
Morally Perfect
Heb 10:8–10; 4:15; Matt 4:10
3) Jesus purifies believers so we can offer acceptable worship
God’s promise of future cleansing
Ez 20:39–44
Cleansed by the blood of Jesus
Heb 9:13–14, 25–26; 10:10, 11–14
Now we can all be called to offer Acceptable Worship
Heb 12:28–29
4) The Lord’s plan for global worship
The ever expanding worship of the Lord in the last days
Is 66:23; Zeph 3:10; Rom 15:15–16; Phil 2:17
The multinational worship of the Lord in the age to come
Rev 7:9–17; 22:3
Application: Let us Hold fast the confession of our hope (Heb 10:23)
