Created To Worship Series

a) In this verse God is saying that even the most menial, routine, everyday things we do without even giving it much thought, must be done so as to glorify God.

b) b) We are to bring Glory to God in everything.

6. That is what we were created for!

7. If Adam and Eve had not fallen in the garden then worship would have been the most natural thing to humans in the world because that is why God made us.

a) Worship is unnatural only in the sense that so few people really know how to worship.

b) Worship is what God meant us to do, to worship Him and enjoy Him forever.

c) Like those tools we looked at earlier, we were carefully designed and crafted by God to be first and foremost worshippers.

B. God is seeking worshipers. (John 4: 23, II Chronicles 16: 9)

1. In John 4:23 we find Jesus speaking with the woman at the well.

a) She asks the Lord, the creator of heaven and Earth, the sustainer of all things a question about worship.

b) Our Lord answers her that a worshipper that the Father seeks is one that worships in Spirit and truth!

c) We will look at what it means to worship in Spirit and truth in future messages, but for today, just focus your thoughts on the fact that The heavenly Father seeks worshippers!

2. How could it be that God would seek anything?

a) He created all things and owns all things and yet there is one thing He seeks after!

b) Yours and my worship!

c) The owner of all that exists wants our worship to such an extent that he seeks it!

3. Another passage that speaks of God’s looking for those who will rightly worship Him is found in 2 Chron. 16:9.

2 Chronicles 16:9 (NIV)

9 For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him."

a) In other words, God is on the hunt.

b) He is looking and seeking those who will be true worshipers of Him.

Trans: But He not only has created us to be worshippers, and seeks us out, we also see from Scripture that He calls us to worship Him.

C. God calls us to worship. (Psalm 29: 2, Psalm 95: 6 – 7)

Psalms 29:1-2 (NIV)

1 Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.

Psalms 29:2 (NKJV)

2 Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.

1. God calls to us and invites us to come and worship Him.

a) He doesn’t need our worship to be God.

b) But He delights in our worship because He is worthy of it and our worship demonstrates our acknowledgement of just who HE is.

c) Our communion with God is made complete and perfect in our act of worship.

2. The moment you and I truly, sincerely enter into God honoring, God glorifying worship, we are suddenly given the best possible view of who God is and what He desires for us.

a) It is not in our service to Him, although serving in the name of Jesus is important.

b) Jesus didn’t redeem us to make us workers, He redeemed us to make us worshipers.

c) And then out of the blazing worship of our hearts springs our work.