SCRIPTURE Romans 12:1, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s
mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God,
this is your spiritual act of worship.”
INTRODUCTION:
Man was created to worship God. The Psalmist said in Psalms 150:6 Let
everything that has breath praise the Lord. As we were given the breath of life
through the breath of God, it is our first portion of God the Father and we were
given breath to worship Him alone. When mankind fell from God’s grace into
sin the act of worship became distorted and perverted as man seek to find
alternatives to worship instead of facing God the Father whom was betrayed by
flesh. Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God give us a living breathing
example on the earth through His life the perfect examples of worship to the
Father as He do the will of the Father.
The Scriptures as Paul writes gives us a clear indication that worship to God the
Father is one that has physical and spiritual contributions to perfect the act of
worship. We submit to carry God’s glory in us through the Holy Ghost and He
demands that the body, spirit and soul which are the Vessel are Holy as He is
Holy. Worship to God the Father is not an ordinary act. It is but an act of
waking up God and persuading Him to turn in our direction, to hear us, to
search our hearts and to favor us.
What challenging act worship is to the body, soul and spirit of man? How can
we approach this God of the heavens if we are not holy and lift up a voice that
betrays God? Why do we worship God and still cannot conform to His
attributes of Holiness and righteousness? I ask these questions as I view the
church with all its encroachment and normal practices that has strayed from
worship to the Father. We become endangered as we approach a Holy God
with our worship even more so when it is flawed with the flesh of sins,
iniquities and transgressions. Jesus Christ said to the Samaritan woman at the
well “Now the true worshippers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth”.
What a demand placed on the worshipper to raise the standard of their living in
the earth and in the spirit, wholly dependent on a God of truth.
1. THE HUMAN BODY & SOUL
Genesis 1:27 KJV So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them.
The physical body of man is a template of the original which is God the Father.
We are mirrored with a sovereign supreme majestic God. His image outlines
our physique with eyes like His, Hands like His, Hears like His, Mouth and
voice Like His, all that He is we are also.
We are likened to Him as we can speak with authority; God gave Adam
authority on the earth to have dominion, to subdue, to multiply, and to
replenish. He was given the ability name every creature great and small.
Adam’s job was intertwined in searching out the creatures as their habitation
was with him. He was accountable to God the Father for the task that was given
to him. Even the woman that God made as a helper for Adam, Adam was
accountable for.
-We have to give accountability to God the Father for our task on the earth.
-We are not our own. We are made by God and fashioned by Him.
-We are to live in His presence as our first estate dictates.
-We are made to mirror the Holiness and Righteousness of God.
-We are made to obey and not revolt the word of God.
-We are to protect our bodies and souls from the consumption/consuming
devices and plans of satanic influences and the world
-We are to guard our human spirit from connecting to the seducing evil spirits
of Satan as Eve connected with the seducing plots of Satan in the Garden of
Eden.
-Our sacrifice of worship is to carefully consider our body, Soul and spirit as we
live and breathe in the earth in keeping ourselves presentable to God the Father.
This must be on the frontlets of our mind each moment as we live. The blood of
Jesus has made it even better for us as if by chance we slip from grace the blood
will keep us.
-These are our Living sacrifices, the act of being a replica of Christ on the earth.
-As hard as that may seem, we are undoubtedly called and set apart to practice
and produce as He did through the Kingdom of God and of His love and of His
power on the earth.
Mark 16:15-16 King James Version
15And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
2 THE HUMAN SPIRIT AND THE HOLY SPIRIT:
Proverbs 20:27 KJV 27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward
parts of the belly.
-The spirit of God seeks to connect with the spirit of man so that the Spirit of
God can perfect the mirrored form (image and likeness) of God on the earth.
-When the spirit of God connects with the Human spirit the man is purged by
inward introspection of the life that is being lived, the words that is being
spoken the thoughts being held in the mind.
-The human spirit that connects with the Holy spirit is satisfied, is contented, is
productive, is fruitful, is generous, is faithful and just on earth.
-The spirit of Satan seeks to connect with the human spirit as well. Those that
conform to the world and are geared toward the perversion of worship outside
the kingdom of God will be consumed and perverted with knowledge, religion,
rituals, idols and demonic consumptions of doctrines and powers.
-Jesus taught us on earth that satisfaction in life on earth is by doing all that the
Father has taught Him to do. He demonstrated worship as: living by the word of
God, eating the word of God breathing the word of God, giving all to the
Kingdom of God. This is the reasonable service that Christ demonstrated.
-What are our cares that we cannot give this much? Who is our priority that we
cannot serve so much? Why do we quantify our measure of worship and still it
is not all of us?
These questions I ask as we are to connect our Human spirit with the Spirit of
God to identify with Christ and reproduce His act of worship to God the Father.
3.THE SPIRITUAL ACT OF WORSHIP
John 4:21 NKJV 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will
neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you
do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is
coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth;
for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24God is Spirit, and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth.”
-Worship is a power like none other on the face of the earth when it is done to
the God of the heavens, Jehovah God, Yahweh.
-The spirit body and soul of man transcended upward into the spirit realm with
their physical actions and words of obedience to gain the attention of God the
Father.
-God leans down His ears and turn His eyes to a human humble cry of
adoration with all the attribute described in this writings of sacrificial living
through the blood of Jesus..
-The spirit of man indulged in the spirit of God communing expressions of love
with words that cannot be uttered.
-The spirit of man overwhelmed with the glory of God upon his flesh that
illuminates the face that melts the hardened heart that breaks the bondages
of generations of curses, that produces power to heal, deliver and set free.
-Our worship is our physical act of love to the Father through our everyday
living on the earth.
-Our connection to the Father through the blood of Jesus and the indwelling of
the Holy Ghost exemplifies our worship in every act that we perform
physically, whole heartedly and truly within and without.
-Our prayer, our dancing, our clapping, our songs and music, our giving and our
living is not the limit to our worship it is beyond the barriers of all that we do
and all that we are as a replica of Christ.
CONCLUSION:
Pleasing God with our lives will exemplify our worship to be the demonstrated
replica of Jesus Christ on the earth. The perfection of the Holy Spirit can
accomplish this in our lives as we connect our body, soul and spirit to Him
alone.
Nothing in this world can satisfy a true worshipper other than the glory
of God the Father, the blood of Christ Jesus and the Spirit of God working
within and without. The scripture truly defines the outpouring that bubbles
within John 7:38 King James Version
38He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall
flow rivers of living water.
This living water is the act of worship that defines us before our God.
Lets pray:
Heavenly Father you are the true and living God and I worship only you. You are my refuge and my fortress in you I put my trust. I thank you Lord that I can depend on you, guide me Lord to live in holiness and righteousness daily as I worship you with my life in Jesus name Amen.
